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Lennar seeks license to kill
Despite Lennar’s claims that grading was completed in September in 2007, community air monitors continue to document elevations in asbestos levels.
Oakland’s Kinfolx is on top of the wave of new businesses in Oakland after...
we wanted to ensure that our community had a stake and place to call home in this rapidly changing area of Oakland.
Black Alliance for Peace stands in revolutionary solidarity with the people of Bolivia
With the forced resignation of Bolivian President Evo Morales and the physical assaults against leaders of the Movement for Socialism, the progress made by indigenous and working-class people of Bolivia is under serious assault.
Justice long overdue: redevelopment to reparations
Persistent work by community activists advising the Office of Community Investment and Infrastructure (OCII) has effectively transformed the Certificate of Preference (COP) program, a program designed to fail, into a vehicle for long overdue justice.
Political prisoner and wife get mural in East Oakland
Jamal Hart, Mumia’s grandson, has kept up the fight to bring his grandfather home.
Byron Allen v. Comcast case could tear down America’s oldest and strongest anti-discrimination law
“If the Supreme Court narrows this law, it would give corporations cover – allowing them to cover up racial discrimination ... A bad decision in this case could have impact on everyday businesses owned by Black people across our country.”
Lennar builds shoddy homes
“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
Currency Wars: FedNow and BRICS
BRICS is headed by the nations of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa with more than a dozen other nations from all corners of the world waiting to get in
Those who must be shown: an environmental justice manifesto
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.
Pachamama and the Pope
The American TFP describes its three values – tradition, family and property – as a protective wall against socialism and called the Amazon “a huge ‘green slum’ divided into tribal ghettos.”
30,000 respondents offer a complex picture of race and gender with serious implications for...
“Understanding how to reach and move Black voters in 2020 requires a deeper and more inclusive look at how gender impacts our lives and shapes our participation in politics,” said Black Futures Lab Principal Alicia Garza.
Moms4Housing stand and resist for thousands of us houseless mamaz – Join them at...
The moms have declared they are staying and are putting a massive call out to everyone to join them tomorrow, Monday, Jan. 13, at 6:30 a.m., at “MomsHouse,” 2928 Magnolia St., West Oakland, to keep a roof over their children’s heads. Homelessness is cold, terrifying, painful … and violent!
Bill requiring state to house incarcerated parents close to their children passes Senate Public...
AB 1226 requires an incarcerated parent or legal guardian of a minor child be placed in a correctional facility that's closest to their child’s home
Alternative community under fire: Wood Street Collective is being threatened with eviction
People are being kicked out of the last place they could park or build shelters. The City of Oakland has not provided alternative places to be and the planned “safe parking lot” is months from completion.
SF launches Guaranteed Income for Transgender People (G.I.F.T.)
The G.I.F.T. of relief shines bright for the great needs of our people.
The racist politics of confinement in Virginia’s high security prisons
At Virginia’s high security prisons dogs are a FIRST RESORT to force in almost any situation where guards invent or claim justification to use force on prisoners.
A reparations explanation for angry white people
Reparations seem to be a problem only when it comes to making things balanced with Black Americans.
Comrade George, Gaza and the Black Community
How many of us are finding out about the Black community in the Gaza Strip for the first time now?
Niger, West and Central Africa’s current war against neo-colonialism
What is striking and at the center of these changes on the continent, though, are a youth that no longer wants to be subjected to neocolonialism
Monday: Oakland City Council to vote on Gaza ceasefire resolution in special session
Supporting an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza are 66% of all Americans, over 80% of Democrats, and growing numbers of elected officials, including city council and Congress members.