Amid U.S. war on Iran and Trump’s falling approval, organizers are building a national opposition movement ahead of a May 1 general strike and the midterms.
Category: Social Justice
Posted inGovernment & Politics, Health, Immigration, LGBTQ+, Social Justice
SF’s Transgender Residents Still Face Threats, Even in Sanctuary City
As the Trump administration attacks transgender rights and care, some who moved to San Francisco for protection face the very challenges they tried to flee.
Posted inGovernment & Politics, Immigration, Social Justice, Social Services
如何準備應對移民局執法
在深入採訪四位移民律師與維權人士、並參加多個移民權利研討會和記者會之後，The Public Press 整理出以下建議。
Posted inGovernment & Politics, Immigration, Politics, Social Justice
How to Prepare for Immigration Enforcement
With a rise in immigration raids and arrests outside courthouses schools, and at workplaces and other slice-of-life locations — coupled with a slew of Trump policies that whittle away or outright revoke people’s legal status and rights — immigrants across the country, regardless of their status, are increasingly at risk of deportation, detention or the sudden invalidation of legal documents, fueling widespread outrage, fear and uncertainty.
While experts encourage people to familiarize themselves with widely circulated resources like the “Know Your Rights” red card, which offers essential guidance for encounters with immigration authorities, they also emphasize that additional resources are available.
The Public Press has compiled advice from extensive interviews with four immigration attorneys and advocates, and from several workshops and press conferences discussing immigrant rights.
Posted inBay Area, Government & Politics, Immigration, Social Justice
Tens of Thousands Gather for No Kings Day of Defiance in San Francisco
Tens of thousands of demonstrators marched through San Francisco Saturday from Dolores Park to Civic Center Plaza for a No Kings protest organized to oppose the Trump administration’s increasingly aggressive immigration enforcement actions and crackdowns on protesters under the guise of restoring law and order.
Posted inCommunity, Government & Politics, Immigration, Law & Justice, Social Justice
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.
Posted inEnvironment, Social Justice
Racial Disparities in Toxic Cleanup Times Especially Pronounced in SF, Data Shows
Toxic site cleanups take longer in parts of San Francisco where fewer residents are white, a new data analysis from the San Francisco Public Press shows. The analysis also shows that a higher proportion of residents who are Black, Indigenous and other people of color in an area correlates directly with longer cleanup durations.
Across all sites in San Francisco, cleanups took more than four years longer in areas with high proportions of BIPOC residents than in majority white areas. The size, complexity and nature of toxic sites varies and could account for some differences but further analysis shows that these disparities hold when comparing sites of similar complexity and size.
Posted inGovernment & Politics, Labor, Social Justice
May Day Rallies in SF Draw Thousands to Protest Trump Administration Policies
Thousands of people turned out for a protest rally at San Francisco’s Civic Center Plaza and other locations on May 1 — also known as May Day and International Workers’ Day — to express outrage against Trump administration policies targeting immigrants, federal workers, labor unions, the social safety net, environmental policy, education and free speech.
The rallies on Thursday in San Francisco were among more than 1,000 demonstrations staged nationwide that coordinated with the grassroots 50501 movement, which billed the protests as a fight against a “billionaire takeover.”
Posted inBay Area, Environment, Social Justice
New Environmental Justice Coalition Protests EPA Cuts
About 150 Bay Area residents and advocates for environmental justice gathered on the steps of an Environmental Protection Agency office in downtown San Francisco on Tuesday to protest the Trump administration’s rollbacks of environmental protections.
The coalition enables member organizations to share ideas and learn from one another, said Sarah Ranney, director of the San Francisco Bay Area chapter of the Sierra Club.
“Historically, things have been done through movements just like this,” said Arieann Harrison, the founder and executive director of the Marie Harrison Community Foundation, an organization advocating for full remediation of the toxic Hunters Point Naval Shipyard.
Posted inEnvironment, Health, Social Justice
Toxic Waste Cleanups Take Longer in Marginalized Communities
Toxic site cleanups take longer in marginalized communities, according to a new Public Press analysis of more than 20,000 sites of varying size across the nine-county Bay Area.
In areas that scored high on a national index of socioeconomic vulnerability, the median cleanup took more than 450 days longer than in the least vulnerable areas.
Many factors, including the type of toxin, the nature of the site and the complexity of the cleanup, could affect how long a remediation takes and explain some of the differences. But in a subset of more than 12,000 cleanups of comparable complexity, the disparities were even more pronounced.
Experts warn that prolonged exposure to contamination as a result of slow cleanups can increase the risk of illness for nearby residents.