A Local Surfing History & Tales of the Sunset Surfers – Thursday, July 17
OCEAN BEACH, CA. The OB Historical Society will be presenting a slide show of historical photographs and stories of local…
Posted in: OB Time Machine, Ocean Beach
The Wedding Crashers
A Short Till-Death-Do-Us-Part History of Bush’s Wars By Tom Engelhardt / TomDispatch / July 14, 2008 It was a tribal…
Posted in: Media, War and Peace
UC San Diego medical staffers strike, defying judge
SEE below for info from AFSCME about the strike. July 14, 2008 SAN DIEGO – About 600 union workers at…
ACLU: Million on Terrorist Watch List
by Michael Grabell / July 14, 2008 There won’t be any balloons dropping from the ceiling to mark this milestone….
Posted in: Civil Rights
Tagged: FBI, terrorism
It’s the Oil, stupid!
By Noam Chomsky / July 8, 2008 The deal just taking shape between Iraq’s Oil Ministry and four Western oil…
Posted in: Energy, War and Peace
Tagged: BP
Floridians Demostrate Against High Price of Gas
Protest is part of MoveOn.org’s National Day of Action NAPLES, FL. A couple dozen Southwest Florida residents lined the sidewalk…
Posted in: Civil Rights, Energy, Organizing
Karl Rove Has Broken the Law and Should Be Arrested
Karl Rove has stiffed the Judiciary sub-committee by not showing up and not testifying today, Thursday, July 10. He has…
Posted in: Politics
Cal FIRE Blames SDG&E for San Diego’s October Wildfires
Findings on wildfires implicate Cox lines, too Go here for Cal Fire’s Report Go here for our OB Rag blog…
Posted in: Environment, San Diego
While American Consumers Grumble About Fuel Costs, the Rest of the World Protests
Staff July 9, 2008 0 Comments on While American Consumers Grumble About Fuel Costs, the Rest of the World Protests
Protests against high fuel costs in other parts of the world have not gone away. Mainstream media continue to ignore,…
Posted in: Civil Disobedience, Civil Rights, Energy, Labor, Organizing, World News
OB Rag blog gets a kind mention in the Reader’s blog section
Editor: Tito Z – who used to live in OB and was part of OB Grassroots Organization (OBGO) just today…
Posted in: Ocean Beach
Domestic Spying Quietly Goes On
NSA faces new limits, but surveillance thrives By Bradley Olson / Sun reporter / July 7, 2008 With Congress on…
Posted in: Civil Rights
Tagged: Congress, FBI
Secret report: biofuel caused food crisis
Internal World Bank study delivers blow to plant energy drive ALSO: See Update at end of this article by Aditya…
Posted in: Energy, Environment, World News
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