Highland: Safe Staffing Saves Lives
This article is reprinted from the Speak Out Now healthcare newsletter at Kaiser and Highland Hospitals in Oakland, CA. Not providing enough staff to a hospital may seem like a cost-cutting measure, but it’s a matter of life or death for the people we take care of. On shifts where we don’t have enough staff, […]
Workers Memorial Day, 2026
Speak Out Socialists received this poem from a friend in New Jersey. On an afternoon when trees flaunt flowersin a chilling wind,I will sit waiting on a stairwayfor the march to start.We will walk through New Jersey streetsshouting defiance, shouting power,mourning the workers who have diedsince last we marched. In the city around us,restaurant kitchens […]
Witch Hunts across U.S. Universities
As part of the escalating attacks on education and free speech nationwide, on August 18, UC Berkeley handed over the names of at least 160 students, faculty, and staff to the federal government to comply with an investigation into alleged antisemitism on college campuses. The university has not provided any information about the charges or […]