Legislation by Sup. Rafael Mandelman aims to get people off the streets — but homeless advocates are not supporting it. That’s The Agenda for April 18-25 ByTIM REDMOND -APRIL 18, 2021 (48hills.org) The Board of Supes Budget and Finance Committee will consider Wednesday/21 a proposal to mandate “safe sleeping sites” for any unhoused… Continue reading
Few events that might be of interest…Am NOT back posting on a regular basis *** ASL interpretation – Let me know if your event needs this service .*** Please include Accessibility and ASL info in your events! And if your action is ‘child friendly’ Please post your actions on Indybay: https://www.indybay.org/calendar/?page_id=12 See Indybay for many… Continue reading
Ryann LiebenthalApril 19, 2021 (NewRepublic.com) How student debtors took a radical idea to the mainstream ILLUSTRATIONS BY LYNDON HAYES In the summer of 2007, Thomas Gokey had just graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and he was thinking about how much his degree had cost him…. Continue reading
Our Life Documentary in which Emmy award-winning film-maker Deeyah Khan meets US neo-Nazis and white nationalists face-to-face, and attends America’s biggest and most violent far right rally in recent years. Khan, who has received death threats in the past after advocating diversity and multiculturalism, tries to get behind the violent ideology… Continue reading
by KEVIN FREKING Associated Press Monday, April 19th 2021 (local12.com) 3VIEW ALL PHOTOS Rep. Joyce Beatty, D-Ohio, center, listens as Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Tex., right, chair of the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security, attends a markup in the House Judiciary Committee of a bill to create a commission to… Continue reading
Russell Brand Documentary filmmaker Deeyah Khan is determined to confront hate and prejudice by meeting some of the most extremist groups in the world. She has sat down with White Supremicists in the US and interviewed former Jihadists to further understand what drives people to join these groups. Her film “White… Continue reading
Violent crime has decreased in The City since San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin took office. (Kevin N. Hume/S.F. Examiner) COMMUNITY CONTRIBUTOR Apr. 16, 2021 1:30 p.m. (SFExaminer.com) NEWSLETTER OPINION Issues of crime and punishment are among the hardest we deal with as a society. Victims deserve justice. Our communities… Continue reading
Former Stockton Mayor Michael Tubbs spoke to San Francisco’s new Guaranteed Income Advisory Group on April 16. (Courtesy SFGOV) JOSHUA SABATINI Apr. 16, 2021 5:20 p.m. (SFExaminer.com) NEWS NEWSLETTER THE CITY San Francisco on Friday launched a guaranteed income task force that could lead to a pilot program where up… Continue reading
CARLY GRAF Apr. 16, 2021 8:30 a.m. (SFExaminer.com) NEWS NEWSLETTER THE CITY A protester lights the American flag on fire in front of the SFPD Station on Valencia Street. (Jordi Molina/ Special to the S.F. Examiner) Demonstrators march from Mission High School towards the San Francisco Police station on Valencia… Continue reading
Marianne Williamson I know it’s hard to believe, but the next campaign season is right around the corner! I have endorsed some wonderful candidates and I’m grateful for the opportunity to introduce them to you. Watch my Candidate Summit where I introduce you to exciting candidates running for office around… Continue reading
