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No Cop Campus in the Bay - No Cop City Anywhere!
Help Stop Cop Campus, Become Informed, Get Informed!...
Posted: Wed, Apr 24, 2024 6:06pm PDT
Community Groups Sue U.S. Forest Service over Unprecedented Plumas Forest Logging Plan
The Massive $650 Million Logging Project Targets Mature and Old-Growth Forest, While the Forest Service Admits Prescribed Fire Alone is Effective and Far Cheaper
SACRAMENTO, CA— A coalition of community groups filed suit in federal court over the failure of the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) before unleashing industrial logging and herbicide application on 217,721 acres of the Plumas National Forest, including 133,321 acres of mature and old-g...
Posted: Wed, Apr 24, 2024 4:23pm PDT
20 Parking Pay Stations Sabotaged for Rosebud and People’s Park
Anarchist sabotage in the dead of night....
Posted: Wed, Apr 24, 2024 1:23pm PDT
From Coast to Coast, Students Set Up Encampments in Solidarity with Palestinians
Students at UC Berkeley and Cal Poly Humboldt joined students at colleges and universities throughout the country to establish occupations in support of Palestinians. Outrage at Israel's attempted genocide in Gaza has produced a movement of encampments at Harvard, Columbia, Barnard, Boston University, Yale, MIT, NYU, USC, and UT Austin, so far. Police have arrested hundreds, and yet the protests persist and continue to expand....
Posted: Wed, Apr 24, 2024 11:43am PDT
Pro-Palestinian Campus Encampments Spread Nationwide Amid Mass Arrests at Columbia, NYU & Yale
April 23, 2024 - Palestinian solidarity protests and encampments are appearing on college campuses from Massachusetts to California to protest Israel’s attacks on Gaza and to call for divestment from Israeli apartheid....
Posted: Wed, Apr 24, 2024 10:50am PDT
Strike for Palestine this May Day and Nakba Day
Call to Action from the Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions - Gaza Strip...
Posted: Wed, Apr 24, 2024 10:30am PDT
When will we finally end the party of the arms companies?
The people, however, want the opposite. They are afraid of war. They want peace and civil conflict resolution. They want social welfare and a decent standard of living.That is what politics should focus on. Unfortunately, in the current hysterical mood, there are only a few who have the courage to be pilloried as "party crashers", pro-Putin, pro-Hamas, pro-Mullah and other autocrats...
Posted: Wed, Apr 24, 2024 7:21am PDT
Student Occupation Shuts Down Cal Poly Humboldt
Cal Poly Humboldt administrators have officially closed the campus through Wednesday as students occupy Siemens Hall in solidarity with college students across the nation occupying campuses for Palestine....
Posted: Tue, Apr 23, 2024 7:37pm PDT
ACLU Responds to California Supreme Court Ruling on Minimum Wage for Incarcerated Workers
OAKLAND, Calif., April 22, 2024 — The California Supreme Court ruled today that the state’s minimum wage law does not apply to people working for private companies while they are held in pretrial detention in California’s jails. The lawsuit, Ruelas v. County of Alameda, was brought by people incarcerated at the Santa Rita Jail in Alameda County who worked without compensation for Aramark, a for-profit corporation that provides food in jails and prisons....
Posted: Tue, Apr 23, 2024 12:48pm PDT
The Problem of Policing: A Primer, Part I
A brief look into policing, funding, and militarization....
Posted: Tue, Apr 23, 2024 10:23am PDT
Brasil_Abril de Luchas: MST moviliza a más de 30 mil familias sin tierra
Con 31 nuevas ocupaciones y campamentos, el MST finaliza la Jornada Nacional de Lucha
Abril de Luchas moviliza a más de 30 mil familias sin tierra, en 18 estados brasileños y el Distrito Federal...
Posted: Tue, Apr 23, 2024 4:45am PDT
Brasil contra el hambre: Otra agricultura es posible
Brasil
Contra el hambre urge la construcción de otros modelos agrícolas, aumentar los alimentos básicos y nutritivos...
Posted: Tue, Apr 23, 2024 2:28am PDT
Gaza Support Encampment at UC Berkeley
Tents setup on steps of Sproul Hall by students with support from Code Pink...
