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textThe CAA Organizing Right Wing Anger Against Concord Tenant Protections by L'author
The California Apartment Association has been strategizing with local MAGA organizers to stop Concord's tenant protection ordinance....
Posted: Sun, Mar 17, 2024 11:34am 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
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
textOpen Letter To UC Berkeley Chancellor Carol Christ and Berkeley City Council by Nom De Plume
This is an open letter to the Chancellor of UC Berkeley and the Berkeley City Council. Feel free to copy and email or fax this to them. Or print it out and give it to them in person....
Posted: Wed, Jan 10, 2024 1:26pm PST
textUC Berkeley Violated Injunction as People's Park Case Continues in State Supreme Court by Author
UC Berkeley is under an injunction order, as the status of People's Park continues to be debated in court. That injunction was violated last night by the University....
Posted: Thu, Jan 4, 2024 11:52am PST
textOver 1000 Law Enforcement Personnel Converging in Berkeley for People's Park by Author
Various law enforcement agencies have employees currently staged at UC Berkeley. The number of expected personnel are to exceed a thousand. The People's Park raid is happening....
Posted: Wed, Jan 3, 2024 11:49pm PST
textHomeless deaths on the streets surge in 2023 by Lynda Carson
The Dead Can't Dance Or Sing Anymore:...
Posted: Fri, Dec 22, 2023 9:27pm 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
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
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
textPacific groups call on Leaders to reconsider diplomatic relations with Japan by Epeli Lesuma, Nuclear Justice Campaigner
Wednesday 8th November, 2023 The Pacific Collective on Nuclear Issues, composed of civil society groups, non-governmental organisations and movements in the Pacific, denounces once again the dumping of radioactive wastewater from the damaged Fukushima nuclear powerplant into the Pacific Ocean as the only solution available. The Collective also condemns the Government of Japan and the facility operator, Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), for insisting on this flawed and dangerous course ...
Posted: Wed, Nov 8, 2023 11:12pm 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
textCourt Halts Bay Area Biofuel Megaproject Operations by Center for Biological Diversity
Refinery on Hold Until County Addresses Community, Environmental Harms...
Posted: Thu, Oct 12, 2023 2:36pm PDT
textPope Francis Releases "Laudate Deum" Ahead of Global Economy and Climate Meetings by Anjoulie Woodhead
Pope Francis urged international cooperation to tackle environmental crises, in a document released today. Laudate Deum – which in Latin means “Praise God” – is a follow-up to his 2015 Laudato Si, the most comprehensive Encyclical on climate and the environment....
Posted: Wed, Oct 4, 2023 11:20am PDT
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