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Venezuela Elections; Miguel Tinker Salas, Professor of Latin American History at Pomona College, and the author, most recently, of The Enduring Legacy: Oil, Culture and Society in Venezuela Private cops in Oakland hills; Robbie Neely, Administrator, Piedmont Pines Association as well as Rashidah Grinage
Asian Law Caucus brings FOIA lawsuit over Federal lobbying against TRUST Act; Jessica Karp Rally for Citizenship” protests around the country; ,B>Tessa Levine, community organizing fellow with Mujeres Unidas y Activas, and Reverend Debbie Lee, director of the Interfaith Coalition for Immigrant Rights Students Headed to Immigrants’ Rights Protests; a bunch of folks from the … Continued
San Francisco Retirement System to vote on Divestment from Predatory Lending; Monica Kenney, ACCE member, Foreclosure Fighter and Wells Victim, and Buck Bagot, ACCE member, Foreclosure Fighter and co-founder of Occupy Trial over lead in . . . Baby food; James Wheaton, attorney, Environmental Law Foundation Springtime gardening in the Bay Area; David Cody, permaculture … Continued
Bee Deaths;Eric Mussen, Extension apiculturist at the Laidlaw Honey Bee Research Facility at UC Davis Margaret Thatcher dies at 87; Jonathan Rose, professor of history at Drew University City of Oakland rolls out a municipal I.D. card; Jean Quan, mayor of Oakland, and Michelle Jun, a senior staff attorney with Consumers Union
Guatemalan President General Efrain Rios Montt on trial for genocide; Almudena Bernabeu, International Attorney, with The Center for Justice and Accountability — currently working on the Rios Montt case. Push in Sacramento to kill “Enterprise Zone” tax credits; Jerry Hill , democrat representing California’s 13th Senate district You are what you click; David Auerbach
UN Passes Global Arms Treaty
Stockton Bankruptcy; Bob Benedetti, Professor of Political Science at the University of the Pacific Immigration: AFL-CIO reaches Guestworker Deal with Chamber of Commerce;David Bacon, labor correspondent for UpFront. World Autism awareness day: Environmental factors
California Snow Pack at 52% of Normal;Maury Roos, Chief Hydrologist with the California Department of Water Resources, and Eugene Cordero, Professor of Meteorology researching climate change and atmospheric dynamics at San Jose State University Realignment Disparities
