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The Last Time I Saw Bobbie "Spider" Webb Bobbie "Spider" Webb's passing last month brings to mind his role as an African American bluesman and DJ on listener sponsored KPOO radio from the era when San Francisco's Fillmore District was known as the "Harlem of the West."...
Posted: Mon, Oct 1, 2018 3:47pm PDT
9/12/18 SF Board of Appeals Finally Approves Removal of Racist Statute On September 12, 2018, the San Francisco Board of Appeals had a re-hearing on the appeal of Frear Stephen Schmid of the decision of the San Francisco Arts Commission to remove the racist statute depicting a Native American as subservient in San Francisco’s Civic Center. On 2/21/18, the Arts Commission had issued a Certificate of Appropriateness to remove this racist statue. Schmid appealed and on 4/18/18, this Board of Appeals granted the appeal 5 to 0! A rehearing was granted on June 13, 2...
Posted: Wed, Sep 12, 2018 9:49pm PDT
Black Portraitures IV: The Color of Silence...Cuba NO....Cambridge SI! Rather than it's planned Cuban venture, Black Portraiture(S) IV found itself back home in Cambridge, MA...
Posted: Sun, Apr 8, 2018 11:50am PDT
Young millennials ditch Facebook for Snapchat and Instagram Young Millennials, those born between 1991 and 2001, are moving away from Facebook, en masse....
Posted: Fri, Mar 9, 2018 6:19pm PST
Challenging The Status Quo - Documentary (2018) A documentary about the politics of change....
Posted: Sat, Jan 27, 2018 5:53pm PST
Feminism: A Fashion Story (2017) A short documentary made from the SWFTA archives, highlighting the importance of feminism, and its link to fashion....
Posted: Sun, Dec 24, 2017 9:44am PST
Homeless Services Center and Calamity's Cupboard -- and Art Show! I went to TOUCHED BY HOMELESSNESS, an inclusive Art Show, in early November. Story reviews the art on display at HSC show, then through memories, I've explored HSC history and community engagement...
Posted: Tue, Dec 5, 2017 5:51pm PST
Review of Brontez Purnell's Since I Laid My Burden Down by Eugenio Negro San José satirist Eugenio Negro reviews Oakland artist Brontez Purnell's new novel Since I Laid my Burden Down....
Posted: Sat, Jul 8, 2017 3:38pm PDT
Imprint of Hope Are Making Iraq Great and Beautiful In addition to decorating the city’s walls, Imprint of Hope also paints orphanages, nurseries and public buildings, including a children’s cancer hospital....
Posted: Thu, Apr 13, 2017 2:45am PDT
Pussy Riot Raises Free Speech Issues Through a "Biased Informative Musical" Pussy Riot takes on a different way to raise awareness to free speech issues in Russia, and other countries, by presenting the audience a "Biased Informative Musical"....
Posted: Tue, Mar 28, 2017 10:57pm PDT
Chgo Review of Books Takes Stand Against Hater Milo/Simon & Schuster book deal Milo Yiannopolous, the Breitbart writer who was deemed too offensive for Twitter, has been granted a book deal by Simon and Schuster....
Posted: Tue, Jan 3, 2017 1:29pm PST
Anticapitalist and antifascist struggle in France in the wake of the state of emergency New video about the anticapitalist and antifascist struggle in France in the wake of the state of emergency in place after the latest terror attacks in 2015 and the Nuit Debout struggles...
Posted: Sat, Nov 19, 2016 6:30am PST
SAG-AFTRA video game performers on strike In the early morning of Friday, the Screen Actors Guild‐American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) announced a strike against a dozen video game entertainment corporations, including Electronic Arts Productions, Inc., Disney Character Voices, Inc. and Warner Brothers Games, Inc. The strike was voted by 96.55 percent of the union’s membership back in October 2015 and applies to production commenced on or after February 17, 2015....
Posted: Sat, Oct 22, 2016 11:16pm PDT
Santa Cruz Sentinel Reporter Leaves Questionable Voicemail A phone call from a Santa Cruz Sentinel staff reporter left a sting and insulted a friend of the mother of Maddy Middleton this week.
He left his name and intention and the phone message is included with more.
This was the year anniversary of the tragedy that happened last year at Tannery....
Posted: Fri, Jul 29, 2016 4:09pm PDT
Mathews Council Crushes Handicraft Vendors; Freedom SleepOut #46 Soldiers On Last chance to make a cry of outrage at the City Council'slaw to outlaw all handicraft vending in the downtown and wharf-beachfront areas. Follow-up by saying no to a cop-heavy budget (social services take up less than 3% of the budget compared to police & rangers (42%). Finally the Food-Not-Bombs supported Freedom Sleepers will resume their principled civil disobedience on the sidewalk and city hall courtyard that night for the 46th week....
Posted: Tue, May 24, 2016 12:58pm PDT
Video: Founding Fathers, Hip Hop Founding Fathers presents the true history of Hip Hop. 700 free movies, 700 free e-books and 450 free audio books (including "1984") are ours at www.openculture.com. Enjoy the feast!...
Posted: Tue, Apr 26, 2016 2:35pm PDT
22 Writers Explain Why PEN American Center Should Reject Israeli Government Sponsorship Twenty-two literary figures who signed a letter calling on the PEN American Center to reject Israeli government sponsorship of its World Voices Festival due to Israel’s human rights abuses have elaborated on their decision in quotes below. The Festival is being held in New York City from April 25-May 1....
Posted: Tue, Apr 12, 2016 9:10am PDT
Over 100 Writers Call on PEN American Center to Reject Israeli Government Sponsorship In a letter made public today over 100 writers, including Pulitzer Prize winners Junot Díaz, Richard Ford, and Alice Walker, and award-winning author Louise Erdrich, have called on the PEN American Center “to reject support from the Embassy of Israel” for PEN’s annual World Voices Festival. PEN lists the Israeli Embassy as among the “Champions” of the Festival, and as a sponsor of one of the Festival’s panels....
Posted: Wed, Apr 6, 2016 12:16pm PDT
San Francisco Green Film Festival - Volunteers Needed! The San Francisco Green Film Festival (SFGFF) returns April 14-20, 2016 as the Bay Area's leading event for films and discussions about people and the planet....
Posted: Tue, Mar 22, 2016 11:45am PDT
Video: Direct Action and Protest, 1 hr 9 min Panelists talked about the history and use of direct action as a means of non-violent protest. Topics included the Keystone XL pipeline, the Black Lives Matter movement, housing evictions, rising tuition, and nuclear power....
Posted: Fri, Jan 1, 2016 2:29pm PST
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