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A Legacy of Black Trans Excellence, Miss Major Griffin-Gracy A large-scale musical celebration honoring the life and legacy of Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a global leader in the movements for Black trans liberation, abolition, housing justice, and gender freedom. October 25, 1946- October 13,2025
For more than 18 years, The Miss Major Alexander L Lee TGIJP Black Trans Cultural Center has been dedicated to ending human rights abuses against transgender, gender-variant, and intersex people in California prisons and beyond. Our office has long served as a ...
Posted: Fri, Nov 28, 2025 2:00pm PST
EDC Opposes Trump Administration’s Plan to Open up Santa Barbara Channel to New Oil Drilling Santa Barbara, CA , November 20, 2025 – Today, the Environmental Defense Center (EDC) announced its strong opposition to the U.S. Department of Interior’s newly released Oil and Gas Leasing Draft Proposed Program (“the Draft Program”) that includes federal waters off the entire West Coast including fragile regions such as the Santa Barbara Channel....
Posted: Tue, Nov 25, 2025 10:32am PST
Court Rules Off-Road Vehicle Use at California’s Oceano Dunes Violates Endangered Species Act OCEANO, Calif., November 21, 2025 — In response to a lawsuit filed by the Center for Biological Diversity, a federal court has ruled that the California Department of Parks and Recreation violated the Endangered Species Act by allowing motorized vehicle use that harms imperiled shorebirds at the Oceano Dunes State Vehicular Recreation Area....
Posted: Fri, Nov 21, 2025 11:13am PST
Trump Offshore Drilling Plan Brings Oil Spill Risks to U.S. Coasts Industry Giveaway of Public Waters Proposed During Climate Talks...
Posted: Fri, Nov 21, 2025 3:27am PST
Santa Barbara County Casts Preliminary Vote Against Transferring Oil Pipeline Permits to Sable SANTA BARBARA, Calif., November 4, 2025 — The Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors today voted 4-1 to prepare written findings to support denying transferring permits from ExxonMobil to Sable Offshore Corp. for an embattled onshore pipeline system that caused one of California’s worst oil spills. The board will hold a final vote on Dec. 16....
Posted: Wed, Nov 5, 2025 10:11am PST
Tuesday is the deadline to vote in the statewide special election! Because Election Day is now only 4 days away (on Tuesday, November 4), at this point, it's probably safer for you to drop your ballot off at one of the "voting centers" or put it into an official "drop box" -- you can find voting center and drop box locations via your county elections office -- the websites and contact info for all California county election offices is here: https://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/voting-resources/county-elections-offices
(Alameda county's locations are here: ht...
Posted: Fri, Oct 31, 2025 9:52am PDT
CFA Sues CSU Over Disclosure of Faculty Personal Information to Trump Administration The California Faculty Association on October 10 filed a Petition for Writ of Mandate and Complaint for Injunctive and Declaratory Relief against the Board of Trustees of California State University in Los Angeles County Superior Court. The case seeks a court order prohibiting CSU administrators from disclosing CFA members’ personal information in response to federal subpoenas without first providing notice to affected employees and an opportunity for them to object....
Posted: Fri, Oct 17, 2025 8:28am PDT
Elected officials, union members and grass roots organizations stand up for offshore wind Despite the federal government pulling support for offshore wind nationally in favor of fossil fuels, many elected officials from the communities that are a part of the offshore buildouts continue to work towards what they see as its eventuality. Elected Officials to Protect America (E.O.P.A.) hosted a gathering with elected officials, unions, and grassroots organizations at the IBEW Local 639 Union Hall in San Luis Obispo. The event, on October 6, 2025, featured experts speaking on offshore ...
Posted: Tue, Oct 14, 2025 9:53am PDT
Green Voter Guide for Prop. 50 (Congress. redistricting), from Green Party of Alameda County Here is our Green Voter Guide for the November 4 statewide special election, about Proposition 50, regarding Congressional redistricting. Ballots will be mailed to all voters starting this past Monday, October 6. If you don't receive your ballot by mid-October, or have questions about your registration status, or similar matters, for Alameda county, please call the Registrar of Voters office at 510-272-6973. (Phone numbers for other counties are here: https://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/voti...
