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'Healing Through Resistance' with Uncle Bobby X
Uncle Bobby Johnson, also known as the People’s Uncle, has been standing up to police brutality ever since his nephew Oscar Grant was shot by a BART …
5 years, 9 months ago
Why The Latest Battle Between California And Gig Companies Is A Big Deal
For the last eight years, Uber and Lyft have successfully beaten state and local attempts to change its core labor model: treating drivers as indepen…
5 years, 10 months ago
California Had an ‘Eviction Moratorium.’ Thousands of People Were Evicted Anyway
Soon after the pandemic started and Californians began to lose their jobs, Gov. Gavin Newsom issued what he called an 'eviction moratorium' to protec…
5 years, 10 months ago
'Megafires' Don’t Have to be Our New Normal
Fire season doesn't have to be this bad. There are lots of things we can do to prevent more and more extreme wildfires.
It'll take a big shift in the …
5 years, 10 months ago
The ‘Brittle’ System of Incarcerated Firefighters
California is low on firefighters at a really bad time. It’s partially because the state released thousands of incarcerated firefighters to prevent t…
5 years, 10 months ago
What A WeChat Ban Would Mean for Organizing in San Francisco's Chinatown
Earlier this month, President Donald Trump issued an executive order that could ban WeChat, the popular Chinese messaging app, from operating in the …
5 years, 10 months ago
The Grassroots Group Helping Oakland Mask Up (Again)
Back in 2017, Quinn Jasmine Redwoods saw a long line of people at a food distribution center in Oakland. Nobody in line had a mask, even though the m…
5 years, 10 months ago
California’s Overloaded Power Grid
People across the state lost power with almost no warning over the weekend, and there’s a risk it could happen again soon. The California Independent…
5 years, 10 months ago
The Pandemic Feels Like Déjà Vu For Some Survivors of the HIV/AIDS Crisis
At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, Jesus Guillen overheard a woman ask why those being held on the Grand Princess cruise ship docked at the O…
5 years, 10 months ago
COVID-19 Has Made ICE Detention Centers Even More Dangerous
A federal judge in San Francisco has ordered a privately-run immigrant detention center in Bakersfield to stop transferring people to the facility an…
5 years, 10 months ago