Public school teachers across the nation are using social media to expose the broken desks, dead rats and moldy walls that are the standards at their schools. These horrific working conditions are a visual clue to inadequate education funding nationwide. The problem goes deeper than...

Eating in the dining hall. Riding on the loop busses. Having clean and stocked bathrooms. These are things we take for granted, and these are things that AFSCME workers do for students. Yet UC has consistently denied AFSCME workers, who are essential to the successful...

Self-proclaimed environmental champion Gov. Jerry Brown supported legislation that challenged nationwide emission standards in 2007 and opposed offshore drilling. Supporters swoon at Brown’s half-hearted protection of the environment. Meanwhile, he continues to support dirty oil production in California, ignoring the disproportionate effects on communities of...

California’s bigwigs often trumpet the state’s progressive culture and politics, but the state’s records and policies reflect an entirely different story. While accounting for 12 percent of the nation’s population, California accounts for 16 percent of persons shot and killed by police. Of the 162...

No more stories of unjust evictions, no more stories of raising rents on decaying, mold riddled homes, no more skating around the housing crisis. The city of Santa Cruz can no longer permit landlords to take advantage of one of the most susceptible housing demographics...

This year, the University of California celebrates “150 years of pioneering a better future.” While the UC celebrates, its Black female university workers are still receiving 10 to 23 percent lower wages than their white male counterparts, a yearly difference of $3,946 to $15,785. The...

When students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School began to call for national gun reform, media outlets praised them for revolutionary efforts and hundreds of thousands participated in the March for Our Lives (MfOL) protests across the country. When Black Lives Matter, #SayHerName and other...

There has never been protection for LGBTQIA+ people in the U.S. Yet, last month the GOP launched an attack on transgender and queer civil rights under the guise of religious freedom. Sexual and gender identity are not protected classes under federal law. Unless outlawed at...

The UC is on their way to finalizing another tuition increase for out-of-state students for the 2018-19 school year. In May, the UC is scheduled to vote on an percent increase for in-state tuition. If either pass, it would mark the second consecutive tuition increase...

No reasonable person would consider taking a first-grader away from the comfort of her mother, shipping her 2,000 miles away, and only allowing them to interact a few times via phone for months. Yet, in a callous, calculated and totally heartless effort to deter illegal...