- Reproductive Rights or Wrongs? | Center for Reproductive Rights
- Attacks to reproductive rights have been in the news non-stop this year—but how much do you really know? Take our short quiz and find out! As a bonus, a generous donor has offered to donate $1 to the Center for each and every quiz completed up to $10,000.
- BART Shooting Puts Spotlight on Slow Pace of Reform – The Bay Citizen
- BART officers have shot and killed six people since the agency was founded in 1972
- Scientists Battle Sudden Oak Death – The Bay Citizen
- …has killed more than a million mature oaks and tan oaks in California over the past two decades, turning shady oak forests in Big Sur and elsewhere into weedy wastelands in as little as six years. …
The pathogen spreads via water, including windblown rain, and transplanted soil. Its advance has been considered inexorable…
“…within the next year or two we’ll find out whether the [experimental] treatment works,” …
Left unchecked, the disease is expected to kill off 90 percent of California’s tan oaks and coastal live oaks within the next quarter-century.
- Courtmageddon Looms after Budget Cuts – The Bay Citizen
- …the closure of 25 of San Francisco’s 63 courtrooms, almost all in the civil division…
“It will take a year and a half to get a divorce in San Francisco and to get a child custody order…”
“We’re basically talking about the suspension of most civil actions in court,”…
…the cuts are the result of a state budget that eliminated $350 million from courts throughout California…
“People won’t be able to get their disputes resolved. People injured in accidents won’t be able to get their medical bills paid for, and if people can’t get their medical bills paid, they’ll be on the street. It has a terrible ripple effect particularly for people who are on the edge in this economy,” …
- Nelson Mandela Birthday: An Icon at 93
- Mandela and the legions of political prisoners on Robben Island liberated themselves from the oppression of the prison bars by preparing for their country’s liberation, even though they knew not when. That preparation led Robben Island prison to become known as “Mandela University,” and the students included other struggle stalwarts, some of whom — like Govan Mbeki and Walter Sisulu — have passed on, and some of whom — like President Jacob Zuma — are now running the country.
And it was from behind prison bars that Mandela, lacking contact with his African National Congress party in exile, initiated talks with the white minority regime that eventually led to the release of all political prisoners — Mandela among the last — and the ultimate release of his people from bondage.
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