yesterday 13% of the SF's registered voters (8% of the city's population) voted to expand #police#surveillance, weaken police oversight, and force drug screenings on the poor 😔
395,000+ registered voters didn't vote, so moderates decided for them that all our city taxe$ will be used to strengthen death-dealing institutions. lol
the struggle continues. political imagination must be cultivated. life-affirming policies/institutions/systems already exist, just not in pop culture…
Recording of December 5th, 2023's SFBOS meeting in which Sup. Preston introduced a ceasefire resolution to end the war in Gaza. Residents came out to city hall and waited in line for up to 7 hours to comment in support of resolution.
Recording of January 8, 2024's SF Rules Committee meeting. Residents queued for up to 6 hours to speak in overwhelming support of the resolution and against Sup. Dorsey's last minute, one-sided amendments.
The resolution passed the next day, 8-3.
⭕ Chan, Peskin, Engardio, Preston, Melgar, Ronen, Walton, Safai
❌ Stefani, Dorsey, Mandelman
#sanfrancisco's public comment on #ceasefirenow currently underway. ~2,000 people are queued to speak. seeing so many familiar faces! 💞 thanks supervisor @deanpreston for proposing the resolution!
Someone saw it at a flea market at Oakland. Lucky for me he was a bike person. He decided to buy it and try to find me. He figured he would have a nice bike for cheap if he didn’t succeed. But we found each other relatively easily and I got my bike back almost 6 months after it was stolen from my garage.
join a bunch of asian/pacific solidarity orgs TOMORROW for an art build & community forum about our joint struggle against neoliberalism. we'll be screenprinting a NEW piece by yours truly 🤭
join the SF Committee for Human Rights in the Philippines & other international solidarity orgs this wednesday at an art build & teach-in on the harms of neoliberalism & #APEC, both locally & globally. we'll be screenprinting a NEW piece by yours truly 🤭
first universalist unitarian church
1187 franklin st, #sanfrancisco
wednesday, oct. 25 @ 6-8PM
Woooo! Cover reveal for my next nonfiction book, coming in spring 2024. Say hello to STORIES ARE WEAPONS: PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE AND THE AMERICAN MIND. It's about the deeply linked histories of state psychological warfare programs and culture wars in the United States, going back to our nation's founding. Published by the always-awesome W.W. Norton.
“He tried to read an elementary economics text; it bored him past endurance, it was like listening to somebody interminably recounting a long and stupid dream. He could not force himself to understand how banks functioned and so forth, because all the operations of capitalism were as meaningless to him as the rites of a primitive religion, as barbaric, as elaborate, and as unnecessary."
“A child free from the guilt of ownership and the burden of economic competition will grow up with the will to do what needs doing and the capacity for joy in doing it. It is useless work that darkens the heart. The delight of the nursing mother, of the scholar, of the successful hunter, of the good cook, of the skillful maker, of anyone doing needed work and doing it well—this durable joy is perhaps the deepest source of human affection, and of sociality as a whole."
"[…] none of the millions of things for sale were made there. They were only sold there. Where were the workshops, the factories, where were the farmers, the craftsmen, the miners, the weavers, the chemists, the carvers, the dyers, the designers, the machinists, where were the hands, the people who made? Out of sight, somewhere else. Behind walls. All the people in all the shops were either buyers or sellers. They had no relation to the things but that of possession."