Articles Posted in the Politics Category

  • Striking Images, Stories
    in Public Defender’s Annual Calendar

    by FCJ Editor on Jan 21, 2010 | 3 Comments

    Cover illustration of the 2010 San Francisco Public Defender’s annual calendar, available for free! From the Office of San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi January 21, 2010 An attorney argues vehemently before a jury during…

    Posted in Politics

  • Political Earthquake Rocks Massachusetts

    Political Earthquake Rocks Massachusetts

    by FCJ Editor on Jan 21, 2010 | 2 Comments

    Ignoring people needs during the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, the Obama administration supports business, militarism, and homeland repression. He backs open-ended banker bailouts, aggressive wars, repressing dissent, privatized healthcare, free, not fair trade, a war on Islam and Latino immigrants, torture, illegal surveillance, military commissions, preventive detention for dozens of detainees facing no charges, and extraordinary renditions to offshore hellholes, most of them secret.

    Posted in Opinion, Politics

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    Scott Brown’s Election a Wake Up Call for Dems

    by Tim Arnold on Jan 20, 2010 | 13 Comments

    The Democrats failure in Massachusetts is especially telling since a) Brown opposes national health care reform even though Massachusetts already has near-universal health coverage thanks to a law passed when Republican Mitt Romney – was governor – legislation Brown supported! And b) Brown opposes same-sex marriage – which, yep, Massachusetts legislation has already legalized (NY Times, Jan 20, 2010, “GOP, in an Upset …).

    Posted in Opinion, Politics

  • Haiti 2010: An Unwelcome Katrina Redux

    Haiti 2010: An Unwelcome Katrina Redux

    by FCJ Editor on Jan 19, 2010 | 2 Comments

    Sadly, President Obama is dispatching Presidents Bush and Clinton, and thousands of Marines and U.S. soldiers. By contrast, Cuba has over 400 doctors on the ground and is sending in more; Cubans, Argentinians, Icelanders, Nicaraguans, Venezuelans, and many others are already on the ground working–saving lives and treating the injured. Senegal has offered land to Haitians willing to relocate to Africa.

    Posted in Opinion, Politics

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    Jane Kim Announces D6 Candidacy

    by Luke Thomas on Jan 19, 2010 | 11 Comments

    Ending months of speculation and rumor, San Francisco Board of Education President Jane Kim today confirmed her candidacy in the 2010 race for District 6 Supervisor.

    Posted in News, Politics

  • Transbay Terminal Dispute Threatens Federal Funding

    by FCJ Editor on Jan 18, 2010 | No Comments

    California High Speed Trains: Business Plan. By Matt Drake, guest editorial January 18, 2010 In November of 2008, Californians voted yes on Proposition 1A, a bond measure raising $10 billion to construct a high speed…

    Posted in Opinion, Politics

  • Disaster Capitalism Headed to Haiti

    Disaster Capitalism Headed to Haiti

    by FCJ Editor on Jan 18, 2010 | No Comments

    Disaster capitalism is triumphant everywhere from post-Soviet Russia to post-apartheid South Africa, occupied Iraq and Afghanistan, Honduras before and after the US-instigated coup, post-tsunami Sri Lanka and Aceh, Indonesia, New Orleans post-Katrina, and now heading to Haiti full-throttle after its greatest ever catastrophe.

    Posted in Politics