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imageZero Delta Smelt found in CDFW fall survey from Sept. to Nov. as Delta Tunnel goes forward
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by Dan Bacher
No Delta Smelt, once the most abundant fish on the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, were collected in the CDFW's Fall Midwater Trawl survey from September through November....
Posted: Sat, Dec 17, 2022 7:57am PST
imageOakland Demonstration as Movement to Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Gains Momentum
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by Leon Kunstenaar
Good news from Philadelphia seen as important victory...
Posted: Fri, Dec 16, 2022 9:43pm PST
imageStarbucks Workers Strike 100 Stores SF Castro Starbucks Barrista Kyle Trainer Speaks
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by Labor Video Project
On Friday December 16, 2022 over 100 stores went on strike for a union contract and against union busting....
Posted: Fri, Dec 16, 2022 7:16pm PST
imageIt’s Going Down Suspended from Twitter as Billionaire Elon Musk Fulfills Far-Right Agenda
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by IGD
At the time of the suspension, It’s Going Down had over 108,000 followers. IGD has been on Twitter since 2015 and has never been suspended....
Posted: Fri, Dec 16, 2022 5:29pm PST
textCEL Offices Attacked in Solidarity with the Atlanta Weelaunee Forest by Some Bay Anarchists
CEL is owned by Atlas Technical Consultants and is involved in the proposed Cop City project in Atlanta's Weelaunee Forest. Their offices were attacked as part of a battle over whats left of the living world....
Posted: Fri, Dec 16, 2022 4:49pm PST
imagePaiute and Shoshone Elders Evicted from Homes with No Place to Go in Winnemucca, Nevada
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by Brenda Norrell
WINNEMUCCA INDIAN COLONY, Nevada -- In a cruel action during winter, the Winnemucca Tribal Court evicted Paiute and Shoshone elders without a trial, and banished people from their homes with no place to go in northern Nevada. Elders' homes and possessions have been burned and demolished, and utility lines cut, attorneys said....
Posted: Fri, Dec 16, 2022 5:37am PST
imageCanary in the Coal Mine: Twitter and the End of Social Media
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by CrimethInc.
As everyone knows, we have been suspended from Twitter at the same time that Elon Musk is welcoming notorious neo-Nazis back to the platform. On a platform like Twitter, a project like ours is like a canary in a coal mine: when things change, we are the first to go, and that means the clock is ticking for everyone....
Posted: Thu, Dec 15, 2022 6:37pm PST
imageElon Musk Bans CrimethInc. from Twitter at the Urging of Far-Right Troll
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by CrimethInc.
On November 25, at the urging of a far-right troll, Elon Musk banned the @crimethinc Twitter account. Musk’s goal in acquiring Twitter had nothing to do with “free speech”—it was a partisan move intended to silence opposition while opening up space for the far right. This underscores the hazards of depending on corporate social media platforms....
Posted: Thu, Dec 15, 2022 6:33pm PST
textSF Wells Fargo Attacked In Solidarity With Atlanta Forest Defenders by anarchists
Five windows and an ATM were smashed at the Wells Fargo at 24th Ave and Irving St in retribution for the arrest of five Atlanta forest defenders on bullshit "domestic terrorism" charges....
Posted: Thu, Dec 15, 2022 12:13am PST
imageKPFA Facing Layoffs, Massive Budget Shortfall After US Marshals Seize $305,000 of Reserves
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by Indybay
Even though KPFA was not a party in the matter, US Marshals seized $305,000 of KPFA’s cash reserves to pay for a monetary judgment against the Pacifica Foundation, its parent organization. The asset seizure resulted from a defamation lawsuit filed by John Vernile, former director of Pacifica, against programmers of WBAI in New York. Pacifica lawyers filed an appeal against the judgement, but KPFA is now facing layoffs and a massive budget shortfall....
Posted: Wed, Dec 14, 2022 8:33pm PST
imageAlwa Gordon Celebrates Release of Debut Album “Thanks for Waiting” with Hometown Show
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by Cassidy Kakin
Alwa Gordon Celebrates Release of Debut Album “Thanks for Waiting” with Hometown Santa Cruz County Vibes at Santa Cruz, California, Santa Cruz Recording Studios...
