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Law Center Statement on UN Report Decrying Ongoing Human Rights Abuses Against Unhoused People
WASHINGTON, D.C. – (November 3, 2023) Today, the United Nations Human Rights Committee highlighted serious and ongoing patterns of human rights abuses — including those against people experiencing homelessness and poverty — in the Concluding Observations from its recent convening that investigated the United States’ compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights....
Posted: Tue, Nov 7, 2023 10:40am PST
California Becomes First State to Ban “Excited Delirium” as a Cause of Death
Governor Newsom signs landmark bill following tireless community activism and PHR report on the pseudoscience of “excited delirium"...
Posted: Fri, Oct 13, 2023 9:06pm PDT
Court Halts Bay Area Biofuel Megaproject Operations
Refinery on Hold Until County Addresses Community, Environmental Harms...
Posted: Thu, Oct 12, 2023 2:36pm PDT
Pope Francis Releases "Laudate Deum" Ahead of Global Economy and Climate Meetings
Pope Francis urged international cooperation to tackle environmental crises, in a document released today. Laudate Deum – which in Latin means “Praise God” – is a follow-up to his 2015 Laudato Si, the most comprehensive Encyclical on climate and the environment....
Posted: Wed, Oct 4, 2023 11:20am PDT
Housing is a human right
To guarantee the human right to housing, a fundamental change in policy would be required at all levels. At all levels - federal, state and local - the social housing provision should be enforced against private profit interests. The non-profit status of housing must be revived. Housing must not be a commodity, it must not be the object of speculation and profit interests....
Posted: Tue, Oct 3, 2023 7:28am PDT
Socialist Health Care Organizers Exit DSA
Open letter from former members of DSA-LA explaining why they resigned from DSA following the organization's abandonment of a true fight for Single Payer health care in CA....
Posted: Thu, Sep 14, 2023 12:18pm PDT
Tenant Union to Picket Berkeley Landlords’ Eviction Party Today
Tenant union members to protest Berkeley Landlords’ eviction celebration happy hour today, September 12, from 5:15 pm to 7:30 pm, in front of 2700 Bancroft Way in Berkeley, CA....
Posted: Tue, Sep 12, 2023 1:13pm PDT
EPA Makes Pesticide Incident Reports Publicly Available for First Time
Data Details Serious Harms Caused by Pesticides...
Posted: Fri, Jul 28, 2023 7:16am PDT
Jeffrey Tumlin: our buses aren't jails
This is an open letter from San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA) employees regarding the events of July 8th, 2023 at the annual Dolores Park Hill Bomb, where Muni buses were used by the San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) to transport detained teenagers to SFPD’s Mission Station....
Posted: Mon, Jul 24, 2023 8:31am PDT
Put the Moxi, not Puny, in MUNI
The progressive left hobbles itself in not believing the advocacy of socializing land values is worth the energy expended. Without a clear, principled aspiration articulated, a larger, wider, transformative social justice program is unlikely to emerge in public discourse, much less at the ballot....
Posted: Thu, Jul 6, 2023 11:27pm PDT
The Great Leap Backwards
Scoop, the swami from Miami, addressed KFOG listeners as fogheads. The United States would be much better off without the self-appointed burden of keeping the world “safe” and “free” with the threat of our nuclear weapons. Also, as our economic growth slows down, we would use less energy and have less need for nuclear and coal power plants that pollute the environment....
Posted: Mon, Jul 3, 2023 7:23am PDT
Authoritarian Capitalism
The banks and auto corporations were bailed out and rescued and the ensuing public debt was invoked in order to cut public expenditures on health care, education, pensions, and public
salaries. Furthermore, a new race to the bottom has started in the name of “global competitiveness."...
Posted: Mon, Jun 26, 2023 2:35am PDT
Car Plants Are Making Medical Equipment - And Things Should Stay That Way
The time has come for progressive nationalization and socialization. This includes the financial sector, because only if we gain control over the financing of socially necessary areas of production will it be possible to ensure that we as a society can plan our future and the future of our finite planet democratically and thus avert the impending climate catastrophe....
Posted: Sat, Jun 24, 2023 7:32am PDT
Homelessness: Structural Violence in a Rich Country
The causes can be found in present social structures, prevailing property relations and mounting socio-economic crisis phenomena. Nowhere does the capitalist economic system fail so blatantly as in the supply of living space since apartments in Germany are treated like sausages, wall tapestries and throwaway handkerchiefs....
Posted: Thu, Jun 15, 2023 7:33am PDT
Three Meetings This Month For Concord's Homeless Strategic Plan
The city of Concord (California), will be holding three meetings this week-and-a-half, regarding the development of a homeless strategic plan. Service providers and concerned residents are urged to participate....
Posted: Mon, May 22, 2023 2:25pm PDT
In Shadow Docket Decision, Supreme Court Refuses to Rule on Mifepristone Ban
The supreme court basically punted the issue of a mifepristone ban back to the 5th circuit, issuing a stay this afternoon with little word on what they are thinking. Why that took them so many days to do remains a mystery....
Posted: Fri, Apr 21, 2023 5:21pm PDT
Is our system still capable of solving the big problems of the future?
How high rents for residential and business premises are, how much biodiversity there is in our cultural landscape, whether there are twelve or thirteen grades up to the Abitur, are all determined by the rulers. Energy prices, construction prices, food prices are the results of politics. Desolate inner cities, new construction deserts and ugly industrial areas are made by politicians....
Posted: Fri, Apr 21, 2023 6:35am PDT
Persons without a center
"They have their great, constantly changing I, but none of them has a self, a core, an experience of identity (...) Where there is no real self, there can be no identity" (1). Without awareness of and confidence in his own self, man, Fromm argues, is disconnected from both himself and his environment. He believes neither in what he is nor in what surrounds him....
Posted: Sat, Apr 15, 2023 2:37am PDT
Blow up the banking system! A free account for all is possible.
Harsh austerity policies for the vast majority of people and state socialism for bankers, both practiced at the same time in Europe and the U.S. after 2008 - this had two consequences, as they have characterized the financialized capitalism of the past 14 years. First, this course poisoned the West's money....
Posted: Thu, Apr 13, 2023 1:50pm PDT
California Department of Public Health’s Criminal Negligence—April 2023
California Department of Public Health deliberately sacrifices the lives of the elderly, sick, and disabled by removing all restrictions on the transmission of the Covid-19 virus in high risk locations....
Posted: Mon, Apr 3, 2023 5:56pm PDT