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- 01/18/2002
-The Guerrilla News Network’s “Crack the CIA” Wins at Sundance
The Guerrilla News Network’s Crack the CIA won the Audience Award at the 2002 Sundance Online Fil
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- 02/01/2002
-Break-In at Youth Empowerment Center in Oakland
We hope this letter finds you safe and well during these uncertain and trying times. As social justice activists, the recent shift
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- 02/05/2002
-The World Social Forum In Porto Alegre:A Wind of Hope in a World At War
The second World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil, marked a dramatic counterpoint for a world that has been caught in a world
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- 02/28/2002
-Proposition A -- the PROGRESSIVE choice
This week's Bay Guardian, as well as other recent developments, make it very clear that Proposition A is the PROGRESSIVE choice f
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- 02/28/2002
-San Francisco Green Party Backs Open Government Amendment
The San Francisco Green Party has endorsed Senate Constitutional Amendment (SCA) 7, which would strengthen the open-meetings a
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- 02/28/2002
-LOUDER than BOMBS, A Profile of Michael Franti
"You can bomb the world to pieces but you can't bomb it into peace," sings hip-hop artist Michael Franti. He and his group, Spearh
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- 03/25/2002
-San Francisco Registers 4,600 New Voters in a Month
Between Jan. 22 and Feb. 19 over 100 ACORN (Association of Community Organizations fo
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- 04/08/2002
-Public Citizen Sues to Stop Presidential Records Gag
In a move that would make Orwell spin in his grave, last November, while the country and the world was still reeling from 9-11, Bu
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- 04/30/2002
-Noam Chomsky -- Saying What Media Don't Want Us To Hear
"If liberty means anything at all," George Orwell wrote, "it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."
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- 05/05/2002
-San Francisco Green Party Hosts Progressive Campaign Training
The California and San Francisco Greens are sponsoring a Progressive Campaign Training Workshop on Saturday, May 18 at Z Space
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- 05/14/2002
-The Fake Persuaders
Corporations are inventing people to rubbish their opponents on the internet
Persuasion works best when it's
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- 05/17/2002
-Gunning for the Land of the Free
TV Documentary About the US Love of Firearms Makes History
The United States was lampooned yesterday for being not so much the land of the free and the home of the brave but a fearful and g
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- 05/27/2002
-The Balance of Power
Why don't we recognize how much power we have?
By "we" I mean the hundreds of thousands of people in this country who know that the old ways of interacting with the world are no
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- 05/28/2002
-The Rapper's Red Glare
Boots Riley Hopes the Coup's Album Will Rattle the Capitalists, and Make Some Change
OAKLAND- The most infamous man in pop music doesn't look very infamous here in his kitchen. Raymond "Boots" Riley -- rapper, commu
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- 05/29/2002
-Politics as a Second Language
A New Campaign Blueprint – A Synopsis
Prepared by the Progressive Alliance
A New Campaign Blueprint is based o
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- 06/03/2002
-The Cops Are Watching You
Col. David Mitchell, superintendent of the Maryland State Police, is sitting at the end of a big conference table at police head
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- 06/05/2002
-The message
Paris returns to beat around a Bush and drop a new single, "What Would You Do?"
ON A MONDAY morning in late March, a Los Angeles news radio station reported that the Israeli military would soon launch a campaig
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- 06/23/2002
-FBI Checking Out Americans' Reading Habits
Bookstores, libraries can't do much to fend off search warrants
For the first time since the Cold War, the FBI is vi
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- 06/25/2002
-Bakari Speaks on the Hip-Hop Generation
I got a chance to catch up with author Bakari Kitwana the other day when he swung through the Bay Area. This former political ed
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- 06/25/2002
-A celebration to honor labor's victory in S.F. : Monument to strikers who fought in 1934
The dot-com revolution may have permanently altered the Bay Area's labor picture, but it can never obscure its history.
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- 08/03/2002
-The Mother of Movements
In 1960s' America, progressive activists made huge strides forward, securing major victories from the ruling class on many fronts.
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- 09/16/2002
-Poll Shows it's Time for Activists to Activate!
MAYORAL MEMO: Psssst. Last week, a group of business and development interests (name withheld) commissioned a pollster to ask 400
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- 10/18/2002
-The Apathy Illusion
Read this Article, then watch the Insidious Films video "We Vote"
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- 11/14/2002
-You Are a Suspect
WASHINGTON — If the Homeland Security Act is not amended before passage, here is what will happen to you: Every purchase you make
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- 11/25/2002
-Buy Nothing This Year!
