Publish to Newswire
Add an EventNewsitem List
726 of 823 
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
AB 1121 Moratorium on Executions Hearing tomorrow Location: State Capitol
Room 126
9:00 am
A press conference will be held at 12:00 noon in Governor's Press room #1190...
Posted: Mon, Jan 9, 2006 11:10pm PST
Ask Your Assemblymember to Support 3 Key LGBT Rights Bills and Oppose the Pete Knight Memo Ask Your Assemblymember to Support Three Key EQCA LGBT Rights Bills and Oppose the
Pete Knight Memorial Act!...
Posted: Mon, Jan 9, 2006 9:41pm PST
"Bloody Monday" World Can't Wait Rally against Alito 
"Bloody Monday" World Can't Wait Rally against Alito...
Posted: Mon, Jan 9, 2006 8:49pm PST
Where Have All the Protests Gone? Sacramento! It's hard to believe it, but there's not one single anti-war rally scheduled in the Bay Area for this entire upcoming, 3-day weekend. However, we're having a big one in Sacramento this Saturday. So if you think it's worth a 1.5 hour drive to help stop the war and to get Bush impeached, then come on over!...
Posted: Mon, Jan 9, 2006 8:31pm PST
1/16- Upcoming Events Thursday, January 19, 2006
THE SF BAY AREA PREMIERE OF AFTER INNOCENCE
A Benefit for the Life After Exoneration Program and Death Penalty Focus...
Posted: Mon, Jan 9, 2006 5:02pm PST
Peace Fresno Denounces Government Sponsored Spying 
Peace Fresno Press Conference - Monday, January 9, 2006...
Posted: Mon, Jan 9, 2006 2:57pm PST
Did Costa Mesa Police Chief John Hensley target a civil rights activist? 
In the picture below, taken from video footage shot by a Minuteman supporter at the Tuesday, January 3, 2006 meeting of the Costa Mesa City Council, Police Chief John Hensley is ordering his men to arrest Coyotl Tezcalipoca for allegedly disrupting a public meeting. The only problem, however, is that a few moments before he made this order, Mayor Allan Mansoor declared twice over the microphones that the meeting was in recess. Did Hensley order his men to make an illegal arrest?...
Posted: Mon, Jan 9, 2006 1:30pm PST
Former San Quentin prison warden opposes the execution (on 1/17) of Clarence Ray Allen Allen's capital crimes were repugnant, but they bear little on the assessment of the threat he poses. They occurred long ago and under very different circumstances.... It will be particularly difficult for the execution of Allen to be accomplished in a dignified way....
Must we insist on dragging a dying man out of the hospital just so we can inject the chemicals that will kill him a little bit sooner? ...sparing Allen from execution would be an act of decency, compassion and justice....
Posted: Mon, Jan 9, 2006 11:54am PST
Where Have All the Protests Gone? Sacramento! It's hard to believe it, but there's not one single anti-war rally scheduled in the Bay Area for this entire upcoming, 3-day weekend. However, we're having a big one in Sacramento this Saturday. So if you think it's worth a 1.5 hour drive to help stop the war and to get Bush impeached, then come on over!...
Posted: Mon, Jan 9, 2006 10:47am PST
726 of 823