Tacoma SDS

The corporation that runs the federal immigration detention center on Tacoma’s Tideflats plans to expand the facility’s capacity by 50 percent.

When completed, the Northwest Detention Center should be able to hold up to 1,500 immigrants in federal custody.

A group of San Francisco residents called The Presidential Memorial Commission of San Francisco are gathering signatures for an initiative to be put on the November ballot. The Initiative will ask to rename Oceanside Water Pollution Control Plant the George W Bush Sewage Plant.

The group has managed to collect 8,500 signatures so far (15,000 are needed for an initiative). The initiative is going to read: Should The City And County of San Francisco Rename The Oceanside Water Pollution Control Plant the George W Bush Sewage Plant?

Hundreds injured in South Korea beef protests
By HYUNG-JIN KIM

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Protesters fought riot police early Sunday at a rally opposing the resumption of American beef imports to South Korea, hours after the chief U.S. diplomat vouched for the health of U.S. cattle. An estimated 15,000 people — some wielding steel pipes and hurling stones at police — demonstrated in Seoul on Saturday night, demanding the government rescind its decision to lift a ban on U.S. beef imports.

Many people are gathering in Tokyo, Japan and beginning to heading up to the Northern-most island of Hokkaido where the G8 Summit will be held July 7-9th. Today, a protest march looped around the crowded Shinjuku area in the rain. Nearly as many police surrounded the march, creating a line in the middle of the street to keep protestors in line.

In a few days, most protestors will move to Sapporo for a large march on July 5th and then onto the remote Lake Toya for protests closer to the hotel hosting the G8 Summit.

3 separate incendiary devices ignited overnight to completely destroy the offices of the Diablo Valley College police.

In a bold move against the growing police state, anonymous individuals in Pleasant Hill, California, have set fire to the offices of the Diablo Valley College police department.
The fire was first reported at 2:25 am. Four engines, one truck and about 20 firefighters later and the blaze was finally put out, but not after completely destroying the lobby of the building, and making the structure unusable.

BAINBRIDGE ISLAND – It's a Bainbridge High School tradition for seniors to spray paint local streets, but this year many are saying they went too far.

Officers went to work Wednesday to find severe damage to a total of eight police vehicles, plus the police chief's patrol car was hit at his house, said Deputy Chief Mark Duncan. The cars had their tires slashed and were tagged with graffiti, including the police chief’s car. Some appeared to have buckets of paint splattered on them. The vandalism is believed to have occurred between 2 a.m. and 3 a.m. Wednesday.

AUSTIN (AP) — Arson is suspected in a fire that swept through the historic Texas governor's mansion early Sunday, leaving much of the 152-year-old building charred and severely damaged, the state fire marshal said.

No one was believed to be inside when the fire started at the home, whose roof buckled because of the flames and the massive amount of water used to put them out. Officials said there is no evidence any direct threat was intended to Gov. Rick Perry, who is out of the country with his wife, Anita.

Grand Rapids, MI (06/06/2008)- Starbucks terminated a barista active in the IWW Starbucks Workers Union today as part of its ongoing effort to combat a growing movement of employees pushing for a living wage and secure work hours. The barista, Cole Dorsey, was fired after two years of service while he was coordinating a union recruitment drive at Starbucks stores in Grand Rapids. Starbucks' pretext for the illegal anti-union firing was that Dorsey was guilty of some months-old attendance infractions.

Local citizens and environmentalists in Balandra, located outside the city of La Paz, have gathered over 18,000 signatures to halt the development of the untouched beach town.

The area has been the target of ambitious tourist developers for years hoping to emulate other successful Mexican tourist destinations such as Cancun and Cabo San Lucas. The developer’s interest, led by the son of a former state governor of Veracruz, included an elaborate hotel and golf course scheme.

Flaum Appetizing, a kosher food distributor, terminated 20 IWW members last week. The IWW had a strong presence at Flaum, with about two-thirds of the warehouse being union members. Workers had been struggling for respect from the boss for almost a year before the firings occurred.

The chain of events began last Thursday when the boss fired a woman known for being a strong union member. When her fellow workers decided to confront the boss about her termination, they were all fired on the spot.