Inequality Archives

Labor

Occupy San Francisco was a game-changer

Tim Paulson - September 19, 2021

Ten years later, remembering the movement that gave us "We are the 99 percent" and put economic inequality on the national agenda.

Art

Review: Sound and shadow evoke Nasim Moghadam’s Iranian roots, womxn’s solidarity

tamara suarez porras - September 9, 2021

In 'I Sprout on my Wound' at Aggregate Space, the artist also manipulates her passport photo and cut hair.

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: The ballad of Fatty Arbuckle

Dennis Harvey - September 8, 2021

The anniversary of Hollywood's biggest silent era scandal. Plus: The Card Counter, Blue Collar, 499, and a great socialism doc.

Housing

BIPOC residents of Mission Bay feel more welcome than in the rest of SF

Barbara Lopez - September 1, 2021

In a new community with 30 percent affordable housing, displacement and gentrification aren't creating instability.

Art

Rada drums, hammer, and sickle: Oakland artist configures new worlds

Mary Corbin - August 20, 2021

Haitian-born creator Rivka Louissaint takes seriously art's potential for social change.

Business + Tech

Excess profits tax on billionaires could vaccinate the entire world

Tim Redmond - August 12, 2021

New study shows just how much richer the rich got in the pandemic—and what could be done if we taxed some of that unearned wealth.

Homelessness

Homelessness—and failed solutions— in Salt Lake City and Denver

Tiny - August 8, 2021

Sweeps and attacks on the unhoused are not just happening in the Bay Area; it's a national problem.

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: Two deeply different narratives of sex work in ‘Working Girls’ and ‘Medusa’

Dennis Harvey - July 8, 2021

Plus: Saudi Arabian feminist mythology soars in 'Scales' and 'Dachra's creepy atmospherics.

Culture

5 can’t-miss events help kick off Laborfest 2021

Marke B. - June 28, 2021

The 28th annual program is bursting with poignant events in an age of rising fascism, inequality, and discrimination.

Movies

Screen Grabs: ‘Zola’ takes a wild ride from tweets to theaters

Dennis Harvey - June 28, 2021

Plus: New docs 'A Crime in the Bayou,' 'Truman and Tennesee,' and 'Lydia Lunch: The War is Never Over'

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