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  • Mixed results for CA measures to end factory farming

    A measure to end factory farming in Sonoma County has only received about 15% of the vote so far – so supporters are gathering tomorrow in Santa Rosa to find a new way forward. Measure J would have required big dairy and poultry farms classified as concentrated animal feeding operations, or...
  • Coalition forms to reaffirm ‘California values’ in 2nd Trump era

    This weekend, a new coalition called “We Are California” is holding meetings up and down the state, preparing to resist what it sees as anticipated attacks from the incoming Trump administration. Hundreds of nonprofits have joined the coalition, whose mission is to promote inclusion, community and democratic norms. Angelica...
  • El Impacto de las Elecciones 2024

    Las elecciones presidenciales han dejado a un país cuestionando los resultados en materia de violencia política, mujeres, inmigrantes y medio ambiente. A través de todas estas cuestiones, el 5 de noviembre destrozó las suposiciones públicas de que un Estados Unidos cada vez más multirracial significa necesariamente un país cada...
  • The Impact of the 2024 Election

    The presidential election has left a country questioning outcomes on political violence, women, immigrants and the environment. Through all these issues, November 5 shattered public assumptions that an increasingly multiracial America necessarily means an increasingly progressive one, said political, immigration and economic experts at a Friday, November 8 Ethnic...
  • Programa que beneficia a inmigrantes que denuncian irregularidades en el trabajo podría estar en riesgo con la llegada de Trump

    Jeanne Kuang CalMatters Durante sus 30 años en Estados Unidos, Alejandro Gamez aceptó cualquier empleo que pudo como trabajador indocumentado: en restaurantes de comida rápida, fábricas, lavado de autos y conduciendo camiones, incluso cuando las condiciones eran malas. “No tenía estatus”, dijo. “No tenía opciones”. Pero después de denunciar...
  • California empowered immigrants to speak up at work. Trump could end their protections

    Jeanne Kuang CalMatters In 30 years in America, Alejandro Gamez took any job he could as an undocumented worker — at fast food restaurants, factories and car washes and driving trucks, even when conditions were poor. “I had no status,” he said. “I had no options.” But after speaking up in...
  • Lo que las personas mayores deben saber esta temporada de RSV

    Cada año, hasta 160,000 personas mayores que viven en los Estados Unidos son hospitalizadas y hasta 10,000 mueren debido al virus respiratorio sincitial (RSV). El RSV es un virus altamente contagioso que se propaga a través del contacto cercano con personas infectadas, generalmente aumenta durante el otoño y alcanza...
  • What Older Adults Should Know This RSV Season

    Each year, up to 160,000 older adults living in the United States are hospitalized and as many as 10,000 die due to respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). RSV is a highly contagious virus that spreads through close contact with infected individuals, typically increasing during the fall and peaking in winter....
  • Proposed bill would fight crisis of antibiotic-resistant infections

    According to experts in the field, the system of developing new antibiotics is broken and doctors are running out of ways to treat deadly infections. Lawmakers have proposed the PASTEUR Act to fix the pipeline. New antibiotics are critical but they must be used sparingly, which means private drug companies cannot...
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