Fossil Fuel Production Increases as Earth Burns

Fossil Fuel Production Increases as Earth Burns

A new study by the Copernicus Climate Change Service calculates that 2023 will go down in history as the hottest year on record, and the hottest year in 125,000 years! Not only did the earth experience its hottest consecutive days ever this July, but this October has...
Baltimore: Racist Sentencing of Teen Squeegee Worker

Baltimore: Racist Sentencing of Teen Squeegee Worker

In July of 2022, a group of Black teens was washing windshields, known as “squeegeeing,” at a busy downtown Baltimore intersection. A 48-year-old white man got out of his car and threatened the youths with a baseball bat, swinging the bat at at least one of them. One...
APEC: Who is Prioritized?

APEC: Who is Prioritized?

These articles are reprinted from Speak Out’s workplace newsletter at Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) and focus on the impacts of this conference which happen at the expense of BART workers and ordinary people in the San Francisco community. Priorities Top...