Why Are SF UESF "Progressive" Leaders Pushing A Regressive Tax & Tax Dollars For Charters? 
The San Francisco UESF leadership which calls itself "progressive" is pushing a regressive tax titled Prop G and also pushing tax dollars for more charter funding....
Posted: Mon May 21, 2018 9:46PM
Robert King and Albert Woodfox of the Angola 3 w/ Angela Davis at UCSC 
Former political prisoners Albert Woodfox and Robert King of the Angola 3 will be in Santa Cruz next week for a May 22 event with Angela Davis, Craig Haney, and Debbie Kilroy. King and Woodfox will then be speaking at the Santa Cruz Academic Summit on Solitary Confinement & Health from May 23-25. A schedule for the Academic Summit is included here as a PDF....
Posted: Tue May 15, 2018 4:13PM
Pack the Court for Jeremy! #Justice4Jeremy 
Santa Cruz Superior Courthouse
Ocean and Water St., Santa Cruz...
Event Date: Tue May 22, 2018 8:00AM
Posted: Mon May 14, 2018 9:06PM
Plans for October 2018 Celebration for Honorable William Alexander Leidesdorff, Jr. 
May 18, 1848, 170 years ago the "African Founding Father of California" was laid to rest inside Mission Delores San Francisco with great honor. Later that evening most of the town was preparing to head toward his property and look for gold. Today, we prepare for an October rededication to share his living legacy with the world....
Posted: Mon May 14, 2018 5:32AM
Public Banking in Santa Rosa / Sonoma County 
The results of our study reveal that the monopolization of the private banking system exploits citizens, small business, and communities, and stifles communal growth via loan programs designed to earn maximum profits for investors in Wall Street regardless of the negative impact at the local level....
Posted: Thu May 10, 2018 10:01PM
The War On UC AFSCME 3299 Members, Privatization & Racism with Pres Karthyn Lybarger 
Kathryn Lybarger who is president of UC AFSCME 3299 and president of the California AFL-CIO spoke about the attack on the union, the role of privatization and systemic racism....
Posted: Fri May 4, 2018 7:26PM
Once again... People's Park needs your support The foliage in People's Park is thinner this year. Another tree is gone, and various bushes and shrubs have disappeared. UC Berkeley has further whittled away at the park, and a new press release from the UC states that development plans are to be revealed after this academic year ends....
Posted: Tue May 1, 2018 10:03PM
Oakland Education Association OEA Teachers, Students & Parents March & Rally 
Oakland OEA teachers, students and parents rallied and marched on April 24, 2018 for a contract that would allow the teachers to continue to work in Oakland. After a year of negotiation the district has only offered a 1% increase....
Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2018 9:43AM
Homeless regulations will affect People's Park community Newly proposed regulations on the homeless will substantially affect the People's Park community. Berkeley city council is holding a special meeting to codify new city legislation to place restrictions on sleeping and stashing gear on sidewalks....
Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2018 1:10PM
Don’t let an unapproved KIPP school displace immigrants and students of color at SF 
A private charter school KIPP which is run by the GAP billion John Fisher wants to bust up Malcom X School in San Francisco. The co-locations pushed by Netflix billionaire Reed Hastings and the Walmart Walton family are destroying public schools throughout the state....
Posted: Sat Apr 21, 2018 11:25PM
Historic Negro Bar, Sacramento County comes alive for 2018 Folsom Juneteenth 
Join us as we prepare for our 2018 Folsom Juneteenth Celebration featuring the Buffalo Soldiers, 10th Cavalry, Company G of Northern California....
Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2018 12:42PM
Leidesdorff Ranch is poised to preserve the legacy of a Founding Father of California 
Leidesdorff Ranch is poised to replicate and preserve the historical legacy of our African Cuban, Danish Jewish founding father of the State of California...
Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2018 3:01PM
Coalition for Limiting University Expansion to Host Community Meeting 
The University of California, Santa Cruz is proposing to increase enrollment to 28,000 students by 2040, an increase of 8,500 students from the 19,500 limit allowed by 2020 under a lawsuit settlement in 2008. Including the additional faculty and staff needed to serve these students, and their families, the total of new residents will come to about 12,500, roughly equal to the population of Scotts Valley....
Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2018 10:47AM
President of Ghana scheduled to visit the Capitol of California 
April 27, 2018 is National Freedom Day for South Africa and the 27th Peace and Conflict Resolution Conference in the Capitol City of the State of California...
Posted: Sun Apr 8, 2018 9:56PM
UC Workers Call for Strike Vote After Protests End with Arrests University of California Workers Arrested Over Mounting Inequality on MLK Death Anniversary...
Posted: Sat Apr 7, 2018 12:52AM
Lawfare Project Re-Files Baseless Lawsuit Against San Francisco State and Professor Abdulhadi 
March 30, 2018 - The Lawfare Project has re-filed its harassing lawsuit against San Francisco State and Professor Rabab Abdulhadi. The suit, which was thrown out of court earlier this month, alleges that support for Palestinian rights amounts to discrimination against Jewish students....
Posted: Mon Apr 2, 2018 11:30PM
Defend Public School Teachers/Terminate PAR NOW! Hands Off Margaret Reyes 
Using the anti-labor Peer Assisted Review PAR program school administrators with the support of pro-management union officials are colluding to bully, terrorize and terminate long time teachers, African American and Latino teachers. In San Francisco nearly $1 million is being spent from a parcel tax to bully and punish public school teachers....
Posted: Mon Apr 2, 2018 8:37AM
Environmental Study Comment Period Opens for East Meadow Development 
On March 27, the University of California Santa Cruz released the draft environmental impact report (EIR) for the controversial proposal to develop the East Meadow of campus, an area that has been traditionally kept preserved as an open space. The deceptively titled "Student Housing West" project is now proposed to spread over two sites: Heller Drive on the west side of campus, and Hagar Drive on the East. Members of the public have until May 11 to comment on the East Meadow development propo...
Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2018 1:21PM
Sacramento Kings and Black Lives Matter Sacramento Join Build.Black. Coalition to Help Transform Sacramento Communities 
Coalition to Host a Youth Healing Forum on Friday...
Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2018 10:54AM
Police with Guns Guard Gun Protesters during San Jose March for Our Lives 
Photos by Chris Cassell free for non-commercial use. Please credit the photographer....
Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2018 4:20AM