During a recent visit to my local five-and-dime, I purchased a "motion pig," a small plastic pig with an electronic heart and soul
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- 12/01/2002
-Grappling With the Politics of Fear
Progressives have underestimated the American people's need for safety. So what kind of antiwar message will connect with an an
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- 12/01/2002
-The Left's Graying All-Star Rocks On
"I do not understand this squeamishness about the use of gas … I am strongly in favour of using poisonous gas against uncivilised
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- 01/29/2003
-On America's Stage, Performance Protest
Activists Take a Role Outside the Capitol
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- 01/30/2003
-I'm Losing Patience With My Neighbours, Mr Bush
I'm really excited by George Bush's latest reason for bombing Iraq: he's running out of patience. And so am I!
For som
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- 03/27/2003
-Support Our Tunes!
Now that the right has knocked the Dixi
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- 01/17/2004
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SF Green Party Provides Text of Local Ballot Measures
The San Francisco Green Party has obtained and scanned the text of local ballot measures for the March 2, 2004 primary election. W
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- 11/28/2004
-Activist Sues to Stop Laguna Honda Downsize
San Francisco healthcare accountability activist Patrick Monette-Shaw has filed a lawsuit to stop the downsizing of San Francisco'
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- Alternet
A leading alternative media resource providing comprehensive, well-written, and easy-to-find essays on a variety of topics.
- IndyMedia
A global network of local sites representing the anti-globalization and progressive movements. Anyone can post to articles to IndyMedia.
- Working For Change
Current progressive and alternative info and essays.
- Instant Runoff Voting campaign site
A major electoral reform initiative that will be on the ballot in San Francisco in March 2002. The SF Green Party has been and will be a major force in this campaign to make the voting system fairer, faster, and less expensive.
- Power to the People
A division of Global Exchange which is fighting against rate hikes and bailouts in California, as well as for clean and renewable energy.
- Center for Voting and Democracy
This site contains an online library of articles on voting reform.
- Rainforest Action Network
Rainforest Action Network works to protect the Earth's rainforests and support the rights of their inhabitants through dynamic, hard-hitting campaigns that work to bring corporate and governmental policies into alignment with popular support for rainforest conservation.
- The Video Activist Network
An informal association of activists and politically conscious artists using video to support social, economic and environmental justice campaigns.
- Public Citizen
Ralph Nader founded public-interest non-profit producing reports and action around important issues.
- National Lawyer's Guild
The National Lawyer's Guild works for social change and civil rights in the US often by providing legal counsel and advice to activists. Web site contains info on civil liberties for activists.
- Save Pacifica
The campaign to save the Pacifica Radio Network (94.1-KPFA in the bay): one of the few remaining uncensored, non-corporate radio networks.
- Inkworks Press
Affordable offset printing for progressive causes. Located in Berkeley.
- San Francisco Bicycle Coalition
A large and powerful non-profit organization working for the rights of bicyclists in San Francisco.
- Contact the San Francisco Board of Supervisors
Information and contact info for San Francisco's Board of Supervisors.
- Contact California State Legislators
Find out who your state representatives are and how to contact them.
- US Congress On-Line Letter Submission
Automated submission of letters to your US congresspeople.
- US Federal Law Code
US law code in an online database.
- US Congress Web Sites
Find out who your US Congressperson is, then link to their web site.
- US Senate Contact Info
Contact info for US Senators.
- California Legal Code Online
Online categorized database of California State law.
- San Francisco Tenants Union
A powerful organization fighting for tenant's rights in San Francisco.
- PGP free encryption software
Protect your legal right against unreasonable search by encrypting your e-mail and other data.
- Walk SF
Fighting for pedestrian rights and safety in San Francisco.
- Rescue Muni
This organization advocates for public transit improvements in San Francisco.
- International Action Center
Information, Activism, and Resistance to U.S. Militarism, War, and Corporate Greed, Linking with Struggles Against Racism and Oppression within the United States
- California Health Freedom Coalition
Working to protect freedom of access to alternative healthcare in California.
