• Middletown: On June 3, over 100 demonstrators gathered along Highway 29 to peacefully protest the murder of George Floyd. (wikipedia.org)
  • Using the signs that demonstrators carry as clues to how protests are organized, Kauffman explores the nuanced relationship between the way movements are made and the impact they have. (ucpress.edu)
  • Two years after more than 4 million women around the world took to the streets in protest of Donald Trump's inauguration, demonstrators are once again coming together for the third-annual Women's March. (ucpress.edu)
  • Demonstrators protested the governor and the president's hypocrisy on the issue of fracking (Obama's been singing the praises of natural gas) when the two were part of a climate change task force (or "task farce" as demonstrators made clear) in Los Angeles last month. (alternet.org)
  • Glory to Hong Kong" was often sung by demonstrators during months of anti-government protests in 2019. (wate.com)
  • Punjabi farmers are an essential voting bloc in the Central Valley of California, too. (wyso.org)
  • In 2020, a series of protests took place in California related to the murder of George Floyd on May 25, 2020, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, while in police custody. (wikipedia.org)
  • On May 31, 2020, the California Department of Human Resources advised "all state departments with offices in downtown city areas" to close on June 1. (wikipedia.org)
  • EFF and ACLU of Northern California have an ongoing lawsuit against the SFPD, Williams v. City and County of San Francisco , for gaining live access to these same cameras for over a week to surveil protests against the police murder of George Floyd in the summer of 2020. (eff.org)
  • It will go into effect in California in January 2023. (daily49er.com)
  • The Hong Kong government was given the green light on Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2023 to appeal a court's refusal to ban a protest song, after government lawyers cited national security concerns. (wate.com)
  • As more farmers from across India join what's considered the largest protest in human history, organizers of social media solidarity movements in British Columbia and around the world claim online censorship is hindering their effort. (globalnews.ca)
  • When] I see the farmers and the protesting [in India], I see myself. (wyso.org)
  • Since last fall, hundreds and thousands of farmers in India have been protesting three agricultural laws that were passed last September by the Indian government. (wyso.org)
  • Singh hopes to travel to India in the fall to participate in the protests himself, but for now, he says the Sikh diaspora must use their power to amplify the cause farmers in India are fighting for. (wyso.org)
  • The Bay Area Kisaan Movement, another organization dedicated to the farmer protests in India, held a protest last weekend to coincide with Vaisakhi. (wyso.org)
  • The following day a protest was held in "Little India" in Artesia, home to many Indian American businesses. (indiawest.com)
  • Sacramento: Hundreds of people protested peacefully on Franklin Boulevard on May 29. (wikipedia.org)
  • On May 31, more protests took place in Downtown and Midtown Sacramento and several stores were looted and vandalized. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Sacramento Police Department declared the protests an unlawful assembly and arrested 25 protesters, 22 of which were charged with looting. (wikipedia.org)
  • A crowd of roughly 2,000 gathered Saturday for "Liberty Fest" outside the closed California Capitol in Sacramento. (latimes.com)
  • FOX40.COM) - The California Democratic Convention in Sacramento was shut down early on Saturday after protests for a ceasefire in Gaza raised safety concerns. (kget.com)
  • SACRAMENTO - California voted to endorse the Tropical Forest Standard , a contested plan to extend California's cap-and-trade system globally into the world's forests. (therealnews.com)
  • The protest was organized by the university's Student Labor Committee, which support's the UC system's largest employee union, according to salon.com . (campussafetymagazine.com)
  • The protest occurred during the university's Founder's Day event in an attempt to attract the attention of President Jane Close Conoley, however she did not attend the event. (daily49er.com)
  • Students have been protesting the university's contracts with Immigration and Customs Enforcement as well as plans to create a private police force on the university's campus after legislators and Gov. Larry Hogan passed a bill last month to do so . (baltimoresun.com)
  • A Hong Kong protest in September 2019. (latimes.com)
  • Critics have warned that granting the request to prohibit the broadcast or distribution of the song would add to a decline in civil liberties since Beijing launched a crackdown following the 2019 protests. (wate.com)
  • After the Temecula Valley Unified School District approved a controversial flag ban policy on campuses, one student protested the new rule by handing out hundreds of Pride flags to classmates. (yahoo.com)
