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The CAA Organizing Right Wing Anger Against Concord Tenant Protections
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
Modern societies cannot function without a welfare state
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
U.S. Geological Survey Will Restore Annual Counts of About 400 Farm Pesticides
Pesticides Applied to Seeds to Remain Uncounted...
Posted: Thu, Feb 29, 2024 1:25pm PST
The Mad Covid-19 Tea Party
Public Health Policy regarding Covid-19, is unscientific and deadly madness...
Posted: Wed, Feb 21, 2024 10:56am PST
Martin Luther King Junior’s Death from Prostate Cancer and the Absence of Universal Prosta
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
Open Letter To UC Berkeley Chancellor Carol Christ and Berkeley City Council
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
UC Berkeley Violated Injunction as People's Park Case Continues in State Supreme Court
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
Over 1000 Law Enforcement Personnel Converging in Berkeley for People's Park
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
Homeless deaths on the streets surge in 2023
The Dead Can't Dance Or Sing Anymore:...
Posted: Fri, Dec 22, 2023 9:27pm PST
Law Center Statement on 12% Increase in Homelessness
Point in Time results must drive housing investments, not despair...
Posted: Mon, Dec 18, 2023 11:57am PST
Fairer Taxes and Inheritance for All!
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
The Solution is Social Housing
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
Israel bombs Gaza’s only operating wheat mill
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
California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee Statement on the Crisis
The CNA NNU is supporting a ceasefire....
Posted: Tue, Nov 14, 2023 8:00am PST
APEC is proof San Francisco can be a model city
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
Pacific groups call on Leaders to reconsider diplomatic relations with Japan
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
Law Center Statement on UN Report Decrying Ongoing Human Rights Abuses Against Unhoused People
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
California Becomes First State to Ban “Excited Delirium” as a Cause of Death
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
Court Halts Bay Area Biofuel Megaproject Operations
Refinery on Hold Until County Addresses Community, Environmental Harms...
Posted: Thu, Oct 12, 2023 2:36pm PDT
Pope Francis Releases "Laudate Deum" Ahead of Global Economy and Climate Meetings
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