Activists and “No Business as Usual” Bridge blockades have become an increasingly common activist tactic. Last week’s Golden Gate Bridge blockage by Gaza war protesters is the most recent ...
A recent article in Military.com illustrates the danger of outsourcing Veterans Health Administration (VHA) medical and psychological care under the Veterans Community Care Program (VCCP). The fu...
Mass LA Times Layoffs Highlight Crisis Last week’s layoff of 115 newsroom employees at the Los Angeles Times revived a longstanding question: can traditional newspapers survive in the age of r...
If there’s one thing better than winning the passage of a new law, it’s seeing the new law begin to improve the quality of people’s lives and our environment. This year, consumers, patient...
https://beyondchron.org/celebrating-new-protections-taking-effect-in-2024/
The Stakes Are High In 2024 the United States of America faces a presidential election whose outcome will either impose a dictatorship or the continuation of democracy. The stakes have never bee...
Season Greetings from Scottsdale, AZ. No single police officer is guarding the Townsquare, Apple, Gucci, and Louis Vuitton stores like in San Francisco’s Union Square. I invited 20 fellows Sa...
https://beyondchron.org/the-holiday-season-from-baghdad-by-the-bay-to-valley-of-the-sun/
Our Five Year Housing Scorecard Five years ago this week I released Generation Priced Out: Who Gets to Live in the New Urban America via the University of California Press (the updated paperbac...
https://beyondchron.org/why-progresssive-cities-still-price-out-younger-generations/
(Note from Editor Randy Shaw: Zach Polett may be the greatest organizer of his generation whose name the public does not know. I connected to Zach when he was at ACORN. He recruited me to go to O...
https://beyondchron.org/zach-polett-organizing-visionary-dies-at-73/
Between the Sun and Sidewalk is Inspiring How does a film capture what it means to build community power via organizing? We see a great example of this in an inspiring new film, Between the Sun ...
https://beyondchron.org/inspiring-new-film-on-organizings-power/
Recovery Must Be Top Priority The debate about America’s homeless crisis has gone off the rails. Consider: Mayor London Breed and California Governor Gavin Newsom publicly condemned a misgu...
https://beyondchron.org/time-to-reset-the-homelessness-debate/