SEIU-UHW Alumni Keep Fighting for Progressive Change Ten years ago this month, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) shot itself in the foot, big time. To silence internal critics, then-SEIU President Andy Stern imposed the largest trusteeship over a local
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Richard Rothstein, now a resident of Berkeley, was a Students for a Democratic Society leader in the 1960s, later became an Urban League staffer and labor organizer, and then a well-known writer about educational policy issues and columnist for the
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Befitting a city rich in history, Richmond has multiple guides to its past. On the  waterfront, Betty Reid Soskin, the nation’s oldest park ranger, holds forth at the Rosie the Riveter Homefront Museum, informing visitors from far and near about
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No fossil fuel critics have been more regular visitors to Richmond, CA. than the hundreds of people arriving for this week’s “Soil Not Oil” conference, held, annually, in the shadow of the city’s century old Chevron refinery. Why pick a
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Since 2004, members of the Richmond Progressive Alliance (RPA) have won ten out of the sixteen city council and mayoral races they have contested in their majority minority city of 110,000. Last November, progressives gained an unprecedented “super-majority” of five
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The once controversial, much criminally prosecuted, and often violently repressed Black Panther Party for Self-Defense has achieved belated respectability fifty-one years after its birth in Oakland, CA. New books, films, and commemorative conferences have provided its founding generation with a
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