Saturday, May 4, 2024

Tagged with: Protests

The Uber model runs into the DMV

A state agency is the latest to say: Get permission first. But sharing economy companies aren't interested in that. By Tim Redmond JANUARY 26, 2015 –...

96 Hours of protests start with Black Lives Matter actions in SF, Oakland

By Julia Carrie Wong JANUARY 16, 2015 -- While protesters banged spoons on BART cars and shut down stations in San Francisco, another action was...

BART protests, $70,000, and free speech

Should a public agency force protesters to pay the costs of a demonstration?   By Tim Redmond JANUARY 14, 2015 – In September, 1981, thousands of antinuclear...

Facing the eviction threat: Tenants push back and slow Ellis evictions in 2014

 By Gen Fujioka Part one of a two-part series JANUARY 5, 2014 -- As San Francisco’s tenants and their progressive allies take stock and develop their...

About inconvenience and protests

By Tim Redmond DECEMBER 15, 2014 – When workers at San Francisco International Airport restaurants went on strike last week, Mayor Ed Lee’s response was...

Peaceful march against police killings ends at City Hall — with sheriff’s deputies blocking the way and the sheriff addressing the crowd

By Rebecca Bowe Photos by Justin Benttinen DECEMBER 15, 2014 -- Youth organizers led a march and rally in San Francisco Saturday to coincide with the...

Tom’s Town: How the Berkeley police and CHP screwed up their response to protests

By Tom Temprano DECEMBER 12, 2014 – It’s incredible what a difference a week makes as the movement against racial injustice and police violence in...

Tom’s Town: Why were top SF officials so quiet on the police brutality issue?

By Tom Temprano DECEMBER 5, 2014 -- It has been difficult, if not impossible, to focus on anything in the news besides the utterly demoralizing...

Undocumented residents can give organs — but not receive them

By Viji Sundaram  SAN PABLO, DECEMBER 5 – Without treatment to replace her failing kidneys, Olga knows she will die. The 37-year-old single mother is desperate...

What if California community colleges just shut down the ACCJC?

  By Tim Redmond DECEMBER 3, 2014 – A decision is expected next week in City Attorney Dennis Herrera’s lawsuit against the agency that is trying...