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Wellbeing and Resilience Videos for Humanitarians
Take a few minutes to invest in your wellbeing by watching one or more of the videos about Wellbeing and Resilience Videos for Humanitarians....
Posted: Fri, Dec 1, 2023 8:05am PST
Solidarity for the Community of Squatted Prosfygika in Athens (Greece)
Dear Comrades,
There is urgent financial support needed for the Community of Squatted Prosfygika in Alexandras Avenue in Athens. The current situation has been bad and will change for the worst. Imperialist wars, fascist regimes and global capitalism are growing stronger in different territories, millions of people on the move get trapped and killed by the Greek and European Border regime, exploitation of landscapes and natural resources are pushing the climate catastrophe. These forces ar...
Posted: Wed, Nov 29, 2023 3:59pm PST
The Solution is Social Housing
The Swedish government set a goal of building 1 million new units in the mid-1960s when the population was only 8 million (or about the same size as New York City). Despite a few setbacks and problems, this goal was achieved in less than a decade — We suggest that 10 million new municipal housing units would be a viable ten-year goal....
Posted: Fri, Nov 17, 2023 7:18am PST
Israel bombs Gaza’s only operating wheat mill
Israel has intensified its war of starvation against Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said on Wednesday, as a means of subjugation during the bloody 40-day war....
Posted: Wed, Nov 15, 2023 3:34pm PST
Israel turns Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza into detention center
The Israeli forces stormed in large numbers the al-Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza City and turned it into military barracks and a detention center, where patients, displaced persons, and healthcare professionals are subjected to different forms of abuse, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said in a statement on Wednesday.
Euro-Med Monitor expressed fears of killings and executions as its team documented sporadic gunfire in the hospital since the early minutes of the raid, stressing that the al-...
Posted: Wed, Nov 15, 2023 3:27pm PST
California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee Statement on the Crisis
The CNA NNU is supporting a ceasefire....
Posted: Tue, Nov 14, 2023 8:00am PST
APEC is proof San Francisco can be a model city
San Francisco needs APEC type events every week of the year in order to house the poor and keep the streets clean....
Posted: Mon, Nov 13, 2023 4:30pm PST
Law Center Statement on UN Report Decrying Ongoing Human Rights Abuses Against Unhoused People
WASHINGTON, D.C. – (November 3, 2023) Today, the United Nations Human Rights Committee highlighted serious and ongoing patterns of human rights abuses — including those against people experiencing homelessness and poverty — in the Concluding Observations from its recent convening that investigated the United States’ compliance with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights....
Posted: Tue, Nov 7, 2023 10:40am PST
California Becomes First State to Ban “Excited Delirium” as a Cause of Death
Governor Newsom signs landmark bill following tireless community activism and PHR report on the pseudoscience of “excited delirium"...
Posted: Fri, Oct 13, 2023 9:06pm PDT
U.S. Receives Failing Grades on Human Right to Housing Report Card
Limited Progress During Pandemic Offset By Inactions Since...
Posted: Thu, Oct 5, 2023 10:26am PDT
Housing is a human right
To guarantee the human right to housing, a fundamental change in policy would be required at all levels. At all levels - federal, state and local - the social housing provision should be enforced against private profit interests. The non-profit status of housing must be revived. Housing must not be a commodity, it must not be the object of speculation and profit interests....
Posted: Tue, Oct 3, 2023 7:28am PDT
Community Consciousness
The following is my most recent article previously published in Street Roots August 31st edition of recent struggles in my life, and coming from chaos through with my commitment to community...in which we collectively have consciousness....
Posted: Sat, Sep 30, 2023 1:26pm PDT
Gender Roles Are Not A Thing Of The Past
The investigative sociology report conducted by Sonoma State University’s Senior Seminar student Georgia Van Amsterdam examines how misogynistic practices skew the way gender roles are depicted and how that affects the women in our society. Through conducting multiple interviews with participants between the ages of 18-40, and have contributed and or dealt with misogyny in their past, misogynistic ideologies are skewing the roles society believes women must play in order to be seen as desira...
Posted: Mon, Sep 25, 2023 4:09pm PDT
Police Transport (Spit) Hoods May Cause Injury or Death
The use of transport (spit) hoods by police increases the likelihood of breathing difficulties and suffocation. These hoods are particularly dangerous when a person is already in distress. When used in conjunction with other restraints (such as handcuffs and hobbles) hoods are highly likely to reduce a person's ability to breathe....
Posted: Tue, Sep 19, 2023 4:36pm PDT
México_Oaxaca: Alas y Raíces de los Movimientos Sociales
México_Oaxaca: Alas y Raíces de los Movimientos Sociales
Hacer visibles las agresiones contra los movimientos sociales en Oaxaca y contra las personas defensoras en todo México...
Posted: Sat, Sep 16, 2023 4:40pm PDT
México_FRAYBA Informe DDHH: Chiapas un desastre
Frayba Derechos Humanos
Informe: Chiapas un desastre...
Posted: Sat, Sep 16, 2023 6:03am PDT
Informe 2022: Asesinatos de defensores ambientales y territoriales
nuestrAmérica
Informe 2022: Asesinatos de defensores ambientales y territoriales...
Posted: Sat, Sep 16, 2023 4:46am PDT
Socialist Health Care Organizers Exit DSA
Open letter from former members of DSA-LA explaining why they resigned from DSA following the organization's abandonment of a true fight for Single Payer health care in CA....
Posted: Thu, Sep 14, 2023 12:18pm PDT
WHO-ICRC Basic Emergency Care Course
Developed by WHO and International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC), in collaboration with the International Federation for Emergency Medicine (IFEM), the *Basic Emergency Care (BEC): Approach to the Acutely Ill and Injured* course is an open-access training course for first contact health workers who manage acute illness and injury with limited resources....
Posted: Tue, Sep 12, 2023 7:46am PDT
Contact with Police May Be Detrimental to Your Health & Well-Being
Calling the police can frequently do more harm than good, and other options should be considered whenever possible. The emotional impacts of violence and repression can be serious and it is important that we are aware of those impacts and work together to deal with them. Looking after ourselves and our friends or affinity groups does not end when the action ends!...
Posted: Mon, Sep 4, 2023 8:30pm PDT