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Open Letter To East Bay Municipal Utility District The practices of the East Bay Municipal Utility District (EBMUD) are unreasonable, and unfair to the residents of Oakland!...
Posted: Tue, Mar 20, 2018 11:50pm PDT
Six Months After Maria, Puerto Rico and US Virgin Islands Wait for Relief Six months after Hurricane Maria, blue tarps still cover homes and buildings across Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands....
Posted: Mon, Mar 19, 2018 12:37pm PDT
Remembering David Minton Silva Great Activist and Grampa David Silva passed away. Remembering some of his winning ways, some history, a tribute....
Posted: Sun, Mar 18, 2018 8:46pm PDT
Fluoride Safety & Efficacy is Not Settled, Researchers Report Declarations of fluoride safety are not backed by science. Fluoride, neither a nutrient nor essential, is a drug with adverse side effects....
Posted: Sun, Mar 18, 2018 3:09am PDT
Tenants Together Endorses State Ballot Measure to Repeal Costa Hawkins March 6, 2018 - California’s statewide renters’ rights organization today announced its formal support for a proposed state ballot measure to repeal the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act and allow cities to pass stronger tenant protections....
Posted: Fri, Mar 9, 2018 11:43am PST
Senate Committee to Consider Bill Exempting Factory Farms From Hazardous Waste Reporting Legislation Would Leave Public in Dark During Dangerous Air-pollution Events...
Posted: Wed, Mar 7, 2018 4:26pm PST
Trial Begins in Lawsuit Against Mississippi Department of Corrections Over Years of Unconstitutional Conditions at Privately Operated Prison JACKSON, Miss., March 5, 2018 – Trial begins today in Dockery, et al. v. Hall, et al., a class action lawsuit brought on behalf of prisoners at East Mississippi Correctional Facility (EMCF) in Meridian, Mississippi. The American Civil Liberties Union, the Southern Poverty Law Center, the Law Offices of Elizabeth Alexander, and Covington & Burling LLP will show that the Mississippi Department of Corrections has operated the prison in a continuous state of crisis, neglect, and abuse for years, ...
Posted: Tue, Mar 6, 2018 11:06am PST
Housing is not just another commodity Like food, clothing, health, and education, housing is an elementary need. One's apartment is a place of retreat of the private person, a protective- and creative space of inviolable identity, the third skin of the human person after clothing. Low-interest long-term housing tax credits, SROs, and nonprofit or cooperative housing are alternatives to indifference, market fundamentalism, and plutocracy....
Posted: Tue, Mar 6, 2018 8:04am PST
Join the March 10 effort to repeal the extreme Costa Hawkins Rental Housing Act. Mark your calendars now to attend the Petition Campaign Kick-Off next Saturday, March 10, 10:00am -12:00pm -- at the BART / Fruitvale Village Plaza (btw International & E 12st), near the Fruitvale BART Station in East Oakland!...
Posted: Mon, Mar 5, 2018 4:55pm PST
Fluoride Damages Human Thyroid Gland, Studies Show Fluoride chemicals, purposely added to public water supplies in a failed effort to reduce tooth decay in tap water drinkers, can damage thyroid gland hormones and lead to hypothyroidism or under active thyroid which requires medication....
Posted: Fri, Mar 2, 2018 2:53am PST
What was the Fluoride Death Smog Disaster? & Other Questions re Fluoridation In one of the most successful PR campaigns in the history of the world, Edward Bernays convinced the American public to start adding toxic industrial waste to our water supply. Now, decades later, the evidence shows zero benefit to the public and immeasurable harm....
Posted: Thu, Mar 1, 2018 11:12am PST
Implementing Assisted Outpatient Treatment [AOT] in Louisiana (Part 1) Treatment Advocacy Center Policy Director, Brian Stettin, spoke on Assisted Outpatient Treatment [AOT]: What is it and why do we need it? "AOT is a practice of delivering outpatient treatment under court order to adults with severe mental illness who meet specific criteria, such as a prior history of repeated hospitalizations or arrest."...
Posted: Thu, Mar 1, 2018 7:34am PST
Living Together Differently! Modern politics must fight against excessiveness and inequality. All progress narratives have worn out. The cake will not become larger. The perspective of conviviality aims at abundance, not at tightening belts: at the abundance that could arise when the city becomes a human living space and not a development zone for capital and cars....
Posted: Thu, Mar 1, 2018 4:03am PST
Adam Smith as Philanthropist The market can only fulfill its technical function of coordination when its rules and mechanisms are politically fixed and governmentally monitored...Adam's Smith's theory has nothing to do with neoliberals and market radicals who preach the sleek state, low taxes for businesses, low wages and market, market, market. Quite the contrary!...
Posted: Fri, Feb 23, 2018 6:39am PST
State Investments and the Public Sector The public infrastructure is something positive, even from a business perspective. It is a kind of advance concession. It increases the entrepreneurial production potential and lowers the production costs. If state investments are trifling, this will have negative long-term effects on economic development....
Posted: Tue, Feb 20, 2018 6:10am PST
Oakland weekly signature gathering events to repeal Costa-Hawkins Act On Monday, February 19, Carroll Fife, Executive Director, Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE) in Oakland, said, “Our community kick-off event & signature gathering effort last Saturday to repeal the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act was a big action. It was amazing. The signature gathering event was better than anticipated!...
Posted: Mon, Feb 19, 2018 11:07pm PST
Oakland activists are collecting signatures to repeal Costa-Hawkins Act Oakland housing activists supporting a statewide ballot initiative to repeal the draconian Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act are collecting signatures to qualify the repeal measure for the November 2018 ballot, and will be having a community kick-off event & signature gathering, followed by lunch on Saturday, February 17th, 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM....
Posted: Fri, Feb 16, 2018 7:07pm PST
National Alliance of HUD Tenants oppose Trump’s proposed budget cuts In response to the proposed budget cuts to HUD, elected leaders of the National Alliance of HUD Tenants (NAHT) demanded immediate rejection by Congress of President Donald Trump’s 2019 budget request, which was released on February 12!...
Posted: Wed, Feb 14, 2018 10:55pm PST
Berkeley lied, the homeless paid A recent fire, a city employee lie, the press, and the result. The homeless get blamed for everything, just because they are homeless....
Posted: Sat, Feb 10, 2018 9:01am PST
Violence leaves 750,000 children in Mosul struggling to access health services As many as 750,000 children in Mosul and surrounding areas are struggling to access basic health services. While violence has subsided, less than 10 percent of health facilities in Ninewah governorate are functioning at full capacity. Those that are operational are stretched to breaking point....
Posted: Fri, Feb 9, 2018 11:40pm PST
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