Activism
Using Social Media for Good + Addressing Call Out Culture
Please listen to this newest podcast and share it. Also, make sure to subscribe. Links are below: itunes Google Play Soundcloud Oh man! We’ve got yet another fantastic episode for you! In this episode our guest is Roux, an adorable and lovable blonde French Bulldog. Roux obviously doesn’t talk but you
How the Internet has Killed Civility
This originally appeared in my Broke-Ass City column for the SF Examiner. It was originally about 2016 but rings just as true for 2017. If 2017 and I were Facebook friends, I would’ve blocked it months ago. If it could text me, I’d change my number. If we were
Former Hunger Strikers to March from SF to Sacramento to Protest Police Violence
The #Frisco5 are back! Well at least some of them are. Members of the #Frisco5 will be marching from San Francisco to Sacramento to protest police violence. If you recall, in April and May of 2016 five people sat in front of the Mission polices station in San Francisco and
1967 was the Summer of Love. Is 2017 the Summer of Hate?
Guest post by Kennedy Dillinger A lot can happen in 50 years. Babies are born. Generations die. People get married, then divorced. Empires fall and revolutions rise — and in the thick fog of San Francisco 50 years feels like 50 million as the flower children of yesterday celebrate the
An Open Letter To Frank Somerville Inspired by #IWasThereBerkeley
Dear Sir, We are writing you today as participants in the anti-racist actions that took place in San Francisco and Berkeley this past weekend. We are three Bay Area residents who grew up watching you and have admired your work in the past. However, we were profoundly frustrated and disappointed
Actually, This IS the America You’ve Always Lived in
Guest Post by Nate Mezmer We are not in “the end of days.” Nor are we anywhere near “the mountain top.” For everyone that’s “shocked” by “what’s been happening lately”, I feel you, but nah. This is par for the course. For Black folks, America has always been a hazardous
White Nationalist Rallies Coming to SF and Berkeley
Let me start off by saying that, if it were up to me, there would be zero press about these rallies and zero protesters would show up. That way it would be a sad group of 200 people chanting “Make America Great Again” at each other and then going home