A pedestrian walks past the nondescript exterior of the Geary Club in San Francisco on Thursday, Aug. 18, 2023. Charles Russo/SFGATE By Nico Madrigal-Yankowski Aug 20, 2023 (SFGate.com) In February 2020, June Russell was handing over the keys to her beloved Geary Club as she entered retirement. “Feel free to take down… Continue reading
The fight converging over the future of beleaguered United Nations Plaza represents how San Francisco leaders and community members are divided over what constitutes a community space — and to whom such spaces belong. The San Francisco Recreation and Park Department, directed by Mayor London Breed’s office, is breaking ground on a… Continue reading
Want to readKindle $10.49 Rate this book Andrew L. Seidel, Susan Jacoby (Foreword), Dan Barker (Preface ) Do “In God We Trust,” the Declaration of Independence, and other historical “evidence” prove that America was founded on Judeo-Christian principles? Are the Ten Commandments the basis for American law? A constitutional attorney dives into the debate about… Continue reading
PDAMERICA Streamed live 2 hours ago The Progressive Left can become the dominant force in American politics by leading with Its economic platform, anchored by a 21st-Century Economic Bill of Rights, according to Mark Paul, author of the excellent new book: The Ends of Freedom: Reclaiming America’s Lost Promise of… Continue reading
A Little-Known Civil War Story Illuminates America’s Broken Promise to Black America Historian Bennett Parten traces an oft-forgotten story from U.S. General William T. Sherman’s march through Georgia in 1864: the incident at Ebenezer Creek where the American case for reparations began. Illustration by Be Boggs. by BENNETT PARTEN | OCTOBER 31, 2022 (ZocaloPublicSquare.org) Americans get Sherman’s March… Continue reading
Text by Nicholas Kristof (NYTimes.com) Photographs by September Dawn Bottoms Mr. Kristof is an Opinion columnist reporting from Greenwood, Miss. Ms. Bottoms is a photographer from Oklahoma whose work focuses on mental illness, family and poverty. This is the third in the series “How America Heals” in which Nicholas Kristof is examining the… Continue reading
Toward regional communities AUG 19, 2023 (The Raven (theraven@substack.com) William Appleman Williams It has been several weeks since my last post to The Raven. In that time I have been conceptualizing and taking notes for the shift in emphasis I announced recently, to focus more tightly on building power and community in place, reflected… Continue reading
KALW | By Sunni Khalid Published August 14, 2023 at 6:00 AM PDT (KALW.org) This interview aired in the August 14, 2023 episode of Crosscurrents. On July 7, San Francisco’s African American Reparations Advisory Committee submitted a report to the Board of Supervisors containing a series of recommendations aimed at redressing decades of… Continue reading
The photo, taken with a mobile phone on August 14, 2023, shows a vehicle destroyed in a wildfire in Lahaina on the Hawaiian island of Maui. (Photo: Yang Pingjun/Xinhua via Getty Images) “The people of Honolulu and Maui deserve their day to put Big Oil on trial,” said the Center… Continue reading
GEORGE MONBIOT Posted on 21st July 2017 (monbiot.com) How a secretive network built around a Nobel prizewinner set out to curtail our freedoms By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 19th July 2017 It’s the missing chapter: a key to understanding the politics of the past half century. To read Nancy… Continue reading
