Tenants and Workers: Similar Issues
This article is from the Speak Out Now newsletter at Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART). Last week, the Oaklandside wrote an article about how the Coliseum Connections apartment building flooded during the storms on New Year’s Eve, forcing all residents to be evacuated. This apartment building was developed on BART’s land at Coliseum Station, and […]
Protesters Fight Back against Expanding German Coal Mines
Over 1,000 German police officers in riot gear used water cannons, batons, and brute force to remove at least 15,000 protestors from a coal mine in mid-January. This came after more than two-and-a-half years of activists working to prevent the destruction of another centuries-old village from being demolished for a coal mine. Protesters were removed and […]
Child Labor, Dangerous Work
Last summer, the federal Department of Labor opened an investigation into Packer Sanitation Services, Inc. (PSSI) to determine if the Wisconsin-based company was using child labor to clean slaughterhouses. The company provides cleaning services for over 700 locations nationwide, including JBS, the world’s largest meatpacking company. The Labor Department looked into company records from 50 […]
Oakland Schools Saved From Closure…For Now…
On Wednesday, January 11th, the School Board for the Oakland Unified School District voted to keep the five schools open that were originally under plans to be shut down at the end of this school year.