by Randy Shaw on November 20, 2023 (BeyondChron.org) APEC’s dazzling fireworks show A Resident and Business Backlash It’s time to assess how APEC impacted San Francisco’s residents, workers, and international image. And to ask: Should the city compensate businesses for their losses? Did APEC impact Mayor Breed’s re-election chances? Can sidewalks cleared for… Continue reading
Oxfam says there is no such thing as an effective climate plan that isn’t also an economic equality plan. ByTIM REDMOND NOVEMBER 20, 2023 (48hills.org) A dramatic new report from Oxfam, the international anti-poverty group, lays out in the clearest possible terms that climate change is directly linked to economic… Continue reading
Meyerson on TAPAmericans’ economic views are at odds with Americans’ economic behavior. So, whence those views? A Quinnipiac Poll from late this summer contained this conundrum: Asked to describe the nation’s economy, 28 percent said it was good or excellent (excellent was just 3 percent), while 71 percent described it as not so… Continue reading
by WILL JARRETT and JOE ESKENAZI NOVEMBER 3, 2021 (Mission Local.org) Last updated: November 2023 In January, 2020, the first domino fell. Mohammad Nuru, then the director of the San Francisco Department of Public Works, was hit with a raft of federal corruption charges and was accused of lying to the FBI – crimes that… Continue reading
Germans cheer Adolf Hitler on his 51st birthaday as he stands on the balcony of the Reich Chancellory. (Photo: Bettman / via Getty Images) There are few Americans alive today who remember Hitler, and for most of us the details of his rise to power are lost to the mists… Continue reading
Injured Palestinians evacuated from the Indonesian Hospital in the north of the Gaza Strip receive care at Nasser Hospital in the Palestinian territory’s southern city of Khan Yunis on November 20, 2023. (Photo: AFP via Getty Images) “You have destroyed the international rules of the game, insulted the authority of… Continue reading
Published Yesterday (TheOnion.com) WASHINGTON—Deciding it was time for her to become more politically active, Vice President Kamala Harris recently logged onto ActBlue to donate $7 to the Biden reelection campaign, sources reported Monday. “This is just my way of doing something to help out,” said Harris, who briefly considered rounding… Continue reading
Standing up against genocide PATRICK MAZZA NOV 20, 2023 (theraven.substack.com) We shut down the Space Needle yesterday. Close to 500 stood at the base of the Needle while protesters in shirts saying “NOT IN OUR NAME” and “CEASEFIRE NOW” blocked the doors, arms clasped together, willing to go to jail… Continue reading
Why not let the unhoused take over some empty SF office buildings? Rally suggests solution to downtown vacancies—and homelessness ByMARY JANE AGNEW NOVEMBER 17, 2023 Share on Facebook Share on X (Twitter) Share on LinkedIn Share on RedditShare on Email “It’s been a real blessing to be able to focus on my personal… Continue reading
Cuba solidarity activists rally in SF as U.N. overwhelmingly calls for end to embargo US talks human rights—but the blockade against Cuba violates the human rights of the Cuban people. ByMARK GINSBURG NOVEMBER 19, 2023 (48hills.org) On November 2, the United Nations General Assembly voted 187-2 (US and Israel voting no), with… Continue reading
