The crisis in Sudan is the biggest and most immediate human rights concern in the world right now. But since Arabs (and not Israelis) are the perpetrators, the crisis is barely being noted by human rights activists. This situation should not be allowed to continue unabated.

Hundreds of house parties took place in the US to discuss Michael Moore's new documentary film, "Farenheit 9/11", on Monday evening, June 28.

Lots of successful forest watch and legal work have the big saws quiet in all but a few parts of the area. But danger is on the horizon.

Front gate of Vandenberg Air Force Base
1:00 pm to 3:00 pm
July 31

Yadira and I spoke on Monday night, June 28, about the upcoming Pilgrimage Supporting Immigrants and Farm Workers. (5 megabytes / 22 minutes)

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Starting Tuesday June 29, a series of marches and rallies against INS intimidation and for legalization and union rights-- launched by the United Farm Workers Union and joined by the whole labor movement-- will sweep through immigrant communities of the Salinas, Pajaro, San Benito and south Santa Clara valleys.

The campaign promises to be bigger and broader than anything since the historic strike movements of the 1970s. If successful, this may be a turning point in the long struggle for union rights for 50,000 unorganized immigrant workers in the fields and packing sheds of the Central Coast.

The campaign begins with a five-day march that begins Tuesday, June 29, at 8 AM at the King City Park. On Tuesday evening marchers will rally at Patriot Park in Greenfield after marching through the town. Marches and rallies will follow each day, moving north to Soledad, Gonzalez, Chualar and arriving in Salinas on Saturday. A similar campaign will move through towns to the north of Salinas during the following week, arriving again in Salinas on Sunday July 11.

Audio: Yadira Speaks About the June 29 - July 3 Pilgrimage Supporting Immigrants and Farm Workers

[ United Farm Workers I Monterey Bay Central Labor Council I Take Action for AgJobs S.1645 ]

After two rounds of voting, virtually unknown Green apparatchik David Cobb barely won the Green Party presidential nomination in Milwaukee

Santa Cruz Guerilla Drive-In Presents Nine to Five

"Masters of Terror" is available on the Internet Archive as part of this pathbreaking video documentary collection!