In a historic breakthrough, Starbucks and its workers announce they’ve come together. BY HAROLD MEYERSON FEBRUARY 27, 2024 (prospect.org) JOSHUA BESSEX/AP PHOTO Starbucks Workers United buttons from a watch party of the first union election in Buffalo on December 9, 2021 “This is what we’ve always wanted,” says Michelle Eisen, a… Continue reading
by ELENI BALAKRISHNAN FEBRUARY 27, 2024 Here’s the latest in our “Meet the candidates” series for District 5, where we ask each candidate to answer one question per week leading up to the election, with answers capped at 100 words. All the responses will ultimately be compiled onto a single page,… Continue reading
27 FEBRUARY 2024/SF POLITICS/HOLLY SECON The reparations conversation has been sidelined amid ongoing budget trouble, but on Tuesday the San Francisco Board of Supervisors was preparing to vote on a resolution to offer the Black community a formal apology for past harms. “An apology is just cotton candy rhetoric,” responded Rev…. Continue reading
Status Coup News • Streamed live 20 hours ago • Earlier this week, active duty member Aaron Bushnell set himself on fire in front of the Israeli embassy in protest of the mandatory U.S. involvement in Palestine. His protest came after months of Americans and the world begging for a… Continue reading
Sacrifices by people of conscience are invitations for the rest of us to finally start paying attention SHAHID BUTTAR FEB 26 ∙ PREVIEW Yesterday, 25 year-old Aaron Bushnell lit himself on fire outside the Israeli embassy in Washington, DC. As an active duty U.S. service member, his sacrifice is particularly… Continue reading
Andrew Roth and Pjotr Sauer/Guardian UK Alexei Navalny is seen behind the bars in a police van. (photo: Sergey Ponomarev/AP) 26 february 24 (RSN.org) The fiercest political opponent of Vladimir Putin understood he might never leave prison alive Each morning at 5am, Alexei Navalny was roused with the words “Wake up!” as… Continue reading
by JOE ESKENAZI FEBRUARY 26, 2024 (MissionLocal.org) Whatever your thoughts about Mayor London Breed — and the results of a recent Chronicle poll indicate that few San Franciscans have happy thoughts — one must admit that she has a difficult job. It’s tough enough to lead the real San Francisco, let alone the largely imaginary version that… Continue reading
by WILL JARRETTFEBRUARY 26, 2024 (Missionlocal.org) Welcome back to our “Meet the candidates” series, in which District 9 supervisorial hopefuls respond to a question in 100 words or fewer. Our week seven question: What would you do to reduce overdose deaths? Julian Bermudez Establish a drug buy-back program. We can all agree… Continue reading
