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Reform of the Gig Economy A Wonderful Thing
The passage of AB5, ensuring workers like drivers for Uber, Lyft, and DoorDash receive the legal status of employees in California, is the best...
What We Can Learn from the ACORN Documentary, ‘The Organizer’
The Organizer recounts how ACORN became one of the largest community-based organizing groups in U.S. history.
Credits: Photo courtesy of Sundial Pictures
At a...
Poverty’s ‘Progressive’ Cheerleaders
On Feb. 6, after more than 30 years as a professional driver in New York City, Douglas Schifter drove his...
Callousness to Inequality Is Dooming Climate Change Progress
For those concerned about climate change, the last two weeks have provided an evidentiary cornucopia. Temperatures exceeded a previous daily maximum by 16 degrees...
Justice Is A Verb: On Trump, The Need For Profiles In Courage, and Judge...
Judge Wendell Griffen protests capital punishment in Little Rock on Good Friday.
Credits: Photo By Mitchell McCoy
In the Trump era, many of us wonder what...
Time To #DeleteUber In Oakland
Last weekend, Americans continued their extraordinary resistance to the early days of the Donald Trump presidency. Enormous, and generally extemporaneous, outpourings of love erupted...
To Stop Fake News, Liberals and Progressives Need to Kick the Fake-Talk Habit
Fake news has always been with us. Governments give selective information in order to justify their policies, claiming all of it real...
On Class, Race, Culture and the Anti-Trump Movement
Given the disastrous national election, East Bay activists have no choice but to grapple with a number of important issues. Perhaps the most important...
