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The White House is currently destroying the US hegemonic system established in the post-war period, as the US can no longer bear the costs of this hegemony, or is no longer willing to do so. Instead, Trump is setting out to build a US empire that no longer relies on a global network of institutions and rules to exercise power, but will presumably assert itself through direct, ultimately military force....
Posted: Sat, May 17, 2025 9:02am PDT
Please email contact@oaklandprivacy.org a few days before the meeting to get up-to-date location information or obtain Zoom meeting access info....
Event Date: Wed, Jun 18, 2025 6:30pm PDT
Posted: Thu, May 15, 2025 11:20am PDT
South Berkeley Senior Center
corner of Ashby and Ellis St....
Event Date: Sat, May 17, 2025 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Mon, May 12, 2025 9:54am PDT
Argentina: Héctor Oesterheld, el compañero autor de El Eternauta...
Posted: Fri, May 9, 2025 6:41am PDT
Plans to expand the police state in Nevada County by building a $15,000,000 cop city and $30,000,000 jail expansion....
Posted: Wed, May 7, 2025 8:37pm PDT
Building more roads, modernizing seaports, improving airports and
train stations, and constructing power plants in the country where
construction is most expensive is a huge undertaking that many people fail to grasp....
Posted: Wed, May 7, 2025 4:39am PDT
1364 Fremont Blvd., Seaside, CA 93955 (between Sonoma Ave. and Hamilton St.)...
Event Date: Fri, May 23, 2025 5:00pm PDT
Posted: Mon, May 5, 2025 2:09pm PDT
Those who conform, go with the flow, and say little in opposition rise to the top. Those who are not yet sufficiently conformist are corrupted. A great deal of lobbying is carried out to bring members of parliament into line and make them vote the way they want them to. Then the revolving door starts turning, so that after their political career, they get a comfortable, warm, and well-paid job....
Posted: Mon, May 5, 2025 1:09pm PDT
An army of researchers, service providers, physicians, community workers, prevention practitioners, and countless others who serve the American public on a daily basis have been either fired or otherwise rendered unable to perform their duties.
A smarter way to cut waste and preserve effectiveness is to invest in an "evidence-based” approach to government. Decades of careful research have identified numerous programs that work and many that don’t. Cutting ineffective programs and providing e...
Posted: Mon, May 5, 2025 9:03am PDT
Saul Alinsky was a master strategist, starting in the 1940s and particularly in the turbulent time of protests of the 1960’s. His 1971 Rules for Radicals is considered a classic in organizing, It has been utilized by both those on the political Left and Right. Though likely not consciously, as seen below as examples, Trump uses many of the rules himself (some sentences or wording here are taken from How Donald Trump Exploits 12 Of Saul Alinsky's Radical Rules. They can be used in reverse aga...
Posted: Mon, May 5, 2025 8:55am PDT
Online
https://www.codepink.org/cpc56...
Event Date: Tue, May 6, 2025 5:00pm PDT
Posted: Sun, May 4, 2025 10:43pm PDT
Photo of U.S. Supported Chilean Dictator Augusto Pinochet Before He Passed Away:...
Posted: Fri, May 2, 2025 4:17am 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
Copaganda’ is propaganda employed by police, prosecutors, and news media that stokes fear of police-recorded crime and distorts society’s responses to it....
Posted: Sun, Apr 27, 2025 5:47pm PDT
What is the legacy of white supremacy and white supremacists in American prisons? How did the Black Power movement spur an evolution in the violence of the US carceral system and its agents?...
Posted: Sun, Apr 27, 2025 5:18pm PDT
Aircraft from Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington State are flying surveillance missions over Yelm, WA, in an on-going pattern of illegal surveillance of the civilian community....
Posted: Thu, Apr 24, 2025 4:51am 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
In language that echoes that of the Nazis against those “unworthy of life,” the long-serving Republican mayor of Lancaster, California, R. Rex Parris, recently suggested that the city’s homeless population should be given “free fentanyl … as much as they like” and expressed his desire for a federal “purge” to eliminate them....
Posted: Tue, Apr 22, 2025 5:04am PDT
On two Sundays, folks from HUFF (Homeless United for Friendship & Freedom) have been distributing flyers encouraging victims and witnesses to document and file reports of property stolen by police and city agencies in encampment-destroying sweeps....
Posted: Sun, Apr 20, 2025 3:50pm PDT
There will be an international panel against repression on April 26, 2025 that will link up workers and countries around the world...
Posted: Fri, Apr 18, 2025 10:20am PDT