March 2017 Poor Tour activists Tanis and Mike Zint in conversation. The tent protest community has been at its current location in Berkeley CA after many moves and over 15 raids. The city is now considering a proposal for a permanent tent community site and a tiny homes project. PHOTO/SARAH… Continue reading
San Francisco and Oakland are pulling investments that support the Dakota Access Pipeline. Here’s how you can, too. Traditional Aztec dancers perform a ceremony outside the Federal Building in S.F. protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline being constructed. (Photo by Jessica Christian) The controversial Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) has infuriated Native… Continue reading
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!” –Upton Sinclair Jr. (September 20, 1878 – November 25, 1968) was an American writer who wrote nearly 100 books and other works in several genres. Sinclair’s work was well-known and popular… Continue reading
Photo: John Blanchard, The Chronicle With controversy swelling over President Trump’s picks for the top executives in his administration, we asked readers to create their own shadow Cabinet. That is, to list their choices for the key administrative posts — attorney general, secretaries of defense, interior, commerce, education and others… Continue reading
Occupiers at Liberty City, Berkeley City Hall in California. PHOTO/SARAH MENEFEE Editor’s note: These are posts that Mike Zint, of ‘First they came for the homeless’, wrote on social media on the realities of life on the streets and the movement for homeless rights and the right to housing. He… Continue reading
BayResistance The BayResistance email list now has 15,000 names. 1500 people came to the event on March 4, which was extremely well organized. It filled Mission High School in SF. There was simultaneous translation into Spanish, Chinese and sign language; childcare; a scent-free section, etc. The program opened with percussion… Continue reading
Monument to the “Weiße Rose” in front of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich The White Rose (German: die Weiße Rose) was a non-violent, intellectual resistance group in Nazi Germany led by a group of students and a professor at the University of Munich. The group conducted an anonymous leaflet… Continue reading
