DAN RATHER AND ELLIOT KIRSCHNER OCT 28, 2022 (steady@substack.com) Photo credit: Matt Hansen Photography We are still learning about the brutal attack on Paul Pelosi, husband of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, at the couple’s home in San Francisco early this morning. In a fast-moving story like this, new facts will… Continue reading
By Adrienne Fong Not back posting on a regular basis Please hold the following people in your thoughts: Victor Picazo, dealing with health complications Jackie Barshak, battling stage 4 metastatic lung cancer, as she continues chemo therapy. Melvin Starks – Still needs housing! Rodger Scott as he gains strength. Open site to… Continue reading
President Joe Biden meets with Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) in the Red Room of the White House on October 18, 2021.(Photo: Official White House / Adam Schultz) Siding with calls for peace and diplomacy from all over the world is still not an idea whose time has come in the… Continue reading
Column OCTOBER 27, 2022 (DemocracyNow.org) This is viewer supported news. Please do your part today. DONATE By Amy Goodman & Denis Moynihan Ralph Nader, the legendary consumer advocate and former Green Party presidential candidate, has a message for the Democrats: Crush the GOP in 2022. Nader sees the Republican Party’s embrace of… Continue reading
FRI, 10/28/2022 – BY BILL ARCENEAUX (Occupy.com) There are at least two faces in Chinonye Chukwu’s Till that I expect will stay with me forever. Both belong to Emmett Till, the 14-year-old black teen who was killed in a lynching more than 60 years ago. Living in flashes of time that are slowed… Continue reading
FRI, 10/28/2022 – BY STEVE RUSHTON (Occupy.com) This is the 19th installment in a series about extending the Green New Deal to confront multiple global crises. Read Part I (Deconstructing environmental racism), II (Rural renewal), III (Upcycle the war machine), IV (GND manifestos), V (No oil bailouts), VI (No corporate ecocide), VII (Defund the police), VIII (Zero Covid approach: NZ), IX (Finnish equality lessons), X (Denmark stops drilling), XI (Costa Rica rewilding), XII (Indigenous justice), XIII (Free… Continue reading
Peter Gabel died of a heart attack on Tuesday, October 25th, 2022 As a founding editor of Tikkun, long-term president of New College of California, and author most recently of The Desire for Mutual Recognition: Social Movements and the Dissolution of the False Self, Gabel was a constant source of… Continue reading
by Randy Shaw on October 24, 2022 (BeyondChron.org) The Strategy Behind “Process” What do these recent San Francisco news stories have in common? * it takes 7 years for SFMTA to close 1200 parking spots at bus stops by painting the spaces red; *it takes 255 days for the city to replace a… Continue reading
by Maria Salazar-Colón and Mary Bravewoman on October 24, 2022 (BeyondChron.org) photo by Lea Suzuki Proposition O is an exciting ballot measure to protect and strengthen one of SF’s most treasured and threatened institutions. So who is fighting it and why? Education and job training are clearly indispensable components of any credible plan… Continue reading
Nastia Voynovskaya Jun 28, 2022 (kqed.org) The San Francisco Guaranteed Income Pilot for Artists has given Javier Reyes more flexibility to work on a youth development project at City Life Church. (Alexa Trevino) For the poets, musicians and visual artists receiving its $1,000 direct deposits every month, the San Francisco Guaranteed Income… Continue reading