  • Pride flags being handed out by Moxxie, a 16-year-old high school student in Temecula, to his classmates in protest of the school district's flag ban policy. (yahoo.com)
  • Temecula has dropped a proposal to ban abortions within its city limits after being threated with legal action by California Attorney General Rob Bonta. (daily49er.com)
  • A beautiful moment of silence for #GeorgeFloyd at the peaceful protests in Temecula. (buzzfeed.com)
  • Twenty two student protesters were arrested after occupying the University of California Berkeley chancellor's office in an attempt to protest labor exploitation by the school. (campussafetymagazine.com)
  • After a 63-year-old man collapsed and struggled to breathe it took paramedics from the Berkeley Fire Department 27 minutes to arrive because of a crowd of protests that numbered 800 strong, according to documents obtained under a Public Records Act request. (ems1.com)
  • Berkeley, CA: Seal Press : Distributed by Publishers Group West. (californiahistoricalsociety.org)
  • CALIFORNIA - A University of California - Berkeley graduate journalism student - who previously served more than half a year in jail for defying a federal subpoena - faces student conduct disciplinary charges after filming a group of protestors that barricaded themselves in a building on campus. (splc.org)
  • Lehman Brightman, a UNA member and professor at the University of California, Berkeley, chartered a bus for him and his students after hearing about the protest and became a spokesperson for the protesters there. (history.com)
  • Dozens of topless protesters stopped traffic in San Francisco last week on the National Day of Action for Black Women and Girls to protest the lack of national attention for black women killed by police brutality. (feminist.org)
  • Across the bay in San Francisco, hundreds of activists stormed into San Francisco City Hall on May 8, protesting gentrification. (workers.org)
  • Later, a grand jury was formed by then San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein to identify and criminalize protest participants. (californiahistoricalsociety.org)
  • While working as an independent journalist and video blogger, Wolf was jailed for 226 days for refusing to comply with a federal subpoena to submit his unpublished video footage of a 2005 protest in San Francisco, Calif. (splc.org)
  • Protests and rolling solidarity fasts have occurred in Boston, Toronto, San Francisco and other cities, and a Bhopal Global Day of Action is being organized for June 28, with public fasts in major cities - go to boston4bhopal.org to participate or lend support. (panna.org)
  • Indeed, over the course of the 90-minute protest, Streetsblog observed only three cars leaving parking spots between Octavia and Laguna--and one was driven by a San Francisco Chronicle journalist who was there to photograph the protest. (streetsblog.org)
  • New documents EFF received through public records requests have revealed that the San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) received live access to the hundreds of surveillance cameras that comprise the Union Square Business Improvement District's (USBID) camera network in anticipation of potential protests following the police killing of Tyre Nichols in Memphis, Tennessee. (eff.org)
  • Reporting in the San Francisco Standard suggests that the SFPD may not have ended up engaging in live monitoring, but simply requesting this access before a protest can chill First Amendment activity. (eff.org)
  • Placerville: On June 2, around 80 people gathered on Main Street in downtown Placerville to peacefully protest the murder of George Floyd. (wikipedia.org)
  • MONTREAL - The head of a Quebec government-appointed commission looking into the 2012 student protests hopes his inquiry helps future demonstrations take place peacefully. (macleans.ca)
  • If there weren't any international pressure being put on the Modi and the Indian government right now, this protest would have been probably over a long time ago," he says, adding that the diaspora's role at the moment is to give a second wind to the protests. (wyso.org)
  • Now that China's virus crisis has calmed - and the rest of the world is distracted by the pandemic - Beijing's newcomers in Hong Kong are trying to stop the likely return of last year's protests, which evolved from resistance to an extradition bill to a citywide anti-government movement. (latimes.com)
  • A Hong Kong court refused to ban a protest song. (wate.com)
  • Roseville: A group of sixty people protested at a roundabout on June 15. (wikipedia.org)
  • The protest was entirely peaceful and the police department expressed its condolences to the family of George Floyd. (wikipedia.org)
  • Oroville: On May 31, protesters marched from Municipal Auditorium on Myers Street through downtown Oroville and back to support Black Lives Matter and George Floyd, ending the protest with a moment of silence for eight minutes and forty-six seconds. (wikipedia.org)
  • The protests across the United States were not only in response to George Floyd 's death but also Breonna Taylor 's death, Tony McDade 's death, Ahmaud Arbery 's death and so many others in recent months. (eonline.com)
