(thedailyposter.com) Pharma Front Group Has Spent $1.2 Million Backing Sinema BY ANDREW PEREZ – 08 NOV 2021 – VIEW ONLINE → A dark money group funded by drugmakers is blanketing the Arizona airwaves to build up support for Democratic Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, who just helped gut Democrats’ drug pricing plan. Center… Continue reading
9 NOVEMBER 2021/SF POLITICS/JOE KUKURA (SFist.com) After Los Angeles, San Jose, and Antioch have issued similar apologies for their historical mistreatment of the Chinese-American community, Supervisor Matt Haney wants one from SF, possibly with reparations. It is fair to look at everything District 6 Supervisor Matt Haney does these days… Continue reading
Exclusive: poll of 10 countries including US, UK, France and Germany finds people prioritising measures that are already habits Jon Henley@jonhenley Sun 7 Nov 2021 (theguardian.com) Citizens are alarmed by the climate crisis, but most believe they are already doing more to preserve the planet than anyone else, including their government,… Continue reading
San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin, pictured in court in 2019, faces criticism for his handling of a case involving a mentally ill man who killed his mother in a Mission District residence in 2020. (Jim Wilson/New York Times) GIL DURAN Nov. 8, 2021 5:00 a.m. (SFExaminer.com) NEWS NEWS COLUMNISTS… Continue reading
Long Buried, the Bloodiest Night in the City’s History Surfaces Amid a New Wave of Violence Illustration of the first Taoist funeral procession in Los Angeles, which was held in 1872 and was led by a Taoist priest from China. Processions were held every three years until 1903, for the… Continue reading
Board members look at ways to buy buildings, promote social housing, and fight displacement—without private speculation. That’s The Agenda for Nov. 8-14 By TIM REDMOND NOVEMBER 7, 2021 (48hills.org) While the Chron and the Yimbys are busy complaining that the supes aren’t letting developers build more luxury housing, some board members… Continue reading
Few Events – NOT back posting on a regular basis Please include Accessibility and ASL info in your events! And if your action is ‘child friendly’ *** ASL interpretation – Let me know if your event needs this service .*** Please post your actions on Indybay: https://www.indybay.org/calendar/?page_id=12 See Indybay for other listings of events…. Continue reading
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Roger Casement Casement in 1914 Born Roger David Casement1 September 1864Sandycove, Dublin, Ireland Died 3 August 1916 (aged 51)Pentonville Prison, London, England Cause of death Execution by hanging Monuments Casement Monument at Ballyheigue Beach Organisation British Foreign Office, Irish Volunteers Movement Irish nationalismAnti-imperialism Roger David Casement (Irish: Ruairí Dáithí Mac Easmainn[citation needed];… Continue reading
Heather Knight Nov. 6, 2021 (SFChronicle.com) In the middle of a city grappling with a major housing shortage sit 15 parcels of land now occupied by garbage-strewn parking lots, auto shops, a car wash and old government buildings. No apartments rise from these San Francisco plots, but they could —… Continue reading
Beyond concerns about the distortion of domestic politics, there are a number of other questions about Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp — all of which Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, pictured here testifying before Congress, announced last week, are now under a new corporate umbrella called Meta. (Eric Thayer/The New York Times)… Continue reading
