Youth activists with the Sunrise Movement occupy House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s office on September 28, 2023. (Photo: Sunrise Movement) “Young people are here because Kevin McCarthy and other Republicans are playing political games with our lives. We’re over this bullshit.” JAKE JOHNSON Sep 28, 2023 (CommonDreams.org) A group of youth… Continue reading
27 SEPTEMBER 2023/ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT/JAY BARMANN (SFist.com) San Francisco architect Mark Hogan, founder of OpenScope Studio, has thrown out an idea for filling the vacant former Nordstrom space in the mall formerly called the Westfield Centre on SF’s Market Street, and it makes a lot more sense than a soccer… Continue reading
28 SEPTEMBER 2023/SF NEWS/JAY BARMANN (SFist.com) While we still may be years out before we see any significant number of residential units hit the market in former downtown office buildings, at least eight landlords of downtown buildings are putting out feelers with the city about converting — and the developer… Continue reading
28 SEPTEMBER 2023/SF NEWS/JAY BARMANN (SFist.com) Supervisor Dean Preston proposed a new ordinance earlier this year that would bar armed security guards from drawing their weapons in response to a property crime in progress — following the widespread outrage over the April killing of Banko Brown. That ordinance had a hearing at the… Continue reading
By Adrienne Fong Am not back posting – have listed a few actions for this week Please post your actions on Indybay: https://www.indybay.org/calendar/?page_id=12 See Indybay for other listings of events Please include Accessibility and ASL info in your events! And if your action is ‘child friendly’ These are JUSTICE issues!! *** ASL interpretation – Let… Continue reading
Excessive Democratic civility, the slowing of social progress, and the harsh reality of politics Benjamin Cain Published in An Injustice! 1 day ago (Medium.com) The atrociousness of Donald Trump’s cult is obvious, as is the embarrassment of how one of the parties in a two-party political system has effectively been… Continue reading
Joe Garofoli Sep. 26, 2023 (SFChronicle.com) The easiest part of Daniel Lurie’s campaign to be the next mayor of San Francisco will be pointing out what’s wrong. Look at people shooting up in the streets! Look at the empty office buildings! Look at the homeless! Did your car get broken into today? … Continue reading
Megan Cassidy, Gabrielle Lurie Sep. 26, 2023 (SFChronicle.com) Last week, on a sidewalk just steps away from the towering Speaker Nancy Pelosi Federal Building at Seventh and Market streets, a commonplace horror was unfolding in the middle of the workday: Someone overdosed. Two civilians — one of whom rushed from his nearby tent — swooped in to… Continue reading
San Francisco Symphony Hall aerial view, image by Google Satellite BY: ANDREW NELSON 5:30 AM ON SEPTEMBER 26, 2023 (SFYIMBY.com) The San Francisco Symphony has started the entitlement process for renovations of the Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall at 201 Van Ness Avenue in San Francisco’s Civic Center. While plans are preliminary, the Symphony has… Continue reading
