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INVASIVE SPECIES - by Dee Allen.For the past 15 years, San Francisco's Mission District has undergone phases of real estate gentrification that came with each new technology boom. With information technology being the latest impetus, San Francisco has, on the street corners of certain neighbourhoods, new condominium towers being built. With the construction of new condos come upper-middle class newcomers, who can afford the high rents. In the process, local businesses have closed their doors, families, people with disabilit... Posted: Thu May 23, 2013 9:55AM
AFSCME3299 & CWA UPTE9119 UC Workers Strike At UCSF-Stop The Attacks On Patients & Workers - by Labor Video ProjectThousands of UC hospital workers struck against concession demands by the CEO's and UC Regents. Striking workers at UCSF talked about the issues they face the the fight to protect UC patients and their conditions and benefits. Posted: Wed May 22, 2013 9:44AM
March and Rally Held at SF State Despite Police Harassment of Students - by Bay WatersPolice are not able to intimidate group of students and their supporters from holding rally and march at SF State campus against the brutal beating of their friends by SFPD last week. Posted: Tue May 21, 2013 9:16PM
California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) threatened in San Francisco (audio/mpeg 1.4MB) - by KPFA Evening News, 05.18.2013California's most important environmental law, the California Environmental Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), is under attack, and activists are trying to make sure the act will still hold sway in San Francisco. CEQA requires corporations and landholders to provide public information about potential environmental impacts of their projects in advance. A statewide coalition recently blocked attempts to weaken CEQA at the state level, but now San Francisco Supervisor Scott Wiener has proposed ... Posted: Mon May 20, 2013 5:27PM
SF Protest At GAP Shareholder's Meeting - by repostGAP Headquarters, 2 Folsom Street, San Francisco, CA 94105 Event Date:Tue May 21, 2013 9:30AM Posted: Sun May 19, 2013 1:28PM
Rally Against Police Beating of SF Commune 5 @ SF State! - by FREESFCOM5Malcolm X Plaza, SF State University Main Quad, San Francisco Event Date:Tue May 21, 2013 2:00PM Posted: Sat May 18, 2013 3:07PM
Liberate The Land: Direct Action to Plant Food and Hold Space - by Ryan RisingThe Free Farm: 950 Gough Street @ Eddy Street, San Francisco Event Date:Sat Jun 1, 2013 1:00PM Posted: Sat May 18, 2013 12:54AM
San Franciscans say Bradley Manning is Grand Marshal of SF Pride - by markSpeakout at Market and Castro on International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia Posted: Fri May 17, 2013 6:52PM
UCSF Protest with IDA and DxE - by Wayne Hsiung513 Parnassus Ave, San Francisco, CA Event Date:Fri May 24, 2013 12:00PM Posted: Fri May 17, 2013 2:04PM
SF Commune Activists Attacked, Arrested and Hospitalized by SF State Police; March Today! - by Chris RojasSeven San Francisco activists from the squatted social center called the SF Commune, were brutally attacked by police and arrested Thursday evening after being invited into the SF State University dorms by students there. One individual was tazed and another was reportedly shoved into a paddy wagon where police continued to viciously beat him. This happened less than 36 hours after the campus visitors were violently evicted from the SF Commune by riot-clad SWAT police on Wednesday morning. ... Posted: Fri May 17, 2013 12:48PM
More Attacks On SFUSD UESF School Staff and Bullying Of Teachers, Students and Parents - by Labor Video ProjectThe corporate controlled San Francisco Unified School District Board and Mangers including Superintendent Richard Carranza are laying over 100 para professionals, counselors and librarians despite having a surplus of over $50 million. At the same time they are brining in more union busting Teach For America teachers who are being pushed by Obama and US Education Secretary Arnie Duncan.
Parents, teachers and students also complained again about the systemic bullying of them by Carranza's mana... Posted: Thu May 16, 2013 10:29AM
Counter-Currents on the Run! - by Circle Ansuz Bay Area LeidangThe Circle Ansuz Bay Area Leidang has been actively pursuing Counter-Currents Publishing for the last several months. We have recently learned they are claiming to have left the Bay Area and have moved to San Diego, CA. Posted: Thu May 16, 2013 10:28AM
SF Labor: Calls on Labor Movement to Mobilize in Washington, D.C. August 24 - by San Francisco Labor CouncilIn Support of the SCLC and King Center call for a March and Rally in Washington, DC on August 24, 2013 and in Support of the July 2 Northern California Demonstration to Demand a Massive Federally Funded Jobs-Creation Program and No Cuts to Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid Posted: Thu May 16, 2013 12:21AM
SF Commune Raided {MARCH TONIGHT} May 15th: Arrests and Eviction by SWAT and SFPD - by Ryan Rising The SF Commune, a community center and social space for organizers in the Ocean View district of the city, was raided early this morning, Wednesday, May 15th, 2013. Over twenty people were evicted from their home and social center and four arrested as SWAT team and SFPD moved into the before abandoned building to push people to the curb and maintain homelessness in the city.
Tonight, the SF Commune and all in solidarity with direct action to alleviate the housing crisis and homelessness w... Posted: Wed May 15, 2013 4:30PM
Californians Against Fracking Rally - by Rose BrazGovernor Jerry Brown's Office: State of California Bldg, 455 Golden Gate Avenue, San Francisco, CA Event Date:Thu May 30, 2013 12:00PM Posted: Wed May 15, 2013 11:33AM
Police Shut Down BART Entrance; Pour Into Mission at Block Party against Gentrification - by Bay WatersCinco de Mayo block party lasted for several hours, holding the plaza at 16th and Mission despite a high police presence throughout the event. Posted: Wed May 15, 2013 10:44AM
S.F. IDAHO rally: Bradley Manning = Pride Grand Marshal - by Michael PetrelisHarvey Milk Plaza, Castro and Market Streets Event Date:Fri May 17, 2013 6:00PM Posted: Tue May 14, 2013 4:08PM
Stop Attacking Unite Here Local 2 SF AT&T Ballpark Centerplate Workers-Workers Vote To St - by Labor Video ProjectOver 500 Unite Here Local workers voted for strike action if they do not get a contract at AT&T ball park who work for Centerplate food services. Posted: Sun May 12, 2013 11:05PM
Former Grand Marshal Kate Raphael on Bradley Manning and the future of SF Pride (audio/mpeg 2.0MB) - by KPFA Evening News/Ann GarrisonKPFA Evening News spoke to Kate Raphael, Harvey Milk Club member, and host of KPFA’s Women’s Magazine, whom former Grand Marshal Joey Cain nominated to serve as a Pride Grand Marshall in 2004, after she had been arrested protesting the apartheid wall in Palestine and then traveled to Iraq. Kate was elected, much to her surprise, after returning to Palestine, but decided her first obligation at that time was to stay there, as a "Grand Marshal in Absentia" during the parade. She said she ... Posted: Sun May 12, 2013 4:29PM
Escaped Guantanamo Prisoners Spotted on BART - by KateAs the massive hunger strike among prisoners at Guantanamo enters its third month, Bay Area activists took to the rails to raise awareness of this escalating human rights violation. Posted: Sat May 11, 2013 9:28PM |