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Coinciding with demonstrations planned worldwide for February 23, Bradley Manning's 1000th day in prison, community members in Santa Cruz gathered at the Town Clock on February 24 to demand justice and humane treatment for the U.S. "whistleblower" soldier.

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Video of seminar held at The Holdout: Radical Mental Health: A seminar addressing mental health issues in radical communities. Topics include: Mental Health as Resistance, Depathologizing & Demedicalizing Mental Health, How to Speak to a Therapist, Systemic Oppression and Trauma, and more!

[Photo: Armed Syrian-Kurdish women of the YPG in liberated Syrian Kurdistan attending the funeral of their fallen comrade, Barjam. In her honor and in honor of all of the martyrs of the revolution, they gave a 21 gun salute. A speaker for the YPG honored the role of women in securing the liberation of the city of Sari-Kaniea and the role of women in the revolution as key to protecting women's rights. Kurdish liberated territory has been under attack by the religious fundamentalists of the U.S. backed "Free Syria Army". Photo taken February 23, 2013. (AFP Photo / Giulio Petrocco)]

With less than transparency, the AFL-CIO just issued a statement endorsing "expanding the nation's pipeline system." Although it did not explicitly endorse the Keystone XL pipeline, the labor federation nevertheless managed to extend its blessing to the project while hiding behind vague generalities. However, the logic of its position is unambiguous: the federation is in favor of extending pipelines in general and without qualification; the Keystone XL is a pipeline. Therefore logic compels us to infer that the federation supports the extension of the Keystone XL pipeline.

The recent announcement that the United States would increase its "non lethal" military aid to Syria's rebels shouldn't be a surprise to anyone. Some speculated that Obama - having been repeatedly proved wrong about the Syria government's stability - would leave Syria in silent humiliation.

Over three hundred members of the Washo Tribe of Nevada and California have signed an official recall petition against the tribe's Chair, Wanda Bachelor. So far, Bachelor and her followers at tribal headquarters have responded to the petition -by simply ignoring it. The "leaders" of the tribe have issued a gag order against the tribal members. Under the rules of this illegal "gag order," tribal members are allowed to attend tribal council meetings, -but aren't allowed to speak out, as part of the proceedings.

January 30, 2013 -- Tri-Valley Communities Against a Radioactive Environment hosted a forum in Livermore with environmental, legal and nuclear experts to discuss a federal proposal to transport plutonium bomb cores from Los Alamos National Lab to Lawrence Livermore National Lab. Video highlights (17:36); Audio (panel) (58:40); Audio (Q&A) (26:14)

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Mapuche leader Mijael Carbone recently escaped malicious prosecution in Chile. Carbone claims that actors within the government of Sebastián Piñera have been working to stymie the Mapuche, who seek to secure the rights to their ancestral lands. Piñera's government is the direct lineage of Augusto Pinochet, has direct ties to Wall Street, and is working to institute new laws with draconian punishment for "Occupy" type protests and vaguely discribed "civil disturbances"

Southside Park Co-housing Common House 434 T St. Sacramento-immediately behind 440 T St., Sacramento 95811.

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Notable House 189 Ellsworth St. San Francisco 94110

At what point might we trigger a permafrost tipping point? New research from the caves of Siberia points to a threshold temperature of just 1.5 degrees celsius. At that temperature we could see large swathes of permafrost across Siberia melting resulting in the release of more than 1,000 gigatons of carbon and methane. This would be a substantial climate feedback resulting in even greater global warming. There would also be substantial damage to natural and human environments and structures.

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High Bridge Arms Gun Store 3185 Mission St (between Powers Ave & Fair Ave) San Francisco, CA

A series of major extreme weather events in the Northern hemisphere including the heatwave in the United States in 2011, the Russian heatwave of 2010, the Pakistani floods of 2010 have now been attributed to a common physical cause. The scientists suggest in a new scientific study that man-made climate change repeatedly disturbs the patterns of atmospheric flow - the atmospheric Rossby waves of the jet stream - around the globe's Northern hemisphere through a subtle resonance mechanism.

Audios are taken from an event by Critical Resistance held at the East Side Cultural Center. The event was organized in celebration of the release of the 19th issue of The Abolitionist.

On Friday, March 1, from 5-6 p.m., Women In Black of Santa Cruz, along with other peace groups, demonstrated at the corner of Cooper and Pacific in downtown Santa Cruz to call for an end to the U.S. drone program and to tell the government and President of the United States, "Ground the drones! Stop killing children and other innocent people!"

On March 1, community members from a number of peace groups joined the Women in Black during their weekly vigil on the corner of Cooper St and Pacific in Downtown Santa Cruz to display the names of some of the children killed by U.S. drone strikes, and to send a strong message to President Obama and the government to "ground the drones," and to, "stop killing children and other innocent people."

SMUD Customer Service Center, 6301 "S" St., just west of 65th. Handicapped parking in front of the building. Plenty of additional parking immediately across S St. The 65th St. light rail station is just on the other side of 65th. You must first sign in on a clipboard titled "Marxist School" with the room name and number for our discussion.

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Room 525 of the County Governmental Center 701 Ocean Street, Santa Cruz

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Locally in Berkeley, Eleanor Walden of the Berkeley Gray Panthers said; "On Feb. 27, at their regular monthly meeting the Gray Panthers distributed postcards addressed to Sen. Diane Feinstein, asking her to stop the massive impending budget cuts scheduled to take effect in March. There were about 40 people at the meeting, many of whom signed and mailed the postcards that very same day."

If the US removed the cap on social security taxes, public spirit and a sense of generational fairness would return to the states. At present, there is a cap at $106K. If you make $4 million, you only pay a social security tax on the first $106K.