With the academic aspect of their work now over, California reparations advocates are just coming to grips with the impact the last two years have had on their lives. Justin Phillips July 30, 2023 (SFChronicle.com) When Black folks testified before the state’s reparations task force about the long-term financial disadvantages… Continue reading
By Owen Thomas | Examiner columnist July 30, 2023 (SFExaminer.com) It’s a historical oddity: Of the University of California’s 10 campuses, San Francisco is the only one that doesn’t offer undergraduate degrees. Mayor London Breed has a bold proposal to change that by inviting the state university system to build… Continue reading
U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.)—”wearing sticker reading “Fossil Fuels = Climate Emergency = Extinction”—speaks at a December 2, 2023 Fire Drill Fridays protest in Washington, D.C. calling on President Joe Biden to declare a climate emergency. (Photo: Paul Morigi/Getty Images) “We are in a climate emergency,” said Oregon Democrat Jeff… Continue reading
U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Samuel Alito testifies during a U.S. House hearing on March 7, 2019 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) “What a surprise, guy who is supposed to enforce checks and balances thinks checks shouldn’t apply to him,” said Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. JESSICA CORBETT Jul… Continue reading
Noah Arroyo July 28, 2023 (SFChronicle.com) When it comes to revitalizing downtown San Francisco, one idea has captured imaginations in several quarters: bringing in a major university campus or extension. Transforming emptied office towers and other buildings into a new campus would bring an influx of residential students and staff, diversifying the area’s… Continue reading
FRI, 7/28/2023 – BY CARL GIBSON (Occupy.com) This is part one of a series exploring the concept of means testing and its effect on the people it’s meant to help. Stay tuned for parts two and three. On paper, the concept of means testing eligibility for publicly funded safety net programs… Continue reading
WED, 7/26/2023 – BY CARL GIBSON (Occupy.com) Two years before he died, legendary physicist Dr. Stephen Hawking ominously warned that the development of artificial intelligence, or AI, would be “either the best, or the worst thing, ever to happen to humanity.” Today, the rapid proliferation of artificial intelligence, or AI, is… Continue reading
TUE, 7/25/2023 – BY ON THE MEDIA, HOSTED BY MICAH LOEWINGER (Occupy.com) THIS ARTICLE ORIGINALLY APPEARED ON WNYC / NPR Listen here: https://www.wnyc.org/widgets/ondemand_player/wnycstudios/#file=/audio/json/1337531/&share=1 In late 2021, Isabella Weber, an economist at University of Massachusetts, Amherst published a paper with a new idea. The theory, what she called “seller’s inflation,” sought to address… Continue reading
Taylor Rains Jul 26, 2023, 2:00 AM PDT (Insider.com) For the second time this year, I have taken a European high-speed train to Paris in lieu of a flight from a neighboring country. To my surprise, my February journey from Amsterdam sparked an online debate over rail travel thanks to… Continue reading
From laws targeting fossil fuel protests to the crackdown on Stop Cop City activists, corporations are calling in militarized law enforcement to crush dissent. BY BASAV SEN AND GABRIELLE COLCHETE JULY 24, 2023 (TheRealNews.com) Law enforcement drive past the planned site of a police training facility that activists have nicknamed “Cop City” near… Continue reading
