Judy Greenspan

Nakba is 74 years of resistance

San Francisco May 14 — Fueled by recent attacks on the Palestinian people, today’s commemoration of Nakba 74 was a…

May 19, 2022

Worker and community power shuts down Oakland

Oakland, California Despite threats of retaliation from officials in the Oakland Unified School District and the Port of Oakland, teachers…

May 3, 2022

Advocacy groups work to end sexual abuse at women’s prison

Sexual abuse of prisoners by guards happens daily in the U.S. – in jails, prisons and detention centers – but…

April 13, 2022

Oakland, California, march to stop school closures reaches thousands

Oakland, California, March 26 Students from three Oakland area schools, scheduled to be closed at the end of this school…

March 28, 2022

Oakland community fights school closures and cutbacks

Oakland, California Teachers, parents, students, education workers and community activists are launching a multifaceted campaign to stop the school closures…

February 28, 2022

Oakland, Calif., teachers prepare to strike as school board orders school closures

Elected teacher representatives of the Representative Council of the Oakland Education Association (OEA) voted Feb. 7 to conduct a strike…

February 14, 2022

United fight against racist school closures

Oakland, California “This isn’t a budget fight; this is a war,” said Jessica Black, Black Sanctuary Director of the Black…

February 8, 2022

Free Leonard Peltier! COVID-19 inside prison

In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic currently raging through the jail, prison and detention centers of this country, Leonard…

January 31, 2022

Santa Rita prisoners conduct hunger strike

Oakland In what has been a continuing struggle by Alameda county prisoners for decent food and sanitary conditions at Santa…

January 26, 2022

COVID-19 and the prison abolition movement

The current spike in COVID-19 infections among the incarcerated in prisons, jails and detention centers is not only alarming and…

January 25, 2022