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May
Day 2008 Solidarity Statements And Celebrations
Editor's note: There will be a May Day March and Rally in San
Jose, CA that kicks off at 4PM at King and Story Road on Thursday, May
1, 2008.
April 28, 2008
BREAKING NEWS: Members of the Port Workers Union of Iraq plan to
shutdown the
ports of Umm Qasr and Khor Alzubair for one hour on May Day in
solidarity with the
shutdown of all West Coast ports by members of ILWU in opposition to the
occupation of Iraq.
The second message is a May Day greeting from a broad cross-section of
union leaders
from many different unions and labor federations in Iraq as an
expression of their
appreciation for the solidarity demonstrated by organized labor,
working people and
all peace-loving people of the world in support of their efforts to end
the foreign
occupation of Iraq and the sectarian violence that occupation has
spawned.
[This statement continues to be circulated in Iraq and as additional
signers become
known, their names will be added to the copy posted on the USLAW
website.]
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May Day Message
From: The General Union of Port Workers in Iraq
To: The International Longshore and Warehouse Union in the
United States
Dear Brothers and Sisters of ILWU in California:
The courageous decision you made to carry out a strike on May Day to
protest against
the war and occupation of Iraq advances our struggle against occupation
to bring a
better future for us and for the rest of the world as well.
We are certain that a better world will only be created by the workers
and what you
are doing is an example and proof of what we say. The labor
movement is the only
element in the society that is able to change the political equations
for the
benefit of mankind. We in Iraq are looking up to you and support
you until the
victory over the US administration's barbarism is achieved.
Over the past five years the sectarian gangs who are the product of the
occupation,
have been trying to transfer their conflicts into our ranks.
Targeting workers,
including their residential and shopping areas, indiscriminately using
all sorts of
explosive devices, mortar shells, and random shooting, were part of a
bigger scheme
that was aiming to tear up the society but they miserably failed to
achieve their
hellish goal. We are struggling today to defeat both the
occupation and sectarian
militias' agenda.
The pro-occupation government has been attempting to intervene into the
workers
affairs by imposing a single government-certified labor union.
Furthermore it has
been promoting privatization and an oil and gas law to use the
occupation against
the interests of the workers.
We the port workers view that our interests are inseparable from the
interests of
workers in Iraq and the world; therefore we are determined to continue
our struggle
to improve the living conditions of the workers and overpower all plots
of the
occupation, its economic and political projects.
Let us hold hands for the victory of our struggle.
Long live the port workers in California!
Long live May Day!
Long live International solidarity!
The General Union of Port Workers in Iraq An Affiliate Union with
General Federation
of Workers Councils and Unions in Iraq (GFWCUI)
28-4-2008 EMPHASIS ADDED
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May Day 2008 Statement
From: The Iraqi Labour Movement
To: The Workers and All Peace Loving People of the World
On this day of international labour solidarity we call on our fellow
trade unionists
and all those worldwide who have stood against war and occupation to
increase
support for our struggle for freedom from occupation - both the
military and
economic.
We call upon the governments, corporations and institutions behind the
ongoing
occupation of Iraq to respond to our demands for real democracy, true
sovereignty
and self-determination free of all foreign interference.
Five years of invasion, war and occupation have brought nothing but
death,
destruction, misery and suffering to our people. In the name of
our "liberation,"
the invaders have destroyed our nation's infrastructure, bombed our
neighbourhoods,
broken into our homes, traumatized our children, assaulted and arrested
many of our
family members and neighbours, permitted the looting of our national
treasures, and
turned nearly twenty percent of our people into refugees.
The invaders helped to foment and then exploit sectarian divisions and
terror
attacks where there had been none. Our union offices have been
raided. Union
property has been seized and destroyed. Our bank accounts have
been frozen. Our
leaders have been beaten, arrested, abducted and assassinated.
Our rights as
workers have been routinely violated.
The Ba'athist legislation of 1987, which banned trade unions in the
public sector
and public enterprises (80% of all workers), is still in effect,
enforced by Paul
Bremer's post-invasion Occupation Authority and then by all subsequent
Iraqi
administrations. This is an attack on our rights and basic
precepts of a democratic
society, and is a grim reminder of the shadow of dictatorship still
stalking our
country.
Despite the horrific conditions in our country, we continue to organise
and protest
against the occupation, against workplaces abuses, and for better
treatment and
safer conditions.
Despite the sectarian plots around us, we believe in unity and
solidarity and a
common aim of public service, equality, and freedom to organise without
external
intrusions and coercion.
Our legitimacy comes from our members. Our principles of
organisation are based on
transparent and internationally recognised International Labour
Organisation
standards.
We call upon our allies and all the world's peace-loving peoples to
help us to end
the nightmare of occupation and restore our sovereignty and national
independence so
that we can chart our own course to the future.
1) We demand an immediate withdrawal of all foreign troops from
our country, and
utterly reject the agreement being negotiated with the USA for
long-term bases and
a military presence. The continued occupation fuels the violence
in Iraq rather
than alleviating it. Iraq must be returned to full sovereignty.
2) We demand the passage of a labour law promised by our
Constitution, which
adheres to ILO principles and on which Iraqi trade unionists have been
fully
consulted, to protect the rights of workers to organize, bargain and
strike,
independent of state control and interference.
3) We demand an end to meddling in our sovereign economic
affairs by the
International Monetary Fund, USA and UK. We demand withdrawal of
all economic
conditionalities attached to the IMF's agreements with Iraq, removal of
US and UK
economic "advisers" from the corridors of Iraqi government, and a
recognition by
those bodies that no major economic decisions concerning our services
and
resources can be made while foreign troops occupy the country.
4) We demand that the US government and others immediately cease
lobbying for the
oil law, which would fracture the country and hand control over our oil
to
multinational companies like Exxon, BP and Shell. We demand that
all oil
companies be prevented from entering into any long-term agreement
concerning oil
while Iraq remains occupied. We demand that the Iraqi government
tear up the
current draft of the oil law, and begin to develop a legitimate oil
policy based
on full and genuine consultation with the Iraqi people. Only
after all occupation
forces are gone should a long term plan for the development of our oil
resources
be adopted.
We seek your support and solidarity to help us end the military and
economic
occupation of our country. We ask for your solidarity for our
right to organise and
strike in defence of our interests as workers and of our public
services and
resources. Our public services are the legacy of generations
before us and the
inheritance of all future generations and must not be privatised.
We thank you for standing by us. We too stand with you in your
own struggles for
real democracy which we know you also struggle for, and against
privatisation,
exploitation and daily disempowerment in your workplaces and lives.
We commend those of you who have organised strikes and demonstrations
to end the
occupation in solidarity with us and we hope these actions will
continue.
We look forward to the day when we have a world based on co-operation
and
solidarity. We look forward to a world free from war,
sectarianism, competition and
exploitation.
Endorsed by:
Hassan Juma'a Awad, President, Iraqi Federation of Oil Unions
(IFOU)
Faleh Abood Umara, Deputy, Central Council, Iraqi Federation of
Oil Unions (IFOU)
Falah Alwan, President, Federation of Workers Councils and
Unions in Iraq (FWCUI)
Subhi Albadri, President, General Federation of Workers Councils
and Unions in
Iraq (GFWCUI)
Nathim Rathi, President, Iraqi Port Workers Trade Union
Samir Almuawi, President, Engineering Professionals Trade Union
Ghzi Mushatat, President, Mechanic and Print Shop Trade Union
Waleed Alamiri, President, Electricity Trade Union
Ilham Talabani, President, Banking Services Trade Union
Abdullah Ubaid, President, Railway Trade Union Ammar Ali,
President,
Transportation Trade Union
Abdalzahra Abdilhassan, President, Service Employees Trade Union
Sundus Sabeeh, President, Barber Shop Workers Trade Union
Kareem Lefta Sindan, President, Lumber and Construction Trade
Union, General
Federation of Iraqi Workers (GFIW)
Sabah Almusawi, President, Wasit Independent Trade Union
Shakir Hameed, President, Lumber And Construction Trade Union
(GFWCUI)
Awad Ahmed, President, Teachers Federation of Salahideen Alaa
Ghazi Mushatat, President, Agricultural And Food Substance
Industries Adnan
Rathi Shakir, President, Water Resources Trade Union
Nahrawan Yas, President, Woman Affairs Bureau
Sabah Alyasiri, President (GFWCUI) Babil
Ali Tahi, President (GFWCUI)
Najaf Ali Abbas, President (GFWCUI) Basra
Muhi Abdalhussien, President (GFWCUI), Wasit
Ali Hashim Abdilhussien, President (GFWCUI) Kerbala
Ali Hussien, President (GFWCUI) Anbar
Mustafa Ameen, President, Arab Workers Bureau (GFWCUI)
Thameer Mzeail, Health Services, Union Committee
Khadija Saeed Abdullah, Teachers Federation, Member
Asmahan, Khudair, Woman Affairs, Textile Trade Unions Adil
Aljabiri, Oil Workers Trade Union Executive Bureau Member
Muhi Abdalhussien, Nadia Flaih, Service Employees Trade Unions
Rawneq Mohammed, Member, Media and Print Shop Trade Union
Abdlakareem Abdalsada, Vice President (GFWCUI)
Saeed Nima, Vice President (GFWCUI)
Sabri Abdalkareem, Member, (GFWCUI) Babil
Amjad Aljawhary, Representative of GFWCUI in North America
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Why The Trump Institute Is Not All That It
Is Trumped Up To Be
by
John
Thielking
4-13-08
I
went
to the free seminar at the Windham Hotel in downtown San Jose on
Sunday, April 13, 2008 to hear what the great capitalist had to say
about making money. Donald Trump may be able to pull off some great
real estate deals for himself and get connected to bankers who will let
him swing some deals in real estate. But for the rest of us
"Chumps On The Street" this talk about making money in Real Estate is
all pie in the sky. I saw through all the hype when the presenter
(Bill?) started talking about how Donald Trump would teach us how to
rescue people from forecolsure. For the record: In California, in
order to be completely legal when you are even just prospecting for
potential deals to close in the foreclosure market, you MUST have all
of the following: 1) A real estate license; 2) A surety bond in an
amount equal to 3 times the value of the property that is in
foreclosure. Any schmuck selling get rich quick in real estate
seminars who is not also advising you to have a real estate agent in
hand to handle all of your real estate transactions, and in some cases
ALL OF YOUR PROSPECTING, is sending you down the primrose path that
will land you in jail, or in court being sued, or both. If Donald
Trump can't tell you the right, legal way to buy and sell real estate
to make the quick and easy bucks, no one can. So my advice is to
save your $3000 and stay away from all of these schmucks.
On the other hand, if you want to make a worthwhile investment, how
about this: Pay me $50K-$100K/obo to cover my business and living
expenses while I research and write my "Peace Movies" book. In
return, I will give you 40% of the lifetime profits from the
book. I plan to offer the book in a frequently updated e-book
format and may also have a subscription web site for movies in theaters
and new releases to video. I have a small survey that I conducted
among SJSU students and peace activists that shows there is a big
demand for the book and the subscription web site. (The non-violent
movie market is at least a 5x bigger market than horror movie
market for example.) So much for "non-disclosure" as advocated by
DT. Contact John Thielking at 408-914-2751 or
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Protest for Mumia Abu-Jamal
Saturday April 19, 2008
from
12PM-2PM
Cesar Chavez Park (Market
and
San Carlos)
San Jose, CA
For
you early birds, a special
outreach about Mumia to Physicians will take place at 6:30AM, Saturday
April, 19,
2008 at the Parkside Hall, one block West of Cesar Chavez
Park, next to the Tech Museum.
The Parkside Hall
event has
been moved to 3:30PM. Thanks.
For more information on
the
latest travesty in Mumia's case see Dissident
Voice. |
Mumia Abu-Jamal NEWS FLASH
3-27-08
PROTEST!! Abu-Jamal
Appeal Denied!!
Fri 3/28 - SF
Sat 4/19 - SF and National
Sat 4/26 - Philadelphia
Please call the Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Coalition Hotline in NYC
(212)330-8029, or Pam Africa (215) 476-8812 or Suzanne
Ross (917) 584-2135 for East Coast protest information. See below for
SF.
Press Release:
The Mobilization to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal
P.O. Box 10328
Oakland, CA 94610
510-268-9429 or 510-387-7714
jmackler@lmi.net
March 27, 2008
PRESS CONFERENCE/Media Release/EMERGENCY PROTEST!
For Immediate Release
For further information call: Jeff Mackler, Director
510-268-9429 or 510-387-7714
PRESS CONFERENCE/PROTEST SCHEDULED FOR:
FRIDAY, MARCH 28, 5 PM
FEDERAL COURT HOUSE
7TH AND MISSION STREETS
SAN FRANCISCO, CA
In Oakland, march Friday, March 28. Meet at 4:30 PM at 14th &
Broadway
From: Kiilu Nyasha <kiilu2 {AT} sbcglobal.net>
The U.S. COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE THIRD CIRCUIT REJECTS ALL APPEALS FOR
INNOCENT
DEATH ROW INMATE MUMIA ABU-JAMAL
STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA ORDERED TO HOLD NEW SENTENCING HEARING WITHIN 180
DAYS. IN SUCH A HEARING JURY'S DECISION WILL
BE LIMITED TO A FINDING OF LIFE IMPRISONMENT OR EXECUTION BY LETHAL
INJECTION
JURY PROHIBITED FROM FINDING OF INNOCENCE
LOCAL PROTESTS SET FOR FRIDAY, MARCH 28 (Federal Court House, 7th and
Mission, SF, 5 PM) FOLLOWED BY NATIONAL PROTEST
APRIL 19 (SAN FRANCISCO) AND APRIL 26 (PHILADELPHIA).
"THE DECISION OF THE THIRD CIRCUIT IS A TRAVESTY OF JUSTICE," SAID JEFF
MACKLER, DIRECTOR OF THE MOBILIZATION TO FREE
MUMIA ABU-JAMAL. "DESPITE MASSIVE EVIDENCE OF INNOCENCE THE COURT
REJECTED OUR DEMAND FOR A NEW TRIAL WHERE THE TRUTH
COULD BE HEARD FOR THE FIRST TIME."
In a shocking decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
rejected all Mr. Abu-Jamal's demands for a new
trial. In 1982 Mr. Abu-Jamal was falsely convicted of the murder of
Police Officer Daniel Faulkner in a trial where 11
of 14 Black jurors were systematically excluded and where critical
evidence proving the defendant's innocence was
excluded.
On death row for 26 years, Mr. Abu-Jamal, an award winning journalist
and the author of nine books, has led a campaign
for a new trial and freedom that has won the support of groups ranging
from Amnesty International and the European
Parliament to the San Francisco, Detroit, and Berkeley city councils.
Massive new evidence proving Abu-Jamal's innocence has been
systematically excluded from court consideration.
Abu-Jamal's attorneys will appeal today's decision to the U.S. Supreme
Court.
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Why The Low Application Rate Of LBAM Spray
Is Not Reassuring
by John Thielking
3-26-08
These are my EIR
scoping comments concerning the CDFA program to eradicate the Light
Brown Apple Moth, as submitted to Jim Rains of the CDFA on March
20, 2008 by e-mail. A simillar document was
submitted to the USDA for the Environmental Assessment fo the LBAM
eradication program. This document is not a CASS consensus
document. It is entirely my own work, except for the references
of course, and except for some help/critcism I received from my good
friend and Chemistry Professor Dr Roger Terrill ( San Jose State
University).
