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ACLU Demands Yuba Community College District Remove Anti-Transgender Health Care Exclusion 
YUBA COUNTY, October 22, 2019 - The ACLU of Northern California today sent a letter to Yuba Community College District and Tri-County Schools Insurance Group calling on them to immediately remove an illegal provision in the district’s employee health care plans that discriminates against transgender people with a blanket-exclusion for gender-affirming care....
Posted: Thu, Oct 24, 2019 10:13pm PDT
Unhoused March on Berkeley City Hall The Seabreeze/I-80 Underpass,
598 University Avenue, Berkeley, CA...
Event Date: Wed, Oct 23, 2019 9:00am PDT
Posted: Tue, Oct 22, 2019 5:09pm PDT
Mediation Won't End Class War 
Santa Cruz City Manager Martin Bernal knows who he works for and it isn’t the residence of the city. Our city like most in the US is controlled by property speculators and transnational corporations. This is a nationwide deliberate war against those forced to live outside. A war against the poor....
Posted: Tue, Oct 22, 2019 12:36pm PDT
Caltrans is Coming! Occupation Defense Call SeaBreeze
I 80 / University exchange
Berkeley, CA...
Event Date: Thu, Oct 24, 2019 8:00am PDT
Posted: Tue, Oct 22, 2019 8:55am PDT
Kaiser therapists take to the streets to protest HMO’s failure to provide mental health services 
Kaiser Permanente psychologists, therapists, and social workers took to the streets Saturday, October 19 to protest Kaiser’s chronic failure to provide its patients with timely access to mental health care....
Posted: Mon, Oct 21, 2019 2:15pm PDT
Open Letter to Vice-Mayor Justin Cummings Vice-Mayor Justin Cumming hasn't responded to repeated requests for a meeting with HUFF (Homeless United for Friendship & Freedom) and Conscience and Action, so I sent him this open letter. The issue of bathroom closure may come up quite strongly during Oral Communications with a proposed Pee Presentation at 7 PM Tuesday night 10-22....
Posted: Mon, Oct 21, 2019 10:53am PDT
PG&E may cut off the power again in Northern & Central California Reportedly, yesterday PG&E gave notice that it may shut off the power again in 17 counties in Northern and Central California, including the Bay Area!...
Posted: Mon, Oct 21, 2019 6:49am PDT
American Steel Studios Use Logs to Displace West Oakland Homeless for a Year and Counting 
By placing giant logs on the public streets outside their building, American Steel Studios in West Oakland has prevented homeless residents from parking outside it. The City of Oakland has allowed the logs to remain for a year and counting even in the wake of the fact that 11 West Partner, who owns AS, gave an illegal donation to Mayor Schaaf's campaign....
Posted: Wed, Oct 16, 2019 1:00pm PDT
Michael Diehl Memorial Celebration The Berkeley School
1310 University Ave., Berkeley, CA...
Event Date: Sun, Nov 3, 2019 4:00pm PST
Posted: Wed, Oct 16, 2019 11:04am PDT
New Rent Laws: Renters get longer notice for rent increases above 10% Starting January 1, 2020, AB 1110 takes effect which requires landlords to serve tenants in a residential dwelling with a month-to-month tenancy a “90 day notice” if the landlord “jacks up the rent” by more than 10%....
Posted: Wed, Oct 16, 2019 1:04am PDT
PG&E Execs Enjoy Fine Dining Ahead of Mass Power Down 
The San Francisco Chronicle reported that that 10 to 12 PG&E executives dined with top customers at a winery in Sonoma County on October 7 and 8, just ahead of the forced power outage to millions across California that started October 9, 2019....
Posted: Fri, Oct 11, 2019 2:27am PDT
New protections for Section 8 voucher holders (Housing Choice Voucher Holders) According to HUD’s records on 10/08/2019, in San Francisco there are 13,798 units in its Section 8 inventory, Oakland has 13,614 Section 8 units, Berkeley has 1,995 Section 8 units, Alameda has 1,885 Section 8 units, Alameda County has 6,684 Section 8 units, Contra Costa County has 9,235 Section 8 units, and Marin Housing has 2,205 Section 8 units listed. Oddly, the City of Richmond does not have any Section 8 units listed in HUD’s records....
Posted: Wed, Oct 9, 2019 8:18pm PDT
Expanded Legal Assistance for People Experiencing Homelessness Need for Legal Assistance Growing Among the Homeless...
Posted: Tue, Oct 8, 2019 11:51am PDT
NUHW members strike Janus of Santa Cruz 
NUHW members at Janus of Santa Cruz held their first-ever strike on Thursday, September 26, after management imposed a first contract that did not remedy poverty wages that has forced many workers to find new jobs....
Posted: Sun, Oct 6, 2019 11:07am PDT
Oakland files lawsuit to block Oakland Athletics from buying Coliseum complex Indeed, billionaire John J. Fisher’s plan to build a stadium at Howard Terminal will result in the loss of many present and future middle class jobs, and will result in higher priced housing and condominiums that most Oaklanders cannot afford. Despite all their promises, the A’s and multi-billionaire John Fisher have never built any affordable housing near the Coliseum, or anywhere in the Bay Area. The Oakland City Council sold out Oaklanders by voting to support the A’s stadium plan for Howa...
Posted: Tue, Oct 1, 2019 10:00pm PDT
STRIKE at Janus of Santa Cruz 
200 7th Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA 95062...
Event Date: Thu, Sep 26, 2019 6:00am PDT
Posted: Tue, Sep 24, 2019 1:30pm PDT
Santa Cruz Recall of Drew Glover and Chris Krohn, My Personal Statement 9-22-2019 
I felt the need to post this after getting some negative and hateful comments....
Posted: Sun, Sep 22, 2019 2:14pm PDT
Appeals Court Confirms Discrimination by Dignity Health 
Sacramento Area Hospital Illegally Refused Transition-Related Surgery...
Posted: Fri, Sep 20, 2019 6:57pm PDT
NE 16th/Mission BART Plaza Gets New Bench; Nothing For SW Plaza 
BART installed a strange new bench on the northeast 16th/Mission BART Plaza, adjacent to Walgreens, while ignoring the southwest Plaza, where it removed six benches and replaced them with three smaller ones in Autumn, 2018....
Posted: Thu, Sep 19, 2019 5:28pm PDT
Kaiser Bosses STOP Killing Peri Ho! Family & Supporters Speak Out At SF Kaiser 
A press conference was held at San Francisco Kaiser by Kin Ho to defend the life of his wife Keri Ho who Kaiser refuses to to get a second opinion on her healthcare. San Francisco Kaiser management according to Kin Ho has also retaliated against him and his wife for following complaints with the California Department of Managed Healthcare....
Posted: Tue, Sep 17, 2019 11:53am PDT
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