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Tech Billionaire Ron Conway Getting “Every Tech Employer” to Send Workers His Voter Guide
Evil Tech Billionaire Ron Conway is once again trying to steal San Francisco. It’s like a comic book, except Bat Kid isn’t around to save us. Yesterday Joe Eskenazi tweeted this email from Ron Conway in which Conway tries to use his weight to get every tech employer to vote
The Recall Ed Lee Campaign Has Officially Begun
Editor’s note: The Department of Elections just finally released the Official Petition to Recall Ed Lee after 5 separate tries. The recall attempt is now beginning in earnest. They need to get 60,000 signatures in the next 160 days. San Francisco: the bright and shining beacon of hope, weirdness, and refuge for so
Oakland Music Festival Unifies Music Scene and is Awesome!
I went to West Oakland’s Eli’s Mile High Club on Saturday night to check out the Fool’s Gold Records co-founder Nick Catchdubs and Another Party Fam’s Trackademicks and L-Deez DJ a hot dance party. Was it good? Well, the house was packed, the music was slick and everyone looked great – so yeah, it was the shit.
We wanna send you to see Kamau Bell!
W. Kamau Bell is a socio-political comedian and host of KALW’s Kamau Right Now!, a live radio show that transforms the political and cultural conversation of the moment into what Kamau calls “a three-ring circus of relevance.” Bell is also the host of CNN’s The United Shades of America, a documentary series
Direct Action to Protest the Most Recent Attack on SF Homeless People
We’ve covered how screwed up Prop Q is before and how it only exacerbates the homelessness epidemic. And we also covered it in our 2016 voter guide. If you’re as outraged by the both Props Q & R there’s an action going down on Thursday at Harvey Milk Plaza from
Lobbying Loophole Gets Ed Lee $100k in Travelling Expenses
A current loophole in our law allows lobbyist to bundle contributions and use go-betweens to pay San Francisco politicians. For example, companies like Airbnb & Uber paid for Ed Lee to go on a trip to China in 2013, and since he’s been in office he’s flown all over the world
Modern Times Bookstore Collective Closing in SF
Modern Times Bookstore Collective in San Francisco: Serving Radical Progressives and the Mission District For 45 Years. It really does signal an end of an era. From Modern Times: On November 15, Modern Times Bookstore Collective will be closing on the 45th anniversary of doing business in San Francisco’s Mission