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Victory For Pigeon Palace Tenants In Court Auction
“Residents of the so-called Pigeon Palace, who have been resisting its sale for fear of a massive rent increase or eviction and out of respect for what they say are the wishes of its owner, scored a huge victory today when the Community Land Trust won the $3.28 million auction for the property in probate court.”
More at Mission Local
Facebook’s Lack of Integrity
“…there are many people who have been using Facebook for building up communities, for sharing important information, and for starting businesses based around their professional persona — and some don’t use their legal names. And many of these — including drag performers, trans people, Native Americans, and domestic violence survivors — have very good reasons for not using their legal or birth names on Facebook.”
More at East Bay Express and at #MyNameIs Campaign
Art Display Pulled From Maryland School After Complaints
“Honors students at Oxon Hill High School were given an assignment to create a display that shows what social justice means to them. The exhibit was in the school’s lobby for weeks. It was taken down on Monday.
The display featured a white police officer reading an obituary section. Next to that was a figure of a black man in a blood-stained shirt with his hands up.”
More at Fox 5
Next Mission Affordable Housing Strategy Could Give City First Chance to Buy Private Land
“Supervisor David Campos is making moves toward a proposal that would give the city the first shot to buy private property that goes up for sale in the [Mission] neighborhood or near BART stations.”
More at San Francisco Business Times
The Assault on Kiev Pride
Thanks to Masha Gessen for this excellent first-person account of the outrageous brutality faced by queer folks attempting a March for Equality on June 6 in Kiev, Ukraine.
More at The New Yorker
Education Advocates Call for Accreditation Reform
Another protest on June 6 and promises of legislative action against ACCJC and its ridiculous decision to effectively shut down City College of San Francisco:
“Legislators and education advocates Friday called for curbs on the powers of college accreditors, who they accused of targeting City College of San Francisco while allowing violations by the for-profit Heald College to go unchecked.”
More at Bay City News
Chelsea Manning: The Years Since I Was Jailed for Releasing the ‘War Diaries’ Have Been a Rollercoaster
“Through every struggle that I have been confronted with, and have been subjected to – solitary confinement, long legal battles and physically transitioning to the woman I have always been – I manage not only to survive, but to grow, learn, mature and thrive as a better, more confident person.”
More at The Guardian
I’m a Black Ex-Cop, and This Is The Real Truth About Race and Policing
“Institutional racism runs throughout our criminal justice system. Its presence in police culture, though often flatly denied by the many police apologists that appear in the media now, has been central to the breakdown in police-community relationships for decades in spite of good people doing police work.”
More at Vox.com
Edward Snowden: The World Says No to Surveillance
“TWO years ago today, three journalists and I worked nervously in a Hong Kong hotel room, waiting to see how the world would react to the revelation that the National Security Agency had been making records of nearly every phone call in the United States….”
More at NY Times