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SACRAMENTO, Calif., September 1, 2024 — The California Senate has passed a bill affirming local governments’ authority to protect their communities by limiting or banning oil and gas operations, methods and locations. The bill also passed the Assembly concurrence vote and now goes to the governor for a final signature....
Posted: Mon, Sep 2, 2024 10:57am PDT
Gov. Newsom needs to keep his promise to stop polluting communities whose citizens live too close to oil and gas operations, say over 500 CA elected officials who signed a letter for 2,300 feet safty zones around wells...
Posted: Mon, Aug 26, 2024 2:08pm PDT
After reflecting on the death of my god sister during the pandemic, I noticed a lot of observations and writings about homelessness. I heard recent news about lawmakers and state and local leaders taking actions that will harm more homeless people. Yet we see that experts are saying that homelessness is increasing. Where does the accountability begin and end? Homeless populations are not monolithic and many are taxpayers and workers, disabled, families and increasingly elderly populations....
Posted: Sat, Aug 3, 2024 12:26pm PDT
Disability rights organizations go further than accepting money from war profiteers: they honor them with disability inclusion awards....
Posted: Wed, Jul 17, 2024 4:33pm PDT
Labor Union Sues University of California for Awarding $120,000,000 Contract to Company that Covered Up Worker's Death...
Posted: Tue, Jul 16, 2024 10:06am PDT
ACLU lawsuit challenging San Francisco’ costly and ineffective response to homelessness will continue...
Posted: Mon, Jul 1, 2024 10:35am PDT
National Homelessness Law Center Condemns Supreme Court Decision, Demands Real Solutions to Homelessness...
Posted: Fri, Jun 28, 2024 9:38am PDT
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