Activism

06 Mar 2018

Everything Going Down for International Women’s Day in The Bay Area

Guest Post by Rebecca M. Farrar While not an official holiday in the United States, more than 100 countries around the world celebrate International Women’s Day. In Russia, men give women chocolate and yellow mimosas, the flower, not the drink, and in China women are entitled to half a day

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06 Mar 2018

Deadly Form of Heroin is Killing Users in San Francisco

Posters reading ‘Deadly Street Drugs Alert!!’ have been hung in parks and along muni lines in San Francisco by the Haight Ashbury Legal Organization (H.A.L.O.).  The posters read: “Fentynal-lased heroin and meth are causing deaths and overdoses at this time in San Francisco (FEB 2018)  it has also been found in

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22 Feb 2018

Only 6% of CEOs Are Women, But Thank God We Have Lady Doritos

By Kate Haverston  It’s 2018. Across the nation, women are marching and fighting for the same basic rights our mothers and grandmothers fought to obtain. The Trump Administration is chipping away for equal healthcare access for women and equal rights and equal pay in the workplace. Have we really made

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20 Feb 2018

Doc’s Clock is Finally Getting it’s Sign Back! Drink to Save the Sign!

Doc’s Clock is a Mission classic.  When they lost their lease at 2575 Mission St in 2017, locals, patrons, and the general community were in an uproar, nobody wanted to lose their beloved dive.  So what did Doc and its owner Carrey do?  They found a place just down the street

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16 Feb 2018

The Fashion at Last Night’s ‘Black Panther’ Premieres was Fantastic

The Black Panther premiere screenings all over town Thursday night brought out heroic levels of African fashion, cosplay, and clever bootleg Wakanda t-shirts. With packed movie houses across San Francisco, the Broke-Ass Justice Fashion Squad hit several theaters to get these red carpet premiere pictures of fans’ wardrobes inspired by

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15 Feb 2018

Activist Put Up Hearts All Over San Francisco

Hearts went up all over San Francisco on Valentines Day, and not because overpriced flowers were getting delivered to the 30th floors of financial district hi-rises.  It was because an SF ‘craftivist’ (craft + political activist) made and hung nearly 700 little, pink, knit hearts all over our city with

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12 Feb 2018

Nikki Darling Reveals How #MeToo Can Fail Sex Workers

Welcome to Brain-Throbs & Blow Jobs, a brand-new column that will be highlighting the great minds and perspectives of Bay Area sex workers through interviews and photo portraits. A few short years ago, adult film performer Stoya released two tweets that broke the porn industry’s silence about sexual violence and

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08 Feb 2018

Mission Mural Unveiling “Corazon de Campesinos”

Artist Alberto Ybarra is a native San Franciscan and an artist you should know.  You may recognize his work from the illustration series he did depicting a changing Mission neighborhood: See more of Old Mission Vs.  New Mission series here. Now Ybarra has collaborated with The Mission Community Market on a new outdoor mural on

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