A physician looks into a Covid-19 patient’s room as he makes his rounds in the ICU at a hospital in Hartford, Connecticut on January 18, 2022. (Photo: Joseph Prezioso/AFP via Getty Images) “Doctors’ sense of our complicity in putting profits over people has grown more difficult to ignore.” JAKE JOHNSON… Continue reading
© Larena Nellies-Ortiz THE SUN INTERVIEW Eric Tars On The Human Right To Housing BY THACHER SCHMID • FEBRUARY 2023 (thesunmagazine.org) While largely undercounted by officials, the scale of homelessness in the United States appears to have grown significantly this decade. The pandemic brought eviction moratoriums, emergency hotel shelters, and a recommendation from the Centers… Continue reading
Plus: Should remote comment be abolished? And what about planning for flooding? That’s The Agenda for Feb. 5-12 ByTIM REDMOND FEBRUARY 5, 2023 (48hills.org) UPDATE: Walton’s office just announced that the hearing will be moved to March 14. I would expect Fox News go ballistic over the entire concept of reparations, and super ballistic… Continue reading
IDEAS BY NICK HANAUER AND DAVID M. ROLF SEPTEMBER 14, 2020 9:30 AM EDT (Time.com) Hanauer is an entrepreneur and a venture capitalist, the founder of the public-policy incubator Civic Ventures, and the host of the podcast Pitchfork Economics. Rolf is Founder and President Emeritus of SEIU 775 and the author of The Fight for… Continue reading
Sarah Ravani Feb. 3, 2023 Updated: Feb. 5, 2023 (SFChronicle.com) Oakland can remove the last remaining homeless residents from the once-sprawling Wood Street homeless encampment this week, after a federal judge ruled in the city’s favor late Friday. Oakland had appealed to the courts for permission to evict the residents, arguing that… Continue reading
ELANA AUERBACH | COURTESY After a nearly seven-year protest on the green space, the “Here There” encampment was cleared away on Tuesday. NATASHA KAYE FEBRUARY 02, 2023 (DailyCal.org) Berkeley city officials cleared away the longstanding “Here There” encampment on Adeline Street on Tuesday, putting a halt to the camp’s nearly… Continue reading
By Adrienne Fong Not back posting on a regular basis Please include Accessibility and ASL info in your events! And if your action is ‘child friendly’ This is a JUSTICE issue!! *** ASL interpretation – Let me know if your event needs this service .*** Please post your actions on Indybay: https://www.indybay.org/calendar/?page_id=12 See Indybay for… Continue reading
Justin Phillips Feb. 5, 2023 (SFChronicle.com) Even in this digital age where law enforcement killings of Black people seem to go viral on a sickeningly regular basis, the video of Black Memphis police officers punching, kicking and pepper-spraying Tyre Nichols, a Black man, was unfathomably disturbing. I’m a columnist who… Continue reading
Humankind: A Hopeful History Rutger Bregman, Elizabeth Manton (Translator), Erica Moore (Translator) From the author of Utopia For Realists, a revolutionary argument that the innate goodness and cooperation of human beings has been the greatest factor in our success If one basic principle has served as the bedrock of bestselling author Rutger Bregman’s thinking, it is… Continue reading
Powell’s Books • Feb 3, 2021 Thom Hartmann, the most popular progressive radio host in America, looks at the history of the battle against oligarchy in America — and how we can win the latest round. The United States was born in a struggle against the oligarchs of the British… Continue reading
