New York State Rep. Zohran Mamdani (D-36), an NYC mayoral candidate, speaks to supporters during a primary election night gathering on June 24, 2025 in Queens.

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“When we stand together, we can defeat authoritarianism and create an economy that works for all our people, not just the privileged few.”

JESSICA CORBETT

Sep 03, 2025 (CommonDreams.org)

On the heels of a Labor Day rally in Maine with Democrats running for governor and US Senate, Sen. Bernie Sanders announced Wednesday that his Fighting Oligarchy Tour is headed to New York City for a town hall with mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani.

Sanders (I-Vt.) endorsed Mamdani ahead of the Democratic Party’s June primary, in which he bested scandal-plagued former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Since then, deep-pocketed donors have aimed to defeat the democratic socialist. Cuomo remains in the race as an Independent, as does Mayor Eric Adams, who was elected as a Democrat. The Republican nominee is Curtis Sliwa.

The senator—who twice sought Democrats’ presidential nomination—has stressed that Mandani faces “the entire establishment, the oligarchy, the billionaires coming down on his head, not only because he’s demanding that the wealthy and large corporations in New York City start paying their fair share of taxes, they are worried that his campaign is an example of what can happen all over the country when you bring people together to demand the government that works for all of us and not just a few.”

Sanders took aim at those same villains in his statement about the town hall, scheduled for 6:00 pm Saturday, September 6 at Leonard & Claire Tow Center for the Performing Arts in Brooklyn.

“At a time of massive and growing income and wealth inequality, we are building a strong grassroots movement to take on the billionaire class and corporate greed,” he said. “The oligarchs are prepared to undermine democracy and spend tens of millions of dollars to buy elections. But candidates who stand boldly with the working class can—and will—beat them. When we stand together, we can defeat authoritarianism and create an economy that works for all our people, not just the privileged few.”

Since launching the national tour earlier this year, Sanders and other progressive speakers have drawn more than 300,000 people to 34 rallies across 20 states, according to the senator’s office. With the events, he hopes to not only mobilize organizers and voters but also inspire people to run for public office.

Mamdani has called Sanders “the single most influential political figure in my life,” and highlighted how his example led to the mayoral candidate ultimately running for office. He currently represents the 36th District in the New York State Assembly.

“It is an honor to welcome Sen. Sanders to New York City as we fight against the corporate greed, billionaires, and corrupt politicians responsible for the affordability crisis,” Mamdani said Wednesday, taking aim at President Donald Trump, who has repeatedly attacked and even threatened to arrest the candidate for mayor.

“While oligarchs and Donald Trump try to place their thumb on the scale of this election,” Mamdani said, “we’re laser-focused on the New Yorkers who built this city, call it home, and deserve a leader who will deliver dignity for all.”

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US regaSecretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testifies before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions on Capitol Hill on May 14, 2025 in Washington, DC.

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“Under Secretary Kennedy’s leadership,” said the employees, “HHS policies are placing the health of all Americans at risk, regardless of their politics.”

JULIA CONLEY

Sep 03, 2025

After a deadline passed for the nation’s top health official to pledge to protect the federal public health workforce, more than 1,000 current and former employees of the US Department of Health and Human Services said Wednesday that “it’s time for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to resign” from his position leading the agency.

The employees addressed their letter to Kennedy, President Donald Trump’s health and human services secretary, as well as members of Congress, warning that since HHS staffers spoke out in a previous letter last month about a shooting at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Kennedy has continued “to endanger the nation’s health.”

The number of signatories on the initial correspondence has grown to more than 6,800 since 750 employees signed it in August, with federal workers endorsing the concerns it raised about how Kennedy is “sowing public mistrust” and spreading misinformation about immunizations, including the measles vaccine and mRNA vaccines like the Covid-19 shot that’s credited with saving millions of lives.

“Secretary Kennedy did not respond to the letter, and HHS released a statement accusing us of politicizing a tragedy,” wrote the HHS workers on Wednesday. “To be clear, the HHS workforce is nonpartisan, implementing science-based policies developed under both Republican and Democratic administrations. We believe health policy should be based on strong, evidence-based principles rather than partisan politics. But under Secretary Kennedy’s leadership, HHS policies are placing the health of all Americans at risk, regardless of their politics.”

The letter listed ways in which Kennedy has doubled down on harming the nation’s public health infrastructure since a gunman fired more than 500 rounds of ammunition into six buildings on the CDC’s main campus in Atlanta, killing a police officer before he turned the gun on himself. The shooter was reportedly motivated by his “discontent” with Covid-19 vaccines and believed he and others had been injured by the immunization.

