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Georgianne Nienaber: There is no doubt that BP lied about the amount of oil being spewed into the Gulf of Mexico from Day One, no doubt that the EPA has obfuscated issues surrounding the use of the... ...
LA Progressive - 8:30 a.m.
By Lillian Taiz California Faculty Association Just under two weeks ago our CFA staff, while searching for financial information on the CSU Chancellor's website, stumbled across minutes of meetings involving the top financial leaders of the California State University. We were shocked to find that these minutes record comments by top executives of the CSU saying that auditors have found i...
California Progress Report - 8:30 a.m.
By James Clark ACLU of Southern California Declaring that “justice has been delayed too long,” California state and county officials this week rushed into court to request execution dates for the first time in almost five years. To some, it might sound like the government is finally doing what it needs to do to get executions moving forward. But in reality, they are ignoring the law, setti...
California Progress Report - 8:30 a.m.
Over two years ago Marco Topete allegedly shot and killed Yolo County Sheriff's Deputy Anthony Diaz. The evidence that this is occurred is quite strong and compelling. And yet from day one, this case has frankly been fumbled all over the field. On June 18, 2008, Mr. Topete was supposed to be arraigned in court on charges that included the first degree murder of a Yolo County Sheriff's Deputy....
The People's Vanguard of Davis - 8:29 a.m.
We present good brotha Elon James White BREAKING IT DOWN: Racism is over. Just in case you weren’t aware of it, host Elon James White in the 9th installment of This Week in Blackness’s season 3 breaks it down. Hopefully after this Blacks will finally get over it. We love Elon! For the WHOLE catalogue [...] ...
RENWL (Restore Equality Now~West Adams/Los Angeles South) - 3:48 a.m. - 2 clicks 
Republicans in the state Assembly have penned a letter urging Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to appeal the recent ruling overturning California’s ban on gay marriage, says the Sacramento Bee newspaper. The 27 Republican legislators who signed a letter to Gov. Schwarzenegger argued that by staying out of the case, Schwarzenegger and Brown will set a precedent that officials “may [...] ...
RENWL (Restore Equality Now~West Adams/Los Angeles South) - 1:46 a.m. - 2 clicks
Equality California has sponsored several bills which have made it through both houses of the California legislature this year and will be on Governor Schwarzenegger's desk, which he has to sign or veto by September 30th. They are: The Mental Health Services for At-Risk Youth bill (Leno) will increase LGBT youths’ access to counseling. The Repeal of Discrimina...
The Mad Professah Lectures - Wed 6:24 p.m. - 4 clicks
Today Democratic U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer is debating against Republican challenger Carly Fiorina . Boxer's campaign has also decided to do a netroots money bomb today , an attempt to get 10,000 individual donations. Boxer is an unabashed progressive, supports marriage equality and is a staunch environmentalist. Fiorina is a failed CEO who got 26 million dollars in a golden para...
The Mad Professah Lectures - Wed 4:46 p.m. - 5 clicks
NEW RELEASE 1 September 2010 By: Patrick Porgans Further Info: Contact Planetary Solutionaries at pp [at] planetarysolutionaries.org, 415-306-3317 Government Data Raises 'More Doubts About the Drought' California Agriculture Cashing In at Record Breaking Highs The Golden State’s agricultural earnings have reached historic highs during the so-called three-year drought. According to U...
Sacramento For Democracy - Wed 2:27 p.m. - 5 clicks
As President of the local chapter of Veterans For Peace, I submitted this response to Obama's speech as a letter-to-the-editor to the Sacramento Bee. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The President announced the end of "combat" operations in Iraq, but there really haven’t been many real combat operations for U. S. Soldiers this whole year - and we still lost more than 40 soldiers in 2010. The remaining 49,700 tr...
Sacramento For Democracy - Wed 12:09 p.m. - 6 clicks
Candidate Barack Obama pledged to end the war in Iraq. More than any other Presidential candidate during that long, long campaign - Obama was the most poised to declare himself as the anti-war candidate. And he did. And the peace movement and the left in general ate it up - for good reason. The peace movement had been in the streets protesting the Iraq invasion, war and occupation by Bush for 6 ...
