Tag: San Francisco
Progressive Briefing for Monday, July 2, 2018
Protestors march against Trump's immigration policies, San Francisco becomes first major city to have $15 minimum wage, and more.
How the March for Science seized San Francisco, fueling a growing...
Where does the March for Science go from here?
San Francisco judges dismiss 66,000 arrest warrants against the city’s homeless
San Francisco chief judge John Stewart and his colleagues dismissed thousands of cases against the homeless for “quality-of-life” crimes such as sleeping on sidewalks because it “was the right thing to do.”
San Francisco Getting Stricter About Styrofoam
At the beginning of 2017, the use of polystyrene will be banned in San Francisco.
Interactive Maps Show Where Monsanto’s Roundup Is Sprayed in San Francisco...
Reverend Billy and The Stop Shopping Choir have published two new interactive maps showing where glyphosate is being sprayed in California’s Bay Area and Portland.
San Francisco Becomes First Major City to Require Solar Panels on...
California also has more solar jobs and installed more megawatts of solar capacity last year than any other state in the nation.
Turning American Communities Into War Zones, Death By Death
When it comes to people of color, the police make San Francisco “Baghdad by the bay.”
San Francisco Clears Out Homeless Ahead Of The Super Bowl
Millions of fans will descend on the city, but the homeless have been moved elsewhere.
This City Wants to Ban Junk Food From Vending Machines
New legislation would nix unhealthy items from property owned by the city of San Francisco.
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ICE at the gates: Rights groups warn Trump airport deployment risks civil liberties crisis
Civil liberties advocates, unions, and lawmakers raise alarm over use of immigration agents in airport security amid shutdown-driven staffing crisis.
California’s herbicide spill ignites growing movement to ban paraquat nationwide
The spill, which closed a major highway and sent at least ten people to seek medical attention for respiratory symptoms, became a catalyst for a renewed political battle over the chemical's future in California.
Why Donald Trump just can’t stop going to war
When imperial America offers help, it just might get you killed.
The Age of Arrogant Amateurism – as ‘know-it-all’ opportunists seize power to control, not...
To win big in this brave new world, forget tested skill-sets and the wisdom of experience: chutzpah and risk-taking, even gambling, are paramount, then the facile ability to learn on the job how to cling to power.
Traders placed massive bets minutes before Trump Iran post raising insider trading concerns
Unusual oil and stock trades worth hundreds of millions of dollars occurred minutes before the president’s social media announcement about Iran peace talks, prompting calls for investigations into possible insider knowledge.