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On January 17 social justice activists held a demonstration denouncing white supremacy and fascism along Highway 1 in Pacifica....
Posted: Mon, Jan 18, 2021 11:29am PST
Google workers have formed a union to promote solidarity, democracy, and social and economic justice. Reprinted here from Common Dreams under Creative Commons License. Photo by Ruth Robertson....
Posted: Tue, Jan 5, 2021 7:44am PST
Mountain View and Palo Alto hold one of many Bay Area November 4 rallies to protect the vote...
Posted: Thu, Nov 5, 2020 10:33pm PST
Menlo Park holds one of many Bay Area November 4 rallies to protect the vote...
Posted: Thu, Nov 5, 2020 9:29pm PST
San Jose holds one of many Bay Area November 4 rallies to protect the vote...
Posted: Thu, Nov 5, 2020 6:43pm PST
See photos here of three colorful rallies held along the El Camino Real on the San Francisco Peninsula on October 31. All three rallies were held in solidarity with the coalition "Protect the Results" and its goals. You can sign up at the link here to find a protest near you and be part of a national mobilization on November 4 should Trump interfere with the election. Please credit the photographers as indicated....
Posted: Mon, Nov 2, 2020 1:18am PST
A sister rally to the women's march was held in San Mateo on October 17th....
Posted: Wed, Oct 21, 2020 6:44am PDT
Last night, the statue of Junipero Serra was defaced and covered in red paint to signify the colonial violence and genocide that has been and continues to be enacted upon the Indigenous people of this land, specifically in this context by spanish imperialism and the catholic church....
Posted: Mon, Oct 12, 2020 9:49am PDT
Palantir’s public offering is founded on the company’s sales pitch that its software represents the ultimate tool of surveillance. The secretive company's history of working with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and countries with questionable human rights records makes it a bad investment, say activists. Protests at the company's new and old headquarters are the subject of major media attention as the company makes its first public trades today....
Posted: Wed, Sep 30, 2020 11:53am PDT
About 200 people demonstrated on September 25 in Menlo Park in a protest that called for justice in the police murder of Breonna Taylor. They shut down a major intersection twice during the evening protest....
Posted: Mon, Sep 28, 2020 7:59pm PDT
Breonna Taylor was fatally shot by Louisville, Kentucky Metro Police Department officers Jonathan Mattingly, Brett Hankison, and Myles Cosgrove on March 13, 2020. In response to a lack of indictments for murder announced on September 23, hundreds marched down the El Camino Real taking the streets and descending on the Menlo Park Police Department (MPPD) two days later. An organizer said the location was chosen because MPPD is "the most racist police on the Peninsula by far."...
Posted: Mon, Sep 28, 2020 2:05pm PDT
CIA-backed data mining company Palantir says its involvement with ICE is in the interest of American citizens. San Francisco Bay Area immigrant rights activists counter that the company's development of technologies to surveil immigrants is immoral; they have protested frequently in front of the Palo Alto HQ. On September 21, demonstrators celebrated Palantir's exit from Silicon Valley with a colorful goodbye party....
Posted: Sun, Sep 27, 2020 4:33pm PDT
Sadly, Ruth Bader Ginsburg left us before the November election. On September 19 in Mountain View, California, people at a vigil in her honor said they fear Trump may be successful in his plan to choose her replacement and see them seated....
Posted: Sat, Sep 26, 2020 5:41am PDT
Tha Hood Squad creates a bridge between Palo Alto, East Palo Alto, Menlo Park and Stanford through community events including free meals, vigils, barbecues and ... street occupations....
Posted: Mon, Aug 31, 2020 5:22am PDT
Short videos from protest in Palo Alto of August 27
Video 1: Dance for Peace to rap number "Fuck the Police."
features Sharat Lin IG: @danceofpeace #danceofpeace
Video2: seven seconds of San Jose Strong t-shirt wearer feeling the groove...
Posted: Sun, Aug 30, 2020 1:51am PDT
Despite limited concessions by Postmaster General Louis DeJoy after a public outcry against mail delaying tactics, community members and postal workers rallied to demand that Congress save the US Postal Service in protests across the US. Of course the San Francisco Bay Area was no exception. On August 19, APWU National President Mark Dimondstein issued a statement saying why concessions made to assuage concerned Americans are not enough....
Posted: Sat, Aug 29, 2020 3:38pm PDT
Sign our open letter to oppose Facebook’s “both sides” narrative as they align with the Trump administration to suppress the voices of activists and media producers associated with left protest movements....
Posted: Thu, Aug 27, 2020 11:34pm PDT
On August 22, the Raging Grannies co-hosted a rally in Palo Alto at which LaDoris Cordell spoke calling for the protection of the United States Postal Service. Retired Judge Cordell is a former San Jose Independent Police Auditor. Movie one minute 34 seconds....
Posted: Tue, Aug 25, 2020 4:29am PDT
On August 22, tens of thousands of people took action across America with a message – #SaveUSPS. In Palo Alto, a giant dragon blowup figure dominated the scene ... protesters dressed it as a postal worker and posed it at the entrance of the downtown post office....
Posted: Tue, Aug 25, 2020 1:40am PDT
On Saturday August 22 activists joined the public outcry to defend the US Post Office from Trump's attacks. They called for Postmaster General Louis DeJoy to resign with rolling pins raised in symbolic defense saying, "The Postal Service needs America's help, and we must answer the call."...
Posted: Mon, Aug 24, 2020 6:22pm PDT
















