Fossil fuels are driving climate change and the time for action is NOW! It’s never been more clear than this summer, with devastating and heartbreaking fires, heat waves, and 100 degree ocean temperatures – fossil fuels are driving the climate crisis, and the impacts are getting worse and worse.We’re coming… Continue reading
Started April 15, 2023 Petition to Executive Director of the DNC Sam Cornale Why this petition matters Started by CK Sanders SIGN OUR PETITION TO PROTECT OUR DEMOCRATIC PROCESS & INSIST THAT THE DNC HOLDS 2024 DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY DEBATES! As of May 10, 2023, we have three officially declared Democratic candidates… Continue reading
Opinion by Allison Gilbert Updated 3:13 PM EDT, Mon August 14, 2023 (CNN.com) Elsie Robinson was a Hearst-syndicated columnist and author.San Francisco Examiner/Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley Editor’s Note: Allison Gilbert is the co-author with Julia Scheeres of “Listen, World!,” the first biography of nationally syndicated newspaper columnist Elsie Robinson. Follow her at… Continue reading
A Historic 1908 Conference Transcended Party and Personal Interest for the ‘Common Good’ The 1908 Conference of Governors brought government and business leaders together to protect natural resources and “conserve the foundations of our prosperity.” Leaders today should also extend political thinking beyond narrow parameters, writes environmental historian Adam M. Sowards. “Proceedings… Continue reading
Forget the Big Box Office War of Summer 2023. Barbenheimer Is a Tale of Two Competing California Apocalypses The two competing blockbusters of the summer aren’t just entertaining films about a physicist and a doll. Columnist Joe Mathews argues they should also be viewed as apocalyptic documents. Courtesy of AP Newsroom. by JOE MATHEWS | AUGUST 15, 2023… Continue reading
BECOMEA MEMBER Activists take part in the “Garrison for Julian Assange” in Piazza del Campidoglio, Rome, on July 28, 2023. Photo: Andrea Ronchini/NurPhoto via Getty Images The U.S. ambassador to Australia said there could be a “resolution” to the Justice Department’s pursuit of Assange. Prem Thakker August 14 2023, 5:56 p.m…. Continue reading
A foreclosed Tennessee St. project is on the market at a bargain price. It’s just one of many opportunities SF could take advantage of. By TIM REDMOND AUGUST 16, 2023 (48hills.org) Construction in San Francisco is expensive right now, so expensive that a lot of developers are putting a pause on… Continue reading
Juliette Binoche in ‘Between Two Worlds’ Screen Grabs: Two tough films focus on the people… Great examinations of working class erosion (‘Between Two Worlds’) and family opioid addiction (‘Stay Awake’) By DENNIS HARVEY AUGUST 16, 2023 (48hills.org) Economic inequality is tough concept for many people to truly grasp—at least without… Continue reading
16 AUGUST 2023/ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/JOE KUKURA (SFist.com) What self-satisfying San Franciscan wouldn’t want this masturbatory aid called the Coitus Tower? It of course pays homage to the SF’s Coit Tower that was ‘erected’ in 1933. It is hardly a novel joke to point out that Telegraph Hill’s 210-foot tall Coit Tower is… Continue reading
This week’s crises expose the inadequacy of our choices By Shahid Buttar August 17, 2023 Beyond a humanitarian and ecological disaster Last weekend, the worst wildfire in Hawaii’s history claimed at least (and likely many more than) 100 lives and destroyed the traditional indigenous capital of Lahaina, yet the President of the… Continue reading
