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In February 1975, construction work on Lee Road in Watsonville desecrated an Ohlone burial site, and bones and artifacts were removed by archeologists. When initial efforts failed to protect the sacred site, the cemetery was occupied by a group of armed local Native families, activists, and members of the American Indian Movement. John Malkin speaks with Patrick Yana-Hea Orozco, who played a critical role in the direct action at Wounded Lee.

In the outskirts of Athens, Roma families live under constant suspicion, struggling for dignity, work, and a place to belong.

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On October 24, youth from 50 middle schools, high schools, and colleges in California walked out of class in a coordinated statewide action demanding that oil and gas corporations be held financially accountable for the damage caused by their pollution. Students called on lawmakers to pass the Polluters Pay Climate Superfund Act, SB 684/AB 1243. While not passed this legislative session, students and climate advocates are working to pass it next year.

Pesticides continue to be pervasive in the air throughout California’s agricultural regions, according to the 2023 Air Monitoring Network Report released in September by the Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR). Weekly samples collected at DPR’s four air monitors detected 19 different pesticides at trace or quantifiable levels and 8 pesticides at quantifiable levels, with 80% of samples including at least one pesticide detection.

UR is exclusively releasing 73 Minneapolis Police videos from the largest mass arrest in MN history of at least 646 people in Nov. 2020.

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After days of Donald Trump threatening to deploy the National Guard to San Francisco, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents began massing at Coast Guard Island in Alameda on October 23. Residents across the Bay Area responded that same day by organizing emergency rallies. At Coast Guard Island, authorities used at least one flash bang grenade on demonstrators. Shortly after the confrontation, Trump walked back his troop threat.

October 28, 2025, will be remembered as one of the saddest episodes in recent Brazilian history, especially for residents of the state of Rio de Janeiro. At least 121 people were killed in one of the deadliest police operations in the country's history.

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Minneapolis, MN — If a tenant comes knocking to pay rent, that’s usually a door worth opening. But when Mike Brown approached the office of property manager Tina Johnson, she didn’t answer. Instead, three maintenance workers showed up at his door demanding rent.

“Anytime you…

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The ceasefire gives time for both sides to potentially negotiate an end to one of the world's deadliest conflict's.

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Minneapolis, MN — Another installment of No Kings protests against “increasing authoritarian excesses and corruption of the Trump administration” swept cities across the U.S. on Oct. 18, 2025. In Minneapolis, an estimated total of 100,000 to 150,000 people showed up to the No Kings Twin…

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Events were organized across northern California to commemorate two years of resistance to the Israeli genocide in Gaza. Calls were widely made for an end to the forced starvation of the Gazan population, and for an end to U.S. military aid to Israel. In Oakland, community members marched to demand an arms embargo; at UC Berkeley, students organized a mass walkout; in Petaluma, activists conducted their long-time weekly picket.

The SF Bay Area office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations is calling on the University of California, San Francisco to reinstate professor of medicine Dr. Rupa Marya and publicly affirm that it will safeguard academic freedom and free speech. Dr. Marya was terminated from UCSF in May 2025, which came after her medical privileges were suspended in September 2024 over social media posts in which she criticized Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

Around 5,000 demonstrators marched through Athens' city center to the Israeli Embassy in solidarity with the Palestinian people on Oct. 7, 2025.

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Over 10,000 demonstrators, gathered in the city’s iconic Times Square. The protestors were demanding an end to Israel’s nearly two year genocide.

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Suffering from cancer while beautifying campmates in Gaza as cancer patients are prevented from leaving for treatment -- with videos from Gaza.

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Big Oil won a major victory on September 13 when the California Legislature passed Governor Gavin Newsom’s bill, S.B. 237, as part of a controversial “climate” package that greenlights tens of thousands of new oil and gas drilling permits in Kern County over the next decade with no further environmental review. The bill passed as a last minute “gut and amend” measure at the end of the legislative session, truncating public participation.

On September 24, Bay Area poets and other writers organized a poetry reading outside of U.S. Senator Adam Schiff's office in San Francisco, calling on him and Senator Alex Padilla to support the Block the Bombs legislation, and to defend freedom of the press and protect Palestinian journalists. Arts activist David Solnit transformed the building's plaza into a mini auditorium with rows of folding chairs, and using the corporate offices as a background.

The unclear nature of South Africa's new marijuana laws is creating confusion and operational hazards amongst a fast growing grey market.

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Turning Point USA’s first tour stop after the assassination of Charlie Kirk on Sept. 10 was at the University of Minnesota, and for many the experience was spiritual.

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The annual Indigenous Milk Medicine Week carnival is held in efforts to normalize Indigenous lactation rights while providing resources.

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