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Jamie Court, Executive Director of Consumer Watchdog, strongly disagreed with Newsom’s assessment of the climate package.
“It’s a load of horse poop,” said Court. “The truth is 90% of the “solutions’ will drive up costs for gasoline and electricity.” ...
Posted: Fri, Sep 19, 2025 3:33pm PDT
Civil Rights Groups File Class Action Lawsuit to Stop Trump Administration’s Illegal Courthouse Arrests and End Punishing ICE Detention Conditions in San Francisco...
Posted: Fri, Sep 19, 2025 2:23pm PDT
Civilian airport exposed as complicit in Israel's war crimes and local people don't like it...
Posted: Fri, Sep 19, 2025 1:43pm PDT
After research uncovered Oakland’s hidden shipments of F-35 parts to Israel, we are asking the Bay Area community to sign the petition urging the City of Oakland to end all military cargo shipments to Israel immediately. Oakland must end its complicity in genocide NOW!
Sign the petition here: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/oakland-stands-against-genocide-no-killer-cargo-out-of-oak-now-3...
Posted: Fri, Sep 19, 2025 1:20pm PDT
As they have for the past 11 years, climate change activists from Beyond Extreme Energy (BXE) undertook their monthly protest on September 18 when they protested and picketed the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) headquarters calling for them to be more than a rubber-stamp for new fossil fuel and pipeline projects....
Posted: Fri, Sep 19, 2025 12:50pm PDT
Censorship Is a Structural Problem: Huge Corporate Power, Not Just a President, Is Muzzling Comedians...
Posted: Fri, Sep 19, 2025 9:24am PDT
Fascist MAGA pimp’s fundraising schemes after the death of Charlie Kirk:...
Posted: Fri, Sep 19, 2025 5:20am PDT
Constitution Day should be a day celebrating the guarantee of the freedoms and rights we all enjoy as Americans and the civic responsibility each of us has in our democracy. But on this, the 238th anniversary of its signing on September 17 with the numerous assaults on our Constitution and the rule of law by Donald Trump and his administration, we are being called to action by standing in defiance of those attacks and in defending our rights....
Posted: Thu, Sep 18, 2025 4:44pm PDT
KQED CWA NABET local 51 members rallied and spoke out before a KQED board meeting about the need for more local TV programming and also against concession bargaining in their contract negotiations....
Posted: Thu, Sep 18, 2025 2:56pm PDT
September 18, 2025 - Last week, about 160 students and workers were informed that UC Berkeley had turned over their names to the Department of Education as part of an investigation into campus protest. The Trump administration has made clear its willingness to weaponize the legal system against anyone it perceives to espouse political opinions that run counter to the president’s own....
Posted: Thu, Sep 18, 2025 12:06pm PDT
Jimmy Kimmel show canceled after FCC Chair Brendan Carr Threatens Disney/ABC....
Posted: Wed, Sep 17, 2025 11:22pm PDT
In recent weeks, actions have been organized at the Israel Consulate in San Francisco to protest the country's war crimes in Gaza. On September 12, "blood" flowed into the gutter after demonstrators used red paint to make bloody hand prints on an Israeli flag to protest the starvation and ongoing massacre with American bombs. Others drummed, banged on pots and pans, and blew horns. Some held photos of skeletal starving children....
Posted: Wed, Sep 17, 2025 10:46pm PDT
The ever-present White House Peace Vigil tent, an iconic staple across from the executive mansion for the last 44 years, was removed by National Park Service Police on September 7 by order of Donald Trump. Trump, who claimed to have not previously known of its existence, when informed of its presence, labeled it an “eyesore” and ordered its removal as part of his erasure of homeless encampments in Washington D.C....
Posted: Wed, Sep 17, 2025 6:14pm PDT
After another hundredth day of mass slaughter and zionist media excusing away the blood of our children in the soil, we seized a zionist billboard, dismembered it, and recycled its pieces with our own messages of resistance, solidarity, remembrance, and calls to action. We took these pieces and strategically posted them on bus platforms all across the Bay Area in high traffic areas to ensure maximum public exposure to the truth on Palestine....
Posted: Wed, Sep 17, 2025 1:45pm PDT
Zoe Rosenberg, 23, is charged with felony conspiracy and 3 misdemeanors for rescuing chickens from Perdue’s Petaluma Poultry slaughterhouse...