- World Bank Boycott
Exercise your power, in the spirit of the anti-apartheid divestment movement. Demand a say over how your community or institution invests your money. Ask your institution or town to boycott World Bank bonds and stand with global civil society in demanding global justice – and an end to debt slavery, economic colonialism, and projects that destroy environments.
- Martin Luther King speeches streamin
5 Martin Luther King speeches streaming. On non-violent civil disobedience, etc.
- Critical Resistance
Critical Resistance seeks to build an international movement to end the Prison Industrial Complex. They do this by challenging the belief that imprisoning people makes us safe. They believe that basic necessities such as food, shelter, and freedom are what really make our communities secure. Much of the work of Critical Resistance takes place in the Bay Area.
- The Usual Suspects
Local political info and discussion.
- Coalition on Homelessness, San Francisco
Working to bring together policy makers and homeless people to develop solutions to homelessness in San Francisco.
- Progressive Voting Analysis in San Francisco
This study ranks San Francisco districts by how progressive its voters are. A useful tool for campaign strategizing.
- Criminal Justice Consortium
The Criminal Justice Consortium is an alliance of organizations and individuals dedicated to reducing over-reliance on incarceration in California and to promoting the least restrictive, most humane alternatives to imprisonment.
- Amend 3 Strikes Ballot Initiative
Working on a Nov. 2002 ballot initiative to change California's 3 three strikes law so that it only applies to violent crimes.
- Bay Area Progressive Directory
An index to about 1000 organizations in the San Francisco Bay Area that may be of interest to progressive activists, plus links to related web sites elsewhere.
- San Francisco Department of Elections
How, where, and when to vote, and other election related information.
- Media Alliance
The area's most important training resource for those seeking a career in media and those seeking to influence the media for progressive change. Based in San Francisco.
- California First Amendment Coalition
Working for public access to government records in California.
- San Francisco IndyMedia
San Francisco IndyMedia web site, an open publishing forum for local issues.
- Prisons and Police Brutality : SF IndyMedia
Good local info on police brutality and efforts to stop it.
- National Resources Defense Council
NRDC uses law, science, and the support of more than 500,000 members nationwide to protect the planet's wildlife and wild places and to ensure a safe and healthy environment for all living things. The site has regular updates on upcoming legislation and action to take.
- Living Wage Resources Center
Information on living wage ordinances in the US as well as information on how to organize a campaign.
- Artist's Television Access
ATA in the Mission has a storefront operation where they screen alternative film and video often with a political bent. ATA's mission is to offer access to editing facilities, low cost media arts education, and to provide a venue for independent film and video artists. It is a nonprofit run entirely by volunteers.
- Peace Action
Peace Action (formerly SANE/Freeze) works to achieve the abolition of nuclear weapons, the development of a peace-oriented economy, an end to the international weapons trade, and promotes non-military solutions to international conflicts. Peace Action has a membership of 85,000 persons, 27 state affiliates, and over 100 local chapters, making it the largest membership and activist peace network in the country. Peace Action members work for policy changes in Congress, state capitals, city halls and the United Nations.
- Space 4 Peace
Global network working against the proliferation of space-based weapons.
- ACORN
ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) is the nation's largest community organization of low- and moderate-income families, with over 120,000 member families organized into 600 neighborhood chapters in 45 cities across the country. The have recently been doing major voter registration drives in San Francisco.
- Election Deadlines
Department of Elections listing of important election deadlines including filing to run, submitting ballot arguments, etc.
- Bay Area Progressive Directory Calender
Major calender of Bay Area progressive events.
- Listing of Bay Area Progressive Event Calenders
THE list of Bay Area progressive calenders.
- Coleman Advocates
Coleman is a San Francisco based child advocacy organization working to improve the well-being of San Francisco's children, youth and their families. Coleman combines policy expertise and savvy advocacy, with grassroots organizing and coalition building in the neighborhoods.
- Mondragon Cooperative
The largest cooperative business in the world, Mondragon has approximately $10 billion in revenue per year and 60,000 employees. They are enjoying precipitous growth and serve as a model for democratic control of work and capital worldwide. Cooperative business is an essential component in transforming society into a more fair and democratic entity.
- California Campaign Finance Filing Database
Good resource for finding who's contributing to what. Be way though, there may be donors who aren't listed in here for numerous reasons including soft-money loopholes or late registration.
- Islais Creek resources for Matt Gonzalez for Mayor
A link to articles about Matt's campaign and endorsements archived by the Islais Creek community website
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