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KFC Bay Area PETA Campaign 
KFC Bay Area PETA Campaign
Hello everyone,
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has a campaign website called KentuckyFriedCruelty.com asking KFC to eliminate the worst abuses that chickens suffer in the factory farms and slaughterhouses of its suppliers. These abuses include live scalding, life-long crippling, and painful debeaking....
Posted: Fri, Nov 4, 2005 2:41pm PST
11/20: TRANSGENDER DAY OF REMEMBRANCE Press conference to be held in LA on 11/16...
Posted: Fri, Nov 4, 2005 1:22pm PST
Million Solar Roofs - ACTION ALERT 
California's Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) is set to vote on the creation of the largest solar program in the United States....
Posted: Fri, Nov 4, 2005 7:18am PST
Why Parents Should Give a Damn: Prop. 76 May Mean Less Money for California Schools New America Media, Q & A, Carolyn Goosen and Daffodil Altan, Nov 03, 2005...
Posted: Thu, Nov 3, 2005 10:55pm PST
Native Black Californians and enslaved Black Californians completely disenfranchised Proceedings of the California Colored Convention of 1855 document a struggle against racial discrimination by early California pioneers. We celebrate that struggle and hold a community rally which will include a special message urging Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to grant clemency to Stanley Williams....
Posted: Thu, Nov 3, 2005 2:29pm PST
11/30 Day of Action for Tookie Williams; CEDP Conference We are calling November 30th as a Day of Action for Stan Tookie Williams.
This will probably fall shortly before his clemency hearing....
Posted: Wed, Nov 2, 2005 7:50pm PST
Death Penalty Focus Action Items & Events Stanley Tookie Williams "Teach-In Week" for Teachers, Youth Organizers, and Youth Ministries
November 14th - 21st...
Posted: Wed, Nov 2, 2005 7:43pm PST
Stop the Execution of Stanley Tookie Williams! As you may know, Stanley Tookie Williams has been sentenced by the state to die on December 13th at San Quentin. Stanley Tookie Williams has been nominated several times for Nobel Prizes in Peace & Literature -- for his anti-violence, anti-gang work and nearly a dozen intervention books about gang life. Letters of clemency may be the only thing that can save Mr. Williams' life....
Posted: Wed, Nov 2, 2005 6:55pm PST
Judgment Day for the Governator 
The backlash started a year ago when members of the California Nurses Association (CNA) protested Schwarzenegger at a speech he was giving supposedly to honor women's rights. The nurses were angry that he had just signed an executive order overturning a new state law designed to reduce nurse-to-patient ratios and raise the standard of patient care.
Faced with the CNA challenge, Arnold yelled out that the nurses were "a special interest who don't like me because I am always kicking the...
Posted: Wed, Nov 2, 2005 1:45pm PST
MoveOn.org Launches Campaign Connecting Schwarzenegger to Bush MoveOn.org announced plans to jump into the statewide special election yesterday, unveiling a television ad they will air for the next five days in major cities throughout the state. The online advocacy group partnered with Democracy for America and the Courage Campaign, a new coalition devoted to organizing progressives throughout California, to produce and pay for the ad. The campaign represents an anomaly for the traditionally nation-based Moveon.org, an effort founder Wes Boyd says their ...
Posted: Wed, Nov 2, 2005 6:57am PST
The California Union Paycheck Initiative and the political tasks facing the working class 
Vote “no” on Proposition 75! Break with the Democrats! For the political independence of the working class!...
Posted: Wed, Nov 2, 2005 6:57am PST
If you're going to Sacramento Nov. 2, watch out... Sabotage at World Can't Wait Rally on Nov 2!!!...
Posted: Mon, Oct 31, 2005 6:00pm PST
Must Tookie Be Executed? Article on the upcoming execution of Tookie Williams, written by Political Prisoner Kalima Aswad....
Posted: Mon, Oct 31, 2005 11:44am PST
Strange Fruit 
This “strange fruit” appears at the edge of West Fresno. The owner of the Union 76 station says that it is a Halloween decoration but some African American residents have complained that the display is offensive. The owner has refused to remove the display. So, the question is: Do you think this display is racist or is it just in extremely poor taste?...
Posted: Sun, Oct 30, 2005 11:04am PST
Free Radio Santa Cruz: No On Prop 73 Interview with Cynthia Mathews George interviews Cynthia Mathews of Planned Parenthood Santa Cruz and Vice Mayor about prop 73
Termination of Minor's Pregnancy. Waiting Period and Parental Notification....
Posted: Sat, Oct 29, 2005 11:23am PDT
Listen, Ring, Scream - 100,000 Bells Toll 
Report on the event held October 26, 2005 in Palo Alto's Lytton Plaza, on the Fourth Anniversary of the PATRIOT Act, activists exercised their first amendment rights- to speak, to listen, ring bells, to scream on issues ignored and censored by the press....
Posted: Fri, Oct 28, 2005 11:20pm PDT
ASA Weekly Alert *1) October 29th & 30th, San Francisco: Wonders of Cannabis Festival
2) November 1st, San Francisco: SF ASA Meeting
3) November 1st, Auburn: Planning Commission to Vote on Banning
Collective Dispensaries
4) November 8th, San Diego: SD ASA Meeting
5) November 10th, Long Beach: ASA and SSDP Blues Blowout*...
Posted: Fri, Oct 28, 2005 7:03pm PDT
Contra Costa Homeless Told To Leave (SL Streets) This past week saw law enforcement in Contra Costa County California evict the homeless from their camps....
Posted: Fri, Oct 28, 2005 10:05am PDT
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