3-20-08
Jim Rains, Staff
Environmental
Scientist
CA Department of Food and
Agriculture
Plant Health and Pest
Prevention
Services
1220 N Street, Room A-316
Sacramento, CA 95814
Dear Jim Rains:
I am writing to you to
present
my comments concerning the Environmental Impact of the program to
eradicate the LBAM in California.
It has now been documented by a researcher at UCSC who traveled
recently to New Zealand that LBAM will likely be controlled by
natural predators if toxic pesticides that interfere with natural
predators are not used in an attempt to control LBAM.
http://www.lbamspray.com/00_Documents/2008/HarderNZReportFINAL.pdf
The LBAM “emergency” is
therefore mostly an emergency that exists on paper and affects trade,
more than it is an emergency
concerning possible crop damage caused by LBAM. Please stop
funding eradication of LBAM that uses the questionable methods
of ground and aerial spraying of potentially toxic materials.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
John Thielking
1346 The Alameda
Suite 7-318
San Jose, CA 95126
Investigation of
correlation
between possible concentration of Methyl Trioctyl Ammonium Chloride
(MTAC) at ground level during spraying to control LBAM in Santa Cruz, CA on Nov 8-9, 2007 and
appropriate exposure limits
By John Thielking
BA Physics
3-20-08
John Thielking
1346 The Alameda, Suite 7-318
San Jose, CA 95126
Summary Statement:
It is unacceptable that
the
actual concentrations of the methyl trioctyl ammonium chloride (MTAC)
and other inerts in the Checkmate aerial spray used over Santa Cruz on
Nov 8-Nov 9, 2007 were not fully disclosed. Disclosing the
concentrations would make it possible to evaluate weather or not
reported health effects could be due to the chemicals in question.
Although the proposed DOE TEEL’s for MTAC may be high enough to
seemingly rule out such a possibility, the way in which the TEEL’s
themselves are derived(4) leaves open some rather large uncertainties
in what minimal level of toxic exposure may produce health effects in
some people. Between the spray being applied unevenly, as documented by
the drift cards which had only 1/10 of the expected amount of capsules
on them, and the uncertainties involved in converting an LD50 or LC50
to an appropriate TLV, the total uncertainty in what intended
application rates will produce what type of health effect could be off
by +/- a factor of 800 or more. In layman’s terms, It is
quite possible that MTAC is more toxic than the DOE estimated, by up to
a factor of 82, and it is also possible that the spray was applied
unevenly, such that certain areas received up to 10 times more spray
than was intended. Although this latter point is not documented on
drift cards, the actual number of drift cards in the treatment zones
was small enough that this could have been overlooked. Also we
have some anecdotal reports that when people were affected by the
spray, sometimes whole families in one household got sick, which lends
credibility to the unevenly applied spray hypothesis.
Please completely disclose
the
concentrations of the inerts and also provide data on how much total
chemical was applied by each aircraft in each treatment area. Only in
this way can we get a good handle on what the peak concentrations of
the spray might be for 1%-5% of the population and also define what the
possible health effects might be.
Discussion:
The concentration of the MTAC in the spray was not fully
disclosed. All we know for sure is that it is a component of the
spray that was applied on Nov 8 and Nov 9, 2007 in the Santa Cruz area
and that it is less than 3% by weight of the entire mixture. We also
know that the MTAC was used as a surfactant and so was likely a
component of the water portion of the mixture, not part of the
capsules. If we make the reasonable assumption that the MTAC is
in fact 1% of the mix, then we can derive the following argument:
The active ingredient (pheromone) was intended to be applied at a rate
of no more than 20 grams per acre. This was supposed to be 25% of the
total mix.
This implies that no more than 80 grams per acre of Checkmate LBAM
spray was intended to be applied on Nov 8 and Nov 9, 2007. 1% of
this total is 0.8 grams per acre. An acre has about 43,500 sq ft, which
implies that no more than 0.0000183 grams (0.0183 mg) per sq foot of
MTAC would have been applied. If this MTAC were uniformly dispersed in
a cloud 10 ft high right on top of the ground, this would imply a
concentration of MTAC no more than 0.0183/10= 0.00183 mg/cu ft.
Multiplying by 27 to convert from mg/cu ft to mg/m3 gives 0.049
mg/m3.
The Dept of Energy (DOE) has published proposed Temporary Emergency
Exposure Limits (TEELs) for MTAC. (1) The TEEL-0 is 0.75 mg/m3,
while the TEEL-1 is 2.5 mg/m3. The TEEL-0 is defined as “The
threshold concentration below which most people will experience no
appreciable risk of health effects.”(4) The TEEL-1 limit is
“The maximum concentration in air below which it is believed nearly all
individuals could be exposed without experiencing other than mild
transient adverse health effects or perceiving a clearly defined
objectionable odor.”(4) I guess “nearly all” or “most people” does not
include the 643 people who reported health complaints in Santa Cruz and
Monterey after the Checkmate aerial spraying there (5). Note that
TEEL-1 is normally considered to be a 1 hour exposure limit, although
ref (4) suggests using 15 minute TWA’s for some reason. How
people are expected to breathe residual concentrations of chemicals
that remain in the environment 24/7/365 is not explained.
Since the only toxicity information available for MTAC on the
corresponding MSDS is for oral LD50 for rats, there may be grounds for
saying that there is significant uncertainty in the values of the
DOE TEEL’s. In a Japanese paper ( 2 ) an equation is
derived for converting LD50 to TLV. However, in order for the
linear regression to work, both this paper and one other similar paper
(3) concede that the LD50 and TLV numbers have to be plotted on a
log-log plot. Otherwise the regression coefficients are not
within acceptable ranges. In layman’s terms, what this means is
that while the correlations on a log-log plot are good, the possible
real world variations in the final answers are so big that they will
only fit within the boundaries of a sheet of graph paper if a log-log
plot is used. Log-log plots show results plotted in increasing factors
of 10, ie 10, 100, 1000, 10,000 etc, corresponding to what would be 1,
2, 3, 4, etc on a linear plot.
What the Japanese paper in effect says is that the available toxicity
data for MTAC (oral LD50 for Rat) uses the testing method that has the
lowest correlation between LC50 or LD50 and TLV of any of the
estimating methods used in the paper. In the real world, what
that means is that if the DOE only used oral LD50 for the rat to derive
the TEEL’s, those TEEL’s could be either too high or too low. If
they are too high, you could reasonably divide the numbers by 57. If
they are too low, you could reasonably multiply the numbers by 57.
Those two possible answers would be within the range of three standard
deviations of the average or what is otherwise known as the 95%
confidence interval. That is also assuming that the correlation between
LD50 and TEEL/TLV is improved since the units are kept the same between
the two values (mg/kg or mg/m3 in this case compared to mmole/kg vs ppm
in air which gave a better correlation of LD50 to TLV in the Japanese
paper). If the correlation is not as good, then dividing by 82 would be
appropriate.
What this means in practical terms for people exposed to MTAC after the
spraying is that any concentration higher than 0.75mg/m3 divided by 57
(= 0.013 mg/m3) or even possibly as low as 0.75 mg/m3 divided by 82 (=
0.009 mg/m3) could reasonably be expected to possibly cause a
noticeable health effect in some portion of the general population.
There is also the possibility that LD50’s correlate better with short
term exposure limits than these numbers suggest. While LC50’s were
shown to correlate better with short term exposure limits in the
Japanese paper, LD50 correlations of this type were not discussed at
all for some reason.
Note that the proposed TEEL-1 for MTAC of 2.5 mg/m3 divided by 57 is
only 0.043 mg/m3, which is just under the estimate of 0.049 mg/m3,
which leaves open the possibility that the govt could officially
concede that classical, mild, reversible health effects could be
experienced by the general population if MTAC were in fact 1% of the
mix sprayed on Nov 8 and Nov 9, 2007. This requires no hypothesis
of Multiple Chemical Sensitivity, at least not for the initial one hour
of exposure.
All of these numbers assume of course that the spray was uniformly
dispersed and the MTAC completely evaporated, condensing in a heavier
than air cloud near the ground. The actual experience is more
varied than that. The concentration of pheromone capsules captured at
official recording stations was on average only about 1/10 of the
expected amount. Unofficial reports say that the spray mixture
actually came down in giant globs, some of which slimed entire fence
stakes (but only 2 fence stakes out of a whole set). Plus, the planes
flew in an overlapping grid pattern that could have caused some areas
to get sprayed more than once. Obviously, when there is a big negative
deviation (1/10 of expected concentration) in one place, there should
also be a big positive deviation (higher than expected concentration)
somewhere else. Throwing these additional factors of 10 into the
equation for what is the minimum concentration of MTAC expected to
produce a health effect in some portion of the general population opens
up the possibilities even more.
In addition, the recent
reaffirmation by Robert Leavitt that the average droplet size of a
water droplet incasing a typical pheromone capsule is on the order of
1000 microns in diameter during the spraying process(6) completely
obliterates the estimate that only 80 grams of total spray mixture was
applied over each acre. If you do the math, a maximum 800
capsules applied per sq ft as estimated at one of the hearings on the
issue(7) implies that up to a whopping 30 kilograms of spray
[correction: this should be 18 kg] would have been applied per acre if
the 1000 micron droplet size estimate is accurate. How much of
this additional water component has surfactant such as MTAC in it is
not clear.
Because of these uncertainties in the possible concentrations of MTAC
and the possible concentrations of MTAC required to produce health
effects, it is
essential that the following steps be taken to ascertain more
completely the scope of these variables:
1) The total amount of aerial spray applied in Santa Cruz and Monterey
Counties should be disclosed, broken down by individual aircraft,
specific areas and specific dates.
2) The actual concentrations of all of the ingredients in the spray
should be disclosed.
Only in this way can better defined limits be placed on what inert
ingredients if any may be contributing to the reported health effects
due to the spray.
Notes on other chemicals
that
are proposed to be used in ground spraying to control LBAM :
Permethrin is planned to be used in concentrations of 6%(8). This
chemical is highly toxic to house cats. A few drops of 45%-60%
concentration of the flea control products normally used on dogs can be
fatal to cats.(9) For this reason, pet experts recommend using
flea control products for cats that have 0.1% or less Permethrin
concentration.(9) The animal testing of Permethrin has apparently not
included house cats in the analysis, and so gives a false sense of
safety for that chemical.(10) Cats are notorious for climbing
trees and fences and so they will likely be exposed to Permethrin,
especially if the clay-like substance used to contain the Permethrin is
not fully dried. It may not wash off in the rain, but it will
likely transfer to the exposed skin on the bottoms of cats’ paws.
The use of Bt is also problematic, as some of the strains used are
genetically engineered and therefore may not fit the definition of
“organic” as well as being closely related to and under some
circumstances indistinguishable from bacteria known to cause food
poisoning in humans. (11)
References:
1) DOE Rev 19 TEEL’s (2003)
http://hss.energy.gov/HealthSafety/WSHP/chem_safety/teel/TEELs_Rev_19v.xls
Note that DOE has not included MTAC in subsequent TEEL Revs for some
reason, nor is MTAC included in the PAC REV 23 Online Data base at
http://hss.energy.gov/HealthSafety/WSHP/chem_safety/teel.html
2) The Contribution of Acute Toxicity in Animals to Occupational
Exposure Limits of Chemical Substances
http://www.journalarchive.jst.go.jp/english/jnlabstract_en.php?cdjournal=indhealth1963&cdvol=37&noissue
=1&startpage=22
3) Regression method to estimate provisional TLV/WEEL-equivalents for
non-carcinogens
http://annhyg.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/44/5/361
4) Derivation of Temporary Emergency Exposure Limits (TEELs)
http://orise.orau.gov/emi/scapa/files/TEELMethodExtension-Tox%20Data-Searchable.pdf
5)Appendix to CASS Health Complaint Letter
http://www.lbamspray.com/00_Documents/2008/Mike%20Lynberg%20Health%20package%202008
_01_03/Complaints%20of%20Adverse%20Reactions_names%20removed.pdf
6)Robert Leavitt March 13, 2008 Letter To CDFA
http://www.cdfa.ca.gov/phpps/pdep/lbam/pdfs/ETF/Letter_and_LBAM-F_PSA.pdf
7) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PzAMzsQdyE
8) USDA APHIS Document on EA of LBAM Eradication Program
http://www.aphis.usda.gov/plant_health/ea/downloads/lbam-treatmentprog-02-14-08.pdf
9) Cat Fanciers’ Association: Health Committee -- Cats and Flea
Control Products
http://www.cfainc.org/articles/flea-products.html
10) Roy Upton “Permethrin – Safety Review” 2-5-08
11) Roy Upton “Bacillus thuringiensis – Safety Review” 3-6-08
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The Deadlines
for submitting written comments to the CDFA and the USDA
about the Light Brown Apple Moth Spraying Program Are Fast Approaching.
Submit written comments to:
Oral and written comments will be accepted.
The
deadline for written comments is March 20, 2008. They may be sent to:
Jim Rains, Staff Environmental Scientist
CA Department of Food and Agriculture
Plant Health and Pest Prevention Services
1220 N Street, Room A-316
Sacramento, CA 95814
The USDA APHIS document is viewable at
http://www.aphis.usda.gov/plant_health/ea/downloads/lbam-treatmentprog-02-14-08.pdf
Comments may be sent by March 18, 2008 to the address in that document
and also to
Ed Schafer, Secretary of Agriculture
United States Department of Agriculture
1400 Independence Ave., SW
Washington, DC 20250
and
STOP the USDA
PO Box 681
Pescadero, CA 94060
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Emergency Vigil Monday and Tuesday
Nights Feb 11 + Feb 12 at Berkeley City Hall:
Code Pink is having an overnight and all day vigil
to counter the demo
planned by the right wing that wants to undo the Berkeley City Council
resolutions that told the Marine recruiters that they were not welcome
in Berkeley. For more info, visit indybay.org.
Berkeley Threatened With Loss Of State and
Federal Funds Over Marine Recruiting Center Flap
by John Thielking
2-8-08
Last night it was reported on the TV news and in the
Berkeley
Daily Planet that Berkeley might
lose $5 million in Federal and State funding for such vital services as
transportation and school lunch programs because of the Berkeley City
Council's principled stand opposing the location of a Marine recruiting
center within Berkeley city limits. It was also reported that because
of this backlash, some of the Berkeley City Council people were
considering toning down their proposed letter to the Marines and
modifying the resolution to make it clear that they support the troops
even if they don't support the war.
It should be pointed out that the movie "Sir! No Sir!" made it clear
that the story about servicepeople being spat on as they returned to
the
SF airport after returning from Vietnam is a myth. We know this
is a
myth because the servicepeople did not go through the normal airport
screening process at that time in history. The movie "Rambo" made this
story into a myth that the averge movie-goer took as fact because the
average movie-goer had no direct experience to contradict the Rambo
character's
statement that the returning troops were spat on.
In response to the threats voiced by some State and Federal Lawmakers,
I made the following statement on Indybay.org
:
If
the city of Berkeley has Federal and State funding pulled due to this
incident, I will personally pony up a $100 donation to do my part to
make up for the funding shortfall. I think the city should take a
stand and demand that the Marines leave. Having the Marines
in
Berkeley is like having Checkmate aerial spray or a Navy ship in Santa
Cruz. It just doesn't wash. I don't see Santa Cruz being
sanctioned
for rejecting the Navy ship a few years ago.
