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Starbucks Workers Hold City Hall Rally 
No Contract, No Coffee!...
Posted: Tue, Aug 1, 2023 11:23pm PDT
Starbucks STOP Union Busting! Starbucks Workers National Bus Tour Hits SF 
Starbucks workers an a bus tour arrived in San Francisco and talked about their conditions and the flagrant union busting by Starbucks....
Posted: Mon, Jul 31, 2023 9:16pm 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
New Video Examines How Amy’s Kitchen Impacted the Lives of More Than 300 of Its Workers One year after the layoffs of more than 300 employees at the Amy’s Kitchen factory in San José, California, Food Empowerment Project (F.E.P.), a vegan food justice organization, has released a video on the lives that the company impacted....
Posted: Tue, Jul 18, 2023 12:19pm PDT
“Put on the brakes” Robotaxi Protest to keep SF Streets Safe! We Need Human Drivers 
A protest was held on 6/29/23 at the California Public Utility Commission to halt the deployment of hundreds of robo taxis in San Francisco...
Posted: Fri, Jun 30, 2023 4:05pm PDT
San Francisco Taxi Workers Alliance Statement For June 29th Rally At SF CPUC 
The San Francisco Taxi Workers Alliance is calling for the California Public Utility Committee to oppose the introduction of hundreds of robo cars on to San Francisco streets....
Posted: Wed, Jun 28, 2023 4:52pm PDT
Big Oil's outsize influence on CA and US politics expands to journalism dinners and awards 
The following is a speech I gave at a climate rally at the State Capitol in Sacramento on June 10 sponsored by the Sacramento Climate Coalition, Sacramento 350, Third Act Sacramento, Oil and Gas Network and other climate groups. The event was part of a national week of action June 8 to 11 sponsored by People vs Fossil Fuels, Fridays For Future U.S., and more. The organizations demanded that President Biden use his executive powers to end the era of fossil fuels and declare a climate emergency...
Posted: Sat, Jun 17, 2023 12:46pm PDT
On 2023 Juneteenth, ILWU10 Closes N.Ca Ports & Makes Actor Danny Glover An Honorary Member 
On Juneteenth, ILWU Local 10 will close all ports in Northern California and make Danny Glover and honorary member of the Local. Retired ILWU Local 10 secretary treasurer Clarence Thomas talks about the history of Juneteenth and also the history of Danny Glover with the ILWU Local 10....
Posted: Fri, Jun 16, 2023 3:56pm PDT
As Shippers Call for Biden to Intervene in Longshore Negotiations All Out on Juneteenth 
West Coast rank and file ILWU members and retirees are supporting a strike on Juneteenth June 19 until longshore workers get a contract. They have been working without a contract since last July....
Posted: Mon, Jun 12, 2023 8:23pm PDT
Facebook and Instagram Threaten to Block News Stories in California If AB-886 Passes Update June 1: A bill that would force Big Tech companies to pay news agencies for using their content passed its first big test in the California state legislature. Meta, based in Menlo Park, has threatened to block news articles in California if AB-886 passes into law....
Posted: Thu, Jun 1, 2023 7:58pm PDT
California Senate Committee Blocks Governor's Plan to Gut Environmental Law 
Representatives of environmental groups spoke out against the legislation at the hearing, supporting the staff recommendations to move the trailer bills to the regular policy process and to reject the flood and drought trailer bill language....
Posted: Sun, May 28, 2023 10:02pm PDT
California Supreme Court to Hear Arguments Over Monterey Oil, Gas Drilling Restrictions 
Residents to Rally at Local Courthouse in Support of Measure Z...
Posted: Wed, May 24, 2023 12:58pm PDT
Governor guts landmark environmental law to expedite the salmon-killing Delta Tunnel 
Advocates for fish, water and environmental justice are outraged over Governor Gavin Newsom's plan to gut the California Environmental Quality Act in order to construct the Delta Tunnel, Sites Reservoir and other destructive infrastructure projects....
Posted: Mon, May 22, 2023 4:52pm PDT
Leidesdorff Plaza established May 1966, rekindles the strength and courage to try again 
Sacramento Negro Museum and Library Association dedicated Leidesdorff Plaza, May 1966, it is one of the last remaining authentic markers showcasing California Pioneers of Pan African Descent, like a Phoenix the rest of the story must rise....
Posted: Tue, May 16, 2023 1:20am PDT
The myth of affordable housing is demolished by “minimum income requirements” 
2008 Protest In Front Of The California Hotel By Tenants Facing Illegal Evictions By The John Stewart Company & the dissolved Oakland Community Housing, Inc. Photo by Lydia Gans....
Posted: Fri, May 12, 2023 8:44pm PDT
Three Same Day Protests in SF Bay Area in Reaction to Ruling on Abortion Bill 
Photos from actions in Berkeley and San Jose on April 10. Please credit the photographers where noted.
Top photo by Cornelia Grimes, ProBonoPhoto from Berkeley action....
Posted: Thu, Apr 13, 2023 2:00am PDT
CA Climate activists protest approval of hundreds of neighborhood oil permits this year 
A total of 14,374 new and reworked oil drilling permits have been approved by CalGEM under Governor Newsom since Jan. 2019. ...
Posted: Wed, Apr 5, 2023 1:06pm PDT
State Water Board Reverses Emergency Order As Feds Cancel Salmon Season Openers 
Fish advocates note that because of the poor management of Sacramento and Klamath rivers by the state and federal governments during the recent drought, fall-run Chinook, spring-run Chinook and Sacramento River winter-run Chinook populations have collapsed, prompting the closure of ocean and river salmon fisheries this year....
Posted: Tue, Mar 14, 2023 9:41am PDT
Nearly 200 oil drilling permits approved in CA since Jan. 1, bringing total to over 13,900 
"CalGEM issuing hundreds of permits to negligent oil companies so they can continue drilling in our communities just months after they released an emergency rule to block neighborhood drilling is exactly why we don't trust them,” said Cesar Aguirre, organizer with Central California Environmental Justice Network. “This is exactly the free-for-all that California's oil industry wanted when they bought their way onto the ballot and forced the stay of SB 1137."...
Posted: Tue, Mar 14, 2023 9:18am PDT
Activists Call for End of Gas Chambers, Deliver Undercover Pig Slaughter Footage to USDA in Berkeley 
An investigator journeyed 26 feet underground to hide a camera inside a CA slaughterhouse that kills pigs with CO2 gas....
Posted: Wed, Mar 1, 2023 4:04pm PST
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