Posted: Wed, Dec 14, 2022 4:34pm PST
textThe Ghost of Eugene McCarthy Could Haunt Biden’s Path to Renomination by Jeff Cohen and Norman Solomon
No to Status-Quo Joe...
Posted: Tue, Dec 13, 2022 10:38pm PST
imageNavajo Nation Joining Attack on Hualapai Sacred Land for Lithium Mine
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by Brenda Norrell
The Navajo government is planning to join the attack on Hualapai's sacred land, according to the Australian company planning a lithium mine under the fake green banner....
Posted: Tue, Dec 13, 2022 10:18pm PST
imageBiden, Haaland and the Navajo Nation's Runaway Train -- Oil, Gas, Coal and Lithium
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by Brenda Norrell
Flying under the banner of energy transition, the Biden administration and Navajo Nation are pushing the most polluting and devastating drilling and mining on earth....
Posted: Tue, Dec 13, 2022 10:04pm PST
imageSeniors and Disabled Demand Oakland Restore Mask Mandate in Public Buildings
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by Leon Kunstenaar
Increasing Covid levels spur rally at Oakland City Hall...
Posted: Tue, Dec 13, 2022 10:03pm PST
imagePacifica Foundation can’t dodge $300,000 defamation award for fired executive
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by Courthouse News
September 16, 2022: A federal judge confirmed an arbitrator's finding that the former director was defamed by WBAI programmers who said he had been hired to sell the New York City radio station....
Posted: Tue, Dec 13, 2022 9:29pm PST
image2022 CA State Capitol Kwanzaa will build upon a ‘Quintessential 21st Century Partnership’
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by Khubaka, Michael Harris
Our "California Grown" Pan African Global Holiday, created by Dr. Maulana Karenga here in the California Sunshine reflecting deeply on a global Pan African community, over half a century later... Habari Gani?...
Posted: Tue, Dec 13, 2022 2:37pm PST
textMake an American dream possible in Ukraine: The case for renewable energy democracy by Igor Tregub
While the war on Ukraine, to those who don’t have ties there, may seem like an endless conflict raging thousands of miles away from our home, what we do as Californians to choose our energy supply has a deep impact on bringing this nightmare - which every night keeps me awake and scared for the safety of my loved ones - to an end. We owe it to our shared humanity to act decisively today. We can and must choose people over profit....
Posted: Tue, Dec 13, 2022 1:32pm PST
textFederal Marshals Seize KPFA Assets to Pay Defamation Judgment Against New York Sister Station by KPFA
This week US Marshals seized more than $300,000 of KPFA’s cash reserves to pay for a monetary judgment for its parent organization the Pacifica Foundation. The asset seizure resulted from a defamation lawsuit by a former interim executive director of Pacifica, John Vernile in 2019 against programmers of its New York station, WBAI. Pacifica lawyers filed an appeal today to block the judgment. But KPFA is now facing layoffs and a massive budget shortfall....
Posted: Mon, Dec 12, 2022 10:45pm PST
imageUnite and Fight for our Rights, Lives, and Planet
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by Leon Kunstenaar
Hundreds of Demonstrators in evening march from 7th Street Federal Building to Union Square...
Posted: Sat, Dec 10, 2022 10:19am PST
imageWreaths Across America “Remember, Honor, Teach” - California Pioneers of African Descent
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by Khubaka, Michael Harris
“Remember, Honor and Teach” includes the 1848 Historic Towns of Negro Hill, Mormon Island and Negro Bar - Gold Mining District...
Posted: Fri, Dec 9, 2022 10:20am PST
textCompendium of Propaganda by Johannes Menath, W Meyer & A Behrend
Today, the media have arguably influenced our culture and behavior even more profoundly than nuclear power or weapons of mass destruction. An invisible cloud of artificial emotions, opinions and conclusions surrounds modern man. Propaganda can spread worldviews, generate obedience or revolutions, help wars break out and end, topple politicians - or make them heads of state....
Posted: Thu, Dec 8, 2022 4:08am PST
imageTransphobes Met with Pies and Eggs, Get Banners Snatched
TERFs told to "Get Out of Oakland!"
by Indybay
On December 5, several anti-trans TERF groups staged a rally on the steps of the René C. Davidson courthouse in Oakland. Not a single person showed up to support their cause. After they took turns reading short scripts on the courthouse steps, they walked over to Lake Merritt. At that point, trans-rights activists ran up and shouted "Get out of Oakland!" Both of the TERF banners were snatched away from them, while they were served cream pies and eggs....
