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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
Wallmapu: «la CAM goza de buena salud» afirma Héctor Llaitul
Wallmapu: «la CAM goza de buena salud» afirma Héctor Llaitul...
Posted: Mon, Jul 3, 2023 8:32am PDT
Psychological First Aid
The emotional impacts of violence and repression can be serious and it is important that we are aware of those impacts and work together to deal with them. Looking after ourselves and our friends or affinity groups does not end when the action ends! As Street Medics we should be versed in psychological first aid....
Posted: Thu, Jun 29, 2023 7:13pm PDT
Francia_Levantamientos de la tierra: La lucha continúa!
Francia_Levantamientos de la tierra: La lucha continúa!
Solidaridad sin fronteras, con las luchas compañeras!...
Posted: Tue, Jun 27, 2023 8:23am 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
Native American Tribes are rising up against the Thacker Pass Lithium MIne in Nevada
Native American tribes are rising up against the Thacker Pass Lithium MIne. Ox Sam Camp- a Paiute/ Shoshone elder woman led resistance/ prayer camp opposing the Thacker Pass Lithium Mine in Nevada, has been going for more than 2 weeks now and needs your presence here and support. See oxsamcamp.org...
Posted: Thu, May 25, 2023 2:53pm PDT
To: President Joe Biden: Use the 14th Amendment for debt ceiling crisis
Photo of Lynda Carson in front of the Oakland City Council years ago advocating for tenant's rights....
Posted: Mon, May 22, 2023 2:15am PDT
Debt ceiling negotiations reveal how evil the system is
The Evil Face To The Debt Ceiling Negotiations...
Posted: Sun, May 21, 2023 3:34am PDT
Google: Stop Aiding Abortion Prosecutors
Google went back on its commitment to keep abortion-seekers safe...
Posted: Fri, May 12, 2023 8:06pm PDT
Yellow Vest Protests Still Active in France
Their song "on est la" (we are here) continues to reverberate thrughout France...
Posted: Sun, May 7, 2023 11:33am PDT
High Levels of Dangerous ‘Forever Chemicals’ Found in California’s Most-Used Insecticide
40% of Tested Agricultural Pesticide Products Contain PFAS...
Posted: Tue, May 2, 2023 10:52am 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
It's About More than Mifepristone
Members of the National Mobilization for Reproductive Justice organized the event "More than Mifepristone" in Sacramento on April 15th and called upon people to rage with them in protest. Mifepristone is commonly referred to as the "abortion pill"....
Posted: Thu, Apr 20, 2023 8:59pm PDT
Alliance Defending Freedom is a Hate Group
While the Supreme Court maintains full access to the abortion pill mifepristone until at least tomorrow, the anti-abortion group Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) said the Supreme Court should keep restrictions on mifepristone in place as the legal battle over the pill plays out. The Southern Poverty Law Center has designated the ADF as a hate group....
Posted: Thu, Apr 20, 2023 2:28am PDT
Pan-African approach needed to tackle food insecurity arising from conflict and climate
California Pan African Food and Ag Pavilion will explore the challenges and opportunities. External factors – the disruption of food systems caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and the consequent reduced purchasing power, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which led to an increase in world food, fuel and fertiliser prices – coupled with drastic weather changes, and continuation or intensification of conflict and insecurity have compromised an already fragile food chain....
Posted: Sun, Apr 9, 2023 3:57pm PDT
No Place for Whales: The U.S. Military's Legacy in Indian Country: Reckless Toxic Dumping
From the mustard gas pit on Walker River Paiute lands, to the napalm burn site on Fallon Paiute Shoshone lands, to the undetonated bombs in the Lakota Badlands, to the experimental explosives at Fort Wingate in New Mexico and secret radioactive waste dump near the Tohono O'odham Nation capital of Sells, Arizona, to the widespread illegal hazardous waste dumping, and leaking of toxic waste, in many of the Alaskan and Hawaiian islands -- there is enough documented cancer-causing waste to fill a...
Posted: Mon, Mar 20, 2023 9:24am PDT
The New Bill of Rights
This article presents black letter law proposals for new rights....
Posted: Wed, Feb 15, 2023 1:46pm PST