By Julia Hannafin. Today marks day 47 of Berkeley resident Cynthia Papermaster's open-ended fast. Papermaster, who has been a member of women's social ...
On the Bay Area political calendar: Former CIA director John Brennan and author David Shimer on Russian interference in elections, and California Appellate ...
Leeza VinogradovMay 25, 1937 - August 14, 2020Resident of Rutland, MALeeza Vinogradov, formerly of Berkeley, CA, died peacefully at home in Rutland MA, ...
Under the image of a stern serviceman in uniform, the sign in the window of the U.S. Marine Corps recruiting station extols the traits of America's armed forces: ...
Cindy Sheehan, the anti-war activist, and dozens of protestors from Code Pink, The World Can't Wait, the Boalt Alliance to Abolish Torture and other groups ...
Las Vegas-area veterans joined anti-war activists outside Nellis Air Force Base for a protest against the proposed expansion of the Nevada Test and Training ...
Update 12/18: The Berkeley Police Association has closed its fundraising campaign because it more than exceeded its goals. The drive for Toys for Tots ...
As the right-wing blogosphere railed and a U.S. senator vowed financial retaliation against the Berkeley City Council for its effort to boot the Marine Corps out of ...
Evo Morales didn't resign; he was overthrown by a coup d'état. As of today, Evo Morales, the Indigenous president of Bolivia, was forced to resign the presidency ...
Now the coronavirus has spurred anti-Semites into action again, as they either accuse Jews of inventing this flu (as well a vaccine to cure it as a devious ...
by Ann Garrison. On Tuesday evening, Dec. 15, 2015, the Berkeley City Council voted to keep sending officers to the annual Urban Shield war games and ...
Democratic presidential front-runner Bernie Sanders announced he will boycott this week's American Israel Public Affairs Committee conference because of.
In addition to the following reported actions across California, protests for Jan. 25 were announced for Santa Cruz, Lancaster and Torrance. Arcata Ja.
Upcoming political events in the Bay Area. THURSDAY Medea Benjamin on Iran: Code Pink and Global Exchange co-founder on “Inside Iran: The Real History ...
The fighter jet that buzzed Berkeley on Tuesday, sending both shock waves and excitement through the community, was reportedly flown by the brother of a Cal ...
Xavier (Kayla) Moore died because of “acute combined drug intoxication,” according to the Alameda County Coroner's report released today. The coroner ruled ...
White nationalist militia members drawn to the Gettysburg National Military Park by a hoax that an Antifa group would be burning American flags there, ...
As a "built in the womb" Marine who was born and raised on military bases, Robert Duke was hell-bent on attending a bikers' rally in Berkeley on Saturday ...
Note: An update about this incident appears toward the bottom of this article. A military veteran reportedly having a mental health crisis climbed on top of the ...
BERKELEY — After days of on-again, off-again plans for a right-wing rally, sometimes violent counter-protesters gathered Sunday by the thousands in ...
John Yoo, the embattled Bush administration official who authored the memos sanctioning torture, compares his residency in Berkeley as akin to living in West ...
On the Bay Area political calendar: A San Francisco rally in favor of universal background checks for gun buyers and red-flag legislation, and a town hall on what ...
The interior of Jacquelyn McCormick's Berkeley hills home looks like it could be in the glossy pages of a lifestyle magazine. An enormous mirror reflects the ...
2005-01-21 04:00:00 PDT Washington -- Thousands of people demonstrated in the streets of the nation's capital Thursday to urge an immediate withdrawal of ...
A lawsuit brought against the City of Berkeley and the owners of Comal restaurant, who plan to open a new restaurant at 2635 Ashby Ave. in the Elmwood ...
Yet another yarn bombing action has taken place in Berkeley, this time on two looped bike racks in front of the downtown Berkeley Public Library. The striped ...
The Berkeley Police Association (BPA) today released the results of an email survey which it says show residents supporting the investigation of the use of ...
When Jolie Gobler, an eighth-grader at King Middle School in Berkeley, left school at the end of the day Wednesday last week she was surprised to see people ...
Marghi Dutton is 90 and losing her eyesight, but nothing was going to stop her from trekking to midspan of the Golden Gate Bridge on Sunday with the anti-war ...
Editor's Note: This story by our Foreign Correspondent columnist Reese Erlich is accompanied by photographs by Beth LaBerge. In Laberge's words, “I spent ...
Right wing French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen and centrist Emmanuel Macron spend their last day on the campaign trail ahead of Sunday's run-off ...
By Diana Arbas. Ju Hong looked tired. Uncharacteristic stubble peppered his chin and there were shadows under his eyes when we met at a Temescal coffee ...
The cultivated Medicine of Kick-Butt ornery defiant effective creative dedication to protect what we love. Caroline hosts long-time mega-ally, indefatigable Diane ...
President Obama arrived in San Francisco on Friday for a quick overnight visit that is all about the November election. In a strongly partisan 15-minute speech to ...
On January 9, the Ethical Culture Fieldston School — an elite private school in the Bronx known for its diversity and progressive values — fired JB Brager, ...
Simone Zimmerman, Bernie Sander's national Jewish outreach coordinator, created quite a stir after her year-old profane rant against PM Netanyahu recently ...
San Francisco has been at the center of the peace movement for many decades. It might have started with the founding of the United Nations at the Herbst ...
"I deal with a lot of mental health stuff because of this. I have so much anxiety," fretted Rutgers University Professor Noura Erakat while discussing her anti-Israel ...
