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The Fight Against Racial Discrimination in the Richmond Shipyards:An interview with Soskin (audio/mpeg 12.6MB) Betty Reid Soskin experienced racism during the 2nd WW in the Richmond shipyards and she
discusses this with Steve Zeltzer from the KPFA Labor Collective.
27.25 minutes 12.6 mb...
Posted: Fri, Jan 20, 2006 7:26pm PST
Segregation in the US and Bay Area Trade Unionists (audio/mpeg 7.3MB) This interview exposes the history of segregation and the
effect on SEIU UHW hospital workers....
Posted: Fri, Jan 20, 2006 7:12pm PST
ASA CA Weekly Alert 3) January 24th, San Jose: Santa Clara County to Vote on Implementing
MMJ ID Card Program
4) January 24th, San Francisco: SF ASA Meeting
5) January 26th, San Francisco: Court Support for Eddy Lepp
**6) January 26th, Sacramento: Sac ASA Meeting
7) January 27th, Sacramento: Court Support for Louis Fowler
8) January 30th, Fresno: Court Support for Dustin Costa
**9) Reminder: ASA is Seeking Submissions for Medical Marijuana Film
Festival
10) Action Alert: Butte, Calaveras, Lake & Tuolu...
Posted: Fri, Jan 20, 2006 6:24pm PST
Bay Area Animal Group to Screen Rare Agribusiness Industry Footage 
Each year, more than 19 million egg-laying hens are raised in intensive confinement for the California egg industry. According to the California Poultry Workgroup, nearly 100 percent of these hens are confined to battery cages -- wire enclosures so small that birds are unable to lift even a single wing. This nearly-universal practice violates Section 597t of the California State Penal Code, which requires that confined animals have adequate exercise space....
Posted: Fri, Jan 20, 2006 11:43am PST
IDA Bay Area Events 1. Help Improve Management of the Oakland Animal Shelter 2. Gopher Gardening at Ocean Beach 3. Fur Protest at Chinese Consulate in San Francisco 4. KFC Protest and Letter Writing Party 5. Film Screening of "The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill" 6. Animal Investigation Film Festival 7. Bunnies Need Homes to Escape Euthanasia 7. Compassionate Cooks' February Cooking Class: "Demystifying Tofu and Tempeh"...
Posted: Thu, Jan 19, 2006 10:33pm PST
Leather community debates trans exclusion at upcoming contest Resurrected where the San Francisco-born International Drummer
contest left off, the LeatherSIR/Leatherboy will hold a regional
feeder contest in San Francisco in July. The contest has a worldwide
policy requiring its competitors to be "born male," thus excluding
transgender men from competing....
Posted: Thu, Jan 19, 2006 9:52pm PST
Historic Victory for Clean Elections Bill Bill passes out of Assembly Appropriations Committee, to be heard by full
Assembly next week...
Posted: Thu, Jan 19, 2006 9:12pm PST
Jesse, King and the Business of Black Leadership Unfair to Jesse Jackson or not, the claim in a new Martin Luther King Jr. biography that King saw Jackson as an opportunist resonates because of the flashy leadership style and middle-class myopia of today's civil rights leaders....
Posted: Thu, Jan 19, 2006 6:35pm PST
Angel Raich's Hearing in Ninth Circuit is on March 27 in Pasadena the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals set a
hearing date in my case for March 27th, at the Ninth Circuit Court of
Appeals in Pasadena, Hearing Room 3. For some reason we are not having a
hearing in San Francisco....
Posted: Wed, Jan 18, 2006 11:50pm PST
The Fresno Peace and Social Justice calendar 
A calendar of events in the Fresno area....
Posted: Wed, Jan 18, 2006 9:08pm PST
25 Years of Rent Control in SF, Berkeley & other Cal cities As the new year begins, a significant 25th anniversary event---directly impacting hundreds of thousands of Bay Area renters----was observed during 2005's final months: the passage, in 1980, of San Francisco's and Berkeley's respective Rent Stabilization and Good Cause Eviction ordinances, commonly known as rent control. Both cities' ordinances became effective from 1979 to 1981....
Posted: Wed, Jan 18, 2006 7:48pm PST
Lessons from a Criminal Complaint What follows are my observations on the criminal complaint, case number 206-MJ-0021, filed by the FBI in the case of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA V. ERIC McDAVID, LAUREN WEINER, and ZACHARY JENSON. I believe my observations my be salient to many dissidents engaged in legal protest activities. They may be salient to others as well....
Posted: Wed, Jan 18, 2006 6:41pm PST
Alumni group is paying students to help ID profs who express "radical" political views The Bruin Alumni Association is concerned about professors who speak against President Bush, the military and multinational corporations when they rightfully should be praising them without reservation, under penalty of law.
Linda Chavez, of recent Catholic League infamy here on Indybay (http://www.indybay.org/news/2006/01/1795416.php), is again mixed up with right-wing bullies....
Posted: Wed, Jan 18, 2006 1:37pm PST
Safe Schools Legislation Advances in the Legislature! ACTION ALERT: Help pass AB 606!...
Posted: Wed, Jan 18, 2006 11:36am PST
World Ag Expo ~ USDA Assistant for Civil Rights and California Black Farmers "Mr. Vernon Parker, Assistant Secretary of USDA, provided our nation service beyond the call of duty in an almost impossible situation," states Black Farmers and Agriculturalists Association, California President, CEO, Michael Harris....
Posted: Tue, Jan 17, 2006 8:14pm PST
Fresno Debates Video Surveillance 
This article was printed in The Fresno Bee on Tuesday, January 17. It is in response to the Fresno Police Departments plan to vastly increase video surveillance in this community....
Posted: Tue, Jan 17, 2006 5:12pm PST
Friends of Tookie Facing Charges On December 8, 2005, these men (including my uncle) were taken from their cells by guards in riot gear and told that they were going to be questioned and investigated under the charges that they were conspiring to incite a riot and harm guards following the execution of Tookie...
Posted: Tue, Jan 17, 2006 3:23pm PST
Kern County, CA school agrees to stop teaching 'intelligent design' Teacher Sharon Lemburg, the wife of an Assembly of God minister, defended the course she designed: "I believe this is the class that the Lord wanted me to teach." Apparently, she didn't design it intelligently enough to fool the parents of that school district who want their children to get a real education....
Posted: Tue, Jan 17, 2006 10:46am PST
California governor denies clemency: 76-year-old dies by lethal injection California death row inmate Clarence Ray Allen was put to death just after midnight Tuesday at San Quentin State Prison. His execution by lethal injection went ahead after Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger denied his clemency bid. He was the 14th person put to death in California since the death penalty was reinstated in 1977, and the second person to be executed in little more than a month....
Posted: Tue, Jan 17, 2006 7:54am PST
Dedicating Ourselves to Equality Through Community Each month in 2006, Equality California will highlight a value and ask you to join us in taking action that will help our efforts to add to our rights and protections....
Posted: Mon, Jan 16, 2006 10:02pm PST
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