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SFPD Chief Greg Suhr Drops Tasers for San Francisco San Franciscans working from 2004 to 2013 to keep tasers out of SFPD officers' hands as they 'talk down' people in public crisis are today celebrating SFPD Chief, Greg Suhr's Wed/ April 10 decision to drop his 'less-lethal' taser proposal for San Francisco cops....
Posted: Fri, Apr 12, 2013 12:33pm PDT
One Arrest in San Francisco Solidarity Vigil for Guantanamo Bay Hunger Strikers 
Protesters held a demonstration yesterday in San Francisco in solidarity with Guantanamo Bay hunger strikers, culminating in a dramatic civil disobedience where demonstrators wearing orange prison jumpsuits blocked traffic. Police gathered and attempted to break up the protest, pushing protesters off the street, and arresting one. The hunger strike has garnered international media attention and public outcry as over 130 out of 166 detainees are refusing food, prompting prison officials to f...
Posted: Mon, Apr 8, 2013 3:36am PDT
Stop Restarting Of Japan NUKE Plants 
50 Fremont St. San Francisco...
Event Date: Thu, Apr 11, 2013 3:00pm PDT
Posted: Fri, Apr 5, 2013 8:15am PDT
SF May Day LaborFest Screening of "Dreamwork China" At ILWU Local 34 
ILWU Local 34
800 2nd St. near Embarcadero & 2nd St. next to AT&T Stadium
San Francisco
free parking available in union parking lot...
Event Date: Wed, May 1, 2013 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Thu, Apr 4, 2013 10:11am PDT
Labor by the Bay #2: Marissa Mayer, Walmart, Hotel Frank, Oakland Airport... 
First published at Beyond Chron.
See also Marc Norton Online....
Posted: Tue, Mar 12, 2013 12:59pm PDT
In The Works presents: A Day of (A) THEORY & DIY Skill Shares! 3265 17th Street, at Mission
SF, CA...
Event Date: Sat, Mar 16, 2013 11:00am PDT
Posted: Mon, Mar 11, 2013 7:18pm PDT
Fast Times in Palestine Official Launch Party 
Books Inc.
601 Van Ness
San Francisco...
Event Date: Thu, Mar 21, 2013 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Mon, Mar 11, 2013 2:44pm PDT
Jai Arun Ravine and Clarisse Thorn at Writers With Drinks The Make Out Room, 3225 22nd. St....
Event Date: Sat, Mar 9, 2013 7:30pm PST
Posted: Wed, Mar 6, 2013 2:04am PST
New Haitian Cinema: Fragmentation and Flux OTHER CINEMA @ Artists' Television Access
992 Valencia Street
San Francisco, CA 94110...
Event Date: Sat, Mar 9, 2013 8:30pm PST
Posted: Sat, Mar 2, 2013 2:34pm PST
Free Your Mind: A Revolution In Words SF Main Library, 100 Larkin Street...
Event Date: Sat, Mar 2, 2013 11:00am PST
Posted: Fri, Mar 1, 2013 8:24pm PST
A Simple Revolution Book Launch Party & Reading with Judy Grahn 
Modern Times Bookstore Collective
2919 24th Street
San Francisco, California 94110...
Event Date: Thu, Mar 14, 2013 6:30pm PDT
Posted: Wed, Feb 27, 2013 4:48pm PST
US Labor, Immigration & Obama: Why AFL-CIO/SEIU Are Supporting "Guest Workers" 
The AFL-CIO national leadership is supporting a compromise "reform immigration" bill that includes a slave labor "guest worker" plan. This was debated at the San Francisco Labor Council on February 25, 2013 and Al Rojas a Sacramento labor leader and a leader of LCLAA spoke at the SFLC meeting on these issues....
Posted: Tue, Feb 26, 2013 12:39pm PST
We Need the Community in SF City College! 
5 PM: Meet at City College Entrance Sign to form Human Billboard
(where Ocean Ave off-ramp from I-280 meets Ocean Ave.)
6 PM: Press Briefing & Rally at CCSF Multi-Use Building
(Phelan Ave Across from Science Bldg)
See map showing both locations at: http://tinyurl.com/b7d6so2
# 29, 49, 15, 36, 43 & 54 buses. J & K Muni Metro. Balboa Park BART...
Event Date: Thu, Feb 28, 2013 5:00pm PST
Posted: Mon, Feb 25, 2013 8:08am PST
City Hall Must Take Action to Save City College! 
SFCity Hall Steps
Polk Street Side...
Event Date: Thu, Mar 14, 2013 4:00pm PDT
Posted: Wed, Feb 20, 2013 10:44pm PST
PG&E Officers Kiraly and Burt, CPUC Planning & Policy Division Head Marzia Zafar Implicate 
Utility’s Own Internal Investigation Reveals Violations were Systemic and Widespread
SAN FRANCISCO- Documents filed last week at the California Public Utilities Commission indicate that the spy scandal that forced the resignation of William Devereaux, ex- Senior Director of Pacific Gas and Electric’s SmartMeter program in November 2010, has now widened to include at least 2 officers in the company, Chief Customer Officer Helen Burt and Greg Kiraly, Senior Vice President of Electric Distrib...
Posted: Tue, Feb 19, 2013 12:39pm PST
Massacre at Musolf Manor!!!!!! A true shocking tale of a real life "Bloody Tuesday" tale....
Posted: Sat, Feb 16, 2013 4:46pm PST
Strategizing to Defeat Control Unit Prisons and Solitary Confinement 
The San Francisco-based media activist group, Freedom Archives, has just released an important new book entitled "Out of Control: A Fifteen Year Battle Against Control Unit Prisons," documenting the work of The Committee to End the Marion Lockdown, which she co-founded in 1985 as a response to the lockdown at the federal prison in Marion, Illinois. It quickly turned into a broader campaign against control unit prisons and human rights violations in US prisons that lasted fifteen years, until ...
Posted: Fri, Feb 15, 2013 3:23am PST
Debate Surrounding Anarchist Bookfair's Location Misses The Nuance of the Porn Debate Over the course of this week, the internet has been set ablaze by an argument about the 2013 Bay Area Bookfair's choice of the SF Armory as this year's venue. The debate, rather than helping address substantial concerns about the Armory as a venue, has instead only flattened the nuanced conversation about the porn industry and helped obfuscate the Armory and Kink.com's role in creating unfair labor practices for porn workers and in furthering the gentrification of the Mission District....
Posted: Tue, Feb 12, 2013 10:21am PST
San Francisco Turns Fascist - The First Day of the Nudity Ban On February 1st, the first day of the public nudity ban in San Francisco, 4 body freedom activists (George Davis, Gypsy Taub, Trey Allen and Danny DeVero) got arrested while exercising their 1st Amendment right at the steps of the City Hall. The arrest was not only a blatant violation of our constitutional rights to free speech, but of the anti-nudity ordinance itself, according to which nudists activists were supposed to get cited, not arrested....
Posted: Tue, Feb 12, 2013 12:41am PST
Gavin Newsom: Angry Birds for Democracy 
The Commonwealth Club of California: San Francisco
595 Market Street, 2nd Floor, San Francisco, CA 94105...
Event Date: Wed, Feb 27, 2013 6:30pm PST
Posted: Mon, Feb 11, 2013 2:30pm PST