SF News Nationwide General Strike Gains Traction, Scheduled For February 17 A proposed national general strike to oppose any and all things Trump has been coalescing around February 17, the Friday before President's Day when, presumably, a lot of people will be taking off
SF News State Senator From Berkeley Demands To See Melania Trump's Immigration Documents California state senator Nancy Skinner (D-Berkeley) makes a good point: If we already know that First Lady Melania Trump worked in this country illegally when she first arrived here from Slovenia in 1996,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SF Bookstore Displays Cookbooks From Countries Affected By The Immigration Ban My new shop window, courtesy of our president. pic.twitter.com/FoHurAz0Y8— Omnivore Books (@omnivorebooks) January 28, 2017 Food-focused Noe Valley bookshop Omnivore Books is encouraging cooks in the neighborhood to learn about
SF News ACLU Joins Incubator Y Combinator To Help Manage Its New Influx Of Wealth Y Combinator president Sam Altman's heart grew three sizes today as he announced the American Civil Liberties Union would join his startup incubator in order to manage its massive influx of funding. The
SF News San Francisco Becomes First City To Sue Over Sanctuary City Order As California May Become Sanctuary State SF City Attorney Dennis Herrera filed a lawsuit Tuesday challenging President Trump's executive order that threatens to withhold federal funds from so-called Sanctuary Cities, becoming the first city the nation to do so.
SF News Thousands Of Google Employees Stage Walkouts Against Trump Immigration Policies Protest along Embarcadero, with chants of "No Ban, No Wall." #ImWithThem pic.twitter.com/zY09fv6QAB— Jill Witty (@jwitty) January 30, 2017 A company-wide protest organized and attended by Alphabet/Google employees occurred Monday
SF News Lyft Surpasses Uber In App Store Downloads As #DeleteUber Trend Continues Uber's loss is Lyft's gain as the long-running battle between the two San Francisco-based ride-hailing companies takes on a political valence. Reports (possibly spurious) that Uber had continued to operate to-and-from New York's
SF News Trump Resistance Rises Fast In The Tech And Science Sectors As They See A Work Visa Ban Comes Next The weekend brought a flurry of public statements from Silicon Valley executives denouncing President Trump's refugee and general travel ban for residents of seven majority-Muslim nations, with varying degrees of outrage and criticism.
SF News All SFO Detainees Released After Second Day Of Immigration Ban Protests After two days of protests at San Francisco International Airport in response to detentions under President Trump's executive order imposing a federal travel ban on seven majority-Muslim countries, all five detainees at the
SF News Golden State Warriors Coach And Victim Of Terrorism Steve Kerr Calls Trump's Immigration Ban 'A Horrible Idea' Steve Kerr -- "as someone whose family member was a victim of terrorism" -- speaks out against Donald Trump's recent executive order pic.twitter.com/YbCH2sn0hw— Anthony Slater (@anthonyVslater) January 30, 2017 Golden
SF News As Thousands Delete Their Uber Apps Over JFK Story, Uber Denies Trying To Break Up Taxi Strike Following reports that Uber was still operating to and from JFK Airport in New York on Saturday during a taxi strike in response to Trump's immigration order, a call went out on social
SF News Second Day Of Protest Hits SFO As Airbnb Offers Free Rooms To Those Affected By Travel Ban Protesters are set to descend on the International Terminal at SFO for the second day in a row, at noon on Sunday, to express their outrage over Donald Trump's actions with regard to
SF News Tim Cook Met With Ivanka And Jared Thursday, Wrote Memo Condemning Trump's Order To Employees As the blowback continues over President Trump's sweeping, stupid, and dangerous executive order intended to ban Muslim immigration for 90 days, we learn that Apple CEO Tim Cook threw himself into the middle
SF News ACLU Celebrates Temporary Victory Over Trump's Order On Immigration; Mayor Lee Commends Federal Judge Hundreds showed up at SFO and elsewhere Saturday to protest President Trump's executive order on immigrants from seven primarily Muslim nations, which had led to detentions of innocent people at airports nationwide who
SF News Protesters Pack SFO To Decry Detentions Under Trump's Immigration Ban Protesting an immigration ban ordered by President Donald Trump, signs at SFO announce "We Want You Here" and "Give Us Your Huddled Masses." Demonstrators gathered at the airport this afternoon as similar actions
SF News Google CEO Sundar Pichai Calls Trump's Ban On Immigration 'Painful'; Zuckerberg Says He's 'Concerned' Donald Trump's asinine executive order Friday banning entry into the country of all people from seven Muslim-majority nations for at least 90 days making good on his xenophobic campaign promises to fight radical
SF News ICE Agents Descend On Mission's Good Samaritan Center The immigration crackdown has begun, and some ICE agents, possibly emboldened or directed by the new Trump regime, conducted a rare raid in San Francisco Thursday, descending upon the Good Samaritan Family Resource
SF News 'A Sanctuary From Trump's Hate': San Francisco Reacts To Executive Order Punishing Sanctuary Cities Sanctuary city rally on the steps of city hall #ICEoutofCA pic.twitter.com/qb2sGU0Ds7— gio (@giobannnaa) January 25, 2017 A rally formed on the steps of San Francisco's City Hall Wednesday afternoon shortly
SF News Car Theft Victim Handed Over To Immigration Officials Sues SF Just as San Francisco bears down for the anti-immigration agenda of the coming Trump Administration, lauding and reaffirming its Sanctuary City policy, a man who was detained in 2015 by SFPD after reporting
SF News Peter Thiel Poised To Profit Off Trump's Promised Crackdown On Immigrants While many residents of Silicon Valley are smarting over the election of Donald Trump, Peter Thiel is sitting pretty. The Trump-supporting Facebook board member secured a position on the president-elect's transition team, and
SF News SF Unified School District Mass-Voicemail Assures Parents It Will Protect Immigrant Students "We are committed to providing a safe space for learning for each and every one of our students including recent immigrants regardless of immigration status," sounded a voicemail message intended to reassure parents
SF News UC, Cal State & Other Colleges Tell Undocumented Students Abroad To Come Home Before Inauguration University officials around the country, including those in California, are urging students living abroad who have DACA residency status as the children of immigrants that they should return to the U.S. before
SF News SF Public Defender's Office Proposes $5 Million Fund To Fight Deportation Cases Under Trump For the estimated 30,000 undocumented immigrants living in San Francisco, life could get a whole lot more difficult under a Trump Administration if the President-Elect sticks to his promise to ramp up
SF News Citing Trump, Supervisors Approve Ballot Measure To Let Non-Citizens Vote For School Board In 2004 and 2010, San Franciscans voted on ballot measures that would have extended the right to vote in school board elections to non-citizens. The thinking: parents and caregivers of SF children who
SF News John Avalos Seeks To Further Protect Sanctuary City Ordinance After his car was stolen, El Salvadoran national Pedro Figueroa-Zarceno went to the San Francisco Police Department to file a report. But when officers learned of a warrant for his arrest — it remains