  • Former NFL wide receiver Terrell Owens led a protest outside of Sofi Stadium in Inglewood in honor of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor on Thursday, June 11. (eonline.com)
  • Harlem's protest for George Floyd is very peaceful. (buzzfeed.com)
  • In the last few days, stars participated in nationwide protests to stand in solidarity with the Black community. (eonline.com)
  • During the protest a driver drove through the crowd, though no injuries were reported. (wikipedia.org)
  • Organizers initially planned for a 24-hour demonstration, but a "massive crowd" of drivers responded with such enthusiasm that they plan to continue the action, said Cindy Perez, who planned the protest with other administrators of the LA & LONG BEACH PORT DRIVERS Facebook page. (supplychaindive.com)
  • In this original and richly illustrated account, organizer and journalist L.A. Kauffman delves into the history of America's major demonstrations, beginning with the legendary 1963 March on Washington, to reveal the ways protests work and how their character has shifted over time. (ucpress.edu)
  • She was the mobilizing coordinator for some of the largest demonstrations in U.S. history-the massive Iraq antiwar protests of 2003 and 2004-and has played key roles in many other movements and campaigns. (ucpress.edu)
  • The protests were impassioned and peaceful as Bay Area residents gathered to oppose police violence-and the SFPD proactively got access to watch it all, opening up activists to potential risk of reprisal and retribution for their political beliefs and potentially chilling future participation in demonstrations. (eff.org)
  • Lakeport: On June 5, about 50 protesters gathered on Main Street to protest police violence. (wikipedia.org)
  • Protests at Rio de Janeiro's Confederations Cup football tournament continue into their second day as protesters assail high government spending on sports infrastructure while public services vanish. (rabble.ca)
  • This marks the latest crescendo in weeks of escalating protests, touched off by a March spike in Porto Alegre bus fares that sent protesters into the streets . (rabble.ca)
  • Sao Paulo protests last week grew to tens of thousands strong, and violent police repression that left over 100 protesters injured and 230 detained captured global headlines. (rabble.ca)
  • The raucous protests were staged against tuition increases by the former Liberal government, which were eventually pared back when the Parti Quebecois came to power. (macleans.ca)
  • The charges stem from Wolf's filming a group of students from inside Wheeler Hall on November 20, 2009, during statewide protests to University of California's 32 percent tuition increases, budget cuts, and employee lay-offs. (splc.org)
  • A large group of owner-operator truck drivers near the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach stage a July 13 protest against California's AB5 labor law. (supplychaindive.com)
  • More than 50 students took part in the sit-in, which protested the University of California System's practice of outsourcing certain labor jobs on campus. (campussafetymagazine.com)
  • A judge has granted an injunction that will keep some University of California hospital employees from participating in a planned strike at UC's five medical centers. (keyt.com)
  • During past years of student conduct charges at protests, "[the university] hasn't been able to find that there was anyone considered the press, or if there was there wasn't anything that showed that they (student journalists) were treated any differently," Gonzales said. (splc.org)
  • In the largest protest, more than 100 nurses, members of the Pennsylvania Association of Staff Nurses and Allied Professionals (PASNAP), rallied in front of Temple University Hospital. (labornotes.org)
  • Protests at Johns Hopkins University over a private police force and contracts with immigration officials have escalated as several students have chained themselves to stairs inside an administrative building. (baltimoresun.com)
  • For example, I had like 400 views and then on the next slide [on my Instagram story], a few minutes later, if I posted an info graphic about the farmers' protest, it was like my views got cut down to half," she added. (globalnews.ca)
  • Singh says shadow bans have been occurring during key moments in the movement including when protesting farmers arrived in the nation's capital around Nov. 28. (globalnews.ca)
  • They are some of the loudest voices among Indian farmers at the protests, in part because the new agricultural laws would most severely affect crops like wheat and rice that are grown in the region. (wyso.org)
  • Senator Ted Cruz was asked by a reporter today for his opinion on the Trump protests that took place at the California Republican Convention, which we reported earlier prevented Trump from accessing the front of the building. (redstate.com)
  • On Wednesday May 18, a coalition of students including APSA, AISA, BSU, MeCHA, SJP, La Resilencia, MSU and JVP protested an event in which soldiers from the Israeli Defense Forces were invited on campus to present a film. (jewishvoiceforpeace.org)
