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SAN RAFAEL, Calif., November 6, 2025 – The First Amendment Coalition has sued the City of Vallejo for withholding and improperly redacting public records about a police shooting. As part of its statewide police transparency initiative, FAC represents the Vallejo Sun, a small, independent news publication that reports on local news throughout Solano County....

SAN FRANCISCO, October 16, 2025 — The ACLU of Northern California and several organizations fighting for free speech, academic freedom, and press rights, filed an amicus brief to support a First Amendment challenge brought by the Stanford Daily student newspaper and two noncitizen Stanford University students against Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. The lawsuit challenges the Trump administration’s unlawful application of the Immigration Nationality ...

After another hundredth day of mass slaughter and zionist media excusing away the blood of our children in the soil, we seized a zionist billboard, dismembered it, and recycled its pieces with our own messages of resistance, solidarity, remembrance, and calls to action. We took these pieces and strategically posted them on bus platforms all across the Bay Area in high traffic areas to ensure maximum public exposure to the truth on Palestine....

The Humanist Hall 390 27th St. Oakland...

Doubt as to whether Israel is committing genocide ends as Israel tries to erase Palestine by also killing its journalists...

Irvine, Calif., July 30, 2025 – The Investigative Reporting Program (“IRP”) at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism filed a lawsuit against San Joaquin County challenging unlawful fees for copies of autopsy reports about deaths caused by law enforcement officers. IRP is represented by Professors Susan E. Seager and Jack Lerner with the Press Freedom Project of the Intellectual Property, Arts, and Technology Clinic at UC Irvine School of Law, as well as the First Amendment Coalition....

Long Haul Infoshop - 3124 Shattuck Avenue - Berkeley (2 blocks from Ashby BART) - corner of Woolsey and Shattuck across from La Pena...

Once again this year the Western States Petroleum Association was again one of the “lede sponsors” of the Sacramento Press Club’s Annual Journalism Awards Reception on April 11. And this time no journalists other than this one held the organizers of the event and the awards recipients accountable for embracing Big Oil funding of journalism awards....

Updates and info regarding the second annual Sacramento Anarchist Bookfair on September 7th....

A vital repository of knowledge gained from concrete practical experience, The Black Panther: Black Community News Service offers a blueprint for U.S.-based radical organizations experimenting with the scientific, premeditated, and necessarily methodical artistry of social revolution...