SAN FRANCISCO -- Housing Advocates Call for Evictions Moratorium
Although Gov. Gavin Newsom signed protections for tenants during the pandemic, San Francisco courts have resumed other eviction cases in spite of protests by westside housing advocates who say this is not the time to increase homelessness. On Sept. 21, activists from the West Side Tenants Association (WSTA), the Veritas Tenants Association and the Housing Rights Committee of San Francisco (HRCSF) joined tenants facing uncertain times to call on the City to halt all evictions during the COVID-19 crisis.
First posted October 3, 2020 on the website for the Sunset Beacon and Richmond Review, community newspapers serving the Richmond and Sunset districts of San Francisco.
SAN FRANCISCO -- After the killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor by police, marchers demonstrate in support of Black Lives Matter, for justice against excessive police violence, and opposing fascism.
First posted June 27, 2020 on SFBay.ca, an Internet news service for the San Francisco Bay Area.
SAN FRANCISCO, February 22, 2020 -- At a public forum in the Palace of Fine Arts Theater, panelists discussed the “Life of George Washington” murals at San Francisco’s George Washington High School. The murals are an ongoing source of controversy that has made international news.
First posted March 2, 2020 on the website for the Richmond Review and Sunset Beacon, community news organization serving the Richmond and Sunset districts of San Francisco.
SAN FRANCISCO, August 13, 2019 -- The San Francisco Board of Education changed an earlier decision to paint over the "Life of George Washington" murals by artist Victor Arnautoff at George Washington High School, instead choosing to cover them over with panels or other solid materials. The school board voted Tuesday 4-3 to research covering alternatives for the 13 murals.
First posted August 14, 2019 on SFBay.ca, an Internet news service for the San Francisco Bay Area.
SAN FRANCISCO, September 10, 2018 protest at the Global Climate Action Summit in front of the Parc 55 Hilton Hotel, calling for leaders to move away from fossil fuels and toward renewable energy, and against the Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) carbon offsets trading system.
First posted September 13, 2018 on SFBay.ca, an Internet news service for the San Francisco Bay Area.
SAN FRANCISCO, June 30, 2018 protest against US President Donald Trump's "zero tolerance" policy which separates children from their parents when caught crossing the border.
First posted July 2, 2018 on SFBay.ca, an Internet news service for the San Francisco Bay Area.
SAN FRANCISCO, May 20, 2018 -- Bay to Breakers 12K footrace. The oldest consecutively-run footrace in the world and the 12 Kilometer USA national championship race.
First posted May 22, 2018 on the YouTube channel for SFBay.ca
Halloween on San Francisco's Castro Street, 2017
A short experimental reportage exploring animated text, plus speeding and slowing down the action.
Produced and edited by Thomas K. Pendergast
Video footage produced by Thomas K. Pendergast. Edited by Jesse Garnier.
Woke and united, women march against Trump
First posted January 21, 2018 on SFBay.ca, an Internet news service for the San Francisco Bay Area.
Video footage produced by Thomas K. Pendergast. Edited by Jesse Garnier
Violence escalates around Berkeley rally
First posted August 28, 2017 on SFBay.ca, an Internet news service for the San Francisco Bay Area.
Video produced and edited by Thomas K. Pendergast.
SAN FRANCISCO, April 15, 2017 -- