At Lawrence Livermore Lab In connection with the release of the film Oppenheimer, “the bomb” is getting a lot of attention in the mass media this summer. It’s an opportunity for the public to learn something about the immense and horrifying impact that nuclear weapons have had and continue to…
After an absence of a few years, the San Francisco Mime Troupe will be returning to San Jose with a performance of their new musical, BREAKDOWN, in St James Park on Saturday July 8 at 3pm (music begins at 2:30). The subject of the show: “In an insane society how…
San Jose Strong is sponsoring two events: SATURDAY JUNE 10: come out and show some love for our high school freshmen's events! They have been working all year through Cristo Rey's work study program to create these final projects: Ash's Event - Culture Tunes: An Arts Festival to Celebrate the Cultures of South…
“Arise, then… women of this day! Arise, all women who have hearts, whether our baptism be that of water or of tears! Say firmly: We will not have great questions decided by irrelevant agencies. Our husbands shall not come to us, reeking with carnage, for caresses and applause. Our sons…
Israeli forces have killed at least 123 Palestinians this year as the 75-year occupation by the apartheid state of Israel has become even more brutal and deadly. And our tax dollars are helping purchase Israel’s weapons. Of the nearly $4 billion in military aid that the US gives Israel every…
On Sunday April 23, San Jose's quarterly Viva Calle event will close some city streets to cars and allow bikers, skaters, strollers, skateboarders, etc. to move freely on car-free streets between Willow Glen and the Rose Garden. The route passes in front of the Collins House / Peace and Justice…
We are reprinting a Letter to the Editor published in The Mercury News on March 26, 2023. Thank you, Nancy! On the 20th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Iraqi writer Mortada Gzar wrote: “The magnitude of what Iraqis lost — and continue to lose ... as we must…
Graphic courtesy of MRonline.org We are reprinting a Letter to the Editor published in the Mercury News on March 2, 2023. Thank you, Peggy! The new study by the Silicon Valley Institute for Regional Studies shows disgraceful disparities in wealth. For example, eight households in San Mateo and Santa Clara…
How much military aid the U.S. has sent to fund the Ukraine war? $23 billion! (as of 1/6/2023) Russia should not use war to stop NATO expansion up to its borders. But ending the war cannot be achieved by more war. Instead of pumping more arms into the war zone,…
A Palestinian woman looks on as Israeli bulldozers demolish a Palestinian house in the occupied West Bank area of Masafer Yatta [File: Abed Al Hashlamoun/EPA-EFE] Less than one week since the most far-right, extremist government in Israel's history was sworn in, the government's brutality and ongoing ethnic cleansing of Palestinians…
