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Stop the Purge on the KPFA Board
KPFA's 2022 Local Station Board (LSB) has reached new depths of partisanship. How low can they go? The LSB is contemplating the expulsion of one of its own members! Please tell the LSB to stop this nonsense, and instead do some real work....
Posted: Thu, Oct 27, 2022 3:35pm PDT
Not much good news at KPFA
While the financial crisis deepens, KPFA gatekeepers move to silence and expel whistleblowers from the Local Station Board....
Posted: Tue, Oct 25, 2022 12:30pm PDT
Beloved Mutual Aid Hub Omni Commons Launches Fundraiser to Save its Oakland Home
Omni Commons is calling upon community members to help save its building in the
rapidly gentrifying Temescal district. Communally operated by a grassroots collective, the multi-purpose space functions
as a community center, event venue, mutual aid hub, free food distribution network, unhoused drop-in center, movement
space, hackerspace, and citizen science lab....
Posted: Sun, Oct 16, 2022 10:08am PDT
KVHS 90.5FM Under Threat of Closure by MDUSD
Concord's local radio station, KVHS 90.5FM (The Edge) is under treat of closure by the Mount Diablo Unified School District. This radio station is part of local history, having been established in 1964 by Clayton Valley High vice principal Bob Daugherty. A MDUSD staff report claims the station has no education value, and is too expensive to maintain. The station community, and local listeners want to keep their station - which is known as "the voice of the valley"....
Posted: Sun, Aug 21, 2022 12:48am PDT
Yash Kilam: Teenage humanitarian advocates for those with disabilities
While most 16-year-olds are focused on learning to drive and sleeping in on summer mornings, Yash Kilam of Fremont, California is keeping his full attention on helping others....
Posted: Tue, Aug 16, 2022 12:50pm PDT
UC Using CIA Methods at People's Park
In 1975 The Church Committee discovered Operation Mockingbird a CIA program which attempted to manipulate domestic American news media for propaganda purposes. Almost 50 years later U.C. is using the same technique to destroy Peoples Park....
Posted: Fri, Aug 12, 2022 2:09pm PDT
2022 Berkeley Rent Board Convention Announces Final Slate Member
Berkeleyans select Nathan Mizell to join Negeene Mosaed, Soli Alpert, Ida Martinac, and Vanessa Danielle Marrero on the progressive, pro-tenant Rent Board slate...
Posted: Tue, Aug 9, 2022 10:57pm PDT
Response to Berkeleyside's People's Park Coverage
Peoples Park community is not anti-development; we are fighting climate change and do not support the redlining of our Southside district. UC Berkeley can build on sites that are not historically significant. We are anti-fascists centering on urban ecology, consensus decision-making, and rematriation of this land back to the Ohlone people....
Posted: Sat, Aug 6, 2022 3:15pm PDT
Berkeley Police and demonstrators clash over development of People's Park
July 29 an Alameda County Superior Court decided it was not a violation of the California Environmental Quality Act for a $312 million dollar development to take shape on the location of Berkeley's largest and longest bohemian hubs: the People's Park....
Posted: Sat, Aug 6, 2022 11:47am PDT
People's Park — Its Place in the History of Land Art
Much has been said about the political history of People's Park. People's Park is also an important piece of Land Art. Art historians and artists should speak up to preserve it. The destruction of the park by the University of California has temporarily been stopped by activists; however many trees were cut down. Legal advocates have requested a hearing, which a judge has granted. All demolition and pre-development work is legally halted until the October court hearing....
Posted: Fri, Aug 5, 2022 5:01pm PDT
Go to Parker School in Oakland NOW! OUSD security has shown up!
The eviction of the Parker Community School is now underway!...
Posted: Thu, Aug 4, 2022 6:27pm PDT
People's Park: Berkeley City Council to Vote on "Tear Gas" Authorization Tonight
A special meeting of the Berkeley City Council is scheduled for TONIGHT, Thursday August 4 @ 8:15PM. The topic is to suspend the city's policy banning the use of chemical weapons. This proposed change of policy is in response to the People's Park protest.
Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89083608532
More info at: berkeleyca.gov...
Posted: Thu, Aug 4, 2022 9:42am PDT
Filling a Vacancy on the 2022 Berkeley Rent Board Slate
The Berkeley Rent Board Convention seeks candidates by THIS THURSDAY, August 4 to fill a vacancy on the 2022 Progressive, Pro-Tenant Berkeley Rent Board Slate...
Posted: Sun, Jul 31, 2022 10:52pm PDT
2022 Berkeley Rent Board Convention Results Announced
Berkeleyans select Negeene Mosaed, Soli Alpert, Ida Martinac, Della Moran, and Vanessa Danielle Marrero as the progressive, pro-tenant slate for Rent Board...
Posted: Mon, Jul 18, 2022 8:22pm PDT
Pandemics Are Prosperity, Sickness Is Health, Ignorance Is Strength
The Pandemic and Social Collapse...
Posted: Mon, Jul 18, 2022 1:32pm PDT
Stop Privatization Of Education, Port & Public Services: SLAP Educational Conf Intros Pt 1
The Schools and Labor Against Privatization SLAP had an educational conference on July 9, 2022 and these were the first two presentations...
Posted: Thu, Jul 14, 2022 8:56am PDT
Berkeley irradiating us all via e-kiosks & cell antennas
Open letter re electronic kiosks and cell antennas that emit harmful EMF/RF radiation. Please use it for talking points and lobby the mayor and city council If you live or work in Berkeley: Council@CityOfBerkeley.info. Otherwise, fight it wherever you are. This huge hazard is "under the radar."...
Posted: Sun, Jul 10, 2022 11:30pm PDT
On People's Park, Democracy, and Politics
Berkeley city council-member Rigel Robinson released a recent article championing the UC's proposed redevelopment project on People's Park. This article was accompanied with a statement from council-member Lori Droste's legislative assistant. The statement compared People's Park activists to the January 6th insurrectionists....
Posted: Sat, Jun 25, 2022 5:46pm PDT
Roe is overturned -- Protests Today, near you
This morning, the Supreme Court formally overturned Roe v. Wade. Protests, which had been scheduled for awhile all over the country for "Decision Day", will now be taking place later today....
Posted: Fri, Jun 24, 2022 9:43am PDT
Support Your Community and Yourself
Available public services for seniors and people with disabilities are often not well-publicized, and if we don't apply for them, we are often undercounted and underserved when we need it most....
Posted: Wed, Jun 22, 2022 2:14pm PDT