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Over 1000 Law Enforcement Personnel Converging in Berkeley for People's Park
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
Plutonium & Fighting for Justice & Accountability for Residents & Workers at Hunters Point
The continuing cancers and epidemic of disease in Hunters Point shipyard and Treasure Island has been happening for decades despite protests of the community and workers about the dangers. Now Dr. Ahimsa Sumchai has discovered that there is plutonium in the bodies of residents. This is a direct correlation between their cancers and the radioactive toxins that are only produced by nuclear fission. Politicians including Newsom, Kamala Harris, Nancy Pelosi, Willie Brown and many others have been...
Posted: Wed, Jan 3, 2024 1:04pm PST
Year in Review: How the Vallejo Police Union Won in 2023
Vallejo also struggled to contend with homelessness and declining attendance in schools...
Posted: Mon, Jan 1, 2024 12:55am PST
Tick-Tock: Token Tidbits in the Winter War on the Homeless
Two homeless memorials were held on December 21st in Santa Cruz, one by "service providers", the other by Food Not Bombs. I reprint the flyers I distributed at these events as well as the December 25th Xmas dinner organized by Joe Schultz, Food Not Bombs, Friends of Xmas, and the inevitable Steve Pleich....
Posted: Wed, Dec 27, 2023 5:34pm PST
Homeless deaths on the streets surge in 2023
The Dead Can't Dance Or Sing Anymore:...
Posted: Fri, Dec 22, 2023 9:27pm PST
Speak Out at SF Civil Service Commission on Layoffs at Tenderloin Neighborhood Development
Terminated workers at the Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation (TNDC) and community members protested the layoff at the "non-profit". The City of San Francisco does no oversight of these agencies which are contracted out do do public work with private non-profits with self appointed boards....
Posted: Tue, Dec 19, 2023 11:25am PST
Counter the "Walk for Life" Religious Right Wing in San Francisco
Join the millions hitting the streets for Palestine, Ukraine, and other countries devastated by war. Participate in this interconnected protest and speak out for the right to our bodily autonomy everywhere.
In front of San Francisco Main Library
100 Larkin St.
San Francisco...
Event Date: Sat, Jan 20, 2024 11:00am PST
Posted: Sun, Dec 17, 2023 2:36pm PST
Watsonville Community Hospital nurses ratify new contract
Nurses win strong measures to improve retention of experienced nurses, patient safety...
Posted: Wed, Dec 13, 2023 1:31pm PST
SEIU1021 SF General Hospital Workers & Healthcare Workers for Palestine Rally at Hospital
San Francisco SEIU 1021 General Hospital workers rallied to prepare for their contract expiration and the growing attacks by Mayor London Breed who is cutting healthcare funds while wanting to increase the police budget by $300 million. They were joined by a contingent to Healthcare Workers For Palestine who called for more money for healthcare and not war....
Posted: Tue, Dec 12, 2023 12:26am PST
New report reveals fossil fuel media influence as WSPA sponsors events for journalists
When so called journalism organizations are tainted by the toxic stench of Big Oil money — and very few “environmental” and “climate” organizations appear to have any problem with this — you know that we are in a really dark time in human history....
Posted: Fri, Dec 8, 2023 8:35am PST
Effie’s House tenants are illegally under surveillance
This Story Is Dedicated To All The People Who May Be Under Surveillance Illegally Where They Reside!...
Posted: Thu, Dec 7, 2023 12:52am PST
Worst Evictors of San Francisco and Oakland Released
The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project has released a new website profiling the Worst Evictors of San Francisco and Oakland. From corporate to nonprofit evictors, the group has profiled the top 30 bad actors across the Bay. Nearly every profile includes a photo of the individual alongside the dirty details discovered in our research based upon our tool Evictorbook, as well as tenant reviews on Google and Yelp, legal filings, and more. Worst Evictors Bay Area was developed in partnership with the S...
Posted: Sun, Dec 3, 2023 2:56pm PST
Tenants Fighting Eviction Picket KP Market, Threatening Boycott
A crowd of some 75 tenants, protesting the landlord’s eviction-via-disrepair campaign, marched from 2341 Valley Street to the Telegraph Avenue grocer and picketed throughout the afternoon ahead of a Dec. 4 hearing with the Oakland rent board (RAP)....
Posted: Mon, Nov 27, 2023 12:28pm PST
Tenants Fighting Eviction to Picket KP Market, Threatening Boycott
KP Market (2370 Telegraph Avenue)...
Event Date: Sun, Nov 26, 2023 12:00pm PST
Posted: Sat, Nov 25, 2023 5:59pm PST
Perinatal Healthcare Workers in Santa Cruz County Call for Immediate Ceasefire in Gaza
Campesina Womb Justice, a mutual aid project for womb justice and healing for indigenous campesinas in Santa Cruz County, has released a statement calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza....
Posted: Fri, Nov 24, 2023 3:19pm PST
PG&E to jack up your utility bills around 13% starting in January
PG&E Is Moving It’s Headquarters To 300 Lakeside Drive In Oakland:...
Posted: Sun, Nov 19, 2023 6:18am PST
Big Oil spent $22 million in first 3 quarters of 2023 in effort to kill climate bills
The oil industry spent over $7.2 million on lobbying in California during the third quarter of 2023...
Posted: Fri, Nov 17, 2023 11:31am PST
Newsom Streamlines Sites Reservoir Project, Despite Opposition by Conservationists, Tribes
Recent research by Tell the Dam Truth reveals that the Sites Reservoir Project will emit 362,000 metric tons of CO2e annually, mostly in the form of methane, a significantly more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide. This is the equivalent to the annual emissions from over 80,000 gas-powered cars. ...
Posted: Fri, Nov 17, 2023 11:10am PST
Kaiser Permanente Hospitals Have Undisclosed Surveillance Equipment in Parking Lots
Kaiser Permanente has been conducting mass surveillance of its members for years and is sharing that information with law enforcement....
Posted: Tue, Nov 14, 2023 12:00am PST
Watsonville Community Hospital nurses to picket Monday
Nurses to protest management’s refusal to address RNs’ deep concerns about safe staffing, retention, and safe patient care...
Posted: Sun, Nov 12, 2023 8:05am PST