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Tonight was an annual vigil in Concord California, coinciding with Transgender Day of Remembrance. The organizers from Concord's Rainbow Center left Scout Schultz off the list of names read in remembrance of those who died in 2017. While it can't be known for certain, it is suspected that the omission was done intentionally....
Posted: Mon, Nov 20, 2017 10:14pm PST
Communities Against Racism and Fascism announced that the kick-off event for the far right’s “Free Speech Week” at UC Berkeley this weekend fizzled as white supremacist Milo Yiannopoulos and his supporters were outnumbered by anti-fascist protesters....
Posted: Tue, Sep 26, 2017 2:27pm PDT
We have achieved another milestone in ending the 69 year occupation of Historic Palestine, namely a 100 person protest in full costume and with musical instruments at New York's 6/4/17 Israel Parade celebrating the horrifying and illegal invasion and occupation of the West Bank and Gaza 50 years ago during the Six Day War of June 1967. See the article and excellent movie at http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/40870-no-apartheid-in-our-name-lgbt-jewish-groups-block-celebrate-israel-parade....
Posted: Fri, Jun 9, 2017 8:57pm PDT
The Sacramento Bee has reported that 106 people are facing charges from the Nazi/antifa rally at the capitol this past June. Prosecutors will consider 514 misdemeanor and 68 felony charges involving 106 people, with charges ranging from unlawful assembly to assault with a deadly weapon....
Posted: Wed, Mar 8, 2017 10:50pm PST
A Bay Area-wide spokescouncil is currently planning and coordinating actions for the upcoming Martin Luther King Day on January 16 through to the inauguration of Donald Trump on January 20. A diverse coalition will engage in #120Hours of direct action, coalition building, and campaign launching against white supremacy. Let's carry forward and amplify the struggle, together!...
Posted: Tue, Dec 27, 2016 2:32pm PST
Video of how a city Supervisor overturned one of San Francisco's longest running traditions and oldest laws. NSFW for some. [5:57]...
Posted: Tue, Sep 27, 2016 7:25pm PDT
A prison disciplinary board has sentenced Chelsea Manning, who is currently serving a 35-year sentence at the United States Penitentiary in Leavenworth, to 14 days in solitary confinement following her suicide attempt in July....
Posted: Sat, Sep 24, 2016 12:46pm PDT
FYI: Indonesian Consulate General in San Francisco
1111 Columbus Avenue
San Francisco, CA
United States
TELEPHONE: (415) 474.9571
FAX: (415) 441-4320
HEAD OF MISSION: Mr Asianto Sinambela, Consul General...
Posted: Mon, Feb 29, 2016 8:38pm PST
For Immediate Release
January 19, 2016 — 4pm...
Posted: Mon, Jan 18, 2016 6:03pm PST
The transition from the traditional family to the family of friends....
Posted: Fri, Nov 27, 2015 1:48pm PST
It is a long dark story dating back into the days of the iron curtain and the Krakov evangelisation movement, and a more than sad one for too many souls silenced by the careers that paved their way through their lives. It involves seniors talking like child actors losing the distinction between stage and street, and the aborted land reform in the aftermath of the centuries-lasting warlord rancher system the „Wetland Crusade” had left behind in the Northern European Plains to catch up with its...
Posted: Tue, Oct 6, 2015 5:11am PDT
Washington, DC, September 24, 2015 — The National LGBTQ Task Force is urging Pope Francis to practice the “Golden Rule” for LGBTQ people and their families. The Pope emphasized the often quoted axiom in his address to a joint session of the US Congress—but went on to implicitly criticize marriage equality and reproductive rights, issues of vital importance to LGBTQ people and their allies....
Posted: Thu, Sep 24, 2015 12:01pm PDT
Honoring the Whistleblower. The Pvt. Chelsea Manning Contingent marched again this year in the SF Pride Parade...
Posted: Fri, Jul 3, 2015 1:04am PDT
Open Letter to SF Pride (re: Pink Brick for AirBnB)...
Posted: Sun, Jun 7, 2015 10:03am PDT
The UC Santa Cruz administration has announced an arrest has been made in connection with the assault and hate crime investigation of an incident that occurred at Kresge College on February 7. According to reports from that evening, a fight broke out at a party and one of the students injured was targeted because of his sexual orientation. Arrest warrants were issued for Brandon W. Beaton, 22, a Kresge College student who is no longer enrolled at UCSC, and Jesse E. Robles, 24, who is from Los...
Posted: Tue, Jun 2, 2015 1:59pm PDT
Second Chapter Untold Stories of the Bay Area’s History in Leading Political and Social Movements...
Posted: Wed, Apr 29, 2015 6:26pm PDT
Pink Saturday" won't happen in 2015.
Instead, the City and the Center will offer
a farce. The real event may revive in 2016;
dea volente!...
Posted: Thu, Apr 16, 2015 10:18am PDT
On Easter Sunday 1965,
half a century ago,
protesters marched in Manhattan --
against homophobia.
..........
Posted: Wed, Mar 4, 2015 7:17pm PST