Recall Gavin Newsom - YES on the recall
Community Rallies in Santa Barbara in Solidarity with Inmate Firefighters (tags)
Could the brave firefighter who risked life and limb to save your home have been paid only $1 per hour to do it? Up and down the state of California, on the front lines of deadly wildfires, thousands of prison inmates employed through the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation’s California Conservation Corps (CCC) program face the blazing heat and choking smoke for, on average, $2 per day plus $1 per hour of work. As southern California faces a new wave of inferno, at least one community gathered for a rally to call attention to these overlooked firefighters
Putting Out Fires Should Be Number 1 National Priority (tags)
The worst fires in our history to plague the nation are occurring now.
Queer-Oriented Obelisk Store Shut Down by Hellish Fire (tags)
Obelisk Bookstore, a major Queer-oriented business on University Avenue in Hillcrest, burned on Wednesday, July 6. Three other businesses in the building were burned out, as were 15 apartments on the second and third floors. Miraculously, none of the residents were injured because none of them were home at the time. Leo E. Laurence, J.D., associate editor of Zenger's Newsmagazine and a former volunteer firefighter in Tijuana, got photos of firefighters containing the blaze (they weren't able to save the Obelisk building but WERE miraculously able to keep the fire from spreading to the rest of the block), the true extent of the damage (visible only from the alley behind the building) and the condition of Obelisk's stock after the fire.
BTL:Supreme Court Ruling in New Haven Reverse Discrimination Case May Erode Civil Rights A (tags)
BETWEEN THE LINES Syndicated Radio Newsmagazine
23rd Senate District Candidate Fran Pavley Sweeps Fire Fighter Endorsements (tags)
Firefighters support Fran Pavley over Lloyd Levine.
Firefighter Shortage In Orange County, etc (tags)
THe World Socialist Website, 10/29/07, has more on the lack of funding for firefighters as a cause of the inability to stop the fires in Southern California..
Union Members Help Victims of California Fires (tags)
Saturday, October 27, 2007 : Throughout Southern California, central labor councils and union locals are mobilizing to make sure their union brothers and sisters affected by the devastating fires receive all the help they need to get back on their feet. At least 18,000 homes have been destroyed and 14 people killed in the 16 blazes that have ravaged 500,000 acres?an area about twice the size of New York City?over the past six days.
Let Malibu Burn: A political history of the Fire Coast Mike Davis (tags)
Fire in Malibu has a relentless, staccato rhythm. The rugged coastline is scourged by a large fire, on average, every two and a half years, and at least once a decade a blaze in the chaparral grows into a terrifying firestorm consuming hundreds of homes in an inexorable march across the mountains to the sea. In one week last month, 10 homes and 14,000 acres of brush went up in smoke.
9/11 FIREFIGHTERS CONDEMN GHOULIANI (tags)
In addition to the crimes of Ghouliani listed by 9/11 firefighters below, Ghouliani is best remembered by Muslims for his racial scapegoating and as the defender of the 1999 police martyrdom of Amadou Diallo on his doorstep in a hail of 41 bullets.
Photos - Firefighters demonstration in Paris [21nov2006] (tags)
- Firefighters demonstration in Paris [21nov2006]
Wildfire Suspect Charged With Arson, Murder (tags)
I smell a patsy. What is undeniable to anyone with a hint of intelligence, integrity, and an awareness of the pattern of arsons in our national forests, a pattern that asserted itself with authority in the wake of the salvage rider (allowing timber companies to benefit hugely from burnt, sometimes healthy trees), is that there is a coordinated, albeit perhaps loosely, effort to maintain a salvage logging profit for these companies. What you can pretty much count on is that the investigation of Raymond Oyler will not lead to any such thing, which is why I call him a patsy.
At the Firemen's Memorial in Manhattan on September 11, 2006, there was a huge memorial service for the firefighters who lost their lives at the World Trade Center in 2001.
Photos from Friday's Anti-Arrnuld Protest (tags)
About 150 people protested the current governor at a fundraiser in Beverly Hills on Friday.
Video from Protest at Gov Fundraiser (tags)
About 150 people protested the current governor at a fundraiser in Beverly Hills today.
Wed. 5/25: Thousands of Teachers, Parents, Students Rally to Stop Schwazenegger (tags)
WHAT: The Los Angeles rally is timed to coincide with another huge rally at the Capitol in Sacramento protests Governor Schwazenegger's broken promises tp to schools, his attacks on working people and his special election petition campaign that would waste $80 millon. There will be a special tribute to labor leader Miguel Contreras, who past away earlier this month. WHEN: Wednesday, May 25 from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. WHERE: Pershing Square in downtown Los Angeles (6th and Olive St.)
Wed. 3/16 5pm: Nurses, teachers, & firefighters to protest Gov's LA fundraiser (tags)
Hundreds of the nurses, teachers, students and firefighters will gather outside Gov.'s fundraiser at Century Plaza Hotel to protest Governor Schwarzenegger's cash-register politics WHEN: 5 pm, Wednesday, March 16th WHERE: Westin Century Plaza Hotel 2025 Avenue of the Stars
State firefighters rejected air drop request (tags)
tate firefighters rejected air drop request for Cedar Fire because of night regulations
feds withhold crucial wtc evidence (tags)
by chris bollyn
NY FIREMAN: THERE WERE 'BOMBS IN THE BUILDING' (tags)
'BOMBS IN THE BUILDING'
Firefighters standby to set up padding for climbers (tags)
Firefighters standbye as a climber works on a banner hang in the back ground, at a local hotel in downtown L.A. this past Monday. The action, and following related photos, were concerning corporate control of our elected officials. The banner, once dropped, had many corporate logos on an American Flag reading "Sold." More information can be found on the websight www.soldoutusa.com.
Firefighters standby to set up padding for climbers (tags)
Firefighters standbye as a climber works on a banner hang in the back ground, at a local hotel in downtown L.A. this past Monday. The action, and following related photos, were concerning corporate control of our elected officials. The banner, once dropped, had many corporate logos on an American Flag reading "Sold." More information can be found on the websight www.soldoutusa.com.