Milk Club Pens Letter Calling on Olague to Reject Attack on Historical Preservation
We are extremely troubled that you appear to be buying into the flawed, bogus and self-serving arguments by SPUR and other supporters of this legislation that historic preservation is classist…
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Bay Area May Day Protest Action Marred by Pockets of Non-Occupy Violence
But May Day was also one in which thousands attended mostly peaceful, non-violent protests in support of immigrants, workers and others who comprise the 99 percent of Americans who feel…
Golden Gate Bridge Workers Call Off May Day Bridge Occupation
Coalition Organizer Alix Tonnison said there will be a strike on May Day because management has left them with no other choice. He thanked all the groups who have offered…
Why did KPFA CWA Local 9415 Members Picket the Pacifica Foundation?
Management says that the insurance company that covers Pacifica offered the firm on a list, and that Pacifica contracted with it only to handle non-labor legal work, not with the…
Women’s Rights Activists, Atheists, Protest Pope Crackdown on Nuns
The LCWR is under investigation by the Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith, the Vatican agency charged with overseeing orthodoxy, which Benedict – then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger – led for more…
#OccupyTheFarm: Disobey with Great Love
With horns playing, banners flying, and traffic briefly stopping, the Earth Day march from Ohlone Park in Berkeley started off with the hallmark signs of a bay area occupy protest,…
Islamophobia in the Workplace
I was surprised then to learn that although Muslims make up only two percent of the U.S. workforce, they filed nearly 25 percent of religious-discrimination claims in 2009. According to…