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WASHINGTON (03-19) – An important part of the intellectual, cultural, and national security landscape of think tanks here in Washington was assaulted by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) last week in attempting the takeover of the United States Institute of Peace (USIP), a private non-profit corporation. After initially being repelled at the building’s entrance by armed USIP security personnel on Friday, DOGE returned on Monday, March 17 in gaining entry to the building a...
Posted: Wed, Mar 19, 2025 4:31pm PDT
Israel ends truce and kills 400 in massive attack. Outrage in Bay Area prompts immediate demonstrations....
Posted: Wed, Mar 19, 2025 1:13pm PDT
EOPA elected officials defend the landmark Supreme Court finding that greenhouse-gases harm public health after EPA makes 31 deregulation orders...
Posted: Wed, Mar 19, 2025 8:05am PDT
Pretending as the slaughter continues...
Posted: Wed, Mar 19, 2025 4:35am PDT
Despite the LA fires brought on by extreme climate conditions predicted by fossil fuel company scientists 50 years ago due to oil and gas burning, CalPERS continues to fund new extraction and pipelines even in their $100 billion sustainability fund....
Posted: Tue, Mar 18, 2025 6:15pm PDT
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, tonight condemned the far-right Israeli government’s renewed genocidal attacks on Gaza. More than 200 people, including many children, have been slaughtered by Israel after it broke the ceasefire.
Note: since the time of the original post, the death toll has risen to well over 400...
Posted: Tue, Mar 18, 2025 7:56am PDT
Neighborhood residents near the Palo Alto Tesla dealership came to see what the ruckus was all about on March 15. They saw, the approved, and then they grabbed up some of the extra signs to join the action....
Posted: Tue, Mar 18, 2025 3:48am PDT
Protests against Musk at Tesla dealerships are spreading like wildfire and Tesla sales are getting extinguished....
Posted: Tue, Mar 18, 2025 2:38am PDT
Convicted Felon President Trump and the Neo-Nazi Elon Musk's DOGE Wrecking Crew At Work Destroying The Federal Government:...
Posted: Mon, Mar 17, 2025 8:25pm PDT
Veterans Are Part of Growing Resistance to Trump-Musk-Tesla...
Posted: Mon, Mar 17, 2025 11:49am PDT
Academia, exemplified by Columbia University, has surrendered its proclaimed mission of intellectual independence and endeavor, and the academic pursuit of knowledge and social advancement....
Posted: Sun, Mar 16, 2025 6:11pm PDT
The crisis in Gaza has exposed the stark reality that, for many self-proclaimed defenders of human rights, the value of human life is not universal but conditional....
Posted: Sun, Mar 16, 2025 4:17pm PDT
WASHINGTON (03-16) – “Don’t let democracy die on our watch!” is the operative that brought concerned American veterans from across the country to every state Capitol and Washington to rally and march for accountability and to defend democracy. The date of the rally 03-14 was selected in reference to Section 3 of the 14th Amendment of the Constitution wherein it states that anyone who has taken an oath of office, civil or military and is involved in “…insurrection or rebellion against the same...
Posted: Sun, Mar 16, 2025 11:57am PDT
Saturday alone saw actions at Seaside, Fresno, San Francisco and Corte Madera. Here are photos from San Francisco....
Posted: Sun, Mar 16, 2025 10:23am PDT
Protestors expose public health risks and animal cruelty documented at Perdue’s California subsidiary, Petaluma Poultry, and ask Trader Joe’s to cut ties...
Posted: Sat, Mar 15, 2025 9:26pm PDT
They thought they were serving their country only to return to contempt and neglect...
Posted: Fri, Mar 14, 2025 8:12pm PDT
When so called journalism organizations are tainted by the toxic stench of Big Oil money — and very few “environmental” and “climate” organizations have any problem with this — we are in a really dark time in human history....
Posted: Fri, Mar 14, 2025 10:25am PDT
Jutt, a long term Nestlé employee, was fired by the management for trying to form a union. He self-immolated after a decade-long legal battle....
Posted: Fri, Mar 14, 2025 1:48am PDT
SAN FRANCISCO (03-13) – Elon Musk’s Tesla showroom in San Francisco, now the site of massive weekly protests for his work at DOGE that occupies the former Bently dealership along the Van Ness Avenue “Auto Row,” has been operating “illegally” without a certificate of occupancy for the past nine years. According to the Building Department, Tesla’s 2016 permit indicates that the $2.4 million showroom renovation/conversion project has been completed but lacks the required critical final safety in...
Posted: Thu, Mar 13, 2025 5:32pm PDT
"We know what happens when an autocratic regime starts taking away our rights and scapegoating and we will not be silent."...
Posted: Thu, Mar 13, 2025 3:41pm PDT
PORTLAND, Ore.; March 6, 2025 — A new study published today in Science has found that populations of butterflies across the United States are declining. In addition to dramatic declines for individual species, the study concluded that total abundance of butterflies has declined by 22% from 2000 to 2020. That means that for every five butterflies seen 20 years ago, now there are only four....
Posted: Thu, Mar 13, 2025 11:40am PDT
SACRAMENTO, Calif., March 13, 2025 — The Center for Biological Diversity is urging California Gov. Gavin Newsom against fast-tracking logging projects as a response to the devastating Los Angeles wildfires. Newsom’s recent emergency proclamation waives the necessary environmental review for tree removal and other forest-thinning projects....
