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EXCLUSIVE: Public Defender’s Office files motion to dismiss judge in BART arrest trial

Sana Saleem - September 16, 2016

The San Francisco's Public Defender's office has filed a motion to disqualify Judge Anne-Christine Massullo alleging prejudice and bias towards the defense counsel, the...

News + Politics

Wiener featured guest at banquet of landlord activist who opposes transgender rights

Tim Redmond - September 14, 2016

Supervisor Scott Wiener will be a featured guest this week at a Chinatown banquet sponsored by a group whose leader has made some remarkably...

Arts + Culture

‘Type/Caste’ is a curtain call for theater stereotypes

Caitlin Donohue - September 7, 2016

ONSTAGE I’ve been close to Bay Area actor Rotimi Agbabiaka for years, during which we have spent many moments laughing. There was the time...

News + Politics

The SF police union is embarrassing itself and losing its clout

Tim Redmond - August 29, 2016

Slowly, but with increasing momentum, the San Francisco Police Officers Association is losing its political clout. At one point, not that long ago, the POA...

News + Politics

Mamas fight for justice for their African sons

Tiny - August 24, 2016

Sala Haquiyah Chandler and other mothers stood outside the SF courthouse recently, waiting while the alleged murderer of her son and three other young...

Art

Is SF done with Pocha Nostra? (Is Pocha Nostra done with SF?)

Caitlin Donohue - August 18, 2016

MEXICO CITY, MEXICO -- Logistically and philosophically, being a trans-border radical performance art troupe is not simple. The Bay Area-based Pocha Nostra troupe, led...

News + Politics

Activists urge DA to investigate SFPD in sex-trafficking scandal

Sana Saleem - August 15, 2016

Activists with the group Anti Police-Terror Project gathered outside District Attorney George Gascon's office at 850 Bryant Street last week to demand a public...

News + Politics

The open, festering wound of injustice

Rupa Marya - July 29, 2016

Yesterday I was called by the SF Human Rights Commission to receive an award on behalf of the UCSF Do No Harm Coalition for...

News + Politics

A Fox to guard the henhouse? Cop who shot Luis Gongora now part of police reform unit

Sana Saleem - July 13, 2016

UPDATE: At the Police Commission meeting at City Hall SFPD Chief Toney Chaplain said Sgt Nate Steger voluntarily transferred from the Professional Standards and Principled...

News + Politics

Homelessness: the media’s big problem

Tim Redmond - June 29, 2016

These are some of the headlines we saw in the San Francisco Chronicle this past year: “San Francisco’s summer of urine and drug-addicted homeless.” “Amid rising...

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