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169 Structures Demolished in East Jerusalem This Year

by IMEMC

According to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in the occupied Palestinian Territories, Israeli authorities have demolished a total of 169 structures in East Jerusalem this year as of December 3, which represents a 20 percent increase in such demolitions compared to 2017....

Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2018 1:24PM

Free Film Screening: The End of Meat, a documentary

by Van Luong

SF Public Library, Koret Auditorium, 100 Larkin Street, SF, CA 94102...

Event Date: Sat Dec 15, 2018 1:00PM

Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2018 12:24PM

Justice For Kaiser Patients & NUHW Workers! Stop The Suicides From Profiteering & Cost Shifting

by Labor Video Project

NUHW Kaiser mental healthcare workers in California launched a five-day strike on December 10, 2018, over care for patients and NHWA workers conditions. They rallied and marched at SF Kaiser....

Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2018 1:20AM

Last Council Meeting of 2018 What's Missing? Freeze/Just Eviction Protection Extension!

by Robert Norse

In the last regular scheduled Council meeting of the year outgoing Mayor Terrazas won't put on the agenda an item to extend the Rent Freeze/Just Eviction Protection that the Council passed overwhelmingly in February. That measure expires on today December 11th once the election results are accepted by the Council. It leaves tenants vulnerable to exorbitant rental increases. I have written several letters demanding the "progressive" Council members (who constitute a majority in the middle o...

Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2018 12:16AM

International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers: Demand that SFPD Prioritize Safety by US PROStitutes Collective

San Francisco Police Department Mission Station, 630 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA 94110...

Event Date: Mon Dec 17, 2018 12:00PM

Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2018 11:01AM

Stop Treasure Island Tolls/Gentrification Attacking Tenants

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by Stop Tolls On Treasure Island

SF City Hall, Board of Supervisors Chambers, Room 250...

Event Date: Tue Dec 11, 2018 11:00AM

Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2018 9:57AM

Driven to Consumption and Money out of Nothing by M. Binswanger, A. Sahr, and B. Milanovic

Growth originally created a material prosperity about which earlier generations could only dream. However, more economic growth does not lead to people being happier anymore. We are prisoners of a system that forces us to permanent growth. Banks create credits at the touch of a button, wages stagnate, schools decay and Goldman Sachs is in the government. Who benefits from this?...

Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2018 4:48AM

Fight back: Secret OPD pay raise

by APTP

City Hall 1 Frank H Ogawa Plaza, Rm 201 Oakland...

Event Date: Tue Dec 11, 2018 5:30PM

Posted: Sun Dec 9, 2018 8:51PM

The Human Face of Hope

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by Dolores Heilbron

First Unitarian Universalist Society of San Francisco 1187 Franklin Street @ Geary, San Francisco...

Event Date: Sat Dec 15, 2018 12:30AM

Posted: Sun Dec 9, 2018 3:51PM

Valentin Lopez Speaks on the 70th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (video/mp4 85.4mb) by Santa Cruz News

Valentin Lopez, Chairman of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band, spoke at an event in celebration of the 70th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, hosted by the United Nations Association: USA Santa Cruz, CA Chapter on December 8 at the Resource Center for Nonviolence....

Posted: Sun Dec 9, 2018 3:00PM

Pacific Front Development Hearing at Santa Cruz City Council