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Celebs Lend Support to save Pasadena's Historic Raymond Theatre 
Celebrities lend support to save Pasadena's Historic Raymond Theatre. Members of band Oingo Boingo to attend City Council meeting on May 17...
Posted: Thu, May 13, 2004 6:23pm PDT
Nader Supports Industrial Hemp as a Renewable Resource In October, 2001, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) issued a rule banning the sale of foods produced from industrial hemp. The Hemp Industries Association (HIA) sued to force the DEA to rescind its rule, and last February they won their case in a unanimous 3-0 decision by the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. In a continuing waste of taxpayer money, however, the U.S. Department of Justice has petitioned for a rehearing of the HIA v. DEA decision by the full Ninth Circuit, asse...
Posted: Mon, May 10, 2004 11:11pm PDT
Who Will Stop CAFTA Contest Quest for Peace of the Quixote Center will run a full-page, New York Times signature ad in opposition to CAFTA- the Central American Free Trade Agreement. The 44,000 dollars and 2,500 signatures it takes is being raised from engaged citizens like you, who wish to proudly and publicly say "No" to CAFTA. The state with the highest number of signers (as a percentage of the state's total population) will be specifically acknowledged in the New York Times Ad. Show the country and Mr. B...
Posted: Fri, May 7, 2004 7:46am PDT
Separated from Wife and Kids by Dept. of Homland Security Separated from Wife and Kids by Dept. of Homland Security...
Posted: Thu, May 6, 2004 10:57pm PDT
1992 LA REBELLION REVISITED AFTER 12 YEARS Today marks 12 years after LA--and lots of other cities--exploded in the aftermath of the aquital of the all-white cops who beat Rodney King. Things aren't much better for those in South Central LA, nor are they for the rest of the US working class. And they're getting worse, so we might see more of these rebellions--hopefully this time they can take on a more consciously anti-capitalist perspective....
Posted: Thu, Apr 29, 2004 4:14pm PDT
10/11: DC, Here We Come! The National Marriage Equality Express Help us keep the Constitution sacred. Come-out for equality on National Coming Out Day at the Marriage Equality/Don't Amend Rally in DC at the US Capitol!
When: October 11th, 2004 from 11:00 AM to 4:00 PM
Where: West Steps of the U.S. Capitol in Washington DC
What: Rally for Marriage Equality with the Leaders of the Freedom to Marry Movement...
Posted: Thu, Apr 29, 2004 12:00am PDT
GLAAD JOINS CLAIMING THE BLESSING TO SPONSOR "IT¹S ABOUT LOVE,"5/2 Event honors the Right Reverend V. Gene Robinson, Bishop of New
Hampshire Features celebrities Brooke Adams, Dr. Maya Angelou, Jane
Kaczmarek, Norman Lear, Tony Shalhoub, Dionne Warwick, Bradley Whitford...
Posted: Sun, Apr 25, 2004 11:30pm PDT
Hydrogen HUMvee Highway 2 martial law Arnold's recent visit 2 UC Davis heralded his hydrogen highway HUMvee plan 4 CA. The water needed 4 the hydrogen fuel cells no doubt diverted from the local rivers?...
Posted: Wed, Apr 21, 2004 8:44pm PDT
California, Decertify Paperless Voting Machines California, Decertify Paperless Voting Machines
Contributed by Electronic Frontier Foundation
On April 21 & 22, the California Secretary of State's Voting Systems and Procedures Panel will decide whether to decertify paperless electronic voting systems before the November election. The call for decertification arose in California following the disenfranchisement of thousands of California voters during the Marc...
Posted: Tue, Apr 20, 2004 3:47pm PDT
4/17 on, Remaining Book Tour Dates for Amy Goodman Amy Goodman, host of the national daily radio/TV program Democracy Now!
is on a national tour to mark the launch of her first book,
"The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing Oily Politicians, War
Profiteers, and the Media That Love Them" (co-written with her brother,
journalist David Goodman.) The tour includes fundraisers for Pacifica
radio stations and affiliates that carry Democracy Now!...
Posted: Sat, Apr 17, 2004 1:55pm PDT
Labor Study Is Alone Under Gov.'s Budget Ax Of the hundreds of research institutes in California's public university system, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has targeted just one for elimination: a think tank dedicated to organized labor....
Posted: Sat, Apr 17, 2004 11:54am PDT
Anti-Gay Amendment Less Popular Among Conservatives Than Believed Pushing an anti-gay agenda may be less successful for Republicans than they had imagined. A new poll of white evangelical Christians shows that nearly half of the nation's fundamentalists do not support amending the US Constitution to ban same-sex marriage....
Posted: Wed, Apr 14, 2004 10:48am PDT
Redemption on FX this Sunday Redemption, the made for TV movie about Stan "Tookie" Williams is
premiering on FX, Sunday, April 11 at 8:00 p.m. We have organized two
group showings of the movie, one in San Francisco and one in Berkeley....
Posted: Sat, Apr 10, 2004 11:23am PDT
4/20+4/28: Call for Action at the Supreme Court - About People's Rights Call for Action at the Supreme Court - Can the Rights of People
Simply Disappear by Presidential Order...
Posted: Thu, Apr 8, 2004 9:59pm PDT
Online Stream of Reverend Billy Lecture Penn State is hosting Reverend Billy, founder of the Church of Stop Shopping, and will stream his lecture tomorrow over the Net. There will be an archive in case you cannot catch it live. The Church will do a tour thoughout California in April....
Posted: Mon, Mar 29, 2004 8:12pm PST
Pro-Marriage Groups Commend Pelosi and Newsom Marriage Equality California and Equality California Commend U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi for Supporting Marriage Equality and Mayor Gavin Newsom's Actions...
Posted: Wed, Mar 24, 2004 9:39pm PST
California College Tuition Likely to Rise Again California college tuition likely to increase for the second consecutive year. Effects of past and proposed budget cuts on California community college system....
Posted: Wed, Mar 24, 2004 3:01pm PST
VIDEO - MARCH 20 LA 04 Full 35 minute March coverage and 2 specialized shorter videos of the March 20th Protest in Los Angeles. 11 minutes on cop activity and 5 minutes on Kucinich activity....
Posted: Wed, Mar 24, 2004 12:01pm PST
First Anniversary of the War in Iraq - Demonstrations in Los Angeles, CA 
Site containing hundreds of photos, video and other resources on the War in Iraq re: Anniversary Protests in Los Angeles, California....
Posted: Tue, Mar 23, 2004 6:59pm PST
Trade Justice Convergence: Organizing to STOP CAFTA coming to LA next weekend Trade Justice Convergence to build our Action, Skills and Knowledge to Make Trade Fair and Stop the Central American Free Trade Agreement....
Posted: Mon, Mar 22, 2004 1:01am PST
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