By Shane Ruiz Michael Lighty is a national leader in the fight for Medicare for All, served as the Healthcare Constituency Director for Bernie 2020, was a lead policy analyst for SB-562 to create a single-payer system in California, and for over twenty years worked for healthcare workers’ unions CNA/NNU on campaigns for patients’ rights, […]

A guide to talking to your friends and family about socialism.

As Labor Secretary, Bernie Sanders could fight alongside teachers’ unions to reign in Wall St. and ensure safe working conditions for everyone.

“We have been a sleeping giant for the past decades. Nothing happens without the Muni transit operators in this city.”

For years, privatized charter schools have destabilized OUSD, harming all students and families. But when families, students, and teachers organize together, we can restore public education in Oakland.

Distance learning is exacerbating learning gaps between students. But funding from Prop 15 could provide the wraparound services we need for an equitable recovery for all students.

Workers and riders pressured AC Transit into providing free masks and hand sanitizer for all riders. We’ll need more popular pressure like that to save our public transit system.

Billioniares have dumped more than $1m into the Oakland School Board race. Here’s what they want and how you can vote to stop them.

David Cremins, con asistencia en la traducción por Isaac Harris Adelaida Ríos es una trabajadora de salud comunitaria en La Clínica de la Raza, donde ha ayudado a dirigir un centro de pruebas Covid en el barrio de Fruitvale en Oakland desde mayo. Su equipo administra más de 100 pruebas al día, mientras cambia entre […]

Excluded from federal relief bills and abandoned by Gov. Newsom, immigrants in Oakland are facing Covid without protections.