Activism

29 Jun 2018

Join the Nationwide March for Immigrant Rights

Tomorrow (Saturday) 6/30 there will be a nationwide march against the cruel and inhumane ways that the Tr*mp administration is treating immigrants. Details about the SF march are below and you can find info about marches in your town right here. Immigrant rights are human rights, and human rights are

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29 Jun 2018

An Exhaustive Collection 2018 SF Pride Photos

Another Pride has come and gone in a year that felt little of celebration.  The fight continues, however, and visibility is the strongest message one can send.  And if there are folk  that knows how to show off the fight with fabulousness and ferocity, they are the babes of the

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28 Jun 2018

Scott Pruitt is Coming to SF. You Should Really Go Yell Things at Him.

I just got word that Scott Pruitt, the head of the EPA under the Tr*ump regime will be in San Francisco tomorrow. This is a real motherfucker right here. He’s singlehandedly undoing all the environmental protections that it’s taken decades for us to get passed. I mean this piece of

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28 Jun 2018

I’m Disgusted by These Corporate Pride Campaigns

The corporatization of Pride is a strange thing. On one hand, the money that big corporations like Chipotle, Facebook and Apple pay each year helps fund the day of festivities that so joyously heartens our city. And it’s also really important that these corporations are showing their love for their LGBTQ employees. The visibility of having Fortune 500 companies support their queer workers is integral in the movement toward equity and equality.

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26 Jun 2018

Whiteness, Maleness, and Americanism Have No Intrinsic Value

Through the history that is handed down to us in schools, the media, and through oral tradition, Whiteness, Maleness, and Americanism have been duplicitously elevated as having superior actual intrinsic value. These iconic characteristics are no match for the real values of integrity, intellect, creativity, focus, discipline, talent or skills,

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25 Jun 2018

Bay Area Activists Help Free Mexican Immigrant from ICE

If you recall, earlier this month we ran an article about Jose, a Mexican artist who’d been in the US for over 20 years. Despite having established a family and a home in this country, Jose was detained by ICE and placed in an immigration jail since September of last year.

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23 Jun 2018

What it was like Protesting at the Richmond Jail & Challenging ICE

By Nevin Long Around 100 demonstrators gathered outside the West County Detention Facility in Richmond Friday to protest the separation of migrant children from their parents at the US-Mexican border. The rally, organized jointly by the San José chapters of Together We Will and Indivisible, was just one of dozens

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21 Jun 2018

This week in news: June 21, 2018

There’s just no amount of sugarcoating in existence to make this week’s news any easier to swallow, and unless you live under a rock with no Wi-Fi, you already know that. But before we dive into that abyss, let’s touch on some stories that were buried under all the horrific

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