Oakland City Council member Carroll Fife discusses her findings and a success story after touring neighborhoods to ensure that Oakland communities are clean and safe for everyone.
Jazmine, a young massage therapist is homeless, living in a large encampment after she became gravely ill and couldn't work. She tells her story, warning that it could happen to anyone.
VICTORY!!! Organizing WORKS! After Erin got a $999 bill for blood work from her insurance provider, she worked with other activists to confront the company, Ambetter, and get the bill reduced to $30. But the fight against a for-profit healthcare system is far from over.
Ex-prisoners, told they have the right to vote, are dragged from their homes in handcuffs, by Florida Gov. DeSantis’ election police. All they ever wanted to do was participate in democracy.
Plaintiffs argued that the city should stop evictions and build permanent housing for anyone regardless of income. They say the settlement is a compromise in a system that does not protect their interests; the fight continues.
In a major health concern, a new study indicates that kids born near fracking sites are 2-3 Times More Likely to Develop Leukemia. Fracking threatens every person on the planet, directly or indirectly. It should banned entirely.
Over 4,000 workers gathered in Chicago in June at the first Labor Notes conference in four years. The state of the labor movement exists on new terrain.
The news out of Texas is bleak. But if the people of Uvalde can rise up and question social norms despite their pain and loss, there is hope for a brighter tomorrow
PreambleNo one should go unhomed.There is plenty.If we work toward balance,There is enough.Balance does not occur without struggle.If you were ever a child who...
Hear voices of homeless campers in Santa Cruz about their planned evictions, alongside the City’s misuse of $14 million in funds that were to help the homeless.
Hear testimony from rally at Los Angeles City Hall, as the city council approves an expansion of L.A. Municipal Code 41.18, which prohibits sitting, sleeping or lying on the sidewalk, which means greater criminalization of poor people.
In a court victory, Leticia Vasquez Wilson, who has served on the Central Basin Municipal Water District for 10 years, representing Southeast Los Angeles communities, has won her right to free speech. When she alerted her community about the contamination in their water supply, Water District privatizers, bought and paid for by private water interests, attempted to silence her.
Friendship Park, a historic meeting place for separated families on the border between San Diego and Tijuana, is in danger of being closed. Join us Aug. 11, 2022, for a virtual panel discussion on efforts to save the park.
Let us imagine a world where laborers, scientists, and politicians across the world blow the trumpet of nuclear disarmament, where we stop, look at each other and sigh, and see that none of us want this anymore, to be under threat of nuclear extinction. The patient work of disarming the arsenals then begins.
The DACA program was created in 2015 only after immense pressure from youth due to the massIve amount of deportations under the Obama administration. DACA has allowed more immigrants opportunities but leaves out an enormous amount of immigrants. It is time we shift the focus to demanding protection for all undocumented immigrants.
Santa Cruz, CA, plans to evict the Benchlands Camp of hundreds of unhoused people. Even when provided with millions of dollars from the state and federal governments, the city, in one of the wealthiest places on Earth, can't even offer dignified housing for people in need.
This virtual event will offer perspective on how harmful extractive industries are part of the larger system of imperialism that is destroying our people and the planet. It will focus in on indigenous communities and issues in the Philippines and show how their struggles are connected to ours here in the US.
An $813 billion proposal for “national defense,” was made by the Biden administration in March for the military-industrial complex. This when the greatest risks to the safety of Americans and rest of world are not military. Covid took 1 million people in the US, and the fires, floods, and heat waves caused by climate change impact tens of millions.
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