San Francisco Public Press (https://www.sfpublicpress.org/2019/12/page/2/)
In late November, students and instructors at City College of San Francisco learned that nearly 300 classes had been slashed from the Spring roster to forestall a projected $13 million budget deficit, resulting in more than 100 part-time instructors at City College being laid off or losing their health benefits. » Read more
In the dark and chilly early hours of Thanksgiving, thousands of people filed onto ferries to Alcatraz, the island in San Francisco Bay where the federal government once operated a prison. They were there for the annual Indigenous Peoples Sunrise Gathering, this year marking 50 years since an occupation of the island that sparked a movement. » Read more
In this Q&A from the opening night of the San Francisco Green Film Festival, documentarian Fredrik Gertten and UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Housing Leilani Farha discuss Gertten’s documentary “Push,” which looks into the practices and impacts of investment firms buying up housing around the world. » Read more