Workers Archives - 48 hills

Arts Forecast

Arts Forecast: Choose your own adventure in a city full of wonders

Marke B. - May 2, 2022

Lila Downs, Front Line Assembly, Kronos Quartet, Rob Reger, Chinese Pioneers, Punk in the 'Loin, more terrific doings this week

Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: A return to rep’s heyday, from ‘Fantastic Planet’ to ‘Hot Fuzz’

Dennis Harvey - May 1, 2022

A smorgasbord of big screen classics. Plus: gay love in the Russian military, harrowing tales of Donbass, embalmed Filipina love.

Arts + Culture

Screen Grabs: ‘Song for Cesar’ pumps up the music behind Chicano Power

Dennis Harvey - March 17, 2022

Plus: 'Master' and 'Alice' probe Black experience spooky and surreal, and 'Fabian: Going to the Dogs' delves into early Nazi Germany

Remembrance

Peter Haberfeld, lawyer, organizer, and legendary community activist, dies

Stephen Bingham - January 30, 2022

Advocate for civil rights, labor rights, and the power of the people, was 80.

Transportation

Gig workers seek support hubs where they can rest, charge, and pee

Garrett Leahy - December 19, 2021

Companies like Doordash and Uber Eats offer no help to the people who make their operations possible.

Business + Tech

Taxi drivers protest, demand relief from SF’s failed permit program

Garrett Leahy - December 7, 2021

Drivers decimated by Uber and Lyft say SF cheated them out of millions, and they want action, now.

Housing

Labor, housing activists tell supes: Trickle-down policy is a failure

Tim Redmond - November 8, 2021

Hearing on jobs-housing mix makes clear that market-based solutions haven't worked and the city needs a new approach.

Opinion

Labor organizing is a part of SF life

Tim Paulson - October 6, 2021

Reflections on winning and losing in the local and national movement.

Labor

Giants workers get record contract

Marc Norton - October 5, 2021

Threat of playoff strike leads to a big win—but COVID is still a serious threat to the people who staff ballpark concessions.

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.

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