The following articles are reprinted from Speak Out Now’s workplace newsletter at Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) in the San Francisco Bay area. Walking the Tracks The recent incident in the Transbay Tube drew attention to an all-too common problem – people on the...
December 1982 seemed like the beginning of a turning point in Palestinian history. In 1982, it seemed that the fortunes of the Palestinian people were at a low point. After decades of Zionist intrusion from the late 19th century on, the 1947 United Nations Partition,...
This past November 29, the war criminal Henry Kissinger died at age 100. Former U.S. Secretary of State and National Security Advisor under Richard Nixon, and for more than 40 years head of Kissinger Associates consulting, he left behind a foreign policy legacy full...
Long before the ugly October 7 attack on Israel and the Israeli-generated carnage that has followed, many who usually vote Democrat, and specifically many younger voters, were moving away from the Democratic Party’s wholehearted support for Israel. But the past two...
In Martinez, a small suburb of the San Francisco Bay Area, two separate fires broke out at the Marathon oil refinery over the last month. In a fire on November 19, refinery worker, Jerome Serano, suffered third-degree burns on more than 80 percent of his body, which...
