No More Military Cargo for Israel Through Our Airports!

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No More Military Cargo for Israel Through Our Airports!
Civilian airports are in danger due to the shipments of arms, …ammunition, and military cargo through our travel nodes.

Shipping weapons on our planes is dangerous – in May, a shipment of 14 tons of a highly explosive TNT equivalent to the Israeli military through a cargo terminal at JFK Airport put the lives of thousands of workers and community members at risk.

Since January 2025, at least 280 military cargo shipments to Israel have departed from Oakland Airport (see the full report at www.armsembargonow.com/report).

On August 7, 2025, United Airlines shipped over two tonnes of military parts to Israel on a passenger flight (see https://www.ontheditch.com/united-airlines-illegally-transported/).

Israel is the largest recipient of U.S. foreign aid, having received $300 billion in assistance from American taxpayers. That money could be better spent helping people here at home. Israel has killed over 84,000 people in Gaza directly including over 13,000 children, and has indirectly killed over 104,000 people through its blockades on food aid. The hospitals, schools, water systems, and agriculture built by Gaza's workers have been destroyed by Israel's continued

We are joining the majority of people across the country who believe that we should stop sending military aid to Israel.

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University of California pushes for $12B scientific research bond to counter federal cuts
The bond will appear on the November ballot if Senate Bill 895 clears the Legislature and receives Newsom's signature this month
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University of California researchers rally in support of Senate Bill 895, which, if approved, would place a $12 billion research bond on the November ballot.
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The Trump administration has awarded fewer grants toward scientific research or eliminated them altogether, impacting researchers at several California universities.
In response, the University of California is pushing to get a $12 billion state bond on the November ballot to fund scientific research at California universities, research institutes and private companies.
For the bond to appear on the ballot, the state Legislature first needs to approve Senate Bill 895, which is supported by the union representing academic workers at UC.
David Boyer is stuck in a waiting game. For more than 18 months, silence from the National Institutes of Health on a crucial grant decision has thrown his research developing treatments for Alzheimer’s disease into uncertain territory.

His application received a favorable impact score, the main metric used for NIH funding decisions, so the postdoctoral scholar at UCLA figured he would hear good news by spring of 2025. Instead, he has heard nothing.

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David Boyer, a postdoctoral scholar in UCLA’s Eisenberg Lab
Without the funding, he has less to spend on his experiments, which require thousands of dollars worth of materials, including advanced microscopes. In a worst-case scenario, it’s possible he could lose his job if the grant doesn’t come through.

“It’s really up in the air whether I would be able to continue getting funded,” said Boyer, who is part of UCLA’s Eisenberg Lab.

Boyer is not alone. Federal funding for scientific research, from agencies such as NIH and the National Science Foundation, has been upended under the Trump administration, with fewer grants being awarded and some existing grants being canceled altogether. Even researchers with stable funding worry that their grants could get suspended or will not be renewed.

But now, Boyer and other researchers at California universities have some hope that they could get a reprieve — from California voters.

The University of California is pushing to get a $12 billion state bond on the November ballot that would fund scientific research projects at California universities, research institutes and private companies. In addition to UC and California State University campuses, private universities such as Stanford and the University of Southern California would also be eligible for the bond money.

For the bond to appear on the ballot, the state Legislature first needs to approve Senate Bill 895. The bill’s sponsors include UC and UAW 4811, the union representing 48,000 academic workers at UC, including thousands of researchers.

The bill was approved last week by the Senate and now heads to the Assembly. It must be passed and signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom by June 25 to make the ballot.

“As the federal government cuts and destroys scientific funding, as it creates long-term instability and uncertainty, as science has now become a political football in this country, let’s make sure that California retains and expands our leadership in scientific research,” state Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, said on the Senate floor last week just before the vote. Wiener is one of the authors of the bill.

If passed and approved by voters, the measure would create the California Foundation for Science and Health Research, which would award the grants using “an open, competitive, scientific peer review process,” according to the bill.

The bond would not be a cure-all for research funding if federal spending continues to dwindle. UC alone gets nearly $6 billion annually in federal support for research.

“There is nobody else who can substitute for research funding on the scale the federal government supplies,” said Simon Atkinson, vice chancellor for research at UC Davis.

Still, Atkinson and other proponents of the bond agree that it would benefit researchers in California not to rely so much on the federal government, especially under the Trump administration, which proposed a $5 billion cut to NIH for 2027. Last week, The New York Times reported that NSF had slowed funding to Harvard and other institutions targeted by the White House, though the impact on California campuses is unclear.

Having another potential funding source would be welcome news to Ximena Anleu Gil, a plant biologist at UC Davis who researches how to breed more plants in environmentally friendly ways.

There is one year remaining on the grant that funds Gil’s position in UC Davis’ Meyers Lab. The prospect of not having the funding renewed is stressful for Gil, who is the main provider for her family, which includes her partner and 7-month-old daughter.

“I’m very scared of what could happen. If I’m laid off, we’re screwed,” Gil said. “But having another source of potential funding, that would already feel like a big relief.”

If voters approve the bond, the legislation requires that priority be given to replacing funding slashed by the federal government.

In California, 782 grants have been terminated by the federal government since January 2025, according to the website Grant Witness, a project tracking terminations under the Trump administration.

Most of those grants have been restored under court orders, but dozens remain canceled, including one at UC San Francisco’s Center for AIDS Research that paid for training for undergraduate students.

Under that grant, students from nearby Hispanic-Serving Institutions, including San Francisco State University, would spend the summer at UCSF doing HIV research. At the end of the summer, the center would hold a symposium where undergraduates present their findings.

The idea was to expose those students to the field and get them interested in HIV research, said Monica Gandhi, director of the center.

