Activism

29 Aug 2019

Drawn From the City : Snezana

DRAWN FROM THE CITY: Illustrations and Interviews of SF’s Best, first appeared in The Bold Italic in 2015 and ran through 2016. We at broke-assstuart.com liked them so much we asked Crystal if we could put them out again as a time capsule of SF’s creative scene during the height of the

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29 Aug 2019

Why Planned Parenthood Rejected Federal Funding

by Kate Brunotts Last Monday, Planned Parenthood decided to pull out of Title X’s federal funding program, which offers subsidized contraceptives and services to about 4 million low-income women.  The reasoning behind it? Trump’s program revision included an all-encompassing gag rule: Any doctor servicing at one of the organization’s locations

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28 Aug 2019

Revolution Books Calls on Supporters to Defend Shop This Weekend

Amber Cummings is planning yet another march and protest this Sunday in Berkeley. The notorious local anti-Antifa figure has made her presence known at just about every local left-right skirmish throughout the Bay Area since things really started to heat up in 2015. Although she makes her way to out-of-town

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27 Aug 2019

Ya, Fried Chicken Sandwiches are Delicious, & Factory Farming is Still Disgusting

Yes I love fried chicken.  Yes, I ate more than one fried chicken sandwich this weekend. Yes, I enjoyed them.  And yes, I heard about the massive marketing campaign dubbed ‘chickenwars’ between Popeyes and Chick-fil-A last week.  A ‘twitter war’ between corporations, which is code for ‘free corporate advertising’.  The

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23 Aug 2019

International Go Topless Day is on Sunday!

Besides the fact that I really love boobs, I support International Go Topless Day because it’s absurd that men can go topless whenever they want but women can’t. This is a protest against gender inequality and one in favor of body positivity. Real talk: by definition, there is nothing more

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22 Aug 2019

Month of Momentum: 30 Days of Action to Close the Camps

The idea behind the Month of Momentum was to try and build a more widespread, grassroots movement to close the camps. Each group that signed up for a day of action is doing their own outreach, therefore spreading the organizing out into 30 different communities.

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22 Aug 2019

How to Use ‘Parental Lock’ to Stop Your Parents From Watching Fox News

Are your parents or grandparents watching too much Fox News?  Are they getting brainwashed into thinking Trump is a necessary evil or that all Americans should have access to automatic rifles?  Then you can do something about it!  Use the ‘parental lock’ feature on your tv set and stop the

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22 Aug 2019

Google Employees Refuse to Work With ICE or Border Protection Agencies

1293 Google and employees and 79 other supporters have pledged publicly not to support US Customs and Border Protection (CBP), ICE, or Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) with any infrastructure, funding, or engineering resources, directly or indirectly, until they stop engaging in human rights abuse

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