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California Senate Committee Blocks Governor's Plan to Gut Environmental Law
Representatives of environmental groups spoke out against the legislation at the hearing, supporting the staff recommendations to move the trailer bills to the regular policy process and to reject the flood and drought trailer bill language....
Posted: Sun, May 28, 2023 10:02pm PDT
Graffiti Writers Paint Over Pro-Police “Street Art” Campaign Backed by a Tech Billionaire
A “street art” campaign backed by Welsh tech billionaire and venture capitalist Michael Moritz is being targeted by graffiti artists in San Francisco, California. The campaign features posters and even wheat-pastes which call for a “law and order” approach to homelessness and fentanyl related deaths in San Francisco....
Posted: Tue, May 23, 2023 1:03pm PDT
Governor guts landmark environmental law to expedite the salmon-killing Delta Tunnel
Advocates for fish, water and environmental justice are outraged over Governor Gavin Newsom's plan to gut the California Environmental Quality Act in order to construct the Delta Tunnel, Sites Reservoir and other destructive infrastructure projects....
Posted: Mon, May 22, 2023 4:52pm PDT
Protest Over CA AG Rob Bonta's Refusal To Prosecute O'Neil's Killer
There was a protest at the San Francisco Hall of Justice and courts against the decision by California Attorney General Rob Bonta not to protest the killer of Keito O'Neil....
Posted: Sat, May 20, 2023 2:48pm PDT
Banko Brown Murder & License To Kill: SF Press Conference At DA Brook Jenkins Office
The murder of Banko Brown by a Walgreen security guard in San Francisco and the failure to prosecute by the District Attorney Brook Jenkins backed up by Mayor London Breed has led to fury among people in San Franicsco. Many Democratic Party officials organized a rally at Jenkins office to protest and call for prosecution. There are over 61 billionaires in San Francisco and speakers charged that there is massive ethnic cleansing going on in San Francisco with Blacks being driven out of San Fra...
Posted: Thu, May 18, 2023 5:36am PDT
Leidesdorff Plaza established May 1966, rekindles the strength and courage to try again
Sacramento Negro Museum and Library Association dedicated Leidesdorff Plaza, May 1966, it is one of the last remaining authentic markers showcasing California Pioneers of Pan African Descent, like a Phoenix the rest of the story must rise....
Posted: Tue, May 16, 2023 1:20am PDT
On 75th Anniversary of Nakba Speak Out In SF While SF Mayor In Israel Supporting Zionists
On the 75th anniversary of Nabka, a rally was held in San Francisco. Speakers talked about SF mayor London Breed's visit to Israel to support the apartheid Zionist regime and the continued police murders of Black youth in the City by her police....
Posted: Sun, May 14, 2023 8:29pm PDT
May 1st March in Fresno
Around 200 people marched through downtown Fresno May 1st to advocate immigrants' rights....
Posted: Sun, May 7, 2023 5:31pm PDT
Your Tesla's Destroying the Earth: Silicon Valley Protest to Stop Thacker Pass Lithium Mine
Fremont Park, corner of Santa Cruz Ave. and University Dr. in Menlo Park, across from Peet's Coffee. Walking distance from Menlo Park Caltrain....
Event Date: Wed, May 3, 2023 8:00am PDT
Posted: Mon, May 1, 2023 10:13pm PDT
Big Oil sponsors dinners and awards for CA journalists as part of greenwashing campaign
Big Oil’s campaign to influence the political system and the journalists that cover it has real world consequences in California, where oil drilling permits have skyrocketed in recent weeks....
Posted: Sun, Apr 9, 2023 1:53pm PDT
STILL ON: Sacramento: Rage Revival - More than Mifepristone March & Rally for Abortion Rights
MEET AT:
Cathedral Square
THEN MARCH TO:
Robert T. Matsui United States Courthouse
501 I Street, Sacramento, CA 95814...
Event Date: Sat, Apr 15, 2023 10:00am PDT
Posted: Sat, Apr 8, 2023 3:37pm PDT
Rally to Free Mumia Tuesday, April 4, Oakland Federal Building (audio/amr 554.0KB)
On March 31, 2023, Judge Lucretia Clemons...former law partner w/ Ed Rendell...denied Mumia Abu Jamal's appeal...ludicrously claiming evidence proving key witnesses were paid in exchange for false testimony was “not material” to showing that the trial was unfair!...
Posted: Fri, Apr 7, 2023 2:43pm PDT
The Pajaro Levee Break, Immigrants, Labor & Climate Crisis With PVFT1936's Pamela Sexton
PVFT Local 1936 Delegate Pamela Beth Sexton adult education teacher talks about the effect of the broken levee on the immigrant farmworker community, systemic racism and the role these farmworkers play in our economy....
Posted: Mon, Mar 20, 2023 7:56pm PDT
Protest: Charlie Kirk at UC Davis
On March 14, U.C. Davis hosted Turning Point USA’s Charlie Kirk to around 300 attendees and a fierce student-led resistance of the same number....
Posted: Thu, Mar 16, 2023 1:15am PDT
Nearly 200 oil drilling permits approved in CA since Jan. 1, bringing total to over 13,900
"CalGEM issuing hundreds of permits to negligent oil companies so they can continue drilling in our communities just months after they released an emergency rule to block neighborhood drilling is exactly why we don't trust them,” said Cesar Aguirre, organizer with Central California Environmental Justice Network. “This is exactly the free-for-all that California's oil industry wanted when they bought their way onto the ballot and forced the stay of SB 1137."...
Posted: Tue, Mar 14, 2023 9:18am PDT
SF Board of Education Gives Green Light to Accommodate Eid Holiday Starting in 2024
Arab and Muslim Community says, “We’ll Be Back”...
Posted: Thu, Mar 9, 2023 3:49pm PST
Phone Zap! Tell UC Davis Chancellor May We Don't Want Another Proud Boy Hate Rally!
Phone Zap! Call and email UC Davis Chancellor Gary S. May and refuse to let our taxes and student fees be used to pay for a Turning Point USA hate rally! Charlie Kirk says trans people need to be "took care of!" At the last TPUSA event at UC Davis, Proud Boys attacked students and community members. Enough is enough!...
Posted: Tue, Mar 7, 2023 2:58pm PST
CA AG Bonta Prosecute SF Police Killer Say Speakers At SF State Building
A rally was held at the San Franciscoo State Building to demand that California Attorney General Rob Bonta continue the prosecution of SF police officer Christopher Samayoa who murdered Keita O'Neil. The San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins who was put in place by rightwing San Francisco billionaire William Obberndorf and POA supporter Mayor London Breed is dropping charges against police murderers that were filed by former DA Chesin Boudin....
Posted: Tue, Mar 7, 2023 1:20am PST
Davis to Protest Charlie Kirk Tour After Calls for Trans People to be "Taken Care Of"
After calling for trans people to be "taken care of the way we used to in the 1950s," Charlie Kirk, the multi-millionaire leader of Turning Point USA, a far-Right, Trump aligned group that has extensive crossover with white supremacists and neo-Nazis, is launching a speaking tour of college campuses. The last TPUSA event at UC Davis saw a gang of Proud Boys attempt to attack a crowd of counter-protesters - but people held the line and the event was shut down. Join us at UC Davis on Tuesday, M...
Posted: Thu, Mar 2, 2023 5:49pm PST
Justice For Keita O'Neil! SF DA Jenkin Fronting For POA & Developers In Dropping Charges
A rally and speakout was held to. protest the move of San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins to drop the charges against the police officer who murdered unarmed Keita O'Neil. The rally took place on March 1, 2023...
Posted: Wed, Mar 1, 2023 5:26pm PST