Indybay Beats Back Illegal Search Warrant and Gag Order
On January 24, SFPD served a search warrant on Indybay, seeking identifying information about the author of a communiqué. The warrant included a non-disclosure order. After pushback from Electronic...
View ArticleWest Berkeley Shellmound Sacred Site will be Returned to Lisjan Ohlone
After years of prayers and protests, the struggle to protect the West Berkeley Shellmound Sacred Site has prevailed. On March 12, the Berkeley City Council approved a global settlement with the owners...
View ArticleOccupations Established at Universities Across California
Students at UC Berkeley, Cal Poly Humboldt, Stanford, and Sonoma State joined students at colleges and universities throughout the country to establish occupations in support of Palestinians. Outrage...
View ArticleShut it Down on May Day in the Bay Area
May Day actions are being organized this year with particular urgency in solidarity with the Palestinian people, heeding the call from the Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions to stand with...
View ArticleLawsuit Challenges Pesticide Approvals Near Pajaro Valley Schools
A coalition has filed a lawsuit challenging the California Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) and Monterey County Agricultural Commissioner’s repeat rubberstamping of applications to use highly...
View ArticleExtreme Logging Planned for Plumas National Forest
As of March 2024, 894,898 acres across the western United States are slated to be logged under a "community protection" measure proposed by the U.S. Forest Service. Resistance is growing. In addition...
View ArticleREI Workers in Santa Cruz Vote to Form Union
On April 18, workers at the REI store in Santa Cruz voted 32-12 in favor of forming a union. The workers filed for a union election with the National Labor Relations Board on March 14, at which time...
View ArticleYoung People Reclaim Earth Day
From April 19-22, thousands of young people from across Northern California took part in multiple national days of action calling on President Biden and other decision makers to declare a Climate...
View ArticleGoogle Conference Blocked in Support of Palestinians
Through products like Project Nimbus, Google profits directly by enhancing Israeli surveillance and control over Palestinians. Recent reporting shows Google signed a deal with the Ministry of Defense....
View ArticleFaith Leaders Fast and March for Gaza
On May 31 Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Muslim, and Jewish clerics held an interfaith pray-in to demand that Senator Padilla stop supporting Israel's genocide of Palestine. Dressed in black, protesters,...
View ArticleFishery’s Expansion Threatens Endangered Leatherbacks Off California
In an inexplicable move, the National Marine Fisheries Service has allowed a little known fishery that targets bottom-dwelling sablefish to expand into federally designated habitat for critically...
View ArticleUCSC Campus Mobile Crisis Team is First of its Kind on a UC Campus
The UCSC Campus Mobile Crisis Team (CMCT) is the first of its kind on a University of California campus. The CMCT provides an empathetic, non-police response to emergency calls regarding mental health...
View ArticleMemorial Procession and Vigil for Journalists Murdered by Israel
On May 11, a procession was organized in San Francisco to mark the two years since Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was killed by an Israeli military sniper. There still has been no...
View ArticleFinal Memorial Protest at Golden Gate Fields
Golden Gate Fields is finally shutting down. For the last race day on June 9, animal rights activists gathered to mourn the deaths of all the horses who have died there since it opened 1941. These...
View ArticleHistoric Factory Farm Ban on November 5th Ballot in Sonoma County
The first U.S. countywide vote to prohibit factory farms will take place on November 5 in Sonoma County. This historic measure was named Measure J, after the Sonoma County Board of Supervisors asked...
View ArticleProtetsts Demand Netanyahu's Arrest for War Crimes
On July 24, Israel's Prime Minister came to the US and addressed a joint session of Congress. However, more than a dozen legislators boycotted the speech because they, as do millions gthroughout the...
View ArticleGaza Protesters Disrupt Chevron Headquarters
On September 26, Bay Area residents rallied outside the entrance to Chevron’s global headquarters in San Ramon to protest its fueling of Israel’s genocide. The company is heavily invested in the...
View ArticleThe People's Arms Embargo
In spite of a year of popular mobilization against arming Israel's genocide of Palestine and in contravention of US law President Biden and Congress are continuing massive arms shipments to Israel. “If...
View ArticleShipping Genocide: Communique Against Maersk Emeryville
On the night of December 8, Maersk's Emeryville office was vandalized "because they are merchants of death." In a communique published by "Some ordinary autonomous queers" they explain that Maersk, a...
View ArticleLong-Time Animal Liberation Fugitive Captured
Daniel Andreas San Diego had been hunted by the FBI for 20 years, wanted for questioning in the 2003 bombings of Chiron and Shaklee, two businesses paying Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS) to murder 500...
View ArticleEditors of It's Going Down Announce Hiatus
In a newly released statement from anarchist media project It’s Going Down, they explain that "10 years ago a group of people set out to create a new media platform to document and give voice to...
View ArticleEditors of It's Going Down Are "Going Forward"
On Dec 20, 2024 the editors of anarchist media project It’s Going Down (IGD) announced that they were "taking a hiatus [...] with the hopes that other projects can find their footing." However just a...
View ArticleCasey Goonan Needs Support
Casey Support Committee writes, "Casey is a dedicated community educator, writer, distroist, and printer who has committed their life to struggles for liberation. A federal investigation by the FBI and...
View ArticleRiseup: 25 Years of Autonomous Communication Services
Riseup is a small anarchist, anti-capitalist, volunteer-run, social movement organization offering secure email, email lists, a VPN service, chat, and other online services to support activists engaged...
View Article"The Heart of Gaza" - A Photo Exhibit in Oakland
"The Heart of Gaza" is a photo exhibition featuring the work of Ahmed Younis, a photojournalist in Gaza who's been documenting life during the ongoing aggression. Since Oct 2023, Ahmed has been risking...
View Article11th Annual March to Reclaim MLK’s Radical Legacy
For over a decade the Anti Police-Terror Project has called for a week of action and a mass march on MLK Day to reclaim the revolutionary spirit of Dr. King. Towards the end of King's short life he had...
View ArticleWorkers at Anti Police-Terror Project Form Labor Union
On December 11, 2024, staff at Anti Police-Terror Project (APTP) officially requested that APTP's management recognize their newly formed union with The Industrial Workers of the World Bay Area (IWW)...
View ArticleActivists Declare "Health Care For People, Not For Profit"
On January 13, demonstrators rallied outside the Westin St. Francis in San Francisco to protest the J.P. Morgan Healthcare Investors Conference which brought together capitalists from around the world...
View ArticleBay Area Joins BDS Movement's Boycott Chevron Weekend of Actions
Protesters in the San Francisco Bay Area mustered a half dozen demonstrations during a nationwide weekend of actions organized by the Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Movement. Chevron is a...
View ArticleDemonstrators Protest Elon Musk Outside Bay Area Tesla Showrooms
Bay Area activists are not waiting for court challenges to stop Elon Musk and his so-called Department of Government Efficiency. Protests are ongoing and have cropped up outside Tesla showrooms in...
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