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imageCalifornia Bill Would Clamp Down on Dangerous Idle Oil, Gas Wells
Measure Ramps Up Plugging Duties for Oil Industry
by Center for Biological Diversity
Measure Ramps Up Plugging Duties for Oil Industry...
Posted: Fri, Mar 22, 2024 12:52pm PDT
documentU.S. Tries to Force Potentially Hazardous GM Corn on Mexico
U.S. Position Based on Sham Regulatory Regime That Does Not Ensure GMO Safety, Mexico Fully Justified in Prohibiting GM Corn for Staple C...
by Center for Food Safety
U.S. Position Based on Sham Regulatory Regime That Does Not Ensure GMO Safety, Mexico Fully Justified in Prohibiting GM Corn for Staple Corn Products...
Posted: Fri, Mar 22, 2024 12:36pm PDT
textModern societies cannot function without a welfare state by Malte Kornfeld
Modern societies cannot really function well without a general social security system. That's why we need a security system for the whole of society that everyone pays into. In addition, growing social inequality is also a major economic risk....
Posted: Sun, Mar 10, 2024 5:17pm PDT
textU.S. Geological Survey Will Restore Annual Counts of About 400 Farm Pesticides by Center for Biological Diversity
Pesticides Applied to Seeds to Remain Uncounted...
Posted: Thu, Feb 29, 2024 1:25pm PST
textThe Mad Covid-19 Tea Party by Nayvin Gordon
Public Health Policy regarding Covid-19, is unscientific and deadly madness...
Posted: Wed, Feb 21, 2024 10:56am PST
imageAT&T Landlines Under Immediate Threat in California
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by Save Landlines!
he California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) is considering a formal request by AT&T to eliminate Carrier of Last Resort (COLR) regulations that require the company to provide landline telephone service to customers in its service area. Such a move would likely mean the end of the traditional telephone network for most residents in California, a controversial policy opposed by many consumer and safety groups, who say such a move is preposterous and that landlines are needed now more t...
Posted: Wed, Feb 14, 2024 4:38pm PST
textMartin Luther King Junior’s Death from Prostate Cancer and the Absence of Universal Prosta by Nayvin Gordon
Men do not get universal screening for prostate cancer but women get universal screening for breast cancer--a tragedy...
Posted: Mon, Jan 29, 2024 5:35pm PST
textLaw Center Statement on 12% Increase in Homelessness by National Homelessness Law Center
Point in Time results must drive housing investments, not despair...
Posted: Mon, Dec 18, 2023 11:57am PST
textFairer Taxes and Inheritance for All! by Thomas Piketty
A few people own the majority of the wealth, the rest share what remains. Star economist Thomas Piketty wants to change this. He has developed reform proposals that distribute the wealth of our society more fairly and make our lives more democratic. The most important pillars of his reforms are economic co-determination, fairer taxes and a stronger welfare state....
Posted: Sat, Dec 2, 2023 7:24am PST
imageWellbeing and Resilience Videos for Humanitarians
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by PNW Street Medics
Take a few minutes to invest in your wellbeing by watching one or more of the videos about Wellbeing and Resilience Videos for Humanitarians....
Posted: Fri, Dec 1, 2023 8:05am PST
imageSolidarity for the Community of Squatted Prosfygika in Athens (Greece)
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by Community of Squatted Prosfygika
Dear Comrades, There is urgent financial support needed for the Community of Squatted Prosfygika in Alexandras Avenue in Athens. The current situation has been bad and will change for the worst. Imperialist wars, fascist regimes and global capitalism are growing stronger in different territories, millions of people on the move get trapped and killed by the Greek and European Border regime, exploitation of landscapes and natural resources are pushing the climate catastrophe. These forces ar...
Posted: Wed, Nov 29, 2023 3:59pm PST
textThe Solution is Social Housing by Ryan Cooper and Saoirse Gowan
The Swedish government set a goal of building 1 million new units in the mid-1960s when the population was only 8 million (or about the same size as New York City). Despite a few setbacks and problems, this goal was achieved in less than a decade — We suggest that 10 million new municipal housing units would be a viable ten-year goal....
Posted: Fri, Nov 17, 2023 7:18am PST
textIsrael bombs Gaza’s only operating wheat mill by Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor
Israel has intensified its war of starvation against Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said on Wednesday, as a means of subjugation during the bloody 40-day war....
Posted: Wed, Nov 15, 2023 3:34pm PST
imageIsrael turns Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza into detention center
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by Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor
The Israeli forces stormed in large numbers the al-Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza City and turned it into military barracks and a detention center, where patients, displaced persons, and healthcare professionals are subjected to different forms of abuse, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said in a statement on Wednesday. Euro-Med Monitor expressed fears of killings and executions as its team documented sporadic gunfire in the hospital since the early minutes of the raid, stressing that the al-...
Posted: Wed, Nov 15, 2023 3:27pm PST
textCalifornia Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee Statement on the Crisis by CNA NNU
The CNA NNU is supporting a ceasefire....
Posted: Tue, Nov 14, 2023 8:00am PST
textAPEC is proof San Francisco can be a model city by David Giesen
San Francisco needs APEC type events every week of the year in order to house the poor and keep the streets clean....
Posted: Mon, Nov 13, 2023 4:30pm PST
textLaw Center Statement on UN Report Decrying Ongoing Human Rights Abuses Against Unhoused People by National Homelessness Law Center
WASHINGTON, D.C. – (November 3, 2023) Today, the United Nations Human Rights Committee highlighted serious and ongoing patterns of human rights abuses — including those against people experiencing homelessness and poverty — in the Concluding Observations from its recent convening that investigated the United States’ compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights....
Posted: Tue, Nov 7, 2023 10:40am PST
textCalifornia Becomes First State to Ban “Excited Delirium” as a Cause of Death by Physicians for Human Rights
Governor Newsom signs landmark bill following tireless community activism and PHR report on the pseudoscience of “excited delirium"...
Posted: Fri, Oct 13, 2023 9:06pm PDT
documentU.S. Receives Failing Grades on Human Right to Housing Report Card
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by National Homelessness Law Center
Limited Progress During Pandemic Offset By Inactions Since...
Posted: Thu, Oct 5, 2023 10:26am PDT
textHousing is a human right by Franz Segbers
To guarantee the human right to housing, a fundamental change in policy would be required at all levels. At all levels - federal, state and local - the social housing provision should be enforced against private profit interests. The non-profit status of housing must be revived. Housing must not be a commodity, it must not be the object of speculation and profit interests....
Posted: Tue, Oct 3, 2023 7:28am PDT
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