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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
Good news from Philadelphia seen as important victory...
Posted: Fri, Dec 16, 2022 9:43pm PST
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
No to Status-Quo Joe...
Posted: Tue, Dec 13, 2022 10:38pm PST
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
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
Increasing Covid levels spur rally at Oakland City Hall...
Posted: Tue, Dec 13, 2022 10:03pm PST
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
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
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
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
Hundreds of Demonstrators in evening march from 7th Street Federal Building to Union Square...
Posted: Sat, Dec 10, 2022 10:19am PST
“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
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
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
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
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
report back on action against dgr/wolf in so-called oakland, ca....
Posted: Wed, Dec 7, 2022 12:35am PST
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
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
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
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
He Shouldn’t Get Away With It....
Posted: Tue, Dec 6, 2022 1:04am PST
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
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
Oakland not TERF's turf...
Posted: Mon, Dec 5, 2022 4:59pm PST
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
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
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
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
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
Photos by Rachel Podlishevsky, ProBonoPhoto.org
Please credit the photographer...
Posted: Sat, Dec 3, 2022 4:52am PST
Action at Federal Building part of Nationwide Protest...
Posted: Fri, Dec 2, 2022 11:11am PST
Street theater and songs for abortion rights
1 min mp4 video by Lis Cox....
Posted: Thu, Dec 1, 2022 9:14pm PST
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
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
Rita Segato: “Elegimos una teoría por la dirección de la historia en la que queremos ir”...
Posted: Thu, Dec 1, 2022 8:46am PST
































