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UC Berkeley Shutdown for Palestine 
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Event Date: Thu, Nov 16, 2023 12:30pm PST
Posted: Sun, Nov 12, 2023 9:51pm PST
UESF Educators & Paras Fed Up! San Francisco SFUSD Workers Take Strike Vote 
Thousands of SFUSD UESF members came to Balboa High to take a strike vote....
Posted: Thu, Oct 12, 2023 11:56am PDT
Conference on the “IHRA definition” of antisemitism launches new Institute The newly-formed Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism (ICSZ) will hold its inaugural bicoastal conference, Battling the “IHRA Definition”: Theory & Activism, on October 13-14. Through the lens of research on structural racism, state violence, and social justice movements, the conference will analyze political campaigns that seek to codify the “IHRA definition” of antisemitism, and efforts to oppose IHRA policies. This is the first research conference focusing on IHRA campaigns, which ...
Posted: Fri, Oct 6, 2023 9:37am PDT
Civil Rights Groups Warn UCSC Attempts to Censor Pro-Palestine Scholarship May Violate Federal Laws 
On Wednesday, Palestine Legal and the Center for Constitutional Rights wrote to the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) warning them to cease attempts to unlawfully censor the upcoming Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism (ICSZ) convening, “Battling the ‘IHRA definition’: Theory & Activism”, which is set to be jointly held at UCSC and New York University (NYU) on October 13th and 14th. The convening is a working meeting of the Institute’s community of scholars and activists, ai...
Posted: Thu, Sep 21, 2023 7:32am PDT
SFSU stop anti-Palestinian hostility and immediately restore Dr. Abdulhadi's Classes 
There is a campaign by the SF State administration to shut down the courses of AMED. They have been supporting the Zionist agenda to destroy this program...
Posted: Tue, Aug 22, 2023 2:47pm PDT
Golden Harvest Parade and Festival - World Dashiki Week showcases Pan African Culture 
California Pioneers of Pan African Ancestry (1840-1875) are overcoming the challenge towards broader acceptance for future equity and inclusion. As part of our Golden Harvest Parade and Festival we share our common and unique historical journey here in the Great State of California, toward a "Greener Tomorrow for Youth"...
Posted: Sun, Aug 6, 2023 9:22pm PDT
UC UAW Workers & Unite Here 11 Strikers Protest Union Busting By UC Bosses At UC Regents 
Hundreds of UC UAW members and Unite Here Local 11 strikers from Southern California rallied at the UC Regents meeting against the flagrant union busting tactics including felony arrests for chalking at UCSD....
Posted: Thu, Jul 20, 2023 8:29am PDT
Moms and Playaz Demonstrate on the Golden Gate Bridge to Stop Gun Violence 
National Gun Violence Awareness Day was marked on June 4 in the San Francisco Bay Area. Hundreds of protesters in orange crossed the Golden Gate Bridge....
Posted: Thu, Jun 8, 2023 4:27am PDT
East Meadow Update 5/15/23 
There has been a significant new development in the long-running struggle over SHW and the East Meadow: a month after the UCSC administration got the Regents to approve a proposal that was supposed to make the project immune to litigation, a group (not EMAC) filed suit not only to invalidate that action, but also to bar UCSC from proceeding with the project until all pending litigation has been resolved. We of course cannot predict how this latest litigation by others will play out, but it i...
Posted: Tue, May 16, 2023 6:37pm PDT
Striking Writers Guild Member Boots Riley Shout Out To Striking OEA Teachers 
Oakland film maker and musician Boots Riley gave a shout out to striking OEA teachers supporting their struggle....
Posted: Fri, May 12, 2023 8:59am PDT
OEA Claremont Middle School Strike Picket to Stop Building Trades Workers from Crossing Lines 
Dozens of OEA striking teachers and community supporters picketed to shut down a construction project at the Claremont Middle School. Most unions walked but the UBC Carpenters worked behind the picket lines...
Posted: Thu, May 11, 2023 6:28pm PDT
Bankruptcy filing for Diocese of Oakland over clergy child sexual abuse lawsuits 
Diocese of Oakland - Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Documents Filed On May 8, 2023:...
Posted: Mon, May 8, 2023 7:38pm PDT
We've Had Enough! Oakland OEA Teachers Wildcat in Fight for Public Education 
Hundreds of teachers, community members and unionists joined together on March 24, 2023 to rally and march for public education and for a contract that will protect the schools in Oakland. The wildcat was a challenge to the union busting tactics of the district management....
Posted: Sat, Mar 25, 2023 11:36am PDT
Protest: Charlie Kirk at UC Davis 
On March 14, U.C. Davis hosted Turning Point USA’s Charlie Kirk to around 300 attendees and a fierce student-led resistance of the same number....
Posted: Thu, Mar 16, 2023 1:15am PDT
SF Board of Education Gives Green Light to Accommodate Eid Holiday Starting in 2024 Arab and Muslim Community says, “We’ll Be Back”...
Posted: Thu, Mar 9, 2023 3:49pm PST
Phone Zap! Tell UC Davis Chancellor May We Don't Want Another Proud Boy Hate Rally! 
Phone Zap! Call and email UC Davis Chancellor Gary S. May and refuse to let our taxes and student fees be used to pay for a Turning Point USA hate rally! Charlie Kirk says trans people need to be "took care of!" At the last TPUSA event at UC Davis, Proud Boys attacked students and community members. Enough is enough!...
Posted: Tue, Mar 7, 2023 2:58pm PST
Protesters Call for Closure of Primate Research Center at UC Davis 
The California National Primate Research Center’s work has included studies with Neuralink, a company founded by Elon Musk that has been accused of violating the Animal Welfare Act...
Posted: Fri, Mar 3, 2023 3:34pm PST
Davis to Protest Charlie Kirk Tour After Calls for Trans People to be "Taken Care Of" 
After calling for trans people to be "taken care of the way we used to in the 1950s," Charlie Kirk, the multi-millionaire leader of Turning Point USA, a far-Right, Trump aligned group that has extensive crossover with white supremacists and neo-Nazis, is launching a speaking tour of college campuses. The last TPUSA event at UC Davis saw a gang of Proud Boys attempt to attack a crowd of counter-protesters - but people held the line and the event was shut down. Join us at UC Davis on Tuesday, M...
Posted: Thu, Mar 2, 2023 5:49pm PST
East Meadow Update 
February 13, 2023 - The East Meadow remains intact – no bulldozers in sight. What is less immediately evident, however, is why that is so. Why has an administration so hell-bent on destroying the meadow been unable to do so?...
Posted: Sun, Feb 19, 2023 10:19pm PST
University California Berkeley Leads in Grave Robbing of Native Americans 
The University of California Berkeley has the largest number of unreturned human remains of Native Americans, in violation of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act.
Further, recent notices in the Federal Register reveal that grave robbing resulted in large numbers of Arikara, Mandan, and Hidatsa, Miwok, Pueblo, Shawnee, Arapaho, Siletz, and others have been harbored for decades by museums across the United States....
Posted: Fri, Feb 3, 2023 8:44am PST
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