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Two dead, 100 injured in Los Angeles County jail riots
On Saturday, February 4, racial riots broke out in Los Angeles County jails between black and Latino inmates. The rioting continued for more than two weeks, involving thousands of prisoners at several different facilities. More than a hundred have been injured, many critically, and two inmates are dead....
Posted: Mon, Feb 27, 2006 7:06am PST
Steve Kubby update- sick and too skinny
Spoke with Steve today. He's lost 25 pounds and has had blood pressure problems
due to the poor diet he is being fed. He also has had shingles for three weeks,
indicating that his immune system is failing....
Posted: Sun, Feb 26, 2006 1:13pm PST
Matt Lamont (former anarchist political prisoner) Arrested
not sure of the date of this email...
Posted: Sun, Feb 26, 2006 12:32pm PST
McPherson gives Diebold thumbs up, sells-out California voters
McPherson was installed after the witch-hunt to take out Kevin Shelley so that this could happen. Everything is going as planned....
Posted: Sun, Feb 26, 2006 11:14am PST
Son del Centro y El Pinche Simón: El Enemigo Común in Santa Ana (audio/mpeg 5.5MB)
On February 18th, about 50 people came out to El Centro Cultural de México in Santa Ana to hear Son del Centro perform son jarocho music and see a premier screening of El Enemigo Común....
Posted: Sun, Feb 26, 2006 1:02am PST
The Green Scare and the Government’s “Case” Against Rod Coronado
The federal government has been chomping at the bit to put Rod Coronado back in prison since the moment he got out, and his indictment in San Diego for an exercise of pure speech is a flimsy pretext to do just that. [ed: Updated 02 March 2006]...
Posted: Sun, Feb 26, 2006 12:45am PST
BACORR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS COMMENTARY (audio/mpeg 7.0MB)
Elizabeth Creeley of the Bay Area Coalition For Our Reproductive Rights (BACORR) provides commentary on the polical struggle for women's reproductive rights. (8 minutes)...
Posted: Sat, Feb 25, 2006 7:20pm PST
ASA CA Weekly Alert
3) Sunday, February 26th, Fairfield: Solano Patients' Group Meeting
5) Tuesday, February 28th, San Francisco: SF ASA Meeting
6) Tuesday, February 28th, San Marcos: City to Hold Second Vote on
Banning Dispensaries
7) Wednesday, March 1st, Sacramento: Compassionate Coalition Meeting
8) Thursday, March 2nd, South San Francisco: Planning Commission to Vote
on Permitting Dispensaries!
9) Friday, March 3rd, Auburn: Court Support for Steve Kubby
10) Thursday, March 9th, Sacramento: Sac ASA...
Posted: Sat, Feb 25, 2006 12:04pm PST
March 12th - Make Peace On The Beach With Us!
Add your voice to the global call and join us in Los Angeles on March 12th....
Posted: Sat, Feb 25, 2006 11:59am PST
SCHWARZENEGGER ALIENATES MANY GROUPS
The people of California elected Governor Schwarzenegger to provide leadership, to cut wasteful spending and to control special interest groups; however Schwarzenegger has categorized most Californians as special interest groups....
Posted: Fri, Feb 24, 2006 4:04pm PST
Oakland-Style "Measure Z" Campaigns Slated for More CA Cities
Now, some of the people involved in the Oakland campaign are set to
expand it to other California cities...
Posted: Fri, Feb 24, 2006 3:32pm PST
Peter Camejo Event Tonight in Berkeley
Peter Camejo who is planning to formally announce his candidacy to run for Governor of California will speak about his lifetime of activism for social justice and other topics tonight in Berkeley....
Posted: Fri, Feb 24, 2006 6:56am PST
Steve Kubby has lost 25 pounds. Medi-pot patient in jail. Prop 215 coauthor.
Medi-pot patient, and Proposition 215 coauthor, Steve Kubby has lost 25 pounds since being put in the Placer County jail in Auburn, California January 27, 2006. The jail will accept food from McDonalds, but not from Steve Kubby's relatives and friends. Steve Kubby's special healthy diet and use of cannabis has made him one of the longest living survivors of his deadly form of adrenal cancer. The expensive Marinol (THC cannabinoid found in cannabis) that the jail allows him to use at his own e...
Posted: Fri, Feb 24, 2006 5:36am PST
IDA - Bay Area Events
1. Gopher Gardening at Ocean Beach
2. Protest Canadian Seal Slaughter with IDA in SF
3. Sign Petition to Save the Exotic Deer of Point Reyes National Seashore
4. IDA/SHARK Starbucks-Rodeo Protest Coming to Bay Area
5. Compassionate Cooks' February Cooking Class: "Demystifying Tofu and Tempeh"
6. Adopt an Animal from SFACC...
Posted: Thu, Feb 23, 2006 6:29pm PST
Environmentalist charged with teaching arson in San Diego
SAN DIEGO - An environmentalist faces federal charges of teaching others how to start an arson fire during a 2003 lecture in San Diego, where the costliest act of ecoterrorism in U.S. history had just occurred....
Posted: Thu, Feb 23, 2006 8:07am PST
Last-minute reprieve for California death row inmate
The execution by lethal injection of California death row inmate Michael Morales was temporarily put on hold Tuesday, just hours before his death warrant expired. Although given a temporary reprieve, the circumstances surrounding his case speak volumes about the gruesome and sadistic practice of capital punishment in the United States....
Posted: Wed, Feb 22, 2006 11:04pm PST
New Lawyer and Strategy in Kubby Case
On Wednesday, February 15th, the **Placer Court** and Prosecutor's office were informed that well-known **San Francisco** defense attorney J. David Nick has agreed to represent Steve Kubby, the cancer patient now jailed in **Auburn**....
Posted: Wed, Feb 22, 2006 10:49pm PST
Sacred Run from California to Washington, DC
All Life is Sacred Run...
Posted: Wed, Feb 22, 2006 9:25am PST
Execution Cancelled; Victory for the Workingclass
The spirit of Stanley Tookie Williams prevails: The death penalty for Michael Morales has been postponed indefinitely! Victory, Victory is our Cry! The Class Struggle is the Reason Why!...
Posted: Tue, Feb 21, 2006 6:29pm PST
Calif. Execution Postponed Indefinitely
The state on Tuesday postponed indefinitely the execution of a condemned killer amid a court battle over the state's method of lethal injection and the role doctors may play in the death chamber....
Posted: Tue, Feb 21, 2006 6:07pm PST