12/2-3 LA Binational Conference To Cancel NAFTA and Unite Workers Of Mexico and the US (tags)
A binational conference of US and Mexican workers will be held on Dec 2&3 on the fight to cancel NAFTA and for unity between US and Mexican workers
Nestle Continues Stealing World's Water (tags)
While Sacramento has suffered drought, Nestle continues to drain California aquifers and sell the people's water back to them at great profit... under many dozen brand names.
Sal Azzani rated most influential in Sacramento (tags)
Starting out with 100 followers, his words grew more influential and soon the twitter handle pathtomillion began increasing in numbers.
Sacramento Developer with Ties to UC Davis MIND Institute Embroiled in New Controversy (tags)
Sacramento real estate developer once accused of defrauding an Indian tribe out of millions of dollars while conspiring with the tribe's attorney (Howard Dickstein), is now embroiled in a separate controversy dealing with the alleged embezzlement of public funds
Action Alert: Act now to stop the latest effort to legitimize Israeli Apartheid Terrorism! (tags)
Take Action...The City Council of Sacramento, California, is scheduled to vote on adopting Ashkelon, Israel as a Sister City on August 14th. Given Israel’s continued policy of killing and displacing Palestinians and illegally confiscating their land, the Capital of California, Sacramento, should not be used as a stamp of approval for these policies.
TIME TO GET RAD: Post-Election Thoughts From the Socialist Party Los Angeles Local (tags)
The Left is fractured and weak, but there is hope in the form of a movement and Party whose very existence is aligned with the fight to protect civil liberties, provide basic necessities and deliver a swift counterpunch to the fat cats in Sacramento and D.C.
Political Prisoner Correspondence and the FBI (tags)
FOIA documents uncover interesting information...
California Prison Erupts, Rapper "x-Rated" nearly killed during riot. (tags)
On March 19th 2010, a riot erupted on the Pleasant Valley State Prison yard between Northern Hispanic Inmates and Blacks. Notorious rapper Anerae, "X-Rated" Brown (Sacramento, CA) airlifted to hospital while nearly dying as result of his injuries
March for California's Future (tags)
Educators, public employees, and others are marching from Bakersfield to Sacramento - hundres of miles - to fight for public services.
The tax that no one is talking about! (tags)
The tax that no one is talking about!
California to withhold a bigger chunk of paychecks (tags)
The tax that no one is talking about!
College Students March on State Capitol to Protest Budget Cuts (tags)
Students and educators from public colleges all over the state converged on Sacramento on March 16, 2009 to demand that California fully fund higher education and not raise tuition. Many had meetings with legislators. While protests were entirely peaceful, one student was arrested by police for no apparent reason.
The California Water Wars: Not A Conflict Between Fish and People (tags)
Is the cost of destroying the thousands of jobs provided to the economy by California and Oregon fisheries, the tourist industry, and Delta and Sacramento Valley farms worth providing subsidized water to corporate agribusiness to irrigate toxic, drainage impaired land on the west side of the San Joaquin Valley?
Alexander: California Budget Needs More for Education, Less for Prisons (tags)
On March 16, 2009, thousands of students will gather in Sacramento at the Capitol Building for a march and rally to protest the budget cuts to education and cuts to community colleges. Stewart Alexander is encouraging students to join the march and rally to keep the community colleges open. For more information regarding the time, location and date for the Mass Community College March/Rally in Sacramento, call (415) 585-2121.
California Republicans in Hot Water for Hate-Based Attacks on Obama (tags)
Republicans in "tolerant" California are engaging in hate-based attacks on Barack Obama as reprehensible as any in the United States.
Details of California Budget Show Republican Victory over Sacramento Democrats (tags)
The Republican 40 percent in Sacramento steamrolled the Democrat 60 percent with tax giveaways to business and cuts to medicaid for the poor.
Ralph Nader Wins Peace and Freedom Party Candidacy for President (tags)
Ralph Nader won the Peace and Freedom Party nomination for president of the United States at the party’s convention in Sacramento. His national running mate, Matt Gonzalez, was also confirmed as the party’s vice presidential candidate.