The fighters in Iraq
and
Afghanistan are fighting for capitalists and their cronies, not to
protect the people of the US. Have the National Guard troops come
home
from Iraq and help rebuild New Orleans and the rest of the state of LA.
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A humanitarian crisis is underway as the Gaza Strip's only power plant began to shut
down on Sunday, and the tiny coastal territory entered its third full day without
shipments of vital food and fuel supplies due to Israel's punitive sanctions.
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What
Chemical Aerial Spraying
May Be
Doing To
You, Your Children's & Pets' Health
Way of Life Health
Lecture Series Presents
An
Evening With
New York
Best
Selling Author of
"Your
Toxic
World: A Wake Up Call"
Dr. Doris
Rapp
MD
Thursday
Evening January 10, 2008
Rio
Theater
1205
Soquel
Ave, Santa Cruz, CA 95060
Admission is FREE (donations gratefully accepted). Everyone Welcome
(crying room available).
Who is Dr Rapp? Doris J Rapp, MD, F.A.A.A., F. A. A. P., is a
board-certified environmental medical specialist and pedatric
allergist. She is clinical assistant professor of pediatrics at
the State University of New York at Buffalo. The founder of the
Practical Allergy Foundation in Buffalo, Dr. Rapp is a past president
of the American Academy of Environmental Medicine and was an honored
speaker at the First World Conference on Non-Pharmacological therapies
identifying substances that cause illness and behavioral changes in
children & treatment ideas. And her new book "A Toxic Wake Up
Call: Understanding The Cumulative Effects Of Chemical Exposure." Dr
Rapp will be addressing specific reasons why our community needs to be
concerned about aerial spraying. Dr Rapp has been seen on Oprah &
Larry King Live.
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Request To Put Speed Limits On All Sections
Of The Autobahn Network In Germany Petition
To: German Federal Government
To Angela Merkel (current Bundeskanzlerin of Germany)
and the German Parlament:
This is a petition to be signed by the many people of the world and is
addressed to the German Parlament and to the current Bundeskanzlerin
(Federal Chancellor) of Germany, who has a PhD in Physics, to highlight
how putting speed limits on all of the German Autobahn network could
curb global warming world-wide.
The existence of “no speed limit” sections of the Autobahn network in
Germany increases world-wide consumer desire for faster and more
powerful cars and increases the desire of manufacturers to endlessly
hype power and speed as being essential components of automobile
design. The gas wasted by cars using the “no speed limit” sections of
the Autobahn network in Germany is not as important as the problem of
the internationally over-hyped “need for speed” that is made possible
in part due to the mere existence of roadways with no speed limits.
The power required to propel the average compact car at normal USA
freeway speeds of 55-65mph is about 11hp on a level road. (Electric
vehicles use only about 80 amps @ 100V @ 55mph.) Having a 200+ hp gas
engine under the hood ends up burning a lot of extra gas, proportional
to the displacement volume of the engine.
In contrast, it seems reasonable to expect that if the trend towards
ever higher acceleration rates and ever heavier cars with more powerful
engines were reversed, incredible savings in fuel consumption could be
realized using off the shelf technology. Some compact cars sold in USA
in the 1990’s achieved 40-50mpg highway using 1 liter 55 hp engines.
Scaling down a 2007 model, 2 Liter, 200 hp, 30mpg sports car engine to
65hp would result in a 650 cc engine that could get even better gas
mileage. A hybrid with such an engine could have better gas mileage
than any hybrid on the road today.
We urge you to set an example for the rest of the world and retire the
legend called the “no speed limit Autobahn”, thus reducing the hype
that creates the “need for speed” and the resulting world-wide wasting
of fuel in high performance automobiles. Please impose binding speed
limits on all sections of the Autobahn network. And please publicize
what you have done so that others will reduce or eliminate their “need
for speed”. The resulting world-wide fuel savings could power all of
Germany’s energy needs. Thank you.
Sincerely,
The
Undersigned
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Come To The Court Hearing For The Lawsuit
Against The Checkmate Spraying: 10AM Tuesday, Nov 20, 2007
US Federal Court, 280
S 1st St, San Jose, CA, in Courtroom 8.
The USDA is attempting to
have the lawsuit to stop the Checkmate spraying in Monterey and Santa
Cruz Counties dismissed.
Checkmate is a pheremone based spray designed to disrupt the mating of
the light brown apple moth in an attempt to control the population of
the LBAM. Checkmate also contains 3% inert ingredients other than
water, some of which may cause various forms of irritation or health
problems in humans. Checkmate has not been tested for effectiveness
against the LBAM or for safety in humans. The CA Dept of Food and
Agriculture has declared a poorly pubicized "emergency", attempting to
justify circumventing California and Federal environmental laws to
promote their spraying program.
If you care about your health and the health of your neighbors, please
show up for this event. The number of people who show up will be
recorded in the court records and possibly influence the case.
For more information visit:
http://www.lbamspray.info
http://www.drrandy.org
http://www.pagesincolor.com
The hwy 17 bus runs from downtown Santa Cruz to 1st St and Santa Clara
St in downtown San Jose. To get to the courthouse, get off the
bus at
1st St and Santa Clara St. and walk 3 or 4 blocks South to San Carlos
St. The courthouse is on the Northeast corner of 1st St and San
Carlos.
For more background on the Checkmate spraying of Santa Cruz and
Monterey Counties, check out:
Biochemical Spraying Over Santa Cruz Scheduled to
start TONIGHT!
http://www.indybay.org/santacruz/
Update: The lawsuit
was dismissed due to conflicts with the 11th amendment. The City
and County of Santa Cruz are continuing their lawsuits in State court.
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The CA Dept of Food and
Agriculture sent me an e-mail at 8AM November 9 to tell me that
Checkmate spraying over Santa Cruz had already occurred on Nov 8.
So much for being warned BEFORE the spray
starts by the e-mail alert system:
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On the evening of November 8 and in the early morning hours of November
9, CDFA applied Light Brown Apple Moth pheromone in Santa Cruz County.
Treatment began at 8:01 p.m. and was completed after 4 a.m. The results
are as follows:
Zone CASC 1 - 100 percent complete
Zone CASC 2 - 100 percent complete
Zone CASC 3 - 38 percent compete
Zone CASC 4 - 15 percent complete
Zone CASC 5 - 58 percent complete
Zone CASC 6 - 100 percent complete
Please click on the following link for a map with more detail.
Treatment Map of Santa Cruz :
http://www.cdfa.ca.gov/phpps/PDEP/lbam/pdfs/maps/LBAM_AERIAL_08_11_07_SCRUZ.pdf
The tentative plan for Friday evening, November 9, is to complete
treatment in Santa Cruz County, weather permitting. Then, if time and
weather permit, we would move to the Prunedale/Royal Oaks treatment
area and then to the North Salinas/Boronda area. We will have
additional details later today.
To reply to this message, email LBAM
[at] cdfa.ca.gov
For more information call the toll-free LBAM Program hotline
(1-800-491-1899) and visit the Program's web site.
*********************end of CDFA report**************
I did see a plane making overflights at a low altitude as I was leaving
the Western Service Workers office on Mission st at about 9:30PM on Nov
8. I couldn't smell or taste anything at that moment.
I do have a copy of the intake form that WSW uses for their free
medical services and I went through the admission process with a client
at their office. However, WSW were unwilling to help me directly with
screening people who may have health complaints about the Checkmate
spray.
If you have experienced symptoms, visit the emergency room or your
personal doctor if the symptoms are severe. Emergency rooms have to
admit you even if you can't afford to pay. Doctors are required to
report illnesses due to pesticide use within 24 hours of seeing the
patient with symptoms.
If your symptoms are not severe but still troublesome and you feel you
can't afford a doctor visit, then please call me at 408-924-0846 or
408-914-2751 or e-mail me at pagesincolor
[at] aol.com and I will use your testimony in an effort to round up
some doctors who might be willing to at least give you an exam for
free.
This free medical exam concept will continue to be explored even if the
results from this week's spraying don't pan out since the spraying will
probably resume in the Spring and Summer months of 2008.
For more background on the Checkmate spraying of Santa Cruz and
Monterey Counties, check out:
For the latest update on CDFA spraying check out:
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/11/09/18459506.php
Now they are saying that they will send us complete info on areas
sprayed AFTER they are sprayed.
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Pagesincolor.com Retail Store is NOT
closing
October 30, 2007
I am in the process of finalizing a deal to keep the store open for at
least one more year. Stay tuned for details. For the most part,
the 50% off sale has ended. However, some items being sold by my
current landlord are still 50% off, since he may be moving his stuff
out at the end of October.
The home delivery discounts and home delivery options have been
discontinued at the request of the new business partner, who is taking
over on November 1, 2007. However, a couple of the UFW store
items
will be sold at a discount until further notice. The adult UFW
T-shirts will sell for $10 (instead of $18) and the mini UFW flags will
sell for $7 (instead of $8). Over 5000 fair trade items can be special
ordered, with no shipping charges and no minimum order, and will be
available for store pickup. For more information on
that, check out http://www.pagesincolor.com/storepickup.html
.
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Being zapped by a taser is like being struck by a bolt of
lightning. Only Marty Mcfly in Back To The Future, or Ben
Franklin flying his kite in the rain would be so stupid as to
deliberately be struck by a bolt of lightning. In real life people die
when they are tasered, just like what happens to most people who are
struck by lightning.
Since 2004, when SJPD started having all of its officers carry tasers,
5 people in San Jose have died after being tased. Over 200
people nationwide have been killed by tasers. Too often
tasers are used on people who are being detained, but who are not
resisting. Sometimes these people are very young or very old or
disabled. This has to stop.
The San Jose March and rally follows the following path: 5:00 PM
gather outside the DA's office at 70 West Hedding St. Then march
to the San Jose police dept. Then the march continues, arriving
at San Jose City Hall at 200 E Santa Clara St. at 6:30 PM.
Click
here to see pictures from the rally.
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Visit Zoe Lofgren 4-6PM, Monday, July 23,
2007
Pagesincolor.com is organizing a protest at Congresswoman Zoe
Lofgren's office on Monday July 23, 2007 from 4PM - 6PM
Show up, be respectful,
but demand action! And try not to get arrested. Lofgren's office
closes at 6PM.
Demand the impeachment
of George Bush and Dick Cheney. This is in concert with Cindy
Sheehan who will be marching on Washington DC on the same day.
While we are there we
might also remind Zoe to not allow Bush to attack Iran.
Anyone who shows up to
this protest will get a free Orange No Sweat T-Shirt, while supplies
last. The color Orange symbolizes the Orange Revolution, for
impeachment.
Zoe Lofgren's office
635 N 1st Street, Suite
B
San Jose, CA
Thanks.
Sincerely,
John Thielking
Pagesincolor.com
888 E Santa Clara St.
San Jose, CA 95116
408-924-0846
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Michael Moore's Movie "Sicko" Is A Step In
The Right Direction
7-15-07
by John Thielking
Michael Moore's latest movie, Sicko, portrays the dismal state of the
health insurance industry in the United States. Short on
statistics, Moore focuses on anecdotal cases to make his point that
many people in the US are being denied appropriate treatments by
insurance companies that do not pre-approve treatments that are needed.
Critics of Sicko, such as Michael
F Cannon and Deroy
Murdock in the National Review claim that Moore is leaving
out certain key facts when he makes his case for Single Payer
Healthcare. They point out that if everyone in the US had access
to whatever health care they wanted, there would be massive increases
in costs as everyone accesses the services or there would be rationing
of available services with waiting lists for major operations
stretching into weeks or months. Murdock also points out the fiasco at
Walter Reed Medical Center where the govt was supposed to be paying for
Veterans' medical treatment.
What the critics leave out is that the current system in the US makes
many people wait until they are dead and they still don't receive
treatment. How is this any different than being put on a month's long
waiting list as in David
Gratzer's nightmare vision of socialized medicine? Plus, they
neglect the fact that in Britain the doctors who have patients with
healthier lifestyles make more money. People live longer in these
countries than in the US, dispite the long waiting lists for some
treatments as claimed by Cannon, Murock and Gratzer. Moore does
not neglect to point out that in Britain and France the people in
charge of their governments are the ones running scared from people
protesting in the streets in massive numbers every time their
governments try to weasel out of their obligations to their social
safety nets in some small way or another. Ronald Reagan and Bill
Clinton wouldn't be nearly so famous for their "Welfare Reform"
packages if people protested in the US the way they do in Britain and
France.
In Canada, Moore didn't mention that there were massive protests.
Rather he pointed out that about 50 years ago one Canadian, Tommy
C. Douglas, who is now regarded as a national hero in Canada,
convinced both Liberals and Conservatives of the merits of Single Payer
Healthcare.
It is clear that if the people in the US want Single Payer Healthcare
they are going to have to fight for it, and remain vigilant after the
goal is achieved. Unless we want to wait for some dead Canadian
hero to come back to life to convince everyone of the merits of Single
Payer Healthcare, we will just have to roll up our sleeves and get to
work. Start by defunding the war in Iraq, and don't allow a war
to get started with Iran. The payments we
will have to make on the spending spree so far in Iraq may
unfortunately constrain the national budget for some years to
come. But if we continue to fund endless wars we will never have
enough money for Single Payer Healthcare or childcare for new mothers
or free college education or whatever other wonderfull programs they
have in Britain and France.
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Cindy Sheehan Is Back On The Anti-War Path
National Conference
Scheduled For July 4th In Philadelphia, PA
6-28-07
by John Thielking
It was widely reported in the mainstream press that Cindy Sheehan
recently stepped down from her role as a national anti-war activist,
citing her disillusionment with the Democratic party. She claimed
that as soon as she attempted to hold the Democrats to the same
standards as the Republicans, she was attacked by the Democrats
too. They seemed to have little genuine interest in ending the
war. Certainly, the Democrats' behavior after the election has
left little room for doubt. The primary front runner, Hillary
Clinton, has said essentially that the war in Iraq is going just fine,
the only problem is that Bush is running it. With talk like that,
the Democrats don't stand a chance of turning things around.
Now Cindy Sheehan has jumped back into the fray. She has teamed up with
Michael Moore in radio spots advertising the anti-war convention in
Philly. She has also embraced the 911-truth movement, claiming that 911
could have been an inside job.
For more details on the conference, visit http://www.actindependent.org/
.
For more background, visit http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2007/06/361555.shtml
.
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"El Gigante Awakens" Premieres In Downtown
San Jose, CA
6-19-07
John Thielking
On May 1, 2006 in downtown San Jose, over 200,000 people marched in
support of immigrant rights and against the draconian HR4437 that would
have made it a felony to be in the US illegally. The 45 minute
English/Spanish DVD "El Gigante Awakens" doccuments the march that
occurred in downtown San Jose, CA. The movie will be shown on
June 22, 23, and 24th at CET, 701 Vine St, San Jose, CA. There will
also be live bands and poetry readings at the 5 showings of the
movie. For more information and tickets visit http://www.elgiganteawakens.com
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Poll Shows That Majority Support
Negotiations To End Hamas/Fatah Gaza Standoff
6-19-07
John Thielking
Last week, the militant group and majority coalition member of the
Palestinian Government, Hamas, siezed control of Gaza from the rival
militant group Fatah. International support of Fatah's contol of
the remaining territory in the West Bank and Palestinian Authority
President Mahmoud Abbas' dismissal of the Hamas-led government has led
to the virtual isolation of the Gaza Strip. Nations such as the
US and the European Union states have promissed to lift sanctions
against the now Fatah controlled government in the West Bank, while
isolating the Gaza strip. Israel holds open the possiblity of invading
the Gaza Strip to throw out Hamas if any rocket attacks are perpetrated
against Israel.
