April 2016 - Beyond Chron

Key Obama Backers Shift to Private Profiting

Posted April 28, 2016 by Randy Shaw

Abandoning Fight for Change in Favor of Private Profits What do Andy Stern, Jon Carson, David Plouffe, and Jim Messina all have in common? Each played key roles in Barack Obama’s campaigns promoting “Change We Can Believe In” and now Read More »

SF College Faculty Strike for Justice

Posted April 28, 2016 by Carl Finamore

AFT 2121 Says Stop Class Reductions & Pay Cuts After one frustrating year of union bargaining, AFT 2121 faculty at City College of San Francisco (CCSF) conducted a one-day unfair labor practice strike “of all classes at all eleven campuses” Read More »

Mariah Parker’s Indo Latin Jazz Comes to the Throckmorton

Posted April 28, 2016 by E. ”Doc” Smith

This Saturday night, the incredible composer, pianist, and santurist, Mariah Parker and her band celebrates the completion of a seven year project with the pre-release of “Indo Latin Jazz Live in Concert”, a recording taken from concerts at Yoshi’s, Freight Read More »

To Honor and Protect: Workers Memorial Day 2016

Posted April 28, 2016 by Seth Sandronsky

April 28 will be a noteworthy day for workers in the U.S. and abroad. International Workers’ Memorial Day (WMD) was established in 1970 – the year Congress passed the Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA) – to honor wage-earners who Read More »

Reviews From The 59th San Francisco International Film Festival

Posted April 27, 2016 by Peter Wong

Logan Kiben’s dramatic comedy “Operator” unoriginally concludes that even an empathetic voice recording won’t substitute for contact with a real human being. Concerns about the commodification of human empathy don’t register on “Operator”’s radar. Having the emotional well-being of the Read More »

To the Editor…

Posted April 26, 2016 by Beyond Chron

Subject: Right to Camp Just wanted to say that I don’t know why you couldn’t try to work w/ Avalos to tweak his proposal. Certainly giving 15 day notice is something you would agree to – I hope. Also, providing Read More »

To the Editor…

Posted April 26, 2016 by Beyond Chron

Subject: Support for Camping Will Doom SF Progressives Jane Kim is being disingenuous to call her proposed transfer tax increase a “Mansion tax” as the vast majority of any funds she thinks are available will come from office buildings, not Read More »

Support for Camping Will Doom SF Progressives

Posted April 26, 2016 by Randy Shaw

In my political forecast for 2016, I saw San Francisco progressives having a big edge in the November elections. The housing crisis, inequality, and perceptions that the system is “rigged” benefited progressive supervisor candidates as well as Jane Kim in Read More »