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Health Watchdog Sues Dow for Pesticide Air Pollution Oakland, CA, September 20, 2016 - The national health watchdog Center for Environmental Health (CEH) has filed a lawsuit against Dow Chemical to address cancer risks posed by its fumigant pesticide Telone. Telone (a trade name for the chemical 1,3-Dichloropropene or 1,3-D) is a known carcinogen that pollutes dozens of rural areas throughout California; it is the third most heavily used pesticide in the state, and has been found to linger in the air for days after application.... Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2016 12:07PM
Seven Ways You Can Support Academics In Turkey Academics in Turkey are under a vicious attack by the Erdogan government. Here are 7 ways you can support them.... Posted: Tue Sep 6, 2016 9:57AM
Farming Community Rallies in Sacramento to Demand Protections from Agricultural Pesticides Residents from California’s most extensively farmed regions converged on Sacramento today to deliver more than 27,000 petition signatures and a letter representing hundreds of thousands of Californians, all demanding protections for their children from exposure to agricultural pesticides at school.... Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2016 3:36PM
Oakland cops target the African American community According to a Stanford study, African American men were more likely to be handcuffed during a stop (1 out of 4 times) than whites (1 out of 15 times), excluding arrests. African American men were also more likely to be searched (1 in 5 times vs. 1 in 20 times for whites), though officers were no more likely to make a recovery from those searches. African American men were more likely to be arrested after a stop by police –1 in every 6 vs. 1 in 14 for white men.... Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2016 3:05PM
The War on Truth Describes profound and world shaking decisions made by the United Nations behind a global iron curtain which has determined that America, the West and individual freedoms should go into decline - and it is happening.But I believe there is an answer.... Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2016 7:24AM
UC Falsely Equates Anti-Semitism with Anti-Zionism; Moron Trump leads with Cal Repubs The Regents of the University of California are now falsely equating anti-Semitism with anti-Zionism in a desperate effort to stop the successful Boycott, Divest, Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel. Belgium, the site of a terrorist organization known as NATO, allows former Israeli security agents to run the security at the Brussels airport, the site of recent bombings, adding to suspicion that these bombings, like all previous bombings, were an inside job. California, a bellwether stat... Posted: Thu Mar 24, 2016 8:21PM
Gloria La Riva, P&F Pres Candidate, Supports UC Davis Occupation As someone who took active part in two building takeovers at Brandeis University to defend affirmative action, I salute the student-led occupation inside the University of California Davis’ Mrak Hall. The students are justly demanding that Linda Katehi, the UCD Chancellor, resign immediately and are calling for educational reforms.... Posted: Sun Mar 20, 2016 5:58PM
Statement from silent meditators halting construction at the Gill Tract farm The farm defenders halting construction are holding a day of silent meditation - so they pre-released a statement about their action.... Posted: Mon Feb 8, 2016 7:36AM
Anti-Muslim and Anti-Arab Sentiment Increases Following Paris and San Bernardino Attacks Our civil liberties are being violated in the name of security again! The effect is to stir hate and fear. Since the attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, we have seen a dramatic and disturbing increase in anti-Muslim and anti-Arab sentiment in the United States. California Scholars for Academic Freedom is particularly concerned that Islamophobia is manifesting itself in ways that threaten the academic freedom and civil liberties of researchers, teachers, and students. These include physical ... Posted: Thu Feb 4, 2016 4:22PM
Iraq risks losing generation due to lack of schools, healthcare More than 2 million children in Iraq are out of school, up to 3 million more have had their education disrupted by the war, and nearly one in five schools have been damaged, destroyed or used for other purposes, the U.N. children's fund UNICEF says.... Posted: Sun Jan 3, 2016 3:28AM
Wheaton College President Philip Ryken denies targeting professor for wearing a hijab Despite the denial of Wheaton College president, Philip Ryken, that Hawkins was targeted for administrative leave because she decided to wear a hijab, he claimed that she was placed on leave for stating that Muslims and Christians worship the same God. Many critics, including students and faculty at the college find that very difficult to believe!... Posted: Sat Dec 19, 2015 3:00AM
California school kids on the frontlines I live in Santa Cruz, one of the capitals of the sustainable farming movement. It houses an organic-certifying agency, scores of non-profits that support sustainable agriculture, acres of organic production and one of the nation’s foremost organic research centers at the University of California, Santa Cruz.... Posted: Mon Dec 7, 2015 4:44PM
A letter to Chancellor Blumenthal in solidarity with Palestinian and Black Liberation A letter to Chancellor Blumenthal from pro-Palestinian students, Muslim students, and Black students in solidarity with Palestinian and Black liberation.... Posted: Mon Dec 7, 2015 4:34PM
“No place for anti-free-speech rules on our campuses” No mainstream journalist or newspaper seems to want to investigate exactly what this mysterious State Department definition of ‘anti-Semitism’ is, that the ADL, Simon Wiesenthal Center, and other pro-Zionist, anti-free-speech organizations and individuals want to get approved—why is this? Despite the generally deceitful argument by Aron Hier of the Simon Wiesenthal Center (a Zionist Israel-first-and-last organization known for its distortive propaganda campaigns) he did manage to state one tr... Posted: Thu Dec 3, 2015 6:59PM
UC Berkeley Students Occupy Chancellor’s Office to Demand Justice for UC Workers Students occupy their central administrative building and rally in the hundreds to demand just compensation for subcontracted campus employees... Posted: Thu Dec 3, 2015 12:55PM
Nurses Hold Rally, Speak Out on Unsafe Patient Lift Practices at UC Medical Centers Registered nurses will gather at UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay on Thursday to speak out about the UC Medical Center’s failure to provide RNs with legally mandated safe lifting practices, the California Nurses Association (CNA) announced today.... Posted: Wed Nov 18, 2015 6:54PM
California State University Faculty Votes to Authorize Strike Members of the California Faculty Association on the 23 campuses of the California State University voted “Yes by over 94% percent” to authorize a strike, CFA President Jennifer Eagan announced today at a news conference.... Posted: Wed Nov 4, 2015 1:46PM
California State University Faculty Conclude Strike Authorization Vote Yesterday, members of the California Faculty Association (CFA) at the 23 campuses of the California State University system concluded a statewide vote on whether or not to authorize union leadership to call a strike if contract negotiations with management fail to result in a fair deal.... Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2015 1:45PM
Alejo Responds to Veto of Ethnic Studies Bill (SACRAMENTO, OCTOBER 9, 2015) — Today, Governor Jerry Brown vetoed Assembly Bill 101 authored by Assemblymember Luis Alejo (D-Salinas). Assembly Bill 101 would have required the State Superintendent of Public Instruction (SPI) to oversee the development of a model curriculum on Ethnic Studies by establishing an Ethnic Studies Advisory Committee. The State Board of Education (SBE) would have then adopted this model curriculum, so that schools with grades 7-12 may offer an Ethnic Studies cours... Posted: Fri Oct 16, 2015 2:29AM
Letter of UC support for Indigenous Land Access Committee We, the undersigned students, researchers, and educators of the University of California, recognize that the University of California, Berkeley was built on occupied Ohlone territory, and as such, we urge UC administrators to respond to the following invitation sent to you by the Indigenous Land Access Committee (ILAC) to honor and respect indigenous access to sacred land at the Gill Tract:... Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2015 3:04PM |