Renowned Family Advocacy Group
Announces Premier Endorsements
Child Advocates Push for Stronger Political Voice
to Keep Working Families in San Francisco

Members of Coleman Advocates Fund for Children held its first
endorsement meeting Saturday in the family-dense enclave of the Excelsior District.
Photos by Luke Thomas
By Luke Thomas
August 21, 2008
Politicians aren’t used to being grilled by teenagers and immigrant moms. But that’s what happened last week when Coleman Action Fund for Children (CAF) completed its first candidate endorsement […]

 

The CrackBerry Chronicles: Welcome Back

Elaine Santore
Photos by Luke Thomas
By Elaine Santore
August 14, 2008
It’s never too early to become a hasbeen
If JoJo can be a hasbeen at 17, then I guess now is the perfect time for me to become one, too. Or maybe I’ve been a hasbeen since 2006 and nobody told me?
Maybe if I actually left the […]

 

A Retrospective Analysis of Livingstone’s Battle
for Affordable Housing in England’s Capital

Former London Mayor Ken Livingstone
File photo by Luke Thomas
By Nicholas Olczak
June 8, 2008
LONDON, England (FCJ) – When Ken Livingstone was elected as London’s first Mayor in 2000, the biggest challenge he faced was the city’s growing housing crisis. London had 60,000 homeless and 200,000 in temporary accommodations. Conservative reliance on market forces had left the […]

 

Election Roundup

Bay City News
June 4, 2008
While much election activity in the Bay Area was overshadowed by developments on the national political stage Tuesday as Barack Obama effectively clinched the Democratic nomination for president, local players still found time to revel in their primary victories.
Assemblyman Mark Leno is now well-positioned to assume state Sen. Carole Migden’s seat […]

 

Lennar’s Consultants and Allies Duck Opportunities
to Face the Community

Hundreds of Bayview/Hunters Point Residents Canvass City in Final Push for Proposition F
From the Proposition F Campaign
June 2, 2008
SAN FRANCISCO, California – In the final days before San Francisco votes on the fate of Bayview/Hunters Point, advocates for Lennar’s Proposition G are dodging every opportunity to face the community whom they purport to be serving.
Prop. […]

 

Proposition G’s False Promises:
Lennar’s $3.3 Million Chump-Change Financing
May Yield Billions

By Patrick Monette-Shaw, special to Fog City Journal
May 28, 2008
Question: What do you get when you stir into the soup $3.3 million in various campaign financing by the powerful Lennar Corporation; mix in two nephews of Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi (one nephew by way of marriage, Mayor Gavin Newsom, and the other nephew, Laurence Pelosi, a […]

 

David vs. Goliath Debate on Proposition F

From the F is for Fairness Campaign
May 28, 2008
What: Open debate before the Bayview/Hunters Point community
Where: 5030 3rd Street(@ Quesada Avenue, MUNI T-Line - Palou Ave. Stop)Bayview/Hunters Point,San Francisco, CA 94124
When: Saturday May 31 - 6:30-8:00
Who: CARMEN POLICY, Lennar Consultant and Former President of the 49ers vs. ALICIA SCHWARTZ, Community Organizer of POWER
To set the […]

 

Trade Unionism

San Francisco Labor Council Executive Director Tim Paulson
Photo by Luke Thomas
By Tim Paulson, special to Fog City Journal

Editor’s Note: Mr. Paulson is responding to Supervisor Chris Daly’s May 22 op-ed titled, “Big Labor Sells Out.”
May 28, 2008
As a trade unionist I wake up every morning confronted with many fronts on the fight for justice that […]

 

Big Labor Sells Out


District 6 Supervisor Chris Daly
Photos by Luke Thomas
By Chris Daly
May 22, 2008
Lennar Deal Stinks
Details of a back room deal between Miami-based Lennar Corporation (LEN) and the San Francisco Labor Council (Big Labor), ACORN, and SFOP were finally released Tuesday in the San Francisco Chronicle. Top Big Labor Boss, Tim Paulson lauded the deal saying, […]