SFist / January 7, 2020 / Joe Kukura Chesa Boudin has been visiting his parents in prison since he was 14 months old. On Wednesday night, he’ll become San Francisco’s top criminal prosecutor... Boudin has not yet named staff, but did name a transition team on his...
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Chesa Boudin, San Francisco DA-Elect, Announces Transition Leadership Team
Oakland News Now / January 7, 2020 San Francisco – District Attorney-elect Chesa Boudin announced today his Transition Leadership team – a group of special advisors that will help guide the process of establishing the new District Attorney’s office and implementing...
San Francisco DA-Elect Chesa Boudin Announces Transition Leadership Team
Davis Vanguard / November 23, 2019 District Attorney-elect Chesa Boudin announced today his Transition Leadership team – a group of special advisors that will help guide the process of establishing the new District Attorney’s office and implementing key...
District Attorney-Elect Chesa Boudin Assembling Team To Develop New Policies
Photo: SF Rising Director Emily Lee serves on the transition team. Bay City News Service / November 22, 2019 San Francisco District Attorney-elect Chesa Boudin announced on Friday he's assembling a team of advisors to help him develop new policies as he gets ready to...
Emily Lee on Schools and Communities First
KPFA Evening News / November 16, 2019 Host: "A coalition of San Francisco area community organizations today kicked off their part of a campaign for Schools & Communities First. Emily Lee is with the San Francisco Rising Alliance, one of the groups involved in the...
David Shor on Schools and Communities First
KIQI “Hecho en California” / November 14, 2019 / Marcos Gutierrez Interview with David Shor, SF Rising Field Director.
San Francisco Represents Huge Challenge for 2020 Census
In the 10 years since the last census, San Francisco’s homeless population has skyrocketed. SF Weekly / July 31, 2019 / Ida Mojadad Sonny Lê’s first home as a Vietnamese refugee in America was a studio apartment on Hyde and O’Farrell streets, populated by 11 people...
Hundreds protest Amazon facial recognition partnership with ICE
SFBay / July 15, 2019 / Aaron Levy-Wolins A tight crowd of a few hundred people packed in front of Amazon’s San Francisco downtown office Monday to protest the company’s technological cooperation with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
On Prime Day, Amazon workers and immigrants’ rights organizations are protesting
TechCrunch / July 15, 2019 / Megan Rose Dickey On the start of Amazon’s biggest sales event of the year, Amazon workers and activists are taking to the streets today in protest of the retail giant. Protests are planned for San Francisco, Minnesota, New York, Seattle...
City weighs new corporate tax on stock compensation as tech companies prepare to go public
SF Examiner Apr. 24, 2019 / Joshua Sabatini San Francisco voters may have the chance in November to boost the tax on stock compensation under a proposal announced Wednesday by Supervisor Gordon Mar to target tech companies going public. Mar’s plan would tax...