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This is the first of 2 votes. Today was the Brewery's NLRB vote, and the brewery workers can begin negotiating a contract but management convinced the NLRB that the taproom/pilot brewery/additional warehouse space across the street was a different site so should be under a second collective bargaining agreement. So on Friday, the taproom will vote as well. Should the tap room also vote yes, then they will also be able to begin negotiating their contracts, but it would ultimately be 2 contracts, one for the brewery, one for the tap room.
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The best part about this is it's PissPigGrandad himself, Brace Belden, who is helping organize.
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# ? Mar 14, 2019 19:27 |
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# ? Mar 14, 2019 20:41 |
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FMguru posted:Hell yes. Except on the issue of solitary confinement. On that issue, Newsom is appealing the decision by the federal magistrate ordering an extension of Pelican Bay State Prison’s monitoring period. The infamous supermax prison had continued violating constitutional rights and ignored the terms of the 2015 settlement agreement that was supposed to have strictly limited solitary confinement, so the original two year monitoring period got extended by another 12 months. I have seen a grand total of one article on this subject, and even then, the blame for the appeal is placed on the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation instead of on Governor Gavin Newsom, the man ultimately in charge of the state bureaucracy: https://www.motherjones.com/crime-justice/2019/02/california-ashker-brown-solitary-confinement-status-appeal/ Our media savvy trust fund baby might be willing to suspend a policy of capital punishment that was already effectively suspended by a different court order back in 2006, but he is also going to fight to preserve the right of our supermaxes to subject prisoners to a practice classified by the UN as torture with minimal pretensions of adhering to die process. This thread doesn’t need much warning, but let’s not give California Democrats more credit than they deserve. Snipee fucked around with this message at 00:56 on Mar 15, 2019 |
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Okay, I have a confession to make. I actually support the death penalty. Yes, I admit it. How liberating. Lethal injections for all death row inmates. Just replace "death row inmates" with "billionaires." And replace "lethal injections" with
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# ? Mar 15, 2019 00:57 |
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Snipee posted:Except on the issue of solitary confinement. On that issue, Newsom is appealing the decision by the federal magistrate ordering an extension of Pelican Bay State Prison’s monitoring period. The infamous supermax prison had continued violating constitutional rights and ignored the terms of the 2015 settlement agreement that was supposed to have strictly limited solitary confinement, so the original two year monitoring period got extended by another 12 months. I have seen a grand total of one article on this subject, and even then, the blame for the appeal is placed on the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation instead of on Governor Gavin Newsom, the man ultimately in charge of the state bureaucracy: https://www.motherjones.com/crime-justice/2019/02/california-ashker-brown-solitary-confinement-status-appeal/ Huh. Gang violence in the Bay Area is going to be a lot more interesting when NF hits the main line again.
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Sydin posted:Okay, I have a confession to make. I actually support the death penalty. Yes, I admit it. How liberating. Lethal injections for all death row inmates. there's a fundamental philosophical difference between the death penalty, murder imposed by the powerful on the poor, enforced by the racist and insane police aided by prosecutors like harris whose job is to hide and expunge evidence to convict more and more people, and the murder of the powerful, corrupt and vile by the people themselves if a group of people painted the walls of the resnicks' estate with their blood in solidarity with the people of fiji i would support that, despite being opposed to the death penalty
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Chichevache posted:Huh. Gang violence in the Bay Area is going to be a lot more interesting when NF hits the main line again. There are options to manage prison gangs that don’t involve torture.
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atelier morgan posted:there's a fundamental philosophical difference between the death penalty, murder imposed by the powerful on the poor, enforced by the racist and insane police aided by prosecutors like harris whose job is to hide and expunge evidence to convict more and more people, and the murder of the powerful, corrupt and vile by the people themselves Maybe the sincerity didn't come through in my post or I'm just drunk, but either way please know I whole heartedly agree with you.
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Snipee posted:There are options to manage prison gangs that don’t involve torture. Woah, man. I can't believe you're in here advocating the death penalty.
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# ? Mar 15, 2019 03:17 |
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Let me guess you live in Alamo
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# ? Mar 15, 2019 07:08 |
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Snipee posted:There are options to manage prison gangs that don’t involve torture. The prison gangs in the Cali prison system were essentially created by the prison system to help control the population by making them fight each other.
