Marc Norton, Author at 48 hills

Housing

The last time an SF cop was charged with killing a Black man

December 1, 2020

It was 1968. The trial was a sensation. The outcome was a disaster.

Labor

Giants workers fight back

August 16, 2020

The San Francisco Giants returned home on Friday, August 14 and found themselves being picketed by the workers who normally sell garlic fries and...

Labor

Giants and Warriors give their workers the boot

August 4, 2020

I got the email firing me from my job at the Giants ballpark on Monday evening, July 27. On Tuesday evening I learned from...

News + Politics

Social distancing is the wrong term

April 9, 2020

I am very tired of hearing about “social distancing.” We do not need social distancing. We need physical distancing. What we need is social solidarity. I...

News + Politics

Erik Prince, Blackwater founder, on ‘shithole countries’

January 21, 2018

The news cycle these days moves fast and furious, especially when it comes to our esteemed President Donald Trump. A few days back, Trump...

News + Politics

The story of SF’s hidden monument to WWI

November 10, 2017

This year is the 100-year anniversary of the entry of the United States into World War I. It is also the 100-year anniversary of...

Arts + Culture

1967 was not the Summer of Love in Detroit

August 20, 2017

Detroit is the most gut-wrenching movie I have ever seen. Fifty years ago, in 1967, San Franciscans here in our City by the Bay were...

News + Politics

Trump’s education secretary — and her brother, a mercenary who advocates assassinations

January 23, 2017

Blackwater founder Erik Prince, who has been called “America’s most notorious mercenary” by author and journalist Jeremy Scahill, has emerged as an influential advisor...

News + Politics

Trump means war. Let’s not forget that

January 10, 2017

On Saturday afternoon, January 7, 2017, I attended an indoor rally entitled United Against Trump at the Women’s Building in San Francisco. The room...

News + Politics

The forgotten legacy of Keith Jackson

February 21, 2016

Keith Jackson, a former member of the San Francisco Board of Education who became a political fundraiser and fixer, is set to be sentenced...