Tag: San Francisco

Rise for Climate, Los Angeles, SoCal 350
Climate, Politics and Advocacy

Rise for Climate Los Angeles: September 8

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On September 8, the international Rise for Climate Day of Action is bringing people together for Climate, Jobs, and Justice, calling on governments, corporations, and organizations to initiate aggressive action on climate change, protect frontline communities, and create good jobs in the clean energy economy. Join us to Rise Together in Los Angeles on Saturday, September 8, in solidarity with events in San Francisco and around the globe that same day.

Roselie Enriquez, affordable housing in san francisco
Urban Land

How Cities Can Build Affordable Housing

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Alan Durning lays out how many cities have succeeded in building affordable housing with some lessons from unexpected places. Yet constrained housing markets come about from economics, environment, and geography, and sprawl remains a scourge that affordable cities have allowed. No silver bullet here, but ideas…

Los Angeles Resistance Coalition, Trump inauaguration
Politics and Advocacy

The Trump Resistance is Born: People Unite for a Better Tomorrow

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Donald Trump became the 45th U.S. president, and a majority of people were not celebrating. Thousands across the country protested peacefully, with solidarity across multiple sectors of society — with only a few clashes with police in Washington DC — to voice their disapproval to the incoming administration. Following are a sampling of images from this historic event.

day of the dead, Mission District San Francisco, Jack Eidt
Culture

Is Day of the Dead Culture in SF’s Mission Endangered?

In San Francisco, the Mission District has celebrated Day of the Dead every year in since the early 70’s with altars in Garfield Park, serving as a community graveyard for the night and through art, music, other live performances and a walking procession. With the neighborhood in transition from rapid gentrification, will this vibrant culture rite continue? Yes, for now… Photos by Jack Eidt from 2015.

John Coltrane, A Love Supreme
Sound

The Supreme Love of the Church of John Coltrane

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Discover the African Orthodox Church of St. John Coltrane, Founded on the Divine Music of A Love Supreme. Evicted in 2016 from its original Fillmore neighborhood in San Francisco from gentrification, it has moved to the Western Addition/NOPA, which once was once the epicenter of the city’s jazz scene.