Post sentencing update
Eric McDavid Update - New Address and Sentencing (tags)
Eric has a new address, and sentencing has been moved...again
Eric McDavid Update - 3/7/08 (tags)
Hearing, sentencing and more
Eric McDavid - Vegan Food Victory! (tags)
Sacramento County Main Jail says they are changing policy...
URGENT- Eric McDavid denied critical medical care! (tags)
Please call the jail immediately...
Hearings, fundraising, sentencing and more...
Join Michael Moore and local nurses in Sacramento on June 12 (tags)
Please join Michael Moore and local nurses as he testifies at the Capitol in Sacramento on June 12th. He will be speaking in support of Sheila Kuehl's SB 840 (single-payer healthcare).
California Doesn't Need More Cages (tags)
Help us stop THE BIGGEST PRISON SYSTEM IN THE WORLD from getting bigger.
Funds Needed for Eric McDavid (tags)
After more than a year of pretrial incarceration and the associated legal costs, Eric McDavid is preparing to go to trial and needs to raise funds to mount the best defense possible.
Freedom for Anarchist Prisoners in Oaxaca! Freedom for Oscar and Sacramento! (tags)
Anarchists and anti-authoritarians have played a vital role in the struggle against the government of Ulisses Ruiz Ortiz in Oaxaca. Among the many prisoners being held in jails around Mexico are anarchist activists Oscar Santa Maria Caro and Sacramento Delfino Cano Hernandez who were arrested on November 30th in Oaxaca.
Conservation of Symbiotic Bees Pollinators and Vernal Pool Goldfields (tags)
Developers attempt to build sprawl-marts on top of critical habitat for a great many endnagered species in the Sacramento Valley's vanishing vernal pools. What are some reasons for protecting the valley's vernal pool biodiversity?
PFP VOICE UNION CONCERNS (tags)
The Democratic leadership in Sacramento and Washington has become silent on issues in government that will protect the working class and organized labor; and now to have a voice in government, working people must look beyond the emerging one party system for political leadership.
Peace and Freedom party Back on the Ballot (tags)
Attempts to discredit and remove Peace and Freedom Party by Secretary of State McPherson appointed by the Governator fails!
AUBURN ARRESTEE ERIC MCDAVID ON HUNGER STRIKE! CALL THE JAIL NOW! (tags)
After 3 weeks of being denied vegan meals, Eric McDavid is now on hunger strike. Please call the Jail persistently and request he be given meals he can eat.
GOVERNOR SIDE STEPING DEATH PENALTY (tags)
Governor Schwarzenegger is now preparing for the November 2006 election by side steping the death penalty issue.
Stop Diebold electronic voting! CA's Republican plans to STEAL YOUR VOTE. (tags)
URGENT ACTION ALERT. The rally/protest is this Monday in Sacramento, we have ONLY next week to voice our concerns so they go on the record.
Sacramento says, ‘Bring the troops home!’ (tags)
The Sacramento City Council, by an 8-1 vote on Nov. 1, called for “a humane, orderly, rapid and comprehensive withdrawal of United States military personnel and bases from Iraq.”
SWARM the Minutemen - Phone Jam NOW! (tags)
The Minutemen are really ramping up their media campaign, including a major rally in Sacramento to promote their California Border Patrol initiative, an attempt to further militarize the border and our communities at the cost of more people's lives. Recently, they testified before congress ( http://www.dakotavoice.com/200510/20051018_6.html ) to ask that congres declare a state of emergency along the entire border. Clearly, they want more policing of our lives and communities, they want unrestricted fascism on the border. Still, resistance to the Minutemen ( http://www.deletetheborder.org/ ) has been powerful and is still growing, all across North America.
RALLY AGAINT THE minutemen! Disrupt the Minutemen's Rally! (tags)
Rally against the Minutemen! English followed by Spanish
Protests Slowed But Important During June (tags)
LA, DC, Santa Cruz and Sacramento held demonstrations in front of the KTLA TV station, the Washington Post, the Santa Cruz Sentinal and the Sacramento Bee, respectively, to protest the "NO COVERAGE" of the Downing Street Minutes.
