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As long as the cult of top power brokers keeps us disconnected, fearing each other, pitted against each other, opposing and scapegoating each other, they can divide, conquer, control and exploit us.

Across California, including Alameda and San Francisco counties,  Medi-Cal is working to address maternal concerns by expanding and coordinating health services so pregnant and postpartum people receive care that is respectful, comprehensive, and easier to navigate.

In the brief time you have left in Congress, you can In the brief time you have left in Congress, you can endorse the Medicare for All Act of 2025 and encourage Gov. Newsom to support the new CalCare legislation.

Medi-Cal gives California adults — including Black families, seniors, parents, and caregivers — access to free or low-cost care designed to help people stay healthy, not just treat illness.

We mourn each of these murders and condemn them, not only in theory, but in practice by doubling down on our solidarity, organizing and protest. We must look the monster straight in the face and fight it with every tool we have. 

Donald “C-Note” Hooker in a photo published in People Magazine. – Photo: Peter Mertz

Concert is Sunday, Jan. 18, 7 p.m. As Oshalla continues her own healing journey following a life-altering stroke, the community she has poured into for decades is responding in kind.

Brenda Lopez is cofounder of Cuba Si, Bloqueo No! to end the 65-year-old US blockade that was supposed to strangle Cuba to death. Thanks to grassroots support around the world, Cuba still stands strong.

Maria cooks for her family in remnants of what was her family's home prior to October's Hurricane Melissa in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. 

“My life changed forever when I met Hugo Chávez,” Prensa Latina reported in a 2023 story on Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro describing his 30-year close friendship with his predecessor. “An extraordinary man, deeply human, noble and brave, with determination, ideals of justice and freedom,” he said of Chávez, who “became a second father, an example, a guide and a teacher.”

At just over a year into his council term—after winning election in November 2024—Mayor Webster Lincoln is now the face of a city caught between its storied past and a tech-fueled future.

California must name the next prison closures and release elders by Olivia Gleason, CURB Sacramento, Calif. — Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Proposed...

In the brief time you have left in Congress, you can In the brief time you have left in Congress, you can endorse the Medicare for All Act of 2025 and encourage Gov. Newsom to support the new CalCare legislation.

Medi-Cal gives California adults — including Black families, seniors, parents, and caregivers — access to free or low-cost care designed to help people stay healthy, not just treat illness.

We mourn each of these murders and condemn them, not only in theory, but in practice by doubling down on our solidarity, organizing and protest. We must look the monster straight in the face and fight it with every tool we have. 

The injustice to Mumia Abu-Jamal is not the action of one rogue cop or prosecutor or judge, but a concerted effort to silence an unbending, outspoken political opponent of this racist, repressive, exploitive, murderous capitalist system.

The Free Mumia Tour visits Cuba, forging media ties and spotlighting Mumia Abu Jamal’s case.

The HBO original documentary “The Alabama Solution,” which premiered at Sundance and debuted on HBO Oct. 10, 2025, uses prisoners’ footage “leaked” out of Alabama prisons. 

A houseless and Indigenous coalition in Oakland unveiled a “Liberation Easement” to permanently remove a small parcel of land from the real‑estate market, the organizers said, a move they described as an act of decommodification and long‑term stewardship that binds residents and descendants to caretaking rather than ownership and prevents future sale, rent or eviction; the document was created with Sogorea Te Land Trust and legal counsel and will be publicly filed at a ceremony Oct. 23.

Land of the free, home of the brave? / With a quarter of the world’s prisoners – modern day slaves? / A declaration of freedom, now as then how you lie / Millions of us still in chains on your Fourth of July.

Jeff was charged with battery on a peace officer, though the officer had attacked him. At trial he represented himself and on April 10, 2025, the jury found him not guilty.

Rashid is again sleeping on a concrete slab about six inches from the ground. He cannot make phone calls or send messages to anyone. Keep flooding the South Carolina Department of Corrections with phone calls and emails.

C-Note’s Juneteenth and Fashionable blends digital art and fashion to celebrate Black liberation.

Make calls and spread the word. Kevin “Rashid” Johnson, ID number 397279, must be treated humanely, given good medical care for his broken leg and a decent place to sleep and full communications access.

Despite Lennar’s claims that grading was completed in September in 2007, community air monitors continue to document elevations in asbestos levels.

George D. Porter dedicated his career to the International Longshoremen’s Workers Union Local 34. He died in the care of his loving family on the morning of Feb. 19, 1992. His immediate cause of death was dehydration. His final cause of death was pulmonary asbestosis.

“The police say to us all the time that they can’t do their jobs because we won’t talk and tell on someone. Well, we ARE telling on PG&E … so now we tell them it’s your turn. Do your job! Do it now!”

“We have been living the Lennar nightmare for seven years. We are original owners with perpetual water intrusion. I am trying to organize my neighbors (168 defective homes) and share information in hopes that together we can make a difference ... We are absolutely devastated. I am writing from Novato, California.” — Tamara

After more than 15 years of “cleanup,” the Shipyard is still a toxic mess – and now Lennar is moving forward to build residential housing on the site.