  • Although the protest was wholly peaceful, and did not violate campus policy in any way, a number of students from College Republicans and Students Supporting Israel managed to falsify the entire event to campus administration. (jewishvoiceforpeace.org)
  • At least four students chained themselves to stairs inside the Garland Hall administrative building on campus Wednesday, with the protests now reaching their 29th consecutive day. (baltimoresun.com)
  • Every time we've had a protest at the port," he says, "it's a grassroots efforts where the owner-operators get pissed off. (overdriveonline.com)
  • Due to circumstances beyond our control and for the safety and security of our delegates and convention participants we are canceling tonight's caucus meetings, hospitality suites, and Votefest taking place at the convention center," said California Democratic Party Communications Director Shery Vang. (kget.com)
  • I think stopping those is more important at this point in time than getting the emergency declaration repealed because that's already in place and we need to stop stuff like these bills from getting in place," Landis said, "otherwise, the rest of us that don't live in California are going to end up subject to the same situation. (nbcsandiego.com)
  • The facts will show that the protest took place outside the room in which the event was held, and did not prevent anyone from getting into or out of it. (jewishvoiceforpeace.org)
  • Thus far fracking had taken place in California with little regulation. (alternet.org)
  • The activism of the 1970s received new attention in the 2010s, when protests against the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline took place at the Standing Rock Reservation, a remnant of the original Great Sioux Reservation established in 1868. (history.com)
  • The period in California not only gave him friends for life but also a strong affection for the place. (lu.se)
  • Orange Is the New Black actor Matt McGorry shared footage of Los Angeles protests on Instagram. (eonline.com)
  • Over the coming days, you're likely to see a lot of footage of violence and looting from the protests happening this weekend. (buzzfeed.com)
  • Leading up to the formal disciplinary letter, Wolf said he told the Assistant Director of the Center for Student Conduct and Community Standards, Laura Bennett, that he was acting as a journalist during the protest and not participating in the building's occupation. (splc.org)
  • On its website, the group said it was heading to California to protest bills coming up for votes soon. (nbcsandiego.com)
  • Hundreds of thousands of families, renters, businesses, schools, and others across California are saving money on their utility bills with rooftop solar. (solarpowerworldonline.com)
  • Transmission costs are the fastest-growing component of electricity bills in California, and deploying more rooftop solar has been shown to mitigate these costs. (solarpowerworldonline.com)
  • While groups such as the Environmental Defense Center, the Natural Resources Defense Council, Surfrider Foundation, Heal the Bay, Santa Barbara Channelkeeper and Sierra Club California are asking that the governor not make it easier for Plains All American Pipeline (PAAP) of Texas to avoid responsibility for spilling 105,000 gallons of oil into the ocean, others are going to court. (allgov.com)
  • In October the governor failed to show up to receive a "Right Stuff" award from the Blue Green alliance, perhaps due to pressure from a group of environmental, labor and indigenous leaders who staged a protest believing Brown's support for fracking, among other things, was not worthy of environmental merit. (alternet.org)
  • California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into effect a law that will make it easier for street vendors to obtain health permits. (daily49er.com)
  • In recent days, high school students in Oakdale, California, have refused to wear masks to classes, rejecting Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom's statewide mask mandate. (dailywire.com)
  • rabble.ca is 100% reader and donor funded, so as an avid reader of our content, we hope you will consider gifting rabble with a donation during our summer fundraiser today. (rabble.ca)
  • People's City Council protests gentrification in Oakland, Calif. (workers.org)
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  • Oakland, Calif. - Members of Black.Seed (formerly Black Brunch) and Asians4BlackLives took over the Oakland City Council meeting on May 5. (workers.org)
  • As for the protest flyers going around the Oakland port, his own drivers and others have been bringing them to him, he says. (overdriveonline.com)
  • The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) on Thursday released its 2024 final physician fee schedule , triggering renewed concerns from doctors' groups, who protested CMS' cuts when they were first previewed earlier this year. (medscape.com)
  • Eureka: Hundreds protested in the streets near the courthouse on May 30. (wikipedia.org)
  • Protests dwindled, social distancing took hold, and the city's tear-gassed streets and incendiary politics seemed to fade from the world's attention. (latimes.com)
