Activism

25 Aug 2017

Patriot Prayer Cancels Crissy Field Rally, Announces Press Conference at Alamo Square

The organizers of Patriot Prayer, the group holding the permit for the rally at Crissy Field announced today on Facebook Live that they are cancelling Saturday’s rally due to security concerns.  Instead they will be attempting to hold a ‘Press Conference” at Alamo Square at 2pm Saturday. Patriot Prayer lead

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25 Aug 2017

White Nationalists are Dumb, Weird, and Have No Style

By Hannah Harkness Obviously, the worst thing about white nationalists is their racism and spread of hatred and violence. Feel free to read all of the think pieces and literature that has been written about them from WWII to present in regards to that. Today, however, I want to focus

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24 Aug 2017

Feeding the Needy: Another Way to Say No to the Alt-Right

As the Bay Area braces itself for Saturday’s planned appearance by the alt-right, more and more people are coming up with creative ways to say a resounding NO! to hate. For musician Mark Joseph, an Outer Sunset resident, the key to stopping the alt-right’s message is to respond with love.

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24 Aug 2017

How to Protest Safely and Responsibly

We need to intelligently prepare ourselves by knowing our rights and restrictions as counter-protesters. The behavior of others is not under your control, but these tips will help you be as safe as you can be at a volatile protest

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23 Aug 2017

What to Expect at The Alt-Right Rally on Crissy Field

The police presence, the alt-right group putting it on, and all the counter-protests planned

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22 Aug 2017

School that Trains Girls in Music & Sound Engineering Expands to Oakland

The Women’s Audio Mission (WAM) in the Bay Area is all about advancing women in music production and creative technology.  In fact, they’ve gotten over 400 women placed in paid positions with companies like Google, Pixar, SFJazz, & NPR.  How?  WAM provides free after-school training and mentoring to thousands of

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16 Aug 2017

Actually, This IS the America You’ve Always Lived in

This is par for the course. For Black folks, America has always been a hazardous navigation with racist cops and water-cannons, bigoted institutions and poor legal representation. For most of our history you couldn’t even play on the course if you were “colored” (pretty sure we still have plenty of “country clubs” like that ). Today, the tee is still set about a hundred yards back with more than sandtraps lying in wait.

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16 Aug 2017

Save Bushwick City Farm!

By Tiana Miller  Anyone who has been to Bushwick in the past few years, particularly near the intersection of Myrtle and Broadway, needs no reminder of how rapidly the area is gentrifying. With an upshot of high rise luxury condos pricing out many longtime home and business owners one wonders

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