Since then, Kennedy’s employees said, the secretary has:

• Facilitated the firing of Dr. Susan Monarez, the Senate-confirmed CDC director, after reportedly clashing with her on vaccine science;
• Caused the resignations of public health officials at the CDC;
• Appointed idealogues “who pose as scientific experts and manipulate data to fit predetermined conclusions,” including mRNA vaccine opponent Retsef Levi, the leader of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices’ Covid-19 work group, and ACIP member Robert Malone, who “has made multiple inaccurate claims regarding Covid-19 and measles”;
• Refused to be briefed on vaccine-preventable diseases by CDC experts;
• Disparaged the American Academy of Pediatrics for recommending the Covid-19 vaccine for children; and
• Made “ongoing verbal attacks” on the HHS workforce, including by stating, “Trusting experts is not a feature of either a science or democracy.”

The workers noted that they “swore an oath to support and defend the United States Constitution and to serve the American people” and are bound to “speak out when the Constitution is violated and the American people are put at risk.”

“Thus, we warn the president, Congress, and the public that Secretary Kennedy’s actions are compromising the health of this nation, and we demand Secretary Kennedy’s resignation,” said the HHS employees.

Should Kennedy refuse to resign, the workers wrote, the president and Congress must appoint a new secretary of health and human services—”one whose qualifications and experience ensure that health policy is informed by independent and unbiased peer-reviewed science.”

“We expect those in leadership to act when the health of Americans is at stake,” said the employees.

Last week, US Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) wrote an op-ed in the The New York Times demanding Kennedy’s resignation, citing Monarez’ ouster and warning of the danger of Kennedy’s “advocacy of conspiracy theories that have been rejected repeatedly by scientific experts.”

“Covid is just the beginning,” said Sanders. “Mr. Kennedy’s next target may be the childhood immunization schedule, the list of recommended vaccines that children receive to protect them from diseases like measles, chickenpox, and polio.”

The signatories of Wednesday’s letter, who work at HHS agencies including the CDC, the Food and Drug Administration, the office of the secretary, and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, noted that in addition to the named signers, anonymous employees endorsed the letter.

The signers “speak for countless others across HHS who share our concerns but who chose not to sign out of well-founded fear of retaliation and threats to personal safety,” reads the letter.

The signers also urged members of the public to join the push for Kennedy to resign or be removed, calling on them to use the 5 Calls platform to contact their elected representatives and demand Congress take action to “hold him accountable for his careless statements and actions that are endangering the health and safety of every American.”

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• Sep 3, 2025 (DailyCal.org)

UC Berkeley firebombing suspect Casey Goonan, along with their cellmate, began a hunger strike last Tuesday in solidarity with Teuta “T” Hoxha, a prisoner in the United Kingdom who has been on a hunger strike since Aug. 11.

Goonan is currently imprisoned at Santa Rita Jail in Dublin, California. Goonan has been in custody since their arrest in June 2024 on multiple charges of arson, including three small fires on the UC Berkeley campus, as well as the firebombing of a UCPD vehicle.

In January, Goonan pled guilty to a federal charge relating to the firebombing incident, in which they lit a bag of Molotov cocktails under a UCPD vehicle outside Sproul Hall. In exchange, all other charges were dropped. The crime itself carries a penalty of up to 20 years in federal prison, but Goonan also agreed that the court should apply the “terrorism enhancement” in determining sentencing.

In a statement published on the Instagram account for the Casey Support Committee, or CSC, Goonan characterized both Hoxha and themself as “people facing repression for their support for Palestine.” Hoxha was arrested for allegedly taking part in a raid on an Israeli weapons company’s factory in the UK on Aug. 6, 2024, with 23 other members of the British protest group Palestine Action.

Hoxha’s hunger strike initially aimed to satisfy three demands: the restoration of her library job and recreational classes, an end to censorship of her mail and the release of previously withheld mail addressed to her.

According to Goonan, the first two of these demands have been met, but the third, the release of Hoxha’s mail, has not. Goonan wrote that they plan to maintain their own hunger strike until Hoxha’s mail is released.

“The Palestine solidarity movement in the west cannot abandon people like her who have risked their lives and continue to do so in resistance to the intolerable condition of genocide,” Goonan wrote in their statement. 

 On community news website Indybay, the site where Goonan allegedly posted about their Molotov cocktail attacks on UC Berkeley campus, authors from the Casey Support Committee claim Goonan has organized hunger strikes before. 

In July 2024, Goonan fasted for a week, consuming only liquids in an attempt to secure better housing conditions for individuals in their jail unit. The report claimed Goonan is diabetic, which complicated their fast; only some of their demands were ultimately met.

