Updates
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...
New Community Group Brainstorms Housing Fix
Richmond Review / April 5, 2019 / Janice Bressler A new community-organizing group in the Richmond District called Richmond [District] Rising has launched a drive to raise awareness of and find concrete solutions to the neighborhood’s diminishing supply of affordable...
Can the Mission Save Itself from Commercial Gentrification?
SF Weekly / February 13, 2019 / Nuala Sawyer Bishari For decades, Erick Arguello has been volunteering his time to preserve the Latinx culture of the Mission District. He was raised there, he went to Mission High, and he’s watched as the main corridors of the...
Protect SF Families from the #ClimateFire
Every morning, families across the Bay Area wake up and the first thing they do is check online for “air quality today” in the hopes of being able to take their kids to the park, go to school, or open a window. But many don’t even have access to the proper masks that...
Missing in Action: Breed Has Spotty Attendance Record for Mayoral Forums
SF Weekly / March 28, 2018 / Nuala Sawyer Bishari London Breed has skipped nearly half of the dozen mayoral forums hosted by community groups. In contrast, Jane Kim and Mark Leno have only missed one each.
Campaign trail: Homelessness, superPACs and a weird Chron story
48 Hills / March 19, 2018 / Tim Redmond This was the week of candidates putting forward plans to address homelessness. Mark Leno put forward his plan to end “street homelessness,” and while some of the proposals are similar to ideas we’ve heard before, his plan...
How we beat Airbnb
48 Hills / January 22, 2018 / Calvin Welch The news media have missed the real story of how a community coalition organized, ran campaigns, educated, and eventually forced the giant corporation to quit posting illegal listings.
Stand with young immigrants
Trump has just ended Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), the program that allows nearly 800,000 young immigrants to work and live in peace in the only country they have ever known. Like the Muslim Ban, Trump's revocation of DACA is cruel and unjust. By...
