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Kubby Family Survives Deadline For Removal
KUBBY FAMILY SURVIVES DEADLINE FOR REMOVAL
But Immigration Expected to Move Quickly If Judge Rules Against
Cancer Patient....
Posted: Sat, Jan 14, 2006 12:59am PST
Call to Action: Return to the Scene of the nonCrime
In honor of Martin Luther King
In rememberance of Californians killed in Iraq
In determination to end this war in Iraq...
Posted: Fri, Jan 13, 2006 11:42pm PST
California's movie star governor refuses to spare elderly killer
Celebrity governor Arnold Schwarzenegger refused on to spare the life of a frail, elderly killer set to be executed in a California prison a day after his 76th birthday....
Posted: Fri, Jan 13, 2006 10:23pm PST
Three arrested on eco-vandalism accusations in California
(01-13) 17:55 PST Auburn, Calif. (AP) --
Three people were arrested Friday on suspicion that they plotted to blow up U.S. Forest Service property along with cell phone towers and power generators, the FBI said.
Zachary O. Jenson, 20, of Monroe, Wash., Lauren Weiner, 20, of Philadelphia, and Eric Taylor McDavid, 28, of Foresthill, Calif., were arrested Friday morning, said Karen Ernst of the FBI....
Posted: Fri, Jan 13, 2006 6:19pm PST
ASA CA Weekly Alert
*1) Correction: Court Support for Bryan Epis - Hearing Date Postponed
Until February!
2) January 17th, Fresno: Court Support for Joe Fortt
3) January 20th, San Francisco: Court Support for San Francisco
Dispensary Defendants
4) January 21st, Merced:** Merced County Patients Coalition Meeting*
*5) January 24th, San Francisco: SF ASA Meeting
6) January 26th, San Francisco: Court Support for Eddy Lepp
**7) January 26th, Sacramento: Sac ASA Meeting*
*8) Reminder: ASA is Seeking Submiss...
Posted: Fri, Jan 13, 2006 4:59pm PST
Abused woman beaten again by state of California
For killing her abuser, Rose Parker, promised pardon after 15 years in prison, 5 years on parole, now on parole for life...
Posted: Fri, Jan 13, 2006 9:34am PST
Schwarzenegger's budget: up with prisons, down with communities
Sacramento - In his budget released today, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger stuck to an old script: increasing funding for the state's massively troubled prison system. Elected on a platform that promised to "blow up boxes," the governor continues to fall in line with expensive and ineffective "tough on crime" policies despite widespread voter frustration at pouring ever more resources into a failed prison system....
Posted: Fri, Jan 13, 2006 9:25am PST
Rebuilding New Orleans: The Struggle Continues
We look at the the ongoing struggles around rebuilding New Orleans after the Hurricane Katrina disaster. We speak with Marc Morial, president of the National Urban League and a former mayor of New Orleans and Tracie Washington, an attorney representing a number of evacuees in New Orleans who are staying in hotels and are facing eviction....
Posted: Fri, Jan 13, 2006 8:10am PST
The 'Paper Ceiling' -- Undocumented Youths Face Barriers at the Brink of Adulthood
At an age when most teenagers are getting their driver's licenses, working their first jobs and applying to college, more and more young people are coming face to face with what it means to grow up without papers....
Posted: Fri, Jan 13, 2006 7:39am PST
Protest Schwarzenegger's Lunch Break Takeaway Noon at State Capital 1/13
Arnold the Bullying Lowlife now wants to steal the lunch breaks of workers! Don't miss this protest tomorrow!...
Posted: Thu, Jan 12, 2006 10:09pm PST
U.S. TRADE DEFICIT DEVASTATING ECONOMY
The U.S. economy is being sold to the highest bidders in the world trade markets and our trade deficit is destroying our economy. A 69 billion dollar trade deficit, and over 700 billion annually, is putting millions of Americans in jeopardy of losing their homes, their jobs and everything they possess only to benefit big business....
Posted: Thu, Jan 12, 2006 6:42pm PST
CA Assembly Committee OKs Hemp Bill
Assembly committee OKs bill letting farmers grow hemp...
Posted: Thu, Jan 12, 2006 12:11pm PST
Death Penalty
I don't agree with murder regardless who commits the crime....
Posted: Thu, Jan 12, 2006 9:55am PST
Killing Tookie, Smearing Mandela: Schwarzenegger's Hit List
So reads the statement of California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger in denying clemency for Stan Tookie Williams. Twelve hours after the statement was issued, Stan was brought into the execution chamber at San Quentin Prison, and the former gang leader-turned-internationally renown peacemaker was put to death....
Posted: Thu, Jan 12, 2006 9:38am PST
Indian-Americans Decry Attempts by Hindu Supremacist Groups to Rewrite India’s History
Palo Alto, CA, January 10, 2006 -- A coalition of American groups representing the immigrant communities from the Indian subcontinent, led by Friends of South Asia (FOSA), have taken strong exception to numerous misrepresentations of India’s ancient history and of Hinduism recently put forward by the Vedic Foundation (VF) and the Hindu Education Foundation (HEF) for incorporation into Grade 6 History/Social Sciences textbooks in California....
Posted: Thu, Jan 12, 2006 12:39am PST
CA Alert: Help Steve Kubby
We are writing today to ask for your help in the case of Steve Kubby,
a medical cannabis patient who has been living with his family in
Canada for the past five years. Mr. Kubby was convicted in 1999 of
misdemeanor drug possession (for possessing minute quantities of
mescaline and psilocin) stemming from a marijuana raid on his Placer
County, California home....
Posted: Wed, Jan 11, 2006 10:07pm PST
DPF Updates
On January 10, 2006, the California Assembly Public Safety Committee voted 4-2-1 to support the "California Moratorium on Executions Act" (AB1121) (Leno, Goldberg, Hancock, and Dymally voted to support the bill, Cohn abstained and Spitzer and LaSuer voted against the bill)...
Posted: Wed, Jan 11, 2006 10:05pm PST
Filibuster or Bush: Feinstein Must Stop Alito
Sen. Feinstein must declare her intention now to lead a filibuster against Alito. Simply voting against him is an empty gesture....
Posted: Wed, Jan 11, 2006 3:02pm PST
Schwarzenegger had no motorbike licence, he admits after crash
Arnold Schwarzenegger did not have the proper licence to drive a motorcycle when he crashed at the weekend, Los Angeles police have said....
Posted: Wed, Jan 11, 2006 10:27am PST
Help Free Theresa Cruz
Imprisoned for 15 years for the non-fatal shooting of her ex-husband, Theresa Cruz is finally up for parole! She's not a media star, just a regular working-class woman who needs your help. This is a case we could win! Please write the governor....
Posted: Wed, Jan 11, 2006 6:56am PST