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Bay Area Current covers working-class life and culture across the Bay Area. Support working-class journalism: https://bayareacurrent.com/about/#/portal/signup
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Bay Area Current @bayareacurrent.bsky.social · Jun 14
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Bay Area Current covers working-class life and culture across the Bay Area. We’re straight up about our politics–we write from a leftist perspective and we cover stories often ignored in the mainstre...
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Bay Area Current @bayareacurrent.bsky.social · 12h
"AC Transit, the East Bay’s largest local transit provider, has faced recent worker and rider campaigns to fix its merciless schedules, which forces drivers to skip essential breaks while causing delays for riders."

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The People Against Transit Cuts
Bay Area transit is heading off a cliff. Can riders and workers in San Jose slam the brakes?
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Bay Area Current @bayareacurrent.bsky.social · 2d
Confessions & Obsessions — our new monthly questionnaire — tries to get to the bottom of things. First up: we ask the Bay's legendary lawyer Anh Phoong... is she modern or postmodern?

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Confessions & Obsessions with Anh Phoong
A monthly questionnaire that tries to get to the bottom of things.
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"In 2024, Hayward and Richmond were the first two U.S. cities to divest from the occupation of Palestine, and the city of Dublin passed an EIP last month."
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Bay Area Current @bayareacurrent.bsky.social · 4d
Breaking ~ PALESTINE ORGANIZERS WIN: Divestment from Israel Becomes Policy for Alameda County. Hundreds of working-class people from across the Bay turned out to win a long-term ethical investment policy.

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PALESTINE ORGANIZERS WIN: Divestment from Israel Becomes Policy for Alameda County
After a long campaign, organizers moved the county Board of Supervisors to adopt the Ethical Investment Policy on October 3. There is only one more procedural hurdle before full implementation.
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Bay Area Current @bayareacurrent.bsky.social · 4d
Breaking ~ PALESTINE ORGANIZERS WIN: Divestment from Israel Becomes Policy for Alameda County. Hundreds of working-class people from across the Bay turned out to win a long-term ethical investment policy.

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PALESTINE ORGANIZERS WIN: Divestment from Israel Becomes Policy for Alameda County
After a long campaign, organizers moved the county Board of Supervisors to adopt the Ethical Investment Policy on October 3. There is only one more procedural hurdle before full implementation.
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Eddy Hernandez @eddywashere.bsky.social · 16d
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Why Bay Area Group Stop AI Thinks Artificial Intelligence Will Kill Us All
The group behind all those flyers wants you to think about AI doom, tech power, and human extinction.
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Bay Area Current @bayareacurrent.bsky.social · 8d
You know that times have changed when workers start unionizing the Bay's suburban strip malls.

"The pay is just too low — new staff start at $16.96/hour, barely above the California minimum wage, and they work 35 hours a week with no overtime."
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Unionizing the Strip Mall
You pissed off the wrong nerds. They unionized Half Price Books.
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Bay Area Current @bayareacurrent.bsky.social · 14d
Read our interviews with Verve Coffee workers and their supporters, and attend today's rally fully informed about their fight!
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Bay Area Current @bayareacurrent.bsky.social · 14d
Unionizing Verve Coffee workers are throwing a pre-election rally today at 2101 Market St in SF. We wanted to learn more about their growing fight, so we attended their Sept 1st rally at Verve Coffee's flagship store in Santa Cruz. Here's what we learned:

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Scene Report: Santa Cruz Verve Workers Union Launch Rally
We wanted to hear what Verve Coffee workers and their supporters had to say, so we attended their union launch rally. Here's what we found out.
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Bay Area Current @bayareacurrent.bsky.social · 15d
Ever get one of those "STOP AI" fliers? We looked into the group that argues that, if society does nothing, AI will kill us all.

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Why Bay Area Group Stop AI Thinks Artificial Intelligence Will Kill Us All
The group behind all those flyers wants you to think about AI doom, tech power, and human extinction.
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Eddy Hernandez @eddywashere.bsky.social · 16d
"It can be tempting to gather politically around AI, as a visible symbol of the changes & upheavals that face us, but in organizing against the technology instead of the industry that mobilizes it, we risk losing the political momentum to shape the future we want." - @bayareacurrent.bsky.social
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Bay Area Current @bayareacurrent.bsky.social · 20d
Almost none of the issues that made life miserable have been addressed: no heat, mold, rodents, and walls that continue falling apart. Like so many other working class tenants across the Bay, the next steps are unclear, but the range of possibility is wide open.
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Bay Area Current @bayareacurrent.bsky.social · 20d
Tenants organized to force the city bureaucracy to intervene, and the city ordered the landlord to send a representative to a meeting with tenants. At that meeting the landlords representative left within five minutes, failing to address any of their concerns.
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Bay Area Current @bayareacurrent.bsky.social · 20d
A decade without heat and apartments with mold, bugs, and rodents—tenants and their tenant union (TANC) are locked in an ongoing battle with the landlord, Byong Yu, who also owns KP Market in Uptown Oakland.

