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Demo Congressman Ro Khanna of CA Helping To Bust Up Medicare For Insurance Industry
Democratic Congressman Ro Khanna is proposing to deregulate medicare and turn it over to the states which would allow more privatization. He is being supported by the insurance industry which want to privatize medicare....
Posted: Tue, Apr 2, 2024 6:44pm PDT
Newborn Dairy Calves Endure Long, Grueling Journeys Across the United States
Government records reveal that hundreds of thousands of dairy calves are routinely transported 1,000 miles or more, compromising animal welfare and human health....
Posted: Tue, Apr 2, 2024 11:44am PDT
California Bill Would Clamp Down on Dangerous Idle Oil, Gas Wells
Measure Ramps Up Plugging Duties for Oil Industry...
Posted: Fri, Mar 22, 2024 12:52pm PDT
U.S. Tries to Force Potentially Hazardous GM Corn on Mexico
U.S. Position Based on Sham Regulatory Regime That Does Not Ensure GMO Safety, Mexico Fully Justified in Prohibiting GM Corn for Staple Corn Products...
Posted: Fri, Mar 22, 2024 12:36pm 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
AT&T Landlines Under Immediate Threat in California
he California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) is considering a formal request by AT&T to eliminate Carrier of Last Resort (COLR) regulations that require the company to provide landline telephone service to customers in its service area. Such a move would likely mean the end of the traditional telephone network for most residents in California, a controversial policy opposed by many consumer and safety groups, who say such a move is preposterous and that landlines are needed now more t...
Posted: Wed, Feb 14, 2024 4:38pm 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
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
Wellbeing and Resilience Videos for Humanitarians
Take a few minutes to invest in your wellbeing by watching one or more of the videos about Wellbeing and Resilience Videos for Humanitarians....
Posted: Fri, Dec 1, 2023 8:05am PST
Solidarity for the Community of Squatted Prosfygika in Athens (Greece)
Dear Comrades,
There is urgent financial support needed for the Community of Squatted Prosfygika in Alexandras Avenue in Athens. The current situation has been bad and will change for the worst. Imperialist wars, fascist regimes and global capitalism are growing stronger in different territories, millions of people on the move get trapped and killed by the Greek and European Border regime, exploitation of landscapes and natural resources are pushing the climate catastrophe. These forces ar...
Posted: Wed, Nov 29, 2023 3:59pm 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
Israel turns Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza into detention center
The Israeli forces stormed in large numbers the al-Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza City and turned it into military barracks and a detention center, where patients, displaced persons, and healthcare professionals are subjected to different forms of abuse, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said in a statement on Wednesday.
Euro-Med Monitor expressed fears of killings and executions as its team documented sporadic gunfire in the hospital since the early minutes of the raid, stressing that the al-...
Posted: Wed, Nov 15, 2023 3:27pm 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
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