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CR10: Tenth aniversary of Critical Resistance (audio/mpeg 9.6MB) Audio report (10 minutes) on CR10, tenth anniversary of Critical Resistance, movement in resistance against the prison industrial complex....
Posted: Mon, Oct 6, 2008 10:11am PDT
Bay Area Air Quality Management District fine in detail - $515,000 and more to come. 
Bay Area Air Quality Management District (BAAQMD) fined Lennar $515,000 and there is more to come. Lennar for over four months - with intent bombarded the community - adversely impacting children, elders, and others. The Precautionary Principle was not followed and Article 31 - the Dust Mitigation Plan was totally - ignored. So much for all the talk of Mayor Gavin Newsom and his cronies....
Posted: Mon, Oct 6, 2008 6:36am PDT
Stop Lennar Action Movement (SLAM) grows stronger while Lennar falls by the way side. Stop Lennar Action Movement (SLAM) grows stronger by the day - while Lennar the Rogue Company keeps declaring bankruptcies all over the place. In the over two and half years that SLAM has been meeting at the Grace Tabernacle Community Church - the decent forces and constituents have grown and keep growing. We have students and youth - joining us and what is more - we get support and letters of encouragement from all over the United States....
Posted: Sun, Oct 5, 2008 5:57am PDT
OCT.3-8: Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Events in Bay Area Oct.3-8: Events in the Bay Area around the struggle to free Penn.Death Row dissident journalist MUMIA ABU-JAMAL.
Includes NEW BOOK: "The Framing of Mumia Abu-Jamal" by J.Patrick O'Connor, with review of new evidence & court tanscripts....
Posted: Wed, Oct 1, 2008 7:46am PDT
Disorder in the Court Santa Clara County Judge Makes Startingly Inappropriate Gesture, Bailiffs Harass Observer...
Posted: Tue, Sep 30, 2008 9:53am PDT
indyNewswire 9.26.08: Critical Resistance 10 + Fair Trade Cocoa (audio/mpeg 33.5MB) This week the indyNewswire focuses on Critical Resistance's CR10 gathering going on now, during the whole weekend of September 26-28. The conference will be a huge gathering of people opposed to the prison system; and we'll hear from Adrienne Fitch-Frankel, fair trade cocoa campaigner for Global Exchange. Most cheap readily available chocolate is produced by child labor if not outright child slavery. Fitch-Frankel discusses the campaign to support fair trade cocoa....
Posted: Fri, Sep 26, 2008 11:50am PDT
Delegation to Pelosi seeks Justice for Filipino WWII Vets 
Statement by Arturo P. Garcia
National Coordinator
Justice for Filipino American Veterans...
Posted: Thu, Sep 25, 2008 12:31pm PDT
No More Prisons! No More Jails! W/ Chairman Fred, Ramona & Pam Africa! 
An update on Mumia, Aaron Patterson and the current state of prisons. Also, music by El Machetero, MC Cambio and The Welfare Poets outta NYC!...
Posted: Tue, Sep 23, 2008 10:15pm PDT
Minuteman Proj. Counter-Demonstration & Dee Allen's Upcoming Trial The Minuteman Project will be back in front of City Hall on Sept. 25 at 11 a.m.. We demonstrate against them in solidarity with immigrant workers under attack from the Newsom administration, the SFPD and ICE. We also stand in solidarity with Lamont (Dee) Allen, who was arrested and on charged on falsified grounds the last time the Minuteman were in town. We are outraged that the City is wasting public funds on the prosecution of Mr. Allen. We are equally outraged at this City's readiness to ...
Posted: Tue, Sep 23, 2008 4:28pm PDT
Recognition For Filipino World War II Veterans, Now! 
Yesterday, we came to San Francisco Office of Speaker Nancy Pelosi to protest and express our support to SB 1315 and opposition to HR 6897 of Congressman Bob Filner. HR 6897.
As we protest, we heard that SB 1315 passed but take out all provisions pertaining to our veterans. This says the Congress does not recognize their war time services and do not give the same benefits as our American counterparts have. It is an insult to Filipino American community and the historical contributions o...
