Rep. Mike Quigley, D-Ill., walks down the House steps at the Capitol during the last votes of the week on Friday, April 1, 2022. (Photo: Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images) These companies receive over 50% of our annual defense budget and any member of Congress taking money from… Continue reading
10.13.2022 (SFPublicPress.org) | by PUBLIC PRESS STAFF | This is a nonpartisan analysis of the San Francisco ballot for the Nov. 8, 2022, election. It was created by Madison Alvarado, Liana Wilcox, Sylvie Sturm, Mel Baker, Camellia Burris, Yesica Prado, Lisa Rudman, Kurt Aguilar, Ambika Kandasamy and Lila LaHood. If you appreciate our… Continue reading
A Little-Known Civil War Story Illuminates America’s Broken Promise to Black America Historian Bennett Parten traces an oft-forgotten story from U.S. General William T. Sherman’s march through Georgia in 1864: the incident at Ebenezer Creek where the American case for reparations began. Illustration by Be Boggs. by BENNETT PARTEN | OCTOBER 31, 2022 (zocalopublicsquare.org) Americans get Sherman’s March… Continue reading
RYAN KOST Oct. 30, 2022 (SFChronicle.com) Comments There was a rhythm to life on The Land, a sweet cadence in the place up Sherwood Road, just outside Willits in unincorporated Mendocino County. The days began at first light — a meal, perhaps, followed by the gathering of firewood. Early on,… Continue reading
Musk will likely ruin Twitter for one specific user: himself. Jon Schwarz October 28 2022, 12:56 p.m. (CommonDreams.org) BECOME A MEMBER Tesla CEO Elon Musk in Stavanger, Norway, on Aug. 29, 2022. Photo: NTB/AFP via Getty Images ELON MUSK (and his consortium of much smaller investors) now owns Twitter. We need to… Continue reading
Supporters of Brazilian President-Elect Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva celebrate while watching the vote count in the October 30, 2022 presidential runoff in São Paulo. (Photo: Caio Guatelli/AFP via Getty Images) The Workers’ Party candidate, who completed a remarkable political comeback less than three years removed from a prison cell,… Continue reading
Listen to podcast: Radio//Here & Now October 31, 2022 Her story is one that could have been so many different books. One would tell the story of growing up in an increasingly violent home, where both parents struggled with alcoholism. Another would be the story of coming of age in… Continue reading
“Our patriotism is that of the man who loves a woman with open eyes. He is enchanted by her beauty, yet he sees her faults.” –Emma Goldman Emma Goldman (June 27, 1869 – May 14, 1940) was an anarchist political activist and writer. She played a pivotal role in the… Continue reading
Written by Kevin Truong Published Oct. 11, 2022 • 12:55pm (SFStandard.com) The Starbucks location in the Castro at 4094 18th St. sometimes called BearBucks voted to form a union on Tuesday August 16, 2022 becoming the first location in San Francisco to successfully do so. | Camille Cohen/The Standard The National Labor… Continue reading
