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Support WAMM, a Champion of Medical Cannabis Access and Community Safety in Santa Cruz
Support the new proposed location for WAMM Phytotherapies (WAMM) and The Hook dispensary on Mission Street in Santa Cruz!
Sign the petition here: https://sign.moveon.org/petitions/support-wamm-a-champion-of-medical-cannabis-access-and-community-safety-in-santa-cruz...
Posted: Mon, Mar 4, 2024 3:53pm PST
Newsom's Prop 1 Press Conference Disrupted in SF: No Privatization of Mental Health
At a press conference by Governor Gavin Newsom to support California proposition 1, which will privatize mental health services and take away rights of mentally disabled, protesters spoke out disrupting the press conference. The anti-labor ballot initiative is supported by the leadership of SEIU2015, SEIU 1021, UBC and other unions despite the fact it will destroy public jobs....
Posted: Mon, Mar 4, 2024 3:38pm PST
F@ck Your FEMA Camps - We wont go
Stop the nationwide campaign to make it illegal to be homeless
No on Prop 1 - Stop SB1011 - Up hold Martin v Boise...
Posted: Tue, Feb 27, 2024 9:25am PST
Effie’s House tenants threatened with displacement by EBALDC
Effie's House - 21 Unit Residential Building In Oakland:...
Posted: Sat, Feb 24, 2024 8:40pm PST
SF City Worker Rally Against Outsourcing, Union Busting At SF General Hospital
Hundreds of San Franciscoo city workers marched and rallied at SF General Hospital to demand an end to outsourcing and union busting by Breed and City bosses....
Posted: Sat, Feb 17, 2024 5:02pm PST
DSA Santa Cruz Electoral Working Group Recommends Yes on Measure M, Housing for People
The Electoral Action Working Group of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) Santa Cruz recommends a yes vote on Measure M, the Housing for People initiative, which is on the ballot in the March 5 primary election in the City of Santa Cruz. If passed, Measure M will increase the ratio of inclusionary/affordable housing to 25% in new large projects of 30+ units, and will require a majority vote of the people before the city's General Plan can be amended to raise current building height lim...
Posted: Thu, Feb 8, 2024 8:17am PST
Kamala Harris Shouted Down in San Jose
June 29 protest organized by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and other activist groups. While protesters rallied outside, VP Harris was shouted down at least four times at her event. Photos by Len and Nancy....
Posted: Tue, Jan 30, 2024 10:34pm PST
MECA Assisting With Aid to Gazans
Executive Director Zeiad Abbas Shamrouch of the Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA) spoke with Nuzeink on the humanitarian work they are doing in war torn Gaza through their on the ground staff members in assisting Gazans with their daily lives....
Posted: Mon, Jan 29, 2024 7:48pm PST
Raging Grannies and Brass Liberation Orchestra for Reproductive Justice (video/mp4 127.8MB)
Video by Lis Cox mp4 1min 28 sec
Photos by Terry Scussel and Mark Eliot ProBonoPhoto.org
Please give credit when using the photos....
Posted: Sun, Jan 28, 2024 2:11am PST
Stop Bombing Hospitals: Genocide Manufactured in the Bay
Healthcare workers protest, disrupt work at L3Harris for its role in manufacturing weapons technology for Israel...
Posted: Wed, Jan 24, 2024 4:36pm PST
Rights Opponents March Met By Loud Protest
"Get out, get out now, San Francisco is a pro choice town!" among the stream of slogans from protesters....
Posted: Sun, Jan 21, 2024 4:51pm PST
"Walk for Life" Gets an Earful from Reproductive Justice Rally (video/mp4 164.0MB)
2 min video by Lis Cox....
Posted: Sat, Jan 20, 2024 6:15pm PST
Palestine, Retaliation & Removal of AHS Board Member & Nurse Jennifer Esteen from AHS
Alameda Health System board member and SEIU 1021 member Jennifer Esteen was removed from her position on the board by Alameda Nate Miley two days after she signed a petition for a ceasefire in Gaza....
Posted: Mon, Jan 15, 2024 10:37pm PST
Open Letter To UC Berkeley Chancellor Carol Christ and Berkeley City Council
This is an open letter to the Chancellor of UC Berkeley and the Berkeley City Council. Feel free to copy and email or fax this to them. Or print it out and give it to them in person....
Posted: Wed, Jan 10, 2024 1:26pm PST
UC Berkeley Violated Injunction as People's Park Case Continues in State Supreme Court
UC Berkeley is under an injunction order, as the status of People's Park continues to be debated in court. That injunction was violated last night by the University....
Posted: Thu, Jan 4, 2024 11:52am PST
Over 1000 Law Enforcement Personnel Converging in Berkeley for People's Park
Various law enforcement agencies have employees currently staged at UC Berkeley. The number of expected personnel are to exceed a thousand. The People's Park raid is happening....
Posted: Wed, Jan 3, 2024 11:49pm PST
Plutonium & Fighting for Justice & Accountability for Residents & Workers at Hunters Point
The continuing cancers and epidemic of disease in Hunters Point shipyard and Treasure Island has been happening for decades despite protests of the community and workers about the dangers. Now Dr. Ahimsa Sumchai has discovered that there is plutonium in the bodies of residents. This is a direct correlation between their cancers and the radioactive toxins that are only produced by nuclear fission. Politicians including Newsom, Kamala Harris, Nancy Pelosi, Willie Brown and many others have been...
Posted: Wed, Jan 3, 2024 1:04pm PST
Year in Review: How the Vallejo Police Union Won in 2023
Vallejo also struggled to contend with homelessness and declining attendance in schools...
Posted: Mon, Jan 1, 2024 12:55am PST
Tick-Tock: Token Tidbits in the Winter War on the Homeless
Two homeless memorials were held on December 21st in Santa Cruz, one by "service providers", the other by Food Not Bombs. I reprint the flyers I distributed at these events as well as the December 25th Xmas dinner organized by Joe Schultz, Food Not Bombs, Friends of Xmas, and the inevitable Steve Pleich....
Posted: Wed, Dec 27, 2023 5:34pm PST
Homeless deaths on the streets surge in 2023
The Dead Can't Dance Or Sing Anymore:...
Posted: Fri, Dec 22, 2023 9:27pm PST