Posted: Wed, Sep 17, 2025 12:00pm PDT
Indigenous women are aboard the Freedom Flotilla bringing humanitarian aid to Gaza, where the horror of starvation and genocide is ongoing. The Native women are St'atl'imx/Sudanese, Cree/Dene Salt River First Nation and Inuk. Bringing with them the flags of resistance from Native people in the north, their message to people of Palestine is: "You are not forgotten."...
Posted: Wed, Sep 17, 2025 7:03am PDT
Trump administration sued over campus free speech activities!...
Posted: Wed, Sep 17, 2025 2:32am PDT
Neo Nazi group "NorCal Active Club" marched at a Charlie Kirk vigil in Auburn, CA....
Posted: Tue, Sep 16, 2025 9:49pm PDT
Topics covered in this discussion include the role the Driscoll’s company has played in our local community, as well as the history of pesticides and farm workers; plus the story of one farmworker family currently suffering from cancer. Driscoll’s is the largest berry company in the world....
Posted: Tue, Sep 16, 2025 5:56pm PDT
Zoe Rosenberg, 23, is charged with felony conspiracy and 3 misdemeanors for rescuing chickens from Perdue’s Petaluma Poultry slaughterhouse...
Posted: Tue, Sep 16, 2025 11:34am PDT
Fairfield, September 9, 2025 – Today, Communities Against Carbon Transport & Injection (CACTI), officially launched to protect the Bay Area from the Montezuma Carbon Hub, 45-mile carbon dioxide pipeline and waste injection well that could transport CO2 from sources such as power plants and refineries via pipelines through the Bay Area – including underwater pipelines – and ultimately inject it underground near the Suisun Marsh....
Posted: Tue, Sep 16, 2025 10:01am PDT
Governor Newsom and State Agencies Should Insist on Full Environmental Review...
Posted: Tue, Sep 16, 2025 9:42am PDT
Ruling orders Santa Barbara County Supervisors to hold public hearing on permit transfer within 60 days...
Posted: Tue, Sep 16, 2025 9:26am PDT
Mocking image of Charlie Kirk or image expressing freedom of speech?...
Posted: Tue, Sep 16, 2025 12:49am PDT
A protest was held at a Commonwealth event for billionaire techno fascist and Palantir founder Peter Thiel...
Posted: Mon, Sep 15, 2025 10:16pm PDT
Interview with Palestinian activist Saif Abukeshek participating in the 2025 Global Sumud Flotilla to Gaza to deliver medicine and food and break the siege....
Posted: Mon, Sep 15, 2025 8:21pm PDT
Corporations like Driscoll's and California Giant Berry Farms spray an estimated 5,060 acres of cancer-causing pesticides in the Pajaro Valley EVERY YEAR, including near schools and homes where children spend most of their time....
Posted: Mon, Sep 15, 2025 7:08pm PDT
Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna Pressures Platforms To Clampdown On Free Speech:...
Posted: Mon, Sep 15, 2025 4:01am PDT
The US corporate media have tried to censor the ideology of Charles Kirk and also the plans of the Trump government to organize fascist martial law in the US. Russ Bellant a writer and researcher is interviewed about these issues and the plans for fascist martial law....
Posted: Sun, Sep 14, 2025 2:11pm PDT
SACRAMENTO, Calif., September 13, 2025 — The California legislature today passed a bill that greenlights tens of thousands of new oil and gas drilling permits in Kern County over the next decade with no further environmental review. Senate Bill 237 passed as a last minute “gut and amend” measure at the end of the legislative session, truncating public participation. It was one of several bills that roll back environmental and health protections this session....
Posted: Sun, Sep 14, 2025 9:34am PDT
Laura Loomer falsely claims that the left is a national security threat!...
Posted: Sat, Sep 13, 2025 9:25pm PDT
A look they did not intend as 'blood' is hosed off the sidewalk...
Posted: Sat, Sep 13, 2025 12:03pm PDT
President George Washington signed just two pieces of slavery related legislation: the 1793 Fugitive Slave Law, which guaranteed the right of slaveholders to recover escaped slaves across state lines, and the 1794 Slave Trade Act, which restricted U.S. participation in the trafficking of human cargo. 1850 Compromise established the State of California and expanded Chattel Slavery impacts throughout America....
