[Sfbay-news] SF Bay Area IMC: News for February 3, 2005

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WEEKLY INDYMEDIA UPDATE, FEBRUARY 3, 2005
http://www.indybay.org/

Current featured news for the week of Thursday, February 3:

STREETLEVEL TV'S ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY PARTY
http://www.indybay.org/news/2005/01/1715803.php
Sunday, February 6th, 8pm @ Artist's Television Access
992 Valencia St. (at 21st) SF
Featured Episodes: The Year that Was: 2004, Local Solidarity with Tsunami Survivors, Pro-Woman, Pro-Choice, IrRESISTable - the 3rd annual hip-hop extravaganza, La Colectiva de Mujeres!, and much more!

MUNI FARE HIKE PROTEST
http://indybay.org/news/2005/01/1718847.php
A rally called by the Coalition for Transit Justice was held Monday on the steps of San Francisco City Hall to protest a proposed MUNI fare hike. The current fare of $1.25 would be raised to $1.50, placing more of the burden on the poor working class of the city.

OAKLAND DISCUSSES POSSIBLE USE OF HERBICIDES
http://www.indybay.org/archives/archive_by_id.php?id=2815&category_id=14
A town hall meeting was held on Wednesday, Jan. 26th, to discuss the use of herbicides in wildfire prevention on city-owned property in the Oakland
hills. East Bay Pesticide Alert and Stop Toxic Trespass attended and demanded "non-toxic methods only" at the meeting, which was organized by the Wildlife Prevention Assessment District and Oakland Councilwoman Jean Quanon.

OAKLAND BRINGS CURFEW TO JERRY BROWN'S HOME
http://www.indybay.org/archives/archive_by_id.php?id=2814&category_id=13
Critical Resistance and All of Us or None held a protest to cite Oakland mayor Jerry Brown at his loft apartment on Jan. 26th for harassing and scapegoating the people of Oakland. The protest gathered from 9:30pm to 10:30pm outside the former Sears Building at 27th Street and Telegraph in Oakland. Brown's latest idea is to impose a curfew on probationers and
parolees -- arresting them if they leave their homes between 10pm and 6am.

HELP WE'RE RUNNING OUT OF LOGS
http://www.indybay.org/news/2005/01/1717273.php
The Maxxam-controlled Pacific Lumber Company (PL) is threatening bankruptcy in an effort to pressure Governor Schwarzenegger to allow logging in areas already chronically damaged by years of over cutting.

PANEL INCLUDING WARD CHURCHILL CANCELLED IN NYC
http://www.indybay.org/news/2005/02/1719178.php
University of Colorado Boulder Professor and longtime American Indian activist Ward Churchill has come under increasing criticism recently because of his view of why the September 11th events happened and could occur
again. Prof. Churchill was scheduled to speak at Hamilton College in New York state this Thursday, and family members of people who died in the 9/11
incidents have been protesting his right to speak.

REPORTERS IN HAITI UNDER ATTACK
http://www.indybay.org/international/haiti/
Journalist Abdias Jean of Miami radio station WKAT 1360 was killed by "security" forces in Village de Dieu during a police sweep of that populist district on Friday, January 14. 

IRAQ'S FLAWED ELECTION
http://www.indybay.org/international/iraq/
Bombs and mortar attacks faced many Iraqis who went to the polls Sunday. Baghdad bore the brunt and 13 people were killed in eight suicide attacks launched in rapid succession at voter queues.

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