Berkeley in California is believed to be the first US city to give preference to co-operatives after passing a new resolution that favours worker-owned organisations in contracting and procurementThe post City contracts to favour co-operatives in Berkeley appeared first on Positive News.
Dear (White) Liberal San Franciscan,- by Denise SullivanI regret to inform, you missed it: The final day of celebration for the St. John Coltrane African Orthodox Church on Fillmore Street was Sunday.
Intro theme: “Dream Agent” by Ariel Electron, Holeg Spies and Thierry Gotti on the “Kore Kosmou” album.
-by Denise SullivanI think of Chrissie Hynde's stunning "My City Was Gone" just about everyday as I stalk the streets of San Francisco, searching for meaning and life in a place I used to and sometimes still do call home.
by Denise SullivanIt hasn't been a great month in public relations for the so-called "sharing economy," at least here at the industry's ground zero, not-so-affectionately known as San Francisco 2.0. Here, even regular citizens-- and not even particularly politicized ones-- are starting to get hip to what unfettered capitalism and unregulated business looks like in their town now that the umpteenth Uber driver was accused of
-by Denise SullivanThe Other Barrio and Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution are two very different films yet both depict crimes against communities of color in the Bay Area and beyond. I recently spoke to producer Lou Dematteis and director Stanley Nelson, about their respective films.Since its inception, film noir has found its ideal nighttime location in San Francisco, its fog-laced alleys and neon-lit beauty the perfect backdrop for booze-swilling anti-heroes and the ladies who love them, while in the real world, corruption and evil also coexist with the search for truth.
-by Denise Sullivan"For those of us who are progressive, who believe the City of San Francisco should work for everyone, it's a difficult time to be at City Hall…it's a difficult time to be in that building," said Supervisor David Campos, last weekend as he helped to launch Vision SF, a grassroots group primed to reclaim San Francisco from the forces of greed, corruption and narcissism that have poisoned municipal waters.Representing the Mission, the City's Latino cultural district and locus of its housing crisis, Supervisor Campos brought the additional dimension of the broken immigration
The west side of Broadway between 161st and 162nd Streetsby KenEven as Jane Jacobs described the process of organic neighborhood revival she called "unslumming" in The Death and Life of Great American Cities, she recognized that it could go haywire if all spoils were allowed to go the highest bidder.
Sometimes I have so many Tupperware containers piled up on the countertops that there's no room for anything else. That's because my wonderful neighbors keep bringing me meals while I'm flat out going through chemotherapy and its toxic side effects. I don't know what I'd do without them. Starve?
