SF News Refugees Compare East Oakland Unfavorably To Iraq The cause of Iraqi refugees, thousands of whom aided the U.S. military during the Iraq War in exchange for visas, was much in the news in the last 24 hours. There was
SF News Gays: Still Getting Killed In Iraq Although some reports have claimed otherwise, gays in Iraq are being "executed in batches," convicted for the crime of homosexuality. According to Reuters, "Two gay men were killed in Baghdad's Sadr City slum.
SF News Iraqi Gays Scheduled for Execution This Week If activists, like Michael Petrelis and other Castro frequenters, really wanted to focus attention on a part of the world where gays are suffering, maybe they could take a look at Iraq. Because
SF News Sunnyvale Councilman/Former Mayor Leaves for Iraq On Dec. 29, U.S. Navy reservist/attorney/councilman Otto Lee, 41, will start a trepidatious, sourjourn deployment in Iraq. The Sunnyvale representative and father of two received his deployment orders three weeks
SF News Pardon Muntader al-Zaidi? After hurling his black dress shoes at President George Bush last week, Muntader al-Zaidi, a journalist for an independent Iraqi television station, is being hailed as somewhat of a hero. (Word is that
SF News American Football Spectacular: The Niners Are Courting Condi?! Keep Your Powder Dry. Meaning: Be prepared and save your resources until they are needed. Origin: The allusion is to gunpowder which soldiers had to keep dry in order to be ready to fight when required. OK,
SF News Godwin's Rule Squashes Effectiveness at Berkeley Anti-War Protest Saturday's woefully ineffective war protest in Berkeley looked like all sorts of fun! There were ladies sporting furry pink outfits, large signs with lots of small text making incomprehensible messages of protest, flag-waving
SF News 150 Arrested At Yesterday's Anti-War Protest, Cake and Coffee Served Around 150 protesters were arrested during yesterday's anti-war protest -- "a lesson on how to do it right," raves C.W. Nevius! -- during a rally that was, for the most part, a
SF News Brief, Brutal Footage of Mini-Protest at Market Street Bob Brigham sent SFist the above footage from today's small protest on Market Street, which prefaces tonight's massive anti-war rally at Civic Center. The photographer getting manhandled at around 20-25 seconds in is
SF News Breaking News: Hipsters And Code Pink Takeover Market And Montgomery Our buddies over at Curbed just received word that things are getting zany at Market and Montgomery, gangland territory for the messenger community. In yet another of moment of annoying and effective-free protest
misc San Francisco Congressman Lantos, RIP Congressman Tom Lantos died this morning from esophageal cancer at the age of 80. He represented most of the Sunset, as well as a big chunk of San Mateo County. He was the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight The Battle of Algiers (La Battaglia di Algeri) (1966): We were going to start throwing shade at the overall ineffectiveness of political satire -- which, by the way, The Battle of Algiers is
misc Ask SFist -- Abandon Your College Email Address? Let's get right to the question for it is most pressing, shall we? An SFist reader asks: When should you give up your college email address? I see this from friends who graduated
SF News End the War in Iraq Day Resolution, Press Conference This morning a press conference was held in front to City Hall about this Saturday's March to End the War Now. The parade (grumble), which will start at City Hall and drain into
SF News Day Around the Bay -- Plumpjack caves in to Lights Out SF. [CurbedSF] -- Oh snap! "...if we can get enough kids to grow old enough for you to send to Iraq to get their heads blown
SF News Marines Crucified at Oakland Airport In fact, it was just a tarmac/security-check issue preventing them from entering the passenger terminal for a cinematic "meet and greet" with their family and friends. Read more about it here and
Arts & Entertainment SFist Watches: Even More Sunday Fall TV Premieres ABC has the season premieres of "Desperate Housewives" at 9 pm. and "Brothers & Sisters" at 10 p.m., two shows we tend to watch just because there's nothing else on Sundays that
SF News American Football Spectacular: "Momma Said Knock You Out" After staunching out the Arizona Cardinals last week, the Niners head to St. Louis to try to get ahead at the expense of the reeling Rams and bolt further ahead in the race
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: Code Pink vs. the S.F. Federal Building The whole affair was very mellow (surprisingly?) with no assaults from any pie man or woman. Of course the Speaker has the right to choose with whom she meets and the protesters have
Arts & Entertainment Smile, Baby: Protesting Child Protesters Looking over everyone's favorite site to get all Cathy over, Zombietime, in order to find shots of last week's not-so savage anti-Savage protest, we came across something disturbing: adolescent protesters. Sure, children are
SF News Daly-Dufty Fight Sigh -- we don't even want to go into this, it's just embarrassing for everyone. So Daly, maybe a little unhappy about not getting seconded for his budget motion, was going back and
SF News It's Got to Be the Morning After Giants 4 Cubs 2- See, the Giants score more than three runs and the Giants win, although we use the word"score" loosely as the winning two runs came on a bases loaded
SF News Daly-Dufty Fight Sigh -- we don't even want to go into this, it's just embarrassing for everyone. So Daly, maybe a little unhappy about not getting seconded for his budget motion, was going back and
Arts & Entertainment SFist Photo: Jesse Jackson "Keeps Hope Alive" "Jobs/ and schools/ not drugs/ and guns." Repeat x2 "Hope/ alive/ keep hope/ alive. Let me hear your scream!" CLAER Project representative and SFSU student Kevin Bard was on hand to remind people
