Overheard in Fog City: Peskin to Name Goldstein Replacement on DCCC
Mirkarimi’s response stands in contrast to what he said when he was asked about the appointment when it was all but certified Mirkarimi had won election to Sheriff. At that…
Beautiful Mother Earth: Alive, Finite, Hurting,
Worth Dying For
It is dedicated to all who died fighting for the planet and those whose lives are on the line today. The cut was put together by Vivek Chauhan, a young…
Occupy Blockade Shuts Down West Coast Ports
Another trucker, of Russian descent, said he understood revolution was sometimes necessary, pointing to the 1917 revolutions in Russia that overthrew autocratic Tsarist rule and the French revolution in 1789…
Wall Street of the Waterfront
This type of community picket action for political purposes has a long and venerable place in ILWU history. Back in 1939 longshoremen honored a picket line set up at the…
CCSF Joins Occupy Movement
Valdez will be the stalwart of the OccupyCCSF for the next few weeks because, as he explained, finals are upon the students and the occupiers had to pack up and…
Police Raid OccupySF Encampment
Outside Federal Reserve
Forty-five protesters were arrested for illegal lodging in the pre-dawn raid. Their belongings were confiscated. No injuries were reported. “The police came out of nowhere,” said a citizen journalist who…
SF Public Defender’s Office Celebrates Nine Decades
of Delivering Justice
In 1921, the California Legislature passed the Public Defender Act after Clara Foltz, California's first female lawyer, spent years advocating for the creation of Public Defenders' offices to provide legal…