OB Rag - Wed 12:09 p.m. - 5 clicks
Yesterday, the Governor's May Revision proposal to cut billions more from California's public schools was overwhelmingly rejected by the California State Legislature, falling 29 votes short of what was needed for passage. With $17 billion in cuts already made to public schools over the past two years, nearly 30,000 educators in California's public schools have been laid off - driving up...
California Majority Report - Wed 12:09 p.m. - 6 clicks
By Dan Aiello California Progress Report Assemblywoman Julia Brownley, D-Santa Monica, expressed disappointment today in the Senate’s rejection of her bill to ban single-use carryout bags in California supermarkets, pharmacies and convenience stores. AB 1998 failed passage on a 14-21 vote. The Sacramento Bee's Susan Ferris reported last minute campaign contributions ahead of ...
California Progress Report - Wed 10:42 a.m. - 5 clicks
Editor: The local San Diego government watch-dog web site, the Voice of San Diego, has caught TV station KUSI working the spin machine in favor of opponents of Prop D, the sales tax increase. How Political Spin Became Fact on KUSI by Keegan Kyle/Voice of San Diego/ August 31, 2010 Here's a lesson from the budding campaign over Proposition D that shows how quickly political spin can become accept...
OB Rag - Wed 10:41 a.m. - 6 clicks
About the Downtown San Diego Registry Week The Downtown Partnership’s Board of Directors and its Social Issues Committee have teamed up with the nationally renowned organization Common Ground and its 100,000 Homes Campaign to administer a survey and create a by-name registry of everyone experiencing homelessness on the streets downtown. Local partners in this effort include the United Way, the Sa...
OB Rag - Wed 10:41 a.m. - 3 clicks
From Gaelick.com The only thing holding the Anti-Homosexuality Bill back, right now, is Museveni, who is afraid of losing support from Western donors. If there was a vote on it tomorrow, it would pass almost unanimously. To vote against it would be political suicide in Uganda. ~NPR A year ago, three American Evangelicals traveled to [...] ...
RENWL (Restore Equality Now~West Adams/Los Angeles South) - Wed 8:45 a.m. - 6 clicks
We noticed that all of the numerous LGBT news related outlets and blogs who’ve covered the petitioning by the Pacific Justice Institute on behalf of Pastor Joshua Beckley of San Bernardino’s Ecclesia Christian Fellowship—-to force the state’s Governor and the AG to defend Prop 8— none of them mention the ethnicity of Pastor Joshua Beckley. [...] ...
RENWL (Restore Equality Now~West Adams/Los Angeles South) - Wed 7:41 a.m. - 3 clicks
On January 20, we launched the Yolo Judicial Watch project as a focused effort to monitor and track cases that go through the Yolo County Judicial system. The idea was to report to the public on what happens in an area of our government that they often have limited access to. We do not have TV in our local courtrooms. We do not have regular news coverage either. Often all the public has t...
The People's Vanguard of Davis - Wed 7:41 a.m. - 4 clicks
"These Senators visiting Fresno today don't seem to care that Carly Fiorina laid off 33,000 Hewlett-Packard employees and now she is offering pink slips to more than 2,700 educators in the Central... ...
LA Progressive - Wed 6:43 a.m. - 5 clicks
David Love: Burning the Holy Qur’an, bombing and burning mosques, banning houses of worship on private property, widespread denial of the president’s citizenship, efforts to nullify the Fourteenth... ...
LA Progressive - Wed 6:43 a.m. - 8 clicks
Georgianne Nienaber: Given the huge remaining humanitarian and economic crisis facing Haiti, it is puzzling that mainstream media in the United States short-changed coverage of former President Bill... ...
LA Progressive - Wed 6:43 a.m. - 4 clicks
By Anthony Wright Health Access The California Legislature completes the final two days of the 2009-10 session, major patient protection measures that implement and improve health reform have been passed, but several other key bills are still pending for final floor votes. Bills must be passed and sent to the Governor’s desk by the end of Tuesday, August 31st, 2010, or otherwise they die f...