Goonan was originally scheduled for a sentencing court hearing in April, but this has been pushed back a number of times, and they are now set to be sentenced on Sept. 23. The latest rescheduling was supported by both Goonan’s defense and the prosecuting attorney because certain medical records relevant to sentencing have not yet been provided to the court.  

According to the CSC in a post on the Anarchist Black Cross Federation website, Goonan has been struggling with health issues, as well as the mental toll of their sentencing hearing being repeatedly rescheduled. The Transgender Law Center, a national group that advocates for the legal rights of transgender and gender-nonconforming individuals, was also recently added as an interested party in the case and has been advocating on Goonan’s behalf.

“As captives imprisoned for our participation in the Palestinian liberation movement in the west, we have a responsibility to each other across borders to pursue our lives in prison with the same steadfastness as the Palestinian Prisoners movement held captive in Israeli prisons,” Goonan wrote.

• Sumaya Azhar | Staff
• Sep 3, 2025 (DailyCal.org)

The UC system formally launched “Speak Up for Science” last week, a campaign aimed at preserving and restoring funding for federal science agencies currently threatened by steep cuts from President Donald Trump’s administration.

“Speak Up for Science” calls on people to email their federal lawmakers, asking them to reject proposed cuts and bring back funding for agencies. The website includes an email template that people can fill out with their personal information and send to lawmakers. 

According to the email template, the Trump administration proposed cutting funding for “the National Institutes of Health by 39%, the National Science Foundation by 55% and the Department of Energy’s Office of Science by 13.9%.”

“Congress is considering a budget request that includes cuts to the federal science agencies that have profoundly improved the quality of life for all Americans, in health, technology, agriculture, and beyond,” said UC Office of the President Associate Director of Strategic & Critical Communications Stett Holbrook in an email. “Speak Up for Science provides a forum for all Americans to make their voices heard in support of science, research, and higher education.” 

As part of “Speak Up for Science,” the UC has released a social media graphic, Zoom background and GIPHY sticker.

The webpage also lists the impacts that federally funded scientific research has had, such as creating “good jobs in growing industries” and innovating “new technologies that make life easier and keep communities safe.”

“Speak Up for Science” is part of a larger UC campaign, “Stand Up for UC.”

The “Stand Up for UC” webpage says “the federal government’s demand of $1 billion from UCLA puts the entire University of California system at risk.” People can contribute to the campaign by adding their name to a pledge showing support for UC and by sharing their story of how the UC has impacted them.

The same week that “Speak Up for Science” was formally launched, UC President James B. Milliken met with the state Senate, the Assembly and the California Legislative Jewish Caucus, according to an Aug. 28 UC federal update brief.

According to the brief, Milliken “emphasized the importance of UC’s continued partnership with Governor Newsom and state leaders and highlighted the significant economic and operational impacts of the federal government’s suspension of hundreds of millions of dollars in research funding at UCLA and its demand for a $1 billion payment from California taxpayers.”

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The mayor is undoing the will of the voters and opening the street to Uber, Lyft, Waymo—and others are sure to follow

By SUSAN VAUGHAN

SEPTEMBER 1, 2025 (48hills.rg)

Mayor Daniel Lurie is damaging democracy, the environment, and public transit in San Francisco, and very few people seem to have noticed. How is he doing this? By undoing Better Market Street through his decision to welcome Waymo, and Uber and Lyft Blacks, onto Market Street between 10th and Steuart Streets.

At the same time, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency, faced with a looming $320 million budget shortfall, is starting to reduce service: the 5-Fulton, the new 6-Hayes/Parnassus, the 31-Balboa, and the 9-San Bruno, now turn around when they reach Market Street, forcing passengers going farther to transfer.

Lurie’s invitation amounts to the privatization of transit for private gain at the expense of the general public. And you can be sure that Waymo, Uber, and Lyft are just the first private, for-profit services that want access to Market Street—Tesla, Amazon’s Zoox, and other companies are sure to follow.

Better Market Street is a set of road diets approved by the SFMTA Board of Directors in October 2019 and implemented in January 2020. Prior to approval, the program underwent years of planning, environmental review, and public outreach. A major aspect of BMS has been the elimination of private cars. The purpose? To make downtown Market Street safer for pedestrians and bicyclists and to speed up Muni service. As the city has recovered from the pandemic, statistics indicate the improvements are working.

However, Lurie is making his decision to undo Better Market Street unilaterally and without environmental review.

This is not how it’s supposed to work, and that’s according to the will of the voters: our charter, our Transit First Policy, and the 2007 Proposition A.

