Healthcare is a civil rights and justice issue to establish health equity and end all barriers to care, but once again corporate healthcare giants are on the wrong side of history — choosing their profits over our community’s needs. The grassroots movement, led by the nurses and Assemblymember Ash Kalra, was… Continue reading
This story is published as part of Teen Vogue’s 2022 Economic Security Project fellowship. “Now is the time,” the senator tells Teen Vogue. BY JACQUI GERMAIN JANUARY 24, 2022 (teenvogue.com) On the eve of the one-year anniversary of his inauguration, President Biden held a two-hour-long press conference. The final reporter to speak asked a simple… Continue reading
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Anocracy or semi-democracy[1] is a form of government that is loosely defined as part democracy and part dictatorship,[2][3] or as a “regime that mixes democratic with autocratic features.”[3] Another definition classifies anocracy as “a regime that permits some means of participation through opposition group behavior but that has incomplete development of mechanisms to… Continue reading
Analysis: Differing views over Russia within Nato alliance resurface in Ukraine crisis Patrick Wintour Diplomatic Editor Wed 26 Jan 2022 (TheGuardian.com) Can the western alliance against Russia over its buildup of troops on the Ukrainian border hold together? It is a question that politicians and diplomats are increasingly grappling with amid… Continue reading
San Francisco League of Pissed Off Voters Just a quickie this time! We’ve whipped up a great drinking game to keep you sane through this mid-winter election. Wait, did we say drinking game? We meant we whipped up a Voter guide, a pissed off voter guide. Check it out here and don’t… Continue reading
Harmulus General Melchett shares some of his wisdom en gives an insight in the life of a British general during the first world war. Behold as grand tactics unfold beneath your very own eyes and grasp you with this A-historic comedy. “He fails to understand or comprehend the basic concepts of… Continue reading
SFGATE politics editor Eric Ting tries to deduce why the sitting House Speaker is running for re-election Eric Ting, SFGATE Jan. 25, 2022 (SFGate.com) House Speaker Nancy Pelosi — who will be turning 82 in March — announced Tuesday that she will run for another two-year term in Congress, ending speculation that she might retire… Continue reading
Posted on January 25, 2022 by SF Forest Alliance (SFForest.org) It’s January, and San Francisco is brightened by the yellow oxalis springing up on green hillsides. Less bright, though, is the usual Blights of Spring – herbicides applied in our parks where our kids and pups play. Here’s an idyllic scene in Glen… Continue reading
Link to video: https://player.pbs.org/portalplayer/3057437979/?uid=637a34e8-985c-493a-809e-4a281dc3ab68&unsafeDisableUpsellHref=true&unsafePostMessages=true FUTURE OF WORK Episode 1 | 55m 6s|Video has closed captioning.Add toMy List In addition to illuminating the ongoing drivers for disruptions to the world of work – AI, robotics, platform technology, globalization, labor practices — the pandemic has been a driver of change. Unemployment flipped from… Continue reading
Three builders with projects pending or just approved in SF donated to a sitting supervisor. By TIM REDMOND JANUARY 21, 2022 (48Hills.org) UPDATE: After this article was published, Haney decided to give back all the money illegally donated to his campaign from individuals with development agreements pending with the city…. Continue reading
