Activism

No Charges in Jacob Blake’s Shooting on Same Day Rittenhouse Pleads Not Guilty
“No Kenosha law enforcement officer in this case will be charged with any criminal offense.” After a fiery summer in an unprecedented movement for civil rights, those words will be remembered as a deep cut. Kenosha County District Attorney Michael Graveley announced Tuesday that the officer who shot Jacob Blake

Our 10 Most Popular Articles of 2020
It was a hell of a year. BrokeAssStuart.com, like many independent media outlets and small businesses were hanging on by our proverbial fingernails. In 2020 we realized that everything we got paid to promote had to do with going out into the community, and that was all over with. The

Ask a Tenant Lawyer: How to Get your Landlord to Reduce your Rent
Ask a Tenants Right’s Lawyer is your chance to learn how to survive as a renter in San Francisco. Attorney Daniel Wayne has a lot of the information you need to keep you in your home. This month’s topic: When tenant’s should file a complaint with the city . Got a question? Send

The Streets of San Francisco & Oakland in 2020
What a year. To tell the story of 2020 I teamed up with Bay Area photographer Marcell Turner, whose imagery captures both the comforting and horrifying views of our streets in vivid detail. Let’s take a visual walk down memory lane, in both Oakland and San Francisco. All photography by

I Want the World to be Better Than it is Right Now
I want to walk through our thoroughfares en masse, in unison, in celebration of something — anything — instead of in protest. I want to hold hands with a stranger while we do this, just because it feels right.

#UntrashThePlanet is Dedicated to Restoring Our Natural Places & Building Community
By Alison Huetter Trash is something we’ve been seeing all too often in the Bay Area. East Bay resident Stephan Orme used some of his ‘covid-time’ to do something about it. Since January he’s been organizing groups to clean trashed areas around the Bay Area. Untrash.It has grown to almost

Save San Francisco’s Independent Journalism
After withstanding unprecedented drops in revenue caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, 16 of San Francisco’s independent news outlets are holding a joint fundraiser to preserve and protect the city’s independent press. Donate to Save SF News Local reporting has been essential during the shelter-in-place public health orders and local and

Capitalism, Racism, and Black Friday: Deconstructing America’s History of Exploitation
Reclaim Black Friday is calling on brands to redistribute a percentage of their sales to Black and Indigenous land-based organizations, instead of running sales during Black Friday weekend.