Proposition A, which passed with 55 percent of the vote, gave more power to the members of the SFMTA Board of Directors in order “to increase the efficiency, effectiveness and autonomy of the Municipal Transportation Agency and to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from San Francisco’s transportation sector.” Also, one of the arguments for Proposition A in the Voter Information Pamphlet was: “keep Muni free from excessive political interference.”

Members of the Keep Market Street Moving coalition oppose the subversion of Better Market Street and have created a petition and a letter for people to sign and send. They are also planning to attend the September 2, 2025 Board of Directors meeting and give public testimony. That meeting takes place in Room 400 of City Hall at 1 p.m.

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Lurie’s invitation to Waymo, Uber, and Lyft will be part of Director Julie Kirchbaum’s report to the Board of Directors—but it is not an action item, as it should be. The KMSM coalition members who will attend plan to remind the directors that Market Street is under their purview—not that of the mayor.

There are other reasons why Lurie’s invitation is so bad. We are in a climate emergency, and these private, for-profit vehicles are doing the one thing transportation experts are telling us not to do— adding vehicle miles traveled. They also exacerbate congestion and compete with Muni for passengers, even though Muni is our best tool for reducing our transportation-related greenhouse gas emissions.

Moreover, state government and the California Public Utilities Commission have greenlit Uber, Lyft, and Waymo without requiring environmental review. Many of these decisions to grease the wheels for these private, for-profit transportation businesses have been made by Democrats—US Senator Alex Padilla, as a state senator, was the sponsor of legislation greenlighting autonomous vehicles without requiring a review of their environmental impacts. All five current members of the California Public Utilities Commission—the agency responsible for the regulation of Ubers, Lyfts, and commercial AVs—are appointees of Governor Gavin Newsom, and the one commissioner who voted against the authorization of commercial AV operations in August 2023, Genevieve Shiroma, though a Newsom appointee, quit in 2024. And while State Senator Dave Cortese (D-San Jose) introduced SB 915 to establish local regulatory authority over AVs, our own State Senator Scott Wiener voted against it. Cortese pulled the bill when it looked like Assembly members would not pass without being radically amended.

So is Daniel Lurie just another in a series of Democratic officeholders who feels more indebted to billionaires and their corporate interests? If so, collusion between these corporate Democrats and corporate interests does not bode well for the future of democracy or the planet.

Organizing in the Golden State is holding strong, showing what’s possible even as Trump 2.0 makes the fight harder.

BY MARK KREIDLER 

SEPTEMBER 2, 2025 (Prospect.org)

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Teamsters participate in a Los Angeles May Day march on May 1, 2018.

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The current state of unions across the country is a study in contradiction. On one hand, public support for unions in the U.S. is at 70 percent, just a tick off the highest mark in 60 years. Petitions for union elections filed with the National Labor Relations Board have more than doubled in the last four years.

On the other hand, the national membership numbers are down. It’s only a slight decrease, but it continues a long, steady decline. In 1983, the first year for which a comparable data set to today exists, the union membership rate among American workers was 20.1 percent. By 2024, it stood at 9.9 percent.

It is a steep slide—but there are outliers. California is one of them.

Over the last two decades, the Golden State’s union numbers have held relatively steady, and they’ve remained well above the national average. The state’s unionization rate—the percentage of all workers who are covered by a union contract, even if they’re not members—stands at 16.3 percent, more than five points higher than the national average, according to a new report by labor researchers at multiple University of California campuses.

Related: A Federal Appellate Court Finds the NLRB to Be Unconstitutional

“In California, the union labor movement is pretty robust,” said Enrique Lopezlira, director of the low-wage work program at the UC Berkeley Labor Center and one of the authors of the report. “It’s a testament to the continuing efforts of unions here to organize workers and to really get engaged in state-level policy to provide better opportunities for those workers.”

It is grinding work, and as the full effects of Trump 2.0 begin to be felt, union workers could be placed under new pressures and left with fewer allies. But union strategies in California may nevertheless point a way for other states to weather the approaching storm.

The new report, produced primarily by the Berkeley center and UCLA’s Institute for Research on Labor & Employment, puts the total of California workers covered by a union at 2.67 million, or about one in six workers. That’s the largest raw total in the U.S., but seven states have a higher percentage of their workforce represented by unions: Hawaii, New York, Alaska, Washington, Connecticut, Oregon, and New Jersey.

California, though, is noteworthy for its steady union presence. It hasn’t fluctuated much since 2005, despite the national decline. Further, the federal data set used to produce the union figures does not include home health care and child care workers who are classified as self-employed. In California, that takes in some 700,000 workers, even though their hourly wages are negotiated with individual counties through unions. 

