National Day of Mourning for Animals In Laboratories (tags)
Animal Rights activists take their message to 3rd St. Promenade in Santa Monica on Memorial Day to protest the use of live animals in experiments at UCLA and Cedars Sinai.
Hunger Strike Against US Space Shield: 6/22/08 Santa Monica, CA (tags)
Worldwide hunger strike - June 22, 2008: Against the US "Star Wars" project and the installation of a US military base in the Czech Republic. Thousands of People will be participating throughout the world and locally on the Santa Monica 3rd Street Promenade.
Big Green Weekend-11th Hour film and Green Party Workshops UCLA (tags)
Green Party Candidate Training and Strategy Sessions at UCLA, Aug. 25-26, Plus a Saturday evening event, starting with dinner at Monsoon Restaurant on the Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica, followed by a special viewing of new environmental blockbuster "The 11th Hour" with Q&A afterward.
On November 24th, 2006, I traveled to the 3rd Street Promenade in Santa Monica, California, to observe and document how people were spending their time on “the busiest shopping day of the year,” the day after Thanksgiving. To narrow down the focus of my documentary, I decided to use photos of people and the bag or bags that they were carrying. The bag a person carries can lead to many assumptions about the person carrying the bag. In some cases, the owner of the bag may not be the person who carries the bag, though I believe the bags shown in Baggage are all carried by their new or longtime owners.
Bush Protests-No MSM Airtime...Cartoon Protests-Tons of MSM Air (tags)
January saw a rash of demonstrations against the Bush Administration in the cold and rain but still there is no Main Stream Media coverage of any of those events.....not one word. News reports of protests over the cartoon of Mohamed, however, are everywhere, every day. The corporate media continues to close it's eyes to the growing dissent and calls for impeachment even by members of Congress. Many thousands of protesters in over 65 cities banged pots and pans and drums and chanted to drown out the State of the Union speech on Jan. 31.
Peace Walk in Santa Monica (tags)
Peace Walk in Santa Monica, California
Protest to Tell Levi's to Respect Worker's Rights! (tags)
What: Join Sweatshop Watch in a festive holiday protest to demand that Levi’s take responsibility for violations of labor rights. When: Saturday, December 17, 2005; 11am sharp-12noon (meet at 10:30am outside of the store) Where: CA Levi’s Store on Santa Monica’s Third Street Promenade 1409 3rd Street Promenade (near Santa Monica Boulevard) Santa Monica, CA 90401
Veteran's Day Weekend at Arlington West (tags)
SANTA MONICA, November 12, about 300 volunteers show up to carry 50 flag draped coffins on a procession from Santa Monica Pier to 3rd Street Promenade.
World Can't Wait Pre-Demos All Along Wilshire Building to Mass Demo at 5pm Today (tags)
Pre-demonstrations erupted at eight corners along the entire length of Wilshire Blvd. today, building to the mass World Can't Wait demonstration at Westwood and Wilshire at 5pm TODAY! BE THERE!
November 2nd World Can't Wait (tags)
On November 2nd, in over 60 cities across the country including high schools and colleges in many of these cities, The World Can’t Wait Drive Out the Bush Regime launches the first national movement in American history dedicated to driving a sitting president out of office.
Join thousands at the 35th Anniversary of Earth Day on Santa Monica's 3rd Street Promenade, Sat, April 16, 10 am - 7 pm. FREE!
Civil Disobedience, Ten arrests in SMC (tags)
In Santa Monica, California, today Thursday, February 19th, six women and four men got arrested in an organized civil disobedience action in support of the grocery striking workers. Other similar actions were taking place at the same time at different locations in Los Angeles. Public figures showed up to support the strikers. The former mayor of Santa Monica was among the people arrested. Also the actress Jamie Lee Curtis joined the march from 3rd Street Promenade to the Vons on Lincoln and Broadway where the civil disobedience action took place.
Gap Protest, August 13, 2000 (tags)
Gap Protest in Santa Monica at 3rd Street Promenade