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The information below is about a Press Conference called in response to statements made by a TV executive, who said that he thought Latino males were prone to violence. Bob Hall, General Manager at KFSN (the ABC affiliate in Fresno) was dismissed from jury service after making the remarks about Latino males....

AIPAC which functions as a organizing front for Israel with the support of all US Democrats and Republicans including Pelosi, Feinstein, Boxer and most other bay area Congress people will be coming to San Francisco to push for it's policies of repression of Palestinians, for war against Iran and Syria and for more US funding to the Zionist war machine. People in SF will be giving AIPAC the welcome they deserve...

Last Wednesday - November 12, 2008 the SF Land Use Committee with Sophina Maxwell as chair held a meeting - especially to accommodate a Rogue developer company - Lennar Corporation. With little notice no one from the community was present at the November 12, 2008 - meeting. Not so November 17, 2008 - when the Mayor's Office of Economic Development - representing Mayor Gavin Newsom - tried once again to hoodwink the public at large. This time they were put on notice. Lennar supporters had lit...

Nov. 18, 2008, 9 am Tuesday at D-Q University (D-Q U), 33250 County Road 31, Davis Ca 95616 We will be holding a press conference to discuss the irrational actions the illegitimate Board of Trustees of D-Q University have taken against the occupiers of D-Q U as well as the violent, racist and sexist harassment their goons committed towards the D-Q Unity Coalition members....

Student organization "Students for Justice in Palestine" (SJP) is extremely concerned about a violent attack on three Arab Palestinian students on the evening of November 13, 2008 around 6:00PM, and calls upon campus administrators and authorities to immediately investigate the incident and bring those responsible to justice....

A pattern of racial traffic stops in Palo Alto is statistically clear. 

At a *Rally Against Racial Profiling* on November 9 Goro Mitchell, East Palo Alto activist and Planning Commission member, said that 56 percent of all traffic stops for "vehicular failure", such as tail or brake lights not working, are for cars driven by African Americans or Latinos. 
Two young men, one Latino and one African American, have created a T-shirt to draw attention to this injustice. Story, photos by R. Ro...

Tamala Williams wears an Eracism hat. She spoke of her 43 years living with racism in the Palo Alto environs. Tamala joined about 200 others at the *March on Palo Alto Against Racial Profiling* on Sunday, November 9th....

Palo Alto's police chief said that her officers would be stopping African American males to determine who they were and what they were doing in the city of Palo Alto. Community leaders including the mayor of Palo Alto expressed shock at the chief's statement. Congresswoman Anna Eshoo said the police chief should rescind her comments and orders or resign. A march and rally against racial profiling is scheduled for Sunday, November 9....

San Francisco businesswoman Ruth Garland- Dewson, owner of Mrs. Dewson's Hats on Fillmore Street worked tirelessly to get Barack Obama to the White House....

Originally From New America Media Wednesday, November 5, 2008 : OAKLAND, Calif. -- The streets of downtown Oakland erupted into a boisterous, joyful celebration last night just before 8 p.m., as word spread that the major news media had called the election for president in favor of Democrat Barack Obama....