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In other words, the unionization count is almost certainly low. So what is California doing right?

Lopezlira pointed to a couple of areas. First, he said, major unions in California, including those in health care, education and public service, have aggressively and continuously worked to organize workers. The state’s highest unionization rate is found in education, where more than a quarter of all workers are represented.

California unions have also left a major mark on state labor policy in ways that benefit workers. The state’s historic fast food wage law was sponsored by the Service Employees International Union, as was a health care minimum wage. Unions have also sponsored or worked on the kinds of statewide issues—rent control, tenant protections—that are critically important to hourly wage workers. (Disclosure: SEIU is a supporter of Capital & Main.)

“I think the totality of our report is about how hard these unions continue to work to organize and provide benefits to their workers,” Lopezlira said. “Given all these headwinds—housing, health care affordability, technology, AI—the resiliency of California unions to look for innovative ways to help workers is critically important.”

Those headwinds are incoming. In his second term in office, President Donald Trump has made no secret of his animosity toward unions. From his attempt to dismantle the agency charged with protecting employees and enforcing labor laws to stripping the rights of federal union workers, Trump’s war on labor is readily apparent.

It is a familiar tack. Organized labor’s declining figures—both in actual membership and the total number of workers who are represented by unions, even if they aren’t members—reflect decades of workplace rules and court decisions that have made it harder to unionize. They’ve been falling since shortly after President Ronald Reagan fired 11,000 air traffic controllers in 1981, a public-sector job action that nevertheless emboldened private employers to push back on unions more forcefully.

The most recent federal labor data is from 2024, Lopezlira said, so the University of California report doesn’t really account for anything enacted under Trump 2.0. “But the erosion of labor standards is a real concern—and going after the institutions that are meant to protect those standards [like the National Labor Relations Board], that’s an even bigger problem,” he said.

That may be all the more reason to look to the California approach. Union leaders in the state have pushed for years to strengthen worker protections and make it easier for workers to organize, and the high-profile wage laws in health care and fast food have reminded workers of the good their unions can do.

According to the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute, roughly 60 million workers in the U.S. wanted to join a union but couldn’t in 2024. Recent organizing pushes at vehemently anti-union franchises like Starbucks and REI, meanwhile, suggest that the appetite for employee protections and fair wages is only growing.

“It’s a bit hopeful,” Lopezlira said. It may also be exactly what’s needed, especially now.

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Mark Kreidler is a California-based writer and broadcaster, and the author of three books, including ‘Four Days to Glory.’

“On October 18,” said organizers, “we’re taking to the streets in more cities and in larger numbers to remind Trump, his cronies, and those on the sidelines looking for hope: America has no kings.”

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“No Kings is a non-violent movement that continues to rise stronger, and we’re uniting once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power belongs to the people.”

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Sep 02, 2025 (CommonDreams.org)

The organizers behind the anti-Trump “No Kings” demonstrations that saw millions take to the streets earlier this year announced Tuesday their next major protest will take place on October 18.

Following thousands of events nationwide on June 14 that brought millions of people out to decry the actions of President Donald Trump, the announcement for the new date, said organizers in a media alert,

comes amid President Trump’s latest escalations: threats to send militarized forces into U.S. cities, the continued detention and encampment of immigrants, and his recent remark that “a lot of people are saying, ‘maybe we’d like a dictator.’ The October mobilization is designed as a direct, non-violent rebuke to those authoritarian claims.

Fresh links on the website of the No Kings coalition—which includes Indivisible, the ACLU, the American Federation of Teachers, Public Citizen, SEIU, MoveOn, and dozens of others—include a place to ‘learn more” about planned actions in your local city and ways to support the effort.

“Just picking a day on the calendar won’t be enough to generate the kind of response we need in this moment,” said Invisible in a call to action sent to members on Tuesday. “A national day of protest takes time and immense resources to prepare—tech and online infrastructure, marketing materials, security investments, staging/sounds, and so much more.”

With Trump “doubling down on his authoritarian tactics,” the group continued, the need for sustained opposition has only grown more clear since the earlier actions.

Trump, said Invisible, “is disappearing immigrants to sprawling concentration camps, sending troops into our cities, threatening to interfere in elections, rigging maps to steal power from the voters, and orchestrating a massive giveaway to his billionaire allies as families struggle. Trump is ramping up his attacks on our rights and democracy, but we’re not backing down. On October 18, we’re taking to the streets in more cities and in larger numbers to remind Trump, his cronies, and those on the sidelines looking for hope: America has no kings.”

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