California Progress Report - Wed 6:43 a.m. - 5 clicks
By Rebecca Greenberg California Labor Federation Much like her CEO pal Meg “Wall Street” Whitman, GOP Senate candidate “Corporate” Carly Fiorina has been pretending to be a friend to Latinos as of late, in a cynical ploy to garner votes. But the more Latinos learn about the real Carly , the less they like. The fact is, Fiorina’s positions on the issues that Latinos care most about, like i...
California Progress Report - Wed 6:43 a.m. - 3 clicks
By Zack Kaldveer Consumer Federation of California The June defeat of Propositions 16 and 17 was welcomed news for Californians fed up with the use of the initiative process to advance narrow corporate interests. The lavish spending by PG&E ($46 million on Prop 16) and Mercury Insurance ($17 million on Prop 17) to increase their bottom lines at the public's expense only confirmed voters’...
California Progress Report - Wed 6:43 a.m. - 3 clicks
The City Council of Davis met behind closed doors on Tuesday night but made no decision to be reported. The meeting was posted as "public employee appointment," "interim city manager/ city manager." The council seems to feels no rush to make the appointment. The city manager last week made a surprise announcement that he was taking a job with Solano County. His final day working for the c...
The People's Vanguard of Davis - Wed 5:50 a.m. - 7 clicks
My friend Batocchio of Vagabond Scholar is celebrating his 5-year blogiversary, and in stopping by to add my congrats, I read one of his fine posts, "We Cheat the Other Guy and Pass the Savings To You" . In it, he links to one of the greatest speeches I have ever heard, one that breaks my heart every time I hear or read it. It is by the President who got us out of the Great Depression, and gave...
Last Left Before Hooterville - Wed 2:27 a.m. - 4 clicks
Word comes today that heterosexual supremacist losers in the Perry v Schwarzenegger lawsuit are seriously worried about not having standing to appeal the federal lawsuit, so they have sued the state defendants Attorney General Jerry Brown and Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in state court in an attempt to force them to defend Proposition 8 . Brown has said both in legal filings and ...
The Mad Professah Lectures - Tue 11:48 p.m. - 9 clicks
Yes I used the 'N' word, as a brown bitch I feel I can do that and fuck anyone that says different...and Obama used a lot of words that were bullshit in a bucket tonight during his prime time speechifying on the...cough..War in Iraq. From Obama and his minions I get this horseshit tonight: As Operation Iraqi Freedom ends, our commitment to a sovereign, stable, and self-reliant Iraq continues. Un...
My Right to be Left - Tue 8:28 p.m. - 8 clicks
by Dan Bacher The recently formed Ocean Access Protection Fund (OAPF) announced on August 31 the launch of its online contribution program through www.OceanAccessProtectionFund.org, allowing this division of United Anglers of Southern California (UASC) to collect online contributions for legal challenges against Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's Marine Life Protection Act (MLPA) Initiative as we...
Sacramento For Democracy - Tue 2:04 p.m. - 4 clicks
Bamboo Lounge - 1475 University Ave. San Diego, CA 92103 Don't miss the first and ONLY televised debate between Democratic U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer and her Republican challenger and former CEO of Hewlett Packard, Carly Fiorina. ...
San Diego Politico - Tue 10:07 a.m. - 7 clicks
By David Greenwald The ongoing California budget crisis has put huge strains on large sectors of the economy as businesses and people are in financial trouble. In particular it is putting a huge strain on those entities that rely on state money to provide various services to the populations. The Vanguard has learned that several local Drug Treatment Facilities have stopped receiving...
California Progress Report - Tue 7:42 a.m. - 7 clicks
By Sam Gold eMeg has spent almost $91 million dollars of her own money to attempt to buy the governorship of California. After all ANYTHING is for sale on eBay, right? But after reading some recent articles in the SF Bay Guardian , I find myself asking, just precisely how much of that is dirty money, appropriated by unlawful or unethical means? eBay acquired PayPal in 2002, on Meg's watch...
