Activism

29 Feb 2024

Fishnets and Film: The Drag Themed Festival!

Do you ever think you might enjoy Drag performance and queer cinema paired with alcohol and tasty nibbles? Robby Kendall, the CEO of the drag-themed film festival, Fishnets and Films has got you covered! The next event is at New Parkway Theater on March 2nd. It’s a “Let’s Talk About

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27 Feb 2024

OMCA Workers Unionize Joining a National Movement for Change

On Wednesday, February 21st, a group of workers at Oakland Museum of California (OMCA) took steps to become a union. Under the name of Oakland Museum of California Workers United (OMCAWU), the group is organizing and seeking to unite through AFSCME Council 57. This new union effort aims to represent

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22 Feb 2024

The Silly and Serious Leap Year Protest in Berkeley

It’s a yeap year which can mean only one thing – a silly protest with an important message is coming to the streets of Berkeley on February 29th. Leap Day Action Night organized by The Slingshot Collective is not your traditional protest or even just a distraction keeping us from

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21 Feb 2024

Big Pro-Palestinian Protest Planned at Biden’s San Francisco Fundraiser

The whole world is watching in horror as Israel’s far right government prepares to send the Israeli military into Rafah. It is guaranteed to be another bloodbath of annihilation that will kill thousands of civilians. I don’t know how Netanyahu and his ghouls think destroying Gaza won’t also kill the

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16 Feb 2024

The Power of Community vs Crime in Oakland

It was 7 years ago that I wrote my first article for Broke-Ass Stuart around my transition from SF to Oakland. And I thought at first I’d write a long list of the differences I’ve noticed between the two iconic Bay Area cities. The primary distinction between residing in Oakland

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15 Feb 2024

So you think you know how to recycle in SF? Take the Quiz!

So you think you know how to recycle, compost, or trash in SF?

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14 Feb 2024

Celebrate 10 Years of Baking Muffins & Feeding Folks Experiencing Homelessness

BY JACOB “MUFFIN MAN” KAUFMAN Greetings, my dear followers of The Stuart! Do you like yummy baked goods? Do you like helping people? Do you like the Richter Scale, Metric System, and/or Bo Derek’s 1979 classic breakout sex comedy, “10”? If the answer to any of the above was a resounding

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13 Feb 2024

Cop Drives Over New People’s Park Mural

A day of “participatory painting, music, and poetry” was held beyond the perimeter of industrial cargo containers at People’s Park in Berkeley on Sunday.  Artists and protestors shut down a portion of Bowditch Street and painted a large mural designed by artist David Solnit.   View this post on Instagram

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