Activism
Call to Artists: Submit your work for the COVID CREATIVE CONVENTION
“Because Pandemics suck, but the art you own doesn’t have to.”
Open Letter from a Mother with Coronavirus in the Bay Area
This is an open letter from a Mother in the Bay Area who has lived with Covid-19 for weeks now. She, understandably wishes to remain anonymous, but we have spoken with her on the phone, and verified her story. What she says is the truth, and it is important. It
Tenant Info: The Government Response to Evictions During this Pandemic
Many people are already feeling the economic crush of shuttering businesses, and the decrease in customers. While this continues to be a developing situation each day, lawmakers on the federal, state and local level have turned some attention to the question of evictions.
How to Support Artists, Performers, and Service Industry Folks During Coronavirus
Let’s get real: the American system of “Fuck you, I got mine!” has been proven to be woefully unprepared for the coronavirus pandemic. What a surprise! This plague is laying bare the fact that not having Universal Healthcare or other social safety nets is terrible for society. If we had Universal
Coronavirus Conference Gets Canceled Because of Coronavirus
The Council on Foreign Relations has canceled a roundtable called “Doing Business Under Coronavirus” scheduled for Friday in New York due to the spread of the very same disease. Yes, the conference on ‘how to do businesses’, during a pandemic, was cancelled because of said, pandemic. The World Health Organization (WHO)
Winners And Losers In The SF DCCC Race
They’re still counting ballots, but we know most of the winners in the SF Democratic County Central Committee elections, the nerdy but powerful behind-the-scenes elected Democratic body that an astonishing 56 people were running for this year. The race breaks San Francisco down into two districts, and in 2020, we
SF Sells Heart for record $3 Million, To Fund Public Health Programs
Everyday on the streets of SF we are reminded that America has no socialized medicine, and no real safety net for its most vulnerable citizens. We have people numbering in the hundreds of thousands living on our streets in California, a quarter of the country’s homeless population is here, in our state, sleeping under overpasses, in tents on the sidewalks, and struggling to find the care they need. Even in San Francisco, in the richest city, in the richest country in the world, the streets are full of people who need help.
Satirical BART Ads Appear, Warn of Trump Re-Election
This week, some art activists papered BART cars with a satiracal ‘frontpage’, titled Trump Re-Elected by One Vote. The unsanctioned ‘articles’ from the ‘Washington Toast‘, warn that a low voter turnout will lead to a Trump re-election, and perhaps the ‘death of Democracy’. On the bottom right corner of the