Articles Posted in the Politics Category

  • The CrackBerry Chronicles: Progressive Victory Cups Runneth Over

    The CrackBerry Chronicles: Progressive Victory Cups Runneth Over

      Elaine Santore Photos by Luke Thomas By Elaine Santore November 24, 2008 How to Party, Progressive Style Fog City Journal attended last Thursday’s Progressive Victory Party, held at the Independent, expecting a raging party…

  • Fire’s on Fire

    Fire’s on Fire

    By Marc Salomon (with help from Brian Eno) Editor’s Note: Mr. Salomon wrote this article December 29, 2007. November 23, 2008 Baby’s on fire/Better throw her in the water/Look at her laughing/Like a heifer to…

  • Bold Pragmatism

    Bold Pragmatism

    Patrick Goggin By Patrick Goggin November 22, 2008 In his cabinet choices thus far, President-Elect Obama is following the Lincoln and FDR model of surrounding himself with incredibly bright, experienced intellectuals not shy about their…

  • Shutting Down Gitmo

    Shutting Down Gitmo

    By Terry Canaan November 21, 2008 While the most visible military action is in Afghanistan, America is acting elsewhere. We now have troops in the Philippines, helping to train that country’s armed forces to go…

  • California Supreme Court Will Hear Prop 8 Legal Challenge

    California Supreme Court
    Will Hear Prop 8 Legal Challenge

    San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera Photo by Luke Thomas From the Office of City Attorney Dennis Herrera November 19, 2008 Debate Shifts from Same-Sex Marriage to Core Constitutional Principles of Separation of Powers, Equal…

  • Statewide Day of Action to Save the Renters’ Rebate

    Statewide Day of Action
    to Save the Renters’ Rebate

    From Senior Action Network November 19, 2008 WHAT: Press Conference WHO: Senior Action Network, Tenants Together, Central City SRO Collaborative, Chinatown Community Development Center, SOMCAN, Mission SRO Collaborative, Planning for Elders, SF Tenants Union WHEN:…

  • Greg Palast, Van Jones and Kevin Danaher Headline San Francisco Green Festival

    Greg Palast, Van Jones and Kevin Danaher
    Headline San Francisco Green Festival

    Author/Journalist Greg Palast discusses election fraud during a keynote speech at the 2008 Green Festival in San Francisco. Photos by Luke Thomas By Susan Vaughan November 18, 2008 Think that we, as a nation, have…