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Apr18Thu3:30 pm Our Revolution Phone Bank Force! @ Sign upOur Revolution Phone Bank Force! @ Sign upApr 18 @ 3:30 pm – 6:00 pm
Phone Bank Force Calls Virtual Phone Bank Time Sundays, Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays 6:30 – 9pm EST Location Virtual event Join from anywhere About this event Sign up to make calls with the Our Revolution Phone Bank force. The calls can be for candidates or issues! Get involved in... Continue readingApr20Satall-day Oakland CalCare Crowd Canvass @ OaklandOakland CalCare Crowd Canvass @ OaklandApr 20 all-dayAs of today, we’re only two weeks away from CalCare’s first hearing and vote in the California State Assembly Health Committee! This is our first major hurdle to move the bill forward, so we need to build public support for it across the state ASAP — especially as the corporate,... Continue reading10:00 am Intro Empathy CaféIntro Empathy CaféApr 20 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Intro Empathy Café: Find out how to listen to others and how it feels to speak without interruption or fear of interruption. Meet people from around the world. Mondays at 10 a.m. Pacific time. Zoom Room: https://zoom.us/j/9896109339 How-To: Basic Empathy Circle In a Circle of 3 to 5 Participants 1. The first... Continue reading10:00 am True to Blue IN-PERSON Phone Ban... @ 541 Castro StreetTrue to Blue IN-PERSON Phone Ban... @ 541 Castro StreetApr 20 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pmTrue to Blue IN-PERSON Phone Bank for VA, OH, and CA: Saturday, September 23 (and every Saturday), 10:00–12:00 PM at 541 Castro Street. Join an in-person phone bank with the Bay Area Coalition to make calls to voters in key states for critical elections in 2023 and 2024. RSVP here.2:00 pm Oakland CalCare Crowd Canvass @ 4401 Piedmont Ave. Oakland, CAOakland CalCare Crowd Canvass @ 4401 Piedmont Ave. Oakland, CAApr 20 @ 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm
With the help of people like you, we’ve built a growing list of people and small businesses that support CalCare all over the state. These small business and crowd canvasses have been a huge success so far, but we need to keep the momentum going. Will you RSVP for one... Continue readingApr21Sunall-day Oakland CalCare Crowd Canvass @ OaklandOakland CalCare Crowd Canvass @ OaklandApr 21 all-dayAs of today, we’re only two weeks away from CalCare’s first hearing and vote in the California State Assembly Health Committee! This is our first major hurdle to move the bill forward, so we need to build public support for it across the state ASAP — especially as the corporate,... Continue reading2:00 pm Oakland CalCare Crowd Canvass @ 4401 Piedmont Ave. Oakland, CAOakland CalCare Crowd Canvass @ 4401 Piedmont Ave. Oakland, CAApr 21 @ 2:00 pm – 3:30 pmWith the help of people like you, we’ve built a growing list of people and small businesses that support CalCare all over the state. These small business and crowd canvasses have been a huge success so far, but we need to keep the momentum going. Will you RSVP for one... Continue reading3:00 pm Call 4 ChangeCall 4 ChangeApr 21 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Take action with Call 4 Change Check out these ways to get involved! Map Filters More filters… Highest-priority events This weekend Sun, Oct 8 @ 3pm PDT Go to: mobilize.us/call4change VIRTUAL PHONE BANKS: VA HOUSE OF DELEGATES & KENTUCKY GOVERNOR’S RACE & CA-HELP FLIP THE HOUSE! Virtual · Join from... Continue reading3:30 pm Our Revolution Phone Bank Force! @ Sign upOur Revolution Phone Bank Force! @ Sign upApr 21 @ 3:30 pm – 6:00 pmPhone Bank Force Calls Virtual Phone Bank Time Sundays, Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays 6:30 – 9pm EST Location Virtual event Join from anywhere About this event Sign up to make calls with the Our Revolution Phone Bank force. The calls can be for candidates or issues! Get involved in... Continue readingApr22Monall-day Earth Day @ Planet EarthEarth Day @ Planet EarthApr 22 all-day
