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Kaiser Mental Health Care Workers on the Picket Line in Oakland 
Kaiser Permanente is California's largest health care provider. For five days, December 10-14, over 100 Kaiser clinics and hospitals were affected by strike activities as mental health care employees called for the provider to step up levels of staffing.
All photos by Cornelia Grimes. Please credit the photographer....
Posted: Sat, Dec 15, 2018 11:56pm PST
Kaiser picket line in Fresno this week 
Mental health workers in the National Health Workers Union went on strike and picketed Kaiser throughout the week. Fresno was one of the locations that joined in the action....
Posted: Thu, Dec 13, 2018 10:24pm PST
Is this a Good Way to Spend Money to end Homelessness? 
Would you pay $420,000 per year to get 8 homeless people into housing? Photo: Staff member of the HERO Team and Captain Burke Farrah....
Posted: Thu, Dec 13, 2018 5:56pm PST
Public housing and Section 8 tenants face eviction and homelessness for medical marijuana Oakland has 13,586 units in its Section 8 inventory, 2,122 units in its low rent inventory, plus thousands of tenants being publicly assisted in rental units in Oakland operated by nonprofit housing developers that may be threatened with eviction if they are caught using medical marijuana....
Posted: Thu, Dec 13, 2018 4:29pm PST
The People's March — 5th Annual Reclaim King's Radical Legacy 
Oscar Grant Plaza
14th St and Broadway
Oakland, CA...
Event Date: Mon, Jan 21, 2019 7:15am PST
Posted: Thu, Dec 13, 2018 1:59pm PST
Is Housing a Human Right? With the current housing crisis in the Bay Area, there is a question of responsibility for those displaced by gentrification. Housing inequities can be traced back to the beginning of the 20th century and the effects can be seen today....
Posted: Wed, Dec 12, 2018 7:09pm PST
Radio in Petaluma: The “End” of Radio Our group's findings while investigating Radio listener rates in Petaluma....
Posted: Wed, Dec 12, 2018 1:47pm PST
Radio in the Age of the Internet Is there hope for the radio industry in today's connected world?...
Posted: Wed, Dec 12, 2018 1:08pm PST
Tenant activist condemns President Trump for threatening to shut down federal government 
Photo of tenant activist Lynda Carson condemning President Donald Trump on December 8, 2018, for threatening to shut down the federal government. The symbolism of condemning President Trump in front of the Oakland Housing Authority (OHA) at 1540 Webster Street downtown Oakland, is justified because a government shut down would threaten tens of thousands of renters in Oakland being assisted by the OHA including veterans, the elderly, disabled, chronically ill, and low-income families in public...
Posted: Tue, Dec 11, 2018 2:41pm PST
Justice For Kaiser Patients & NUHW Workers! Stop The Suicides From Profiteering & Cost Shifting 
NUHW Kaiser mental healthcare workers in California launched a five-day strike on December 10, 2018, over care for patients and NHWA workers conditions. They rallied and marched at SF Kaiser....
Posted: Tue, Dec 11, 2018 1:20am PST
Last Council Meeting of 2018 What's Missing? Freeze/Just Eviction Protection Extension! 
In the last regular scheduled Council meeting of the year outgoing Mayor Terrazas won't put on the agenda an item to extend the Rent Freeze/Just Eviction Protection that the Council passed overwhelmingly in February. That measure expires on today December 11th once the election results are accepted by the Council. It leaves tenants vulnerable to exorbitant rental increases. I have written several letters demanding the "progressive" Council members (who constitute a majority in the middle o...
Posted: Tue, Dec 11, 2018 12:16am PST
So Passes Jay 
Celebration of our recently lost friend. Militant individualist nihilist anarchist. A lover, a fighter....
Posted: Fri, Dec 7, 2018 11:36am PST
Dignity Village and Allies Stood Up to Resist Eviction and the City of Oakland Backed Down (video/mp4 18.2MB) The city of Oakland threatened to evict residents from the Housing and Dignity Village on December 5. Oakland police and city public works employees blocked off parking on S Elmhurst Ave to prepare for the eviction. But early in the morning gates to the community were locked and dozens showed up to place themselves between the encampment and police. The city backed down, promising to enter into new negotiations with residents....
Posted: Wed, Dec 5, 2018 11:58pm PST
The Housing and Dignity Village: Survival is Not A Crime (video/mp4 23.0MB) The administration is saying we’re a danger to the neighbourhood, that we’re criminals, that we’re unsanitary. Check out this video to hear why we started this safe and sober resource hub....
Posted: Tue, Dec 4, 2018 3:21pm PST
This is Why We Have a Hard Time Electing Progressives in Fresno 
Voting repression in Fresno is exposed....
Posted: Tue, Dec 4, 2018 11:43am PST
Santa Cruz City Council Special Meeting: Renter Protections 
City Hall: 809 Center St, Santa Cruz...
Event Date: Tue, Dec 4, 2018 1:00pm PST
Posted: Sun, Dec 2, 2018 5:35pm PST
Oakland renters are wondering why landlord Elizabeth Williams is not in jail 
According to an October 26, 2018 investigative report from Milad Dalju, Chief Enforcement, and Simon Russell, Investigator, to the Oakland Public Ethics Commission, allegedly former Oakland Inspector, Thomas Alton Espinosa, accepted a number of payments totaling $176,000 from landlord Elizabeth Williams, which reportedly may have been illegal bribes made to Espinosa!...
Posted: Thu, Nov 29, 2018 4:03pm PST
Will CA Department of Pesticide Regulation ban Big Ag's use of Toxic Air Contaminates? As a Watsonville local and school bus driver, I have had it with all the toxic fumigants and sprays that are poisoning us and contributing to climate change. I joined Safe Ag, Safe Schools to stop poisoning kids and neighbors by making 1 mile 24-hour no toxic spray or fumigation buffer zones around schools....
Posted: Wed, Nov 21, 2018 11:39pm PST
Down In Smoke SF Smoke from the Camp Fire has turned San Francisco into a high tech ghost town....
Posted: Mon, Nov 19, 2018 3:46pm PST
Dead Man Pulled From Culvert at Plymouth and Highway 17 
On Saturday morning, I saw several police officers and a deputy examine what appeared to be a dead body behind a yellow "crime scene" tape at the edge of a culvert adjoining Highway 17 near the Plymouth/Highway 17 stoplight....
Posted: Sun, Nov 18, 2018 9:06am PST
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