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Supreme Court Decision Guts Key Civil Rights Protection for Unhoused People
ACLU lawsuit challenging San Francisco’ costly and ineffective response to homelessness will continue...
Posted: Mon, Jul 1, 2024 10:35am PDT
Nurses denounce San Benito County Health Care District board vote
Nurses vow to stop the sale of this vital public asset at the polls...
Posted: Thu, Jun 6, 2024 8:18am PDT
Flyers Passed Out Recently at the Saturday Food Not Bombs "Soupstock" Anniversary
These self-explanatory flyers criticize the City's #1 shelter-and-service provider, the so called "Housing Matters" which is more aptly termed :"Funding Matters" urging greater unity between oppressed workers, students, tenants, and unhoused folks....
Posted: Wed, May 29, 2024 10:52pm PDT
Tips to Avoid Paying for B@ART: 101 Guide for Fare Evasion
If you don’t know by now, BART has publicly stated they are investing $90 Million to replace all 700 BART fare gates, like the new ones that are 7 feet high at West Oakland Bart Station, to deter people from jumping over or pushing through with force.
BART has plans to install these new gates at Civic Center, Powell, Montgomery, 24th Street, SFO, Fruitvale in Oakland, Richmond and Antioch Bart stations; however, in the meantime feel free to use the following tips to avoid paying for BART....
Posted: Mon, May 27, 2024 10:47am PDT
Everyone Should Be Safe - UC Santa Cruz Mobile Crisis Response Team (audio/mpeg 77.7MB)
Interview about the University of California Santa Cruz Mobile Crisis Response Team offering a non-police response for mental health crises with director MaryJan Murphy and supervisor, Beth Chiarelli....
Posted: Sat, May 18, 2024 12:02pm PDT
Palestine Solidarity Encampment Launched at UC San Francisco
On May 13, a Palestine Solidarity Encampment was launched at UC San Francisco at Kalmanovitz Library. A rally has been organized for today (May 13) at 3 pm at the encampment, according to the Instagram page UCSF Palestine Solidarity Encampment....
Posted: Mon, May 13, 2024 11:38am PDT
Carpenters Union Opposes Contractor Bidding on UC Santa Cruz Housing Project
On May 3, members of Carpenters Union Local 505 distributed information at the base of the UC Santa Cruz campus about W.E. O’Neil Construction Co., which is bidding on the 17-acre Family Student Housing development proposal slated for the East Meadow. The union is currently appealing UC Santa Cruz’s refusal to disqualify W.E. O’Neil for the construction project, claiming the company falsified the bid. “W.E. O’Neil attempted to hide the fact that a worker was killed by electrocution on a recen...
Posted: Mon, May 6, 2024 8:09pm PDT
W.E. O’Neil Construction Co. Unqualified to Bid on U.C. Santa Cruz Student Housing Project
W.E. O’Neil Construction Co. Unqualified to Bid on U.C. Santa Cruz Student Housing Project, Carpenters Union Alleges
University of California should reject W.E. O’Neil bid based on new evidence. Carpenters Local Union 505 Says Construction Company Falsified State Bid...
Posted: Fri, May 3, 2024 3:00pm PDT
Community Ready Corps (CRC) Provides Week of Service in Black and Brown Neighborhoods
CRC supports positive engagements with low-income families by participating in the Positive Pull Up this weekend, which aims to promote cleaner and safer neighborhoods by finding solutions to local problems. CRC will organize a week of community service that includes street cleanups free food, and music. These events have been scheduled from April 27 to May 4, 2024....
Posted: Wed, May 1, 2024 11:06am PDT
Demonstrators Demand: Keep Masks in Healthcare Settings and Jails in San Francisco! Pt 2
Photos by Dan Ryan @pictopticon from a rally last week to demand that San Francisco Department of Public Health keep in place its mask mandate for workers in healthcare settings and jails which is set to expire on 4/30/2024. Pt 2 is Focus on Speakers...
