On July 28, 2007, the Minutemen border vigilantes held a meeting in Larkspur, California, to organize a Marin County chapter. Local immigrant rights activists met them with the message that racists are not welcome in our county.
Animal rights activists outside the entrance to Six Flags Discovery Kingdom amusement park in Vallejo, California, protest the park's abuse of elephants and demand that the animals be retired to a Northern California sanctuary where they may roam freely for the remainder of their lives.
San Francisco, February 17, 2008. Excerpts from a teach-in on the environmental and humanitarian crimes of Chevron Corporation, held in preparation for nonviolent direct action at the Chevron refinery in Richmond, California, on March 15, 2008.
June 8, 2007. In solidarity with protestors in Germnay opposing the G8 meetings there, activists in San Francisco hold an anti-G8 ride through the City.
Anti-torture activists demonstrate and block traffic in San Francisco, demanding an end to U.S. torture and the closure of the illegal detention center at Guantanamo Bay.
Ft. Huachuca, AZ, is where U.S. military interrogators are trained and where the "interrogation" manuals for the infamous School of the Americas were produced. On Nov. 18, 2007, over 300 peace and anti-torture activists demonstrated at the fort.
Feb. 12, 2008. Angered by a letter from the Berkeley, California city council stating that Marine recruiters were not welcome in that city, right-wing supporters of the war in Iraq stage a demonstration across from the Berkeley city hall. Code Pink, The World Can't Wait and other anti-war organizations and individuals held a camp-in the night before and were on hand to greet the demonstrators.