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Tagged with: Poverty

Homeless people — in cages

Here lies the unhoused soldier  Killed in the undeclared war on the poor Just tryin to survive outside --  to hide on a bus bench,  away from your...

From Mali to Memphis: Dee Dee Bridgewater fires up the soul of her youth

ALL EARS Two of the great divas of blues and jazz will be performing in the Bay Area this coming week. It's a wonderful opportunity...

Screen Grabs: Brazilian classics, the Gospel of Eureka, a Silicon Valley scam….

SCREEN GRABS Though it doesn’t get the same international nostalgic attention these days accorded similar movements in the US, Europe, and elsewhere, one of...

The inhumanity of homeless ‘sweeps’

  No matter how many times you “sweep” me,“arrest me,” or “study me, it doesn’t give me a home. In 1984, when I was 11 and...

Screen Grabs: Berlin & Beyond, Woman at War, The Mystery of Picasso ….

SCREEN GRABS The recent passing of great screen actor Bruno Ganz reminded that he’d appeared in person before a screening of Downfall in 2005,...

Venezuela: Democratic uprising or US coup?

  Tens of thousands of angry people march in the streets to protest lack of democracy. Women bang on pots to raise alarm over the...

‘Take back our lives:’ The words of poverty scholars

May 2 marks the 10-year anniversary of the passing of poet Al Robles. Al Robles was conferred much respect as a poverty scholar of...

Taxing the rich is suddenly a popular idea

I have always been fascinated by the World Economic Forum at Davos, where world leaders, rich people (and people who want to be seen...

Political power — in San Francisco and Sacramento

It was a time to celebrate in San Francisco tonight. Progressive groups in Chinatown held a banquet for the new supervisors, who ran on...

Mayor Breed’s brother should be released from prison

Jerry Brown is poised to leave office with 740 people on death row and 130,000 others in state prisons, 70 percent of them Black...