Please support centrist Sanders; anyone else running will just keep us forever in bondage to the .1% richest.

<center style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Victory for Public Financing of Campaigns in Maine and Seattle!...

A Code Blue event is a countywide action taking place at homeless shelter locations. The primary activity conducted during Code Blue is an increase in the numbers of homeless shelter beds available....

News about the Zapatistas, Tlatlaya Massacre and C.A. Migrants

We hope you’ll join us Tuesday to celebrate the EZLN’s 32nd anniversary and join in the discussion about community and autonomy.
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Ah yes, we humans are nothing if not irrational. What we could do, though, is put on the net interviews with people from places like Mendocino County, where--about a decade ago--the one of the three...

By: Gaspar Morquecho
Wars come from afar Some 18 years ago, in June 1997 –when the Moño Colorado [1] was very popular and Zedillo was governing the country–, the Zapatista rebel chief presented...

Barry: Thank you for filling in the citation for me. I request a little indulgence from wacco subscribers; I've just reduced my hours at Camp Michela from 112/week to 84 and have been able to...

wacco member's note: This is by some misogynous "progressive" (except where his own privilege is concerned) man who insists on referring to "Sanders" and "Hillary." So I've substituted Clinton in...

https://act.amnestyusa.org/ea-action/action?ea.client.id=1839&ea.campaign.id=42755&ea.tracking.id=Country_SaudiArabia~MessagingCategory_DeathPenalty&ac=W1510EAIAR1&ea.url.id=467580

Drugged, beaten and detained by police -- this was the fate of activist Elena Urlaeva who dared to document state-sponsored forced labour in the cotton fields of Uzbekistan this May.
In Uzbekistan,...

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https://www.facebook.com/events/404985053032696/

Also, see Rebecca Chalker's excellent "A Woman's Book of Choices"...

Remember, one thing that enabled Hitler's rise to power was that the intelligentsia kept laughing about him.
Here's the link:...

Do’s:
Keep a journal. Where you searched, who you talked with, when you did your search. Where you search. What you've been told by whom? etc. (Who what when where why and how). Where have the...

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Watch all 12 "Big Picture" videos and share them on social media.

This will help determine which issues we (Move On)...

On Tuesday, June 2nd, those of us who can vote are being asked to say Yes or No to a another regressive sales tax whose primary purpose is to go to law enforcement. I'm urging a NO vote. If the...

You can add me to your list of recruits.

I would love to help stop the fast track to a global economic depression; I'd need to share gas cost with at least one other.

We’ve stopped Fast Track legislation before and we can do so again. ...

I assumed senators' calls would carry some weight with the judge, but according to Stop FBI, "Signs should say, 'Free Rasmea Odeh' or 'No prison, no deportation for Rasmea Odeh'." "We are not making...

There will be a demonstration on behalf of Rasmeah Odeh on Thursday, March 12, from 9-10 A.M., at Fourth St. and Santa Rosa Ave. If you can, please bring a sign saying, e.g., "Phone your Senators:...

NYCGA.NET is a good link for the original, central US organization; basically, the goal is to get money out of politics.

We've always been for, and have made some progress in (witness, e.g., the safe parking program) affordable housing for everyone. I and some others in the group say socialism is the way to get...

Parents and student compañer@s of the 4 murdered and 42 disappeared Ayotzinapa students continue struggling to clarify what really happened on September 26 and 27. Several of the parents are in...

Creekside rehabilitation and convalescent hospital in Santa Rosa has a lot of elderly people stuck in bed nearly all day and night. What do you suppose that does to their muscle tonus and moods? If...

When a police force arrests 43 students and hands them over to organized crime, which kill them as a “lesson” [the attack to which "Ayotzinapa" refers, in the previous post], the police work for a...

We will meet at 8:15 am tomorrow (Tuesday, Nov 4) at 575 Administration Drive in Santa Rosa. We'll begin by standing outside the Supervisors' offices with tombstones representing the homeless who...

The Task Force for the Homeless will be distributing heavy and lightweight jackets, outdoor vests, sweaters, sweatshirts, hats, scarves, new socks & underwear, sleeping bags, backpacks, tents &...

