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ACLU Responds to Reintroduction of George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, Calls on Congress to Address Police Brutality...
Posted: Thu, May 23, 2024 4:35pm PDT
In 1933, Congress passed the Glass-Steagall Act, which banned banks from underwriting securities. Financial institutions had to
choose either to be a simple bank lender or an underwriter
(investment banker or brokerage firm)....
Posted: Thu, May 23, 2024 12:56pm PDT
Journalists and Israel critics as Hamas accomplices
The Netanyahu government has also been very successful in spreading narratives that declare anyone who supports the Palestinians in Gaza with humanitarian aid, reports on their suffering and criticizes the actions of the Israeli government as Hamas accomplices, Hamas misunderstanders and anti-Semites....
Posted: Mon, May 13, 2024 3:08pm PDT
Democratic Congressman Ro Khanna is proposing to deregulate medicare and turn it over to the states which would allow more privatization. He is being supported by the insurance industry which want to privatize medicare....
Posted: Tue, Apr 2, 2024 6:44pm PDT
The California Apartment Association has been strategizing with local MAGA organizers to stop Concord's tenant protection ordinance....
Posted: Sun, Mar 17, 2024 11:34am PDT
Modern societies cannot really function well without a general social security system. That's why we need a security system for the whole of society that everyone pays into. In addition, growing social inequality is also a major economic risk....
Posted: Sun, Mar 10, 2024 5:17pm PDT
Pesticides Applied to Seeds to Remain Uncounted...
Posted: Thu, Feb 29, 2024 1:25pm PST
Public Health Policy regarding Covid-19, is unscientific and deadly madness...
Posted: Wed, Feb 21, 2024 10:56am PST
Men do not get universal screening for prostate cancer but women get universal screening for breast cancer--a tragedy...
Posted: Mon, Jan 29, 2024 5:35pm PST
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 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
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
The Dead Can't Dance Or Sing Anymore:...
Posted: Fri, Dec 22, 2023 9:27pm PST
Point in Time results must drive housing investments, not despair...
Posted: Mon, Dec 18, 2023 11:57am PST
A few people own the majority of the wealth, the rest share what remains. Star economist Thomas Piketty wants to change this. He has developed reform proposals that distribute the wealth of our society more fairly and make our lives more democratic. The most important pillars of his reforms are economic co-determination, fairer taxes and a stronger welfare state....
Posted: Sat, Dec 2, 2023 7:24am PST
The Swedish government set a goal of building 1 million new units in the mid-1960s when the population was only 8 million (or about the same size as New York City). Despite a few setbacks and problems, this goal was achieved in less than a decade — We suggest that 10 million new municipal housing units would be a viable ten-year goal....
Posted: Fri, Nov 17, 2023 7:18am PST
Israel has intensified its war of starvation against Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said on Wednesday, as a means of subjugation during the bloody 40-day war....
Posted: Wed, Nov 15, 2023 3:34pm PST
The CNA NNU is supporting a ceasefire....
Posted: Tue, Nov 14, 2023 8:00am PST
San Francisco needs APEC type events every week of the year in order to house the poor and keep the streets clean....
Posted: Mon, Nov 13, 2023 4:30pm PST
Wednesday 8th November, 2023
The Pacific Collective on Nuclear Issues, composed of civil society groups, non-governmental organisations and movements in the Pacific, denounces once again the dumping of radioactive
wastewater from the damaged Fukushima nuclear powerplant into the Pacific Ocean as the only solution available. The Collective also condemns the Government of Japan and the facility operator, Tokyo Electric
Power Company (TEPCO), for insisting on this flawed and dangerous course ...
Posted: Wed, Nov 8, 2023 11:12pm PST