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Don Lane confirmed in an email to a concerned citizen on October 16 that Housing Matters has decided to close drop-in homeless day services at the Coral Street campus by March of 2026. Lane, who is the President of the Board of Directors of Housing Matters, the organization that operates the main homeless shelter in Santa Cruz, wrote that after March of 2026 the Hygiene Bay and the Nook will no longer be open to the public, and that mailroom services will end for the public, as well as for pa...

Lindsay, CA. Pesticides continue to be pervasive in the air throughout California’s agricultural regions, according to the 2023 Air Monitoring Network Report released last month by the Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR). Weekly samples collected at DPR’s four air monitors detected 19 different pesticides at trace or quantifiable levels and 8 pesticides at quantifiable levels, with 80% of samples including at least one pesticide detection. The four air monitors are located at schools in ...

Carla Cabral testifies in Santa Rosa trial of Zoe Rosenberg who rescued four chickens from Perdue slaughterhouse....

Activists protest the Gaza genocide outside the Israeli Consulate in San Francisco even though a tentative peace deal has been reached between Israel and Hamas....

Here is our Green Voter Guide for the November 4 statewide special election, about Proposition 50, regarding Congressional redistricting. Ballots will be mailed to all voters starting this past Monday, October 6. If you don't receive your ballot by mid-October, or have questions about your registration status, or similar matters, for Alameda county, please call the Registrar of Voters office at 510-272-6973. (Phone numbers for other counties are here: https://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/voti...

Zoe Rosenberg (pictured below, flanked by her lawyers) faces criminal charges for rescuing chickens from Perdue’s Petaluma Poultry slaughterhouse on June 13, 2023....

Palo Alto offices of Palantir, an AI surveillance company with ties to israel, ICE, and the US military, were doused with red paint. 4 pics and 1 video...

The 28th UNAFF (United Nations Association Film Festival) will be held from October 16-26, 2025. This year’s theme, MESSAGES FOR THE FUTURE, continues our devotion to human rights with an emphasis on our common destiny and issues fostering it, or standing in its way....

Prologis, our local Wall St. cancer, has spent the last 12+ months quietly poisoning the Fruitvale district, water, & all of deep East Oakland via toxic dust and hazmat emissions. 3600 Alameda Ave is one of two crime scenes. Truthful public messaging has been covered up, with local activists surveilled and harassed, all in the name of an illegally planned mega-warehouse....

Two seniors injured by huge male aggressor...