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Angry Google employees and supporters protested at the giant search engine's offices in Sunnyvale yesterday. Same day demonstrations were also held in San Francisco, Seattle and New York City. The Washington Post reports that there were arrests in both Sunnyvale and NYC....

Protest at IRS offices and blocking of Golden Gate bridge and major Bay Area highways as part of a world wide protest against the genocide of the Palestinian people being perpetrated by Israel, the US, France, and Germany....

Workers called on the San Francisco Labor Council to support a general strike for Palestine and against the genocide in Gaza. The SFLC leadership tried to lock the door to the meeting. They also have prevented any resolution on Palestine from coming up at their meetings....

Members of Code Pink held a rally at the German Consulate in San Francisco calling upon Germany to desist in arming the Israeli military and to reopen humanitarian aid to Gaza....

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....

At the 75th KPFA Pacifica commemoration in Berkeley, a KPFA Local Station board member called out the KPFA LSB majority for voting against a resolution to oppose the genocide in Gaza....

RACCOON (Radical Anti-Capitalist Collective of Outrageous Noise) is a new SF Bay Area activist group. We have done six actions for Gaza / Palestine - at City Hall, the Israeli Consulate, and Ferry Building Plaza. In the future we will also do actions for Climate Justice. Our future actions will be at Ferry Building Plaza on the 2nd and 4th Saturday every month from 12:30-2:00 We are seeking co-leaders to join our leadership team. The co-leaders will lead 25% of our actions, and provide att...

Since the 22nd Annual, Folsom Juneteenth 2022, unanimous decision to rename the day use area Black Miners Bar at Folsom Lake State Recreation Area, (known for decades as Negro Bar State Park) DPR collaborated with the California African American Museum (CAAM) in developing the African American History & Engagement project proposal which the legislature approved $15M in one-time general funds for in the 2022-2023 fiscal year budget for this five-year project - 2024 Black Miners Bar open fo...

– 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...

Over 50 UBER drivers rallied at the world headquarters of UBER to demand living wages and against the fraud and attacks on workers. They also protested the role of governor Gavin Newsom and San Francisco mayor London Breed who they said are shills for the tech billionaires....