SF News Muni Fare Strike an Overwhelming Success The strike was organized -- magificently, we might add -- by socialstrike.net. But we can't thank only them; according to their whois info, they received support, and this is true, from riseup.
SF News SFist Agitates SFist Agitates! (And no, not just from our use of the first person plural.) What causes can you promote this weekend? On Saturday alone, you've got two sets of well-paired options. Make Love,
SF News Protestor Watch Where's Frank Chu these days? Maybe at one of these protests: Over 800 hospital workers walked off the job at Cal Pacific this morning, to protest their lack of input on appropriate patient
SF News Your (Substitute) SchwarzenWatcher Approval levels in the 36 percent range -- are we talking about Bush or the California governor? What's the SchwarzenWatcher got cooking today? The governor's veto-happy! It's not just gay marriage, either --
SF News What Goes Up, Sometimes Doesn't Come Down Of course, you could always not pay. To protest the fare increases, local activists have been calling for a fare strike. For the past several months, they've been handing out flyers, posting posters,
SF News Hotel Labor Drama Friend of SFist Jason Schultz forwarded us a press release [PDF]. What do you get when you cross labor activism and theater nerds? Hilarity! Saint Francis, beloved patron saint of small animals and
Arts & Entertainment Simnuke Report The directions read: Take the next left at the shot-out sign that used to read "Susanville" (the not as badly shot out cross sign reads "Gerlach"). The car hurtled across desert paths, over
SF News The Crab Revolution Will be Televised But that's not the juicy bit of the story, oh no. Turns out, Fox Sports Bay Area wanted to cover the protest before the game but were told not to by Giants officials.
Arts & Entertainment The Bay Area Is CopyFighting So a bunch of anarchist yutzes from the suburbs decided to protest G8 at that hotbed crossroads of capitalism, 23rd Street and Bartlett, and in the melee, threw a hammer at a cop's
SF News iTunes Prudery: The iTipper Fast forward to the 21st century: We finally resurrected our PowerBook from beyond the grave (thanks for not putting in the motion protection for hard drives in the 12" model, Apple -- we
SF News Rally for Sandoval Our super-secret SFist sources have notified us that Supervisor Gerardo Sandoval, repping the eleven for the Excelsior, is holding a rally today at noon, on the steps of City Hall. , you ask. Is
SF News Oh, Arnold. The problem with a protest on the peninsula, of course, is that without Frank Chu how do you know it really happened? We took some pictures just in case. Since no news station
SF News Protest MUNI Fare Hikes During The Morning Commute If you're wondering why there is a guerilla theater performance going on during your ride to work on the 14 Mission tomorrow, it's because the Central City SRO Collabortive under the auspices of
SF News Better Luck Next Time, Joe Believe it or not, the comments made during the last hearing totally backfired on Joe as there was such an outcry made against them that it totally overwhelmed the debate over who was
SF News Humanitarian Marla Ruzicka Claimed By Violence In Iraq In a terribly tragic irony, Marla Ruzicka, who grew up in Lake County, and worked tirelessly for Medea Benjamin's Global Exchange before founding her own organization, "The Campaign For Innocent Victims of Conflict"
SF News Faith, Freedom, Morality You have no idea how refreshing it is to see in an age of teenage angst, apathy, and rap music, that a group of high school students are ready to take on the
SF News I Want to Ride My Bicycle The Board of Supervisors voted 6-5 to allow the sponsors of the San Francisco Grand Prix Bicycle Race, otherwise known as the T-Mobile International, to have around $200,000 in costs waived by
SF News F**k Arnold -- Nurses, Firefighters and Teachers Protest The Governator Update: Well, the updates didn't come as fast and furious as we though, as the crowd was very mobile, assembling at different intersections to block attendees and traffic at will. We kept trying
Arts & Entertainment Everyone Loves a Parade Part Deux Of course, this being San Francisco, you can't have a group of people getting together in silly costumes without their being some sort of socio-political ramification to it all and, fret not, there
SF News Anarchy Out The EssEff Here in The City, hordes of anarchists are as mundane as hordes of shoppers at Union Square or crab-cracking tourists at Fisherman's Wharf. But in the rest of the country -- particularly over
SF News Iraq War Anniversary Protest The rain held out just long enough for the march from Dolores Park to arrive and the speakers and performers to get through the rally. Thousands upon thousands were there, though it seemed
Arts & Entertainment Solarize This Hey, a fight in the Tenderloin that doesn't involve Supervisor Chris Daly? Singer and Angry British Man Ian Brown, the former lead singer of the Stone Roses ("I Wanna Be Adored" -- yeah,
SF News Photogs Of The World: Unite! The question of the day was, "Did we win?" By all indications, that answer is "yes," although the difficulty in declaring victory will be in proving the negative -- how will we necessarily
SF News Fair Fares Part Deux The protests against the fare hike opened with the traditional forming of the slightly-over-the-type-named organization with the slightly-over-the-top political agenda, the Coalition for Transit Justice. On Tuesday, they and others held a rally
SF News Meet the New Ethics Boss. Same as the Old Ethics Boss? Hansen is well known in the city for being an activist in the usual assortment of progressive causes, including being the co-founder of the People’s Budget Collaborative, a role that led Frank