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'Good News!': With Unanimous Vote, Oakland Joins Growing List of Cities to Ban Facial Recognition Technology

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'Gross Violation of Logic and Sense': Open Letter From Nearly 140 Scholars Implores SF School Board Not to Destroy Historic Mural

Jake Johnson, staff writer

"Let's stand up for the integrity of art as well as for historical interpretation, and for a shared analysis of the political reality of the United States in the past and the present."

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Privacy Advocates Celebrate as Massachusetts City Becomes Second in US to Ban Facial Recognition Technology

Jessica Corbett, staff writer

a facial recognition system for law enforcement

"The city is sending a bold statement that it won't sit by idly while the...

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'Read the Room': Hickenlooper Booed at California Democratic Convention for Decrying Socialism, Calling for Pragmatism

Eoin Higgins, staff writer

Democratic presidential candidate and former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper speaks during the California Democrats 2019 State Convention at the Moscone Center on June 01, 2019 in San Francisco, California.

The former Colorado governor, who's raised 91 percent of his 2020 campaign haul...

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Animal rights activist Aidan Cook rushes the stage at MoveOn's Big Ideas forum Saturday in San Francisco to take the mic from Sen. Kamala Harris, a Democratic 2020 presidential candidate.

Three Years After Rushing Bernie Sanders Event, Animal Rights Activist Takes Mic From Kamala Harris at MoveOn Event

San Francisco Poised to Make History With Law Banning Use of Facial Recognition Technology

As Trump Threatens to Ship Immigrants to Sanctuary Cities, Those Cities Say: We Will Welcome Them

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'We Need an Unprecedented Transformation in Every Sector': 250 Climate Activists Stage Sit-in at Pelosi's San Francisco Office

youth climate activists

Across All Seven Continents, #RiseForClimate Actions Demand Elected Leaders Commit to Fossil-Free Future

Advocates Applaud San Francisco's School Board Voting Rights for Non-Citizens as City Addresses Fears of Federal Response

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California Cities Wanted Big Oil to Pay Up for Climate Damage But Federal Judge Just Said 'No'

'Climate Tutorials' Pit Planet Wreckers Against Major Cities in Historic Court Hearing

ICE agents

'I Didn't Feel Like Fabricating the Truth': ICE Spokesperson Quits Over Agency Falsehoods

Floods in Bay Area

Federal Judge's Unprecedented Order on Climate Science 'Could Open Floodgates' for Big Oil Lawsuits

San Francisco Shows Nation Way Forward by Throwing Out Old Marijuana Convictions

City of San Francisco Unanimously Approves Impeach Trump Resolution

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350.org

30,000+ People March in San Francisco, Joined By Hundreds of Thousands Across the United States, to Demand Bold Climate Action From Local and State Officials Ahead of Next Week’s Global Action Climate Summit

350.org

San Francisco Prepares for Historic Vote on Fossil Fuel Divestment

RootsAction

Petition Thanks Colin Kaepernick

Critical Resistance

Communities Claim Victory Against New SF Jail After Two Year Fight

350.org

San Francisco Supervisor John Avalos to Introduce "Climate Change" Warning Labels for Gas Pump Handles at Board of Supervisor's Meeting...

350.org

First Ever Climate Advertisements to Run This Week

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Peter Dreier

With Move to Destroy or Cover Mural, San Francisco's 'Progressive' School Board Is Embarrassing Itself

Pat Garofalo

San Francisco’s Prop C Would Make Tech Companies Address the Homelessness Crisis They Helped Create

Marcy Rein

Free Tuition Proposal Aims to Reclaim San Francisco's City College

Rebecca Gordon

Murderous Police in the City of Love

Shamus Cooke

San Francisco Rides the $15 Wave

Tom Gallagher

San Franciscans Endorse Iraq War Funding Cutoff

Tom Gallagher

San Francisco to Vote on Iraq War Funding

Tom Gallagher

San Francisco Democrats Tell Pelosi To Vote Against Iraq War Funding

Tom Gallagher

A "Thug," Nancy?

Tom Gallagher

San Franciscans Oppose the War. Why Don't Their Representatives?