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Human Rights Policy

  • Blogs

    November 18, 2009

    ACLU Launches Internet Privacy Campaign

    Do you know your dotRights?Dot what?A portal to the soul​The American Civil Liberties Union's San Francisco-based Northern California office is launching a campaign to beef up Internet privacy. In a statement released today, the ACLU seeks to "spotlight the need to upgrade laws protecting consumer ... More >>

  • News

    October 21, 2009

    Transblazer

    She just became the city's first transgender department head, but Theresa Sparks is already setting her sights on becoming the city's first transgender supervisor.

  • Blogs

    October 12, 2009

    Exclusive: Buju Banton Sits Down with LGBT Activists

    EKAphotographyBuju Banton meets the LGBT Posse​ In what may be a groundbreaking and possibly historical event, controversial reggae star Buju Banton met with representatives from the LGBT community this afternoon. Banton has been a frequent target of gay rights protesters for his 1992 song "Bo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 8, 2009

    Human Rights Watch: Pelosi Has Some 'Splaining To Do About Torture Briefing

    Oh, that waterboarding...Oh, for a return to the days when a troupe of miscreants breaking into Democratic Party headquarters was the source of our national angst -- and not nightmarish, government-sanctioned torture techniques. A memo released yesterday by the Director of National Intelligence and ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 3, 2008

    Third Party Ideas Don't Damage Voters at VP Debate

    Oh, that waterboarding...Oh, for a return to the days when a troupe of miscreants breaking into Democratic Party headquarters was the source of our national angst -- and not nightmarish, government-sanctioned torture techniques. A memo released yesterday by the Director of National Intelligence and ... More >>

  • News

    April 9, 2008

    Olympic Torch Protesters Pump Money Into the Local Economy

    Oh, that waterboarding...Oh, for a return to the days when a troupe of miscreants breaking into Democratic Party headquarters was the source of our national angst -- and not nightmarish, government-sanctioned torture techniques. A memo released yesterday by the Director of National Intelligence and ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 7, 2008

    Nude Torch Protesters: Don't Stand Too Close to the Flame.

    Oh, that waterboarding...Oh, for a return to the days when a troupe of miscreants breaking into Democratic Party headquarters was the source of our national angst -- and not nightmarish, government-sanctioned torture techniques. A memo released yesterday by the Director of National Intelligence and ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 2, 2008

    Olympic Torch Met With Alarm and Protest, Stroll Along Waterfront

    Oh, that waterboarding...Oh, for a return to the days when a troupe of miscreants breaking into Democratic Party headquarters was the source of our national angst -- and not nightmarish, government-sanctioned torture techniques. A memo released yesterday by the Director of National Intelligence and ... More >>

  • Music

    April 2, 2008

    Rupa and the April Fishes

    eXtraOrdinary rendition (Cumbancha)

  • Music

    September 19, 2007

    Contents Under Pressure

    Bad Brains transcend a stormy history to Build a Nation

  • Blogs

    August 10, 2007

    Tibetans Say, "Go A's!" to Protest 2008 Beijing Olympics

    Bad Brains transcend a stormy history to Build a Nation

  • News

    August 1, 2007

    Letters to the Editor

    Bad Brains transcend a stormy history to Build a Nation

  • News

    July 18, 2007

    No Peace Prize for You

    It's a Palestinian-Israeli conflict, this time being waged in the supermarket

  • Blogs

    July 2, 2007

    Gay Shame in San Francisco -- Mary Wants You!

    It's a Palestinian-Israeli conflict, this time being waged in the supermarket

  • News

    November 29, 2006

    Boycott Feinstein

    A new proposed law would put activists in jail for hurting a company's bottom line

  • Film

    February 22, 2006

    Repertory Film Listings

    A new proposed law would put activists in jail for hurting a company's bottom line

  • Film

    August 31, 2005

    Low Yield

    The Constant Gardener ripens into a distasteful thriller

  • News

    July 20, 2005

    Dog Bites

    Making a meal out of journalistic and political news, spell-checking the Guardian, and wrapping up the Castro race skirmish.

  • News

    June 29, 2005

    Badlands Confidential

    Is there a race problem at a Castro gay bar -- or a propriety problem in a city supervisor's office?

