Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) talks to reporters following the weekly Senate Democratic policy luncheon at the U.S. Capitol on December 14, 2021 in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) “If Republicans can end the filibuster to install right-wing judges nominated by presidents who lost the popular vote in… Continue reading
The Death and Life of Aida Hernandez: A Border Story by Aaron Bobrow-Strain (Goodreads Author) What happens when an undocumented teen mother takes on the U.S. immigration system? When Aida Hernandez was born in 1987 in Agua Prieta, Mexico, the nearby U.S. border was little more than a worn-down fence. Eight years… Continue reading
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander “Jarvious Cotton’s great-great-grandfather could not vote as a slave. His great-grandfather was beaten to death by the Klu Klux Klan for attempting to vote. His grandfather was prevented from voting by Klan intimidation; his father was barred… Continue reading
Carl Nolte May 7, 2022 (SFChronicle.com) John Steinbeck was a master at invoking what writers call a sense of place: Monterey, the Salinas Valley, Cannery Row. “When I was a child growing up in Salinas we called San Francisco ‘the City,’” he wrote. “Of course it was the only city we knew,… Continue reading
Please do not send me fliers without info outside the body of flier. Info on fliers can’t be extracted, Please include Accessibility and ASL info in your events! And if your action is ‘child friendly’ This is a JUSTICE issue!! *** ASL interpretation – Let me know if your event needs this service .***… Continue reading
TIMELINE By Joshua Sharpe | May 2, 2022 | Updated: May 5, 2022 10:57 AM The road to the June 7 recall election of San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin is nearing its end. He took office in January 2020 after pitching himself as a former public defender committed to combating mass incarceration. In… Continue reading
“I know nothing grander, better exercise, better digestion, more positive proof of the past, the triumphant result of faith in human kind, than a well-contested American national election.” –Walt Whitman in Democratic Vistas Walter Whitman (May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892) was an American poet, essayist and journalist. A humanist,… Continue reading
May 5, 2022 • Matthew Cunningham-Cook & David Sirota (levernews.com) The president promised to halt federal contracts to union busters — but the deal was just re-awarded to Amazon while the company was crushing a union drive. The Biden administration has re-awarded a massive $10 billion federal contract to Amazon,… Continue reading
