In recent months I moved out of downtown Martinez. I had been living in a housing situation with a lot of stress—but inhabited by a cohesive community of good people. The housing was conducive to ...

Jewish students at Columbia University took a bold stand on Wednesday, chaining themselves to campus gates in protest of the university’s role in the detention of Mahmoud Khalil, a former student now ...

Don't miaa this important article from 48hills.org refuting YIMBY dogma om the need for indiscrimate housing demand. Dramatic data suggests gentrification and income inequality are far more important ...

In a troubling escalation of state repression, Tufts University Ph.D. student Rumeysa Ozturk was detained by plainclothes ICE agents on March 25, 2025, in Somerville, Massachusetts. Ozturk, a Turkish ...

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Afther two months of Trump 2.0, the 47 th President has fallen into a predictable pattern. Each day there’s a dominant news item. This morning it was Ukraine peace talks. Yesterday it was eliminating ...

On March 25, 2025, Oscar-winning Palestinian filmmaker Hamdan Ballal was brutally assaulted by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank village of Susya, in the Masafer Yatta region. Ballal, known ...

It’s hard to know what District 2 Councilmember Taplin had in mind for the Council Facilities, Infrastructure, Transportation, Environment and Sustainability Committee (FITES) for the 2 pm meeting on ...