The Vanguard has launched ticket sales and sponsorships for its 20th Anniversary Fundraiser on June 14 at the Wednesday Club in Suisun, honoring five public defenders and celebrating 20 years of impactful journalism and community advocacy.
Environmental activist Robin Greenfield has initiated a yearlong project to subsist exclusively on foraged food and medicinal plants, a demonstration intended to promote localized food systems and encourage public engagement with natural environments.
Horizontalism, a governance model advocating for the equitable distribution of power and resources, posits a system wherein decision-making authority resides with affected individuals rather than centralized hierarchies. Proponents assert that this framework, predicated on collective practice and mutual trust, aims to mitigate systemic exploitation and cultivate authentic community structures.
National homelessness decreased by 3.3% between 2024 and 2025, according to the annual Point-in-Time Homeless Census. The National Homelessness Law Center (NHLC) attributed this reduction to investments in housing and supportive services made during the previous Biden administration, concurrently warning that policy shifts under the current federal administration threaten to reverse these gains.
A new Amnesty International report accuses Florida officials and the Trump administration of overseeing an immigration detention system that subjects migrants and asylum seekers to conditions constituting torture, cruel and inhuman treatment, and, in some instances, enforced disappearances.