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Event Date: Sun, Jan 29, 2023 5:00pm PST
Posted: Fri, Jan 27, 2023 6:23pm PST
Nazis And Republicans Appear To Be One, And The Same:...
Posted: Sun, Jan 22, 2023 1:47am PST
Action at UC Berkeley law school also demands prosecution for John Yoo, provider of legal "rational" for torture...
Posted: Wed, Jan 11, 2023 10:22pm PST
Makeshift Tombstones Honoring Homeless Persons Who Died In 2022:...
Posted: Thu, Dec 29, 2022 2:47am PST
Thousands of social justice leaders in communities all over the world passed away this year. We’re closing out the year, as we usually do, with inspiring words from some of the Fallen Heroes of 2022....
Posted: Wed, Dec 28, 2022 6:24pm 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
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
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
In a union busting attack the management of the 400,000 SEIU 2015 tried to run over PNWU2015 staff workers who are on an unfair labor strike and also have refused to bargain and are implementing a contract without negotiation. This union busting tactic is under the president April Terrell who has also been appointed the SEIU International Secretary Treasurer by Mary Kay Henry in June 2022....
Posted: Tue, Nov 8, 2022 4:13pm PST
A look back in 1993, when Film director/ producer, actor Spike Lee came to North Richmond, California to visit the Shields-Reid Community Center....
Posted: Tue, Sep 20, 2022 8:01pm PDT
WorkWeek covers Google Tech Workers Fighting Apartheid, Clean Water & Union Busting In Mississippi and the US, CIA, AFL-CIO, AIFLD &The 1973 Chilean Coup With Professor Ruth Needleman...
Posted: Sat, Sep 17, 2022 1:39pm PDT
2019 interview with John Lydon of Sex Pistols and Public Image Limited. Includes text and one hour, 10 minute audio recording....
Posted: Sun, Sep 11, 2022 5:46pm PDT
WorkWeek covers CNA Kaiser Nurses & Patients In Danger & PG&E Newsom Legislature Corruption & UPS "Oven In The Trucks" IBT Workers Heat & Labor Poet Tongo Issac-Martin...
Posted: Sun, Sep 11, 2022 11:10am PDT
Our dear friend is gone....
Posted: Wed, Aug 31, 2022 8:00pm PDT
Federal Filing Urges 9th Circuit to Overturn Ban Backed by Kamala Harris...
Posted: Wed, Aug 31, 2022 4:58pm PDT
Cloudflare protects transphobic hate site Kiwi Farms. Please demand that they do better, and stop protecting KF by providing them Internet services. Kiwi Farms users have doxxed, swatted, and killed a number of vulnerable individuals in the queer and trans communities, this is unacceptable and Cloudflare must be held accountable for their willingness to support the abuses of Kiwi Farms!...
Posted: Fri, Aug 26, 2022 1:45am PDT
August 2022, we mark the anniversary of the long road to establishing the U.N. Permanent Forum on People of African Descent. Here in the Capitol Region of the State of California we are reimagining how to share the authentic story of free and enslaved people of African Descent in California History....
Posted: Wed, Aug 3, 2022 7:00am PDT
New report identifies ‘climate forests’ at risk...
Posted: Tue, Jul 12, 2022 10:36am PDT
LOS ANGELES, June 3, 2022 — A federal appeals court today affirmed a lower court decision that prohibits offshore fracking in federal waters off the California coast....
Posted: Fri, Jun 3, 2022 5:54pm PDT