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Push for single-payer healthcare grows in CA

Tim Redmond - February 1, 2017

More than a thousand people (my estimate) showed up today at the state building to weigh in on health-care costs – and make the...

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Sup. Ahsha Safaí introduces resolution against Trump’s so-called Muslim Ban

Sana Saleem - January 31, 2017

District 11 Supervisor Ahsha Safai announced his intention to introduce a resolution opposing President Trump's Muslim ban at Tuesday's board meeting. Safai's resolution is backed by Mayor...

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#120hours Day 1: Activist camp in front of City Hall

Sana Saleem - January 17, 2017

As part of the Bay Area #120hours of action to mark #MLKDAY and the upcoming inauguration of President-elect Trump, protestors occupied space outside Civic Center Plaza with...

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Activist continue to rally against ex SFPD Chief Suhr

Sana Saleem - January 13, 2017

It took 48 hours for the consulting gig between former police Chief Suhr and the basketball team Golden State warriors to fall through. A statement...

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Big shebang for Human Be-In’s 50th

Caitlin Donohue - January 12, 2017

A huge celebration Sat/14 marks the 50th anniversary of the Human Be-In, the Owsley-fueled convergence in Golden Gate Park that gathered ten of thousands of earnest...

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The Agenda, Jan. 9-16: Party with 48hills, a new Board of Supes …

Tim Redmond - January 8, 2017

We open this Agenda with an invite and a plea: On Thursday/19, 48hills will celebrate, so to speak, the new year and offer a...

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Coming in FRESH

Caitlin Donohue - January 4, 2017

ONSTAGE The piece Bay Area dancer and educator Amara Tabor-Smith will perform this weekend at the 2017 FRESH Festival explores how capitalism seeks control of black...

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Mayor cuts homeless prevention money; hundreds at risk

Tim Redmond - January 2, 2017

Eduardo Pubill once shared a beer with Ringo Starr. He’s been a New York theater stagehand, a chef, a merchant seaman, and a cook...

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A militant in pink slippers: Remembering an eviction fighter

Ron Winter - December 14, 2016

Mary Elizabeth Phillips was the reluctant media star of San Francisco’s eviction epidemic. And now, she has quietly passed into the vibrant history of...

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Woven through a movement

Marke B. - December 8, 2016

The arc of the public gay rights movement's history is not very long at all. It's just about the length of one full life,...

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