A recent poll conducted by http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/rosnerMain.jhtml
suggests that a
majority of readers support either letting Hamas and Fatah work it out
or to
have international negotiators talk to Hamas. Only
12% support military action against Hamas. Only 35%
support sanctions/isolation of Gaza.
For more background opinions on the
situation, check out:
Whose
Coup, Exactly?
AlterNet:
Palestine: How Will the Hypocritical West Deal with a Coup
D'état by an Elected Government?
Towards
a Geography of Peace: Whither Gaza?
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SF 8 Bail Reduction Hearings Scheduled For
The Week Of 6-18-07
6-19-07
by John Thielking
The San Francisco 8 are 8 African American former members of the Black
Panthers who are being charged with the1971 killing of a San Francisco
police officer. Many of the charges have already been tried in
court previously and have also been presented to numerous Grand Juries
without any indictments being handed down. Some of the "evidence"
against the 8 was extracted under torture when they were orginally
arrested in the 1970's.
The SF 8 have called on John Conyers, Chair of the Judiciary Committee
in Congress, to reopen the COINTELPRO hearings to examine why it is
that African Americans who were framed up by COINTELPRO 30 years ago
are still behind bars.
Read
more at Indybay.org
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Meeting to Honor Leonard Peltier
6-13-07
LPSG South Bay is honoring Leonard Peltier on Tuesday 26th June in San
Jose, 32 years after the shoot-out. We will be showing the film
"Incident at Oglala". We are meeting at 7:00pm at Pagesincolor.com Fair
Trade Store located at 888 East Santa Clara Street, near 19th Street
and across the street from Roosevelt Park in San Jose. Refreshments are
potluck.
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Berkeley, CA Passes New Downtown Ordinances
6-13-07
John Thielking
Berkeley has just passed a new set of ordinances that would criminalize
their homeless population. It makes it illegal to posess a
shopping cart or to sit or lie on the sidewalk. Where are the
mass protests (akin to the 1994 Santa Cruz protests against the sitting
ban)?
1st unintended consequence or selective enforcement non-action:
Those little old ladies with their walker/baskets could be targeted for
having "shopping carts". I seriously doubt that homeless people
with suitcases bungy corded to hand trucks will be let go. But
the cops will never ticket a little old lady with her pushcart.
Read more at http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/06/11/BAGVUQD2GO1.DTL
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From
alternet.org
Iraqi Parliament
Sets The Stage For Troop Withdrawl From Iraq
6-7-07
Up until now, the Iraqi government has been little more than a rubber
stamp for US foreign policy. Now however, there is a movement
within the majority of lawmakers in Parliament to attach conditions to
and/or not renew authorization for the UN mandate for peacekeeping
forces to remain in Iraq. This would mean that if the current binding
resolution that has passed Parliament requiring renewal of
authorization of the UN mandate every 6 months is not vetoed by the
Prime Minister and if the authorization is not renewed in
December 2007, the US forces could be asked to withdraw on some kind of
timetable. Read the complete article at alternet.org.
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Rally To Free Mumia Abu-Jamal
Thursday, May 17, 2007 from 4-6PM
San Jose Federal Building
2nd and San Carlos St
San Jose, CA
Death Row prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal is going to have essentially his
last best shot at a new trial on May 17, 2007. Robert Bryan will
be presenting one hour of oral arguments before the third circuit court
of appeals. Mumia Abu-Jamal was wrongfully convicted of killing
Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner in an altercation that took
place on Dec 9, 1981. Lots of evidence exists to suggest that
Mumia is innocent, including the confession of a hit man, Arnold
Beverly, who claims that he, not Mumia, shot and killed Officer
Faulkner. Bryan will be focusing on a few main points as part of the
appeal:
* The prosecutor's attempt to dilute the presumption of innocence by
stating that if Mumia were convicted he would have appeal after appeal.
* The racist exclusion of a majority of the black jurors in the jury
pool from serving on Mumia's jury.
* The racist bias of Judge Sabo during the appeals process.
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San Jose Events For The Week Of April
29-May 5, 2007
Sunday April 29, 2007 1:00
pm Justice March for Immigrant
Children, from Federal Building, 280 South First St, San Jose,
CA .to San Jose City Hall.
Tuesday, May 1, 2007 4:00
pm Immigrant and Workers' March
from Mi Pueblo Center, South King and Story Roads, San Jose, CA
to San Jose City Hall. Organized by Voluntarios de la Comunidad.
Tuesday, May 1, 2007
7PM -8:30PM Root
Force Road Show
Pagesincolor 888 E Santa Clara St, San Jose, CA 95116
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From
Indybay.org
Root Force Road Show Comes To San Jose
May 1, 2007
7PM-8:30PM
Pagesincolor.com
888 E Santa Clara St.
San Jose, CA 95116
PUPPETS * FILM * SLIDES * MUSIC
The Root Force Road Show is coming to San Jose!
Are you tired of talking about “the system” and ready to do something
about it? Are you looking for a way to fight the onslaught of corporate
globalization beyond summit hopping and buying fair trade?
Root Force is a strategic campaign designed to exploit weak points in
the global economy and hasten the system’s collapse. Using direct
action, Root Force pressures all those involved in specific
infrastructure construction projects in Latin America to end their
participation in ecocide and genocide.
This FREE event will feature:
* Segment from a new film on Plan Puebla Panama called “La Conquista
Sigue” (The Conquest Continues), produced in Chiapas, Mexico.
* A puppet show on international solidarity
* Slides from communities of resistance in Mexico and El Salvador
* A talk on the Root Force campaign
For more information, visit http://www.rootforce.org.
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LA GIRA DE FUERZA RAIZ
¡La Gira de Fuerza Raíz viene a San Jose!
TITERES * PELICULA * DIAPOSITIVA * MUSICA
¿Está cansado de quejarse sobre "el sistema" y listo para
hacer algo en contra? ¿Está buscando una manera de luchar
contra la globalización corporativa además de protestar
en las cumbres o comprar "comercio justo"?
Fuerza Raíz es una campaña estratégica,
diseñada para aprovechar de los puntos debiles de la
economía global para apretar el paso de su derrumbamiento.
Utilizando la acción directa, Fuerza Raíz presiona a
todos que están involucrados en unos cuantos proyectos de
construcción de infraestructura en América Latina, hasta
que ponen un fin a su participación en el ecocidio y genocidio.
Este evento es GRATIS e incluye:
* Un segmento de "La Conquista Sigue," una pelicula nueva acerca del
Plan Puebla Panama producido en Chiapas, México
* Una presentación de títeres sobre la solidaridad
internacional (solo en inglés)
* Diapositivas de comunidades de resistencia en México y El
Salvador
* Una plática sobre la campaña Fuerza Raíz
Para más información (en inglés), visita a http://www.rootforce.org.
For
the complete event listing, check out Indybay.org.
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"Yellow Journalism" about the Post Office
on Pagesincolor: How The Post Office Shredded My Letter On Behalf Of
Mumia
by John Thielking
4-27-07
A letter and check that I sent to the Black United Fund in January 2007
on behalf of Mumia Abu-Jamal was shredded by the Post Office after
sitting in the dead letter office for 3 months. I always have
postage and return address on all mail that I send out. There can
be no excuse.
Read
the complete story at Indybay.org.
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From Indybay.org:
In Preparation
for Cinco De Mayo Cop-Watch: Know Your Rights Training
Sunday, April 29th 3pm-6pm @ PagesInColor 888 East
Santa Clara St. San Jose, CA 95116
Know your rights when interacting with the police. Free and open to the
public. Preparation/refreshment for Cinco de Mayo Copwatching. Will
also include a
discussion on strategy for the 5th.
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www.Catalysts of HOPE.org
Healing Our People & Earth
Cross
Continental Bicycle Journey
for Peace &
Sustainability
will facilitate a discussion on
Building Community
Earth Day
Sun 22 April 2007
Potluck 5:00 PM
Bring your utensils & locally grown food
Discussion 6:00 - 9:00 PM
Pagesincolor.com
Fair Trade Craft Store
888 E. Santa Clara St
San Jose, CA 95116
corner of 19th St.
541-829-3379
The cyclists arrived in San Jose on Friday and are staying over for a
discussion of their work. Join them for a potluck and discussion.
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Sustainability Week
April 16th -
19th, 2007
San Jose State
University
San Jose, CA
Earth Day
April 18th 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Join the celebration! Featuring organizations, vendors, dancers, a mini
farmer's market, a speech from Ocean Robbins, and a memorila tree
planting for Gaylord Nelson, Earht Day founder. Central Plaza off
of 7th street.
Carmencita "Chie" Abad
April 17th 12:30 PM
Chie speaks from personal experience about the hardships endured by
millions of workers in sweatshops around the world. Her story is
an inspiring example of how people can win if they stand up for their
rights. Martin Luther King Library Rm 255/257 (MLK Library is
located at E San Fernando and 4th Streets.)
David Bacon and Juan Manuel Sandoval
April 17th, 1:30 PM
David Bacon is a photojournalist and writer who spent twenty years
organizing labor unions. Juan Manuel Sandoval is a leading social
activist and academic. MLK Library Rm 255/257
Fair Trade Faire
April 17th, 18th and 19th, 10AM-3PM
Sales of crafts from Ten Thousand Villages. Fair Trade
Certification ensures that workers are paid fair wages, are free from
abusive labor practices, and use environmentally sustainable
methods. Central Plaza off of 7th Street.
For more information and the complete schedule, visit
http://www.sjsusustainabilityweek.org
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China Blue
10:30PM
Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007
Pagesincolor.com
888 E Santa
Clara St.
San Jose, CA
95116
This movie
documents the life of a 16 year old girl who works in a sweatshop in
China making blue jeans. The owner of the sweatshop claims that
his is one of the better factories in China, hence he graciously
allowed the uncensored filming of the factory. Even so, the film
reveals that the workers suffer under deplorable conditions, working
12+ hours per day 7 days per week. This movie will be broadcast
on KQED Channel 9 at 10:30PM Tuesday April 3rd, 2007. You are
welcome to see the movie at Pagesincolor.com and make a donation to
Pagesincolor.com to cover the cost of the room. Discussion
preceeds and follows the movie.
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Race To Execution
Wed, March 28th, 2007 6PM
Pagesincolor.com
888 E Santa Clara St.
San Jose, CA 95116
"Race To Execution" follows the cases
of two Death Row inmates, Robert Tarver in Russell County, Alabama and
Madison Hobley in Chicago, Illinois to illustrate how race plays a role
in jury selection and in sentencing in capital cases.
This movie is being broadcast on KQED Channel 9 at 6PM,
Wed, March 28th, 2007. Come watch the movie at Pagesincolor.com
and have a discussion afterwards. You can contribute a donation
to Pagesincolor.com if you like and/or visit the fair trade crafts
store. The movie will be viewable on the 24" TV upstairs and the
13" wheelchair accessible TV downstairs.
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On the 4th Anniversary of the US Invasion
of Iraq Protesters, and US and Iraqi Soldiers, Still Marching In
Circles.
Congress still
talking in circles about redeployment, instead of plain old withdrawl.
Details taken from Peace Times.
Posted 3-11-07
If you plan to join the protesters, check this out:
March 17th San Jose
11:30AM Rally at Santana Park (Monroe and Tisch, San Jose)
12 noon: March to Peace Crossroads (Stevens Creek and Winchester, Santa
Clara)
2:30PM: Closing rally at Santana Park (Monroe and Tisch, San Jose)
Initiated by South Bay Mobilization
March 18th
Peace Train to San Francisco Mass March and Rally
Sign in at San Jose's Diridon station 8:45AM-9:30AM for the #427 train
departing at 10AM. Or catch the train in Mountain View (departing
10:19AM0, Palo Alto (departing 10:31AM) or the other Caltrain
stops. Get on the train and change to BART at Milbrae, then exit
BART at Embarcadero.
March assembles at Justin Herman Plaza and ends at Civic Center (also a
Bart stop). SBM has arranged with Caltrain for our own car on the train
(rear-most car next to engine). For more info on the Peace Train,
call 408-998-8504. Sponsored by South Bay Mobilization.
408-998-8504
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Posted
2-28-07
On the CA State Holiday of
the Birthday of Cesar Chavez, Saturday, March 31, 2007
7PM-9PM at
Pagesincolor.com 888 E Santa Clara St, San Jose, CA:
DVD
Movie: Fighting For Our Lives: The United Farm Workers 1973 Grape Strike
This movie is a look back at the
history of the United Farm Workers movement. In
1973, the growers brought in the Teamsters in a failed attempt to break
up the 1973 Grape Strike. This movie is in English,
but it has a fair amount of protesters’ dialog in Spanish, so if you
only know Spanish you might get the gist of it.
This movie will be preceded by the 15
minute movie “Realizing Cesar Chavez’s Dream” (Realizando el Sueno de
Cesar Chavez) in Spanish.
The movie will be followed by two
other short films:
“Celebration of Life: United Farm
Workers of America, AFL-CIO” in English
And
“No Grapes”, Narrated by Mike Farrell,
in English
Suggested donation of $5-$20. No
one turned away for lack of funds. All proceeds, minus a small fee to
cover the cost of the room, will be donated to the United Farm Workers.
The movies
will be simulcast on a 24” TV that is not wheelchair accessible and on
a 13” TV that is wheelchair accessible. The
restroom is not wheelchair accessible.
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Posted 2-28-07
Video: Buyer Be Fair: The Promise Of Product Certification
Saturday,
March 24th 7PM
Pagesincolor.com
888 E Santa Clara St.
San Jose, CA 95116
Come see a review of the product
certification processes for
coffee and wood products that are certified as being fair trade and
sustainably
produced. For more information visit http://www.buyerbefair.org
The movie will be simulcast on a 24”
TV that is not
wheelchair accessible and on a 13” TV that is wheelchair accessible. The restroom is not wheelchair accessible.
Suggested donation of $5-$10. No one turned away for lack of
funds. Proceeds benefit Pagesincolor.com.
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Short Films and Report-Backs: The
Peoples' Resistance In Oaxaca
Short films from Mal de Ojo TV with Vladimir Flores & Shannon Young
Oaxaca correspondents for Free Speech Radio News
Photo Slideshow and report-backs
with Danielsan & Ariel
Local Oaxaca solidarity activists
Thursday, March 1st, 8PM, Brown Berets Office Watsonville, CA
406 Main St, behind Ritimo Latino
Friday, March 2nd, 7PM, Veterans' Hall, Santa Cruz,
CA, 846 Front St.
Saturday, March 3rd, 2007
at 7PM,
Pagesincolor.com, San Jose, CA
888 E Santa Clara St (@
19th st)
$5-$20 sliding scale. No one turned away for lack of funds.