Posted: Tue, Sep 23, 2008 9:30am PDT
Picker- Rally at Pelosi's Office in San Francisco 
JOIN OUR LAST PUSH TO PASS SB 1315 VERSION IN CONGRESS! JOIN THE JFAV PICKET-RALLY AT SAN FRANCISCO ( SPEAKER PELOSI'S DOWNTOWN OFFICE) PICKET-RALLY FOR RECOGNITION,JUSTICE AND EQUITY! September 22, 2008 12;00= 2:00 PM Speaker Nancy Pelosi District Office 450 Golden Gate Ave San Francisco, California, 94102...
Posted: Sun, Sep 21, 2008 4:36pm PDT
SF Demonstration in Solidarity with Terrorized Immigrants in Arizona and Elsewhere Thursday, September 18, 11:30 AM
Wells Fargo Headquarters, 130 Sansome St, SF
(between Bush and Pine, one block east of Montgomery)....
Posted: Tue, Sep 16, 2008 11:02pm PDT
New DQ Poster! PDF, Download and Put Up! 
New DQ-University Occupation poster ready for PDF printing! Show your support by posting these up around town. Reads: "Solidarity with DQ-University. Support the Occupation - Not the Corrupt Board of Thieves - Indigenous Resistance."...
Posted: Tue, Sep 16, 2008 10:09pm PDT
Support DQ-University! Protest Racist ITCC Friday Sept 19th 
Protest the ITCC (Inter Tribal Council of California) and their racist attacks against DQ-University....
Posted: Tue, Sep 16, 2008 3:53pm PDT
Current situation & Emergency meeting at D-Q University (Davis Ca,) As of tonight (Sept. 12th at 10:13pm) the cops are out at the campus with orders to arrest occupiers. They are clearing the campus for the classes that are to be held this weekend. The help and numbers of the community are needed tomorrow 9/13/08 for a meeting at 1808 Rst in Sacramento, CA @ 11:00am.
The Illegal board of trustees Susan Reese and Shirley Lincoln as well some other individuals came in to D-Q University today demanding that everyone at D-Q U has to get off of D-Q U! Racist ...
Posted: Sat, Sep 13, 2008 10:21pm PDT
Sunday's Town Hall Meeting on KPFA Most importantly for everyone in the Bay Area, don't miss the Town Hall Meeting this Sunday, your opportunity to shape KPFA into an instrument for Black liberation and the liberation of all oppressed people. We can do it!...
Posted: Fri, Sep 5, 2008 5:47pm PDT
Free the SF 8: court date 850 Bryant St., San Francisco
3rd Floor, Dept. 27(?)...
Event Date: Mon, Sep 8, 2008 9:00am PDT
Posted: Tue, Sep 2, 2008 11:34am PDT
Bay Area Katrina Commemoration Draws 200+ 
On the heels of media announcements that Hurricane Gustav could hit the Gulf Coast with devastating effects, Bay Area activists rally to demand a halt to ethnic cleansing and disaster capitalism on the 3rd anniversary of Hurricane Katrina....
Posted: Mon, Sep 1, 2008 8:38pm PDT
Speak Out on 45th Anniversary of Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” Speech 
With endless wars, job losses, and erosion of civil liberties pushing the American dream farther out of reach for the vast majority, San Jose residents spoke out for grassroots empowerment and alternatives at the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library on August 28, 2008....
Posted: Sun, Aug 31, 2008 5:29pm PDT
March in Commeration of Hurricane Katrina 10am: Rally at Powell and Market, SF. 11:30am: March down Market. 12pm, Press Conference in front of Lennar's headquarters on Market between 1st and 2nd. 1:30pm: Oakland City Hall lunch at 14th and Broadway. 3pm: March down Broadway to Oakland Police Department. 3:45 Rally in front of O.P.D. at 7th and Broadway....
Event Date: Fri, Aug 29, 2008 10:00am PDT
Posted: Thu, Aug 28, 2008 10:56pm PDT
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