Protests Against ICE Continue for 2nd Day in San Francisco

In response to weekend demonstrations in Los Angeles following raids throughout L.A. County by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers, and President Trump ordering the deployment of 2,000 California National Guard troops against protesters there, Bay Area residents came together for a second day of protests largely focused on marching around San Francisco’s Mission District. 

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Audience Trust Essential Amid Attacks on Media, DEI and Democracy, PBS Public Editor Says

The San Francisco Public Press on April 30, 2025, hosted a fireside chat with Ricardo Sandoval-Palos, the public editor at PBS, and Lila LaHood, executive director of the Public Press, about recent attacks on diversity, equity and inclusion, and threats to democracy and the media.

In addition to discussing how journalists can do better covering issues their audiences care about in a political environment fraught with conflict, how PBS engages with listeners and viewers about their critiques and concerns, and why public media newsrooms aim to reflect the diversity of the communities they serve, Sandoval-Palos and LaHood talked about what might happen if the federal government were to cut funding to PBS and NPR, which receive a portion of their budgets from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

The next day, President Donald Trump signed an executive order attempting to do just that.

A woman with shoulder-length brown hair wearing glasses and a dark top types on a laptop in the foreground of a photo illustration with images of three other people and other images in the background, including one with text that reads "democracy depends on journalism." The name of the film appears in large red and white letters — "Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink" — with additional text below: "a film by two-time Acadamy Award-niminee Rick Goldsmith."

Film Screening: ‘Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink’

Join the San Francisco Public Press at the Roxie on March 13, for a special fundraising screening of “Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink,” a documentary by two-time Academy Award-nominee Rick Goldsmith. Hedge fund Alden Global Capital is quietly gobbling up newspapers across the country and gutting them, but no one knows why — until journalist Julie Reynolds begins to investigate. Her findings trigger rebellions across the country by journalists working at Alden-owned newspapers. Backed by the NewsGuild union, the newsmen and women go toe-to-toe with their “vulture capitalist” owners in a battle to save and rebuild local journalism in America.

‘Exposed’ Project Press Release

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“Exposed: The Human Radiation Experiments at Hunters Point” documents years of unnecessary exposure of more than 1,000 veterans and civilians at a San Francisco Navy science laboratory

Contact: Michael Stoll, senior editor and co-founder, San Francisco Public Press, (415) 846-3983 or [email protected]. SAN FRANCISCO (Nov. 25, 2024) — The San Francisco Public Press is publishing “Exposed: The Human Radiation Experiments at Hunters Point,” a six-part investigative series examining a dark chapter in American military history: Between the 1940s and 1960s, at least 1,073 service members, civilian workers and lab staff were exposed to potentially harmful levels of radiation at the U.S. Naval Radiological Defense Laboratory, headquartered at the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard in San Francisco. The investigation draws on rarely seen government documents and survivor accounts to reveal a little-known aspect of the Cold War: scientists conducting ethically dubious and hazardous experiments that left a legacy of health, environmental and social harms persisting for decades. The San Francisco Public Press team unearthed and analyzed thousands of pages of records, uncovering safety lapses, long-term health risks and the Navy’s reluctance to address these practices publicly or fully recognize their impact.