Posted: Mon, Apr 22, 2024 6:35pm PDT
A New Generation of Warriors at the U.N. Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
Indigenous Youths are demanding an end to the lithium mining and fake green projects now targeting their homelands, and exposing the human rights violations around the world, during their powerful presentations at the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, now in its second week in New York....
Posted: Mon, Apr 22, 2024 9:08am 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
Young People Reclaim Earth Day
Environmental and peace groups joined to call out genocidal slaughters in Palestine, Sudan and Congo. Actions in front of BNY Mellon Bank and BlackRock...
Posted: Sat, Apr 20, 2024 12:12pm PDT
Agencies Cancel Plan to Frack Oil Wells, Build Pipelines in Los Padres National Forest
VENTURA COUNTY, Calif., April 15, 2024 — Two federal agencies have confirmed the cancellation of applications for permits proposed a decade ago to drill and frack eight new wells on federal public land in Los Padres National Forest. The announcement, made April 3, comes just weeks after California officials proposed a statewide ban on this extremely dangerous fossil fuel extraction technique....
Posted: Sat, Apr 20, 2024 6:05am PDT
Commemorate the Frontier Wars with us this Anzac Day
Ghillar, Michael Anderson, Convenor of the Sovereign Union, last surviving member of the founding four of the Aboriginal Embassy and Head of State of the Euahlayi Peoples Republic explains the profound importance of commemorating the Frontier Wars and the need to bury and memorialise the dead before we can go forward....
Posted: Sat, Apr 20, 2024 4:13am PDT
Kansas At last Allows Removal of Racist Property Covenants
At long last, on April 5, the Kansas state legislature passed HB 2562 by a vote of 123 to 0. The bill includes a provision concerning racial covenants attached to property documents allowing property owners for a fee to “… release such covenants from their property by recording a certificate of release of prohibited covenants with the Register of Deeds.” Governor Laura Kelly approved and signed the bill into law on April 19....
Posted: Fri, Apr 19, 2024 5:37pm PDT
REI Workers in Santa Cruz Vote to Unionize
On April 18, workers at the REI store in Santa Cruz voted 32-12 in favor of forming a union. The workers filed for a union election with the National Labor Relations Board on March 14, at which time they announced their intent to join United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW) Local 5. The Santa Cruz REI store is the second REI location in the Bay Area to unionize, and the tenth nationwide. REI Workers in Santa Cruz say they are unionizing for "fair pay, sustainable schedul...
Posted: Fri, Apr 19, 2024 12:55pm PDT
La Naturaleza como sujeto de derecho: respondiendo a sus críticos
La Naturaleza como sujeto de derecho: respondiendo a sus críticos...
Posted: Thu, Apr 18, 2024 8:35am 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
No Tech for Genocide Sit-In and Demo at Google Offices in Sunnyvale, Arrests
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....
Posted: Wed, Apr 17, 2024 3:59am PDT
Argentina 2024: Colonia $í
Argentina 2024: Colonia $í
El feudo de Milei: precios europeos y salarios africanos...
Posted: Wed, Apr 17, 2024 12:45am PDT
Earthquakes, Robo-Taxis and Land Lines, a Looming Disaster
Earthquake preparedness, along with robotaxis and a proposal by AT&T now before the CPUC (California Public Utility Commission) calling for the company’s release from providing landline phone service to four million customers across the state, were the interrelated topics of discussion in calling for “people before profits.”...
Posted: Tue, Apr 16, 2024 7:33pm PDT
Alzamientos por la Tierra
Alzamientos por la Tierra
El renacimiento de las luchas por el clima: Soulèvements de la Terre, Lützerath y Atlanta...
Posted: Tue, Apr 16, 2024 3:14pm PDT
Indigenous Youths and Women Leading U.N. Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues
Indigenous Youths and Women led the opening day of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, as it began its two week session at the U.N. in New York. The defense of Mother Earth was the focus of testimony. Mining companies continue their violence while seizing Indigenous Peoples land and water globally in the name of "transitional energy" projects....
Posted: Tue, Apr 16, 2024 1:06pm PDT
No Taxes for War and Genocide! Nationwide Economic Blockade
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....
