SF News Sunday Links: Newsom and Bass Reject Crisis Claims as Trump Deploys National Guard to LA The Valkyries broke their losing streak in a big win over Las Vegas; Greta Thunberg and other Freedom Flotilla Coalition activists are nearing Gaza; and Newsom and Bass say Trump is manufacturing a crisis by sending the National Guard to LA.
SF News Activists Move to Reclaim Compton’s Cafeteria Site From Private Prison Operator San Francisco’s Board of Appeals has granted LGBTQ advocates the right to challenge the continued operation of a for-profit reentry facility run by private prison giant GEO Group at 111 Taylor Street—the site of the historic 1966 Compton’s Cafeteria Riot.
SF News East Bay 'Scholar-Activist' Pleads Guilty to Firebombing UC Berkeley Police Car An activist who appeared to be going on a spree of arson and fire-bomb attacks on the UC Berkeley campus last summer in protest of the university's treatment of pro-Palestinian activists now faces prison time for terrorism.
SF News 'Scholar-Activist' Indicted By Grand Jury for Arsons at UC Berkeley; Arson Attempt at Oakland Federal Building Comes to Light Casey Goonan, the 34-year-old self-described "scholar-activist" who was arrested last month in connection with a series of small arson fires on the UC Berkeley campus that appeared to be Gaza-related acts of protest, has now been indicted by a federal grand jury.
SF News Pioneering SF Gay Activist Ken Jones Dies at 70 One of San Francisco's longest-serving LGBTQ activists, Ken Jones, lost his battle with bladder cancer this week. He died Wednesday at the age of 70, and his local community of friends is mourning the loss.
SF Politics Activist Brandon Lee, Shot In Possible Assassination Attempt By Philippine Authorities, Returns To SF 37-year-old San Francisco native Brandon Lee was airlifted back to SF this week from the Philippines after being shot and gravely wounded in August in what many have characterized as an extrajudicial assassination attempt by the government of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte.
SF News San Francisco-Born Activist Believed To Have Been Shot By Duterte Government In Philippines A rally was held Friday for Brandon Lee, a 37-year-old San Francisco native who is believed to have been targeted and shot in an extra-judicial assassination attempt by the government of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte.
SF News Gay Shame, AKA The 'Queers Hate Techies' Cabal, Target Local Campaign Offices, Wiener The loosely affiliated rabble-rousing group Gay Shame, which has for years postered the city in protest of mainstream LGBT groups and SF Pride, in support of Chelsea Manning, and last year with posters
SF News How Activists Got That Mario Woods Sign Into The Hands Of Beyoncé's Dancers As you may have guessed, that group of Black Panther beret-clad backup dancers at the Super Bowl halftime show didn't plan to create their own viral video in support of justice for Mario
SF News Gypsy Taub's Nude Nuptials Scheduled For Thursday Well, this should be fun. As we discussed a couple weeks back, local nudism activist Gypsy Taub and her newfound love Jaymz Smith are planning to be wed on Thursday, in the nude,
SF News Bay Area Priest, Nun, Among Five Peace Demonstrators Sentenced in Washington State Jesuit priest Stephen Kelly, 62, of Oakland, and Sister Anne Montgomery, 84, of Redwood City, were among a group of five senior peace demonstrators who were sentenced to federal prison in Tacoma, Washington,
SF News Local Activist Recounts Scene on Palestinian Aid Ship Oakland-based structural engineer Gene St. Onge was aboard one of the Gaza-bound aid ships in the flotilla that was assaulted by Israeli soldiers this week. He was on his way to help build