Earth Day: April 22, 2024 By admin | April 4, 2024 | Uncategorized From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia For the measurement of time of one rotation, see Day. Not to be confused with Earth Hour. Earth Day The unofficial Earth Flag created by John McConnell includes The Blue Marble photograph taken by the crew of Apollo 17. Significance Support for environmental protection Begins 1970 Date... Continue reading
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Planet Earth Is ‘Quite Sick’: 7 of 8 Boundaries for Safe and Just World Already Breached, Study Says
A man tries to cool off in New Delhi, India on May 23, 2023. (Photo: Kabir Jhangiani/NurPhoto via Getty Images) “Nothing less than a just global transformation… is required to ensure human well-being,” researchers wrote. KENNY STANCIL Jun 01, 2023 (CommonDreams.org) If Earth were to get an annual health checkup… Continue reading
Book: “Health Communism”
Health Communism Beatrice Adler-Bolton, Artie Vierkant A searing analysis of health and illness under capitalism from hosts of the hit podcast “Death Panel” In this fiery, theoretical tour-de-force, Beatrice Adler-Bolton and Artie Vierkant offer an overview of life and death under capitalism and argue for a new global left politics aimed… Continue reading
Former Gun Company Executive Explains Roots of America’s Gun Violence Epidemic
by Corey G. Johnson ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. Series: Under the Gun How Gun Violence Is Impacting the Nation From the movie theater to the shopping mall, inside a church and… Continue reading
Military bloat and empire as a way of life
Recalling William Appleman Williams final work PATRICK MAZZA JUN 3, 2023 The Raven (theraven@substack.com) Source: CBO’s Estimate of the Budgetary Effects of H.R. 3746, the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023 Starve the poor – Feed the Pentagon Once again, while other needs are squeezed, a federal budget deal will literally starve the… Continue reading
There’s a way to build thousands more housing units on San Francisco’s west side — and neighbors actually like it
As San Francisco stares down a state mandate to build 82,000 new housing units within eight years, an 80-something retired architect has a great solution. It’s called Domicity. Heather Knight June 3, 2023 (SFChronicle.com) Just a few blocks from Ocean Beach, in San Francisco’s sleepy, foggy Outer Sunset neighborhood, sits… Continue reading
Amazon and Google fund anti-abortion lawmakers through complex shell game
Blue-chip companies gave to Republican group funneling money to lawmakers who overturned abortion-ban veto in North Carolina Nick Robins-Early Sat 3 Jun 2023 07.00 EDT (TheGuardian.com) As North Carolina’s 12-week abortion ban is due to come into effect on 1 July, an analysis from the non-profit Center for Political Accountability… Continue reading
TURKEY’S MARGINALIZED ‘DEEPLY AFRAID’ AS ERDOĞAN WINS PRESIDENTIAL RUNOFF
“Erdoğan’s victory will consolidate one-man rule and pave the way for horrible practices, bringing completely dark days for all parts of society,” warned one Kurdish opposition leader. BY BRETT WILKINS MAY 31, 2023 (CommonDreams.org) President Recep Tayyip Erdogan acknowledges supporters at the presidential palace after winning reelection in a runoff on… Continue reading
Another Look at the Financial Transactions Tax That Could Eliminate Need for All Others
Posted on June 2, 2023 by Ellen Brown (EllenBrown.com) A small financial transactions tax could correct a number of maladies in our economic system, from the federal debt crisis to the widening wealth divide to the rampant financialization of the economy, while eliminating taxes on income and sales. The debt ceiling crisis… Continue reading
Here Are the Progressives Who Voted Against the GOP’s Debt Ceiling ‘Extortion Scheme’
First row from left, Reps. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.) Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.), and Cori Bush (D-Mo.) talk with reporters on the steps of the U.S. Capitol on May 31, 2023. (Photo: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc. via Getty Images) “We cannot continue to capitulate to a far-right Republican Party and their extreme… Continue reading