Let’s Make a New, New Deal
By Susan Feiner June 10, 2009 FDR realized that, “People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.” Why do most economic…
North-South Divide
Will Chadwick By Will Chadwick June 10, 2009 First impressions are important, they say, when you meet someone. But what about when you experience a city for the first time?…
Sotomayor: Do Not Give an Inch
Strong progressive support for Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s nomination to the Supreme Court, is a chance to further marginalize prejudiced and pro-corporate elements in the Republican Party. Photo: Larry Downing By…
Why Saying Sorry Seems to be Bad
for the Human Race
Thembi Mutch By Thembi Mutch June 7, 2009 At the moment in the UK there’s all kinds of political meltdowns; MP’s using public money to do ridiculous things like clean…
Sadly Majority Says Torture OK
One of the infamous images documented by soldiers at Abu Ghraib shows a hooded man standing on a box. The detainee’s hands were attached to wires. He was told that…
Crime, Coercion and the CJC
San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi. Photo by Luke Thomas By Jeff Adachi June 5, 2009 One of the ongoing debates of late surrounding the Community Justice Center (CJC) court…
US Navy, Electeds, Dragging Feet
Over Hunters Point Shipyard Toxic Cleanup?
By Eric Smith and Arthur Feinstein, special to FogCityJournal.com June 3, 2009 Last year, San Francisco voters approved Proposition G to allow the City to set forth on the largest…