Proceeds benefit Mal de Ojo TV, maldeojotv.net
& Free Speech Radio News, fsrn.org
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Zapatista Update: Mexican Govt Tries
To Use Paramilitaries To Provoke Zapatistas In Chiapas, Mexico
Posted 2-17-07
by John Thielking
In 1994 the Zapatista movement mobilized in response to the adoption of
NAFTA by Mexico, Canada and the US. They took to the streets with
wooden imitation rifles and took over various small towns in the
Mexican state of Chiapas as a form of protest. Since then, the
Mexican govt has been in negotiations with the movement. The
Zapatistas are demanding restoration of indigenous people's
rights. Lately the Mexican govt has resorted to guerilla tactics
to attempt to justify a possible crackdown against the
Zapatistas. Read more about that at the Portland
IMC.
Shameless plug: The Pagesincolor.com retail store now carries the
Higher Grounds Mut Vitz dark roast, fair trade, organic, shade grown
coffee, which is produced in Chiapas by a group of coffee farmers that
was derived from the Zapatistas in 1997.
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Haiti Update: UN Attempts To Downplay
The Strength Of Aristide Supporters, Despite Massive Demonstrations in
Haiti
Posted 2-17-07
By John Thielking
It is claimed that the UN has acted in the interests of the United
States and against the interest of supporters of the former president
of Haiti, Mr Aristide. President Aristide has always maintained
that he was kidnapped and forced to leave Haiti. Read the latest
update on Portland
IMC. Also check out http://haitiaction.net/
.
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Governor Schwarzenegger's Health Care Plan
for CA Criticized by Supporters of Universal Health Care
Posted
2-17-07
by John Thielking
OneCareNow.org
has a side by side comparison of Governor Schwarzenegger's Health Care
plan vs SB 840 here.
It is quite obvious that the governor's plan falls short in many
areas. There is no incentive for insurance companies to provide
quality health care coverage. The deductables will be high
(MINIMUM of $5000 for individuals). There will be no coverage for
mental health, which is hypocritical. If they don't want to cover
mental health with a quality plan that pays for drugs, then why are
they essentially mandating that people with long term mental health
problems take drugs instead of finding them alternative treatment
programs.
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Eight Former Black Panthers Arrested On
Charges Of Killing A SF Police Officer In 1971. Evidence
Available Is Based On Testimony Obtained Through Torture.
Posted 2-16-07
by John Thielking
A total of 8 former Black Panthers are being brought up on charges of
killing or conspiracy to kill a San Francisco Police Officer in
1971. The evidence available is mostly testimony that was
obtained through the use of torture. The testimony has since been
recanted, obviously. There have been more than a few attempts to get
indictments against the SF 8 by means of Grand Juries. This time,
the Grand Jury process was bypassed and the SF DA simply had the
suspects arrested. Bail was set at $3 million to $5 million per
suspect.
Story about upcoming hearing and upcoming screening of "Legacy Of
Torture" on Indybay
Indybay.org
Synopsis of what transpired at the bail reduction and arraignment
hearing for four of the SF 8 on Feb 14, 2007: http://www.indybay.org
Interview
with Claude Marks about the San Francisco 8
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Posted 2-2-07
STRUGGLE! On A Continent With No Name:
Sonora's Indigenous
Crisis In Baja California
The Seri, Mayo, Pima, Yaki and Tohono O'odham Mexican
Indigenous communities are under assault by the government.
Having their water stolen, causing death and harm to children and
elders. Have dinner and see the film: "Kumiai: The Land"
Hear and see the story of the Indigenous Peoples of
Sonora, and participate in Q/A session with a commandante of the
indigenous Resistance, facilitated by Indegenous activists from both
North and South America; Wanbli Watakpe [Russ Redner] -- NorCalAIM, and
DJ Tania -- Berkeley Liberation Radio.
Sunday,
February 4th
Start
time, 4:30 PM
MACLA
510 S.
1st Street
San
Jose, CA
408-998-2783
Help the people, donations
welcome at the door, no one turned away...!!!
Endorsed by: Committee in Solidarity With Latin
America And Cuba, Peninsula Anarchist Collective, Black August
Organizing Committee, Northern California Indian Movement, Black
Berets, No More.../No Mas... MSA/MSM, La Raza Unida Party...
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From Indybay.org
"Warrior: The
Life of Leonard Peltier"
Tuesday, February 6, 2007 in San Jose, CA
Posted 1-30-07
LPSG (Leonard Peltier
Support Group) South Bay is showing the film
"Warrior: The Life of Leonard Peltier"
on Tuesday 6th February in San Jose, to honor him on his 31st year of
wrongful incarceration.
Warrior is the shocking true story of Leonard Peltier, the American
Indian leader locked away for over 30 years, now incarcerated in
Lewisburg Prison in Pennsylvania, wrongfully convicted of the alleged
murder of two FBI agents during a bloody shootout on the Pine Ridge
Reservation on June 26, 1975. Around the world his trial and conviction
have been denounced as a sham. Amnesty International, the Archbishop of
Canterbury, Desmond Tutu, and more than fifty members of the U.S.
Congress have appealed for a new trial for the man who has come to
symbolize the continued oppression of America's indigenous peoples.
Warrior takes us back to the violent confrontations at Wounded Knee and
Pine Ridge in the seventies, and then to today's Indian reservations
where the government's plans for urnanium mining and waste dumping are
still being heatedly resisted by Indian activists. The heart of the
film, though, is a detailed, painstaking account of Peltier's harrowing
odyssey through the American justice system. In color, 85 minutes long.
Please come to this event, bring your family and friends.
Date: Tuesday 6th February
Time: 6:00pm - 10:00pm
The film will start at 7:00pm
Place: Pagesincolor.com Fair Trade Store, (upstairs in the Temekula
Gallery)
Address: 888 East Santa Clara Street
(near 19th Street, across street from Roosevelt Park)
San Jose, CA 95116
Come early for light refreshments, socialize and time to look around
the only Fair Trade store in San Jose.
We will have an update on Leonard's case.
Stay for questions and answers after the film.
For more information, please call Donna at (408) 293-4774 or cell (408)
569-6608 or email dbwall [at]
earthlink.net
FREE LEONARD PELTIER!
FREE ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS!
http://www.leonardpeltier.org
There are features in the store that allow wheelchair users to watch
the movie. The restroom is not wheelchair accessible.
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From
Indybay.org
Jan 29, 2007
Protest Against Calpine's Plans To Build Geothermal Plants At Medicine
Lake, CA, Held At Calpine Headquarters, San Jose, CA.
Posted
to Pagesincolor.com 1-30-07
by John Thielking
Medicine Lake is a tiny lake in Northern CA, near Klamath Lake, which
dwarfs Medicine Lake by comparison. A San Jose company, Calpine,
has been making plans to drill boreholes near Medicine Lake to use an
untested and unproven technology to extract geothermal energy to power
one or more power plants at the lake. Local Indian tribes
consider the lake to be the equivalent of a religious
temple and do not want it disturbed by drilling. In addition, they
point out that geothermal energy itself is not totally benign
environmentally. Geothermal energy as envisioned by Calpine is
not simply "capturing steam" or mining hot water from natural
Gysers. An online
document from the Save Medicine Lake Coalition suggests:
The EGS process requires the use of large
volumes of concentrated acid, spent acid and highly mineralized fluids
which are produced during the acid injection and extraction to enhance
fracturing. Accidental releases of the concentrated or spent acids, or
the extracted geothermal fluids at the surface would easily and quickly
percolate through the porous volcanic soil to the shallow water table
below – the same water table that supplies Medicine Lake, the many
springs and smaller lakes in the area and it’s also the source for
water wells that supply drinking water to the campgrounds and local
cabins.
It appears that Calpine may simply be a straw man example of how NOT to
do geothermal power generation. They are going bankrupt. They are
potentially polluting the environment. They are desicrating Indian
land. All that is really needed to do EGS geothermal properly is
to inject high pressure plain water into hot, dry rock, just about
anywhere, and control sulfide emmissions. A typical EGS process is
described here.
But then there are people such as the DOE, who think it is perfectly ok
to promote fracturing (to enhance energy extraction) by using an
underground nuke!
Using acid (and under Indian land) is probably just one step below that
and is not intended as a practical project. Its primary effect,
intentional or not, is to give geothermal a bad name.
Geothermal is most often associated with mining of natural hot water or
steam that produces gysers. Sometimes the
natural gysers go south or the land subsides as a result of the mining.
As the above link describes, steam or water extraction is not pollution
free. But injecting water or acid into dry rock is an unproven
technology that at this rate may never see the light of day.
A recent court ruling has been decided in favor of the Indian
Tribe. Calpine has only a few days to file an appeal. Hence
the protest, urging Calpine to not appeal the decision.
Pictures
and story on Indybay.org
Update:
The BLM has decided to appeal the court decision. There is a
protest planned for Tuesday Feb 20, 2007.
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From
Indybay.org
Jan 27,
2007 San Jose Protests President Bush's "Troop Surge" In Iraq
posted 1-30-07
About 200
protesters gathered at the corner of
Stevens Creek and Winchester Blvd in Santa Clara, CA on Saturday, Jan
27,
2007. Some of them protested the troop surge. Some of them
protested against the war. Others called attention to a San Jose
company
(Jeppesen) that profits from extraordinary rendition (i.e. torture of
prisoners
flown overseas to places where torture is allowed). The
pictures
from this event were published on Indybay.org.
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From indybay.org
The Police in
San Jose - 2nd Community Forum
Posted 1-18-07
Thursday, January 18, 2007 6:30PM -
8:30PM
East Side Union High
School District, Administrative Offices, 830 North Capitol Avenue, San
Jose, CA (cross street Mabury)
What's working, what isn't & what can be improved? The City of San
Jose Human Rights Commission & the Independent Police Auditor want
to hear from you. The purpose of the forum is to offer members of the
community the opportunity to provide testimony to the HRC and the IPA
regarding issues and experiences involving the San José Police
Department. Over 200 individuals attended the 1st Forum held last
November and 45 offered testimony. For more information, please call
(408) 794-6226.
Spanish & Vietnamese translation will be availalbe.
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Posted 1-10-07
In concert with Move-on.org and others:
Protest The Iraq
War And The Impending Troop Buildup
4:30PM-6PM
Thursday, Jan 11, 2007
Roosevelt Park
19th St & E Santa Clara St
San Jose, CA 95116
Bring signs to hold in the park. No bullhorns please.
Directions: From hwy 101 just South of the 880 interchange take the
Santa Clara St/Alumn Rock exit. Go West on E Santa Clara St. to
17th St. Free all day parking is available on N. 17th St.
The park is located at 19th St.
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MoveOn Screening of An Inconvenient Truth
at
Temekula Gallery behind Pagesincolor.com store Saturday, Dec 16,
2006
by John Thielking
12-10-06
I just signed up to host a See the Truth Movie Party run
by MoveOn.
On Saturday, December 16, 2006 thousands of us are going
to get together in living rooms around the country, watch the
blockbuster documentary "An Inconvenient Truth," and press
Congress to take action to solve our climate crisis.
If you haven't seen the movie, you have to. If you have,
you can help raise awareness and push Washington to take action on the
biggest crisis facing our planet. In America, political will is
a renewable resource and together we can build the will to do what has
to be done.
Host
your own See the Truth Movie Party or sign up for an event near
you.
You can sign up for the See the Truth Movie Party I'm
hosting, or to host your own, at:
http://political.moveon.org/event/seethetruth/29037
Here are the details of my event:
Sreening of Inconvenient Truth
Downtown San Jose, CA (free parking avail on 17th street)
Pagesincolor.com @ 888 E Santa Clara St @ 19th St..
San Jose, CA 95116
Saturday, 16 Dec 2006, 5:45 PM
I hope you'll sign up.
This free screening fetures a conference call with Al Gore, beginning
promptly at 6PM. There will be a small donation requested to
cover the cost of renting the space.
The meeting space is not wheelchair accessible. However
wheelchair users will be accomodated in the store downstairs (a 13" TV
is available to watch the movie there). The restoroom is not
wheelchair accessible.
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The Police in San Jose
A Community Forum
What's working, what isn't
& what can be improved?
What are your concerns?
The City of San Jose Human Rights Commission & the Independent
Police Auditor want to hear from you!
Thursday, November 30, 2006 6PM-8PM
San Jose City College
Community Arts &
Lectures Program
2100 Moorpark Ave,
San Jose, CA
College Theater
The Theater is located
about 1/2 way between South Bascom Ave and Leigh Ave, on the North edge
of campus, next to Moorpark Ave.
For public comment,
Spanish and Vietnamese translation will be available. For more
information, please call (408) 794-6226. In accordance with the
Americans with Disabilities Act, City of San Jose Materials can be made
available upon request in alternative formats such as Braille, large
print, audio tape or computer disk. Requests may be made by calling
(408) 535-8100 (v) or (408) 294-9337 (TTY)
For more info visit: http://www.sanjoseca.gov/ipa/
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From
information on Indybay.org.
Protest Against
Police Brutality Scheduled for 4:30PM Monday, November 27, 2006 at
Valley Health Center at 500 Tully Road, San Jose, CA
Posted 11-26-06
By John Thielking
Curly Estremera, a long time activist and former member of the Black
Liberation Army, was arrested and brutalized by San Jose Police after
he was assaulted by an off duty Santa Clara County Sherriffs deputy on
Nov 7, 2006. Curly was picking up his medication at the pharmacy
at the Valley Health Center at 500 Tully Road in San Jose when without
warning he was pepper sprayed from behind by the Sherriff's
deputy. The deputy was moonlighting as a security gaurd at the
clinic. Not knowing who was assaulting him, Curly eventually
retreated to the parking lot and a car that was going to escort him
from the area. He was then approached by SJPD officers. He tried
to complain to them that someone had assaulted him and pepper sprayed
him. They informed him that the Sherriff's deputy had done that
and that he was being arrested for assaulting a police officer.
He was subsequently brutalized while in custody on the way to the
police station. Curly later required treatment at a hospital for
injuries sustained when he was arrested and brutalized.
A protest against this intollerable treatment of one of San Jose's
upstanding citizens is planned for 4:30PM Monday November 27, 2006 at
the Medical clinic where Curly was arrested. For more info and to
download copies of flyers in Spanish and English, visit Indybay.org.
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Posted 11-22-06
Teach-In About Mumia Abu-Jamal Saturday,
Dec 9, 2006
10AM-2PM at
Temekula Gallery behind the Pagesincolor.com store at 888 E Santa Clara
St, San Jose, CA.
Mumia Abu-Jamal has been on Death Row in Pennsylvania since 1982,
wrongfully convicted of killing police Officer Daniel Faulkner.
Faulkner died and Mumia was wounded in the early morning hours of
Dec 9, 1981. Pagesincolor is sponsoring a benefit and Teach-in for
Mumia Abu-Jamal. The presentation includes:
* A videotaped confession of a hit man, Arnold Beverly, who claims that
he, not Mumia, was the one who shot Officer Faulkner.
* Video of one of Mumia's former attorneys Elliot Grossman talking
about how Mumia's original trial attorney could have won the case by
simply asking a few important questions.
* The Video "Framing an Execution: The Media & Mumia Abu-Jamal",
exposes the bias behind ABC's 20/20 episode called "Hollywood's
Unlikely Hero", a hit piece about Mumia Abu-Jamal.
