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Socialist Health Care Organizers Exit DSA Open letter from former members of DSA-LA explaining why they resigned from DSA following the organization's abandonment of a true fight for Single Payer health care in CA....
Posted: Thu, Sep 14, 2023 12:18pm PDT
Tenant Union to Picket Berkeley Landlords’ Eviction Party Today Tenant union members to protest Berkeley Landlords’ eviction celebration happy hour today, September 12, from 5:15 pm to 7:30 pm, in front of 2700 Bancroft Way in Berkeley, CA....
Posted: Tue, Sep 12, 2023 1:13pm PDT
EPA Makes Pesticide Incident Reports Publicly Available for First Time Data Details Serious Harms Caused by Pesticides...
Posted: Fri, Jul 28, 2023 7:16am PDT
Jeffrey Tumlin: our buses aren't jails This is an open letter from San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) employees regarding the events of July 8th, 2023 at the annual Dolores Park Hill Bomb, where Muni buses were used by the San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) to transport detained teenagers to SFPD’s Mission Station....
Posted: Mon, Jul 24, 2023 8:31am PDT
Put the Moxi, not Puny, in MUNI The progressive left hobbles itself in not believing the advocacy of socializing land values is worth the energy expended. Without a clear, principled aspiration articulated, a larger, wider, transformative social justice program is unlikely to emerge in public discourse, much less at the ballot....
Posted: Thu, Jul 6, 2023 11:27pm PDT
The Great Leap Backwards Scoop, the swami from Miami, addressed KFOG listeners as fogheads. The United States would be much better off without the self-appointed burden of keeping the world “safe” and “free” with the threat of our nuclear weapons. Also, as our economic growth slows down, we would use less energy and have less need for nuclear and coal power plants that pollute the environment....
Posted: Mon, Jul 3, 2023 7:23am PDT
Authoritarian Capitalism The banks and auto corporations were bailed out and rescued and the ensuing public debt was invoked in order to cut public expenditures on health care, education, pensions, and public
salaries. Furthermore, a new race to the bottom has started in the name of “global competitiveness."...
Posted: Mon, Jun 26, 2023 2:35am PDT
Car Plants Are Making Medical Equipment - And Things Should Stay That Way The time has come for progressive nationalization and socialization. This includes the financial sector, because only if we gain control over the financing of socially necessary areas of production will it be possible to ensure that we as a society can plan our future and the future of our finite planet democratically and thus avert the impending climate catastrophe....
Posted: Sat, Jun 24, 2023 7:32am PDT
Homelessness: Structural Violence in a Rich Country The causes can be found in present social structures, prevailing property relations and mounting socio-economic crisis phenomena. Nowhere does the capitalist economic system fail so blatantly as in the supply of living space since apartments in Germany are treated like sausages, wall tapestries and throwaway handkerchiefs....
Posted: Thu, Jun 15, 2023 7:33am PDT
Three Meetings This Month For Concord's Homeless Strategic Plan The city of Concord (California), will be holding three meetings this week-and-a-half, regarding the development of a homeless strategic plan. Service providers and concerned residents are urged to participate....
Posted: Mon, May 22, 2023 2:25pm PDT
In Shadow Docket Decision, Supreme Court Refuses to Rule on Mifepristone Ban The supreme court basically punted the issue of a mifepristone ban back to the 5th circuit, issuing a stay this afternoon with little word on what they are thinking. Why that took them so many days to do remains a mystery....
Posted: Fri, Apr 21, 2023 5:21pm PDT
Is our system still capable of solving the big problems of the future? How high rents for residential and business premises are, how much biodiversity there is in our cultural landscape, whether there are twelve or thirteen grades up to the Abitur, are all determined by the rulers. Energy prices, construction prices, food prices are the results of politics. Desolate inner cities, new construction deserts and ugly industrial areas are made by politicians....
Posted: Fri, Apr 21, 2023 6:35am PDT
Persons without a center "They have their great, constantly changing I, but none of them has a self, a core, an experience of identity (...) Where there is no real self, there can be no identity" (1). Without awareness of and confidence in his own self, man, Fromm argues, is disconnected from both himself and his environment. He believes neither in what he is nor in what surrounds him....
Posted: Sat, Apr 15, 2023 2:37am PDT
Blow up the banking system! A free account for all is possible. Harsh austerity policies for the vast majority of people and state socialism for bankers, both practiced at the same time in Europe and the U.S. after 2008 - this had two consequences, as they have characterized the financialized capitalism of the past 14 years. First, this course poisoned the West's money....
Posted: Thu, Apr 13, 2023 1:50pm PDT
California Department of Public Health’s Criminal Negligence—April 2023 California Department of Public Health deliberately sacrifices the lives of the elderly, sick, and disabled by removing all restrictions on the transmission of the Covid-19 virus in high risk locations....
Posted: Mon, Apr 3, 2023 5:56pm PDT
General Strike Can Root Out “Taliban” Embedded in U.S. Government and Supreme Court Religious fanatics are taking away our rights and replacing them with god-given rights---this must be stopped...
Posted: Wed, Mar 22, 2023 2:59pm PDT
Activist Leads Fight to Stop Harassment of Vehicular Residents In an extensive and well-documented article on LookOut, activist Reggie Meisler published his research and activism to defend the rights of those in vehicles being harassed by police. Cops have been threatening and ticketing for signs not permitted by the Costal Commission....
Posted: Sat, Mar 11, 2023 5:00pm PST
Food Not Bombs announces Meals-at-City-Hall today after top cop bans Lot #10 serving Harsh rainy weather, the City's failure to provide adequate 24-hour Warming Center facility, and the Chief Escalante's recent ban on serving in the protected parking garage #10 have prompted the free survival food service to move to City Hall today and likely during future rainy days until reasonable alternatives are allowed....
Posted: Fri, Mar 10, 2023 8:56am PST
ARPA Funds and the Public Commons at Concord's Todos Santos On the council agenda for their February 7th meeting, Concord's city council will consider giving nearly half-a-million dollars to the Todos Santos Business Association for "porters" and "private security". This private-public partnership to patrol Todos Santos Park and the adjacent downtown area will blur the lines between private property and public commons....
Posted: Fri, Feb 3, 2023 7:20pm PST
The right to water and 7 challenges to the welfare state Visions need concrete, tangible measures that provide security in times of uncertainty and reliably carry all people through the huge changes. The sooner the challenges to the welfare state are recognized and addressed, the sooner the indispensable ecological transformation will also become a social one....
Posted: Fri, Feb 3, 2023 11:13am PST