Tag: Port
Trump’s desperate, last-ditch effort to hike tensions with Iran
During the past month, Iran has suffered a half-dozen explosions and fires at military and civilian sites. A bomb blew up near the Parchin missile base outside Tehran, Iran’s...
A brief history of replacing Trump with kittens
Picture in your mind’s eye a bug-eyed, enigma-faced kitten at peace, chilling in its home, it’s cheek tufts spreading wantonly. I hate to do this to you, but now...
Laborfest 2020 highlights global struggle from Vietnam to George Floyd uprising
The George Floyd uprising, the massive Juneteenth Oakland port blockade, gig workers protesting outside CEO's houses: All of these in the past month have shown that the power of...
Black youth a new organizing force in Oakland
As former Black Panther Angela Davis spoke to the crowd of thousands that had gathered at the Port of Oakland June 19 to protest police brutality, a group of...
Harry Britt, LGBT progressive pioneer, dies at 82
Harry Britt, who was a pioneering LGBTQ leader as well as a champion of the city’s left, died today at 82.
Britt was a close friend and ally of Harvey...
Supes look to protect SRO residents
The Board of Supes Finance Committee approved today emergency legislation aimed at curbing the spread of COVID-19 in single-room occupancy hotels.
The measure by Sup. Aaron Peskin came in the...
Screen Grabs: Horse Feathers!—and even more great comedy streaming
Before winding up, for the time being at least, our survey of cinematic comedies that will lighten up your house arrest sojourn (part one here and part two here),...
New Music: The Seshen’s sonic-visual journey through ‘Cyan’
Forget it. This version of longtime favorite band The Seshen (playing Thu/27 at Rickshaw Stop)—where lead vocalist and lyricist Lalin St. Juste emancipates herself and this Bay Area band to reform...
Why Richmond said No to coal
On Tuesday, January 14, to the delight of environmentalists and health advocates and the consternation of the coal industry, the Richmond City Council passed an ordinance banning the storing...
At Zinn Fair, Peter Cole explores SF’s unique history of labor and race
In Dockworker Power: Race and Activism in South Africa and the San Francisco Bay Area, labor historian Peter Cole uncovers the undocumented history of waterfront activism and its role in...
