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Street Protest: Defuse Nuclear War
300 S. El Camino Real (in front of the Bank of America building)
San Mateo, CA 94402...
Event Date: Sun, Oct 16, 2022 3:00am PDT
Posted: Thu, Oct 13, 2022 3:41pm PDT
Apple Toxic Is It Above The Law? With Whistleblower Ashley M. Gjøvik
Ashley M. Gjøvik an Apple employee discovers that her office is sitting on a super-fund dump site in Sunnyvale. She tries to get it tested by the EPA and is retaliated against and fired. She also discover that Apple has captured the agencies she is trying to get to protect her and her fellow worker....
Posted: Thu, Sep 29, 2022 10:39pm PDT
State Attorney General Urged to Investigate Sutter Health’s Use of CARES Act Money
DALY CITY – San Mateo County Supervisor David Canepa announced that he has sent a letter to California Attorney General Rob Bonta urging him to investigate Sutter Health’s use of federal CARES Act dollars. The not-for-profit health care giant received $853 million in CARES Act funding, yet closed the Mack E. Mickelson therapy pool, the only warm water rehabilitation facility of its kind on the Peninsula.
“The federal CARES Act of 2020 was passed for the express purpose of keeping vital med...
Posted: Tue, Sep 27, 2022 2:40am PDT
Students Affected by Abortion Restrictions Are Acting
Peninsula Youth Activists in San Mateo on August 20...
Posted: Mon, Aug 22, 2022 12:56am PDT
Taking the Streets for Reproductive Justice in Palo Alto
1 minute mp4 video by Lis Cox.
Photos by Jim Colton, ProBonoPhoto.org
Please credit the creators...
Posted: Tue, Aug 9, 2022 3:13am PDT
Sutter Health CAN reopen the Mickelson Therapy Pool
Background: Sutter Health has the means to reopen the Mickelson Therapy pool but doesn’t want to because it can make more money by closing it and offering more profitable services in its place. Meanwhile disabled people of all ages and seniors are left without a single accessible facility on the San Francisco Peninsula. The pool has been closed for over two years....
Posted: Sun, Aug 7, 2022 10:30pm PDT
STOMP to Make Sutter Health Reopen Therapy Pool--Rally
S.T.O.M.P. stands for Save The/Our Mickelson Pool. About 100 activists, many former pool users, gathered in front of the entrance to the Mickelson Therapy Pool in San Mateo on July 24. They demanded that Sutter Health reopen the facility that it shut down in March 2020....
Posted: Mon, Jul 25, 2022 3:20am PDT
"Young and Loud" Marches in Mountain View
The newly formed group Young and Loud is a coalition of students that organize events and mobilize youth across the state of California....
Posted: Sun, Jun 12, 2022 10:42pm PDT
Students Walk Out at Three SF Peninsula High Schools
On a national day of action for abortion rights, students at three schools on the San Francisco Peninsula staged walkouts....
Posted: Sun, May 29, 2022 4:17am PDT
Look Who's Marching in Mountain View
March starting point was Caltrain Station and ending point was Gateway Park. Time to line the ECR!
Mountain View, CA...
Posted: Tue, May 17, 2022 1:37am PDT
Earth Day in Palo Alto
Earth Day this year coincided with calls for reproductive justice....
Posted: Sat, May 7, 2022 3:24am PDT
Palo Alto Calls for Peace in Ukraine Noon and Night Pt. II
Enthusiasm is high in Palo Alto, California for supporting the people of Ukraine. On March 6, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom organized a noon action near the entrance of Stanford University. In the evening of the same day, Multifaith Voices for Peace led a second vigil....
Posted: Mon, Mar 7, 2022 3:27pm PST
Palo Alto Calls for Peace in Ukraine Noon and Night Pt. I
Enthusiasm is high in Palo Alto, California for supporting the people of Ukraine. On March 6, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom organized a noon action near the entrance of Stanford University. In the evening of the same day, Multifaith Voices for Peace led a second vigil....
Posted: Mon, Mar 7, 2022 3:34am PST
Palo Alto: Silent Vigil for Peace in Ukraine
Intersection of Embarcadero and El Camino Real
Next to Town and Country Shopping Center
855 El Camino Real, Palo Alto 94301...
Event Date: Sun, Mar 6, 2022 12:00pm PST
Posted: Wed, Mar 2, 2022 2:27am PST
Vigorous Abortion Justice Rally and Direct Action, downtown Palo Alto (video/quicktime 71.2MB)
Youth and Elders united in Palo Alto on Valentines Day to vigorously demand Abortion Justice.
A busy intersection was blocked 3 times for a min in direct action....
Posted: Sat, Feb 19, 2022 9:25am PST
Stanford Stands for Choice on Valentine's Day
Activists in Palo Alto shut down a major downtown intersection during rush hour to call attention to an impending crisis. The US Supreme Court is poised to dismantle Roe v. Wade if immediate and mass action doesn't stop it....
Posted: Fri, Feb 18, 2022 3:06am PST
Memorial Service & Demand for Justice for Chinedu Valentine Okobi
A resident of San Mateo County is nine times more likely to get arrested if they are a Black person than if they were white. It can happen just as it did to Chinedu Okobi. On February 13, Okobi's birthday, a memorial event was held at the approximate location where Okobi was tased to death by county sheriff's deputies on October 3, 2018....
Posted: Thu, Feb 17, 2022 4:13am PST
Whole Foods Protest on Bezos' Birthday
On a national day of action to Support Amazon Workers, Raging Grannies, Vigil for Democracy, and Dance of Peace protested in the street in front of Whole Foods in Palo Alto....
Posted: Fri, Jan 14, 2022 9:48pm PST
Protest Amazon Union Busting
Whole Foods
774 Emerson St.
Downtown Palo Alto...
Event Date: Wed, Jan 12, 2022 3:00pm PST
Posted: Mon, Jan 10, 2022 6:13am PST
Demonstration in San Mateo on Anniversary of U.S. Capitol Insurrection
photos by Jim Colton, Probonophoto.org
please credit the photographer...
Posted: Sat, Jan 8, 2022 4:34am PST