(Ed. note: We posted this story on the afternoon of September 29. The San Francisco Chronicle did not report on this landmark tenant victory through Sunday, even excluding it from its laundry list of bills signed and vetoed. In contrast,
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Last year, over 500 activists attended the Inaugural Convention of the San Francisco People’s Convention, a multi-issue umbrella organization of progressives designed to unify the city’s progressives together around a common agenda. It wasn’t a new idea. Ever since the
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The case for youth engagement in politics and advocacy Are youth the leaders of tomorrow? Perhaps, but there is a strong need for young people to be active today in the political and policy-making processes. Need an example? This year,
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One week after City Attorney Dennis Herrera disenfranchised over 33,000 San Franciscans by invalidating the Bayview referendum, over 100 Bayview residents and activists gathered at the corner of Third Street and Williams to protest, march and rally to save their
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Imagine having ready access to thousands of images, documents and diaries reflecting the complex and powerful past of California. Now imagine students reading transcribed oral histories for a school paper or teachers pulling together archived newspaper articles and political cartoons
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