Posted: Wed, Dec 7, 2022 9:00pm PST
imageUC UAW 2865 Strikers Support Railway Workers: Your Fight Is Our Fight!
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by Labor Video Project
UCSC UAW 2865 striker Christoper Geary spoke at a solidarity rally at UCB Sproul Plaza connecting the railroad struggle with the UC UAW strike. He is a supporter of UCSC4COLA @payusmoreucsc...
Posted: Wed, Dec 7, 2022 8:25pm PST
imageLegal Agreement Blocks Oil Drilling on 725,000 Acres of California Central Coast
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by Center for Biological Diversity
MARINA, Calif., December 6, 2022 — A federal judge approved an agreement today to suspend new oil and gas leasing across more than 725,000 acres of public lands in California’s Central Coast and the Bay Area. The legal agreement was reached by conservation groups, Monterey County, Santa Cruz County and the U.S. Bureau of Land Management....
Posted: Wed, Dec 7, 2022 11:58am PST
imageReport Back from Anti-TERF Action in Oakland: Eco-Fascists and Transphobes GTFO
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by ata
report back on action against dgr/wolf in so-called oakland, ca....
Posted: Wed, Dec 7, 2022 12:35am PST
imageJustice Demanded in Death of Abbey Lynn Steele in Rapid City
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by Wotakuye Mutual Aid
On Friday, December 2, 2022, 20-year-old Abbey Lynn Steele of Rapid City, South Dakota died at Monument Hospital after arriving unconscious and not breathing from the Pennington County Jail on November 16th....
Posted: Tue, Dec 6, 2022 9:49pm PST
imageSTOP Concession Bargaining! No COLA, No Contract! COLA & Housing for All Unions & Workers
mittee For A Labor Party UFCLP opposes Concession bargaining No COLA/No Contract 
COLA & Housing for All Unions & Working People

Time To Shut It Down With Mass Labor/Community Solidarity
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by United Front Committee For A Labor Party
The United Front Committee For A Labor Party UFCLP opposes Concession bargaining No COLA/No Contract COLA & Housing for All Unions & Working People Time To Shut It Down With Mass Labor/Community Solidarity...
Posted: Tue, Dec 6, 2022 9:36pm PST
textElected officials show support for a windfall profits cap on oil industry for price hikes by Ramon du Houx
State lawmakers and local elected officials urged legislation on a windfall profits cap on oil companies for the price gouging practices. The penalty would provide a rebate for CA consumers. Elected Officials to Protect America (EOPA) California local elected officials from frontline communities spoke about how their communities are being affected from gas prices as the oil industry continues to rake in billions of dollars in profits with no regard for how it hurts Californians, our climate a...
Posted: Tue, Dec 6, 2022 4:24pm PST
textInaugural EOPA CA Climate Emergency & Energy Security Summit focused on offshore wind by Ramon du Houx
The Summit focused on the urgency for affordable clean energy security for all Californians – and highlighted energy solutions including scaling up offshore wind power. EOPA CA also supported Governor Newsom’s windfall profits cap on oil companies that are price gouging Californians at the pump...
Posted: Tue, Dec 6, 2022 4:10pm PST
textBiden Wants to Prevent a Strong Primary Challenge. He Shouldn’t Get Away With It. by Norman Solomon
He Shouldn’t Get Away With It....
Posted: Tue, Dec 6, 2022 1:04am PST
imageHundreds of UC UAW Strikers March & Rally In Sacramento At Capitol
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by Labor Video Project
Hundreds of striking UC UAW education workers marched and rallied in Sacramento against the union busting and refusal of the administration to meet their demands for living wages, a COLA and. housing....
Posted: Mon, Dec 5, 2022 11:20pm PST
imageTransphobes Kara Dansky and Lierre Kieth Get Their Hateful Banners Snatched Away in Oakland
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by Dave Id
Some TERFs thought it'd be a good idea to stage an anti-trans "protest" in Oakland and it didn't turn out well for them. They got their two banners snatched, they got pied, and, apparently, they got egged as well....