  • Red Bluff: A peaceful protest was held on June 1, with more than 100 people involved. (wikipedia.org)
  • The SFPD's continued push for live access to business district camera networks creates a dangerous precedent that puts all people participating in peaceful protest at risk of surveillance. (eff.org)
  • Elk Grove: A group of around 20 people protested and held signs for several days during the first week of June at Laguna Boulevard and Bruceville Road. (wikipedia.org)
  • Among the celebrities protesting earlier in the week and over the weekend include Ariana Grande , Jamie Foxx , Halsey , Michael B. Jordan , Timothée Chalamet , Kendrick Sampson , Kehlani and countless others. (eonline.com)
  • The California Trucking Association unsuccessfully appealed AB5 to the Supreme Court , and dozens of other industry groups plan to ask Gov. Gavin Newsom this week for more time to allow businesses to comply. (supplychaindive.com)
  • This continues the full frontal assault on students that includes a bogus free speech policy that will undermine protest and the gutting of Bill 148 and its minimum wage gains, that impacts many students who rely on low wage, part-time work while they are going to school. (socialist.ca)
  • Multiple videos have circulated on social media showing students protesting outside schools, with some claiming that students who refused to wear masks were sent to a school gymnasium. (dailywire.com)
  • Superintendent Kline also said that those protesting were creating a "difficult" situation for school officials. (dailywire.com)
  • They are planning to walk out of classes at 10 AM Thursday morning and will be hosting and participating in a variety of protest-themed art activities, from needlepoint to screen-printing union T-shirts, in front of the school throughout the day. (seiu1021.org)
  • On Saturday afternoon, Pastor John DeBow watched with pride as his daughter defied social distancing edicts at the state Capitol by giving free haircuts to some of the people from across California who had gathered again to protest remaining restrictions aimed at curbing the spread of coronavirus. (latimes.com)
  • Richly illustrated and drawing upon the latest research on social movements and their histories, this is an engrossing and thought-provoking read for anyone who's ever felt exhilarated - or frustrated - at a mass protest. (ucpress.edu)
  • Moxie said he and other classmates are planning a walkout in protest of the flag policy and the district's anti-LGBTQ+ policies on Friday morning. (yahoo.com)
  • The protests that initially started against austerity also exposed the government's corruption. (socialist.ca)
  • In a decision filed under seal Aug. 26 and unsealed Aug. 28, Judge Lydia Kay Grigsby granted the U.S. government's motion to dismiss SpaceX's bid protest but granted the Hawthorne, California-based company's motion to transfer its complaint to U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. (spacenews.com)
  • Police have refused to grant permission for a protest on May 1, citing coronavirus concerns. (latimes.com)
  • But these moments are a reminder that Saturday's protests were largely peaceful. (buzzfeed.com)
  • Chloropicrin (PS) and bromobenzenecyanide (CA) were developed before World War I. Both largely have been replaced, as they were too lethal for their intended effects but not lethal enough to compete with the more effective blistering and nerve agents. (medscape.com)
  • On Sept. 29, students from the Organization of Historically Oppressed Students and members of the California Faculty Association protested the temporary relocation of the Multi-Cultural Resource Center. (daily49er.com)
  • Davis: Roughly 100 UC Davis students held protests in downtown Davis on May 30. (wikipedia.org)
  • Sweetin's publicist says her client will continue to protest because "We are not free until all of us are free. (10news.com)
  • The CFS has vowed to continue protests across Ontario in the coming weeks. (socialist.ca)
  • Perez, a 28-year-old Long Beach driver for her owner-operated company, Aztec Enterprises, said she would continue leading the protests "as long as they continue showing up. (supplychaindive.com)
  • California has "developed and implemented strategies to reduce potential stress on the supply chain and tackle the impacts of global supply chain issues, and we will continue to closely monitor for potential impacts," the governor's office statement said. (supplychaindive.com)
  • What the big utilities are proposing would do nothing short of halting the rooftop solar industry in its tracks, just as our economy and clean energy needs demand we go forward," said Bernadette Del Chiaro, executive director of the California Solar and Storage Association. (solarpowerworldonline.com)
  • The California Trucking Association estimates more than 70% of those port drivers are owner-operators. (supplychaindive.com)
  • Neither the Harbor Trucking Association nor the California Trucking Association organized the work stoppage or protests, the groups said. (supplychaindive.com)
