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Rob Nilsson can generally be found in front of the theater when his films are being screened. Often the actors appear at his films, and are available for a discussion about the film afterwards, with the audience....

The residents of Redwood Gardens, especially the Redwood Gardens Resident Council have been very active during the past year. During June 2015, they had a meeting with officials from the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), and around 30 residents showed up at the meeting to complain about a massive renovation project that has been taking place at Redwood Gardens, located at 2951 Derby St., in Berkeley....

Members of the California Faculty Association on the 23 campuses of the California State University voted “Yes by over 94% percent” to authorize a strike, CFA President Jennifer Eagan announced today at a news conference....

OAKLAND, Calif.— The Center for Biological Diversity, Grand Canyon Trust, the Sierra Club and Earthjustice sent a letter to Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes today urging him to invalidate $53 million in state payments in support of a scheme to export millions of tons of coal from Utah and send it through a proposed bulk terminal in Oakland, Calif....

The climate change group 350.org and others have called for a series of global marches and mass mobilizations before and after the so-called Conference of the Parties (COP 21) meeting scheduled in Paris from Nov. 30 – Dec. 11. The call to action gives us a chance to reject suicidal corporate business as usual and create a new world that is sustainable as well as just and free. (See end of article for local action info.) http://www.norcalclimatemob.net/...

In 2011, Oakland’s Museum of Children’s Art abruptly cancelled a planned exhibition of art created by children in the Palestinian occupied territories of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. At the time, Museum board chair (current Save KPFA Local Station Board candidate) Hilmon Sorey stated that the art was “not appropriate” for the Museum. The United for Community Radio LSB candidate slate says “This kind of candidate is NOT APPROPRIATE for the KPFA Local Station Board.” The following ...

Regarding the petition of the California Apartment Association that blocked Richmond's renter protections from going into effect on September 4, 2015, allegedly, the Contra Costa County Clerk Recorder-Elections Division did a random sampling of 500 signatures of which 389 of the 500 signatures were valid. This is all that they were required to do to claim that the petition was found to be sufficient, by using the formula approved by the Secretary of State to determine that the statistically p...

Now the CAA and it’s 13,000 members are targeting numerous council members and are meddling in the affairs of 4 other Northern California cities, in an effort to block renter protections from taking effect. Those cities include San Jose, Santa Rosa, Mountain View, and San Mateo. Additionally, renters in Healdsburg have also been pushing for renter protections in their city!...

Within 48 hours of being exposed for operating under a cancelled business license with the state of Nevada, Renoir Staffing, LLC hired Michael Eric Chase, an attorney with the law firm of Boutin Jones, Inc., 555 Capital Mall Ste. 1500, in Sacramento, to demand a retraction of my article revealing that the business license of Renoir Staffing LLC has been cancelled!...

We, the undersigned students, researchers, and educators of the University of California, recognize that the University of California, Berkeley was built on occupied Ohlone territory, and as such, we urge UC administrators to respond to the following invitation sent to you by the Indigenous Land Access Committee (ILAC) to honor and respect indigenous access to sacred land at the Gill Tract:...