Posted: Mon, Dec 5, 2022 8:29pm PST
imageTERFs Have Problems at Oakland Courthouse
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by Leon Kunstenaar
Oakland not TERF's turf...
Posted: Mon, Dec 5, 2022 4:59pm PST
imageOil and gas industry has spent over $30 million in 2021-22 session lobbying CA legislators
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by Dan Bacher
The oil and gas industry has spent an astounding $30 million to date in the 2021-22 Legislative Session against SB 1137, legislation to mandate buffer zones around oil and gas wells, and other bills they opposed....
Posted: Mon, Dec 5, 2022 10:39am PST
imageThe UC UAW Workers Strike & The Historic Fight For Housing & Against Privatization At The
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by Labor Video Project
UCB geographer Gray Brechin who is also author of "Imperial San Francisco" and Harvey Smith who is with the People's Park Historic District Advocacy Group talk about the history of privatization and corporatization of the university and the role of the millionaire and billionaire Regents appointed by California governors....
Posted: Sun, Dec 4, 2022 7:27pm PST
textRussia's war in the mirror of western international law nihilism and propaganda by Alexander Neu
With Russia's war of aggression on Ukraine and the Western response, the world may be headed in leaps and bounds toward the nuclear abyss: The escalation dynamic is gaining speed. More and more conventional weapons with better and better effect are being moved by the West to Ukraine, while asserting that they are not a party to the war....
Posted: Sun, Dec 4, 2022 8:06am PST
textBad Deal: Seeno's and Tagami's Newest Proposal for Concord by LOL
The latest term sheet proposal by the Concord First (yes, really that's their name) Partners is a bad deal for Concord. Not only is it more of the same sprawl that fails at addressing climate challenges, the proposal reinforces the widening economic disparity in the region....
Posted: Sat, Dec 3, 2022 1:01pm PST
imageSilvia Federici: Elogio del cuerpo que baila
más allá de la piel. Repensar, rehacer y reivindicar el cuerpo en el capitalismo contemporáneo”, nuevo libro de Silvia Federici...
by reenvia Red Latina sin fronteras
Un fragmento de “Ir más allá de la piel. Repensar, rehacer y reivindicar el cuerpo en el capitalismo contemporáneo”, nuevo libro de Silvia Federici...
Posted: Sat, Dec 3, 2022 10:08am PST
imageReproductive Rights Repertory on the Streets of San Francisco
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by Rose Ramirez
Photos by Rachel Podlishevsky, ProBonoPhoto.org Please credit the photographer...
Posted: Sat, Dec 3, 2022 4:52am PST
imageRain or Shine, Grannies Rage for Abortion Rights
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by Leon Kunstenaar
Action at Federal Building part of Nationwide Protest...
Posted: Fri, Dec 2, 2022 11:11am PST
videoStreet Theater for Abortion Rights on Anniversary of Dobbs v. Jackson (video/mp4 97.5MB) by SF on National Day of Action
Street theater and songs for abortion rights 1 min mp4 video by Lis Cox....
Posted: Thu, Dec 1, 2022 9:14pm PST
imageBiden & Republicrats Union Busting Bill Against Railway Workers & Their Fight For Sick Pay
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by Labor Video Project
The Biden administration with the support of most of the Democrats and Republicans in Congress pushed a bill that imposes a reactionary contract that severely limits sick pay and benefits BNSF railroad owner Warren Buffet and the other railroad corporations....
Posted: Thu, Dec 1, 2022 6:24pm PST
imageGolden Harvest Ceremony - Growing food in Historic Negro Bar, Lake Natoma, California
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by Khubaka, Michael Harris
1848 Negro Hill, Mormon Island and Negro Bar Gold Mining District on Ancient Indigenous Lands in California. “It’s important to keep the focus squarely on the culprit that brought us to this point today. And that’s the US government. Its subtle and overt expansion of White supremacy is to blame here. These are two incredibly aggrieved, hyper-marginalized groups,”...
Posted: Thu, Dec 1, 2022 1:21pm PST
imageRita Segato: Raza, decolonización, patriarcado, feminismo...
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by reenvia Red Latina sin fronteras
Rita Segato: “Elegimos una teoría por la dirección de la historia en la que queremos ir”...
Posted: Thu, Dec 1, 2022 8:46am PST
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