moe. CD Release Party @ Hiro Ballroom - 01.23.12
moe. celebrated the release of What Happened to the La Las with autographs, aerialists … Tue Jan 24, 2012 0
The HIGH TIMES Medical Cannabis Cup Returns to the Bay Area
HIGH TIMES is heading back to the Bay Area for the third year in a row! The HT Medical Cannabis Cup …
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Oakland, California Police Riot: The Whole World is Watching
Sat Oct 29, 2011
Call it a tale of two California cities: San Francisco and Oakland. While calm reigned at the Occupy encampment in San Francisco, a sense of crisis enveloped the encampment in Oakland. The difference: just one day. Oakland – long known for its brutal police force – launched an unprovoked attack on demonstrators lawfully exercising their First Amendment rights as guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution. Tear gas and rubber bullets were fired at crowds on the 18th day of a raucous protest movement that started slowly on October 10, 2011 in solidarity with Occupy Wall Street and that grew quickly into a force of its own. The police attack shifted global attention away from Zuccotti Park in Lower Manhattan to Frank H. Ogawa Plaza in the heart of Oakland.
In hindsight, the violent confrontation looked inevitable, given a police department with a history of rioting, and given provocative slogans by demonstrators such as “Eat the Rich,” and …READ MORE
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COMRADE STEW ALBERT (1939-2006)
Mon Feb 6, 2006
Stew Albert seemed like one of those rare individuals who could survive anything. For years, I thought that he'd go on living, if not forever then until old age. He beat the Hepatitis C virus that threatened to destroy him, and he'd triumphed over "Dr. Doom," as he liked to call his own life-long foe and nemesis, many a time.
I met Stew in New York in 1970, and I assumed California had given birth to him. He looked like a Californian—blond, curly haired and muscular, and when he explained that he came from Brooklyn I was surprised. He embodied the best of the East Coast and the best of the West Coast, and he was as comfortable smoking a joint as he was storming a barricades.
In the fall of 1970, we flew—as part of a wild Yippie delegation—to Algiers, where Eldridge Cleaver had persuaded the government to offer political sanctuary to LSD apostle Timothy Leary. The idea was to create an international brotherhood and sisterhood …READ MOREtags: 4 « add a comment
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