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Things We Should Have Learned from the Pandemic….But Didn’t
But as we lurch toward what the new normal will look like after this harrowing experience, I wonder, have the people in power learned anything?

How San Francisco Changed My Life
So much of what I do now, so much of my devotion to this problematic, maddening, beautiful, brilliant, heartbreaking, mystifying city is tied to the way San Francisco made me feel when I was in my early 20s. It was a city of dreamers and believers, seekers and preachers, people who didn’t belong anywhere else, and never wanted to anyways. It was a city of “hell yes!” in a world of too much “no.”

STERN GROVE FESTIVAL IS BACK!
STERN GROVE FESTIVAL RETURNS WITH 2021 DATES! (no lineup yet) here is the official press release: — 84th annual outdoor music festival kicks off summer concert season on June 20 — SAN FRANCISCO, CA (May 20, 2021) — Mayor London N. Breed today announced Stern Grove Festival, the longest-running free outdoor

Millionaires Protest Outside Jeff Bezos’ Houses, Demanding He Pay More Taxes
In perhaps the first in person protest led by actual millionaires, a group called Patriotic Millionaires rallied outside Jeff Bezo’s $80 million Manhattan apartment building on Tax Day, with a big mobile billboard and a megaphone, demanding Bezos pay his ‘fair share of taxes’. Today @es_indivisible @mkink @PatrioticMills, @CleanupCarl and

Compassionate Alternative Responses to Homelessness in San Francisco
Op-Ed By Jennifer Friedenbach Jennifer Friedenbach is the Executive Director of the Coalition on Homelessness, San Francisco. CoH organizes homeless people to fight for permanent solutions and human rights. SF CART: Statement on Mayor’s New Street Responses In January of 2020, the San Francisco Police Commission passed a resolution unanimously

The ‘$ASS Coin Crypto Billionaire’ & the ‘Shit Coin’ Movement
Crypto currencies have truly gone mainstream these days, with over 10,000 different coins being traded anyone can become a ‘coin billionaire’. There’s no market regulation, but there is a ton of hype. This week Bloomberg News (you know the global financial news site) ran the story: “$ASS Coin Billionaire: Tales

Scenes From The McDonald’s Strike Across The Bay Area, And The Whole Nation
McDonald’s workers went on strike Wednesday in 15 cities across the U.S., in a direct action coordinated by Fight for $15 movement that hopes to raise the federal minimum wage to $15. Low pay is the main reason that thousands of McDonald’s workers blew off work to demonstrate today, but