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28 Jul 2020

Lollapalooza Will Be Streaming Online For Free This Weekend

Every festival in 2020 is canceled, but Lollapalooza is still doing a full four-day livestream of big-name acts all weekend. The Lollapalooza 2020 livestream will feature performances by OutKast, Paul McCartney, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Cure, Metallica, Lorde, LCD Soundsystem, Arcade Fire, and more — but in recorded performances

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27 Jul 2020

How to Tell if a Company Really Supports BLM

To get a clearer picture on whether a company actually supports BLM, or just engages in opportunist window-dressing, you can take any and all of the following steps:

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24 Jul 2020

A MAP OF SAN FRANCISCO’S NEW STREET ART 2020

San Francisco art organization ‘Paint the Void’ has commissioned something like 100 murals across San Francisco and the East Bay during shelter-in-place.  84 different boarded up storefronts got covered with art by Bay Area artists.  Turning many of our empty, commercial corridors into actual art walks. Visit the interactive Paint

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22 Jul 2020

Protest Against Trump’s Fascist Federal Thugs in Oakland!

Trump announced that he’s ramping up the fascism by sending a “surge of federal officers” to various Democrat led cities in the US. If you’ve been paying attention, their dry run has been Portland, Oregon where brave anti-fascists, including a Wall of Moms, have been standing up against these federal

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Oakland police on on the streets in riot gear.
22 Jul 2020

Schaaf Disappoints ‘Defund’ Advocates in Tie-Breaking Vote Against OPD Budget Cuts

The world turned its attention to Oakland when Oscar Grant was murdered by a BART police officer in 2009. The Black Lives Matter movement would not formally organize for another four years, but Grant’s death sparked a national dialogue and amplified calls for police reform. In that way, Oakland is

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22 Jul 2020

We are Rescinding The BAS Endorsement of Shahid Buttar

I’m incredibly disappointed to learn of the allegations of misogyny and sexual harassment surrounding Shahid Buttar. While I have been a supporter of his platform and his campaign, and I believe Nancy Pelosi cares more about corporations than she does about people, there’s no place in our movement for this

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22 Jul 2020

Frat Party Virus Outbreaks Force UC Berkeley to Start Fall Online Only

University of California, Berkeley officials sent a letter to students Tuesday saying the school has made the “difficult decision” to offer only online classes at the start of the fall semester, which begins Aug. 26. The move to remote-only instruction was announced a day earlier by Chancellor Carol Christ in

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22 Jul 2020

All the Things You Missed at the Board of Supervisors Meeting

We’re sitting through the San Francisco Board of Supervisors meetings and breaking them down for you so you don’t have to!

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