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The Pandemic Makes the Bernie 2020 Campaign More Vital Than Ever Reasons to stay in the race are ample and solid...
Posted: Mon Apr 6, 2020 1:49PM
Stockpile Defined “Among the synonyms for the word “stockpile,” along with “cache,” “hoard,” “store” and “lay-away” is the word “treasure.” We stockpile what is valuable to us, the things that we treasure, what we want to keep for the future.” From: https://www.commondreams.org/views/2020/04/05/tale-two-stockpiles...
Posted: Mon Apr 6, 2020 8:29AM
There Goes the Rule of Law Trump weaponized and disfigured the rule of law by making the Dept of Justice go after his political opponents and pardoned white collar criminals to show white collar crime does not exist at all. The constitutional state is being replaced by the security state. The security state is marked by the generalization of fear, the de-politiczation of citizens and the repetition of the big lie....
Posted: Sun Apr 5, 2020 11:56PM
Please close the glaring "Young Adult" gap in stimulus payments Through an oversight, many young adults will receive NO stimulus payment. Please help raise consciousness about this....
Posted: Thu Apr 2, 2020 10:21PM
Trump’s Mass Negligent Homicide Doesn’t Let Democratic Leaders Off the Hook Failures of leadership in a time of coronavirus...
Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2020 1:22PM
San Francisco Dept of Public Health Site Offers Help to Everyone San Francisco now has 178 Coronavirus cases and for the first time today, 1 death. See the Department of Public Health website at https://www.sfdph.org/dph/alerts/coronavirus.asp The same website has all kinds of helpful tips good for everyone, no matter where you live, translated into Chinese, Filipino, Spanish, Arabic and Vietnamese....
Posted: Wed Mar 25, 2020 10:13AM
Alameda County Sheriff's Office Makes Surprise $85 Million Request for Santa Rita Jail Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, the Alameda County Board of Supervisors will vote today to allocate an additional $85 million toward staff for Santa Rita Jail....
Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2020 1:19PM
French Site Helps Decide About Seeking Health Care French government health site provides simple, direct questionnaire to help health care provider quickly decide if you need medical attention. Here is an English translation....
Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2020 10:46PM
Power in a Time of Coronavirus Fighting against intentional neglect and greedy stupidity...
Posted: Mon Mar 23, 2020 3:00PM
Shutdown of Post Office Encampment After Denial of Portapotties & Wash Stations There Chief Mills and a dozen or more cops, rangers, and camp trashers moved on to evict and fence out the homeless tent-shelter-in-place encampment along Water St. near the Post Office. This "out of sight/out of town" policy, while claiming a public health rationale rings false given the lack of protected indoor shelter being offered in spite of the funding available....
Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2020 7:57PM
What the Coronavirus Emergency Has to Do with Biden vs. Sanders Tepid adjustments vs. truly transformational agendas...
Posted: Thu Mar 19, 2020 4:48AM
Amid coronavirus threat Social Security closes all local Social Security offices In essence, now that the SSA offices have been shut down locally, and across the nation, and people cannot reach anyone at the tele-service centers because they have not been expanded, it places tens of thousands of HUD’s subsidized housing tenants at risk when they are not able to obtain documents that are needed to verify their income when it’s time to renew their housing contracts!...
Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2020 10:51PM
Tokyo Olympics / coronavirus . Please write your comment on the administration of Japan . Is the number of people infected with coronavirus manipulated by the Japanese government? The number of tests is overwhelmingly small. I don't know the exact number of people infected. There is no doubt that this is related to the economic effects of the Tokyo Olympics....
Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2020 8:11PM
Shelter-in-place orders are a prelude to Martial Law I was in the Philippines during 1972 while Martial Law existed under the Marcos administration. There were soldiers/armed forces on the streets and anyone caught on the streets after midnight was subject to arrest or being shot. At times it was very frightening!...
Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2020 11:43PM
Utility cutoff’s restricted for PG&E, AT&T, Comcast, San Jose Water Company, & others This means that if people get behind on their utility bills or water bills because of a lack of income due to the disastrous financial effects of the coronavirus in their communities, that utility cutoff’s are restricted for such companies as PG&E, AT&T, Comcast, Metro PCS, Sprint, T-Mobile, Verizon, San Jose Water Company, and other companies!...
Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2020 9:58PM
Don't Panic. Solidarity. Read Some experts are sure that the only thing that will stop the virus permanently is for everyone to stay at home for a few weeks. Model China... The drastic quarantine has obviously worked, if you believe the Chinese government, the number of infected people is decreasing... The global economy has grown and is richer than ever....
Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2020 6:51AM
Only 20% of American Workers Covered by Pelosi's Sick Leave Bill The House of Representatives, under the direction of Speaker Nancy Pelosi, cobbled together a bill this week calling on employers to provide paid sick leave to their workers. See http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2020/roll102.xml However, the 54% of American workers who work for companies with more than 500 employees, such as Amazon, McDonald’s, etc. are not covered. Small companies with less than 50 employees can obtain emergency exemptions. That leaves only 20% covered by this bill....
Posted: Sat Mar 14, 2020 8:27PM
Santa Cruz City Council Committee Advances Surveillance Oversight Ordinance SANTA CRUZ, March 12, 2020 – On Wednesday, the Santa Cruz Public Safety Committee voted to approve a Surveillance Technology Ordinance that would prevent the government from using any surveillance technology without public debate, clear use policies, and mechanisms of oversight and accountability. The law also prohibits government use of facial recognition, and in what would be a national first, bans government use of predictive policing technology as well....
Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2020 9:39PM
Postponement of Signature Gathering for Voter Right to Decide on Downtown Parking Garage [March 13, 2020] To help reduce the serious risk of COVID-19 spreading in our community, the Campaign for Sustainable Transportation is postponing petition signature gathering to place on the ballot Santa Cruz city voters’ right to decide on future construction of a parking garage downtown. CFST wants our community to thrive, and there is no more fundamental basis for the common good than public health. Each of us individually and all of us collectively must work to create a sustainable commu...
Posted: Fri Mar 13, 2020 9:31PM
‘In a Dark Time, the Eye Begins to See’ Hatchet jobs and hacks can't stop progressive movements...
Posted: Wed Mar 11, 2020 12:21PM