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# ? Mar 16, 2019 00:13 |
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Sydin posted:Okay, I have a confession to make. I actually support the death penalty. Yes, I admit it. How liberating. Lethal injections for all death row inmates. Hope & Change We Can Believe In
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# ? Mar 16, 2019 00:42 |
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fermun posted:This is the first of 2 votes. Today was the Brewery's NLRB vote, and the brewery workers can begin negotiating a contract but management convinced the NLRB that the taproom/pilot brewery/additional warehouse space across the street was a different site so should be under a second collective bargaining agreement. So on Friday, the taproom will vote as well. Should the tap room also vote yes, then they will also be able to begin negotiating their contracts, but it would ultimately be 2 contracts, one for the brewery, one for the tap room. Anchor Tap Room has 10 non-manager level employees that are eligible for the union vote, results were 6 yes, 2 no, 2 yes but being contested. That's enough.
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Jaxyon posted:The prison gangs in the Cali prison system were essentially created by the prison system to help control the population by making them fight each other. Lest anyone think this is a joke, it was official policy to force people from different gangs into yard time together and then shoot to kill if they fight.
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Trabisnikof posted:Lest anyone think this is a joke, it was official policy to force people from different gangs into yard time together and then shoot to kill if they fight. That's called general population. How should we handle prison gangs, separating them based on the gang they belong to? If so, that's going to start infringing upon their Title 15 rights by reducing their yard time.
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fermun posted:Anchor Tap Room has 10 non-manager level employees that are eligible for the union vote, results were 6 yes, 2 no, 2 yes but being contested. That's enough.
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# ? Mar 16, 2019 03:27 |
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There is a difference between gangs existing in genpop and it being official policy to put them together so you can execute them if they fight
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# ? Mar 16, 2019 03:33 |
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Xaris posted:why are the 2 yes votes being contested? I'm not sure, but ballots can be discarded if they are considered defaced so if someone accidentally made a mark on the ballot, then management could contest that ballot as part of an effort to try to get it thrown out. With only 10 votes being cast, getting a couple contested could make a big difference in outcome. Since 6 is enough to form the union though, it doesn't matter.
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Chichevache posted:That's called general population. How should we handle prison gangs, separating them based on the gang they belong to? If so, that's going to start infringing upon their Title 15 rights by reducing their yard time. Nope. It was official prison policy to research gang affiliations and then place 2 men each from 2 gangs into tiny yards together and then shoot to kill. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsnM6xsIvh8 It’s not surprising you’re either ignorant or a liar.
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Jaxyon posted:The prison gangs in the Cali prison system were essentially created by the prison system to help control the population by making them fight each other. In case anyone thinks this is an exaggeration: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/staged-fights-betting-guards-gunfire-and-death-for-the-gladiators-1310849.html quote:Violent inmates at California's top maximum-security jail were paired off in staged fights as watching prison guards bet on the outcomes, the Los Angeles Times reported yesterday. https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/av45x5/when-prison-guards-force-inmates-to-fight-403 quote:The gladiator matches aren't isolated to California. Across the country in St. Louis, a 2012 lawsuit alleged that at least two guards, and possibly more, coerced prisoners to fight one another. Using the promise of special privileges, extra food and snacks, the guards reportedly bribed attackers into fighting others, and like in San Francisco, are accused of making bets on the results. "For a guard it's easy to, you know, get in the ear of a gang banger to promise commissary, or phone calls in exchange for a fight," says Crawford. "The guards know that these young guys don't know anything."
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Trabisnikof posted:It was official prison policy to research gang affiliations and then place 2 men each from 2 gangs into tiny yards together and then shoot to kill. By the way, for anyone who is thinking about whether or not to watch that, (a) I found it interesting (although now I hate humanity a bit more) and (b) it's really only 45 minutes long, then bits of it are repeated. I don't think the narrator said explicitly, but I think they might have hinted at it, so: is there some benefit to them to put inmates in situations where they fight, so that they can then be kept there longer as punishment? It seems like this prison isn't private but maybe there's still some benefit to the people who run the place to keep the numbers up? Also when it says it's also dedicated to "Steve Rigg and Richard Caruso, former Correctional Officers who broke the code of silence and paid the price", I looked them up and https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Former-Guard-At-Corcoran-Settles-Suit-Prison-2925934.php says the latter got a payout in 1999 but I can't see what Rigg got apart from a few strokes and his life ruined.
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FRINGE posted:In case anyone thinks this is an exaggeration: Oh my God, I thought the whole prisoner-fight-club sub-plot in Riverdale was stupid and unrealistic but nope, apparently reality is even worse.
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# ? Mar 16, 2019 17:22 |
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lol CalPERS is doubling down on private equity. What could possibly go wrong?
