January 17, 2019 This shutdown of our government, Our Commons, is the result of a virulent phenomenon known as the failure of political representatives to follow through on their promises to the People when they are running for office. And I might add, for the People to hold them to… Continue reading
Scott Ostler January 16, 2019 (SFChronicle.com) Now is the time for the NFL to reclaim its manhood. All it has to do is give Colin Kaepernick a job. Specifically, a quarterback job. Starter, backup, practice squad, whatever. Based on zero inside information, I predict that will happen this offseason. Too… Continue reading
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi speaks during the 116th Congress on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 3, 2019 in Washington, D.C. (Olivier Douliery/Abaca Press/TNS) By Robyn Purchia on January 16, 2019 (SFExaminer.com) On a sunny, but wet morning, activists gathered recently in… Continue reading
Activists distributed hundreds of fake “special editions” of The Washington Post on Jan. 16. Here’s who was behind the hoax. (Elyse Samuels /The Washington Post) By Emily Heil andPaul Farhi January 16, 2019 (washingtonpost.com) This story has been updated. Fake editions of The Washington Post claiming that President Trump was leaving office were… Continue reading
Homelessness The city of Oakland has kicked people off the streets and moved them into cabin communities. But this ‘innovative solution’ is leaving some behind Sam Levin in Oakland @SamTLevin Email Tue 15 Jan 2019 (theguardian.com) Eric Clark didn’t know if he’d survive the sheds. As the city of Oakland began clearing homeless communities… Continue reading
Periodic Announcements Please encourage groups you are involved in to post events on Indybay: https://www.indybay.org/calendar/?page_id=12 Thank you to those who are posting there! Check Indybay for other events that might interest you. ACCESSIBILITY: Please include Accessibility Information on events! This is a JUSTICE ISSUE! KID FRIENDLY / CHILDCARE Please indicate for events. This is a… Continue reading
By Felicia Mello and Ben Christopher | Dec. 27, 2018 | ECONOMY, HIGHER EDUCATION, POLITICS (calmatters.org) Once an idea batted around mostly in Occupy Wall Street circles, public banking is attracting a surge of interest among policymakers in several states, including California. “We must break Wall Street’s chokehold on state finance and develop our own state bank,”… Continue reading
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Sunrise Movement is a movement of young people organizing to demand immediate action from the United States Congress to address the climate change crisis. The movement made national headlines a week after the 2018 midterm elections when 150 young people, including 51 who were arrested, sat… Continue reading
TUE, 1/8/2019 – BY DEREK ROYDEN THIS ARTICLE ORIGINALLY APPEARED ON NATION OF CHANGE (Occupy.com) While we might roughly mark the gestation of a growing new left youth activism in the United States from Occupy Wall Street to Bernie Sander’s revelatory campaign in 2016, over the last year, new activist movements led… Continue reading
