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A Conversation on our "Nihilistic Age"
As religious authority wanes, fundamental values—including the very value of truth—don’t die, but rather lose their absolute status and go a little haywire as a result. Scientific knowledge and its truth come apart from value, from meaning, and thus from the question of “the good.” When the value of values declines, values don’t vanish but become trivial, fungible, instrumentalizable....
Posted: Thu, May 2, 2024 11:03am PDT
Stanford Faculty Members Speak Out in Solidarity at Student Encampment
During the second round of encampment at Stanford University, supportive faculty and staff members encouraged student activists. Top photo: Students listen to speakers....
Posted: Wed, May 1, 2024 9:21pm PDT
Escalation and Orientation
Let's strive to deepen the political horizons of this moment as much as the tactics....
Posted: Tue, Apr 30, 2024 4:29pm PDT
CFA Humboldt Condemns Arrest of Students and Faculty
CFA Humboldt Condemns the arrest of students and faculty in response to Solidarity with Palestine protest on Cal Poly Humboldt Campus...
Posted: Tue, Apr 30, 2024 3:47pm PDT
From Redwood Trees to Olive Groves, the Commune Grows
A Statement from the Tree Occupation at Cal Poly Humboldt...
Posted: Mon, Apr 29, 2024 7:04pm PDT
Faculty for Justice in Palestine SFSU Statement of Support for Student Protests
April 28, 2024 - As the newly launched chapter of Faculty for Justice in Palestine (FJP) at SFSU, we are proudly watching students across the country assert their power to oppose Israel’s genocide in Gaza and the ongoing settler-colonial oppression of the Palestinian people....
Posted: Mon, Apr 29, 2024 7:32am PDT
Trust in Institutions and the War Dividend
Even if almost no one wants to admit it, our “system” is obsolete, and for this reason it is now morphing into a “closed system” – totalitarian in nature. It is equally clear that the few who continue to benefit materially from the capitalist system (the 0.1%) are willing to do whatever it takes to prolong its obsolete existence. Debt is issued from one door and purchased from another....
Posted: Mon, Apr 29, 2024 2:24am PDT
Sonoma County International Workers' Day March & Rally
Sheriff's Office, 2796 Ventura Ave, Santa Rosa...
Event Date: Wed, May 1, 2024 3:00pm PDT
Posted: Sun, Apr 28, 2024 12:16am PDT
Iranian Rapper’s Death Sentence Sparks Outrage, Global Rallies
Popular Iranian dissident, rapper and hip-hop artist Toomaj Salehi, a 33-year-old former factory worker known for his protest songs and social media posts critical of the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran, has been sentenced to death after being convicted of “spreading corruption on earth” charges. The sentence has been globally condemned including by the State Department’s office of the U.S. Special Envoy for Iran by calling for his release and that of Kurdish-Iranian rapper Saman Y...
Posted: Sat, Apr 27, 2024 7:29pm PDT
Stanford U. Encampment in Second Day
Stanford administration is using police to intimidate students into leaving pro-Palestine encampment. Students are being supported by community and alumni....
Posted: Fri, Apr 26, 2024 11:08pm PDT
A Message from Occupiers
A MESSAGE FROM OCCUPIERS (4/25/2024)...
Posted: Thu, Apr 25, 2024 11:54pm PDT
NLG Condemns Attacks on Gaza Solidarity Encampments
April 25th, 2024 - The National Lawyers Guild (NLG) unequivocally condemns the ongoing repression of pro-Palestinian activism taking place on university campuses across the country. The NLG is firm in its support for a free Palestine, and is against Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza and occupation of the West Bank. The violent and unprovoked attacks by police on student encampments at Columbia, Yale, NYU, University of Southern California, Emory, University of Texas, and other universities ex...
Posted: Thu, Apr 25, 2024 11:36pm PDT
Columbia Students File Civil Rights Complaint After NYPD Arrests, National Guard Threat
April 25, New York, NY – Today, Palestine Legal filed a civil rights complaint with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR), demanding an investigation into Columbia University’s discriminatory treatment of Palestinian students and their allies, including by inviting NYPD officers in riot gear — for the first time in decades — to arrest over a hundred students peacefully protesting Israel’s genocide last week....
Posted: Thu, Apr 25, 2024 3:55pm PDT
Cops Off Campus!
Siemens Hall, Cal Poly Humboldt...
Event Date: Thu, Apr 25, 2024 5:00pm PDT
Posted: Thu, Apr 25, 2024 2:28pm PDT
Pro-Palestinian Campus Encampments Spread Nationwide Amid Mass Arrests at Columbia, NYU & Yale
April 23, 2024 - Palestinian solidarity protests and encampments are appearing on college campuses from Massachusetts to California to protest Israel’s attacks on Gaza and to call for divestment from Israeli apartheid....
Posted: Wed, Apr 24, 2024 10:50am PDT
Making a Killing: Capitalism, Cops, & the War on Black Life
Humanities 1, Rm 210, UC Santa Cruz
Register to attend virtually: https://ucsc.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMqcO-rpjgtG9SPdQDZn5VH73hZ7Y8EfN2Z...
Event Date: Mon, Apr 29, 2024 12:00pm PDT
Posted: Tue, Apr 23, 2024 1:03pm PDT
ACLU Responds to California Supreme Court Ruling on Minimum Wage for Incarcerated Workers
OAKLAND, Calif., April 22, 2024 — The California Supreme Court ruled today that the state’s minimum wage law does not apply to people working for private companies while they are held in pretrial detention in California’s jails. The lawsuit, Ruelas v. County of Alameda, was brought by people incarcerated at the Santa Rita Jail in Alameda County who worked without compensation for Aramark, a for-profit corporation that provides food in jails and prisons....
Posted: Tue, Apr 23, 2024 12:48pm PDT
The Problem of Policing: A Primer, Part I
A brief look into policing, funding, and militarization....
Posted: Tue, Apr 23, 2024 10:23am PDT
Berkeley Copwatch Community Cookout
The Grassroots House
2022 Blake Street Berkeley, CA 94704
(in the backyard)...
Event Date: Sun, Apr 28, 2024 1:00pm PDT
Posted: Mon, Apr 22, 2024 10:04pm PDT
Demand Release of Golden Gate Arrestees
425 7th Street, San Francisco, CA 94103...
Event Date: Tue, Apr 16, 2024 5:00pm PDT
Posted: Tue, Apr 16, 2024 4:53pm PDT