California Progress Report - Tue 7:42 a.m. - 7 clicks
By Marc Solomon Equality California Crossposted from The Advocate The last few weeks in the California marriage battles have been at once hopeful and painful. First we rode an ecstatic wave upward: Judge Vaughn Walker issued a powerful opinion striking down Proposition 8, and we celebrated as couples made plans to get married across the state. Then we rode downward when a three-judge p...
California Progress Report - Tue 7:42 a.m. - 7 clicks
By Robert Cruickshank Having been born and raised in Orange County, one of my lifetime goals is to see it become a bastion of progressive politics. So I'm glad to see that today the New York Times is finally noticing Orange County is indeed becoming less right-wing and more Democratic: SANTA ANA, Calif. - Orange County has been a national symbol of conservatism for more than 50 years: b...
California Progress Report - Tue 7:42 a.m. - 8 clicks
Druliner Unloads on Davis Police Detective and Prosecutor in Case - The Vanguard has complained in the past of the sometimes misleading press releases coming out of the Office of the District Attorney, Yolo County. However, Monday's press release on the Michael Artz case really takes the cake. Nowhere does it mention that the jury acquitted Mr. Artz of the main charge, forced oral copul...
The People's Vanguard of Davis - Tue 6:25 a.m. - 7 clicks
Tracy Emblem: Implementing clean energy in California now - not twenty years from now - is a not only a public health issue -- it's a matter of economic survival. ...
LA Progressive - Tue 6:02 a.m. - 6 clicks
September 2010 has been designated as “Salmon Month" by the Aquarium of the Bay in San Francisco. To celebrate salmon month, SalmonAid (http://www.salmonaid.org) will be sponsoring a month-long series of exciting events, creating an opportunity to educate the public about what has gone so terribly wrong with California’s once bountiful salmon runs. "Salmon Water Now could not let Salmon Month ...
Sacramento For Democracy - Mon 9:42 p.m. - 12 clicks
We’re beginning to like this Ashburn guy. We like his ballsy-ness. According to On Top Magazine, California Senator Roy Ashburn sent a letter last week to CA Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger asking him to veto the Civil Marriage Religious Freedom Act bill, a pet project of Senator Mark Leno and EQCA. His reason? Ashburn feels the [...] ...
RENWL (Restore Equality Now~West Adams/Los Angeles South) - Mon 8:01 p.m. - 11 clicks
So, yesterday while I was at the Hollywood Bowl experiencing The Chemical Brothers throwdown, the Emmy Awards were being handed out a few miles away. Earlier in the day I made a bunch of predictions about who would win (mostly in the comedy categories). Here's the official list of winners : Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy -- Eric Stonestreet, Modern Family Ou...
The Mad Professah Lectures - Mon 3:46 p.m. - 11 clicks
ALL DETAILS AND LINKS INSIDE: _______________ OB Restaurants, bars and coffee houses promote themselves in new association _______________ Obecians get new pipes, more torn-up streets, and eventually, a better flow _______________ "Terriers" Spent $20 Million in San Diego - Set to Air Sept 8th _______________ COSTCO-Lowe's also wants Midway Postal Center _______________ Point Loma Planners approve...
OB Rag - Mon 9:50 a.m. - 9 clicks
By Dan Aiello California Progress Report In what may turn out to be this year's most memorable legislative fight in Sacramento, Assembly Bill 1998, the single-use plastic bag ban introduced by Democrat Julia Brownley of Santa Monica, is scheduled for a Senate floor vote Monday, just one day before the legislature wraps up. If a legislator managed to miss the television ads placed o...
California Progress Report - Sun 3:23 p.m. - 11 clicks
The Other Half and I saw Steve Carell 's non-bomb summer film, Despicable Me , last Sunday at a matinee at our usual theater in Alhambra. The film is well-animated and is well-voiced by Steve Carell. The story features three ridiculously adorable girls and a story arc that surprisingly heartwarming for a movie where the main character is named Gru and aspires to be the ...
