Swedish climate campaigner Greta Thunberg speaks surrounded by other participants in the latest Freedom Flotilla Coalition effort to deliver shipborne aid to Gaza, during a June 1, 2025 press conference in Catania, Italy. (Photo: Fabrizio Villa/Getty Images) “No matter how dangerous this mission is, it’s nowhere near as dangerous as… Continue reading
U.S. House Minority Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) speaks during a rally on May 21, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Jemal Countess/Getty Images for Families Over Billionaires) “It’s terrifying, to be up against what we’re up against with leadership this weak,” said one critic. JULIA CONLEY Jun 02, 2025 (CommonDreams.org)… Continue reading
Let me say this loud—for the fearmongers like Trump, Rubio, Miller, Bondi, and everyone else in the cult of obedience: We want safe borders. We want strong communities. We want everyone treated with dignity and respect. We want a country where people have the opportunity to thrive—and where due process under the law… Continue reading
The Leinweber Foundation donated $18 million to the Berkeley Center for Theoretical Physics, renaming it to the Leinweber Institute for Theoretical Physics. The total donation of $90 million is shared between UC Berkeley, the University of Michigan, the University of Chicago, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Institute for Advanced… Continue reading
President Trump reposted another user’s false claim that the former president had been “executed” in 2020 and replaced by a robotic clone. By Zolan Kanno-Youngs Reporting from Washington June 1, 2025 (NYTimes.com) Leer en español President Trump shared an outlandish conspiracy theory on social media on Saturday night saying former President… Continue reading
Protest banners hang at Stanford University’s student encampment in support of the Palestinians on May 1, 2024.Clara Mokri/Special to the S.F. Chronicle By Yousef Helal June, 2025 (SFChronicle.com) As a child growing up in Santa Clara, I was diagnosed with an aggressive form of Ewing’s sarcoma, a bone cancer. I… Continue reading
By Adrienne Fong Am not back posting on a regular basis. RESOURCES: See list of Calendar of Events on Palestine from AROC: https://www.araborganizing.org/events/ If your post is about Palestine you can also list your action on the AROC calendar There are events listed on Indybay that might be of interest to… Continue reading
King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa Adam Hochschild In the 1880s, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium seized for himself the vast and mostly unexplored territory surrounding the Congo River. Carrying out a genocidal plundering of… Continue reading
Our American Israel: The Story of an Entangled Alliance Amy Kaplan Our American Israel tells the story of how a Jewish state in the Middle East came to resonate profoundly with a broad range of Americans in the twentieth century. Beginning with debates about Zionism after World War II, Israel’s identity… Continue reading
Europe is getting more frustrated with Hungary’s regressions on human rights. Alex Bollinger (He/Him)May 27, 2025 (lgbtqnation.com) Viktor Orban, Hungary’s prime minister gives a press conferenece on the results of EU meeting in Brussels, Belgium on Dec. 19, 2024 | Shutterstock/Alexandros Michailidis Most European Union countries, including the two most powerful,… Continue reading
