"By failing to extend unemployment benefits, Congress and the White House will harm working people struggling in the pandemic."

While the recall is an important tool, yesterday's election highlighted the undemocratic nature of California's existing recall process.

Nobody really knows what prospects await Afghan refugees when countries have yet to see human rights as rights for all humans

The AUMF has been used to justify military actions in at least nineteen countries, AND repression at home including warrantless surveillance.

Unemployment insurance wasn’t keeping people out of work, it turns out. It was keeping them out of poverty.

in the long run, peace activism is essential for overcoming militarism. And organizing is what makes that possible.

So the lady who turned her swearing-in into a Trump campaign commercial said she was "concerned" that Americans may view SCOTUS as partisan.

Mountain View City Council must declare Castro permanently closed to traffic and work with the community and businesses on its design.

When the full House convenes, members should put forward provisions that will ensure billionaires pay their fair share.

"I fully agree with you about the importance of reforming the tax code to ensure that the wealthy and corporations pay their fair share."

Biden finally ended the war in Afghanistan. But he cannot close this chapter with the man who told the truth about that war still in prison.

Texas’s New Law Is The Climax Of A Record-Shattering Year For Voting Restrictions • The Decline and Fall of the Roman… Whoops!… American Empire • Republicans Are from Mars   Texas’s New Law Is The Climax Of A Record-Shattering Year For Voting Restrictions by Nathaniel Rakich and Elena Mejia Based...

Be Your Own Boss: More Co-op Businesses Are Returning Workers’ Power • Polluters Are Trying to Ensure They’re Never Held Responsible for Climate Change by Walker Bragman • Medicare’s benefits are full of holes — and patients keep falling through   Be Your Own Boss: More Co-op Businesses Are Returning...

Infrastructure Summer: Joe Manchin’s Symphony of Disingenuousness • Imagine If We Had Spent the Last 20 Years Fighting Climate Change Instead of the War on Terror • The Gatekeepers: How SoCal Cities Could Thwart California’s New Affordable Housing Mandate by Robin Urevich   Infrastructure Summer: Joe Manchin’s Symphony of Disingenuousness...

In the Dead of Night, the Supreme Court Proved It Has Too Much Power • Sotomayor’s Defiant Dissent • The Texas Abortion Ban Is Just the Beginning   In the Dead of Night, the Supreme Court Proved It Has Too Much Power by Jamelle Bouie, New York Times Another way...

Kevin McCarthy keeps revealing how ugly a GOP House would be • What’s behind McCarthy’s veiled threat over Jan. 6 probe? • Video: ‘He’s scared’: Schiff on McCarthy reaction to Jan. 6 panel’s records request   Kevin McCarthy keeps revealing how ugly a GOP House would be by Greg Sargent,...

Starting Tomorrow, Roe v. Wade Will Functionally Cease to Exist in Texas • An alarming new Supreme Court case could unravel Roe v. Wade as soon as Tuesday night • SCOTUS Could De Facto Overturn Roe v. Wade Tomorrow. What Just Happened? Starting Tomorrow, Roe v. Wade Will Functionally Cease...

Biden Deserves Credit, Not Blame, for Afghanistan • For Two Decades, Americans Told One Lie After Another About What They Were Doing in Afghanistan • Afghan Crisis Must End America’s Empire of War, Corruption and Povert • Demand for ‘Moratorium on Drone Warfare’ Follows Latest US Killing of Afghan Civilians...

HAITI IN CRISIS   This time the U.S. should listen to the people of Haiti, not the powerful   Free Forum/ Zoom Webinar Wednesday, July 21, 6:00 – 7:00 p.m. RSVP (Not required, but greatly appreciated) Webinar Link A conversation with Pierre Labossiere and Seth Donnelly of Haiti Action Coalition...

Activist Café A social get-together on Zoom Wednesday, July 14 6:00 – 7:30 PM Register in advance for this meeting (required) After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. Get together socially with other activists on Zoom. No speakers, no emcee, no guests …...

Local activist and former Mountain View mayor Lenny Siegel tells the inside story of the Stanford anti-war student movement Author Interview / Free Forum DISTURBING the WAR The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia—1965-1975 A conversation with LENNY SIEGEL Community Activist / Former...

“If we spend thirty-five billion dollars a year to fight an ill-conceived war in Vietnam and twenty billion dollars to put a man on the moon, we can spend billions of dollars to put God’s children on their own two feet, right now.” On 14 April 1967, Martin Luther King,...

A special series of Zoom Webinars looking at major issue areas and examining how the new president might address them, hosted by PPJC Director Emeritus Paul George Joe Biden and the Middle East Wednesday, January 6, 7:00 PM Prof. Joel Beinin Emeritus Prof. of Middle East History, Stanford Univ. Joe...

We Need The People’s Bailout! June 1st, 2020 We need a swift, inclusive bailout, by and for the people. As the COVID-19 crisis ravages the globe and impacts the health and stability of our communities, Congress has responded with a stimulus package that doesn’t satisfy the level of direct aid that...

Recorded at Midpen Media Center, Palo Alto, CA. Ten years ago, a catastrophic earthquake struck Haiti, already the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. Over 100,000 people were killed and nearly 3 million people were displaced.