Comprehensive coverage of the day’s news with a focus on war and peace; social, environmental and economic justice.

- Dem Cory Booker holds Senate floor for record 25hrs 5min to disrupt Senate in protest of Trump attack on people and democracy
- 20,000 UC workers strike to protest unfair labor practices, 3rd such strike in 2 months, future strikes likely
- Children’s Hospital Oakland workers rally against plan to merge with UCSF, say merger would undermine union and hurt patients
- 23 states sue HHS Secretary Kennedy over $11 billion cut to state/local public health funding, including $800 million cut to California childhood vaccinations and measles/flu response
- Gaza’s 25 World Food Programme bakeries closed due to of flour and lack of cooking gas