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• Bay area childcare providers, parents, allies hold “Day without Childcare” to blast cuts to childcare, Head Start
• Democrats push back after ICE arrest of Newark mayor Baraka at controversial ICE detention center
• Homeless, advocates blast Oakland’s sweep of city’s largest unhoused community
• Governor Newsom urges cities to act swiftly on homelessness – by clearing homeless encampments
• Half a million people in Gaza face starvation between May and September, according to new IPC report
• UN chief Guterres marks Buddhist holiday Wesak, saying Buddha’s teachings of compassion, tolerance and selfless service resonate with UN values

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