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Cal president resists pressure to veto West Bank divestment bill
Late Tuesday night, UC Berkeley Student President Connor Landgraf decided not to a veto SB 160, which called on the university to divest from...
Cal on Palestine
UC Berkeley Student Senate passes divestment measure, but pro-Israel opponents pushing hard for veto
SF declares Pay Equity Day as it lowers salaries for women’s jobs
The Board of Supervisors today declared April 9 Pay Equity Day in San Francisco, in recognition of the persistent national gap between male and...
San Francisco female priest and gay Catholics react to selection of Pope Francis
Victoria Rue, a female Roman Catholic Priest, leads a small community of renegade Catholic worshipers in San Francisco. Ordained by a trio of female...
Oakland’s JVP counters AIPAC’s push to exempt aid to Israel from sequestration cuts
Ahead of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee's three-day policy conference in Washington DC, Oakland-based Jewish Voice for Peace and Avaaz.org blanketed the...
Sunshine superheroes
Three champions in the fight for open government
Cutting from the bottom
Federal budget sequestration would hit the Bay Area's most vulnerable: poor children, battered women, AIDS patients
Sequestration cuts would hit the Bay Area’s most vulnerable
While the looming federal budget cuts known as sequestration were designed to equally hit Democratic and Republican party priorities, from social services to the...
Trail to historic gay Boy Scouts vote started in the Bay Area
This Wednesday, the Boy Scouts of America’s (BSA) Executive Board will consider removing the controversial ban on gay members and allow each individual troop...
Police gear up for round two on Tasers
On February 4, the San Francisco Police Commission will hold the second of three planned community meetings to gauge support for a pilot program...
Bratton controversy divides Oakland community as council approves contract 7-1
Following a highly attended and closely watched meeting on Tuesday, Oakland City Council voted 7-1 to approve a $250,000 contract to hire a team...
Oakland to decide on controversial stop-and-frisk advocate Bill Bratton
On Tuesday, Oakland City Council will consider approving a $250,000 contract for an outside security consulting team, which could include controversial roving police chief...