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Obama chastises Senate for Failing to Pass Gun Background Check Bill; Adam Winkler, professor of constitutional law at the UCLA School of Law and the author of Gunfight: The Battle over the Right to Bear Arms in America Panel on Immigration bill; Crystal Patterson, Communications Director for the Immigration Policy at the Center for American … Continued
From Oklahoma City Bombings to the Boston Marathon; Mark Potok, Senior Fellow with the Southern Poverty Law Center ASUC Senate to vote, on divestment from Israeli Militarism; Sadia Saifuddin, ASUC Senator , sponsor of the bill authored by Senator George Kaifa and Dr. Michael Harris, one of the founders of the San Francisco Voice for … Continued
Extreme De-Cluttering: Zero Waste;Bea Johnson, author of Zero Waste Home: the Ultimate guide to Simplifying Your Life by Reducing Your Waste
Goldman Environmental Award Winners announced;Azzam Alwash, Founder and President of Nature Iraq Fracking disclosure bill heads to hearing; Bob Weickowski, Assemblymember 25th District Taxes and Politics ; Susan Lee , Tax Preparer, Certified Financial Planner, (former) host of “You and Your Money” on WBAI in new york
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
