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FilAm Students Supporting UC Demonstration

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FilAm Students Supporting UC Demonstration

By Erin Pangilinan

Earlier this fall, students, staff, and faculty across the University of California demonstrated against the 32% tuition fee hikes. What was intended as peaceful protests for some in the recent weeks, ended not only in arrests--but also beating, tasering, and shooting of students by police and demonstrators at various campuses, including UC Berkeley, UCLA, UC Santa Cruz, and UC Davis.


Stop the Governor's Illegal Budget Cuts to HIV/AIDS

Thousands of protestors joined Pacifika Voice and APAforProgress this evening at Pershing Square, Downtown Los Angeles at the HIV/AIDS Protest Vigil & March.  Progressive allies from the AIDS Healthcare Foundation, AIDS Project Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Commission on HIV, and Bienestar rallied by our side to demand Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to take back a line-item veto he made on July 28th, 2009.  


Prop 8 is Upheld and 18k Marriages Stand

Speaking as a legally gay married person, the fact that my marriage still stands doesn't mean sh*t to me unless everyone else can be married too. The principle of inequality has been upheld in the state and this cannot continue.

We have a war to win now, the first step is today, get to the streets and PROTEST!: www.dayofdecision.org


From an Anti-Palin rally in Alaska

this was forwarded to me from a friend:
Subject: Pics of Biggest Rally in AK history... anti-Palin
Psssst...pass it on!