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textIf You See These Flyers In The TL/SOMA, Rip Them Down by SF PSH/SRO Chronicles
The Central City SRO Collaborative Is A Fake Tenants Rights Organization Funded By Taxpayer Dollars...
Posted: Wed, May 13, 2026 11:16am PDT
textAfghanistan Silent Cancer Crisis: A Call to Consience by Dr Mohammed Daud Miraki
Since the US-NATO invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, the US used uranium munitions among other exotixc weapons. Consequently, cancers have increased exponentially. I am trying yo raise funds for repurposed medications for desperate cancer patients. If anyone care to help, they could donate at paypal link in the write up...
Posted: Sun, Apr 12, 2026 11:26am PDT
textCOVID Catastrophe by Todd A. Davis
This article summarizes some of my findings from my book COVID-19 Catastrophe: The Problematic Response of the American Government to the Global Pandemic...
Posted: Tue, Mar 31, 2026 9:08am PDT
textNew Analyses: EPA Consistently Fails to Warn Public of Pesticide Cancer Risks by Center for Biological Diversity
WASHINGTON, March 30, 2026 — The Environmental Protection Agency has routinely failed to put cancer warnings on pesticide products even when its own assessments have found a high risk of those products causing cancer, according to two new analyses released today by the Center for Food Safety and the Center for Biological Diversity....
Posted: Mon, Mar 30, 2026 2:41pm PDT
textBerkeley Tenants Convention to select 2026 Rent Board Slate to meet on April 19, 2026 by Berkeley Tenants Union
Candidates for Rent Board seeking the support of the Tenant Convention will be participating in the 2026 Berkeley Tenants Convention on Sunday, April 19, 2026. This event will feature candidate speeches and Q&A, and will take place from 1:30 - 4:30 at the Black Repertory Theatre in South Berkeley....
Posted: Mon, Mar 16, 2026 9:22pm PDT
textLa Otra Salud: Psicoterapia desde una mirada feminista y anticapitalista by reenvia Red Latina sin fronteras
Psicoterapia desde una mirada feminista y anticapitalista: Más allá del mercado y la norma...
Posted: Wed, Mar 11, 2026 8:26am PDT
textBerkeley Library: Abuse of Power by Glenda "GG"
A dastardly suspension from the North Branch Berkeley Library with no reason or explanation given; banning someone without good cause is pretty outrageous....
Posted: Sun, Feb 22, 2026 2:57pm PST
textAll Out for NYC Nurses for Single Payer & A General Strike - No Medicare Advantage by UFCLP.org
15,000 NYC nurses have been forced on strike and are facing a massive union busting. The entire working class needs to be mobilized to join them on the picket line and shutdown New York City to win the strike. The scabs are being supported by Democratic NY governor Hochul is supporting the scabs and NYC union bureaucrats are supporting the healthcare insurance companies and medicare advantage. Some are even getting paid by them to...
Posted: Fri, Jan 23, 2026 2:19pm PST
textFree tuition and public transportation expansion: Massachusetts debunks myths by Kontrast.at
Three years ago, the Democratic-governed US state of Massachusetts introduced a millionaire tax. Anyone earning more than a million dollars a year pays an additional 4 percent in taxes. Despite all the warnings from critics, the evidence shows that the economy continues to grow, the rich have not left, and the population is benefiting enormously. In the first three years, this generated $5.7 billion....
Posted: Mon, Jan 19, 2026 4:26am PST
textA sober prognosis by Gunter Burbach
Rents are also rising in smaller towns and rural areas, while affordable housing is disappearing. For many people, this means displacement, forced relocation, and the loss of social networks. The housing shortage is no longer a marginal phenomenon, but a structural risk. It creates uncertainty even for those who work and have an income....
Posted: Sat, Jan 10, 2026 6:58am PST
textTenants' movement: "They're afraid of us" by Lukas Hermsmeier
Mamdani's goal of freezing the rent on around one million regulated apartments is a good start, according to Taylor, but it is far from enough. The number of regulated apartments must increase significantly, and therefore expropriation must also be discussed. “External pressure” is what Taylor is calling for....
Posted: Thu, Jan 8, 2026 9:56am PST
textSocial cuts don't save money by Lisa Duschek
Social cuts do not save money, they only shift costs. And they shift them to areas where they will be significantly higher later on. A foolish calculation Social spending is not charity, but an investment in stability and security. It prevents problems from becoming big or escalating....
Posted: Mon, Jan 5, 2026 4:06pm PST
textPublic spending by Marc Batko
Trump and Musk were certainly wrecking balls or Reverse Robin Hoods, dismissing 400K federal workers in February, ending USAID that distributed $35 billion in food and medical aid and employed 10,000 in 2024, closing the Department of Education, and shriveling after school programs, the IRS, the Departments of Veterans Affairs, Housing, Health & Human Services and the EPA!...
Posted: Sun, Nov 23, 2025 3:48pm PST
textUnderstanding J.D. Vance by Tomasz Konicz
For more than 40 years,[8] employment in the industrial sector in the United States has been declining, from nearly 20 million industrial workers in 1978 to about 13 million in 2023.[9] Between 2002 and 2022, the number of industrial establishments in the United States fell by 45,000, a decline of about 14% within two decades....
Posted: Fri, Nov 21, 2025 8:23am PST
textSan Francisco Lament Walk for Lost Justice for Women by Ann Grogan
Ceremonial performance art "Flash Mob" Lament Walk for Lost Justice for Women - Sunday, Nov. 23, 1:30 pm in Glen Park neighborhood, San Francisco...
Posted: Mon, Nov 17, 2025 5:00pm PST
textThe Republicrat Fraud & the Crisis of US Capitalist Control of Healthcare by LVP
The supposed debate in Congress between the Democrats and Republicans is exposing the fact that both parties want to continue capitalist control of the healthcare industry and both are opposed to single payer...
Posted: Wed, Nov 12, 2025 9:27am PST
textA Win for Mamdani is a Win for Renters Everywhere by Susie Shannon
Mamdani is the antidote to the corporate landlord dominance we see in cities across the US. He doesn’t just speak on behalf of rent-stabilized tenants; he is one....
Posted: Wed, Nov 12, 2025 7:41am PST
textThe Libertarian Delusion: What the free market can't do by Robert Kuttner
If we are to win the argument with the libertarians, we need to take back effective government. Friedman was wrong to argue that the cure for market failure is more market. However, the cure for weak or corrupted democracy has to be more democracy. The only way to redeem public confidence in government as a necessary check on the market is to repair faith in democracy itself....
Posted: Sun, Nov 9, 2025 3:29pm PST
textThe unaffordable welfare state by Trade Union forum
Work is condensed and surplus employees are transferred to the state, i.e., the taxpayers, for support. It is the logic of capitalism itself that is responsible for many of the social upheavals of our time. It is not “the poor” who are too expensive for society—it is capitalism. It is unfortunate that the mainstream media are playing along with this game....
Posted: Fri, Oct 31, 2025 4:20am PDT
textDelegitimization of the welfare state by Reinhard Faudt
Since the 1990s, however, the slogans of libertarians and conservatives have been heard again: more freedom, less government regulation, more privatization. Numerous foundations and think tanks are spreading the ideology of neoliberalism: deregulation, liberalization, and privatization is the mantra....
Posted: Wed, Oct 8, 2025 1:30am PDT
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