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New California bill makes it a right for parents to hug their incarcerated children in juvenile facilities. Currently, facilities have discretion on what type of contact parents and children can engage in....
Posted: Fri, Sep 11, 2026 8:49pm PDT
Canal Alliance and MiSalud Health team up to offer free blood pressure, blood sugar and cholesterol checks — and a caring first step toward mental health support — in Spanish and English...
Posted: Wed, Aug 19, 2026 1:55pm PDT
August 2026 is National Breastfeeding Month in the USA. This Press Release is an effort to bring about a greater awareness of the importance of Human breast milk as an infant's first food. There are important questions and useful resources to encourage a greater adoption of breastfeeding globally....
Posted: Fri, Jul 31, 2026 5:51pm PDT
Volunteers are scheduled to return to Coral St. at Limekiln at 8 AM Wednesday July 22nd to support victims of City abuse as the possessions of homeless people are seized and destroyed and those living there dispersed. This in a City that has neither adequate shelter, storage, nor housing for those so threatened....
Posted: Mon, Jul 20, 2026 9:41pm PDT
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Rising fuel prices and disrupted global trade are increasing costs for food, transport, and essentials worldwide. The UN warns that these pressures are pushing vulnerable households closer to poverty, with millions at risk if instability continues....
Posted: Mon, May 18, 2026 12:35pm PDT
The Central City SRO Collaborative Is A Fake Tenants Rights Organization Funded By Taxpayer Dollars...
Posted: Wed, May 13, 2026 11:16am PDT
Kaiser is attacking a CNA NNU Kaiser nurse by refusing to provide administrative leave for her paper to come through from the government. Unlike UC nurses Kaiser is moving to terminate her....
Posted: Mon, May 11, 2026 4:57pm PDT
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
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
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
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
Psicoterapia desde una mirada feminista y anticapitalista: Más allá del mercado y la norma...
Posted: Wed, Mar 11, 2026 8:26am PDT
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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