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Crowdflower Offers to Buy Off Plaintiffs to Avoid Nationwide Lawsuit for Minimum Wages Purporting to rely on recent U.S. Supreme Court case, CrowdFlower tries to terminate minimum wage lawsuit brought against it by offering money to named plaintiffs 2 weeks before hearing on conditional class certification....
Posted: Sun, Jul 21, 2013 8:14am PDT
NLG Calls on Governor Brown to Meet Striking Prisoners’ Demands The National Lawyers Guild San Francisco Bay Area Chapter (NLGSF) calls on California Governor Jerry Brown to immediately meet the demands of the tens of thousands of inmates who are currently on hunger strike. The changes sought are necessary and long overdue. As it stands, the Governor is presiding over and fully responsible for the long-term solitary confinement of hundreds of people, amounting to torture. “Governor Brown should meet the strikers’ demands immediately to comply with human r...
Posted: Tue, Jul 16, 2013 1:59pm PDT
The Execution of City College of San Francisco Accrediting Commission For Community & Junior Colleges Goal #1: Destroy City College of San Francisco...
Posted: Tue, Jul 16, 2013 12:50pm PDT
marching for PFC Bradley Manning at SF Pride honoring whistleblower Bradley Manning at the SF Gay Pride event of June 30...
Posted: Mon, Jul 15, 2013 12:08am PDT
Unified School District Targeting Black Single Mothers. I have submitted articles with both of your papers before; I have worked with Tiny and SFBay View, articles like Parkmereced and Vista Delmonte.
I have been researching on CPS cases reported by the San Francisco public school system most of the cases are against single black mothers, most of the cases are unfounded. I believe this issue should be known. Please include the picture attached.
Thanks,
Marion Merriouns...
Posted: Fri, Jul 12, 2013 4:15pm PDT
Sheriff Mirkarimi's New Jail Plans; Cal's Prison Hunger Strike Expands San Francisco Democrat Sheriff Mirkarimi wants SF taxpayers to spend $240 million on a new jail when there are 900 empty jail beds every day. Meanwhile Democrat Governor Jerry Brown is preparing for a long hunger strike in California's prison concentration camps rather than abolishing solitary confinement and reducing the prison population per court order, which would include closing Pleasant Valley Prison, where the prisoners get a disease called Valley Fever which can be fatal....
Posted: Wed, Jul 10, 2013 5:55am PDT
UPWA Condemns ACCJC Shutting Down San Francisco City College United Public Workers For Action has condemned the threat to terminate SF City Colleges Accreditation if it does not fully comply with their privatization agenda. Labor and all working people must act to stop these attacks. It supports a "Mobilize a nation-wide strike of educational workers and students demanding the complete roll-back of privatization."...
Posted: Fri, Jul 5, 2013 5:16pm PDT
Save CCSF Rejects Legitimacy of ACCJC Ruling Today, the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges (ACCJC) revealed that they aim to terminate City College of San Francisco’s accreditation, though they added that the “action to terminate is not yet final” and is open to both review and appeal. The Save CCSF Coalition — which represents faculty, students, staff, and community members – rejects the legitimacy of this announcement....
Posted: Thu, Jul 4, 2013 7:38pm PDT
Huge Fare Cops on Muni on Major Holiday Four huge male cops in their 20s and 30s, all white, were on the Muni Metro today with their ticket books charging $75 for not paying a $2 fare. They were not embarrassed at all to be working on a holiday; they bragged that they received time and a half from us taxpayers. This is brought to us by the fascist war criminal Democratic Party, the same as the fascist war criminal Republican Party....
Posted: Thu, Jul 4, 2013 4:50pm PDT
“Buttonwood SF” Brings Digital Currency Trading to the Real World in San Francisco The first Bay Area group dedicated to trading the new digital currencies known as "cryptocurrencies" has formed, called "Buttonwood SF." Cryptocurrencies are decentralized and peer-to-peer by design, meaning they are not controlled by any central entity and all transactions occur without any possible external interference or middle-men. You can learn more by attending the Buttonwood SF Meetup every Thursday from 7-9PM PST in the northwest corner of Jackson Field in San Francisco's Potrero Hil...
Posted: Mon, Jul 1, 2013 1:46am PDT
Portland’s Austerity Resistance Movement Sparks Changes to City On June 20, Oregon’s Portland City Council unanimously voted to approve a budget that had been one of the most grassroots-contested examples of austerity in recent memory....
Posted: Sun, Jun 30, 2013 12:33am PDT
Drought Conditions Pose Grave Threat to Central Valley Salmon Endangered Sacramento River winter-run Chinook salmon could be decimated this year, due to the draining of Shasta Reservoir to provide water sales from the northern Sacramento Valley to junior water rights holders south of the Delta. These sales proceed as the Brown and Obama administrations are fast-tracking the construction of the peripheral tunnels under the Bay Delta Conservation Plan....
Posted: Fri, Jun 28, 2013 8:58pm PDT
Boycott SF Gay Pride, Part II Party Your Heads Off...After all it's the land of the free and home of the brave?...
Posted: Thu, Jun 27, 2013 7:10pm PDT
San Francisco's Real Food Company: A 100% Natural Service Sector Sweatshop A small local example of the huge problem that is the low wage service sector......
Posted: Thu, Jun 20, 2013 12:09pm PDT
Boycott SF Gay Pride It's Time to Stand Up By Not Showing Up...
Posted: Mon, Jun 17, 2013 10:12pm PDT
Can you imagine naming Bay Bridge after Election Frauder, Murderer? It is not enough that the eastern span has taken 24 years and counting to replace, and it is filled with deadly bolts that must be replaced. Now, the California Legislature is proposing to name the western span after the worst mayor in San Francisco and a proud pro-landlord, pro-gambling assemblyperson, Democrat Willie Brown, whose last fling in San Francisco was to perpetrate election fraud in every election from 1995 and every election thereafter, including the 49er Stadium Swindle election...
Posted: Fri, Jun 14, 2013 8:48am PDT
Riot Police Raid Gezi Gardens and Evict Tree-Sit; People Prepare to Re-Occupy on Friday Police raid Gezi Gardens as occupiers make plans to take back the space....
Posted: Fri, Jun 14, 2013 12:59am PDT
Gardens being demolished in SF Humming birds in threat of extinction, 7 people arrested, 2 hospitalized, one was cut out of a tree 30 feet and fell to the ground.. all for defending a community garden in San Francisco...
Posted: Thu, Jun 13, 2013 6:45pm PDT
Tree Sitters Successfully Turn Away Workers Sent to Cut Trees at former Hayes Valley Farm ...
Posted: Fri, Jun 7, 2013 9:10am PDT
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