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A press conference was held at UCSF to challenge the firing of UCSF professor and Dr. Rupa Marya by management after she spoke up against the bombing of hospitals, the genocide in Gaza and also the role of UCSF in supporting these crimes....
Posted: Thu, Jun 5, 2025 5:23pm PDT
México: Seminario “Pensar en común las alternativas” -videos-
El Zapatismo: una rebelión que perdura ( Bernard Duterme )...
Posted: Sat, May 31, 2025 7:35am PDT
Freedom is never free, the Monroe-Gooch Family legacy continues. 25th Anniversary of Folsom Juneteenth the renaissance of how a Modern Juneteenth began in Folsom remembered....
Posted: Mon, May 26, 2025 10:18pm PDT
Thousands of teachers rallied and marched in San Francisco against the attacks on public education. They spoke about the destruction of Title 1 and the growing privatization of public education as well as the ICE raids....
Posted: Sun, May 18, 2025 4:13pm PDT
Thousands show up and join Bay Area Educators to unite in action to save schools...
Posted: Sun, May 18, 2025 3:34pm PDT
At the UC People's Tribunal For Palestine, a UCLA UAW 4811 rank and file member talked about the attack on Palestine solidarity activists at the encampment and the role of the UAW 4811 leadership to these assaults....
Posted: Wed, May 14, 2025 10:50am PDT
The first Black May Day in San Francisco took place at San Francisco General Strike and joined the UCSF UPTE workers who went on an unfair labor practice strike against the lack of staffing and union busting by the UC management and regents. The speak out of Black workers about the systemic racism and police murders was addressed as well as the housing and gentrification issues were also brought out....
Posted: Fri, May 2, 2025 9:23am PDT
UCSF NUHW Oakland Children's healthcare workers are fighting the effort by UC bosses and Regents to coerce the hospital's workers into other unions where they will be forced to take pay cuts of up to $10,000 dollars a year....
Posted: Wed, Apr 30, 2025 9:37pm PDT
WASHINGTON (04-30) – Columbia University student Mohsen Mahdawi, illegally arrested and jailed by masked ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) agents on April 14 during a naturalization interview in Vermont to finalize his U.S. citizenship, was released today by U.S. District Court judge Geoffrey W. Crawford who ruled that Mahdawi “did not pose a danger to the public and that he was not a flight risk.” The judge referenced cases from the 1950s and the specter of McCarthyism, saying t...
Posted: Wed, Apr 30, 2025 2:18pm PDT
The billionaire union busting Fisher controlled KIPP charter school chain is raising corruption concerns with millions unaccounted for...
Posted: Sat, Apr 26, 2025 8:40pm PDT
Hundreds of students at Nevada Union and Ghidotti high schools in Grass Valley walked out to protest an NJUHSD school board decision to not pass the 'every student belongs' resolution on the grounds that a hypothetical loss of 4% of the districts budget mattered more than the safety and inclusion of marginalized students....
Posted: Wed, Apr 23, 2025 9:16pm PDT
Union Files Charges against UC over its Hiring Freeze & denial of certain employee benefits to workers some of its newly acquired hospitals...
Posted: Tue, Apr 22, 2025 8:31am PDT
Trump Administration dismantles efforts to level the playing field in America’s Financial Centers. In the deep South Senator Scott’s efforts to knock the rust off America’s Black Belt meets stiff headwinds....
Posted: Tue, Apr 22, 2025 6:35am PDT
On a national day of action to defend higher education, students, staff and faculty rallied at SF State and then protested at SF Civic Plaza. They spoke out about Newsom's massive cuts to the CSU System and the affect of these cuts at SFSU. They also discussed the growing repression and attacks by ICE and the US government on Palestinians and immigrant students.
Students and faculty also chanted against plans to use AI to get rid of faculty as part of the destruction of public education....
Posted: Sat, Apr 19, 2025 2:36pm PDT
As part of a national day of action to higher education, a educational panel was held at SF State on the issues facing the students, faculty and staff...
Posted: Thu, Apr 17, 2025 11:30pm PDT
BERKELEY, CA (04-17) – Speaking from the Mario Savio steps in front of Sproul Hall, Robert Reich, UC Berkeley Public Policy professor and former Secretary of Labor during the Clinton administration, addressed several hundred people on this “National Day of Action for Education,” calling on them to resist the assertion of control over higher education by Donald Trump. Reich opened his remarks by saying “Students, faculty and everyone in the Berkeley community, we are in a national emergency.” ...
Posted: Thu, Apr 17, 2025 7:15pm PDT
Hundreds of students and people rallied at the San Francico ICE office to demand the freedom of Mahmoud Khalil and an end to deportation threats and for the freedom of Palestine...
Posted: Tue, Apr 15, 2025 9:32am PDT
Over 100 high school students and their allies rallied at the State Capitol in Sacramento on April 11 to demand that their legislators vote for the Make Polluters Pay Superfund Bill....
Posted: Sun, Apr 13, 2025 10:07am PDT
Trump regime freezes funding for Cornell, Northwestern University
An official says the pause in funding includes grants and contracts with the federal departments of health, education, agriculture and defence....
Posted: Wed, Apr 9, 2025 3:36am PDT
Interview with activist / musician / educator Sona Jobarteh by John Malkin....
Posted: Fri, Mar 28, 2025 9:36am PDT