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Are Unionized Shops Targets of Silent Raids?

“…without the full picture and supporting documentation, it would seem… employers who are bearing the brunt of these audits are [those] … involved in collective bargaining agreements with labor unions. That is bad for business, workers and the American people.”
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Victories From Our Tenant Rights Clinic

Immigrant Family Fights Landlord Harassment By Patricia Zamora Gilberto and Elvia Nuñez were being harassed and accused by their landlord of being “illegal.” The landlord made harassing phone calls to them at all hours of the day including very early
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Defend the Public Sector and Democracy

From Wisconsin and North Carolina to Tunisia and Egypt! Grassroots Global Justice Alliance Solidarity Statement Grassroots Global Justice would like to support the record number of protestors coming out to defend collective bargaining rights and the public sector in Wisconsin.
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Undervalued & Invisible

Domestic Workers Organize to Win Respect and Recognition By Andrea Cristina Mercado, Mujeres Unidas y Activas and Ai-Jen Poo, National Domestic Worker Alliance   Domestic workers – who care for some of the most important elements of our lives like
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$1.2 Trillion:

The Real U.S. National Security Budget No One Wants You to Know About By Chris Hellman, National Priorities Project What if you went to a restaurant and found it rather pricey? Still, you ordered your meal and, when done, picked
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Housing Justice is Climate Justice

By Colin Miller, Urban Habitat Climate change has become almost universally recognized as the single greatest threat to life. No substantive action has been taken at the international (United Nations) or federal level to deal with the growing crisis. On
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Don’t Miss the Bus!

POWER and MORE Public Transit Coalition win 12,000 free MUNI passes for SF youth By Alicia Garza On a recent rainy afternoon in San Francisco’s Mission District, members from People Organized to Win Employment Rights (POWER) and the MORE Public
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Voting Is Still A Civil Rights Issue

By Sanyika Bryant  Ranked-Choice Voting (RCV) has recently come up in the news again. Failed Oakland mayoral candidate Don Perata is trying once again to pit Black and Asian communities against each other. He is claiming that Ranked Choice Voting
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CJJC Unfolds First Universidad Assata Shakura

By Maria Zamudio In January Causa Justa::Just Cause’s (CJJC) member leaders and staff began our first three-month political and organizational learning process, the Universidad Assata Shakur. This is a way for member leaders from San Francisco and Oakland to deeply
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Neighbors Helping Neighbors

By Sheon Slaughter My name is Sheon Slaughter and I am a Causa Justa::Just Cause member. I have lived in North Oakland at 32nd Street and Telegraph Avenue for four years and while I love my neighborhood, there are some
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Building Skills and Leadership

By Billy Trice Jr. I’ve been a member of Causa Justa::Just Cause since 2000. I first got involved in the work to get a Just Cause Eviction Ordinance passed in Oakland. This ordinance, called Measure EE was going to require
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The Problem With Evictions

Robbie Clark More than $3.5 million people in the United States are homeless and another 6 million people are on the verge of homelessness, paying more than half their income for rent and struggling to get by. The need for
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Fighting for our Future in the Mission

by MartaJuárez My name is Marta Juarez: I am an immigrant; I came to the Mission neighborhood in 1986. When I arrived in this neighborhood, I was very excited to find a place where the people and small businesses were
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S-Comm: A New Attack On Immigrants

Angelica is crying. She’s remembering when police stopped her husband while he was driving in a Bay Area city. It seemed like a random stop — perhaps a rosary hanging from the rear view mirror, maybe a drive through a
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