Posted: Thu, Mar 13, 2025 9:32am PDT
The Demonic Neo-Nazi Elon Musk And His DOGE Wrecking Crew:...
Posted: Thu, Mar 13, 2025 8:32am PDT
FULL TITLE: National Lawyers Guild Condemns the Targeted Detention of Palestinian Student Organizer Mahmoud Khalil and Reiterates its Call for “Sanctuary Universities” to Protect their Students and Workers from Escalating State Repression...
Posted: Thu, Mar 13, 2025 8:26am PDT
Not accused of breaking any law, a legal US resident is jailed for expressing his views...
Posted: Wed, Mar 12, 2025 6:25pm PDT
"Khalil's abduction, in its cruelty and unlawfulness, has horrified people around the country. Let us be clear: This is what fascism looks like, and it is part of a much broader campaign," said the director of Palestine Legal....
Posted: Wed, Mar 12, 2025 2:55pm PDT
WASHINGTON (03-12) – Emboldened by Donald Trump’s war on words and “woke” phrases, Congressman Andrew Clyde (R-GA) a member of the House - Transportation and Infrastructure Committee on March 3 introduced bill H.R. 1744 to eliminate Black Lives Matter Plaza (BLM)......
Posted: Wed, Mar 12, 2025 11:29am PDT
Well, not quite, but Code Pink Action Shows Power of Symbolic Action...
Posted: Wed, Mar 12, 2025 9:10am PDT
On March 19th Turning Point USA will host a transphobic speaker in Stockton. Show up in front of Long Theatre at University of the Pacific to shut them down!...
Posted: Tue, Mar 11, 2025 11:39pm PDT
HUD Secretary Scott Turner And The Convicted Felon President Donald J. Trump:...
Posted: Tue, Mar 11, 2025 9:33pm PDT
WASHINGTON (03-11) – One of the fundamental pillars of our free and democratic country is the right of every child to have a free public-school education. While this is not the case globally, it is a model of a modern progressive society in which today’s world demands literate, educated and well-informed citizens and workers. That very notion of a free education is truly one envied by parents and children around the world....
Posted: Tue, Mar 11, 2025 5:35pm PDT
Protesters continue to send Elon Musk a shockwave to erode his wealth along with that of his stockholders by putting pressure on the company’s finances and reputation. On March 8 demonstrators were back at one of two Palo Alto dealerships, stretching along the El Camino Real....
Posted: Mon, Mar 10, 2025 11:32pm PDT
WASHINGTON (03-10) – Federal workers and taxpayers continue to protest daily across the city as they become more frustrated and infuriated by Elon Musk and DOGE in the illegal cutting of their jobs and programs, while Trump single-handedly is destroying the American economy through arbitrarily imposed tariffs that change daily....
Posted: Mon, Mar 10, 2025 4:26pm PDT
"Women's rights are intrinsically tied to every other issue and struggle, ranging from anti-war to anti-racism, to trans rights and immigrants rights."...
Posted: Mon, Mar 10, 2025 1:31pm PDT
A growing anger and class hatred of Musk, Tesla and Trump and people are rallying throughout the country at Tesla dealerships including in San Francisco....
Posted: Sun, Mar 9, 2025 6:49pm PDT
Turns out there is such a thing as bad publicity. Bigly. Tesla sales down over %50 in some countries. Stock tanks....
Posted: Sun, Mar 9, 2025 4:17pm PDT
Monster Real Estate Investment Trust, Prologis, hires reckless demo company to get redevelopment done fast. They, City of Oakland, and Noel Gallo turn a blind eye to these crimes...
Posted: Sun, Mar 9, 2025 12:58pm PDT
In this column, It's Going Down presents a monthly roundup of political prisoner, prison rebel, and repression news, happenings, announcements, action and analysis. Packed in as always are updates, fundraisers, and birthdays....
Posted: Sun, Mar 9, 2025 11:56am PDT
FULL TITLE: CAIR-CA Releases New Report Examining the Suppression of Students’ First Amendment Rights on College Campuses...
Posted: Sun, Mar 9, 2025 11:43am PDT
On the evening of March 8, 2025, Columbia University student activist Mahmoud Khalil was detained by the Department of Homeland Security. The arrest comes on the heels of the Department of State’s announcement that it plans to deport students affiliated with pro-Palestine protests. The student, who is Palestinian, is a lawful permanent resident of the U.S....
Posted: Sun, Mar 9, 2025 11:32am PDT
Over a thousand rally and march against Trumps defunding of National Institute of Health...
Posted: Sun, Mar 9, 2025 10:41am PDT
WASHINGTON (02-08) – Located on busy M Street in tony Georgetown, the Tesla dealership was the scene of a weekly protest as part of an ongoing worldwide #TeslaTakeDown campaign. Protesters demonstrated against the electric car company and its unelected CEO Elon Musk head of DOGE for the dismantling of the American government and for ongoing public displays of his Nazi sympathies....
Posted: Sun, Mar 9, 2025 7:15am PDT
Tell DOGE: Hands Off Housing! Take Action with NLIHC on march 10!...
Posted: Sun, Mar 9, 2025 3:52am PDT
On a national day of action for science, Palo Alto was not to be left out. What started as a speaker event turned into a street protest of about 200 people....
Posted: Sun, Mar 9, 2025 3:30am PDT



































