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text 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
image AFSCME3299 & CWA UPTE9119 UC Workers Strike At UCSF-Stop The Attacks On Patients & Workers 120_ucsf_afscme3299_cwa_upte9119_5_21_13_strike.jpg original image ( 2560x1920) - by Labor Video Project
Thousands 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
text March and Rally Held at SF State Despite Police Harassment of Students - by Bay Waters
Police 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
audio California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) threatened in San Francisco (audio/mpeg 1.4MB) - by KPFA Evening News, 05.18.2013
California'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
calendar SF Protest At GAP Shareholder's Meeting 120_bangladeshi_dhaka_women_killed.jpg original image ( 300x169) - by repost
GAP Headquarters, 2 Folsom Street, San Francisco, CA 94105
Event Date:Tue May 21, 2013 9:30AM
Posted: Sun May 19, 2013 1:28PM
calendar Rally Against Police Beating of SF Commune 5 @ SF State! sfstate.pdf_140_.jpg original image ( x) - by FREESFCOM5
Malcolm X Plaza, SF State University Main Quad, San Francisco
Event Date:Tue May 21, 2013 2:00PM
Posted: Sat May 18, 2013 3:07PM
calendar Liberate The Land: Direct Action to Plant Food and Hold Space liberatetheland.pdf_140_.jpg original image ( x) - by Ryan Rising
The Free Farm: 950 Gough Street @ Eddy Street, San Francisco
Event Date:Sat Jun 1, 2013 1:00PM
Posted: Sat May 18, 2013 12:54AM
image San Franciscans say Bradley Manning is Grand Marshal of SF Pride 120_img_20130517_184608_588.jpg original image ( 3264x1840) - by mark
Speakout at Market and Castro on International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia
Posted: Fri May 17, 2013 6:52PM
calendar UCSF Protest with IDA and DxE 120_603751_577874165576270_376816673_n.jpg original image ( 960x720) - by Wayne Hsiung
513 Parnassus Ave, San Francisco, CA
Event Date:Fri May 24, 2013 12:00PM
Posted: Fri May 17, 2013 2:04PM
image SF Commune Activists Attacked, Arrested and Hospitalized by SF State Police; March Today! 120_sfc_march.jpg original image ( 2048x1536) - by Chris Rojas
Seven 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
image More Attacks On SFUSD UESF School Staff and Bullying Of Teachers, Students and Parents 120_uesf_protest_sfsud_bd_meet5-14-13.jpg original image ( 3648x2736) - by Labor Video Project
The 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
text Counter-Currents on the Run! - by Circle Ansuz Bay Area Leidang
The 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
text SF Labor: Calls on Labor Movement to Mobilize in Washington, D.C. August 24 - by San Francisco Labor Council
In 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
image SF Commune Raided {MARCH TONIGHT} May 15th: Arrests and Eviction by SWAT and SFPD 120_img_1648.jpg original image ( 3264x2448) - 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
calendar Californians Against Fracking Rally - by Rose Braz
Governor 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
image Police Shut Down BART Entrance; Pour Into Mission at Block Party against Gentrification 120_p5050587.jpg original image ( 4608x3456) - by Bay Waters
Cinco 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
calendar S.F. IDAHO rally: Bradley Manning = Pride Grand Marshal - by Michael Petrelis
Harvey Milk Plaza, Castro and Market Streets
Event Date:Fri May 17, 2013 6:00PM
Posted: Tue May 14, 2013 4:08PM
image Stop Attacking Unite Here Local 2 SF AT&T Ballpark Centerplate Workers-Workers Vote To St 120_unite_here_local_2_ballpark_rally.jpeg original image ( 320x172) - by Labor Video Project
Over 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
audio Former Grand Marshal Kate Raphael on Bradley Manning and the future of SF Pride (audio/mpeg 2.0MB) - by KPFA Evening News/Ann Garrison
KPFA 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
image Escaped Guantanamo Prisoners Spotted on BART 120_empty_car_close_on_newspaper.jpg original image ( 864x648) - by Kate
As 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

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