We've gotten the Safe Parking Program started. Eventually, capitalism will be overthrown, and Occupy will have been an important part of that.

Thousands of families in the US, many including children, lost their homes through fraud--either in the foreclosure process itself or through dishonest practices leading them to be saddled with...

Ravitch has done wrong not only by Andy Lopez and the womon Carrillo harassed but by both of the people Santa Rosa police sergeant Rich Celli has killed on duty. The family of the second victim had...

There really is a painful condition that involves a sort of compulsive defiance for the sake of defiance--normal and necessary in completing the developmental task of adolescent differentiation, kind...

Thyroid hormone is the crucial regulator of all the tissue-specific differentiation programmes during development and appropriate levels are critically important for the coordination of developmental...

https://www.waccobb.net/forums/waccobb/keep90days/2014-02-27_14-44-14.pngA while back--a year or so ago, I think--someone asked about the usefulness of something being marketed as water with its...

Initially, I said Sebastopol would do well to fund libraries, but you make a good point (for a "dummy"!--I also got your response by email; BTW, who's your ventriloquist?) Besides making good...

"...we will be running warming stations the next couple of nights for the homeless out on the streets. We are very worried about the temperature drop, so we will be opening Homeless Services Center...

If you know any teenagers, show them and/or their parent(s) this link:
https://www.alternet.org/culture/death-choking-game?page=0%2C4&akid=11037.295952.TR3qbD&rd=1&src=newsletter909255&t=6

John, Tom, George, Josiah, Benjamin, Caesar and the rest* are looking at Dan Cathy's post and laughing: "No guarantees for same-sex couples, no franchise for Africans or women, no guards against...

Alas, it's not easy being an abolitionist. (Say, you know who wrote "Amazing Grace"? A former slaver.)

Yes, if chocolate, coffee, sugar, etc., is fair trade, it will definitely say so on the...

Sign a pledge here

https://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/155/343/985/

to buy only fair-trade chocolate. For anyone not familiar with the situation (as I wasn't until recently--and then I...

Read One at a Time: A Week in an American Animal Shelter by Diane Leigh and Marilee Geyer, and then, if you have a heart at all, I can't believe you would either intentionally cause more cats or dogs...

1. The new nonprofit Pet Food Stamps: This New York-based organization is not affiliated with the government, and runs completely on donations, providing free pet food to families who can prove...

Longshore Workers Union Quits the AFL-CIO
By Mark Brenner in AlterNet

Breakup offers the Longshore workers a chance to stand for principles over bureaucratic decorum.
September 2, 2013 |...

I question the legality of arresting someone for a traffic violation on private property; that may help in court. However, my experience with the Sebastopol cops has been good: They brought one of...

Thought the US government could never disgrace itself any worse, once it had been headed by Ronald Reagan? Well, it turns out it's too soon to take those big-red maple leaves off your luggage; the...

Before her shift one day, Wal-Mart employee Carla Cheney saw a man leave his dog in the hot car while he went shopping. She simply told him he shouldn't do that, and that she would call the police if...

Mia: 6-year-4-month-old Alaskan Malamute, female, 65 lb., grey with white; microchip #985121013110119.
Last seen 5/1, Main St. near Snyder Ln./Santa Rosa 95409. If you think you've seen this dog,...

Please read One at a Time: A Week in an American Animal Shelter and then brainstorm other ways of supplementing your income. People of any species cannot be owned, bought or sold; and, if you think...

Bubba: 12-year-old, 13-lb., black, male cat, last seen 3/25 on Benson Ln. at Loretto in Cotati 94931. Seen this cat? Please phone 1-888-466-3242.

Oswald: 5-month-old, 12-lb., rust-colored male corgi, microchip # 985112000525755; last seen 3/28 on Middle Rincon Rd. at Montecito in Santa Rosa 95409. If you think you've seen this dog:...

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<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:OfficeDocumentSettings> <o:AllowPNG/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings> </xml><![endif]--> Cooper: 6-year-old, tan & white, 38-lb., male, Pembroke Welsh Corgi dog;...