Like the Passover story, the celebration of Hanukkah reminds us that people can overcome great obstacles and achieve great things if they have a vision of a ...
If you were wondering why young Americans are less enthralled with the idea of “free speech” than their elders, look no further than this week's appalling ...
Piper Perabo is an actress known for her role as CIA agent Annie Walker in the TV series "Covert Affairs," for which she received a Golden Globe nomination in ...
This letter was originally published by Alliance for Global Justice | ORIGINAL LETTER. To download a PDF version of this letter, please click here. We urge the ...
Bay Area protests over the deaths of Eric Garner, Michael Brown and scores of others may assuage white liberal guilt and provide a righteous reason to rail ...
By MARSHA POLOVETS. Hear ye, hear ye: The Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps (JROTC) will receive physical education credit through independent ...
Last month on Capitol Hill, a tedious slur on Henry Kissinger (“war criminal”) provoked an irate reaction (“low-life scum”). The clash between Senator McCain ...
SAN FRANCISCO (j. weekly) — Seated cross-legged in the sunny backyard of her north Oakland home, wearing loose, tie-dyed pants, beads around her neck, ...
Forget about drones, forget about dystopian sci-fi — a terrifying new generation of autonomous weapons is already here. Meet the small band of dedicated ...
I did not expect my first day in Cleveland to end with a group hug. And how could I have? Few weeks or months have been as grim as this one. When I landed in ...
Witchcraft & Pagan News - ATLANTA -- Attendees at the new Mystic South conference spent Saturday with no running water. A pipe leading from the water main ...
Slightly edited for clarity In late December, with just weeks left in his administration, former U.S. President Barack Obama delivered a shot in the arm to the ...
Ariel Gold was denied entry into Israel over her actions against the Jewish state. By: World Israel News Staff. Israel has denied entry to a notorious ...
AP Photo. Dr. Anna Shaw and Carrie Chapman Catt, founder of the League of Women Voters, lead an estimated 20,000 supporters in a women's suffrage march ...
A scholarly framework and documentary format coincide in The Activists, writes Scott McLemee, which depicts the antiwar movement in this century's first decade ...
Four local peace-lovin' organizations came together in front of the federal courthouse yesterday to protest five years in Iraq with a demonstration of ...
The Justice Department has dropped its case against a woman who laughed out loud during the confirmation hearing for Attorney General Jeff Sessions, ending ...
A California sheriff's department wrongfully forces all females arrestees under the age of 60, whether they are convicted of a crime or not, to take a mandatory ...
Maxine Hong Kingston revisits her life, ancestors, characters and passionate concern for peace and women's equality in this unconventional, somewhat ...
Seated cross-legged in the sunny backyard of her north Oakland home, wearing loose, tie-dyed pants, beads around her neck, her hair in tousled braids and ...
Thirty years ago this week, the Super Bowl featured an ad (directed by Ridley Scott, no less) for the soon-to-be-released Macintosh computer, in which Apple ...
Palestinian Arabs base their claims to all of Palestine—including all of Israel—on the assertion that Arabs are the indigenous people of the Holy Land and, ...
Led by a spirited brass band and waving placards decrying corporate greed, hundreds of occupiers took to San Francisco streets Monday to celebrate Occupy ...
SAN FRANCISCO, Jul 2 2013 (IPS) - Sporting wedding gowns, tuxedos, leather, beads, bangles, union t-shirts and Free Bradley Manning buttons – and some ...
What happens when a dynamic company, started by a couple of idealistic friends in grad school, succeeds so wildly that it becomes a mega-corporation that ...
A recent article in the Toronto Star and its accompanying photo bear comment. The reaching hands are not of rioting, starving people grasping for food but.
President Trump is demanding a slew of anti-immigrant measures, including $18 billion for his border wall, in exchange for legal protections for young ...
Comparing Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad unfavorably to Adolf Hitler, as White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer did Tuesday, was an unforced error for ...
Written in the frenzied, emotional days after 9/11, the Authorization for the Use of Military Force was intended to give President Bush the ability to retaliate ...
The middle-of-the-night resignation Sunday of longtime Bay Area activist Van Jones as a White House environmental adviser left many progressives angry at the ...
Graduating students at the University of Maryland-Baltimore have planned a “Black Lives Matter” protest to occur during the graduation ceremony tomorrow.
Every March, across the commonwealth of Kentucky, the Republican Party throws a series of Lincoln-Reagan fundraising dinners. Candidates for state and ...
On Monday, WSWS International Editorial Board Chairman David North interviewed Chris Hedges, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, author, lecturer and ...
On cue from a bullhorn's blast, thousands of protesters fell to the pavement on Market Street in a symbolic "die-in" Saturday as part of a coordinated protest ...
2005-09-27 04:00:00 PDT Washington -- Cindy Sheehan, the Vacaville mother who ignited the anti-war movement this past summer with her 26-day protest ...
Susan Galleymore had traveled 7,472 miles from Alameda to search for her son in Iraq and was close to finding him. The Army Ranger had urged her not to ...
46 arrested at shutdown of I-94 protest face a gross misdemeanor charge of riot and misdemeanor charges of public nuisance and unlawful assembly. 1 person ...
Republicans partied to a fantasy theme Sunday at their pre-convention bash at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Fla., where belly dancers, live flamingoes, ...
The image of a frisky senior citizen chasing buxom candy stripers around the nursing home is so nonthreatening it's almost charming. But if that same senior was ...
