Monthly Archives: December 2024

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FRI, 12/20/2024 – BY CARL GIBSON (Occupy.com) This last month has shown America that society will gladly tolerate vigilante violence, provided a vigilante chooses the right target. In 2023, Daniel Penny killed Jordan Neely — a mentally ill, homeless Black man — on a New York City subway. He was acquitted… Continue reading →

Unhoused people are seen near the City Hall during heavy rain in San Francisco, California, on December 26, 2024.  (Photo: Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images) “Increased homelessness is the tragic, yet predictable, consequence of underinvesting in the resources and protections that help people find and maintain safe, affordable housing,” said… Continue reading →

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) speaks during the Democratic National Convention on August 20, 2024 in Chicago.  (Photo: Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images) “It’s not just the billionaire ownership and control over the economy and the media that should concern us. The uber-rich are also buying our government and… Continue reading →

ASIA / PACIFIC South Korea’s main opposition party said it introduced a bill to impeach acting President Han Duck-soo on Thursday and would hold a vote on Friday, a move that could deepen the country’s constitutional crisis triggered by a short-lived martial law.  Issued on: 26/12/2024 – France24.com By: NEWS WIRES… Continue reading →

The Political Mind: A Cognitive Scientist’s Guide to Your Brain and Its Politics George Lakoff A groundbreaking scientific examination of the way our brains understand politics from a New York Times bestselling author One of the world ‘s best-known linguists and cognitive scientists, George Lakoff has a knack for making… Continue reading →

by YUJIE ZHOU DECEMBER 25, 2024 (MissionLocal.org) Chestnut-backed chickadees, yellow warblers and other feathered birds have landed this winter on otherwise-unassuming green utility boxes along South Van Ness Avenue and Bryant Street in the Mission. These 20 feathered friends are the creation of Claudio Talavera-Ballón, a Mission-based Peruvian painter sponsored by the nonprofit… Continue reading →

African migrants prepare to be rescued in the Mediterranean Sea on October 25, 2022.  (Photo: Vincenzo Circosta/AFP via Getty Images) “These figures are evidence of a profound failure of rescue and protection systems,” said one campaigner. BRETT WILKINS Dec 26, 2024 (CommonDreams.org) More than 10,000 migrants died while trying to… Continue reading →

People hold signs during a press conference on the Climate Change Superfund Act at Pier 17 on May 26, 2023 in New York City.  (Photo: Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images) “The billions begin to add up. This is, more or less, how the states slowly and then quite rapidly took down… Continue reading →

26 DECEMBER 2024/SF NEWS/JOE KUKURA (SFist.com) The Christmas morning actions of 37-year-old Steven Weatherford saved the lives of his aunt, uncle, and brother when their Oak Knoll house caught fire Christmas morning, but Weatherford himself would perish after saving his family. 37-year-old Steven Weatherford of Antioch was staying at his… Continue reading →