FRI, 6/30/2023 – BY CARL GIBSON (Occupy.com) The wave of post-pandemic unionization that kicked off with “Striketober” in the fall of 2021, with walkouts at Starbucks, Amazon, and other large employers, is now spreading to strip clubs. While Hollywood typically frames strip clubs as seedy vestiges of patriarchy with sticky concrete… Continue reading
FRI, 6/30/2023 – BY STEVE RUSHTON (Occupy.com) This is the 22nd 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),… Continue reading
FRI, 6/30/2023 – BY CARL GIBSON (Occupy.com) The summer of 2023 has been somewhat ominous for billionaires and the ultra-rich. In late June, billionaire James Crown – who sat on the boards of both JPMorgan Chase and defense contractor General Dynamics – died suddenly in a racecar accident in Colorado. Orcas… Continue reading
Almost everything wrong with the US economy is the result of tax cuts for the wealthy. SF shouldn’t make the same mistake. By TIM REDMOND JULY 6, 2023 (48hills.org) Among the items that received little attention in the Board of Supes budget negotiations were a couple of business tax measures…. Continue reading
JULY 07, 2023 (DemocracyNow.org) Watch Full Show This is viewer supported news. Please do your part today. DONATE GUESTS LINKS On the 10th anniversary of the 2013 coup in Egypt when General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi removed the country’s first democratically elected president from power, we speak with author Shadi Hamid… Continue reading
7 JULY 2023/SF NEWS/JAY BARMANN (SFist.com) The local and national news media has loved to declare San Francisco in a state of decline and/or crisis on many occasions in the last five or so decades, so this is just a primer for everyone who wasn’t aware of that and bought… Continue reading
March 16, 2023 (corporateaccountability.org)ClimateDemocracy By Staff On January 18, Manuel Esteban Paez Terán, or Tortuguita as they were affectionately known, was shot and killed by police in Atlanta, Georgia while defending the Weelaunee Forest—the site of a proposed police training facility known as “Cop City.” Cop City has been gaining nationwide… Continue reading
OPINION Chronicle Editorial Board July 6, 2023 (SFChronicle.com) In September of 1963, California lawmakers passed a bill that should have marked a historic moment in the American civil rights movement. After decades of formal and informal policies designed to keep people of color — especially Black Californians — confined to segregated and… Continue reading
Designs have been revealed for a pair of residential skyscrapers proposed for construction in San Francisco, but both towers face long odds of being added to the The City’s skyline. The two mixed-use skyscrapers — one 50 stories tall and the other 47 stories tall — would be located in the Outer Sunset and SoMa… Continue reading
by MARK RABINE JULY 6, 2023 (MissionLocal.org) San Francisco has long been portrayed by right-wing politicians and press as a den of iniquity. In “Breakdown,” the San Francisco Mime Troupe satirizes that portrayal. It’s a story about a story. We’ve all heard the story time and again, by Fox, DeSantis, Carlson and… Continue reading
