California

California’s AB 715 Claims To Combat Antisemitism

December 23, 2025 Jenin Younes and Deyar Jamil, Mondoweiss. Educate! Antisemitism, California, Censorship, Free Speech, Gavin Newsom, Retaliation

It’s not just Washington, DC that has sold out to the Israel lobby. In October of this year, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 715 into law, amending California’s education code, despite significant public opposition. The ostensible purpose of the AB 715 amendments is to address the crisis of rising antisemitism by fortifying anti-discrimination law in public schools. A closer look says otherwise. The bill was rushed through the state legislative process: at the legislative hearing, even its proponents acknowledged that it had been drafted rather hastily and would require “clean-up” legislation down the road to ensure compliance with constitutional requirements.

Climate Change Accelerates California’s Cost-Of-Living Crisis

December 22, 2025 Aaron Cantú, Scheer Post. Educate! California, climate crisis, Displacement, Environment, Poverty

When California adopted a law to regulate greenhouse gases 23 years ago — the first state in the nation to do so — it focused on the future dangers of global warming. But while California’s emissions have declined, they have kept rising globally, and the climate has worsened. Now, in an effort to build back momentum, advocates are bringing attention to current-day harms driven by climate change. Among those affected by rising temperatures is Amanda Nevarez, who was left homeless by the Eaton Fire, one of two wildfires in Los Angeles County that together destroyed more than 16,000 homes and buildings and killed 31 people last January.

Embargo Movement Exposes Oakland Airport’s Role In Weapons Shipments To Israel

December 21, 2025 Lallan Schoenstein, Struggle - La Lucha. Resist! Airport, arms embargo, California, Israel, Oakland, Palestine, Palestine Solidarity

Unions and community organizations demonstrated at the Port of Oakland on Dec. 18 as part of an ongoing campaign to demand an embargo on the shipment of weapons to Israel from both the city’s sea port and air port (OAK). The Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM), in coordination with The People’s Embargo for Palestine (PEP), released a report titled “Exposing Oakland’s Military Cargo Shipments to Israel” last August. They were horrified to discover that Oakland, California, a city with a progressive history of solidarity with Palestine, had become one of the most frequent departure points for shipping F-35 bomber components to Israel.

ICE Wants To Reopen Notorious California Prison

December 21, 2025 Victoria Law, Truthout. Resist! California, Detention Centers, ICE, Immigrant Solidarity, Immigration

On December 16, 2025, the Dublin City Council in California unanimously passed a resolution formally opposing reopening or reusing the notorious FCI Dublin prison for detention of any kind, including as an immigration jail. The resolution also urged the relevant federal agencies to “engage in open and transparent communication with the City regarding any decisions affecting the site.” The resolution comes after months of organizing by local and regional residents and a coalition of faith-based organizations, advocacy groups, and those who were imprisoned in FCI Dublin.

Hollywood Labor Adds Star Power To Starbucks Workers’ Strike

December 21, 2025 Chauncey K. Robinson, People's World. Resist! California, Hollywood, Labor Movement, Los Angeles, Starbucks, Strikes, Worker Rights and Jobs

Los Angeles, California - A warm cup of coffee can ease an early morning on film and TV sets, but cultural workers are rebuking Starbucks as they show solidarity with striking union baristas. Hollywood actors added their voices to the thousands supporting the nationwide unfair labor practice (ULP) strike by Starbucks workers at a rally on Dec. 16. The “Red Cup Rebellion”—the name given to the Starbucks strike—is well underway, after over 1,000 union baristas began it on Nov. 13, protesting what they called Starbucks’ historic union-busting and its failure to finalize a fair contract.

SEIU California Sits Out Fight Against Classroom Censorship

December 16, 2025 Larry Bradshaw, Anne Wolf, and Noga Wizansky, Labor Notes. Organize! California, Education, SEIU, Teachers, Unions

SEIU California routinely uses fighting words. Unfortunately, when it was time to “stand up” and “fight back” against legislation that threatens the working conditions of tens of thousands of SEIU education workers, our union’s spirited rhetoric dissipated. SEIU California stood down. In the final days of the legislative session, AB 715, a dangerous censorship bill with broad implications for California public education, was forced through an abbreviated legislative process and subsequently signed into law by Governor Gavin Newsom. The bill was backed by Israel lobby groups and California Democrats.

San Jose Starbucks Worker Shares Perspective On Strike

December 14, 2025 John Duroyan, Fight Back! News. Resist! California, Labor Movement, SBWU, Starbucks, Worker Rights and Jobs

San Jose, CA – Since the start of December, the Starbucks Workers’ Union (SBWU) has been on a national strike. In what has been dubbed the “Red Cup Rebellion,” the aim of the workers has been to disrupt the Starbucks corporation during one of its traditionally most busy times, the holiday season. In San Jose, the SBWU has voted to join the strike. Devasya Kumar, a barista and strike captain of the Capitol Square Mall Starbucks location, shared his store’s experience in participating in the strike. He captains the evening picket line. His store has shut down completely.

DOJ Pressured Lawyers To ‘Find’ Evidence UCLA Tolerated Antisemitism

December 13, 2025 Peter Elkind and Katharine Mangan, Pro Publica. Educate! Anti-Semitism, California, Department of Justice, Higher Education, Trump Administration

On the morning of Thursday, July 31, James B. Milliken was enjoying a round of golf at the remote Sand Hills club in Western Nebraska when his cellphone buzzed. Milliken was still days away from taking the helm of the sprawling University of California system, but his new office was on the line with disturbing news: The Trump administration was freezing hundreds of millions of dollars of research funding at the University of California, Los Angeles, UC’s biggest campus. Milliken quickly packed up and made the five-hour drive to Denver to catch the next flight to California. He landed on the front lines of one of the most confounding cultural battles waged by the Trump administration.

