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Conservative Billionaires Aim to Defund Public Schools in the Bay Area
When your organization is called Innovate Public Schools but your mission is to siphon money from public schools to build charter schools, you aren’t being too “innovative”.
Your questions about CBD and medical marijuana use answered
By Genie Cartier First, let me be clear: this article is a testimonial about the effects I have observed from using cannabidiol (CBD), a non-psychoactive component of cannabis, to treat chronic pain. While I have done some research, this is not meant to be any kind of official study. My
The San Francisco Beer Passport is Here!
Step into a world of adventure with the San Francisco Beer Passport. There’s no better way to explore San Francisco than to literally drink it in. This passport is amazing! Each one contains 27 coupons to buy one beer, get a second beer FREE at 27 of the finest locally
Republicans Are Making The EPA’s Work Environment Toxic
By Irene Nazari By creating a toxic work environment at the EPA, administrator Scott Pruitt is threatening the agency’s ability to address increasingly urgent environmental issues for us all. In 2017, over 700 employees left the EPA and now many more are predicted to follow. Trump appointee and fossil fuel
The Weird and Wonderful World of Craigslist ‘Free’
By Jillian Robertson I love Craiglist Free, for its distinctly lo-fi appearance, its unofficial lingo, the cycling and recycling of questionably valuable items between people within a community. Back in college, I challenged myself to furnish a two bedroom apartment, shared by my roommates Dana and Michelle, entirely off of Craigslist
Why Sex Workers are Fighting the Anti-Sex Trafficking Bill
Guest post by collaborators: M. Dante, Lola Li, and Heather Berg in late March the Senate votes on SESTA, the Stop Enabling Sex Trafficking Act. SESTA would criminalize the online advertising, information sharing, and support networks that sex workers use to do their jobs safely. Sex workers, trafficking survivors, and allies
Unpaid Internships Are Another Way Society Discriminates Against the Poor
BY KATE HAVERSTON Capitalism is nothing if not consistent. After literal slavery was outlawed, the industrialized world turned to child labor. When that was rooted out, it pivoted to sweatshop workers and then to undocumented “illegal” workers. After that, it was prison labor for pennies per hour. And the cheap-labor bargains
Everything Going Down for International Women’s Day in The Bay Area
Guest Post by Rebecca M. Farrar While not an official holiday in the United States, more than 100 countries around the world celebrate International Women’s Day. In Russia, men give women chocolate and yellow mimosas, the flower, not the drink, and in China women are entitled to half a day
A Beautiful, Black Panther, Thank You Letter from its Director
Director Ryan Googler’s thank-you letter to Black Panther fans is a beautiful, heart-warming, hopeful end to Black History Month