Spawn of Sit/Lie: more policing of public space in the castro
January 31, 2012A Pride at Work member & organizer with the Coalition on Homelessness, Bob Offer-Westort, was arrested Friday for “illegal lodging” in Jane Warner Plaza at Castro and Market Streets. Bob has a home, so why was he camping on a busy street corner? To prove that it’s illegal! Recently, Scott Weiner (the supervisor that represents [...]
read more >>How San Francisco Organizers Rewrote the Rules to Save Minimum Wage
January 31, 2012Reposted from Colorlines: Friday, January 27 On Jan. 1, 2012, San Francisco’s minimum wage became the first in the nation to pass the $10 mark. The lowest-wage workers will now earn $10.24 an hour, up from the previous rate of $9.92 last year. The city’s minimum wage is tied to and adjusted for inflation, or [...]
read more >>Glittering it Up in the Rain: January 20 reportback
January 25, 2012The rain couldn’t stop us! Thousands descended on Wall Street West to SHUT IT DOWN & Say: Corporations Aren’t People! On January 20, we joined, thousands of people from across the San Francisco Bay Area to take over San Francisco’s Financial District as part of an ongoing series of Occupy Wall St West actions that [...]
read more >>Flash Mob at Wells Fargo: Occupy Telephone Video!
January 12, 2012Singing, “Stop calling, stop calling, can’t afford to pay anymore,” a flash mob danced on the counters and in the lobby of the San Francisco Wells Fargo branch on Montgomery and Market on January 7th to protest Wells Fargo’s role in the economic and housing crisis. The event, organized by San Francisco Pride at Work/HAVOQ [...]
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