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Is Economic Speculation a Form of Structural Violence? According to neoclassical economic theory, the financial markets return to equilibrium. Problems only occur because of state intervention. Tulip bulbs were first an object of speculation at the start of the 17th century. The roaring twenties led to an enormous stock euphoria. Critics and admonishers were ignored or mocked and warning signals largely ignored. In 2018, corporations inflate their stocks in a $70 billion stock buy back program....
Posted: Tue, Jan 16, 2018 6:11am PST
A panel discussion on the political economy of health care 
Sierra 2 Center, 2791 24th St, Room 9, Sacramento....
Event Date: Thu, Jan 18, 2018 7:00pm PST
Posted: Tue, Jan 16, 2018 5:30am PST
Message to Trump on MLK Jr. Day: Resign, You Racist! 
Two emergency demonstrations to protest Trump's racism were held on Martin Luther King Jr. Day January 15 on the San Francisco Peninsula....
Posted: Tue, Jan 16, 2018 4:00am PST
Solidarity with the People of Tunisia Stand in solidarity with the People of Tunisia to fight against austerity measures. Free all the political prisoners and drop the criminal charges!...
Posted: Mon, Jan 15, 2018 9:12pm PST
Florida prisoners begin Operation PUSH to grind prison system to a halt w/ non-cooperation 
The Gainesville Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee (IWOC) and the Campaign to Fight Toxic Prisons (FTP) have received a statement from prisoners organizing in institutions across the state announcing a new wave of strikes by incarcerated workers in Florida beginning on January 15th, 2018. This action follows on the heels of Florida prisoners' participation in the national strike against prison slavery initiated on September 9th, 2016, and a similar wave of strikes by prisoners on Augus...
Posted: Mon, Jan 15, 2018 2:09pm PST
SAN FRANCISCO: Martin Luther King, Jr Day March SAN FRANCISCO: March starts at San Francisco's Caltrain Station, 4th & King Street, and ends at the Yerba Buena Gardens...
Event Date: Mon, Jan 15, 2018 11:00am PST
Posted: Mon, Jan 15, 2018 9:35am PST
Caltrain NorcalMLK Celebration Train 2018 SF BAY PENINSULA: CalTrain stations at San Jose, Palo Alto, San Mateo will take passengers to San Francisco for the MLK Day march/parade & celebrations....
Event Date: Mon, Jan 15, 2018 9:30am PST
Posted: Mon, Jan 15, 2018 9:13am PST
"der Furor" in the White House A lurid tale of chaos and cut-throat infighting in the latest Washington palace intrique. But the larger historical picture is that of an accelerating collapse of the once-mighty USA "sole Superpower" which is imploding in dramatic and bizarre fashion. During this unprecedented confusion, even the most despicable, racist, sexist, xenophobic and jingoistic candidate in US presidential history was able to become selected as the latest "Criminal-in-chief" in the White House....
Posted: Mon, Jan 15, 2018 2:55am PST
Women's Rally Santa Rosa: Rally/Gathering 2018 at Old Courthouse Square SANTA ROSA: Old Courthouse Square, at 4th Street & Mendocino Ave. & Santa Rosa Ave., Santa Rosa 95404...
Event Date: Sat, Jan 20, 2018 10:00am PST
Posted: Sun, Jan 14, 2018 8:25pm PST
80 IAM 1584 Henkel Aerospace Bay Point Operators Win Strike Over Health & Safety 
Eighty striking Henkel Aerospace Bay Point operators won a complete victory after 60 days on strike and facing the national union busting company Strom Engineering. The workers forced Strom Engineering out and won all their demands making this the most significant victory for labor in the US in 2017...
Posted: Sun, Jan 14, 2018 7:05pm PST
Build Your Own Internet: Panel Discussion, Hands-On Workshops and Demos 
Omni Commons
4799 Shattuck Ave
Oakland, CA 94609...
Event Date: Sat, Jan 27, 2018 2:00pm PST
Posted: Sun, Jan 14, 2018 4:51pm PST
Imagine: No US Military Bases on Foreign Soil (audio/mpeg 2.9MB) The United States is the largest, most lethal military power in human history, with 1000 military bases and seven geographic commands spanning the globe. That didn't stop the new Coalition Against U.S. Foreign Military Bases from holding its first "No Foreign Bases" conference at the University of Baltimore from January 12 to 14....
Posted: Sun, Jan 14, 2018 1:31pm PST
SURJ-organized Protest in Rockridge to kick off MLK Weekend 
Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) Bay Area kicked off Martin Luther King Weekend protests on Friday by handing out information at Rockridge Bart Station....
Posted: Sun, Jan 14, 2018 11:52am PST
VIDEO: Feinstein for Secretary of State presents proportional representation plan Secretary of State candidate Michael Feinstein presents his proportional representation plan for the California State Legislature to the Sacramento City Council. January 10, 2018. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsPxlhdhm2A&t=2s...
Posted: Sun, Jan 14, 2018 1:26am PST
French Railway Workers Demonstrate to Free Ahed Tamini'; BDS Victory; Oprah is Pro-Israel French railway workers demonstrated to free Ahed Tamini. See https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/tamara-nassar/israel-arrests-another-tamimi-teenager
Do you suppose American workers will do the same on Ahed's birthday, January 31, 2018?...
Posted: Sat, Jan 13, 2018 7:33pm PST
What the jury in the Lac-Mégantic trial didn’t hear about the frame-up of Canadian railway 
Framed railway workers Tom Harding, right, Jean Demaître, centre, and Richard Labrie were unable to present all the real reasons for the deadly wreck which killed 47 people...
Posted: Sat, Jan 13, 2018 5:20pm PST
"Save KPFA" & "United For Community Radio" UCR Manipulate Elections To Support Bankruptcy 
KPFA LSB member and lawyer Bill Campini has resigned and then tried to withdraw his resignations to get a new person elected to the Pacifica National Board. Both "Save KPFA" and "United For Community Radio" have united for this trickery and push for Pacifica to go into bankruptcy so a judge will likely decide how to sell off parts of Pacifica including WBAI in New York.
They also have conspired to have KPFA sue Pacifica to break it up although this violates the responsibility of LSB members....
Posted: Sat, Jan 13, 2018 4:43pm PST
Resistance SF Projection on Federal Building (video/quicktime 13.5MB) On Friday January 12, Resistance SF projected onto the Federal Building at 7th and Mission streets demands in solidarity with the Anti Police-Terror Project. Photos and video from the event....
Posted: Sat, Jan 13, 2018 10:13am PST
Lawyer Hina Shah on Women, Law, and the Right to Rest Contemporary Jewish Museum
736 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA 94103...
Event Date: Fri, Feb 9, 2018 12:30pm PST
Posted: Sat, Jan 13, 2018 1:11am PST
Democrats Defeat Repeal of Costa-Hawkins Anti-Tenant Law The California Democratic Party once again showed itself to be the same as the Republican Party with the defeat of AB 1506, the repeal of the anti-vacancy control and anti-rent control Costa Hawkins law of 1995, on January 11, 2018 in committee, voting 3 to 2 to let it die in the Assembly Housing & Community Development Committee, with 2 Democrats abstaining. It needed 4 votes to get out of committee....
Posted: Thu, Jan 11, 2018 8:56pm PST
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