Photo Spread: Avalos Campaign Steps Up Visibility on Halloween
Starting off at Avalos campaign headquarters on Market Street around 7 pm, the Dodo, laden with high-spirited Avalos supporters and campaign volunteers, hit as many as six, in full-swing parties…
Yee Campaign Releases Real Ed Lee Exposé
Produced and published by the campaign to elect Senator Leland Yee to Room 200, the 55-page paperback is intended to erode public support for Lee by serving as a hard-hitting…
Modest Proposal for Occupy Wall Street
Occupy Wall Street and its local offsprings might consider intervening in political campaigns. Presidential primaries will begin early next year, with the Republican National Convention on August 27 and the…
Alameda County Sheriff’s Deputy Suspected
in Lobbing Tear Gas at Protesters
Rendering Aid to Scott Olsen
Alameda County is the designated mutual aid coordinator for the Bay Area region and called in reinforcements from San Francisco and Santa Clara counties to assist the Oakland Police Department…
National Writers Urge End
to Oakland “Crackdown on Free Speech”
Dear Mayor Jean Quan: The violent crackdown on peaceful, nonviolent "Occupy Oakland" protesters by your city police department is an outrage and a disgrace. As writers, authors, editors, filmmakers and…
Dark Cloud Hangs Over Lee Campaign
With hundreds of thousands of unregulated special interest dollars on the line, not to mention Lee’s reputation and poll numbers, Lee’s campaign announced Lt. Governor and former Mayor Gavin Newsom…
Behind the Protest Signs:
The Voices of Occupy San Francisco
The clarion call of “We are the 99 percent” has driven home a blaring message about what protesters argue is a host of inequalities — of wealth, income, education, housing,…