Cat Brooks’ Campaign for Mayor Raises Over $100,000 in Grassroots Donations Oakland mayoral candidate Cat Brooks announced that her campaign contributions have surpassed $100,000 in grassroots donations....
Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2018 4:04PM
KPFA Management Abandoning The Station's Principles The KPFA of 2018, however, seems all-too aligned with national security state messaging, with its constant parroting of corporate media’s evidence-free “Russia meddled” narrative and, with occasional exceptions, no recognition of the grotesque but almost completely unexamined and outsized influence of the state of Israel over US politics.
The unhealthy hierarchical structure of the station—well protected and benefited paid staff versus a majority of unprotected unpaid staff—also falls into th...
Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2018 7:26PM
Berkeley Community Media 48 Hour Filmmaker Challenge! Berkeley Community Media (BCM) and La Peña Cultural Center present the 8th Annual BCM Summer Shorts Movie Jam: 48 Hour Filmmaker Challenge.
SCREENING AT LA PEÑA CULTURAL CENTER
Sunday, September 2nd at 7pm (3105 Shattuck Avenue Berkeley.)
Teams who successfully complete the challenge will screen their films in front of a live audience. Audience admission is $10 in advance and $15 at the door....
Posted: Thu Aug 9, 2018 5:44PM
KPFA Management Remove "Guns And Butter” After Bad Fund Drive KPFA management has cancelled the "Guns and Butter" show after a bad fund drive and complaints from funders....
Posted: Thu Aug 9, 2018 12:44PM
Cops And Klan Go Hand In Hand: An Urgent Report from the Berkeley Antifa Demo Stop the state strategy of direct collaboration with fascists...
Posted: Sun Aug 5, 2018 6:36PM
Note to the anti-fascist protesters on today's 8-5-18 event My take on events, culminating in my assault by protestors and the smashing and stealing of my camera....
Posted: Sun Aug 5, 2018 3:45PM
Berkeley mask ban violates city ordinance The Berkeley police and city manager released a set of rules prior to the anti-fascist protest on Sunday. There is a clause banning masks in Ohlone Park and Civic Center Park. This clause violates the urgency ordinance passed by city council....
Posted: Fri Aug 3, 2018 11:39PM
People's Park Needs to Serve Students The Berkeley community needs to face reality, which is that People's Park has lived out its present incarnation, and a new life benefitting the students who actually have a need to be there is now primary....
Posted: Fri Aug 3, 2018 4:19AM
ICE contractor Palantir to recruit on Berkeley campus 8/31 ICE contractor Palantir will be present on UC Berkeley campus on August 31, at Soda Hall from 6PM to 7:30PM. Will there be a protest?...
Posted: Wed Aug 1, 2018 2:39PM
Dellums Became Shill For War Machine and Big Pharma-Dellums takes hit for lobbying Former Congressman Ron Dellums after retiring became a paid shill for the war machine....
Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2018 8:56AM
Alex Jones supporting alt-right rally in Berkeley, donated five-grand Alex Jones has been supporting the far-right rally in Berkeley, scheduled for August 5th. Jones' show has been a platform for organizer Lindsay Grathwohl and recruiter Ethan Nordean. Alex Jones donated $5000 to Garthwohl explicitly for the upcoming Berkeley conflict....
Posted: Sun Jul 22, 2018 7:35PM
Vote ‘Yes’ on Proposition 10 to repeal extreme Costa Hawkins Act in November Renters throughout the State of California are being forced out of their housing, and displaced from their communities by extreme rent increases, the eviction-for-profit system, and gentrification schemes. A ‘Yes” vote in November for Proposition 10 would help to stabilize communities, and bring back the reasonable rent control options needed to protect renters, families with children, and the working class being priced out of housing options!...
Posted: Mon Jul 2, 2018 7:28PM
Hundreds Of Immigrant Families, Activists To “Block I.C.E.”, Demand End To Family Detention The daily horrors being committed by the US government against immigrant families and individuals at border crossings are a crime against humanity....
Posted: Mon Jul 2, 2018 1:28PM
Hate crime charges filed against driver accused of plowing into Charlottesville rally James Alex Fields Jr., was indicted on 30 counts, and is the man accused of driving his car through a crowd protesting against neo-Nazis and white supremacists at a Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, last August, resulting in the death Heather Hyer, a 32-year-old-paralegal!...
Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2018 8:04AM
Gentrifiers Co-Opting Detainment Protest in Concord A group of gentrification advocates and development lobbyists are attempting to co-opt an anti-fascist Concord protest movement for their own gain....
Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2018 8:40PM
In November voters can vote to repeal Costa Hawkins Act A vote for the Affordable Housing Act will be the voters opportunity to repeal the draconian Costa Hawkins Act, the 1995 law that severely limits cities’ rent control options!...
Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2018 3:52PM
Congresswoman Barbara Lee condemns proposed use of low-yield nukes On June 7, 2018, Congresswoman Barbara Lee released a statement in response to the defeat of her amendment to defund $65 million allocated by the House of Representatives for low-yield nukes!...
Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2018 8:30PM
The $2.5 billion traffickers of nuclear doom As right-wing fascist President Donald Trump and “fascist war hawk” United States National Security Advisor, John Bolton, are reportedly in Singapore to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un for a discussion about the denuclearization of North Korea, there appears to be a missed opportunity to discuss the denuclearization of the United States!...
Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2018 2:33AM
HUD Secretary Ben Carson’s housing plan would raise rents by 20% on Oakland’s poor As HUD Secretary Ben Carson takes aim at the poor with his catastrophic budget cuts to make up for the massive tax breaks given to the rich by Congress during the past year, he resides in luxury in Vienna, VA!...
Posted: Thu Jun 7, 2018 9:42PM
California Legislators beholden to the landlord lobby vote to allow no-cause evictions California Legislators beholden to the big moneyed interests of the real estate lobby and landlord lobby, double-crossed tenants throughout the state by defeating AB 2925!...
Posted: Sat Jun 2, 2018 4:26PM