  • The rapper at a Black Lives Matter protest he co-organized on June 7 in Hollywood. (eonline.com)
  • In California and across the country, lockdown protests have drawn a melting pot of participants , including peaceful activists such as the DeBows and militias such as the Boogaloo Boys , who have credos that call for civil war, said Brian Levin, professor of criminal justice and director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at Cal State San Bernardino. (latimes.com)
  • In California, he has found more than 70 such Facebook groups with about 300,000 members, and more than 2 million participants nationwide. (latimes.com)
  • Full House" star Jodie Sweetin was pushed to the ground by police in California during an abortion rights protest on Saturday. (10news.com)
  • For 23 of those minutes on December 7, 2014, paramedics were waiting for a police escort, as per a standing city protocol, to ensure they could avoid the protests and reach the man after he collapsed and struggled to breathe. (ems1.com)
  • In support of the ongoing national uprisings against police violence and systemic racism, some annual June Pride parades will be replaced with independently organized street protests. (californiahistoricalsociety.org)
  • Both protests, led by Black trans women, demanded an end to police violence and enforcement of discriminatory public decency laws. (californiahistoricalsociety.org)
  • Nick Cannon attended a Black Lives Matter protest in New York City's Times Square. (eonline.com)
  • Chinyere Tutashinda, founding member of the BlackOut Collective and a member of the local chapter of Black Lives Matter, explained the significance of protesting topless. (feminist.org)
  • Brown told the California Conservation Corps , the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection , and CaliforniaVolunteers to coordinate with the Office of Emergency Services and OSPR to mobilize volunteers and "utilize all available resources to support the response, cleanup and mitigation. (allgov.com)
  • PAN and many other groups have been urging the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) to replace unnecessary spraying with ecologically-sound and safer ground-level biocontrol programs. (panna.org)
  • Current California Department of Public Health orders require students to wear masks in schools. (dailywire.com)
  • However, as the protests reached Syria the image of Hezbollah as a champion of the oppressed shifted when it decided to side with the regime of Bashar al-Assad and thus raising the question of what it is that actually drives and determines the actions and policy decisions of Hezbollah. (lu.se)
  • The protests are part of a coordinated "Let Them Breathe" effort pushed by Oakdale parents and students. (dailywire.com)
  • A group of truck drivers protesting COVID-19 mandates on roads and highways around the Washington, D.C., area in recent weeks will head to California next, an organizer announced Sunday night. (nbcsandiego.com)
  • We know that what starts in CA, spreads to other blue and purple states, and potentially at a federal level," the group said in its announcement. (nbcsandiego.com)
  • But Gary Hughes, an opponent of the plan and the California Policy Monitor for the group Biofuelwatch , said he believes the stakeholder group was a way to provide "narrow handrails" and channel outrage. (therealnews.com)
  • LOS ANGELES, Calif. - A group of Hindus in Southern California, concerned about the vandalization of a temple in Pakistan, picketed at two venues on the weekend of Aug. 13 and 14. (indiawest.com)
  • Citrus Heights: Over a hundred people protested outside Citrus Heights City Hall on June 13 and 14. (wikipedia.org)
  • There's been 'satellite jammers' installed around the protest areas so that people can't use the internet," he said. (globalnews.ca)
  • We'll go to California and raise awareness along the way and hopefully get more people like we did on our way here. (nbcsandiego.com)
  • Several mass protests have been organized in the past two years, but so far the recent protests are the most prominent. (socialist.ca)
  • The Tropical Forest Standard grew conceptually out of the Governors Climate Task Force , a coalition of 38 subnational governmental leaders outside of the United States and two within the U.S. (California and Illinois) formed to tackle climate change. (therealnews.com)
  • The real cost shift happening in California is the exorbitant sums of ratepayer money being stolen from local renewables to subsidize transmission lines - which mostly benefit the utilities, who make huge guaranteed profits from transmission spending," said Rosana Francescato of Clean Coalition. (solarpowerworldonline.com)
  • The actions were coordinated through a series of calls organized by Labor Notes-which has been helping grow a network of rank-and-file nurse activists for more than a year-and were inspired by the protests organized at New York City hospitals in previous weeks. (labornotes.org)
  • Becca Sosa, a 19-year-old sophomore participating in the protest, said the escalation in tactics is in concert with the 300th "West Wednesday," a regular rally held by West's family and friends. (baltimoresun.com)