BY MEAGAN DAY (jacobinmag.com) Under Ed Lee, San Francisco was remade into a playground for tech capitalists and real estate developers. San Francisco mayor Ed Lee smiles as he campaigns in Chinatown on November 8, 2011 in San Francisco, California. Justin Sullivan / Getty Ed Lee died suddenly this week at age sixty-five, while… Continue reading
corpocracy PRONUNCIATION: (kor-POK-ruh-see) MEANING: noun: A society in which corporations control the government. ETYMOLOGY: From corporate, from Latin corpus (body) + -cracy (rule). Ultimately from the Indo-European root kwrep- (body, form), which is also the source of corps, corpus, corpse, corporation, corpulent, corset, corsage, leprechaun, and corpus delicti. Earliest documented use: 1935.
posted by PUBLIC BANKING INST | December 20, 2017 Photo courtesy WHYY Governor-elect Phil Murphy has wasted no time in moving forward on his signature campaign pledge to create a Public Bank. He has chosen Assemblywoman Marlene Caride to be the next commissioner of Banking and Insurance. “This, to me, is a… Continue reading
December 19, 2017 (moc.media) Ai Weiwei, Mona Hatoum, Hank Willis Thomas and 33 more artists display 36 prayer rugs at Fort Mason, a former military base. The projects wants to highlight the importance of migration and remind people that “borders themselves are a fiction”. Sanctuary installation view. Photo: Robert Divers… Continue reading
A really BIG shout-out to JP Massar and Debbie Notkin for their beautifully organized and delivered discourse on financial inequality on KPFA’s Full Circle. And another BIG shout-out to Darlene Pagano for making it happen and hosting the show!!! In case you haven’t heard it yet: https://kpfa.org/episode/fund-drive-special-december-15-2017-3/
11/21/2017 (huffingtonpost.com) By Marcia G. Yerman, When Donald Trump lost the popular vote by 3 million but won the Electoral College, the debate about our electoral system became more urgent. On November 7, the New York Times editorial board published the opinion piece, “Let the People Pick the President.” It proposed the National Popular… Continue reading
December 17, 2017 When I arrived at City Hall today, there already was one Ed Lee critic there with a sign, an acquaintance named Nicholas. We stood near the entrance together asking folks to remember 1000s evicted from their SF homes, while Lee ran the city. We were joined by… Continue reading
As you may know, on December 14th the FCC spearheaded by former Verizon lawyer Ajit Pai voted along party lines to repeal Net Neutrality protections and attempt to bar states from enacting their own rules. Going against 83% of Americans who favored keeping a free and open internet. Though the… Continue reading
Enlarge Two San Francisco city supervisors are pushing the city to open its own public bank, in a bid to give cannabis business owners a place to bank safely. BRENT LEWIN/BLOOMBERG By Riley McDermid – Digital Producer, San Francisco Business Times Dec 4, 2017 (bizjournals.com) Two San Francisco city supervisors are pushing the… Continue reading