Workers Caught Up In Warner Bros. Media Monopoly Battle

December 11, 2025 Chauncey K. Robinson, People's World. Strategize! California, Mergers, Monopoly, Warner Bros, Worker Rights

Hollywood, Calif.—Streaming media giant Netflix and Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) announced on Dec. 5 that they had entered into a definitive agreement under which Netflix will acquire Warner Bros., including its film and television studios, HBO Max, and HBO. The deal, valued at $82.7 billion, may have the companies’ investors ready to celebrate, but several labor unions and elected officials are sounding the alarm that the acquisition may be bad business for workers and consumers alike. Over the course of several weeks, a bidding war broke out between major media studios Netflix, Paramount Skydance, and a number of other large media conglomerates over which company would acquire part or all of WBD.

LEGO Tears Down Unionization Effort At Downtown Disney Store

December 10, 2025 Chauncey K. Robinson, People's World. Resist! California, Lego, union busting, Unions, Worker Rights

Buena Park, CA — Usually, LEGO is associated with physically building things up, but in this case, workers are accusing the company of tearing down their chances of getting union representation. Employees at the Downtown Disney LEGO store are claiming that the company is using illegal union-busting tactics and violating their rights. United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 324, the union supporting LEGO Store workers’ unionization efforts in Downtown Disney, announced on Friday, Dec. 5, that it has filed an unfair labor practice charge against LEGO.

Santa Fe’s Plan For A Real Minimum Wage Offers Lessons For California

November 29, 2025 Mark Kreidler, Scheer Post. Strategize! California, Cost of living, Housing, Minimum Wage, New Mexico

California has in recent years turned up its effort to establish minimum wages that allow workers to afford life in the Golden State. But the most daring experiment may well be coming not from particularly high-cost Los Angeles or San Francisco, but from a couple of states east. On Nov. 13, the City Council in Santa Fe, New Mexico, voted to integrate the cost of housing in its calculation of the citywide minimum wage going forward. According to the UC Berkeley Labor Center, this marks the first time in the U.S. that a city has factored local housing costs directly into setting its minimum.

Could Cities Partner With Guerilla Urbanists For Safer Streets?

November 24, 2025 Maylin Tu, Next City. Create! California, Los Angeles, Pedestrians, Public safety, tactical urbanism, Urban Design

Painting a crosswalk is cheap and easy. A group of neighbors can paint an entire intersection in one morning for $100 or less. Getting the city of Los Angeles to paint a crosswalk, on the other hand, might take 14 years and the death of a 9-year-old boy. Across L.A., neighbors are banding together to paint crosswalks to protest the city’s failure to protect people outside of cars. Jonathan Hale, a UCLA law student who goes by “Jonny,” spent four Saturday mornings painting crosswalks with neighbors at Stoner Park this summer, covering each corner of the park. After the city removed them, he went to the press and vowed to repaint them.

40,000 University Of California Hospital Workers In Two-Day Strike

November 19, 2025 Janice Rothstein, People's World. Resist! California, Health Care, Strikes, University of California, Worker Rights

San Diego — As 40,000 AFSCME Local 3299 workers throughout the ten-campus University of California system launched a two-day strike on Nov. 17, two Communist Party members—Alvin, an AFSCME-represented employee at University of California at San Diego (UCSD), and another worker, an AFSCME retiree from UC San Francisco—shared their thoughts before they prepared to picket. Pay, or lack of it, is the big issue. But so is disparate treatment on a class basis. While the university system fails to settle contracts addressing the cost of living and affordability crises facing its most economically vulnerable patient care workers, it’s also handed out six-figure salaries and housing subsidies to multiple high administrators.

Lawsuit Charges That California Law Illegally Muzzles Students, Teachers

November 6, 2025 Marjorie Cohn, Truthout. Resist! California, Free Speech, Higher Education, Palestine, State Repression

Beginning January 1, 2026, teachers in California classrooms will be looking over their shoulders to avoid running afoul of a frightening new “antisemitism” law. On October 7, despite widespread opposition from civil rights groups, teachers’ unions, and education advocates, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed AB 715, which amends the California Education Code to police what teachers can teach and what students can learn about Israel and Palestine. “This problematic classroom censorship bill silences Muslim, Arab, Palestinian, Jewish, and other marginalized voices in California public schools by shielding a foreign government — Israel — from legitimate criticism and criminalizes honest discussions on Palestine and other global human rights issues,” the Council on American Islamic Relations said in a statement.

What’s At Stake: USC And LMU Push Back Against Untenured Faculty Unions

October 1, 2025 Julia Barajas, Portside. Educate! California, Higher Education, union busting, Unions, Worker Rights and Jobs

Last summer, after nearly two years of organizing, hundreds of untenured faculty at Loyola Marymount University celebrated the certification of their newly formed union. In a message to the campus community, Thomas Poon, who served as LMU’s executive vice president and provost, wrote: “We honor the will of our [non-tenure track] faculty and the perspectives they expressed throughout the election campaign.” The university, he added, “will continue to engage the union in good faith and with transparency.” Poon is now president of LMU and, earlier this month, he changed his tune. Poon announced Sept. 12 that the university’s board of directors decided to invoke a religious exemption to the National Labor Relations Act.

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