Why I Can’t “Like” Facebook’s Valuation
May 22, 2012 | 17 Comments
The much hyped and anticipated IPO that placed Facebook’s valuation at a whopping $100 billion has been a huge flop, with the stock down by almost 30 percent from its peak share price of $45.
Time for Change: Media Workers Seek Parity in New Contract
May 22, 2012 | No Comments
Management of the Bay Area News Group-East Bay, a local affiliate of MediaNews and Digital First Media, met with East Bay media workers Tuesday for preliminary talks over a new collective bargaining agreement between BANG and Pacific Media Workers Guild.
Overheard in Fog City: Julian Davis to Declare D5 Candidacy
May 20, 2012 | 17 Comments
Longtime San Francisco progressive organizer Julian Davis will officially declare this week his bid to unseat appointed District 5 Supervisor Christina Olague, Fog City Journal can confirm.
On Your Marks! Acclaimed Trio Face-off for Glory in 101st Bay to Breakers
May 19, 2012 | No Comments
As the Zazzle Bay to Breakers kicks off its second century on May 20, 2012, the City of San Francisco can bank on seeing the highest caliber of competition to grace this race in decades. Welcoming back an Olympic silver medalist, the course record holder, and former Boston Marathon champ, this race is sure to be one to go down in the history books.
Greece Battles for Democracy and Survival
May 17, 2012 | 23 Comments
Greece’s unemployment rate is 25 percent – and for people under the age of 25, it’s 50 percent. In the last three years, the stock market is down 90 percent, average wages are down 40 percent, and GDP is down 20 percent. It’s no wonder suicide, homelessness and crime rates are going through the roof.
AT&T Strike Threat Looms
May 16, 2012 | 2 Comments
A 17,000-worker walkout in California and Nevada looms as contract negotiations between AT&T West and Communications Workers of America stretch into a stagnant second month.
Food Authors, Writers and Academics Urge UC Berkeley to “Embrace the Gill Tract Farm, Not Police it”
May 15, 2012 | 34 Comments
We urge the administration and campus police to drop all charges against the farmers and protesters, and to engage in good-faith negotiations to ensure that the Gill Tract is reserved for community-based agricultural use to be governed as a form of commons in conjunction with the farmers and local community.
Posted in Environment, Land Use
Presidential Debate: San Francisco Greens Love Jill Stein and Roseanne Barr
May 14, 2012 | 13 Comments
The world described by Stein and Barr bears little resemblance to that described by incumbent President Barack Obama and Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney.
Posted in Economy, Education, Energy, Environment, Healthcare, Homelessness, Housing, Immigration, Labor, Land Use, Politics, War
Do Youthful Indiscretions Matter?
May 12, 2012 | 3 Comments
Mitt Romney’s past came out of the proverbial closet involving a fellow student who may have been in one. He couldn’t recall but didn’t deny the mean-spirited description of how he attacked and humiliated a student simply for looking different by pinning him down and cutting what Mitt deemed offensive long hair.
Gill Tract Farm Essential for Post-Peak Oil Food Security
May 11, 2012 | 3 Comments
Without food, we cannot survive and without local farms to grow and supply food in a post-peak oil world, the costs associated with traditional long-distance, oil-reliant food production will continue to soar and become unsustainable.
Posted in Education, Energy, Environment, Land Use, Politics
Europeans Reject Austerity-Centric Fiscal Policies, Favor Growth; Social Capitalism
May 10, 2012 | 1 Comment
This new consensus seeks to elevate growth and job creation to equal status with fiscal consolidation/austerity, and so in that sense truly represents a new wind of change blowing across Europe.
CSU Faculty Union Votes to Strike
May 08, 2012 | No Comments
“While the university’s top brass get pay hike after pay hike and the Trustees find new and creative ways to give excessive raises to campus presidents, the students and workers suffer,” Senator Leland Yee said.
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