Activism

An SFO-bound BART train pulls up to a station platform.
26 Apr 2022

Why Bart Needs To Go To Sacramento And The Central Valley

The San Francisco Bay Area is a prohibitively expensive place to live. Everyone knows that. What people don’t know is that the Bay Area is no longer considered a singular region anymore. It’s now a part of the larger Northern California Mega Region. The higher the prices get the closer

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25 Apr 2022

‘People’s Convoy’ Chased Out of Oakland by Kids Throwing Eggs

Well this just made my morning. On Friday afternoon the ‘People’s Convoy’, a far right caravan of truckers modeled after the Canadian truck protests against COVID-19 restrictions, fucked around and found out in Oakland. As Katie Dowd of SFGate points out, the People’s Convoy “has failed spectacularly at every turn.

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young girl hiding in the ferns
22 Apr 2022

10-year-old Award-winning Poet Shares Her Thoughts This Earth Day 2022

At Broke-Ass Stuart, we value the unique perspectives of everyone in The Bay Area. This Earth Day, we asked a local award-winning poet to write about their muse, Mother Earth. This poet is Rhiannon Hewitt(R), age 10. We asked her to talk about the impact she felt the last 2

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Sunbeams shine down a San Francisco alleway.
21 Apr 2022

You’re Being Lied to About San Francisco Crime

If you read the Chronicle (with some exceptions) or national outlets, they claim that San Francisco is a failed experiment in progressive policymaking, you probably think it’s bad and getting worse. Now, just look at the actual numbers.

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14 Apr 2022

Teaching Young Women How to Rap and Produce in Oakland

WIth a curriculum that combines beat-making and coding, she noticed similar gender dynamics in two male-dominated fields: tech and music production.

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12 Apr 2022

How Climate Change Affects The Bay Area

Written By Deborah In just a few short days, San Francisco has gone from the hottest weather we’ve seen in over a year to damp and rainy. While variety is the spice of life, this is a troubling sign of things to come. The early stages of climate change is

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07 Apr 2022

50+ Year Old Bar, Hawaii West, Being Evicted by New Building Owner

Word just came in from multiple sources that Hawaii West, a North Beach tiki dive bar with a great kitchen is being evicted by its new building owner. But YOU might be able to help save it! Read below: Bar owner Nolan Kellet, whose grandmother started the place in the 1960s,

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07 Apr 2022

San Francisco’s Trash Fighting Citizens

You may have seen Vincent Yuen in your news feed this year, or perhaps even on your street corner wearing a florescent vest.  He’s the engine behind San Francisco’s newest trash fighting organization Refuse Refuse SF. Their mission is simple, inspire San Francisco’s own citizens to help keep their neighborhoods

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