Supervisor Rafael Mandelman and former Supervisor Sandra Lee Fewer stood outside The City’s first Safe Sleeping Village at Civic Center to announce legislation on Oct. 20, 2021 to establish a Safe Sleeping Sites Program for unsheltered people. (Kevin N. Hume/S.F. Examiner) COMMUNITY CONTRIBUTOR Apr. 15, 2021 10:30 p.m. (SFExaminer.com) NEWSLETTER… Continue reading
Jessica Zack April 15, 2021 Updated: April 17, 2021 (SFChronicle.com) For a devoted futurist like Stewart Brand, who is famous for his projections about technology and the environment, looking at his own past doesn’t necessarily come naturally. Given his fame as creator of the iconic 1960s DIY handbook Whole Earth Catalog… Continue reading
Jeremy Lin spent much of his 42-night stay at Walt Disney World’s Coronado Springs Resort reading 15 books. One called “The Burden is Light,” in which a New York-based pastor details the merits of freeing oneself from the pressure of accolades or comparisons, particularly resonated with him. Since returning from… Continue reading
Dear Humans, The time has come: the first blockchain-based democracy is live! ✊ A truly decentralized experiment, with members coming from all four corners of the Earth 🌎 to assert their right to having a political voice, a Universal Basic Income, and true digital sovereignty. Here’s a quick intro video: We know… Continue reading
SUN, 4/11/2021 – BY STEVE RUSHTON (Occupy.com) This is the eleventh installment in a series about extending the Green New Deal to confront multiple global crises. Read Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, Part V, Part VI, Part VII, Part VIII, Part IX and Part X. “The health of ecosystems on which we and all other species depend is deteriorating… Continue reading
MON, 4/12/2021 – BY GABRIELLE PICKARD-WHITEHEAD (Occupy.com) The long Easter weekend saw thousands of demonstrators join rallies and marches across Britain as part of a high-prolife censure of a proposed new law that would give police extra powers to curtail protests. Protestors gathered in 25 cities across England and Wales to support… Continue reading
The pair will discuss “finding bipartisan solutions” at the conference of the major lobby group fighting Dems’ minimum wage and labor legislation. David Sirota, Andrew Perez, and Joel WarnerApr 16, 2021 (The Daily Poster) Sens. Kyrsten Sinema, left, and Joe Manchin (Photo credit: Zach Gibson and Patrick Smith/Getty Images) This report was… Continue reading
The cuts would gut up to 52 percent of the ESL staff. by ANNIKA HOM APRIL 16, 2021 (MissionLocal.org) As City College San Francisco threatens to lay off nearly 200 full-time faculty by mid-May, students and teachers from the school’s English as a Second Language program pleaded the college to save… Continue reading
by JULIAN MARK APRIL 15, 2021 (missionlocal.org) Approximately 200 demonstrators gathered at Mission High School on Thursday evening and marched to Mission Police Station, shouting “fuck the police” and chanting the names of Daunte Wright and Roger Allen — two unarmed Black men killed by police in recent days. Wright, a… Continue reading
