From the UC Berkeley Urban Displacement Project: There is an abundance of data to indicate that the Sonoma County housing situation in the low and moderate income range will worsen, according to a new study from UC Berkeley. One key point from the study: Neighborhoods with rail stations, historic housing stock, an abundance…
Via the Berkeley Blog: The future of displacement Karen Chapple, Professor, City and Regional Planning | 8/24/15 The year is 2030. Protesters gather around yet another apartment building where long-term residents are being evicted to accommodate newcomers. We must be in San Francisco. No, we’re in Oakland. Guess again. It’s Hayward. Or, Concord. Or perhaps,…
University of California, Berkeley Press Release: More gentrification, displacement in Bay Area forecast By Kathleen Maclay | AUGUST 24, 2015 The San Francisco Bay Area’s transformation into a sprawling, exclusive and high-income community with less and less room for its low-income residents is just beginning, according to UC Berkeley researchers who literally have it all…
I do wish sometimes that we could readily see the results of spam emails like the one below, which arrived at my work email a while back. Just how many people respond to such heartbreaking entreaties as this, which purportedly came from the grandson of one of the most infamous and brutal of the 20th Century…
From Baja California to Washington State, indigenous farm workers are standing up for their rights David Bacon A burned-out concrete blockhouse—the former police station—squats on one side of the only divided street in Vicente Guerrero, half a mile from Baja California’s transpeninsular highway. Just across the street lies the barrio of Nuevo (New) San…
Food & Water Watch press release: August 27th, 2015 Washington, D.C.—Is a Cargill poultry plant in China poised to export meat to the United States? That question lies at the heart of a controversy sparked by an August 13th article on WATTAgNet.com that reported that a Cargill plant in the Anhui province had been cleared…
From Sarah Diederich, Iowa Now & the University of Iowa: UI study finds local food movement rooted in relationships and values A new UI study finds more Americans than ever before are shopping farmers markets and joining food coops because they enjoy knowing who grows their food. These so-called “locavores” are driven to eat locally…
Via Yes! Magazine: How do we confront the political power of the fossil fuel giants? And when we imagine a planet in recovery, what do we see? Send us your pitches by Sept. 15! For much of the last decade, there’s been a debate—sometimes spirited—about the biggest threat to modern civilization. One camp said…
Iran Nuclear Deal “A Net-Plus for International Nuclear Nonproliferation” For Immediate Release: August 18, 2015 Media Contacts: Daryl G. Kimball, executive director, 202-463-8270 ext. 107; Timothy Farnsworth, communications director, 202-463-8270 x110. (Washington, D.C.)—More than 70 of the world’s leading nuclear nonproliferation specialists issued a jointstatement outlining why the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) “is a strong,…
