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9/5: OEA Labor Day Rally
Monday, September 5 at 11 am
Health Net Headquarters, 155 Grand Ave. near Harrison (just west of Lake Merritt)
Leaflet afterward at Art and Soul Festival in downtown Oakland...
Posted: Sun, Sep 4, 2005 11:52pm PDT
Action Alert: Rally for Relief
Action Alert: Rally for Relief
Tuesday, September 6, 2005 4:30pm-6pm
San Francisco & Oakland
San Francisco Federal Building 4:30-6pm
450 Golden Gate Avenue (@ Larkin Street)
San Francisco, CA 94102...
Posted: Sun, Sep 4, 2005 10:31pm PDT
9/5 Labor Programs on KPFA, 94.1 FM, 7pm to 12 a.m.
The KPFA Labor Collective will be producing 5 hours of labor programming for Labor Day 2005 that will include pre-recorded programs. live interviews as well as call-ins. Please help let your friends and co-workers know about this important schedule of programming....
Posted: Sun, Sep 4, 2005 6:39pm PDT
Film Screening Tonight at Long Haul
It all starts at 8 p.m. Free.
3124 Shattuck Ave. Berkeley Ca. Phone (510) 540-0751
(2 blocks from Ashby BART, Across from La Peña Cultural Center)...
Posted: Fri, Sep 2, 2005 5:28pm PDT
CodePink Vigil at Oakland Recruiting Center 5:15 pm Today
Vigil is 5:15 till 6:15pm. Join us as we help divert young people from a bad, possibly fatal, career choice! 1882+ die for a lie — why?...
Posted: Wed, Aug 31, 2005 10:59am PDT
Oakland Teachers Plan Labor Day Rally
KAISER & HEALTH NET: STEP UP!
YOU HAVE A RESPONSIBILITY TO HELP SOLVE THE EDUCATION
CRISIS IN OAKLAND
Freeze Charges to Protect Programs and School Workers’
Health
Monday, September 5 at 11 AM
Assemble at Health Net Offices 155 Grand near Webster
St., 1 block west of Lake Merritt
March to Kaiser Regional Headquarters
Leaflet at Art and Soul Festival Downtown, Frank Ogawa
Plaza and City Center...
Posted: Tue, Aug 30, 2005 1:27pm PDT
Gwen Araujo Trial Update- Go This Afternoon!
I think "tomorrow" means today, but I could be wrong...
Posted: Tue, Aug 30, 2005 11:51am PDT
FREE TICKETS TO ALAMEDA LABOR COUNCIL BBQ
FOR ANY SENIORS OR KIDS. CITY OF OAKLAND RESIDENTS PREFFERED....
Posted: Mon, Aug 29, 2005 8:01pm PDT
Book-signing of Major Martin Buber Work on Israel & Palestine
Can you please add this event to your calendar?
Come to a book signing and exhibition to celebrate the republication of Martin Buber's long out-of-date book, A Land of Two Peoples, Sunday, Sept. 18 from 2-5 pm at Kehilla Community Synagogue, 1300 Grand Avenue in Piedmont.
Buber, the reknowed theologian and author of I and Thou, engaged in a lifelong quest for understanding among Arabs and Jews. His work offers inspiration and lessons for today. Meet his great-granddaughter, Tirzah A...
Posted: Mon, Aug 29, 2005 10:02am PDT
Riot-Folk (anarchist folk music) show Tonight!
Mark Gunnery and Ryan Harvey (both from the Riot-Folk Collective) will be playing radical folk tunes monday at the Long Haul Infoshop. Riot-Folk is an anti-profit radical folk music collective thats focusses on instigating activism and action through music....
Posted: Sun, Aug 28, 2005 9:20pm PDT
KPFA article in SF Bay View weekly
Willie Ratcliff, publisher of the San Francisco Bay View newspaper, wrote this front page editorial in this week's edition.
He is a member of the KPFA Local Station Board, which devoted 8 meetings to investigating the charges against General Manager Roy Campanella II, and has this to say about the attempt to fire him....
Posted: Sun, Aug 28, 2005 7:38pm PDT
“Challenging U.S. Human Rights Violations Since 9/11” - local book readings
This report was submitted by the Berkeley City Council on March 31 in New York City, at the Church Center for the United Nations....
Posted: Sun, Aug 28, 2005 4:39pm PDT
Come join our Annual Labor Day Celebration
3:00 to 5:30 ILWU Local 6 – 99 Hegenberger Road...
Posted: Sun, Aug 28, 2005 10:48am PDT
9/1: Support ANG Pressroom Workers!
12pm. Thursday, September 1st
@ Oakland Tribune building
13th & Broadway...
Posted: Sun, Aug 28, 2005 10:46am PDT
Monday (8-29) Berkeley Noontime Rally for Instant Runoff Voting with 2 City Councilmembers
It's time to PUSH for implementation of Instant Runoff Voting in Berkeley!! Passed by 72% of the voters last year, hardly anything has happened since then to make it a reality!! Please join our rally at Noon on Monday (8-29) at City Hall, 2180 Milvia, in downtown Berkeley!!!...
Posted: Fri, Aug 26, 2005 3:58pm PDT
9/2 Oakland Rally For Kaiser Injured Workers And Patients
Kaiser injured workers and patients will demonstrate on Friday Sep 2 at noon at Kaiser Center in
Oakland to protest the attacks on injured Kaiser workers and patients....
Posted: Fri, Aug 26, 2005 11:00am PDT
Just Cause: Oakland Wal-Mart Picket Reminder
Don't forget the picket this weekend at Wal-Mart. This is Oakland residents' chance to let the biggest corporation in the world know that their poverty wages, lack of benefits, and sweatshop products are not welcome here....
Posted: Thu, Aug 25, 2005 7:44pm PDT
Gwen Araujo Trial Update- Go This Afternoon!
(written on tuesday)
closing statements in the Araujo re-trial will begin tomorrow, 8/24, at
1:30 p.m. They will undoubtedly continue throughout the day on
Thursday, and possibly conclude Monday a.m. -- the case will then go to
the jury....
Posted: Thu, Aug 25, 2005 9:39am PDT
WORKPLACE & COMMUNITY ORGANIZING FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE
LEARN TO ORGANIZE YOUR WORKPLACE. COURSE WILL COVER A COMPREHENSIVE SURVEY OF WORLPLACE & COMMUNITY ORGANIZING. EMPHASIS WILL BE ON LEGAL BACKGROUND AND CURRENT LEGAL ISSUES; GROUP PSYCHOLOGY AS WELL AS EMPLOYER AND UNION CAMPAIGN STRATEGIES....
Posted: Thu, Aug 25, 2005 7:01am PDT
Sowing the Seeds of Grassroots Health Care
If you're hanging around a street fest or a community event this summer and 10-year-old girl with long, frizzy brown hair and a shy smile hands you a condom-don't be freaked out-she's just doing a favor for her mom. Manith Thaing, a community health specialist for Asian Health Services(AHS) in Alameda County just loves taking her daughter, Jesse, to work. "She helps me pack condoms and pass them out and do outreach with me," Manith said proudly. "I don't think it's too early ...
Posted: Thu, Aug 25, 2005 2:37am PDT