Posted: Sat, Sep 13, 2025 8:43am PDT
The advocates talked to legislators and passersby urging the Legislature to vote no on the oil drilling expansion bill, AB 237, a last-minute gut and amend that calls for expanded oil drilling in Kern County. The California legislature is slated to vote on this bill this morning....
Posted: Sat, Sep 13, 2025 8:25am PDT
It's A Kafkaesque Situation For Many Accused Of Mocking Charlie Kirk!...
Posted: Sat, Sep 13, 2025 6:48am PDT
Democrats don’t really believe their claim that Trumpism is a dangerous threat to US democracy. Only a radical contingent that opposes MAGA across the board, promotes grassroots protests and defiance by elected officials, and offers a vision of transformative change can catalyze and cohere a winning resistance movement....
Posted: Sat, Sep 13, 2025 1:30am PDT
Photo: An LAPD officer assaulted photojournalist Nick Stern (foreground) after he held up his LA Press Club press pass (Screenshot taken from video by Tina Berg)...
Posted: Fri, Sep 12, 2025 2:52pm PDT
San Rafael, Calif., September 4, 2025 – The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that Alameda County’s Ordinance 2023-31, which criminalizes merely being present within 200 feet of a “sideshow” for the purpose of observing it, is likely unconstitutional....
Posted: Fri, Sep 12, 2025 2:36pm PDT
September 11, 2025 - The California chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-CA), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today denounced the Senate Education Committee’s vote advancing AB 715 (Zbur & Addis) and reiterated its strong opposition to the bill....
Posted: Fri, Sep 12, 2025 11:40am PDT
AB 715 swaps explicit Israel-Palestine bans for an IHRA‑aligned, “Antisemitism Prevention Coordinator” led instruction materials regime that channels “compliance” through advocacy networks, relabels Israel‑critical scholarship as “bias” and discrimination, chilling classroom speech. AB 715 must be rejected in favor of viewpoint‑neutral standards, established K–12 speech/harassment thresholds, transparency, and clear classroom guidance....
Posted: Thu, Sep 11, 2025 6:18pm PDT
WASHINGTON (09-11) – Members from “For Liberation And Resistance Everywhere” (FLARE) an activist group, and Remember Your Oath, a veterans activist group and their supporters, are challenging the conservative extremist right-wing agenda of the Heritage Foundation, creators of “Project 2025-Mandate for Leadership, the Conservative Promise.” The two groups weekly protests at the Foundation headquarters building are where they “Wait for their staff to leave the building… and walk them to their c...
Posted: Thu, Sep 11, 2025 4:21pm PDT
SF billionaire mayor Daniel Lurie proposed a "Family Housing" plan and held a rally at San Francisco City Hall. It was met with angry protesters who said this was the developers and speculators plan to remove more working class and poor people from San Francisco....
Posted: Thu, Sep 11, 2025 3:22pm PDT
The racist mural on 41st Street and Piedmont Avenue in Oakland was finally fixed. Neighbors hugged with joy as they celebrated the artistic amendment that included depictions of Indigenous resistance to colonial violence. Titled "The Capture of the Solid, Escape of the Soul,” the mural was originally painted by non-native artist Rocky Rische-Baird in 2006 to the loud and persistent protest of the local Indigenous community....
Posted: Thu, Sep 11, 2025 11:02am PDT
By diversifying our energy portfolio with offshore wind, a homegrown source of power, we reduce our reliance on volatile fossil fuel markets. This increased reliability also translates into fewer blackouts and Public Safety Power Shutoffs, which have become an increasingly unwelcome reality for many of us across the state....
Posted: Thu, Sep 11, 2025 7:51am PDT
Activists on the West Coast from Bellingham, WA to San Diego, CA organized highway banner drops on August 29 to amp up the Global Chevron Boycott, which has been initiated as a priority campaign by Palestine's Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement. Chevron operates and co-owns fossil gas fields off the coast of occupied Palestinian land that Israel has illegally claimed, and also manages a pipeline that runs from Israel to Egypt....
Posted: Thu, Sep 11, 2025 1:30am PDT

