PDLA Election Protection Action Alert! (tags)
Progressive Democrats & Democracy for America activists in CA are both urging everyone to flood Sacramento with calls RIGHT NOW. Please help!
Nurses Win Victory Against Nazi Gov Schwarzenegger (tags)
Cheers reverberated among all supporters of labor in all 58 counties of California and across the nation as the California Nurses Association won confirmation in Sacramento Superior Court on March 4, 2005 of its hard-fought victory to reduce nurse-patient ratios, saving our lives and mandating decent working conditions for nurses
Gary Webb did not commit suicide, inform yourself about CIA drugs (tags)
The corporate media is saying that Gary Webb committed suicide. Webb, the author of 'Dark Alliance', was a great North American writer. He exposed CIA drug trafficking in South Central Los Angeles that funded terrorism in Nicaragua during the 1980s. Question: How can you committ suicide with two bullets in the head? How relevant is CIA drug trafficking today?
SOME THOUGHTS IN MEMORY OF GARY WEBB (tags)
Gary Webb; reporter who broke the CIA-CRACK COCAINE connection story was found dead of an apparant suicide
This is not even Pop culture, its Popsicle culture. Regurgitated to meet the demands of a reality-based celebrity-obsessed cultural cesspool that defies the notion of depth. Andy Warhol's theory of fifteen-minute fame was conceived in a pre-ADD mind-set. Who can even tolerate fifteen minutes without being bored to death or achingly distracted? Unless, like with Arnie and Maria, our force-fed celebrity fix is constructed from disposable, non-biodegradable plastic.
Film IN PLANE SIGHT Shocks Sacramento Citizens (tags)
Highly recommended and without the flaws or dubious sponsorship of moores bs...
WHO PAYS THE BILLS FOR "MOVEAMERICAFORWARD.ORG" (tags)
web site has launched a campaign to deter theater owners from showing Michael Moore's film, "Fahrenheit 9-11". A list of theaters currently committed to showing the film is provided along with exhortations to call and demand that the film be dropped. Some theater owners are reporting receiving death threats.
Fasters on Day 25 of Fast 4 Education in Sacramento (tags)
Dolores Huerta declared that she will indeed PICK UP the fast for Jessica and has heard from legislators and other celebrities that they may very well pick up the fast for the remaining fasters.
Oaks and Wild Rice; NO GMO (tags)
When GMO corporate crops are pushed on people as the only solution to world hunger, we are neglecting the many wild food plants that can sustain people without continuing the cycle of corporate dependency started by spray herbicide/pesticides and continued into GMO patented crops. Wild native food plants can sustain people's health without corporate control.
Calif. Man Accused of 9/11 Fraud (tags)
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - A man who told investors he was developing a face recognition system following the 2001 terrorist attacks has been arrested on fraud charges, investigators said Monday.
INDYMEDIA MEETING HELD IN SACRAMENTO (tags)
Indymedia comes to the Central Valley
Help! The "special interests" are attacking me! (tags)
Will all you please help me? I'm being attacked by all these "special interests" who think the state should pay for their services. The nerve of them. Do these "special interests" really think that California is their personal piggy bank? My billionaire friends don't want to pay higher taxes to pay for these "special interests"! They worked hard to earn their billions of dollars. They deserve tax relief to buy more yachts, mansions, and fancy cars. All these "special interests" will do is squander all of their money. Help me take back Sacramento from these "special interests" so the billionaires who put me where I am today won't have to pay more taxes so the state can spend, spend, spend!
The Sacramento Connection To 9/11 (tags)
In this excerpt taken from Kupferberg's article "Truth, Lies, and The Legend of 9/11", Kupferberg looks at two copy-cat mass murder episodes in Sacramento which occurred just days before September 11.
Outsider Arnold is fast becoming a Sacramento Insider (tags)
The influence of former California Gov. Pete Wilson (Republican) on Schwarzenegger's team is evident. It is heavy on establishment figures and almost devoid of anyone who has been known to challenge the status quo.
