Activism

Join the Nationwide March for Immigrant Rights
Tomorrow (Saturday) 6/30 there will be a nationwide march against the cruel and inhumane ways that the Tr*mp administration is treating immigrants. Details about the SF march are below and you can find info about marches in your town right here. Immigrant rights are human rights, and human rights are

An Exhaustive Collection 2018 SF Pride Photos
Another Pride has come and gone in a year that felt little of celebration. The fight continues, however, and visibility is the strongest message one can send. And if there are folk that knows how to show off the fight with fabulousness and ferocity, they are the babes of the

Scott Pruitt is Coming to SF. You Should Really Go Yell Things at Him.
I just got word that Scott Pruitt, the head of the EPA under the Tr*ump regime will be in San Francisco tomorrow. This is a real motherfucker right here. He’s singlehandedly undoing all the environmental protections that it’s taken decades for us to get passed. I mean this piece of

I’m Disgusted by These Corporate Pride Campaigns
The corporatization of Pride is a strange thing. On one hand, the money that big corporations like Chipotle, Facebook and Apple pay each year helps fund the day of festivities that so joyously heartens our city. And it’s also really important that these corporations are showing their love for their LGBTQ employees. The visibility of having Fortune 500 companies support their queer workers is integral in the movement toward equity and equality.

Whiteness, Maleness, and Americanism Have No Intrinsic Value
Through the history that is handed down to us in schools, the media, and through oral tradition, Whiteness, Maleness, and Americanism have been duplicitously elevated as having superior actual intrinsic value. These iconic characteristics are no match for the real values of integrity, intellect, creativity, focus, discipline, talent or skills,

Bay Area Activists Help Free Mexican Immigrant from ICE
If you recall, earlier this month we ran an article about Jose, a Mexican artist who’d been in the US for over 20 years. Despite having established a family and a home in this country, Jose was detained by ICE and placed in an immigration jail since September of last year.

What it was like Protesting at the Richmond Jail & Challenging ICE
By Nevin Long Around 100 demonstrators gathered outside the West County Detention Facility in Richmond Friday to protest the separation of migrant children from their parents at the US-Mexican border. The rally, organized jointly by the San José chapters of Together We Will and Indivisible, was just one of dozens

This week in news: June 21, 2018
There’s just no amount of sugarcoating in existence to make this week’s news any easier to swallow, and unless you live under a rock with no Wi-Fi, you already know that. But before we dive into that abyss, let’s touch on some stories that were buried under all the horrific