- Changes in how the Oakland police department will deal with demonstrators – the City’s police chief announces the cops will no longer fire wooden pellets or use motorcycles to control crowds – the changes come after Oakland police inflicted numerous injuries at an anti Iraq war demonstration at the Oakland Port in April
- The State Assembly is convening at this hour to consider a compromise budget deal hammered out by Governor Schwarzenegger and democratic leaders – the deal requires a balanced budget, the creation of a reserve fund and prohibits future borrowing to pay for operating expenses – and a $15 billion bond for the March ballot
- A suicide bomb attack on a US Army base near Baghdad kills one US soldier and injures 14 – elsewhere 3 Iraqis are slain by resistance fighters – at the Pentagon sources confirm that Vice President Cheney’s former firm – Halliburton – has been overcharging for Gasoline imported to Iraq
- Israeli occupation forces raid the Rafa refugee camp in Gaza killing 6 Palestinians and destroying 9 homes
- Democratic presidential candidate Reverend Al Sharpton brings his presidential campaign to the Bay Area
- On Human Rights Day workers and the labor movement rally for their rights