U.S. Special Forces veteran and jiu-jitsu professor Alan Shebaro spoke out against Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza during a February 20, 2024 McKinney, Texas City Council meeting. (Photo: Alan Shebaro/Facebook) “This is wrong, and there’s nothing more American than speaking out against what’s wrong,” Alan Shebaro said during a McKinney,… Continue reading
27 FEBRUARY 2024/SF POLITICS/JOE KUKURA (SFist.com) A blast from San Francisco’s political past could help shoot down the Oakland A’s proposed move to Las Vegas, as former SF supervisor Chris Daly is now the political director for a Nevada ballot measure and lawsuit that could be Oakland fans’ ace in… Continue reading
Student and teacher activists accused the district of ‘suppressing’ discussions about the Israel-Palestine conflict after a weekend event was canceled. by Ashley McBride Feb. 28, 2024, 4:37 p.m. (Oaklandside.org) More than 100 students walked out of Westlake Middle School on Wednesday to protest the cancellation of a meeting that Bay Area… Continue reading
By Adrienne Fong R.I.P. ♥ Pat Gray ♥ Pat was a woman of many talents, an artist, an educator, she even wrote an opera! Most of us knew her from OccupySF & Action Council. She was also politically active in San Mateo County. Pat “Walked Her Talk” What she wrote on Facebook:… Continue reading
We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights Adam Winkler We the Corporations chronicles the astonishing story of one of the most successful yet least well-known “civil rights movements” in American history. Hardly oppressed like women and minorities, business corporations, too, have fought since the nation’s earliest days to… Continue reading
by Sebastian on February 26, 2024 (BeyondChron.org) Jeremy Novy Working On His Koi Street Mural In Fulton Plaza I met one of my favorite street artists, Jeremy Novy in Fulton Plaza as he was working on a gigantic koi mural between the Main Library and the Asian Art Museum in collaboration with Illuminate…. Continue reading
by Randy Shaw on February 26, 2024 (BeyondChron.org) Drake Hotel is among successful models of transitional drug-free housing. Falsehoods and Misinformation Deny Opportunities Chinatown merchants have stopped the opening of 150 drug-free permanent supportive housing units at 935 Kearney. Their campaign exposed troubling falsehoods about sobriety programs. Unfortunately, many media accounts that followed… Continue reading
A City Cannot Be a Work of Art: Learning Economics and Social Theory From Jane Jacobs Sanford Ikeda This open access book connects Jane Jacobs’s celebrated urban analysis to her ideas on economics and social theory. While Jacobs is a legend in the field of urbanism and famous for challenging… Continue reading
