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COVID: Masks Required on Pine Ridge, Rapid Spread on Navajo Nation 
The Oglala Lakota Nation said today that masks are now mandated due to the rapid increase in COVID-19 cases. The Navajo Nation reported more than 300 new cases, and four deaths, from the virus in the past two days....
Posted: Fri, Aug 12, 2022 12:49am PDT
US Covid-19 Insanity, The Working Class. Covid & Capitalism & THE NEW NORMAL By Dr. Gordon 
Dr. Nayvin Gordon reports on abandonment of any public health protection as the Covid-19 pandemic expands over two years after the pandemic starts....
Posted: Wed, Jul 20, 2022 1:35pm PDT
CIP Decision Could End Rent Control 
The City of Alameda already has a Capital improvement Plan (CIP) program but landlord lobbyists worked with Council Member John Knox White (so-called moderate) to get more from renters. The Alameda Renters Coalition opposed this plan last year, but renters responded with letters and speakers in protest. The CIP plan was tabled for a year but now it's back on the agenda for a City Council vote on Tuesday....
Posted: Fri, Jul 8, 2022 10:01pm PDT
SCOTUS Overturns Roe v Wade: The Dissent of Justices Breyer, Sotomayor, and Kagan 
Justices Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan: "Today, the Court discards that balance. It says that from the very moment of fertilization, a woman has no rights to speak of. A State can force her to bring a pregnancy to term, even at the steepest personal and familial costs."...
Posted: Fri, Jun 24, 2022 6:00pm PDT
Overturning Roe is Illegitimate: SCOTUS Decision Must Not Stand 5:00 pm Protests at Supreme Court & everywhere, nationwide
RiseUp4AbortionRights.org is calling on people to bring the gears of society to a grinding halt through nonviolent mass resistance to compel the federal government to reverse the overturning of Roe v Wade by codifying into law access to abortion on demand nationwide....
Posted: Fri, Jun 24, 2022 11:02am PDT
Bring meaningful change to Iraq for PTSD Awareness Month Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is caused by highly stressful, frightening or distressing events. Someone with PTSD often relives the traumatic event through nightmares and flashbacks, and may experience feelings of isolation, irritability and guilt....
Posted: Tue, Jun 14, 2022 12:16am PDT
Chaos The Air, Covid-19 & Flight Attendants With AFA Hygienist Judith Anderson 
The growing pandemic has led in part to the recent cancellation of 7,000 flights during 2022 Memorial Day weekend. Many of those cancellations were due to a the growing covid-19 pandemics for flight attendants but the airlines and government refuse to release any figures of how many of these workers are getting Covid. Airline Flight Attendants AFA Industrial Hygienist Judith Anderson talks about the real dangers for flight attendants and passengers as the government and industry try to igno...
Posted: Wed, Jun 1, 2022 11:24am PDT
What are the impacts of COVID-19 on low-income communities in Sonoma County? 
With COVID-19 causing stay at home orders and social distancing, many people/businesses of Sonoma county were affected. Impacts like these can have very large effects on low-income families and individuals. Putting people out of work, due to laying off workers, is critical to the decline of the wellbeing of low-income families. We are interested in looking at impacts that COVID-19 has had on Sonoma County....
Posted: Sun, May 15, 2022 7:58am PDT
How Foster Care Affects Outcomes in Adulthood Megan Lucas, Romelly Rivera, Leticia Martinez, Zakayya Nichols, Jocelyn McMillan, Valdemar Arreola, Arlette Martinez
An insight into the Affects of Foster as outlined by SSU's Investigative Sociology Spring 2022 Class. It provides in depth interviews of people who work with the Foster Care system and research on abuse of Foster Children....
Posted: Sat, May 14, 2022 10:38pm PDT
Abortion is not only about women its a human, civil, environmental rights issue says EOPA EOPA, an organization of thousands of elected officials, is appalled by the leaked Supreme Court abortion decision and warns of civil liberty erosion. Black and Brown communities will suffer the most. They do now, from fossil fuel production and factories that spew toxins, which have been strategically located in their communities because they were redlined decades ago. Environmental justice will become a utopian dream if we start eroding women’s rights, as all American rights will become end...
Posted: Wed, May 4, 2022 2:59pm PDT
Leaked Draft Opinion Reveals the Supreme Court Intends to Completely Overturn Roe v Wade 
In a stunning breach of US Supreme Court secrecy, a draft majority opinion written by justice Samuel Alito has been leaked. The would-be ruling is outrageous, sneering at the concept of a constitutional right to privacy and bodily autonomy. Alito makes a case for completely overturning Roe v Wade (1973) and Planned Parenthood v Casey (1992), allowing states to outlaw all abortions without exceptions for rape and incest. Half of the country will lose access to safe and legal reproductive se...
Posted: Mon, May 2, 2022 8:51pm PDT
Reports reveal landlords on murder spree during pandemic 
Landlords On Murder Spree During Pandemic:...
Posted: Mon, Apr 25, 2022 3:53am PDT
Diversion Program Funds Need Legal Protection Why the funding of diversion programs needs to be made independent from the influence of law enforcement and its interests....
Posted: Mon, Apr 25, 2022 1:36am PDT
Educational Inequality within Low Income Communities The focus here is on the unequal distribution of public school funding which in turn affects low-income communities....
Posted: Sun, Apr 24, 2022 11:31pm PDT
Top Scientists: California Must End Neighborhood Oil Drilling, Phase Out Fossil Fuels 
Stronger Action Needed to Protect Communities, Climate...
Posted: Thu, Apr 21, 2022 2:11pm PDT
U.S. Pesticide Exposure Up to 5 Times Greater for People of Color 
New Study Shows People of Color in U.S. Are More Likely to Be Harmed by Pesticides Due to Weak Regulations, Lax Enforcement...
Posted: Tue, Apr 19, 2022 8:53am PDT
Navajo Elderly Denied Entry to Navajo Council During Protest of New Mining 
Navajo elderly were refused entry to the spring session of the Navajo Nation Council today. During a peaceful protest outside the Navajo Nation Council chambers, Dine' opposed new helium mining on the sacred Beautiful Mountain. While isolated Navajos need water to survive COVID-19, the Navajo Council plans to give a half-million-dollar gift to a private Christian school....
Posted: Tue, Apr 19, 2022 1:01am PDT
Eulogy to the COVID-19 Holocaust 
“We have to live with COVID-19.” What the corporate politicians and their media flunkies are really saying is that they are willing to sacrifice frontline and essential workers, the poor, the Black, the Brown, the Yellow and the Red – as well as the old, the disabled, the ill and those with weakened immune systems – all on the altar of capitalist greed....
Posted: Sun, Mar 20, 2022 12:48pm PDT
OIG audit reveals public housing tenants with disabilities are getting the shaft 
Office of Inspector General Audit:...
Posted: Sun, Mar 13, 2022 12:47am PST
Run for the Ancestors: Phoenix to Oak Flat: Hohokam Graves Being Recklessly Excavated 
Hundreds of Hohokam graves are being recklessly excavated for a housing project in Phoenix. Join O'odham and Run for the Ancestors, from the Phoenix site to the east, to the Apache Stronghold at Oak Flat, defending Apache Ceremonial Ground from copper mining in central Arizona....
Posted: Mon, Feb 14, 2022 8:56am PST