“Cascading climate impacts can be expected to cause higher mortality rates, drive political instability and greater national insecurity, and fuel regional and international conflict.” This is according to a recent report by Chatham House, a major think tank for...
It is now almost the middle of October, and we’ve been back at school since the beginning of August. The Oakland School District had the entire summer to prepare for our return in the middle of a pandemic, but little was done to guarantee the safety of students and...
From Speak Out Now’s public services newsletter in the San Francisco Bay Area At a growing number of workplaces there have been moves towards mandatory COVID-19 vaccinations for employees — a source of controversy in some cases. For some, the idea of mandating...
On Wednesday, October 6, after impressively voting down four previous tentative agreements, Seattle carpenters organized in the Northwest Carpenter Union began voting on a new agreement. The voting goes to October 11 with the result made public soon thereafter. They...
More than one month after Hurricane Ida rampaged from the Gulf Coast to the northeast, the trail of destruction and its effects on people’s lives is still visible for all to see. In Louisiana, small towns around New Orleans and tens of thousands of families in the...
