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Santa Cruz, California, October 9, 2019 – The California Natural Resources Agency announced last week that Amah Mutsun Land Trust (AMLT) has been selected to receive $400k to carry out indigenous-based conservation and restoration work at Quiroste Valley Cultural Preserve (QVCP) in Año Nuevo State Park. The award was made through the competitive statewide Cultural, Community, and Natural Resources Grant Program, funded by Prop 68....
Posted: Fri, Oct 11, 2019 3:56pm PDT
San Francisco: Plaza between Asian Museum and Main Library
at Asian Art Museum, 200 Larkin St, San Francisco, CA 94102
Oakland: Lake Merritt Amphitheater, Lake Merritt Boulevard, Oakland, CA 94612
San Jose: Plaza de César Chávez, 1 Paseo De San Antonio, San Jose, CA 95113...
Event Date: Sat, Nov 9, 2019 11:00am PST
Posted: Fri, Oct 11, 2019 12:50pm PDT
Oscar Grant Plaza Amphitheater
500 14th St., Oakland, CA...
Event Date: Sun, Oct 13, 2019 4:00pm PDT
Posted: Fri, Oct 11, 2019 11:36am PDT
Osher Lecture Hall
SFAI—Chestnut Street Campus
800 Chestnut Street, San Francisco, CA 94133...
Event Date: Tue, Oct 22, 2019 5:00pm PDT
Posted: Fri, Oct 11, 2019 11:34am PDT
The San Francisco Chronicle reported that that 10 to 12 PG&E executives dined with top customers at a winery in Sonoma County on October 7 and 8, just ahead of the forced power outage to millions across California that started October 9, 2019....
Posted: Fri, Oct 11, 2019 2:27am PDT
FRUITVALE&MACARTHUR OAKLAND 94602...
Event Date: Fri, Oct 11, 2019 5:30pm PDT
Posted: Fri, Oct 11, 2019 12:44am PDT
A weekly 30 minute review of international news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio and the internet. With times, frequencies, and websites for listening at home. 3 files- Highest quality broadcast, regular broadcast, and slow-modem streaming. NHK Japan, Spanish National Radio, and Radio Deutsche-Welle....
Posted: Thu, Oct 10, 2019 4:58pm PDT
Racism meets Big Data...
Posted: Thu, Oct 10, 2019 4:58pm PDT
The State of California is poised to join The global competition with India, Europe, China and the rest of the world to expan Trade and Investment with the Pan African Diaspora, over 1.4 billion people globally....
Posted: Thu, Oct 10, 2019 3:31pm PDT
The Green Arcade
1680 Market Street
San Francisco, CA 94102...
Event Date: Tue, Oct 22, 2019 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Thu, Oct 10, 2019 3:20pm PDT
The strike dramatically impacted Cuenca on Wednesday. Streets were largely deserted of vehicle traffic. There was no taxi or bus service. Police and army officers blocked off the central square in downtown Cuenca. A huge march of workers, students, and indigenous people gathered before noon. Things calmed down during mid-day, but in the evening there were running battles between protesters and security forces, which responded by lobbing teargas canisters....
Posted: Thu, Oct 10, 2019 2:30pm PDT
Linda Mar State Beach (North), 5000 Pacific Coast Hwy, Pacifica, CA 94044
https://www.october13.org/map...
Event Date: Sun, Oct 13, 2019 9:30am PDT
Posted: Thu, Oct 10, 2019 11:42am PDT
(Video 1:51)
Anti-austerity protests in Cuenca, Ecuador
October 9, 2019...
Posted: Thu, Oct 10, 2019 11:29am PDT
Many tenants live in fear that they are just one rent-gouging increase or one discriminatory or arbitrary eviction notice away from losing their home. AB 1482's statewide anti-gouging and just cause protection provisions will change all of this. Our homes are where we lay our heads down at night, where we feel safe, and where our families and children feel safe! California's tenants deserve and need these critical protections. The new law takes effect January 1, 2020....
Posted: Thu, Oct 10, 2019 1:34am PDT
More than a million people in California were without electricity 9/09/19 when PG&E, the state's largest utility, shut off electricity to purportedly prevent wildfires....
Posted: Wed, Oct 9, 2019 11:33pm PDT
According to HUD’s records on 10/08/2019, in San Francisco there are 13,798 units in its Section 8 inventory, Oakland has 13,614 Section 8 units, Berkeley has 1,995 Section 8 units, Alameda has 1,885 Section 8 units, Alameda County has 6,684 Section 8 units, Contra Costa County has 9,235 Section 8 units, and Marin Housing has 2,205 Section 8 units listed. Oddly, the City of Richmond does not have any Section 8 units listed in HUD’s records....
Posted: Wed, Oct 9, 2019 8:18pm PDT
A rally was held on Wednesday, October 10, 2019, to protest the shutdown of WBAI Pacifica in New York and the termination of all the employees and unpaid staff. This was a violation of the AFTRA SAG union contract and was done without a vote of the Pacifica Board. It also took place during the fund drive and in the middle of a national election at KPFA and all other Pacifica stations....
Posted: Wed, Oct 9, 2019 4:58pm PDT
Gillian Greensite, the co-founder of the Commission for the Prevention of Violence Against Women (CPVAW), and its first Chair, spoke to the Santa Cruz city Council on October 8 about how the Commission has strayed outside of its original charge, of "sexual harassment, rape, and domestic violence," when it moved to endorse a censure of Councilmembers Chris Krohn and Drew Glover. Greensite added, "I have no doubt that the complaints that the women brought forward [against Glover and Krohn] were...
Posted: Wed, Oct 9, 2019 4:56pm PDT
City Council Chambers, 809 Center Street, Santa Cruz...
Event Date: Wed, Oct 9, 2019 6:45pm PDT
Posted: Wed, Oct 9, 2019 4:22pm PDT
Fred Weaver Resident Center, St. Paul’s Tower, second floor, 100 Bay Pl, Oakland, CA 94610 (near 27th and Harrison)...
Event Date: Sun, Oct 13, 2019 2:00pm PDT
Posted: Wed, Oct 9, 2019 2:37pm PDT