Berkeley, Calif. — Nearly 200 people rocked a U.S. Postal Service official hearing here on Feb. 26 to demand that Berkeley’s downtown post office not be sold and closed. They did it “Berkeley style,” with song, drama, poetry and chants. Local folksinger Hali Hammer belted out new lyrics to “Please Mr. Postman”: “It has come as [...]
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Berkeley activists demand, ‘Take post office off auction block’
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Judy Greenspan March 8, 2013 » Add the first comment.
Berkeley, Calif., gears up to save post office
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Judy Greenspan February 19, 2013 » Add the first comment.
Berkeley, Calif. — A special meeting of the Berkeley City Council’s Post Office Committee drew more than 100 people on Feb. 13 to speak out against U.S. Postal Service plans to close and sell the historic downtown Berkeley Post Office. Mayor Tom Bates made the unanimous position of city officials clear when he said, “The [...]
Protest at women’s prison: ‘Overcrowding equals death’
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Judy Greenspan January 31, 2013 » Add the second comment.
Chowchilla, Calif. — Over 400 anti-prison activists marched and rallied on country roads in front of two Chowchilla prisons on Jan. 26, demanding the immediate release of women prisoners and an end to overcrowding. They traveled from all over California — Los Angeles and Long Beach, Oakland, Sacramento and San Francisco, even Fresno and Modesto — [...]
Rally protests murders of Black & Brown youth
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Judy Greenspan January 3, 2013 » Add the first comment.
Alan Blueford would have turned 19 on Dec. 20, but instead he was killed by Oakland, Calif., police last May 6. To commemorate his birthday and to say no to all acts of police violence and murder of Black and Brown young men, more than 450 people from the Bay Area packed the Laney College [...]
Anti-war activists report on Pakistan trip, attack drones
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Judy Greenspan December 5, 2012 » Add the first comment.
A standing-room-only crowd came out to the Berkeley Fellowship Hall on Dec. 2 to hear eyewitness reports of a visit to Pakistan in October by a delegation of 34 U.S. anti-war activists. They had met with anti-drone activists and relatives of the 760 civilians murdered by U.S. drones. Speaking at today’s meeting were Joe Lombardo, [...]
‘Save the Berkeley post office!’
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Judy Greenspan November 25, 2012 » Add the first comment.
Berkeley, Calif. — When the major banks and financial institutions in this country were facing economic failure, they were quickly given a multitrillion-dollar bailout. But the U.S. Postal Service, a public institution serving millions of people, is getting sold out instead of bailed out. The government in collaboration with major real estate interests is closing post [...]
Oakland, Calif., marches against police killings
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Judy Greenspan November 15, 2012 » Add the first comment.
Oakland, Calif. — “We just commemorated the six-month anniversary of my son’s death. I am here today to speak for Alan Blueford. We are all Alan Blueford!” The powerful voice of Jeralynn Blueford, Alan’s mother, rang out across Oscar Grant Plaza — the site of countless demonstrations against police brutality, war, racism and injustice — [...]
Picket, boycott demand justice for Mi Pueblo workers
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Judy Greenspan October 26, 2012 » Add the first comment.
Oakland, Calif. — Chants of “Mi Pueblo is a racist business!” and “Boycott Mi Pueblo!” echoed loudly on High Street, a very heavily traveled boulevard in East Oakland, as more than 150 people picketed this market chain store which is located in several Bay Area Latino/a communities. The protesters demanded justice for the workers who [...]
‘Redd’ Welsh releases ‘Stand with the People’
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Judy Greenspan September 27, 2012 » Add the first comment.
The spirit of Woody Guthrie, the working-class troubadour who popularized the struggles of poor and working people in ballad and song, was heard again Sept. 22 in Berkeley, Calif., during the CD release concert of “Redd” Welsh, a local San Francisco Bay Area activist. Performing his original music on the piano, Welsh (whose real first [...]
Forum examines rank & file longshore struggle
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Judy Greenspan August 10, 2012 » Add the first comment.
San Francisco — The solidarity of the Occupy movement with the struggle of workers was highlighted on July 29 in San Francisco at a forum entitled, “Lessons from the ILWU Battle Against EGT in Longview and the Struggle Ahead.” Featuring rank-and-file leaders of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union and the Occupy Oakland Labor Solidarity [...]
