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Changing America Requires Investing in Ongoing Organizing

Posted October 12, 2026 by Randy Shaw

Organizing Must Soon Begin for 2028 Thanks to those spending nights and weekends mobilizing and persuading voters. Phoning or door-knocking is essential. Intensive outreach leading up to November’s elections is the best available strategy for overcoming big money campaigns. But Read More »

How Midwest Liberalism Transformed America

Posted October 12, 2026 by Randy Shaw

Minnesota’s Civil Rights Advocacy Reshaped the Nation I grew up politically influenced by my grandmother, Hylda Levin. She was a huge fan of Hubert Humphrey so I became one as well. I used to describe myself as a Hubert Humphrey Read More »

THE VALLEY STREET EARTHQUAKE COTTAGE SAGA

Posted October 12, 2026 by Marc Norton

San Francisco, so it is said, is the city that rises from the ashes like the legendary and immortal Phoenix. The oft-told story of our recovery after the 1906 earthquake has become a part of our foundation mythology, second only Read More »

Three Students, Three Summers of Social Change

Posted October 12, 2026 by Dan Xie Student PIRGs

The first PIRG campus chapter took root at the University of Oregon more than 50 years ago. It’s only fitting that University of Oregon students are still growing the movement by directing summer outreach campaigns across the country.For college students,

Can Jane Kim Win Race for Insurance Commissioner?

Posted October 5, 2026 by Randy Shaw

Voters May Ignore Attacks Of all of California’s statewide candidate races, none has created more furor in newspaper editorial rooms than the contest for Insurance Commissioner between former San Francisco Supervisor Jane Kim and State Senator Ben Allen. The San Read More »

Will New Tenderloin Police Boundaries Clear Sidewalks?

Posted October 5, 2026 by Randy Shaw

SFPD Reverses Historic Wrong October 1 marked a positive turning point for San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood. Tenderloin Police Station has returned to its original goal of protecting the Tenderloin. A decade of a wrongheaded redistricting that vastly expanded Tenderloin Station Read More »

Proles: Post-Sixties’ Salting Among the “Salt of The Earth”

Posted October 5, 2026 by Steve Early

In the early 1970s, when many student activists were migrating from campus to industrial jobs to promote working class radicalization, no labor film was more influential than Salt of the Earth. This pioneering docudrama was made two decades earlier by Read More »

Reviews From Mill Valley Film Festival 49

Posted October 5, 2026 by Peter Wong

Pegah Ahangarani’s fascinating yet wrenching personal documentary “Rehearsals For A Revolution” recounts the political betrayals of Iran’s Islamic Republic through the fates of the director’s family, acquaintances, and friends. Using everything from old audio recordings from a beloved uncle to Read More »