All donations will be given to Mumia Abu-Jamal's legal defense.
The video portions of the presentation are wheelchair accessible, via a
13" TV located downstairs in the Pagesincolor.com store. The
bathroom is not wheelchair accessible.
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Posted 11/19/06
From http://www.indybay.org
Protests Planned
In Solidarity With The People Of Oaxaca Mexico, November 20, 2006
For the last 5 months the people of Oaxaca Mexico have been on strike,
demanding that the Mexican government stop privatizing public schools,
among other demands. Recently, the Mexican govt sent in police to
break up the strike and was met by people puting up barricades.
The struggle continues in the streets of Mexico and now also in the
streets in the USA. Go to Indybay.org
to find out about the protests planned at UCSC
and in San
Francisco for Monday, November 20, 2006.
Protests
in other cities.
For previous coverage on Indybay.org
of the situation in Oaxaca, go here
and here.
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Stealing America: Vote By Vote
a new documentary by
award winning filmmaker Dorothy Fadiman
.
"What Happened in Ohio? A
Documentary Record of Theft and Fraud in the 2004 Election."
.
Friday, November 3, 2006
7:00-9:00PM
.
at 888 E Santa Clara
St @ 19th St, San Jose, CA 95116
(in the Temekula Gallery above the Pagesincolor.com Fair Trade Store)
Free Screening (donations
accepted)
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"Stealing America: Vote By Vote" the new feature-length documentary by
Emmy-winning and Oscar-nominated filmmaker Dorothy Fadiman, documents
significant irregularities in the Presidential election of 2004 while
underscoring the fact that election fraud and reform are not partisan
issues.
.
"Stealing America: Vote by Vote" weaves together dramatic behind the
scenes experiences of poll workers, computer security experts,
journalists, politicians, activists and voters of all ages. We
hear from those who feel their communities were targeted for
intimidation during the election, side by side with descriptions of
irregular machine tallies, in which the number of votes tallied don't
equal the number of votes cast.
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Posted 10-25-06
From http://www.internationalanswer.org
March and
Rally Against The Iraq War
Saturday,
October 28, 2006
12 noon Gather at UN Plaza,
San Francisco, CA (Market between 7th and 8th)
March to follow.
Only the People Can Stop
the War!
The Iraq war is a total disaster-for the people of Iraq and of the
United States. Tens of thousands of Iraqis have been killed. Iraqi
society has been torn to shreds. More than 2,700 U.S. soldiers are dead
and 20,000 wounded in a war based on lies.
The war costs $250 million each day. The total cost is now $317
billion—equal to 2.8 million new housing units and 5.5 million
teachers' salaries. Working people pay more for housing, health care
and education each year. Some 47 million people have no health care,
and 13 million children go to bed hungry each day.
The government tells us there isn't money for social services. Yet they
always have billions for war. Neither the Democrats nor the Republicans
will end the war. People in the streets are the only force that can
stop the war.
Get involved in the struggle! Volunteer meetings every Tuesday at 7
p.m.
2489 Mission St #30 (at 21st St), SF (near 24th St BART, #14 MUNI)
For more info, call A.N.S.W.E.R. (Act Now to Stop War & End Racism)
Coalition
415-821-6545 | answer [at]
actionsf.org
http://www.internationalanswer.org
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State Building @ 2nd street between San Carlos & San Fernando, San
Jose, CA
(San Antonio South Light Rail Station)
*Music
*Unity
*Spirit
*Power
*Join the movement for universal single payer health care today!
Rally at the State Building @ 3PM
March leaves for City Hall at 4:15PM
Rally at San Jose City Hall (East Side) at 4:45PM
Grand Finale/Candlelight Vigil at State Building 5:30-7:00 PM
Everybody In, Nobody Out!
Sponsored by: ONE CARE NOW
AFSCME Local 101, MEF Chapter, California Alliance for Retired
Americans (CARA), California Nurses Association (CNA), California
School Employees Association (CSEA), Coalition for a Downtown Hospital
Communication Workers of America Local 9423 (CWA), Community Homeless
Alliance Ministry (CHAM), East Side Teachers Association, Democratic
Activists for Women Now (DAWN), FORUM of Santa Clara County, Health
Access, The Interfaith Council, Health Care for All Californians
(Silicon Valley), Labor Party (San Jose), 9 to 5 Bay Area, League of
Women Voters SJ/SC, Low-Income Self-Help Center, Moorpark Democratic
Club, Santa Clara County Council of Churches, Santa Clara County
Democratic Central Committee, SEIU Local 715, SEIU Local 715 Retiree
Committee, Silicon Valley De-Bug, UFCW Local 428
Voluntarios de la Comunidad, Women’s Internat’l League for Peace and
Freedom (WILPF) – SJ & Peninsula
(partial list)
as part of the OneCareNow Campaign
For more information call 408-278-9443
Cuidado
Medico Para Todos Ahora!
Manefestacion Y Marcha
Jueves El 26 De
Octubre, 2006, 3-7PM
Edifico Estatal, Calle 2nd Entre San Carlos & San Fernando, San
Jose (Estacion San Antonio South De Light Rail)
*Musica
*Unidad
*Espiritu
*Poder
Maefestacion al Edifico Estatal 3PM
Marcha Empieza a las 4:15PM
Reunion a San Jose City Hall
(lado del este) a las 4:45PM
Reunion Final y Vigal al Edifico Estatal 5:30-7:00 PM
Cada Uno Incluido, Nadie Excluido!
Patrocinado por
ONE CARE NOW
AFSCME Local 101, MEF Chapter, California Alliance for Retired
Americans (CARA), California Nurses Association (CNA), California
School Employees Association (CSEA), Coalition for a Downtown Hospital
Communication Workers of America Local 9423 (CWA), Community Homeless
Alliance Ministry (CHAM), East Side Teachers Association, Democratic
Activists for Women Now (DAWN), FORUM of Santa Clara County, Health
Access, The Interfaith Council, Health Care for All Californians
(Silicon Valley), Labor Party (San Jose), 9 to 5 Bay Area, League of
Women Voters SJ/SC, Low-Income Self-Help Center, Moorpark Democratic
Club, Santa Clara County Council of Churches, Santa Clara County
Democratic Central Committee, SEIU Local 715, SEIU Local 715 Retiree
Committee, Silicon Valley De-Bug, UFCW Local 428
Voluntarios de la Comunidad, Women’s Internat’l League for Peace and
Freedom (WILPF) – SJ & Peninsula
(partial list)
Para mas informacion llame a 408-691-6153
Info posted from info obtained from a flyer at pagesincolor.com
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Stop Police Brutality Event in San
Jose, CA Oct 22, 2006
posted 10-15-06
Article by Donna Wallach
Sunday October 22nd is a national day of protest against police
brutality, repression and criminalization of a generation. The police
throughout the South Bay are no exception to the brutality, repression,
oppression and suppression of the youth, the poor and especially all
non-European people living in and traveling through this area. Friday
and Saturday nights in downtown San Jose is something like the West
Bank in Palestine, although there are not
real check points, there are virtual check points and if you are not
the right color or if you are not the right age or if you are not in
the right financial range, then you are subject to being illegally
detained and illegally searched and often times illegally ticketed and
sometimes illegally arrested. Then of course, any day of the week the
popo illegally murder human beings, who are usually unarmed.
We are inviting you to come to an event in San Jose on Sunday 22nd
October to hear from people whose loved ones have been murdered by the
popo, whose loved ones have been illegally arrested and wrongfully
convicted and sentenced to decades in prison and also to
hear from people who were attacked and illegally arrested and being
charged with false charges by the popo and are awaiting trial.
When: Sunday October 22nd, 2006
Time: 4:00pm - 8:00pm
Place: 888 East Santa Clara Street
(between 17th & 19th Streets, across the street from Roosevelt
Park)
San Jose, CA, 95116
at the Pagesincolor.com Fair Trade Arts and Crafts Store.
We will be meeting upstairs in the gallery, please let us know if you
are coming so we can have enough chairs.
Thank you, hope to see you on Sunday October 22nd at Pagesincolor.com
Fair Trade
Arts and Crafts store.
in solidarity
Donna Wallach
Yes please, give all my contact info, email and phone numbers.
(h) 408-293-4774
dbwall [at] earthlink.net
Read a summary what the
people discussed at the event here.
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Posted 10-12-06
Celebrate Fair
Trade Month and Help Free Mumia Abu-Jamal
by John Thielking
There will be a potluck celebration, speakers, discussion and video
showing about Fair Trade and Mumia Abu-Jamal at the upstairs gallery
behind the Pagesincolor.com retail store at 888 E Santa Clara St, San
Jose, CA on Sunday October 15, 2006 from 12PM-6PM.
The schedule includes the following:
12PM-2:00 PM Food, ice cream, fair trade Reggae music in African
Languages, Mumia's commentaries in English and Lori Berenson’s
commentaries in both English and Spanish. To download these
commentaries visit http://www.prisonradio.org
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2:00-2:10 PM Fair Trade Video DVD
2:10-2:25 PM John Thielking and Donna Wallach on Fair Trade and Mumia
2:25-2:50 PM Videos: Status of Mumia's case after the suspension of the
death sentence by Judge Yohn in 2001 and Arnold Beverly Confession
presented by Elliot Grossman.
2:50-3:30 PM Howard Keylor from the Labor Action Committee to Free
Mumia Abu-Jamal and possible speakers from Partisan Defense Committee
and/or Curly.
3:30-4:05 PM Video: Mumia on The Prison Industrial Complex (and why
this relates to Fair Trade)
4:05-4:15 PM Intermission
4:15-5:05 PM Video: Framing an Execution: ABC News and the Case of
Mumia Abu-Jamal.
5:05-5:30 PM Video: Elliot Grossman on Mumia
5:30-6:00 PM Edouard Rollet of Alter-Eco on Fair Trade (possibly moved
up if Edouard arrives early).
6:00-? Discussion and socializing.
Note that if you park in Roosevelt Park parking lot you will need to
move your car after 7PM. (The park closes at sunset).
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Reposted
10-1-06
From Revcom.us
The Torture
Bill: Compromising Your Way To Fascism
This is how fascism comes—with a show of opposition
followed by high-profile compromise, and assurances that all is well.
This is how fascism comes, with quiet streets and
everyone going about their business.
This is how fascism comes, oh so democratically.
The new bill submitted to the Senate on September 22
[2006]—and almost certain to be approved within the week—gives the U.S.
president chilling new powers.
- The new bill gives Bush the legal power to order any
torture techniques which do not rise to the level of “grave breaches”
of the Geneva Conventions.
- It does other things too, such as shreading 500 years
of Habeas Corpus law.
Read more at Revcom.us.
Editor's note: According to Robert Norse on Bathrobspierre's
Broadsides, this bill was approved by both houses. According to the
LA
times, this bill passed both houses of Congress with little but
token opposition.
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Posted
10-1-06
Oct 5 , 2006 Is A Day Of Resistance Against The Bush Regime.
Take off from work, leave school, and come to a massive protest in San
Francisco, CA.
Assemble at 12 noon on October 5, 2006 at Justin Herman Plaza, at the
foot of Market St.
at the Embarcadero. There will be an overnight vigil and a 9AM press
conference on Friday Oct 6, 2006. For more details, visit Indybay.org.
Or go to http://www.worldcantwait.org.
If you can't make it to San Francisco, come to Roosevelt Park at 19th
and E. Santa Clara St. in San Jose, between 11AM-2PM on October 5 for
some sign holding and banner waving to the cars passing on E Santa
Clara St. There is parking at Roosevelt Park off of
N. 21st St. Pagesincolor.com will be closed that day. For a
complete event description, see indybay.org.
Pictures
of this event are posted on Indybay.org.
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Posted 9-7-06
Rally to Free
Mumia! Mumia Abu-Jamal Is Innocent! For Labor Action To
Free Mumia! End the Racist Death Penalty!
Location: Alameda County Courthouse, 12th & Fallon, South side,
Oakland.
Time: 4PM-6:30PM Friday, September 15, 2006.
Rally inititated by the Labor Action Committee To Free Mumia Abu-Jamal
P.O. Box 16222 Oakland, CA 94610
510-763-2347
LACFreeMumia@aol.com
Initial endorsers include: The Mobilzation To Free Mumia, Frances
Goldin (Mumia's literary agent), Marsha Feinland (PFP)*, Todd Chretien
(Green Party)*, Robert Irminger (IBU, ILWU)*, Jack Heyman (ILWU)*, Bob
Mandel (exec board, Oakland Educational Association)*.
* Organization listed for purposes of identification only.
A big
piece of the puzzle explaining why Mumia is innocent.
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BENEFIT FOR MUMIA ABU-JAMAL, A NIGHT OF MUSIC AND
POETRY featuring BOOTS RILEY from The Coup, 2 SF Poet Laureates
devorah major, Jonathan Richman and many others.
Date: Sunday, September 17, 2006. Doors: 7:00 PM,
Show: 7:30 PM
The Great American Music Hall, 859 O'Farrell St., San Francisco, CA
TICKETS go on sale Sunday, August 20: $20 General
Admission
Order online: musichallsf.com
Order via phone: 1-800-225-2277
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Pictures
from the Sept 15th, 2006 Mumia Rally in Oakland and more about Mumia's
case.
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Labor Day 06 Immigrant Rights
March In San Jose Draws 10,000 To Downtown San Jose, CA
John Thielking
9-5-06
The Labor Day 06 march for immigrant rights drew
about 10,000 people to downtown San Jose. The march started at King and
Story roads and proceeded to Alum Rock Ave/E Santa Clara St before
arriving at San Jose city hall at 4th and E Santa Clara St. There were
the usual suspects, including the people with the long banner that had
people's names that were signed opposing HR 4437, the
anti-illegal-immigrant bill that would make being in the US illegally
an agravated felony.
For
pictures, check out Indybay.org.
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Haiti Update: Aristide Prevented From
Returning To Haiti Despite The Election Of A Sympathetic New President
Posted 8-27-06
by John Thielking
Haiti's ousted president Jean-Bertrand Aristide visted an audience of
1000 people in Miami, along with the officially elected president
René Garcia Préval. The two together received an
enthusiastic welcome. The election of Préval on Feb 7,
2006 was chaotic and he was sworn in only after he was declared the
victor after a first round of balloting that was plagued
by fraud, as well as massive street protests supporting his election.
Because Préval's election occurred under this cloud, he had to
make a deal with the international community to "perform". One of
those requirements is that he not allow Aristide to return to Haiti.
Read the
complete story at sfbayview.com
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From http://www.indybay.org
New Orleans Set
To Seize Poor Peoples' Homes That Were Damaged by Hurricane Katrina
Posted 8-27-06
If people can't come up with $10,000 to gut their homes that were
damaged by hurricane Katrina, the city of New Orleans will seize their
properties via imminent domain beginning on August 29, 2006, the one
year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina's devastating landfall.
For the complete story, check out www.indybay.org
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Las Vegas Outlaws Feeding The Poor And Only
The Poor In Parks
Posted 8-27-06
The ACLU is decrying the latest move to outlaw feeding indigent people
in parks in Las Vegas. A violation of this ordinance would be a
misdemeanor.