Posted: Wed, Oct 8, 2025 5:58pm PDT
CA’s Hydrogen Hub Loses Federal Funding; Groups Respond October 2, 2025 - This week, news broke that the Department of Energy cancelled funding for California’s proposed hydrogen hub, also known as ARCHES, among other projects....
Posted: Sun, Oct 5, 2025 2:06am PDT
Has KPFA lost its nonprofit status? KPFA is a nonprofit. According to this notice it appears that KPFA, which is part of the Pacifica Foundation, has lost its nonprofit status....
Posted: Wed, Sep 17, 2025 11:38am PDT
UC Unions & Workers Protest Trump & Regents Attacks on Public Education at UC Regents Meeting UC unions rallied and protested at the UC Regents meeting at the Mission Bay campus against the union busting by the UC Regents and management, attacks on democratic rights and massive cutbacks of NIH by Trump along with demands for the "cleansing" of the University...
Posted: Tue, Sep 16, 2025 7:23pm PDT
CA Residents, Advocates Launch Campaign; Demand No CO2 Pipelines Fairfield, September 9, 2025 – Today, Communities Against Carbon Transport & Injection (CACTI), officially launched to protect the Bay Area from the Montezuma Carbon Hub, 45-mile carbon dioxide pipeline and waste injection well that could transport CO2 from sources such as power plants and refineries via pipelines through the Bay Area – including underwater pipelines – and ultimately inject it underground near the Suisun Marsh....
Posted: Tue, Sep 16, 2025 10:01am PDT
California Caves to Oil Industry With Health, Environmental Rollbacks SACRAMENTO, Calif., September 13, 2025 — The California legislature today passed a bill that greenlights tens of thousands of new oil and gas drilling permits in Kern County over the next decade with no further environmental review. Senate Bill 237 passed as a last minute “gut and amend” measure at the end of the legislative session, truncating public participation. It was one of several bills that roll back environmental and health protections this session....
Posted: Sun, Sep 14, 2025 9:34am PDT
CAIR-CA Denounces Senate Education Committee Vote to Advance AB 715 September 11, 2025 - The California chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-CA), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today denounced the Senate Education Committee’s vote advancing AB 715 (Zbur & Addis) and reiterated its strong opposition to the bill....
Posted: Fri, Sep 12, 2025 11:40am PDT
Amended AB 715: From Explicit to Implicit Pro-Israel Censorship in California Classrooms AB 715 swaps explicit Israel-Palestine bans for an IHRA‑aligned, “Antisemitism Prevention Coordinator” led instruction materials regime that channels “compliance” through advocacy networks, relabels Israel‑critical scholarship as “bias” and discrimination, chilling classroom speech. AB 715 must be rejected in favor of viewpoint‑neutral standards, established K–12 speech/harassment thresholds, transparency, and clear classroom guidance....
Posted: Thu, Sep 11, 2025 6:18pm PDT
Offshore wind is key to climate resiliency in CA By diversifying our energy portfolio with offshore wind, a homegrown source of power, we reduce our reliance on volatile fossil fuel markets. This increased reliability also translates into fewer blackouts and Public Safety Power Shutoffs, which have become an increasingly unwelcome reality for many of us across the state....
Posted: Thu, Sep 11, 2025 7:51am PDT
75+ Flock Cameras Disabled in Bay Area anarchists attack flock cameras in oakland and sf...
Posted: Thu, Aug 14, 2025 4:17pm PDT
The War on UC Workers & Union Busting Attack on NUHW Oakland Children's Hospital Workers The University of California management and regents are engaged in a frontal union busting attack on the NUHW and other workers at the Oakland Children's Hospitals. They are telling workers they have no right to their own union representation but must join other unions that they don't want. They have imposed massive pay cuts on these workers by ending their paid healthcare benefits and other conditions flagrantly violating their union contracts. Governor Newsom and the Democrats in the legisl...
Posted: Wed, Jul 30, 2025 9:04pm PDT
Trader Joe's Sues Animal Rights Activists Trader Joe's Sues Animal Rights Activists,
Seeking to Stop Protests Over Controversial Chicken Supplier...
Posted: Mon, Jul 14, 2025 9:09pm PDT