The Mad Professah Lectures - Sun 12:09 p.m. - 12 clicks
The Chron reports : Prison guards shot into a crowd to stop 200 rioting inmates at California's Folsom State Prison, wounding five, authorities said Saturday. Another two inmates were injured by other prisoners during Friday's riot, which began at about 7 p.m. in the main exercise yard and ended after 30 minutes. Prison spokesman Lt. Anthony Gentile said officers fired after other efforts to br...
California Correctional Crisis - Sat 5:05 p.m. - 12 clicks
By Assemblymember Julia Brownley SACRAMENTO – In this Democratic weekly address, Assemblymember Julia Brownley (D-Santa Monica), Chair of the Assembly Committee on Education, reports that California college students are caught between a rock and a hard place; instead voting for a responsible budget, Republican leaders are saying they would rather delay crucial Cal Grants because they want to...
California Progress Report - Sat 10:02 a.m. - 13 clicks
From the CDP: SBAC Using Its 501(c)(4) Status to Hide Donors While Engaging in 527 Advocacy Sacramento – The California Democratic Party today announced it will file an official complaint with the Internal Revenue Service against a group supporting Republican Meg Whitman’s run for governor by waging dishonest attack ads against Jerry Brown. The complaint will allege that the “Small Business Acti...
San Diego Politico - Fri 9:25 p.m. - 9 clicks
An alliance of U.S. truck drivers and environmental, labor, community, faith, civil rights and public health groups cheered the news that a federal judge on Thursday lifted an injunction and upheld the Los Angeles Clean Truck Program in its entirety. The coast-to-coast coalition of more than 125 organizations has advocated for L.A.’s award-winning model, and [...]...
The Democratic Daily - Fri 7:07 p.m. - 10 clicks
I was reading the Bee this morning about the GOP Convention in San Diego over the weekend. The lead story was the GOP finally has a leader in Whitman. Even though some of the birthers and tea party, anti- immigration, Prop 8 activists are not happy with Meg, she seems to have unified the GOP party and will campaign as a team. Campaigning as a team will help the down ticket candidates if s...
California Majority Report - Fri 3:49 p.m. - 12 clicks
The swift and sudden force of the Virginia-based American Chemistry Council's campaign against a bill in the California legislature that would ban single use plastic bans has led the bill's author, environmental champion and Assemblywoman Julia Brownley, to remark "I've never witnessed this kind of opposition to a bill." The deadline for the bill to pass the Senate is Tuesday, which is why the che...
California League of Conservation Voters - Fri 1:25 p.m. - 10 clicks
Anna Paquin , 28, and Stephen Moyer , 40, got married in Malibu, CA Saturday August 21. Paquin, who won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress at the age of 11 in The Piano stars as Sookie Stackhouse in HBO's hit vampire series True Blood (created by Six Feet Under 's Alan Ball). Moyer co-stars in the series as Bill Compton, her vampire love interest. The two have been dating ...
The Mad Professah Lectures - Fri 10:06 a.m. - 13 clicks
From Jim Abbot at the Gay and Lesbian Times : Like Lucille Ball after any number of harebrained schemes gone awry, The San Diego Association of Realtors (SDAR) “has some ‘splainin’ to do” over its recent endorsement in the Sixth District San Diego City Council race of on-the-record mega-hater Lorie Zapf. As reported by SD Citybeat reporter Justin MacLachlan on March 9, 2010, Republican Zapf’s ...
San Diego Politico - Fri 7:49 a.m. - 8 clicks
Ken Mehlman , 44, a longtime Republican political operative, protege of the truly odious Lee Atwater and former chair of the Republican National Committee, Political Director in the George W. Bush White House and campaign manager of the 2004 Bush-Cheney re-election effort has finally acknowledged his homosexuality publicly , after being outed by Mike Rogers years ago and in ...
The Mad Professah Lectures - Thu 12:24 p.m. - 9 clicks