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The Carrot Cake and The Stick
Plans To Celebrate The
Lebanon Cease-Fire Agreement In San Jose, CA
August 18, 2006
by John Thielking
8-13-06
The UN has come up with a cease-fire agreement for the
Israeli-Hezbollah conflict in Lebanon. Both sides have agreed to it in
principle. The cease-fire goes into effect at 8AM GMT August, 14,
2006. August 14 is my birthday. Hence, I have decided
to take on the task of celebrating this cease-fire agreement. If
the cease-fire goes into effect on time and holds through the last time
I check the news on the web on Friday, August 18, 2006, I will bring a
carrot cake to the peace rally at 2nd and San Carlos in San Jose, CA at
5PM on August 18th. All sides are welcome to have some cake, for
as long as it lasts. Bring your own cake too if you want.
Click here to see the pictures
of the event.
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Posted 8-6-06
Protests Set To
Mark 61st Anniversary Of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Atomic Bombings
Livermore Labs in CA was the site of a
protest today marking the 61st Anniversary of the atomic bombing of
Hiroshima. For full coverage, check out http://www.indybay.org.
More protests are planned for Monday August 7 and Wednesday August 9.
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Posted
8-6-06
from http://www.sbm4peace.org
National Emergency March: Defend the People of Palestine &
Lebanon
Stop The
US-Israeli War!
Saturday, August 12, 11 AM, Civic Center, San Francisco, CA (intersection
of Polk and Grove , SF)
Stop Arming Israel! Cease-Fire
Now! Stop giving $3Billion US Tax Money To Israel!
Stop the Ethnic Cleansing of Lebanon & Palestine!
Do you know what our government and Israel are doing in Lebanon?
--Israel has destroyed the infrastructure of Lebanon-- This is a war crime!
by targeting power plants, hospitals, airports,
roads, bridges, grain silos, all highways leading into or out of Lebanon and using phosphorus bombs and cluster
bombs against civilians. Entire Lebanese villages lie in
ruins.
--- Israel has destroyed Lebanon's environment with spilled and burning
oil, toxic waste flows & soot, causing forest fires and growing
garbage heaps.
--- Israel planned this war on Lebanon over a year ago (SF Chronicle,
7/21/06)
--- The UN Human Rights Council accuses Israel of war crimes!
Over 1/4 of the Lebanese
population have been turned into permanent refugees in 2 weeks!
In a fit of Orwellian double-speak, US
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice calls these war crimes: "The birth
pangs of a new Middle East".
Express your outrage!
Contact your Congressperson at 202-224-3121 and write to your local
papers!
Donate to South Bay Mobilization to help pay for ads in the
newspaper! Donate online at http:///www.sbm4peace.org/about/donate.htm
For more information, contact South Bay Mobilization http://www.sbm4peace.org
408-998-8504
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On July 15, 2006 the Group of 8 (G8) gathered in St. Petersburg, Russia
for the start of a 3 day meeting focusing on massive expansion of oil,
gas and coal exploration projects as well as massive investment in the
building of new nuclear power plants. Activists in Russia were
preempted in their efforts to protest by national decrees outlawing
protest gatherings on July 15, 2006. Many protesters were
arrested and some report being mistreated while in captivity. Read
more on Indybay.org
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In an article in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (7/2/06),
distributed by Progressive Media Project, Moustafa Bayoumi describes a
decision by District Judge John Gleeson in Brooklyn that asserts that
it is ok for the US govt. to detain non-citizens on the basis of race,
religion, or national origin and furthermore that it is ok for them to
be imprisoned indefinitely so long as their eventual deportation is
"reasonably forseable". Read more
at merip.org
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TrueMajority: Tell Congress Not To Repeal
The Estate Tax
6-4-06
by John Thielking
Currently, the Estate Tax exempts the first $2 million of a person's
estate. Next week, the Senate is scheduled to vote on repealing
the Estate Tax or "reforming" it in such a way that 84% or more of the
tax would be repealed. Tell the Senate to vote "No" on any such
reforms. The budget is being cut too much already. Cutting
the Estate Tax would eliminate $1 trillion in funding over the next 10
years. Click
here to visit the TrueMajority website to send a message to your
Senator.
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6-11-06 update: Note that the Senate has since voted not to repeal the
Estate Tax.
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CALPIRG: Tell Congress To Protect Internet
Freedom
by Steve Blackledge,
CALPIRG
6-4-06
If you are like me, you use the internet every day to do things like
read your local paper online, download music, share photos with friends
and family and keep in touch through email.
We take all this for granted, but a handful of the largest cable and
telephone companies are trying to limit our Internet access by deciding
who and what gets priority. Don't let these corporations decide what's
important for you to see and hear online.
You can help us put a stop to this by signing our Internet Freedom
petition which we will deliver to your member of Congress and to
Senators Boxer and Feinstein. Then, ask your friends and family to help
by forwarding this e-mail to them.
To take action, click on this link to be
taken to the CALPIRG website.
Read
more on Pagesincolor.com
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New Article About How The 2004 Election Was
Stolen
6-4-06
Robert Kennedy Jr. just published a story in Rolling Stone Magazine
about how there is plenty of evidence from exit polls and other sources
suggesting that the 2004 Presidential election was stolen by people
sympathetic to George W Bush. To find that article go here.
Also, Newsweek just came out with an article
about how the new Diebold electronic voting machines are highly
vulnerable to tampering.
Editor's note: Since little if any of this conspiracy between 13,000
separate voting precincts is being talked about in the mainstream
media, is it any wonder that the 9-11 "conspiracy" is so easily
"covered up"? People say that the biggest argument against there
being a 9-11 conspiracy is that no one has talked about it. Yet,
look at how few election officials in Bush Country are talking about or
admitting election fraud in the November 2004 election, even though
they have no connection to or coordination with each other besides
sharing a common ideology.
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Tombstone of The Unborn Soldier Displayed
At The Santa Cruz, CA Town Clock, May 26, 2006
by John Thielking
6-4-06
The Tomb of the Unborn Soldier is a concept invented by Lowell
Darling. The tomb represents the idea that the wars we are
fighting today are being waged over conflicts that started before any
of us were born. And the conflicts we have today will quite
possibly turn into wars that will be waged by people who have not even
been born yet. Lowell Darling wants to give one of these
tombstones to every country of the world to remind their leaders
to think carefully about the decisions they make today which could lead
to wars many years down the road. The tombstone was displayed
briefly at the town clock in Santa Cruz, CA on Friday May 26,
2006. To see a picture of the tombstone, go here
and click on the center button. Click
here for background on Lowell Darling.
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Protesters Gather At Capitola, CA Army/Navy
Recruiting Center 3-5PM Friday, May 12, 2006 For Pre-Mother's Day
Protest
Photos and story by John
Thielking
5-21-06
Mother's Day was started soon after the Civil War as a way of speaking
out against sending mother's sons (and daughters) off to war.
Today of course it has been subverted into an excuse to send Mom a
present, just in case you missed out sending her one on Valentine's
Day. Or maybe we should just say "Thank you for not letting me get
drafted". On Friday, May 12, 2006 about 50 people gathered at the 41st
Avenue sidewalk in front of the military recruiting center in Capitola,
CA for a pre-Mother's Day protest against the invasion of Iraq
and against President Bush's policies. The Raging Grannies sang songs
and various drivers honked their horns in approval as they went by on
41st Avenue. Some drivers gave the thumbs down or the middle
finger.
See
photos here...
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San Jose Police Arrest And Brutalize Cop
Watchers On Cinco De Mayo, 2006
Posted 5-21-06
by John Thielking
There was a peaceful gathering of 200 people at the parking lot at King
and Story Roads in San Jose, CA on the evening of May 5, 2006.
According to a report on indybay.org
About 6 people were beaten and arrested and had their cameras
confiscated by the Police. One of these cop watchers somehow came
between a police batton and a woman bystander. That cop watcher
has been charged with "lynching". This incident follows a
specific warning by Laurie Smith of the Santa Clara County Sheriff's
department that anyone who gets in the way of a Sherrif's weapon would
be charged as being part of a "lynch mob", which carries severe
penalties.
Read more on
Indybay.org
1st
account
2nd
account
Audio
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The Costs of U.S. Middle East Policy
by Rachelle Marshall
4-30-06
published 5-4-06
The alliance between the United States and Israel is a central
component of U.S. Middle East policy, and in this talk I’ll discuss
some of the dangers of that policy. But first let’s look at present day
reality. Israel’s 38-year military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza
has robbed 3 million Palestinians of their land and their rights, and
left them imprisoned inside a maze of walls and checkpoints. There are
640 checkpoints on the West Bank. If you’re a Palestinian, whether you
can work in your fields, or make it to school on time, or get to a
doctor on any given day depends entirely on the whim of the soldiers
who guard the checkpoints. The Israeli government can seize your land,
demolish your home, and destroy your olive trees when it suits them to
do so. An Israeli air strike aimed at suspected militants could
hit your house or your child. Yet the mantra from Washington is that
Israel is only defending itself and it is the Palestinians who must
renounce violence.
Read more....
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May 1, 2006 March Against HR 4437 Draws
100,000 To Downtown San Jose, CA
Article and photos by John Thielking
5-3-06
The May 1, 2006 rally for immigrant rights started out at 11AM at the
parking lot at King and Story Roads in San Jose, CA. There,
people lined both sides of the street and filled up the parking
lot. There were at least two bands playing to the crowd from a
stage or the back of a flatbed truck. The people were against HR
4437, which would make being in the US illegally an agravated
felony. It would also make criminals of the many service workers
and others who help illegal immiagrants find food and
housing. During the march, an airplane flew overhead with a
banner from http://www.americaisfull.com,
proclaiming "Close The Borders". There were more than twice as
many people in this march as there were on April 10, 2006, judging by
the fact that on May 1, all 4 lanes of Santa Clara St were filled with
people, compared to only 2 lanes on April 10. May 1, 2006 was
also a nationwide boycott day, with many people staying home from work
or school and not shopping or selling anything. Pagesincolor.com was closed
that day.
To
see more pictures, click here.
To see coverage
of the other marches around the country, click here.
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Bush Unwelcomed By Protesters In San Jose,
CA
4-21-06
Pictures
by John Thielking
Posted 4-23-06
President Bush visited Northern California on Friday
4-21-06. He stopped in San Jose at Cisco and was also scheduled
to stop at Stanford University's Hoover tower, but was diverted to an
alternate location when about 1000 protesters blocked access to the
campus. After Stanford, Bush went to St Helena, CA (just North of
Napa, CA) where he spent the night, but not before being Unwelcomed by
protesters there as well. Protesters also scheduled a wake up protest
in St Helena, CA at 8AM. No sleep for Mr Bush!
To
see the pictures of the San Jose protest, click here.
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Massive
Protest Against HR 4437
Snarls Downtown San Jose, CA
By John Thielking
4-11-06
Simultaneously with other protests
around the country (SF at
least also had one) San Jose was greeted on Monday 4-10-06 at 4PM-7:30
PM by a massive march and
demonstration numbering 5000-10000 people. The
protesters were demonstrating against HR 4437,
the bill passed in
December 2005 by the US House of Representatives that would make being
in the
US illegally an aggravated felony. This
bill would also make it a felony to help an illegal immigrant by for
instance
providing food or shelter. The march
proceeded in both right hand lanes of the 4 lane street past 19th
and Santa Clara St where Pagesincolor.com is located. It proceeded to
the City Hall at 6th and Santa Clara. The street at 4th
street to
6th street was filled with people across all 4 lanes and the
sidewalk. Soon after arriving at City Hall,
breakaway marches proceeded back along Santa Clara St both East and
West.
To see
more pictures, click here.
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Posted 4-10-06. Info and statements
taken from a flyer
by The Labor Action Committee To Free Mumia Abu-Jamal (with a few web
additions by John Thielking).
http://www.laboractionmumia.org
Join us To
Help
Celebrate Mumia's Birthday
3PM, Saturday April 22, 2006 in Oakland, CA
West Oakland Public Library, 1801 Adeline St @ 18th
Speakers include: Robert R
Bryan,
Mumia's lawyer, Jack
Heyman, ILWU Local 10, Mel
Mason, Seaside, CA NAACP, former Black Panther, Gerald Smith, Copwatch, former Black
Panther, Pierre Labossiere,
Haiti Action (Organizations listed for identification purposes only.)
Video: 1999 West Coast
Longshore Port
Shutdown to Free Mumia
Donations to Mumia's Legal
Defense
Info: (510) 763-2347
(The Oakland Public Library does not advocate or endorse viewpoints of
meetings or meeting room users.)
Still On Death Row, and... FRAMED!
Mumia Abu-Jamal
Is Innocent
"In over three decades of
litigating
death-penalty cases, I have not seen one in which the government wants
so badly to kill a client." -- Robert R Bryan, attorney for Mumia
Abu-Jamal
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Congress Still Refuses To Consider
Impeachment Of Bush. Or Is This Changing?
4-9-06
by John Thielking
Initial reception of the Senator Feingold resolution to censure
President Bush was essentially laughed off by the mainstream
media. However, this resolution is quietly gaining support
among Democratic Senators, as is the movement to actually
impeach President Bush.
According to Harper's Magazine, House of Representatives member
John Conyers, Jr (D., Mich) has introduced on Dec 18, 2005 a
resolution calling for “a select
committee to investigate the Administration's intent to go to war
before congressional authorization, manipulation of pre-war
intelligence, encouraging and countenancing torture, retaliating
against critics, and to make recommendations regarding grounds for
possible impeachment.”
Check out Conyers'
website to find out more.
There is a small possibility that impeachment hearings may proceed
sometime after the November 2006 elections.
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Watsonville, CA Police Charge Brown Berets
For Peaceful Action!
PLEASE
PASS WIDELY! IMMEDIATE ACTION NEEDED!
From Liberation News 3-26-06
(posted 4-2-06)
Open letter To The
Community: Help the
Brown Berets Get Charges Dropped for Peaceful Action on March 25 in
Watsonville, CA
On Saturday, March 25, 2006 Watsonville saw the largest March for Peace
and Justice in the history of the city. Documented and Undocumented
Workers, families and allies marched in total solidarity with Anti-War
Activists, led by Fernando Suarez Del Solar, Pablo Paredes and Medea
Benjamin in a 2,000+ citizen, strong & peaceful march though the
city of Watsonville. It was beautiful....
Editor's note: Many people also demonstrated in San Jose against
HR
4437. Santa Clara street outside the Pagesincolor.com store had
people
marching by off and on from 10AM until 2PM on Saturday March
25. Marches also
happened on Sunday the 26th. Students walking out also went by on
Monday the 27th.
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Santa Cruz County Workers Prepare To Go On
Strike
received 3-12-06
from laborcouncil@mbclc.org
Your action is requested to support 1800 Santa Cruz County workers
preparing to strike this week. Please forward this message to
co-workers and progressive email lists. In addition to the action
requested below, please contact your local union leadership to ask them
to take action as well.
Background: Any day now, 1800 Santa Cruz county workers
will launch a one-day strike against a Board of Supervisors that so far
refuses to provide wages comparable to that of comparable workers in
comparable counties. Their struggle is the same struggle facing all
working families in our communities--farm and food processing workers
fighting for decent pay and basic human rights, UC workers fighting for
pay parity, Ralph's employees fighting the company's scheme to
de-unionize their workplace, Natividad workers fighting the
"privatization of that county hospital, hotel workers rising up to
fight for a living wage--and this strike will be an opportunity for us
to express and build our solidarity across the Central Coast.
