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Tri-City in Fremont: LGBT Tobacco Prevention Project, "Butt
out of our bars". Funding from the fact that they have funding to
deal with LGBT smoking, who tend to smoke 3 times as much as the
general population. There is a gay bar in San José (plus at least 8
other bars in SJ) where tobacco company reps distribute cigarettes
for 1 pack for $1 at that bar that night. Splash, Caravan, Gringos,
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Residents of San José are encouraged to contact their City
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Tian: Dan Winkler and Thomas Spielbauer were two of the people who
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Drew: Tomorrow 11 AM at De Anza: Ellen Brown speaks. Father
Michael Lapsley, lost an eye and parts of both arms in the
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- 5 PM (635 N. First) -- against US intervention in the Ukraine.
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Tian went to the Fairmont: Atmosphere; Free speech area was
surrounded by a fence with police walking around. Security was a
bummer. Working also with Silicon Valley Bicycle Coalition (~30
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Pete: His brother-in-law is working on the San Benito ban on
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Soil sequestration of carbon: John's preliminary evaluation
of the literature says all the carbon in the topsoil escapes in 10
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Greg Miller, RN, is volunteering to take a carload of folks to
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Russia asking the US government to get out of the Ukraine. US
contributed $5 billion for "democracy promotion" in the
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Proposed: The Green Party of Santa Clara County will send an
expression of concern about US intervention in the Ukraine to Bay
Area congressional representatives, Senators Boxer and Feinstein,
Secretary of State John Kerry, Senators John McCain and Mitch
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Next June 21-22 at UC Santa Barbara -- a specific campus
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