Thousands of California educators and support staff are expected to lose their jobs before the start of the 2025-2026 academic year more than 2,300 school employees received pink slips last week.
The damage and economic impact of the firestorm is now projected by Accuweather to reach $275 billion. This would make it one of the costliest disasters in US history.
A series of lawsuits have been launched by pro-Zionist outfits against California teachers and school districts in an attempt to stifle opposition to the genocide in Gaza.
This month, Los Angeles police armed and clad in riot gear burst into classroom without warning at Northridge Middle Community school, pointing rifles at students and staff and demanding that the school be put on lockdown. The event follows at similar series of police incursions which have resulted in no significant opposition from the teachers union
As of Friday, the fire has destroyed more than 130 structures, mostly residential homes and has damaged 88 others.
California Governor and Democratic Party standard bearer Gavin Newson enacts vicious measures against students’ democratic rights.
In a series of chilling attacks against free speech rights, the California Democratic Party, in collusion with compliant university administrations, big business and the Biden administration, has moved to effectively outlaw mass student protests against not only the Palestinian genocide but mass student protests in general.
Workers at the Disneyland theme park and resort voted overwhelmingly to authorize strike action.
The appointment is an indication that UCLA intends to escalate attacks on campus protests against the US-backed genocide in Gaza.
The judge's order to halt the UC strike has provoked broad opposition from academic workers and Detroit autoworkers.
The GBU-39 small diameter bomb (SDB) is manufactured by Boeing, but components were linked via a serial number to Woodward HRT, according to the Washington Post.
The district is planning the cuts even though it has more than $6.3 billion in reserve.
In a vicious attack against democratic rights and freedom of speech, nineteen students were arrested Friday at Pomona College in Southern California. The students were arrested at the college president’s office after holding a sit-in opposing the university’s previous crack downs on pro-Palestinian protests.
With tens of thousands of migrants and their children left at open-air encampments without food, shelter or medical care, diseases and malnutrition run rampant.
The new legislation also creates a nine-member “Fast Food Council” with the authority to annually increase wages by the lower of the Consumer Price Index or 3.5 percent, guaranteeing that workers continue to receive cuts in real pay each year.
The recent two day strike of optometrists at the UC system was deliberately isolated by the UPTE union and underscores the critical need for health care workers to form their own, independent rank and file committees.
The cancellation of the Cal State university worker strike this week has led to an outpouring of anger and underscores the necessity for the building and strengthening of rank and file committees in opposition to the treacherous union establishment.
Opposition continues to mount among rank and file actors and entertainment workers after details of the tentative agreement between SAG-AFTRA and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) were released last Friday.
As in June, the powerful message from rank-and-file actors is clear: don’t sell us out!
The California governor is ostentatiously shifting to the right in preparation for a presidential campaign either next year or in 2028.