How can the labor movement support this strike?
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International Answer Sponsors 3rd
Anniversary Protest Against The Invasion Of Iraq at 11AM Saturday,
March 18, 2006 in San Francisco, CA
The
protest will be located at the Civic Center Plaza in downtown SF, at
Polk and Grove. Some parking is located at the garage underneath
the plaza. The protest is expected to last until 4PM.
Protests will be happening around the country on Saturday March 18,
Sunday March 19 and Monday March 20, 2006. There will be a local
protest at noon on Sunday March 19, 2006 at the Town Clock in downtown
Santa Cruz.
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New Ordinance Proposal Threatens Earth
First! Tabling and Food Not Bombs Feeding Near Wednesday Farmer's
Market in Downtown Santa Cruz, CA
3-12-06
by John Thielking
The Santa Cruz Downtown Commission is going to be having a special
meeting this Thursday, March 16, 2006, at 8:30 AM at City Council
Chambers at 809 Center St in Santa Cruz, CA to discuss the latest
proposal for a Santa Cruz City ordinance that would outlaw any activity
other than parking a car or parking a bicycle from taking place in a
city owned parking lot or garage. It would also limit the total amount
of time that a person can linger after parking their car or bike to 10
minutes. Exceptions would be granted only by applying for an event
permit. This will effectively outlaw free speech activity conducted by
Earth First! at their table which is often technically within the
confines of the parking lot next to the Farmers Market on Wednesdays as
well as outlaw the gathering of people for the Food Not Bombs feeding
there. There will be a protest gathering outside the meeting location
at 809 Center St in downtown Santa Cruz beginning at 7:30 AM on March
16, 2006. I have included the text of the proposed law for you to
review.
Additional incidental things that would be outlawed by this ordinance
include:
Waiting for a tow truck to do a jump start of a dead battery or open
the car when the keys are locked inside.
Fixing a flat tire on a bike or a car.
Charging an electric vehicle at one of the City supplied electrical
outlets located in some City garages.
Changing a diaper.
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New Zogby Poll Finds That 52% Of Americans
Support Impeachment Of Bush For Wiretapping
2-18-06
by John Thielking
Major polling firms have refused to ask the question:
"If President Bush wiretapped American citizens without
the approval of a judge, do you agree or disagree that Congress should
consider holding him accountable through impeachment."
So an independent Zogby poll was conducted, backed by the founders of afterdowningstreet.org. When
asked the question, it was found that 52% of Americans agreed with the
statement. 43% dissagreed and 6% were undecided. Read more
at http://www.worldcantwait.net...
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Michael Morales Is The Next Person
Scheduled To Be Executed
In CA On Feb 21, 2006
2-18-06
by John Thielking
Michael
Morales, convicted of the rape/murder of a
Lodi, CA girl named Terri Winchell in
1981, is scheduled to be executed at 12:01 AM on Feb 21, 2006. Among
his many
appeals to the higher courts is the assertion that the method used in
administering the death penalty, lethal injection, is cruel and unusual
punishment. It is true that in the case of Stan Tookie Williams it took
more
than 30 minutes to set up the IV’s and actually administer the drugs
until
Tookie was dead. Read
more on Pagesincolor.com.
To read more about the case visit Indybay.org’s
page on Michael Morales
or The Death
Penalty Focus
page on Michael Morales
2PM 2-21-06: News
Flash! The
execution of Michael Morales has been delayed because the
anesthesiologists required by a court order to attend the execution
have refused to participate. If Morales is not executed by 12:00
Midnight Feb 21, 2006, then the execution order expires and a new order
would have to be issued, taking 30 days or more.
6PM
2-21-06 update (uploaded at 2:30PM PST 2-22-06): The execution of
Michael Morales has been postponed indefinitely, because the State of
CA is unable to comply with court requirements that a medical
professional adminsiter the drug or drugs that would be used to kill
Morales. The medical professionals are refusing to directly participate
in the execution! Read
more at indybay.org.
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Proposal For A New Health Care Initiative
for the CA State Ballot
by John Thielking
2-11-06
I don't have any money for this, but someone else might. It seems
that based on the defeats at the polls of various health care oriented
initiatives (prop 86 Health Care for All and an appeal to the voters
about former Gov. Dukemajan's legislation requiring all employers over
a certain size to provide health insurance) that it is clear that the
people of California will need to be extensively educated about the
dismal state of the current health care system before they will vote
for any progressive change.
I propose that the following initiative be put before the voters in
2008: Require that all employers with 20 or more employees in the
state of CA who offer health insurance to their employees post the plan
details on their website and make such doccuments available to all
employees, contractors and job applicants. For those job
applicants not able to access the web, or for those who have for
whatever reason not been notified of the plan details before a job
offer is made to them, those prospective employees have a minimum of 48
hours to review the plan doccuments before accepting a job offer.
No penalty may be imposed upon the prospective employee for excercising
the 48 hour option. The plan details must include at least: The cost of
the plan to the employee, both as a full time worker and as a COBRA or
cal-COBRA participant, the copays and coverages for doctor's visits and
medication, as well as any items that are not covered under each plan
offered by the employer. No category of employer, except the
federal government, is expempt from these requirements.
Contractors doing business with the federal govt. are NOT exempt. Those
employers who contract out their health care plan must still provide a
means for all job applicants to access the plan doccuments at the
sub-contractor's website or by other means.
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Jan 21, 2006
Counterdemonstration Against
The
Walk For Life
posted 1-20-06
by John Thielking
Anti-choice, anti-abortion marchers are scheduled to show up and go for
a march from Justin Herman Plaza to the Marina Green Park in San
Francisco on Saturday Jan 21, 2006. Many of these marchers will
be bussed in from around the state of CA and elsewhere. If you
believe in a woman's right to choose, you are invited to join a counter
demonstration that will be gathering in Justin Herman Plaza at 11AM at
the non-intersection of Embarcadero and Market Streets in San
Francisco. It is reccomended to park at the Civic Center at Polk
and Grove (near 9th and Market) and walk or take Bart to the foot of
Market St. For more info click here
or here.
Be forwarned. This counterdemonstration may involve civil
disobedience. So stay away from any cops or sit-ins if you don't
want to get arrested.
Pictures
from the Demo and Counterdemo
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Reprinted
with permission 1-15-06
Kevin Cooper
Saved From Execution
Still Fighting For Justice
Kevin Cooper was wrongfully convicted of the 1983 murders of the Ryen
family in San Bernadino, California. He came within hours of
execution on Feb 9, 2004. The 11th hour stay was granted after a
battle inside and outside of the courtroom shed light on his innocence
and the numerous problems that exist in the state's case against him.
The case has been sent back to the federal district court.
Further evidence testing has begun, and activists expect a long legal
fight to ensure that the issues of tampering and police and
prosecutorial misconduct are raised. Overall, the defense attorneys
have found new evidence and witnesses that corroborate Kevin Cooper's
innocence claim, and that show the errors and concious misconduct on
the part of the state of California.
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Clarence Ray Allen: Due to be Executed Jan
17, 2006
by John Thielking
When first hearing about Clarence Ray Allen's case, both sides were
investigated a little bit and the disturbing conclusion was reached
that this would be a difficult case to argue about. Allen was in prison
for life without parole for the 1970's murder of a woman who gave him
keys to a market that he robbed. She was killed allegedly because she
was fingering him for the robbery.
He is accused of ordering the murders of one witness to that crime and
two other
employees of the same market while his original case was on
appeal. Some accounts describe the other two victims as witnesses
to the original crime, while another account describes the two as
employees of the market. Clarence Allen is currently 75 years old
and will turn 76 one day before his scheduled execution. He is
very infirm, has suffered from a heart attack and diabetes and uses a
wheelchair. He will be forced to walk the final few feet to the
death chamber at San Quentin. The prosecution's case rests primarily on
the testimony of some of the accomplices involved in the second crime.
They have all since stated at one time or another that they lied at Mr.
Allen's 2nd trial. That, plus the fact that Mr. Allen is an
American Indian has some very concerned that his execution is
unjust. Others simply say that while there is no excuse for how
the victims died, the death penalty is wrong and Mr Allen should be
given Clemency. Governor Schwarzenegger has refused to hold
any kind of Clemency hearing for Mr. Allen. Read
more on santacruz.indymedia.org...
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SF Giants Welcome
Homeless Families To
Giants Stadium For Holiday Party
Posted 1-5-06
For more info check out the article at the San
Francisco Sentinel .
I always wondered why the Giants Stadium couldn't be used as a homeless
shelter for part of the time. Well, at least this small step is a
step in the right direction -- Ed
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Ace Washington
Brutalized by San Francisco
PD December 30, 2005
by Donna Wallach
posted 1-5-06
Greetings all,
Mesha of Idriss Stelley Foundation just called me to
inform me that Ace Washington, an African-descent man in his fifties,
who is well-known in the Bayview/Hunters Point neighborhood, and has
been a community activist for decades, was brutally beaten by SFPD
Friday night, 30th December 2005, outside Rassala's club, a jazz club
located at Divisadero and 7th Streets in San Francisco. I understand
that there were lots of witnesses.
Some of Mr. Washington's activities in and for the
community: he volunteers at KPOO radio, he is on the San Francisco
Community Policing Board (this might not be the accurate name), he is
the official cameraman for Court TV and City Hall on Channel 29 in San
Francisco and he is also the house manager for Idriss Stelley
Foundation.
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Last Night Parade Santa Cruz,
CA,
5PM Dec 31, 2005 at the Saturn Cafe at Pacific and Laurel St.
12-27-05
By John Thielking
Last year, on Dec 31, 2004 in Santa Cruz, there was a parade put on by
an Artsy-Fartsy group aligned with the city. It was called "The
River of Life". This type of parade was almost a tradition,
accompanying the "First Night" series of celebrations on New Years Eve.
First Night included not only a parade, but also included musical
performances in the various theaters around downtown Santa Cruz.
The festivities may have seemed open to some, but in reality they were
for the most part a closed minded event. The parade organizers
decided that they would not allow any political signs in the parade and
pointedly discouraged and attempted to exclude any type of political
themes from the parade in 2004 and the one in 2003 as well. The
venues hosting the other events were also not open to various guerilla
tactics such as serrepetitiously plugging in a TV in the lobby to play
the Arnold Beverly confession. (That year the Arnold Beverly
confession was aired on the public sidewalk with the aid of a battery
and inverter). In 2005, it was announced that the people
organizing the traditional First Night celebration had run out of money
and that the events would be cancelled. Click here to find out what people are
going to do this year to replace the traditional First Night Parade.
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Major
court victory for Mumia Abu-Jamal
BY JEFF
MACKLER
12-07-05, posted 12-11-05
In a decision that will likely
stun the Pennsylvania legal establishment that has been trying to
railroad
innocent death row political prison and award winning journalist, Mumia
Abu-Jamal to the execution chambers for 24 years, the U.S. Court of
Appeals
of the Third Circuit, reversed two critical Federal District Court
rulings. Read more...
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America loves a reformer! But Arnold
Schwarznegger may simply be vindictive, or overly concerned with
proving to his "base" how tough on crime he is.
Aside from the dozens of reasons why the death penalty is wrong
generally, in Tookie's individual case, there was prosecutorial
misconduct involving comparing Tookie to a tiger in a jungle for the
all-white jury. That death penalties are awarded black men
disproportionately to any other segment of the population is a known
fact. That hundreds of former death row inmates were cleared completely
by DNA tests which were unavailable at their convictions shows that we
cannot trust this verdict (or any other verdict for that
matter) sufficiently to take a human life for it. Read more...
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DISTRIBUTE WIDELY!
Subject: [Ppnews] Solidarity with
Political Prisoners events - SF
Date: November 16, 2005 11:09:46
AM PST
DEMONSTRATION IN SUPPORT OF POLITICAL PRISONERS
Friday, December
2nd
12 - 2 pm
Oakland Federal
Building
1301 Clay Street
INTERNATIONAL DAY
IN SOLIDARITY WITH POLITICAL PRISONERS
Saturday,
December 3, 2005
7 pm
First Unitarian
Church
14th and Castro,
Oakland
EVENTS HELD IN 25
CITIES WORLDWIDE!
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Posted 11-15-05
On Friday November 18th, from 3-5PM,
TAKE SOME TIME OUT TO HELP STOP THE WAR IN IRAQ!
Enough is Enough. It is Time to Say NO louder and stronger to the War
and the Bush Regime!!! Our tax dollars are funding it - WE must stop
it!
PLEASE JOIN PEOPLE IN COMMUNITIES ALL
OVER THE COUNTRY FOR NATIONAL STAND DOWN* DAY (NSDD), a day of
coordinated actions calling for an end to this war, being held at
Military Recruitment Centers all over the United States!!
THE SANTA CRUZ COUNTY ACTION happens on Friday, November 18th at the
Military Recruitment Center on 41st Avenue (2121 41st Ave) - from 3 to
5PM.
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Execution of
CA Death Row Inmate Stan
"Tookie" Williams set for Dec 13th, 2005
11-06-05
John Thielking
The co-founder of the Crips street gang in Los Angeles is set to be
executed on Dec 13, 2005.
This case sets a precident for courts nationwide being allowed to look
the other way when allegations of prosecution misconduct surface after
a murder conviction. Specifically, in this case the Supreme court let a
9th Circuit court ruling stand that affirms that it is ok for
prosecutors to exclude blacks from a black defendant's jury on the
basis of race* and it is ok for prosecutors to have prisoners shackled
in front of the jury, that it is ok for prosecutors to make strongly
biased statements to the jury likening the defendant to a wild animal
in a zoo, and that it is ok for the police to beat witnesses until they
give the story that the prosecution wants (as long as a couple of years
pass between the beating and the trial). It also raises
disturbing allegations that Williams may be innocent of the crimes he
was convicted of as numerous pieces of physical evidence point to his
innocence. The 9th circuit court did make history, however, when
it reccomended clemency for Tookie, citing Tookie's work writing
children's books urging kids to avoid joining gangs and avoid
violence. This work has inspired former gang members from around
the world to give up on being members of a gang.
Read more, including an analysis
of the Governor's denial of clemency...
Stan Tookie Williams was executed at 12:35AM, Dec 13, 2005, despite
massive
protests in opposition to his execution, including the assembly
of
over 3000 people at the gates of San Quentin on the night of his
execution.
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Post
Katrina Relief Efforts Underway
John
Thielking
9-7-05
The Red Cross is not the only game in town when it comes to hurricane
relief efforts. While some stores such as Rite Aid are matching
contributions 50/50 for those who donate to the Red Cross, there
are some concerns that the Red Cross siphons money off from the
donations received from one disaster and uses the money to prepare for
the next disaster, sometimes with ideological twists added such as
preparing for the war on terrorism after the Sept 11
attacks. The Red Cross did for instance donate an
additional $10 million to the city of San Francisco after the 1989 Loma
Prietta Earthquake,
in response to the mayor's complaints that not all of the money raised
was going to help earthquake victims. After Sept 11, there was
controversy when it was revealed that only $150 million had been spent
to help vicitims of Sept 11, after $500 million had been received. (footnote)
If you want to contribute to a number of groups that are locally
focused on New Orleans and are accountable to the people, check out this link.
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