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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
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
Housing is a human right 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
Socialist Health Care Organizers Exit DSA Open letter from former members of DSA-LA explaining why they resigned from DSA following the organization's abandonment of a true fight for Single Payer health care in CA....
Posted: Thu, Sep 14, 2023 12:18pm PDT
Tenant Union to Picket Berkeley Landlords’ Eviction Party Today Tenant union members to protest Berkeley Landlords’ eviction celebration happy hour today, September 12, from 5:15 pm to 7:30 pm, in front of 2700 Bancroft Way in Berkeley, CA....
Posted: Tue, Sep 12, 2023 1:13pm PDT
EPA Makes Pesticide Incident Reports Publicly Available for First Time Data Details Serious Harms Caused by Pesticides...
Posted: Fri, Jul 28, 2023 7:16am 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
Put the Moxi, not Puny, in MUNI The progressive left hobbles itself in not believing the advocacy of socializing land values is worth the energy expended. Without a clear, principled aspiration articulated, a larger, wider, transformative social justice program is unlikely to emerge in public discourse, much less at the ballot....
Posted: Thu, Jul 6, 2023 11:27pm PDT
The Great Leap Backwards Scoop, the swami from Miami, addressed KFOG listeners as fogheads. The United States would be much better off without the self-appointed burden of keeping the world “safe” and “free” with the threat of our nuclear weapons. Also, as our economic growth slows down, we would use less energy and have less need for nuclear and coal power plants that pollute the environment....
Posted: Mon, Jul 3, 2023 7:23am PDT
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