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I turned on MSNBC about a month ago on a Sunday morning, only to see a show being rebroadcast from a recent previous evening program. It wasn’t a problem, or so I thought, as I hadn’t seen the previous airing of the show. It was an eye-opener with...
by ottovr
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on Thu Dec 07, 2023 at 02:59 AM PST
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You can make a difference to the hurt being caused by climate chaos and the great extinction event, in your town or your city! �How? �Reuse, repurpose, and recycle this information. �
This is the ...
by birches
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on Fri Jul 28, 2023 at 07:00 AM PDT
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This is the letter for week 9�of a weekly climate strike that went on for 4 years in front of SF City Hall, beginning early March 2019. �For more context, see this story . �For an annotated table of ...
by birches
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on Sat Jun 24, 2023 at 10:00 AM PDT
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This is the letter for week 8�of a weekly climate strike that went on for 4 years in front of SF City Hall, beginning early March 2019. �For more context, see this story . �For an annotated table of ...
by birches
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on Fri Jun 23, 2023 at 10:00 AM PDT
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This is the letter for week 7�of a weekly climate strike that went on for 4 years in front of SF City Hall, beginning early March 2019. �For more context, see this story . �For an annotated table of ...
by birches
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on Thu Jun 22, 2023 at 10:00 AM PDT
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This is the letter for week 5�of a weekly climate strike that went on for 4 years in front of SF City Hall, beginning early March 2019. �For more context, see this story . �For an annotated table of ...
by birches
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on Tue Jun 20, 2023 at 10:00 AM PDT
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This is an annotated table of contents for 4 years of weekly SF Climate Strike letters. Over the next 210 days, with time off for good behavior, I’ll be posting these letters here, one at a time. This table of contents was created when I discovered,...
by birches
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on Wed Jun 14, 2023 at 10:00 AM PDT
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San Francisco Climate Strike — Introduction This is the first post in a series about my 4 year climate strike in front of SF’s City Hall. A link to this and the next post will be included in all subsequent posts, as this one gives the context for the...
by birches
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on Tue Jun 13, 2023 at 10:27 AM PDT
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People not in SF need to know what we’re seeing and experiencing here as, unless something drastic happens, these cars are coming to a street near you, soon. No, self-driving cars are not up there with climate chaos and the extinction crisis in...
by birches
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on Sat Jun 10, 2023 at 12:31 PM PDT
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This is the letter for week 6�of a weekly climate strike that went on for 4 years in front of SF City Hall, beginning early March 2019. �For more context, see this story . �For an annotated table of ...
by birches
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on Wed Jun 21, 2023 at 10:00 AM PDT
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Tonight's selections from Rancid’s third album, 1995’s ...And Out Come the Wolves.
First, note that Rancid was the second act for Tim “Lint” Armstrong ...
by Al Dorado
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on Thu Apr 13, 2023 at 09:01 PM PDT
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Tuesday: �A day to: reassess.�
As you can see by Itzl's concerned look, this group gives Kossacks a safe place to check in, a daily diary where we
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by ejoanna
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on Mon Jan 30, 2023 at 09:46 PM PST
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-written by Gloria A. Downey, Major (Retired), USAF JAG Corps, Continue To Serve board member
I went to war in a far-off country, under an American flag, and stood as a beacon to a better way of ...
by ContinueToServe
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on Tue Jul 19, 2022 at 12:00 PM PDT
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CNN writes: On Tuesday, San Francisco voters registered their disquiet by recalling District Attorney Chesa Boudin amid concern that he was advancing progressive policies as a national criminal justice reform advocate at the cost of their safety. It...
by cityduck
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on Wed Jun 08, 2022 at 10:04 AM PDT
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During Tuesday's recall election for the San Francisco school board, three progressive members out of seven members total were voted out, including School Board President Gabriela López, Vice President Faauuga Moliga, and Commissioner Alison Collins....
by Marissa Higgins
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on Wed Feb 16, 2022 at 02:22 PM PST
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On Tuesday, two Asian American women were stabbed in San Francisco at around 5 PM while waiting at a bus stop. One victim is 65 years old and the other is 85. According to local outlet KPIX 5 San Francisco, a suspect, who is a 54-year-old male resident...
by Marissa Higgins
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on Wed May 05, 2021 at 10:55 AM PDT
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Over the last few weeks I reached out to friends who were struggling to get vaccination appointments in The SF Bay Area. I’ve posted in the past on how bad the vaccination system is and that there are very simple changes which would tremendously...
by sufeitzy
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on Wed Feb 24, 2021 at 08:29 PM PST
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“'Stocking up' is what our robust Americans called it, laughing nervously, because profligate abundance automatically evokes its opposite, the unspoken specter of dearth.” — Ruth Ozeki, My ...
by pwoodford
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on Sat Feb 13, 2021 at 08:00 AM PST
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When Prism spoke to poet, spoken word performer, and disability activist Maria R. Palacios, she was “nervous and excited” to film four original performance pieces as part of We Love Like Barnacles: Crip Lives in Climate Chaos, a show focusing on...
by Tina Vasquez
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on Wed Oct 21, 2020 at 08:45 AM PDT
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Masks with a black and white American flag and a horizontal blue stripe, a symbol most recently associated with the pro-police Blue Lives Matter movement (a response to the Black Lives Matter movement), are a no-go for police officers according to San...
by Marissa Higgins
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on Mon May 04, 2020 at 01:49 PM PDT
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