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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Bipartisan bill introduced in House to ban use of pesticide paraquat in US agriculture
The bill would "direct the Environmental Protection Agency to cancel all existing paraquat registrations, revoke any tolerances permitting paraquat residue in food, and ban the sale and use of existing stocks upon enactment."
Why Biden’s debate disaster two years ago matters for the future
Looking ahead, a great need will be to overcome the ongoing culture of conformity that so badly damaged the Democratic Party in 2024 and helped Trump get back into the White House.
Losing face, losing the base, losing the midterm race—a tidal trifecta
Though daring MAGA lies seem tidal,/ Denying outcomes suicidal.
Anti-ICE protesters sentenced to decades as Trump turns ‘antifa’ label into prosecution tool
The Prairieland case transformed a July 4 protest outside a Texas immigration jail into a terrorism prosecution, with sentences from 30 to 100 years and warnings of a new federal playbook against left-wing dissent.
Alaska governor vetoes single-use polystyrene foam foodware ban
For now, polystyrene products will remain legal for use by commercial food vendors statewide.