Brandon Lee is a Chinese American environmental and indigenous rights activist, who survived an assassination attempt in August 2019 by the 54th Infantry Battalion of the Armed Forces of the Philippines. He was shot and hit four places rendering him a quadriplegic, paralyzed from the chest down with only partial…
Photo: Nancy Tsou May 9, 2024 San Jose State students have rallied and carried out a one-day sit-in on campus to highlight their demands. Students' Demands: End the Silence: Release a public statement calling for an immediate end to the Gaza Genocide, condemning “Israel” for its war crimes, and calling…
Hundreds of San Jose residents spoke up at the December 5, 2023 meeting of the San Jose City Council to ask that a resolution calling for a ceasefire in Israel's bombardment of Gaza be put on the Council's agenda. The City Council took no action. They claimed that this matter…
by Brett Wilkins in Common Dreams, April 17, 2024 The center of the U.S. military-industrial complex has been shifting over the past decade from the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area to Northern California—a shift that is accelerating with the rise of artificial intelligence-based systems, according to a report published Wednesday. The…
by Jessica CorbettCommon DreamsApril 5, 2024 As Israel continues to starve Palestinians to death in the Gaza Strip, an international coalition on Friday was preparing to set sail with humanitarian aid and human rights observers "to challenge the ongoing illegal Israeli blockade." Israel has limited the flow of people and…
by Jake JohnsonCommon Dreams The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention, an organization named after the Polish lawyer who coined the term genocide, issued what it called an "urgent SOS warning" on Tuesday for Palestinians in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, where more than half of the enclave's population is…
Statement by National Labor Network for a Ceasefire. We, members of the American labor movement, mourn the loss of life in Israel and Palestine. We express our solidarity with all workers and our common desire for peace in Palestine and Israel, and we call on President Joe Biden and Congress…
If the international community does not finally develop the will to stop Israel, this horrific crime will, by far, prove worse than all the crimes that have already been committed. by Ramzy Baroud published in Common Dreams The Palestinian city of Rafah is not just older than Israel, it is…
URGENT! Please send emails to your California State Assembly Member telling them of your opposition to Senate Bill 1081 (Archuleta), which will be heard in the Transportation committee on July 1, 2024. This bill requires those under age 26 applying for a first-time or renewing a California driver’s license and California I.D.…
by Barbara Taft "There were no guns in Palestine." During the bombardment of Gaza by Israel in October/November of 2023, those words came back to me. I was sitting in the dining room of a small Palestinian home in East Jerusalem. It was the summer of 1985. My host, a…
