California

Veterans Say They Won’t Be Fooled By False Promise Of VA Privatization

April 13, 2026 Suzanne Gordon, Beyond Chron. Resist! California, Privatization, Veterans, Veterans Health Administration

On April Fool’s Day, over a hundred veterans, former VA employees and local healthcare activists met at a Veterans Town Hall in the Veterans’ Memorial Building in Santa Rosa, California. The meeting was called to alert veterans and the local community to the cost and consequences of “The Tragic Dismantling of the VA.” A number of veterans groups, like Veterans for Peace, Veterans of Sonoma County and local community members who, for the past year, have spent every Friday rallying in front of the Santa Rosa Community Based Outpatient Clinic (CBOC), sponsored the event.

Bay Area Pediatricians File To Unionize

April 9, 2026 Union of American Physicians and Dentists. Organize! California, Doctors, Pediatricians, Unions, Worker Rights

Palo Alto, Calif. – Nearly 110 pediatricians working for the Packard Children’s Health Alliance (PCHA), part of Stanford Medicine Children’s Health, have filed to unionize with the Union of American Physicians and Dentists (UAPD). The pediatricians provide care to children across 27 clinic locations throughout the Greater San Francisco Bay Area and Monterey Bay region. “I’ve wanted to be a pediatrician since I was six years old. Now, as an early career physician, the delivery and structure of medical care is very different even from what I knew it to be while pursuing that goal,” said a pediatrician leading the organizing effort.

A New Homelessness Strategy Is Sweeping California

April 9, 2026 Marisa Kendall, Scheer Post. Create! California, Eviction Defense, Homelessness, Housing

Maybe the way out of California’s homelessness crisis is to prevent it in the first place, rather than focusing only on people who have already lost their housing. That’s the thinking behind a program in Santa Clara County — and others like it around the state — that has gained traction and will soon test its strategy beyond California. These prevention programs have found that with a payment of several thousand dollars, aid organizations can head off someone’s homelessness. That both prevents the trauma that comes with losing a home, and saves the state or local government the potentially tens of thousands of dollars it takes to help someone after they become homeless.

Mobile Home Residents Demand Kingsley Corporation Get Out

March 25, 2026 Rain Mendoza, Fight Back! News. Resist! California, Housing, Landlord, Tenant Rights

Santa Ana, CA – On Saturday, March 21, Coach Royal Mobile Home residents protested at the entrance of the mobile home park. The protest was in response to yearslong abuse at the hands of the park managers, eviction, and theft of mobile homes by Kingsley Corporation. There was also a recent suicide of resident Maria Pedraza due to the abuse. The Coach Royal residents are majority working-class immigrants. The protest started strong with residents and supporters from Community Service Organization Orange County (CSO OC) protesting in front of the Coach Royal entrance.

Farm Workers To March On Federal Courthouse

March 17, 2026 Mark Gruenberg, People's World. Resist! California, Farmworkers, ICE, Wages, Worker Rights

Fresno, California—The United Farm Workers and their allies will march on the federal courthouse in Fresno, California, on March 18 to protest new Trump administration rules they say will cut their already low pay. The rules governing how many workers can be admitted under H2-A visas, and how much to cut their minimum pay, will be the subject of a challenge in federal court that day. The Farm Workers argue, reasonably, that owners, especially agribusinesses, will use the pay cut and the visa expansion to cut every farmworker’s minimum pay, regardless of whether the worker is documented or undocumented, holds an H-2A visa or not, or is a citizen or not.

San Jose Union Nurses Demand Healthcare For All, ICE Out

March 9, 2026 John Duroyan, Fight Back! News. Resist! California, Healthcare for All, ICE, Nurses, Unions

San Jose, CA – On March 3, around 40 nurses affiliated with the California Nurses Association gathered after 2 p.m. near the Federal Building in downtown San Jose, to support healthcare for all and demanding that hospitals keep ICE out. The protest speakers included nurses who had worked in healthcare for decades. Monte Wright, a member of the California Nurses Association, who had been a nurse for 31 years, stated, “Most importantly, we're out to let the public know that healthcare's a human right, and that everybody deserves healthcare.”

California Counties Are Directly Funding Immigrant Legal Defense

March 9, 2026 Renee Bartlett-Webber, Next City. Create! California, Community Defense, Immigrant Rights, Legal System

With the Trump administration escalating immigration enforcement, a number of California municipal and county governments are setting aside public money to help immigrants and rapid response networks build legal defenses. San Francisco and Alameda County are among the latest to designate additional money for immigrants to defend themselves against deportation. In October, when President Donald Trump threatened to increase Immigration and Customs Enforcement in the Bay Area, the San Francisco Board of Supervisors beefed up its defense fund by a unanimous vote with $3.5 million. In March, Alameda County doubled the fund it had started with $3.5 million.

