Activism

I Went to Both the Inauguration & the Women’s March. This is What I Learned.
History is a tricky thing. It’s rare that you can perceive the exact moment a cultural shift occurs while it’s actually happening. Usually the slow, steady, relentlessness of time obscures the importance of events, and it’s not until you look back that you realize “That! That was the moment everything

Taking Your Pants Off for Charity
Cupid’s Undie Run is two things: The opportunity to raise and/or donate money to charity, the Children’s Tumor Foundation, and fund research to end neurofibromatosis. The chance to party with thousands of coeds running in their underwear through the streets of over three dozen cities on Valentine’s weekend. Sounds like

Boycott These Companies Because They Sell Trump Brands
The only thing Donald Trump loves almost as much as he loves himself is money. His name is synonymous with rapacious, hyper-capitlistic, wealth accumulation…and well, whatever the opposite of accumulation is (ahem…how many bankruptcies?). He’s so associated with money that if you woke up from a 30 year coma an

Brave Protesters Hang ‘Resist’ Banner from Crane Near White House
Well this is just incredible! Those of you worried that the weekend’s demonstrations were a one off and that people would go back to regular life, never ye fear! Just look at the beauty above! According to NBC News Greenpeace protesters scaled the big ass 270 foot crane you see

The ‘Pussy Posse’ at The Woman’s March on Washington
Article By: Joen Madonna Executive Director of Artspan.org The night of the election, I didn’t cry. I was in shock. But I knew that I had to buck-the-fuck up. As the director of a non-profit that helps local artists living and working in San Francisco, I had to be strong for

Dude, Where’s My Healthcare?
The repeal of Obamacare and its implications on your healthcare. 18 million may lose their coverage in the first year.

CASA 20th Anniversary Art Show @ SOMARTS 1/19- 1/21
It hardly seems possible, but the Children’s After School Arts (CASA) program at Rooftop Elementary is turning twenty this year. Since 1997 the non-profit educators and artists in residence up on Twin Peaks have been versing the youth of San Francisco not just in the creative arts, but combining

All the Ways to Protest The Inauguration While in D.C.
Making that fateful trek to our nation’s capital this week? Not all of it will be bad, yes there will most likely be a speech with the eloquence and grammar below a 6th-grade level, the lowest predicted attendance rate and highest amount of organized protests of any inauguration, but that