  • Film

    June 8, 2005

    Freedom Fries

    English activists get served by McDonald's -- and they're not having any of it

  • News

    June 8, 2005

    Letters to the Editor

    Week of Wednesday, June 8, 2005

  • News

    May 18, 2005

    Acts of Commission

    The Human Rights Commission finds a Castro bar discriminatory. But the commission's investigation has its own bias problem.

  • News

    May 18, 2005

    The Storm of the Teeth

    The ever-overreaching Human Rights Commission launches an official investigation of ... a barroom display of a few Indian teeth

  • News

    March 16, 2005

    Gay Rights in High Places

    As the king fights a Maoist insurrection, the Nepali Supreme Court decides whether homosexual acts are "bestiality"

  • News

    November 24, 2004

    Letters to the Editor

    Week of Wednesday, November 24, 2004

  • News

    October 27, 2004

    Of Asterisks and Small Pols

    When the city government tries to play satire police with the press, everyone with a sense of humor -- and a belief in the Constitution -- should be concerned

  • News

    June 2, 2004

    Medea Benjamin for President*

    The new reality TV show American Candidate is as rigged as a Florida election. A recount won't help. We need a boycott.

  • Film

    April 28, 2004

    Radio Free Haiti

    Jonathan Demme's documentary brings a joyful revolutionary to the screen

  • News

    March 3, 2004

    Obsessive Pursuit

    Years after her brother was murdered in Chile's "dirty war," a diminutive former professor went after the killer

  • News

    February 18, 2004

    Enslaved in Palo Alto

    A domestic worker from Kenya has accused her employer -- a prominent African journalist -- of human trafficking

  • News

    March 26, 2003

    Unarmed Soldiers

    Building a peace army, one person at a time

  • News

    March 6, 2002

    Truth Over Death

    A Berkeley forensic mathematician, the herculean effort to identify World Trade Center victims with DNA, and the value of closure

  • Culture

    December 5, 2001

    Hunger Strike

    Can a non-9/11 benefit album make any noise?

  • News

    November 7, 2001

    Firehouse Blues

    Firefighters are wondering why the renovation of two stations was awarded to a contractor with a history of construction problems

  • News

    August 8, 2001

    Dirty Pool

    As the Bayview waits for a rebuilt MLK pool, the project, a stated mayoral priority, keeps gobbling money and time--making it the prototypical city contracting fiasco.

  • News

    December 6, 2000

    The Great Minnow Hunt

    Why did the U.S. Attorney's Office angle for fingerlings -- and apparently ignore trophy catches -- during its corruption investigation at the San Francisco Housing Authority?

  • News

    June 21, 2000

    Matt Smith

    Parking Problem

  • News

    April 26, 2000

    South to the Future

    Will the Next Pope Be Catholic?

  • News

    September 29, 1999

    Unsettling History

    Kidnapped and interned during World War II, Japanese brothers intend that their story not fade away

  • Calendar

    August 11, 1999

    Cothran

    Kidnapped and interned during World War II, Japanese brothers intend that their story not fade away

  • News

    July 21, 1999

    Letters

    Kidnapped and interned during World War II, Japanese brothers intend that their story not fade away

  • Calendar

    December 9, 1998

    Local Rites for Universal Rights

    Kidnapped and interned during World War II, Japanese brothers intend that their story not fade away

  • Film

    November 4, 1998

    Be-Siege'd

    Kidnapped and interned during World War II, Japanese brothers intend that their story not fade away

  • Calendar

    October 28, 1998

    Night + Day

    Kidnapped and interned during World War II, Japanese brothers intend that their story not fade away

  • Calendar

    March 4, 1998

    Night + Day

    Kidnapped and interned during World War II, Japanese brothers intend that their story not fade away

  • Calendar

    January 28, 1998

    Night + Day

    Kidnapped and interned during World War II, Japanese brothers intend that their story not fade away

  • Calendar

    March 19, 1997

    Mulch

    Kidnapped and interned during World War II, Japanese brothers intend that their story not fade away

  • News

    January 22, 1997

    Letters

    Kidnapped and interned during World War II, Japanese brothers intend that their story not fade away

  • Calendar

    September 4, 1996

    The Grid

    Kidnapped and interned during World War II, Japanese brothers intend that their story not fade away

  • News

    June 7, 1995

    Letters

    Kidnapped and interned during World War II, Japanese brothers intend that their story not fade away

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