Posted: Sun, Apr 21, 2024 1:34am PDT
Demonstrators Demand: Keep Masks in Healthcare Settings and Jails in San Francisco! Pt 1
Photos by Dan Ryan @pictopticon from a rally this week to demand that San Francisco Department of Public Health keep in place its mask mandate for workers in healthcare settings and jails which is set to expire on 4/30/2024....
Posted: Sat, Apr 20, 2024 3:21pm PDT
Neuro-Linguistic Programming & UC Santa Cruz - Interview w/ Robert Dilts and Michael Hall (audio/mpeg 108.0MB)
Interview with teachers/authors Robert Dilts and Michael Hall on the history of NLP, it's development at the University of California Santa Cruz in the mid-1970's and the recent January, 2024 Neuro-Linguistic Programming Leadership Summit in Santa Cruz, California. This interview was originally broadcast on KZSC 88.1 (UCSC) on March 21, 2024. It was re-broadcast on KSQD, Santa Cruz....
Posted: Wed, Apr 17, 2024 9:52am PDT
Sweep The Court
Gathering at San Francisco Federal Building
90 7th St, San Francisco, CA 94103
Marching to the State Building at 350 McAllister St, San Francisco, CA 94102 and then to City Hall....
Event Date: Mon, Apr 22, 2024 10:00am PDT
Posted: Tue, Apr 9, 2024 2:49pm PDT
Nonprofits in LIHTC program are restricted in raising rents above 10% on the poor
Some of the homelessness and the unhoused in Oakland is a direct result of the affordable housing developers demanding "minimum-income-requirements," of the poor to move into their projects....
Posted: Tue, Apr 9, 2024 3:24am PDT
Wood Street Community Launches Month of Actions Year After Evictions.
Members of the Wood Street community are hosting a press conference on Wednesday, April 10, marking one year since residents were displaced from their homes by the City of Oakland. Residents will share reflections from the past year and invite folks to join in on the next five weeks of action in solidarity to speak out against criminalizing homelessness and poverty and declaring once again that Housing is Human Right....
Posted: Mon, Apr 8, 2024 8:03pm PDT
Supreme Court Seems Skeptical of Limiting Access to Abortion Pill, Can We Celebrate Yet?
On March 24, the San Francisco Chapter of the National Mobilization for Reproductive Justice held a rally to say: US Supreme Court--Hands Off the Abortion Pill!...
Posted: Mon, Apr 8, 2024 5:16pm PDT
Healthcare Workers 4 Palestine UCSF Parnassus Action on Palestine Children's Day
UCSF Parnassus healthcare workers had vigil on Palestine Children's Day April 5, 2024 to remember the children and protest the mass genocide and murder of the US supported Israeli apartheid regime....
Posted: Fri, Apr 5, 2024 9:57pm PDT
International Palestinian Children’s Day– Not A Celebration
– In recognition of International Palestinian Children’s Day, healthcare workers along with human rights activists and others held a vigil today outside of the prestigious UCSF Parnassus medical school hospital campus library mourning the killing of more than 32,000 Palestinians in Gaza, of which 70 percent are women and children.
The vigil organized by Healthcare Workers 4 Palestine and the UPTE CWA 9119 union, who are employed at UCSF, also recognized the 72,000 wounded thus far “…of who...
Posted: Fri, Apr 5, 2024 5:38pm PDT
Groups File Lawsuit Challenging Toxic Pesticide Approvals Near Public Schools in Monterey County
Regulators are failing to protect children from repeat exposure to the most dangerous pesticides...
Posted: Fri, Apr 5, 2024 9:40am PDT
Healthcare Workers 4 Palestine Call for Vigil for International Palestinian Children’s Day
UCSF PARNASSUS CAMPUS
In Front Of UC Library
530 Parnassus Avenue
San Francisco...
Event Date: Fri, Apr 5, 2024 12:00pm PDT
Posted: Thu, Apr 4, 2024 4:20pm PDT