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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
Fascism 101: Why We Need To Spell It Out
We need to have a transformative vision that can compete with that of the far right, one based on genuine equality and genuine democratic empowerment that goes beyond the now discredited liberal democracy. Some call this vision socialism. Others would prefer another term, but the important thing is its message of radical, real equality beyond class, gender, and race....
Posted: Wed, Jan 3, 2024 1:17am PST
5am Tues: Stop Bulldozing of People's Park!
UC Berkeley wants to build student housing where protests and community events have been held by the local community for over 50 years. Come out and stop the bulldozers!...
Posted: Mon, Jan 1, 2024 10:20pm 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
470 Levi's Workers In Turkey Need Support
Workers in Turkey who make Levis are fighting against union busting and need international solidarity...
Posted: Sun, Dec 17, 2023 8:28am PST
Nationwide Subsidiary Attacked in San Francisco
Inspired by the recent attack in Walnut Creek, every window was smashed at a Nationwide subsidiary in San Francisco. Direct hits were achieved despite the presence of iron bars covering the windows....
Posted: Wed, Dec 6, 2023 11:53pm PST
Google Censors Second Article Re Biden's DOJ And FBI Report That Exposes Kamala Harris
After a news article was published to Indybay.org on Nov 5, 2023, regarding Irish Writer Thomas Kilroy's Son Lorcan and his claims , within 72 hours Google had removed it from search results for Lorcan Kilroy . Previously another related post re. Kamala Harris was censored. Someone is clearly watching Indybay and blocking articles....
Posted: Wed, Nov 8, 2023 7:14pm 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
"Alameda County" Courthouse Attacked for Palestinian Martyrs
"It is never possible to balance liberatory violence with the conditions of struggle. The process of liberation is excessive by nature. In the direction of overabundance or in that of deficiency. Where have we ever seen a popular insurrection hit the bullseye, clearly distinguishing the enemies to kill? It is a blow of the tiger’s claws that rips and does not distinguish." Alfredo Bonanno...
Posted: Thu, Nov 2, 2023 11:34pm PDT
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
Faris Sabbah is a Systematic Tyrant!!!
This superintendent is a systematic oppressor....
Posted: Thu, Sep 28, 2023 7:08pm PDT
Calling on USians to Memorialize Jennifer Laude, Call for American Withdrawal from the Philippines
An Urgent Plea from the Philippines...
Posted: Wed, Sep 13, 2023 7:21pm PDT
Extradition of Julian Assange threatens First Amendment, Press Freedom
JURIST: My favorite Supreme Court Justice of all time is William O. Douglas. A staunch defender of the First Amendment, he asserted in his book Points of Rebellion, “We must realize that today’s Establishment is the new George III. Whether it will continue to adhere to his tactics, we do not know. If it does, the redress, honored in tradition, is also revolution.”...
Posted: Fri, Aug 25, 2023 3:35pm PDT
Inverted World
Wars of aggression and sanctions against half the world are called "defense", "education" means paramilitary drill for usability in the profit industry under strict avoidance of any real formation of mind and feeling, the robbery of common goods is called "privatization", and self-evident areas of welfare mutate into dysfunctional "service"....
Posted: Sun, Aug 20, 2023 6:52am PDT
Religious Fundamentalism. An Ambivalent Phenomenon of the Modern Age
The conclusion that Thomas Meyer repeatedly puts forward is obvious: "Fundamentalism proves to be an indeterminate negation of the foundations of Enlightenment and modernization."...
Posted: Sun, Aug 6, 2023 9:00am PDT
Jeffrey Tumlin: our buses aren't jails
This is an open letter from San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) employees regarding the events of July 8th, 2023 at the annual Dolores Park Hill Bomb, where Muni buses were used by the San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) to transport detained teenagers to SFPD’s Mission Station....
Posted: Mon, Jul 24, 2023 8:31am PDT
Is the US a Failed State with Michael Hudson
It’s a failed state because its economy is paralyzed and we’re in a debt deflation, an economic polarization, that is just transferring all wealth and income away from labor, away from industry, into really the financial sector and what I call the finance, insurance, and real estate sector....
Posted: Fri, Jul 21, 2023 4:00am PDT
A Dangerous Myth: Does Speaking Imply Breathing?
It is possible for someone to be able to speak without being able to adequately breathe. This article from the Annals of Internal Medicine looks at how a person may die from lack of oxygen while still being able to plead... “I can't breathe.”...
Posted: Thu, Jul 13, 2023 7:44pm PDT
Brick thrown at UPS Store Window in Solidarity with #StopCopCity
Oakland CA, a brick was thrown into the front window of UPS Store in solidarity with #StopCopCity and defense of Weelaunee forest...
Posted: Sat, Jul 8, 2023 11:10am PDT
Something is Rotten in France
French police kill 17 year old youth of Algerian background at traffic stop...
Posted: Wed, Jul 5, 2023 11:55am PDT