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A Decade Without Heat: Inside the Valley Street Tenants’ Fight for Dignified Housing
Tenants at 2341 Valley street, a 41-unit building in uptown Oakland, are fighting against squalid conditions, an absent landlord and city bureaucracy. But they’re not giving up.
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Bay Area Current @bayareacurrent.bsky.social · 20d
Almost none of the issues that made life miserable have been addressed: no heat, mold, rodents, and walls that continue falling apart. Like so many other working class tenants across the Bay, the next steps are unclear, but the range of possibility is wide open.
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Bay Area Current @bayareacurrent.bsky.social · 20d
Tenants organized to force the city bureaucracy to intervene, and the city ordered the landlord to send a representative to a meeting with tenants. At that meeting the landlords representative left within five minutes, failing to address any of their concerns.
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Bay Area Current @bayareacurrent.bsky.social · 20d
A decade without heat and apartments with mold, bugs, and rodents—tenants and their tenant union (TANC) are locked in an ongoing battle with the landlord, Byong Yu, who also owns KP Market in Uptown Oakland.

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A Decade Without Heat: Inside the Valley Street Tenants’ Fight for Dignified Housing
Tenants at 2341 Valley street, a 41-unit building in uptown Oakland, are fighting against squalid conditions, an absent landlord and city bureaucracy. But they’re not giving up.
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Bay Area Current @bayareacurrent.bsky.social · 23d
OAKLAND TENANTS: This year, the maximum allowable rent increase is .8% if your building is covered by the Oakland rent stabilization. Get more helpful info about your rights here:

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Tenant in Oakland? Your Landlord Probably Can’t Raise Your Rent Much for the Next Year
Finally some not bad news.
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Bay Area Current @bayareacurrent.bsky.social · 27d
The Santa Cruz Veterans Hall is an example of what public space can look like: a place where DIY culture meets veteran community support—underwritten by the county government. @becsgross.bsky.social explores how this decades-old space has survived and thrived.
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In Santa Cruz, an Unlikely Venue Unites Punks and Veterans
For more than 40 years, the Veterans Hall has modeled what a shared public space can look like for those cast off by society. Can it withstand increased privatization?
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Bay Area Current @bayareacurrent.bsky.social · 27d
The Santa Cruz Veterans Hall is an example of what public space can look like: a place where DIY culture meets veteran community support—underwritten by the county government. @becsgross.bsky.social explores how this decades-old space has survived and thrived.
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In Santa Cruz, an Unlikely Venue Unites Punks and Veterans
For more than 40 years, the Veterans Hall has modeled what a shared public space can look like for those cast off by society. Can it withstand increased privatization?
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Bay Area Current @bayareacurrent.bsky.social · Sep 2
These anti-worker billboards are part of a wider pattern. Weny Liu @dellsystem.bsky.social elsewhere writes that the proliferation of tech billboards across SF represents the domination of our cities and lives by powerful tech capitalists.

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San Francisco's Billboards Aren't For You
Wendy Liu, author of Abolish Silicon Valley, explains what those weird tech billboards are really saying.
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Bay Area Current @bayareacurrent.bsky.social · Sep 2
"Stop Hiring Humans" billboards menaced SF workers with messages of automation and unemployment. The ads were strategic: by pissing working-class people off, the tech company received the kind of attention that venture capitalist investors love.

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Bay Area Current @bayareacurrent.bsky.social · Sep 4
For months, a startup named Artisan has covered San Francisco with billboards saying “Stop Hiring Humans” and “The Era of AI Employees Is Here.” But does their product live up to the hype? For Bay Area Current, Wendy Liu @dellsystem.bsky.social investigates.

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AI Company’s Billboards Say Workers Are Disposable. But Are We?
Residents hated them, and residents were right. These billboards suck — and our rage is their gain.
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Bay Area Current @bayareacurrent.bsky.social · Sep 4
Verve coffee workers in SF and Santa Cruz want living wages, and fighting for a union is how they'll win big. Their fight is part of an industry-wide rebellion against corporate greed. And these workers are prepared to go the distance.

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Verve Coffee Workers Want Living Wages. Fighting for a Union is How They’ll Get It.
These workers have joined an industry-wide rebellion against management greed — and they’re prepared to go the distance.
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Bay Area Current @bayareacurrent.bsky.social · 29d
BREAKING NEWS: Touchstone Climbing gym workers across Northern California trounced management and won their union election! Workers have joined up with Touchstone Workers United, an affiliate of @seiu.org.

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Touchstone Climbing Gym Workers in the Bay Area Enter the Fight
The effort to build power on the gym floor expands as workers at Dogpatch Boulders, The Studio, Mission Cliffs, and Diablo Rock Gym join the union drive.
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Bay Area Current @bayareacurrent.bsky.social · 29d
This Oakland DIY singing group, known as the Free Key Choir, has gone from just-for-fun to the next-big-thing, with a Pacific Northwest tour on the books. @copypasteyonders.bsky.social explores how a do-it-yourself ethos was central to their success.

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All Rise: the Free Key Choir Do It Themselves
What happens when a DIY community choir becomes the next big thing?
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