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Domestic Workers Take To The Streets To Demand Rights

HuffingtonPost.com | Kathleen Miles | Posted 03.07.2013 | Los Angeles

LOS ANGELES -- Over a hundred domestic workers and their supporters banged on pots and pans in front of the state building in downtown LA Thursday to ...

Lawmaker Seeks To Guarantee Transgender Student Rights

AP | LISA LEFF | Posted 03.04.2013 | Gay Voices

SAN FRANCISCO -- A California lawmaker has introduced legislation aimed at guaranteeing transgender students the right to use public school restrooms ...

Lawmaker Files Transgender Bathroom Rights For Students

AP | Posted 03.04.2013 | Gay Voices

SAN FRANCISCO -- A California lawmaker has introduced legislation aimed at guaranteeing that transgender students have the right to use public school ...

Elise Foley

California Governor Vetoes Pro-Immigrant Bill

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 10.01.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- California Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed a bill late Sunday to make California the "anti-Arizona" on immigration enforcement, after a long fig...

Elise Foley

California Legislature Votes To Severely Limit Cooperation With Immigration Program

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 08.24.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- A bill that would drastically reduce California's participation in a key immigration enforcement program passed through the state Assemb...

Elise Foley

LA Mayor Calls For Obama To Follow California's Lead On Immigration

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 08.09.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa on Wednesday called for California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) to sign a bill that would defy a key Obam...

Cristina Costantini

D.C. Passes Bill To Restrict Federal Immigration Enforcement

HuffingtonPost.com | Cristina Costantini | Posted 07.10.2012 | Latino Voices

WASHINGTON -- As groups around the country rally this week against the Secure Communities immigration enforcement program, the District of Columbia ap...

California's Landmark Medical Marijuana Bill Put On Hold

Carly Schwartz | Posted 06.27.2012 | San Francisco

California Assemblyman Tom Ammiano (D-San Francisco) has withdrawn from consideration a landmark bill that would have created a statewide system for r...

Elise Foley

California Lawmakers Move Forward With Fight Against Immigration Enforcement

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 06.13.2012 | Politics

Opponents of the controversial immigration enforcement program Secure Communities won a small but significant victory on Tuesday when a California Sta...

Carly Schwartz

Great News For California Marijuana Supporters

HuffingtonPost.com | Carly Schwartz | Posted 06.05.2012 | San Francisco

SAN FRANCISCO -- A measure that would provide a significant boost to California's medical marijuana industry cleared a major hurdle Thursday in the fa...

Lucia Graves

How Legalizing Pot Could Reduce The Federal Deficit

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 04.20.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- The federal government could save as much $13.7 billion annually if it were to legalize marijuana, according to a paper by Harvard econo...

Lucia Graves

Lawmakers In 5 States Tell Feds To Back Off Medical Marijuana

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 04.02.2012 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- Elected lawmakers in five states have a message for the federal government: Don't interfere with state medical marijuana laws. In an ...

San Francisco Lawmaker Fights To Save The Medical Marijuana Industry

| Posted 04.29.2012 | San Francisco

This article comes to us courtesy of SF Weekly's The Snitch. By Chris Roberts Call it an industry, call it a movement, call it a gigantic scam. ...

Lucia Graves

U.S. Attorney: Obama Administration Not Implicated In California Medical Marijuana Crackdown

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 12.26.2011 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- U.S. attorneys have a message for California's medical marijuana advocates: Don't blame Barack Obama. After it was announced that the cr...

Robin Wilkey

'YES WE CANNABIS': Marijuana Advocates Protest Obama's Visit To San Francisco

HuffingtonPost.com | Robin Wilkey | Posted 12.25.2011 | San Francisco

SAN FRANCISCO -- Hundreds of marijuana advocates gathered in downtown San Francisco Tuesday to protest recent federal crackdowns on California's medic...

San Francisco Mayor's Race 2011, AKA Jonestown 2011

Nato Green | Posted 12.20.2011 | San Francisco
Nato Green

It's hard to get too indignant about Obama when in SF, we can't elect a progressive mayor blindfolded with our hands tied behind our backs by a feminist dominatrix earning a living wage in a solar-powered basement dungeon.

'A 1930s-Era Reefer Madness Reaction'

AP | Posted 12.20.2011 | San Francisco

Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Two California lawmakers want to know why the Obama administration is cracking down on the state's medical m...

Landmark Anti-Gay Bullying Measure Passes California State Senate

Aaron Sankin | Posted 11.02.2011 | San Francisco

On Friday, the California State Senate approved Seth's Law (AB 9), a bill designed to crack down on the harassment of LGBT students in the state's sch...

A Progressive Decade in the Balance

Chris Daly | Posted 09.11.2011 | San Francisco
Chris Daly

The struggle for the soul of San Francisco hit a crescendo in the Mission District with renters, artists, and non-profits pushing back against the forces of displacement. Over the next decade, the City would witness a renaissance of progressive reforms.

Gay History Bill Headed To California Governor

AP | JUDY LIN | Posted 09.04.2011 | Los Angeles

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California lawmakers on Tuesday sent the governor a bill that would make the state the first requiring public schools to in...

Warning: ICE Fishing Dragnet in Effect

Jorge-Mario Cabrera | Posted 08.15.2011 | Los Angeles
Jorge-Mario Cabrera

For immigrants, both documented and undocumented, arrest even without imprisonment can lead to being taken away from loved ones through deportation. We have to ask ourselves: what is being done to our communities?

ReThinking The Times of Harvey Milk: You Earned Your Medal, and a Lot More

Jonathan Kim | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Jonathan Kim

Obama is awarding a posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom -- the nation's highest civilian honor -- to Harvey Milk.

Taxing THC: Turning Old New York into New New Amsterdam

Warren Holstein | Posted 05.25.2011 | Comedy
Warren Holstein

Bollocks! How is that California, the crossroads of implants, spray tans and superficiality, has a leg up on the Empire State, on the possible legalization and taxation of Cannabis sativa?

Watch: 5 Benefits To Legal Weed (& The 1 Big Thing Stopping It)

Lee Stranahan | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Lee Stranahan

Judge Jim Gray isn't the bleary-eyed stereotype of an advocate for the decriminalization of marijuana. Gray, who has never tried the drug, is a former attorney in the Navy JAG Corps, and a Judge in conservative Orange Country, CA.

States Selling Addiction: "Why Not? We Need the Money!"

Stanton Peele | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Stanton Peele

Our financial and emotional needs now dictate that state governments sedate their citizens, while picking their pockets, from California to Kansas to the Mid-Atlantic.