Tag: Immigrants
Bottoms up for spirits-lifting Oakland Cocktail Week (now a month)
Support local bars and drink in good company, as the festival pivots to a vital fundraiser.
OPINION: What a protest looks like without police
At a DSA march, community activists cleared the streets and provided medical attention.
Uber drivers protest billboard campaign
Company claims to support Black workers while undermining their rights with a state ballot initiative.
Screen Grabs: Meet in the middle
This week's must-stream films bring visions of faraway lands and all-too-close looks at our own.
Screen Grabs: Heavy themes for heavy times
New movies: Social media manipulation, voter suppression, deportation, white nationalism... Oh, and Suzi Quatro!
The TikTok campaigns
After a few edits and some graphics, Sameera Rajwade uploaded the first video to her TikTok account. Within a day, it had racked up hundreds of thousands of views...
Searing, prescient, hilarious: ‘Laughter Against the Machine’ returns onscreen
Travel back with me to a distant time when the economy had collapsed, the country was visibly divided, protesters took over the streets, a border wall was being built,...
10 artists centering Latinidad in the sound of the Bay today
For over 50 years, the Bay Area has been a crucial intersection of global music. Everything from psych rock to funk, hip hop, and diasporic sounds of Latin America,...
Some defining issues in the fall supes race
The San Francisco Democratic Party will vote on endorsements for the Board of Supes Wednesday/22, and while the party nod doesn’t always mean victory, it’s a powerful statement –...
Rob Eshelman-Håkansson, journalist and activist, dies at 47
Rob Eshelman-Håkansson, a fearless journalist, former legislative aide to Matt Gonzalez, and organizer with the Housing Rights Committee, died July 15, 2020. He was 47 years old.
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