Activism

13 Jul 2017

The Best Art Parties, Festivals, and Fairs in San Francisco Right Now

There’s a bunch of fun, interesting, artsy extravaganzas happening all over San Francisco this July. The next couple weeks are garden parties, world class workshops, world records, opera auditions, and of course music, dancing & costumes all over the place. It’s time to get out there and mix it up with thousands of other beautiful bay area weirdos.

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11 Jul 2017

A Night to Help Rocket Dog Rescue

As you may have heard, Pali Boucher, founder of Rocket Dog Rescue, was violently mugged last month. Besides her personal belongings the thieves also got away with all the donations she’d collected at a Rocket Dog fundraiser earlier in the evening. For those unfamiliar, Rocket Dog Rescue is a “San Francisco Bay Area

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high times cannabis cup
06 Jul 2017

High Times Had By All at Cannabis Cup

We all know High Times as a publication that dates way before even the first legal ounce of weed was sold. We also know that if it weren’t for their activism, positive movement, and how they taught the world to grow (literally and figuratively) we wouldn’t have the most excellent

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28 Jun 2017

San Francisco Furry Pride!

Not all furries are LGBTQ folks.  However, a significant portion are. According to the International Anthropomorphic Research Project (IARP) * , furries are 7 times more likely to be homosexual than the general population.  Similar trends for the rest of the LGBTQ spectrum are evident in this research.  That being said,

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28 Jun 2017

Is The Trump Resistance Movement…Exhausted?

Is the Resistance in a funk, or is it just me? Meetings packed in months past have thinned out. I heard a rumor that call volume to our California District 1 representative, Doug LaMalfa, is back down to pre-election norms. And the conversations I have with other new activist are becoming increasingly …unenergetic.

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27 Jun 2017

The Tech Workers Helping to Unionize Big Tech

about 35 people, most of them software engineers, many from household-name tech companies in Silicon Valley, sitting in a run-down union hall in the Tenderloin, talking about the evils of capitalism and organizing the workers from below to take on the bosses.

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25 Jun 2017

BAS PRIDE 2017: WEARS YOUR PRIDE?; STUD IS BIG, GAY & FREE; DISCO DADDY DO IT TO ME

Buenos días Pride-landia!  Whether your just waking up or haven’t quite made it to bed yet, Pride Sunday is finally here.  The only question remaining is, What is one to wear?? If you plan on taking in the march/ parade or are participating, we would highly suggest comfortable shoes and

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23 Jun 2017

JOIN THE #RESIST CONTINGENT PRIDE SUNDAY

The minutes are passing like hours, but fear not queerdos, Pride Friday is here and the city is abuzz like a million hot pink cicadas. And in terms of millions, we could easily be looking at close to two in attendance this Sunday’s parade.  The parade has become iconic, resplendent

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