Harvey Milk Club members, others converged on MLK Day to reaffirm the site as community space By MARKE B. JANUARY 20, 2021 (48hills.org) Members of the Harvey Milk Club and others posted memorials to recently deceased LGBTQ people at Castro’s Hibernia Beach on MLK Day. Photo provided by Lee Hepner Share… Continue reading
Revolutionary Love: A Political Manifesto to Heal and Transform the World by Michael Lerner From social theorist and psychotherapist Rabbi Michael Lerner comes a strategy for a new socialism built on love, kindness, and compassion for one another. Revolutionary Love proposes a method to replace what Lerner terms the “capitalist globalization of selfishness”… Continue reading
21 JANUARY 2021/SF NEWS/JAY BARMANN (sfist.com) The meme of Bernie Sanders sitting slouched, masked, and wearing some large and cozy mittens while waiting for Joe Biden to be inaugurated on Wednesday spread fast and wide. And now there are some Bay Area editions. The meme all began with photographer Brendan… Continue reading
Am not back posting on a regular basis. *** ASL interpretation – Let me know if your event needs this service .*** Please include Accessibility and ASL info in your events! And if your action is ‘child friendly’ These are JUSTICE and INCLUSIVE issues! Please post your actions on Indybay even if event is digital: https://www.indybay.org/calendar/?page_id=12 See Indybay… Continue reading
Max Rashbrooke|TEDxAuckland (ted.com) Democracy needs an update — one that respects and engages citizens by involving them in everyday political decisions, says writer and researcher Max Rashbrooke. He outlines three global success stories that could help move democratic systems forward and protect society against the new challenges this century is… Continue reading
Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain, Mark Bostridge (Introduction) Much of what we know and feel about the First World War we owe to Vera Brittain’s elegiac yet unsparing book, which set a standard for memoirists from Martha Gellhorn to Lillian Hellman. Abandoning her studies at Oxford in 1915 to enlist as a… Continue reading
DMayor Alex Morse speaks at Jay’s Bed and Breakfast in Holyoke, Mass., on Sept. 1, 2020. Photo: Hoang Leon Nguyen/The Republican/AP A university investigation found no policy violations by Morse — unsurprising since he was accused of none — but more evidence of Democratic Party meddling. Eoin Higgins, Ryan GrimJanuary 18 2021,… Continue reading
Bernie Sanders In this time of unprecedented crises, Congress and the Biden administration must respond through unprecedented action Democrats must summon the courage to demonstrate to the American people that government can effectively and rapidly respond to their pain and anxiety Photograph: Rex/Shutterstock Wed 20 Jan 2021 06.16 EST (theguardian.com) Arecord-breaking… Continue reading
On Monday, Members of the Milk Club Board and the Castro community came together to put up a memorial for Ken Jones at the corner of 18th Street and Castro, otherwise known as “Hibernia Beach.” Just days before, Bank of America had erected signs prohibiting the posting of any materials… Continue reading
The incoming president’s plan mimics an insurance industry letter, instead of pushing a promised public option or Democratic legislation to expand Medicare. Andrew Perez and Julia Rock Jan 19, 2021 (The Daily Poster) Photo credit: Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images This report was written by Andrew Perez and Julia Rock. President-elect Joe… Continue reading