Trump’s Deportation Crackdown Is Hurting Tourism

March 3, 2026 Mark Kreidler, Scheer Post. Educate! California, Finance and the Economy, ICE, Tourism

At the Universal Studios Hollywood theme park near Los Angeles, food service worker Sam Nassar doesn’t need a corporate earnings call to know that tourism is down, including among international visitors. He can see it inside the park — and in his schedule and paycheck. “Since the start of last year, we’ve definitely seen a huge dip in attendance,” said Nassar, 39, who works primarily at the Wizarding World of Harry Potter area of the park. “My hours have been cut anywhere from 30% to 50%.” Nassar has used a second job as an in-home caregiver to make ends meet, but he wonders about the year to come.

Students Disrupt War Profiteers’ Participation In Career Fair

February 24, 2026 Megan Sweet, Fight Back! News. Resist! California, Career Fairs, Higher Education, militarism, Student Activism

San Jose, CA – On February 17, a dozen San José State University students gathered outside the administrative building to protest corporate war profiters that were participating in the Career Center’s Job & Internship. Students held signs that read “No war with Venezuela” and “Free Palestine.” Protester John Duroyan explained that Hewlett Packard Enterprise “readily aid and abet Israel’s apartheid state, providing the Israelis with software and surveillance technologies, to better track and detain Palestinians.” While students gathered outside, five San José State University students and alumni crowded the upstairs of the Student Union where the university’s career center was hosting the spring jobs fair.

UAW Pushes For Green Jobs And Affordability In California

February 21, 2026 Dan DiMaggio, Labor Notes. Strategize! California, Green Transition, UAW, Worker Rights

Can unions lead the push toward an environmentally sustainable future, and secure more good jobs in the process? With the Trump administration attacking federal investments in green industries from electrical vehicles to wind, the United Auto Workers is attempting this strategy at the state level in California. Last summer the union issued a report titled “Organize, Industrialize, Decarbonize! A Pro-Worker, Green Industrial Policy for California”, calling for the state “to move boldly and wield all tools at its disposal to bring about the kind of economic transformation necessary to decarbonize and raise working-class living standards.”

Kaiser Strike Hits Fourth Week

February 18, 2026 Kristen Hwang, Cal Matters. Resist! California, Healthcare workers, Kaiser Permanente, Strikes, Unions, Worker Rights

More than 31,000 Kaiser Permanente health care workers remained on strike Monday as the open-ended walkout entered its fourth week, disrupting patient appointments, surgeries and treatments across California and Hawaii. Bargaining teams for Kaiser and workers resumed negotiations after weeks of stalemate, but no agreement appears imminent. This is the latest of a number of major strikes to have roiled Kaiser in recent years, including a 10-week strike by mental health workers in 2022 and a 2023 dispute mediated by the then-U.S. Secretary of Labor.

The Fight To Keep ICE From Reopening A Notorious Prison

February 11, 2026 Victoria Valenzuela, Waging Nonviolence. Resist! California, Detention, ICE, Immigrant Rights, Prisons

On March 1, 2025, Kendra Drysdale stood before a crowd of about 500 people at a street protest to rally the Dublin, California community against the potential reopening of a local federal prison as an immigrant detention center. She warned them of the harm and trauma that the reopening could cause — which she knew firsthand, because she and many incarcerated women she knew had been sexually assaulted at Federal Correctional Institution Dublin, or FCI Dublin, when it was a women’s prison. Before it closed in April 2024, the federal prison was known as the “rape club” for rampant sexual assault and retaliation against incarcerated women who spoke out.

On Eve Of Strike, Kaiser Nurses Sound Alarm On Patient Care

January 24, 2026 Mark Kreidler, Scheer Post. Resist! California, Kaiser Permanente, Nurses, Strikes

A stinging new report from a union stuck in going-nowhere labor negotiations with health giant Kaiser Permanente makes clear the union’s position: Kaiser, sitting on $67 billion in reserves, can well afford to address glaring staffing shortages and close pay gaps that the union says were years in the making. Will the report move the needle in negotiations? Not likely. And that almost certainly means that a massive employee walkout against Kaiser, the second such job strike in four months, will go off as planned on Jan. 26.

Still The Golden State?

January 3, 2026 Mark Kreidler, Scheer Post. Educate! California, Housing, Poverty, wealth inequality

California is nothing if not a land of contrast. It is a state of astounding economic might, yet it carries the highest poverty rate in the nation. It has more residents on the Forbes 400 list of wealthiest Americans than any other state, but also has the most homeless people — nearly 25% of the entire U.S. total. And even as it touts its standing as the world’s fourth-largest economy, state or country, the gap between the rich and poor in California remains near historic highs. Wealthy residents enjoyed skyrocketing investment returns during the pandemic and into the A.I. boom, while low-income workers were laid off service economy jobs and then ate into their savings — if they had them — in order to survive.

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.

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