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# ? Mar 19, 2019 02:23 |
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Did you know: PG&E bad?!quote:Long before the failure suspected in the Paradise fire, a company email had noted that some of PG&E’s structures in the area, known for fierce winds, were at risk of collapse. It reported corrosion of one tower so severe that it endangered crews trying to repair the tower. The company’s own guidelines put Tower 27/222 a quarter-century beyond its useful life — but the tower remained. quote:The commission’s safety and enforcement division found in 2012 that PG&E’s gas and transmission revenues exceeded what it was authorized to collect by $224 million in the decade leading up to the explosion. But capital spending fell $93 million short of its authorized budget between 1997 and 2000. PG&E also spent millions less on operations and maintenance than it was supposed to. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/03/18/business/pge-california-wildfires.html The main thrust of this article isn't really news to us I think, but it has some examples that I didn't know
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# ? Mar 19, 2019 15:11 |
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I wonder if this thing is worth attending, seeing as it's a ten-minute bike ride from my house: https://californiaprogressivealliance.org/2019-founding-convention/
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# ? Mar 28, 2019 18:02 |
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CPColin posted:I wonder if this thing is worth attending, seeing as it's a ten-minute bike ride from my house: Been hearing buzz about this from my local DSA electoral working group (we have some good connections to progressive groups), and also just got to hear Valentin Lopez speak about Juristac and the Amah Mutsun on Sunday. I would say it's worth it. edit: Also, from what I heard of McLaughlin's coalition-building efforts in Richmond, this may have some promise. Mitsuo fucked around with this message at 18:32 on Mar 28, 2019 |
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I'll be at that convention. I hear around 250 other people will. My prediction is that, like every other progressive California gathering of that size, it's going to be a fight, and not all of the news from it will be good. E: I'm still excited to go because that is the specific kind of sicko I am, and I encourage similar sickos to drop by and unite to seek power. Doc Hawkins fucked around with this message at 21:16 on Mar 28, 2019 |
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I ended up not getting a ticket, but I did become a dues-paying member so I can read all the PDF's and vote on poo poo tomorrow!
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# ? Mar 30, 2019 20:21 |
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I got the email with the voting link and it mentions this:quote:Please know that there have been amendments made at the convention today but unfortunately those amendments are not available online for those of you not in attendance. Maybe next year! Great. Thanks.
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# ? Mar 31, 2019 19:43 |
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https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1112898460297121794?s=21 Our senior senator is still shocking me with new ways to be completely awful.
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# ? Apr 2, 2019 05:50 |
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SeANMcBAY posted:https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1112898460297121794?s=21 Well, she's right. It isn't remotely sexy. And I do find it impressive how, when I think she can't get any worse, she goes and finds some new awful depth to plunge. Really looking forward to her finally keeling over so we can drag her withered husk out of the senate seat.
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# ? Apr 2, 2019 06:21 |
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California Politics Thread: Worse than no rain is rain on the weekend you thought it was finally safe to reserve a campsite
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CPColin posted:I ended up not getting a ticket, but I did become a dues-paying member so I can read all the PDF's and vote on poo poo tomorrow! Sorry this didn't work out. To be honest I'm cancelling my membership until the steering committee commits to anti-racism and anti-harrasment training for leadership and members. There was a great off-program break-out session on the broader subject, and a bunch of people shared a bunch of hosed up poo poo they had to deal with. Also my friend's abusers seem to still be in Our Revolution East Bay leadership, and defended by folks in the Richmond Progressive Alliance and even some DSA chapters. But I met a bunch of really nice people too, including DSA SLO. I'd recommend talking to them, if you're looking for progressive organizations to join.
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CPColin posted:California Politics Thread: Worse than no rain is rain on the weekend you thought it was finally safe to reserve a campsite I went backpacking in Butano State Park a few weeks ago between the storms and it was good.
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quote:As many of you may know by now, the recent serious mishandling of a grievance by the Steering Committee of DSA-LA has significantly disrupted the ongoing work and functioning of the chapter. The Steering Committee's mishandling of this grievance caused great harm, induced understandable anger among the chapter’s membership, and significantly eroded the trust of membership in the remaining members of the Steering Committee.
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# ? Apr 10, 2019 00:45 |
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what was said grievance? Was it upthread and I missed it?
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# ? Apr 10, 2019 01:01 |
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Nope. I have no idea either.
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# ? Apr 10, 2019 01:02 |
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Hadn't heard about this, but if you google "Nathan Fisher DSA" you can find some context.
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Rodenthar Drothman posted:what was said grievance? Was it upthread and I missed it? i guess it's this: https://twitter.com/TiffanyKatz/status/1113102342339981313
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