“There are fewer and fewer people going into infectious disease research at a time when infectious diseases are all over,” Gandhi said. “It really just got them excited, and we thought it would help grow our biomedical research workforce in a really important topic.”

If California’s bond goes through, Gandhi said she expects the center would immediately apply for a grant to restart that program.

Federal funding remains intact for the rest of the AIDS research center, which organizes all HIV research across UCSF. But it’s not clear how long that will be the case. Gandhi said the center is waiting for a formal notice from NIH to apply for a grant renewal, which she said normally would have come by now.

“There are all these little ways they are making it harder to get funding,” she said. “Having a California-based initiative that isn’t political and will have the grants be judged on their scientific merit would be amazing. And I think it will go a long way.”

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Hollywood unions, workers push back against Paramount-Skydance deal
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Hollywood workers and union representatives rallied in Los Angeles on Saturday against Paramount Skydance's proposed $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, Reuters reported.
Protesters argued the deal could lead to additional job losses and reduce competition across the entertainment industry.

The event, held at Lumiere Music Hall, marked the first stop of a three-city "Main Street vs. The Merger" campaign organized by advocacy groups, industry workers, and the Writers Guild of America.
Participants expressed concerns that continued consolidation among major media companies could weaken employment opportunities and reduce the number of outlets available for creative content.
Comedian Adam Conover, one of the featured speakers, said media mergers have already contributed to significant job losses across the industry.
He pointed to the cancellation of his television show following AT&T's acquisition of Time Warner in 2018 as an example of the impact consolidation can have on workers and production teams.
The proposed transaction would combine Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery, creating one of the world's largest entertainment companies.
Paramount Skydance has argued the merger would strengthen the combined business without harming competition or creative output.

Chief Executive David Ellison has pledged that the merged company would continue producing at least 30 films annually, seeking to address concerns about reduced content investment.
Regulatory scrutiny remains a key focus. Reuters reported Friday that a group of U.S. states, including California and New York, are preparing a lawsuit aimed at blocking the transaction.
Industry employment has already faced pressure in recent years. Data from the Milken Institute showed California lost more than 17,000 entertainment-related jobs between 2019 and 2023 as studios reduced spending and increasingly shifted production to lower-cost locations.
Conditions have also weakened across Hollywood production facilities. According to FilmLA, soundstage occupancy rates fell to 62% during the first half of 2025, down sharply from near-full utilization levels recorded in 2016.
Labor advocates have argued that reduced competition among major studios could further limit opportunities for workers and independent producers.

Some legal experts have suggested regulators could challenge the transaction on labor market grounds, citing precedent from previous antitrust cases where authorities argued mergers would reduce employment competition.
The deal remains subject to regulatory review and approval.

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Last week, the Supreme Court boosted the openly white supremacist campaign to suppress the Black vote in the Deep South. It ruled that districts jerry-mandered to discriminate against Black voters are constitutional. CC Cambell-Rock, an independent Black journalist from New Orleans, spoke with Pacifica’s Steve Zeltzer about what this means to her community.

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At the Microsoft Build conference in San Francisco, an annual event for engineers and other tech professionals, a former Microsoft worker and other activists spoke out against profiting from the use of the Azure cloud computing platform, AI, and other tech to commit genocide and war crimes. They called for a boycott of Microsoft products and a fight against massive public subsidy of the tech companies to wage war in the Middle East and around the world.

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Lital Singer of the Spartacist League spoke at a Partisan Defense Committee fundraiser for Class War Prisoners in NYC focusing on the case of political prisoner and veteran journalist Mumia Abu Jamal. Singer demands that a new generation take up the fight for Jamal’s freedom and against this racist frame-up system.

Next, we hear Mumia Abu Jamal’s message from prison addressing the attendees. In Mumia’s message from prison he highlighted the case of Alvaro Luna Hernandez aka Xinachtli, a political prisoner of the State of Texas and the U.S. government. Xinachtli is serving a 50 year prison sentence for an “aggravated assault” conviction stemming from a July 1996 incident in which he disarmed a Brewster County Sheriff who was attempting to shoot him. Alvaro vehemently denies the charge that he assaulted the Sheriff. To Mexican-Americans in the cities, slums, plains, deserts, and prison cages of the Southwest he is a civil rights hero, a Chicano freedom fighter true to his barrio roots and eternally fearless in the face of injustice.

For years, he has been internationally recognized by amnesty movements and human rights lawyers and experts as a U.S. political prisoner, yet inside the United States, the name Alvaro Luna Hernandez is little known. He is housed at the William McConnell Unit in Beehive, Texas, where he is a well-known jailhouse lawyer assisting other incarcerated people in their pursuit of justice.

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And that concludes today’s edition of Capitalism, Race & Democracy.We thank all of Pacifica’s sister stations and affiliates that contribute to the production of this show. Today’s program was produced by the Capitalism, Race & Democracy collective, with contributions from Steve Zeltzer, Ann Garrison, Polina Vasiliev, and Thomas O’Rourke.

You can find this and all previous episodes at our website “capitalism race and democracy dot ORG”. Make sure you click the subscribe button. Follow us on X, formerly Twitter, @PacificaCRD.

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PHOENIX—A 26,000-pound box truck loaded with Doritos and Frito-Lay chips rolls out of a distribution center, bound for a Walmart store about 4 miles away. It looks like any other truck, but there is no one at the wheel.
This is one of the 35 driverless trucks PepsiCo is running on Arizona roads, marking it as the first major U.S. consumer-goods company to disclose the real-life, large-scale use of autonomous trucks on public roads. They are traversing busy highways and local streets as they transport PepsiCo products between bottling plants, storage facilities and stores like Walmart and Dollar General.

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