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SF Weekly Letters

Building Racism

Segregation and racism are used to pit black and Latino carpenters against each other at a low-income-housing site

Working-Class Struggle

Three housekeepers and a day laborer take action against deadbeat employers who abuse immigrants

The War On Gangs

With murders on the rise, City Attorney Dennis Herrera is cracking down on gangs using a legal tool critics say smacks of McCarthyism

Laborer Pains

The San Francisco Day Labor Program loses city funding amid a labyrinthine dispute between its political supporters and the Mayor's Office

Demonstrating Exploitation

A Latino activist group has gained largely positive media coverage for organizing student walkouts to protest government social policies. But how admirable is it, really, to endanger young children for political purposes?

Mulch

A Latino activist group has gained largely positive media coverage for organizing student walkouts to protest government social policies. But how admirable is it, really, to endanger young children for political purposes?

La Nueva Fuerza

With attacks on immigration and affirmative action, the GOP has fueled a new Latino political apparatus. But can the Democrats master the machinery?

Peruvian Woman Files Suit In S.F. District Court, Alleges Human Trafficking and Forced Labor

Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum Meanwhile, in Walnut Creek...  Peruvian citizen Zoraida Pena Canal filed suit in federal district court this week, alleging she was trafficked into two years of forced labor as a nanny, cook, and household servant by a Peruvian-born U.S. citizen a ... More >>

Immigration Activists Set to Rally Downtown Tomorrow

Jerry, we have a complaint! ​Buoyed by a federal judge's decision to block the "papers please" components of the Arizona immigration law that goes into effect tomorrow, San Francisco activists and Assemblyman Tom Ammiano are now turning their wrath on California Attorney General Jerry Brown. At a ... More >>

Tom Ammiano Mangles Profane Spanish at Unique Immigration Rally (PICS)

Tom, what are you saying?​As promised, San Franciscans came out against Arizona's controversial SB 1070 immigration law today, in a protest also aimed at the federal identification program known as Secure Communities ("S-COMM for short"). A picturesque group positioned in front of the Federal Buil ... More >>

S.F. Contractor Accused of Stiffing Workers Gets Slapped with Felony Charges

The People vs. Danny Ho. Literally. ​Criminal charges finally caught up to faux-contractor Danny Ho today when he was arraigned in Superior Court for allegedly posing as a contractor and the not paying his workers.Ho has a storied past among Bay Area day laborers dating back to 2008 when a band of ... More >>