Posted: Tue, Apr 16, 2024 12:40am PDT
On Tax Day, Anti-War Activists Protest for a Peace Economy
Tax Day is always one of protest when anti-war activists and frustrated taxpayers demonstrate objections to their hard-earned money paid in income-tax, being used to fund and support America’s never-ending wars along with a myriad of other expenditure issues. Military expenditures are the single largest category of federal spending,......
Posted: Mon, Apr 15, 2024 8:29pm PDT
We don't have to be enemies
We demand a ceasefire. The release of the hostages. An end to the military occupation of Palestine. We stand side by side with our Palestinian friends.There is no alternative to peace in Israel and Palestine. Not for Jews, not for Palestinians and not for the other people who live there. This is not naïve, but realistic and pragmatic. It is not radical, but the only option to end the suffering...
Posted: Mon, Apr 15, 2024 2:59am PDT
Workers Demand General Strike for Palestine & Against Genocide in Gaza at SFLC Meeting
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....
Posted: Sun, Apr 14, 2024 11:07am PDT
La idea política del Común y el comunismo del amor
La idea política del Común y el comunismo del amor...
Posted: Sun, Apr 14, 2024 4:13am PDT
Lola López Resina still imprisoned at 73 years old, the machine grinds on
Lola López Resina, 73, has been locked up for 31 years - the United States holds anti-colonialists in prison for lifetimes...
Posted: Sat, Apr 13, 2024 12:21pm PDT
Ecuador: CONAIE convoca a construir movimiento internacional contra el extractivismo
Ecuador: CONAIE convoca a construir movimiento internacional contra el extractivismo...
Posted: Sat, Apr 13, 2024 3:46am PDT
Disabled Communists and Anarchists: Disability Action Research Kollective
In January, we posted a Call for Submissions for a project inviting volunteers to write and submit a short, single-paragraph biography about radicals with disabilities. That project is still underway, and the creator of the call has shared the first product, Disabled Communists and Anarchists: Disability Action Research Kollective, and this note is below....
Posted: Fri, Apr 12, 2024 3:07pm PDT
Australian Lithium Company and Navajo Enterprise Plan to Mine Hualapai Ceremonial Site
Australia's Arizona Lithium plans to mine lithium in Hualapai's ceremonial place, and a Navajo Nation enterprise signed an agreement in March to operate the lithium mine for the Australian company. This includes securing the permits, drilling, and poisoning the water, in violation of federal laws, at Hualapai's sacred spring, where Hualapai have offered their prayers since time immemorial....
Posted: Fri, Apr 12, 2024 9:06am PDT
KPFA radio to celebrate 75th anniversary
Vintage Poster Of The KPFA - Pacifica Struggle In 1999 That Is On The Wall Of My Apartment:...
Posted: Fri, Apr 12, 2024 12:45am PDT
Global Economic Losses Since Dawn of Pandemic Hit $3.3 Trillion
Since 2020, the global economy lost $3.3 trillion....
Posted: Thu, Apr 11, 2024 12:46pm PDT
Gray Whale Severely Entangled in Gillnet Fishing Gear off California
Oceana Urges State Legislature to Pass Assembly Bill 2220 to Address These Entanglements...
Posted: Thu, Apr 11, 2024 12:01am PDT
Roundtable on Current U.S. Foreign Policy: Militarism Unhinged
I invited three insightful analysts of present-day U.S. foreign policy to share their thoughts in a roundtable discussion. Here are excerpts from Phyllis Bennis, Jackson Lears and Jeffrey Sachs.
-- Norman Solomon...
Posted: Wed, Apr 10, 2024 6:45pm PDT
California Senate Declares ‘Year of the California Grizzly Bear’
2024 Marks Centennial of Last Sighting of State’s Official Animal...
Posted: Wed, Apr 10, 2024 9:57am PDT
Consulate Rally Demands an End to German Weapons for Israel
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....
Posted: Tue, Apr 9, 2024 10:20am PDT
Deal Described as One of the Most Significant Urban Land Back Victories in US History
After years of prayers and protests, the struggle to protect the West Berkeley Shellmound Sacred Site has prevailed. On March 12, the Berkeley City Council approved a global settlement with the owners of the Shellmound village site and adopted an ordinance giving title of the land to the Sogorea Te’ Land Trust. The deal results in what Ohlone tribal leaders describe as one of the most significant urban land back victories in United States history....
Posted: Tue, Apr 9, 2024 9:46am 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