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New study reveals that western monarch decline is more severe than decline in East...

Upbeat and greeted by a very enthusiastic crowd, Chelsea Manning made a surprise appearance at the March Against White Supremacy in Berkeley on September 23. Barely four months since she was released from prison for her incredibly brave act of conscience, Chelsea acknowledged defying naysayers who discourage her from speaking in public. It was only a week ago that the CIA cowed Harvard University into revoking her visiting fellowship. Chelsea emphasizes the importance of not relying on leade...

While he has frozen services to low-income internet users, FCC Chair Ajit Pai came to San Francisco to talk to tech executives about bridging the digital divide for underserved communities. Protesters brought demands to the site of the meeting at 543 Howard St. Photos by Charlie Moehle under creative commons license....

This may possibly mean that unemployment benefits exist for the workers of O'mei restaurant in Santa Cruz, who quit their jobs after a boycott occurred because their boss Roger Grigsby was outed as a campaign contributor to David Duke's failed 2016 Senate campaign!...

On Wednesday, August 16, at about 7am, a convoy of unmarked federal vehicles rolled up in West Oakland and over two dozen armed Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) agents demanded entry and stormed a Latina home, supposedly in service of a warrant for the "human trafficking of juveniles." Oakland police participated by blocking the street to through traffic, despite legislation passed by the Oakland city council in July rescinding the department's authorization to work with ICE on immigra...

The National Lawyers Guild - SF Bay Area Chapter condemns the Trump Administration for rescinding DACA, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program, which protected nearly 800,000 immigrants, who came to the United States as children from deportation. By rescinding the program, these individual’s lives and livelihoods are now threatened....

This past weekend in San Francisco and Berkeley saw tens of thousands of people hit the streets against a series of far-Right rallies attended by Alt-Right trolls, Proud Boys, and neo-Nazis. The mobilizations showed that there is broad popular opposition to the Alt-Right as antifascist groups, groups of workers, faith based organizations, and a multitude of sectors mobilized and organized to confront the far-Right. The bay area mobilizations also showed that the autonomous power and energy th...

Investigative reports by Lynda Carson published to Indybay expose dozens of donors to David Duke's failed 2016 campaign for US Senate in Louisiana, including Roger F. Grigsby, owner and founding chef of O'mei restaurant in Santa Cruz, Clubhouse Jäger owner Julius De Roma in Minneapolis, and many others across several states. In Santa Cruz, customers began boycotting and giving bad reviews to O'mei almost immediately. Within a week, the restaurant closed its door. For those with doubt about...

The ripple effect of the story about campaign contributors giving money to David Duke is spreading with the closure of O'mei restaurant in Santa Cruz due to patrons boycotting the restaurant, with some employees of Clubhouse Jager quitting their jobs in Minneapolis, also DJ Rudh pulled his show from Clubhouse Jager, and the Huge Improv Theater in Minneapolis telling the Nazis and KKK to fuck off....

NLGSF DEMANDS CITY OF BERKELEY RETRACT UNCONSTITUTIONAL RULES TARGETING COUNTER PROTESTERS, CONDEMNS CITY OF BERKELEY FOR TELLING ANTI-RACISTS NOT TO PROTEST...