Judy Greenspan

Oakland International Working Women’s Day takes to the streets

Oakland Nearly 500 people rallied at Fruitvale Plaza in East Oakland and marched through nearby neighborhoods on March 8 to…

March 9, 2020

Oakland teachers endorse days of action against U.S. sanctions

The Oakland Education Association, part of the California Teachers Association/National Education Association, has taken heroic action on many issues affecting…

March 6, 2020

Oakland Moms 4 Housing win, reclaiming King’s radical legacy 

Oakland, Calif. January 20 was not only the day to honor the radical legacy of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther…

January 30, 2020

Moms 4 Housing brutally evicted, vow to return

Oakland, Calif. In the early hours of Tuesday, Jan. 14, heavily armed Alameda County sheriffs carrying AK-47 rifles battered down…

January 20, 2020

Oakland moms take over vacant house; say, ‘Housing is a human right!’

Oakland, Calif. Dec. 30 -- What happens when virulent, corporate-led gentrification meets the resistance and resilience of the Black community…

January 6, 2020

Bay Area protests: ‘Stop killings and repression in the Philippines!’

A series of events in the Bay Area and around the U.S. have put the spotlight on U.S.-funded repression and…

November 26, 2019

Black Organizing Project wants to remove police from schools

At a Nov. 13 rally of over 200 Oakland residents, parents, teachers and students, the Black Organizing Project officially released…

November 19, 2019

Oakland teachers and parents condemn police brutality

Oct. 28 -- At a vigil called by the Oakland Education Association, parents, teachers and community members denounced police brutality…

November 8, 2019

Police violence against Oakland parents and teachers

“When parents and teachers are under attack, what do we do? Stand up, fight back!” This was a very popular…

October 29, 2019

In California, criminal PG&E’s latest outages are an outrage

From midnight Oct. 9 to 2 p.m. Oct. 12, more than a million people in Northern and Central California were…

October 15, 2019