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By Luke Thomas
March 5, 2010
As many as ten thousand students, parents, school faculty and union members took to the streets of San Francisco yesterday as part of a coordinated day of action to protest cuts to education.
Dubbed “The Strike and Day of Action to Defend Public Education,” the largely peaceful statewide rallies […]
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Supervisor Chris Daly
Photo by Luke Thomas
By Chris Daly, special to FogCityJournal.com
January 11, 2010
For 2010, I vow to use the word “fuck” in each of my remaining Board of Supervisors meetings.
A funny little status update on Facebook - 15 seconds to compose and share with my group of on-line friends. A minute more to link to […]
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“Obama wants to do George Bush one better by continuing the worst of his policies,
enact more of his own, and destroy the middle class to turn America
into Guatamala with ruling elites governing a nation of serfs.”
Photo by Luke Thomas
By Stephen Lendman
Author’s Note: Part II concludes an account of Obama’s betrayal, not promised change.
December 23, 2009
Obamacare […]
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“In Obama’s America, only the privileged have rights,
not people of color, the poor, and growing numbers going hungry,
without jobs, and other life’s essentials his budget allocations won’t fund.”
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By Stephen Lendman
December 21, 2009
Promising change after eight George Bush and Republican dominated years, Barack Obama won the most sweeping non-incumbent victory in over 50 […]
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By Jill Chapin
July 16, 2009
Every so often I come across a book that merits exposure to a larger audience. Hail Hail to U City High, by Alan Spector, is about my 1964 University City High School class in a suburb of St. Louis, Missouri.
If you think it’s merely a provincial account of our classmates’ school […]
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City College of San Francisco Chancellor Don Griffin.
By Judy B., guest editorial
July 1, 2009
Got a spare $6,000? Chancellor Don Griffin at City College of San Francisco suggests using it to rescue an endangered community college class. Contribute and the class will be named for you.
“If you want to pay for one class at City College, […]
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During his June 2009 Cairo Islam speech, President Obama pledged
to “seek a new beginning between the United States
and Muslims around the world.”
Photo by Stephen Crowley, NY Times
By Ralph E. Stone
July 1, 2009
What is the cost of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars so far and what are the California tradeoffs? As of June 30, 2009, in […]
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City College of San Francisco Chancellor Don Griffin.
By Luke Thomas
June 22, 2009
A proposal by Chancellor Don Griffin to sell the naming rights of classes offered at City College of San Francisco has come under fire, Fog City Journal has learned.
According to an article in today’s San Francisco Chronicle, Griffin is hawking the naming rights […]
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A resolution passed by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors Tuesday
commends restaurants that voluntarily remove foie gras
from their menus ahead of California statewide ban in 2012.
By Fanny Dassie
March 26, 2009
While animal rights defenders will cheer, some gourmet chefs will be banging their pots and pans in disapproval following the adoption of a resolution Tuesday by […]
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