Articles Posted on January 13th, 2012

  • Mayor Preparing to Pull Trigger on Sheriff?

    Mayor Preparing to Pull Trigger on Sheriff?

    Mirkarimi was formally charged with alleged domestic violence, child endangerment, and dissuading a witness, stemming from an incident on New Year’s Eve involving Mirkarimi and his wife, Eliana Lopez.

  • Mirkarimi Faces Three Charges Over New Year’s Eve Incident

    Mirkarimi Faces Three Charges
    Over New Year’s Eve Incident

    It is unknown what exactly transpired at the couple’s residence on December 31st. The incident was first reported to police by the couple’s neighbor, Ivory Madison, on January 4th. According to evidence documented by Madison, and later seized by police, Lopez received a bruise on her right arm during the alleged incident.

  • Walter Johnson, Friend of all Workers, is Dead

    Walter Johnson, Friend of all Workers, is Dead

    Mr. Johnson, a lifetime member of the UFCW, was a ferocious defender of worker rights and civil rights whose dignified bearing and droll humor never wavered. He liked to refer to members of the Media Workers Guild as “intellectuals,” but during the 1994 San Francisco newspaper strike, he was the smartest, toughest one on the picket line.

  • Run on the Banks: No More Foreclosures,
    Evictions for Profit

    This Saturday the 14th, evicted tenants and foreclosed homeowners will tell their stories of the impact that bank’s greedy actions have had on them. Banks will be put on notice: You Will Be Held Accountable! Actions will culminate in a January 20th shutdown of San Francisco’s Financial District.

  • Everyone is Expendable

    The world community is forming, the borders that stand between nations are dissolving as the evolutionary forces of human consciousness awaken to the possibility of sustainable communities. Corporations are the usurpers who cross borders to exploit labor and the environment, buying off corrupt politicians to reap their profits, while families are being ripped apart by deportations that stop people from exercising their rights to a decent living.