The "special interests" behind Arnold Schwarzenegger's campaign (tags)
While Schwarzenegger has criticized Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante for taking money from unions and Indian tribes, the Republican candidate has collected at least $2.5 million from individual donors, attorneys, business interests, venture capitalists and California companies. Some of them employ full-time lobbyists in Sacramento.
The death of the lesser of two evils: if not Camejo, then Flynt! (tags)
When Real Politics gloriously and excitingly raises its head in the recall effort, many leftists bleat nervously about Republican plots, and the need to rally to the Democratic Party and its man in Sacramento.
REDRED NEEDS OUR HELP!!! (tags)
RedRed, for those who are not familiar, is a latina, Portland womyn who is facing a felony and an absurd sentence of 5yrs on the false charge that she broke a window of the California state building. During the WTO/USDA protests in Sacramento, law enforcement claims that the window was broken on Sunday, when she was
Sacramento June22-23, 2003 (tags)
Pictures from Sacramento 22-23, 2003 during the Pre-WTO agricultural meetings
Leftist Starving the Poor (a la Mao) (tags)
Science offers the poor bread. . . the left offers a circus. Continuing in its grand tradition of starving the poor to death. . . the left opposes advances in food sciences!
Sacramento WTO
BIODEV CARTOON(amsellem) (tags)
cartoon c 2003 by charles amsellem. all rights reserved. activists may reproduce for non profit use
Why come to Sacramento? (tags)
A major grassroots mobilization and convergence is planned in Sacramento from June 20-25. This is an opportunity for people to say no to a genetically engineered future, and to voice instead a living world vision, rooted in social justice and ecological sanity. It is also a chance to stand in solidarity with the people's movements and hundreds of peasant farmers groups from around the world that have called on social movements in the US to denounce and protest this meeting.
Via Campesina Requests Action in Sacramento (tags)
Via Campesina is an international movement which coordinates peasant organizations of small and middle-scale producers, agricultural workers, rural women, and indigenous communities from Asia, Africa, America, and Europe. It is an autonomous, pluralistic movement, independent from all political, economic, or other denomination. It is integrated by national and regional organizations whose autonomy is jealously respected.
Call to Action from the Global South: June 2003 WTO Ministerial in Sacramento (tags)
We, the undersigned organizations representing the peoples of the South, call on concerned individuals and organizations especially those within the United States to join us in the global popular protests against the Sacramento Ministerial meeting.
Anti-capitalist call to shut down the Sacramento (tags)
a more militant call to action
Anti-capCall to shut down the Sacramento ministerial (tags)
Come to Sacramento June 23-25th to shut down the WTO agricultural ministerial!!!
shutdown the WTO and tell them no GMOs (tags)
there will be a huge biotech/WTO meeting in Sacramento in June. You are invited to help shut it down.
Photos of CD Action Yesterday in Sacramento (tags)
Check out my journal and photos of the CD action yesterday in Sacramento, CA
Medical Marijuana Protest in Sacramento on Monday (tags)
Thousands of patients, caregivers, students and concerned citizens will march to the state capital this Monday, Sept 23 to decry the Ashcroft Justice Department’s accelerated war on state approved and licensed medical marijuana dispensaries in California which serve mostly terminally ill patients suffering from cancer, AIDS, and other ailments.
Farmworker March for Equality begins tomorrow (tags)
The California legislature just passed a bill that will help level the playing field between growers and farmworkers, but Gov. Davis is threatening to veto it. Tomorrow the UFW starts a 10-day "March for Equality" from Merced to Sacramento, ending with a big rally on Aug 25. Please join the rally in Sacramento, if you can!
Off-duty Vallejo cop leads Sacramento police on a high-speed chase and he isn't arrested or cited.
Off-duty Vallejo cop leads Sacramento police on a high-speed chase and he isn't arrested or cited.
David Brings Down Goliath in Sacramento Superior Court (tags)
California Heritage Tree Initiative Proponents Prevail Over Timber Lobby
JOIN THE MORGAN STANLEY PHONE BLOCKADE AND STOP (tags)
let's stop the BS!!
State Worker Solidarity (tags)
SUPPORT California State Workers In Their Struggle For A Contract
national guard gets ready (tags)
national guard gets ready with weapons for LA - LAT article the last line is interesting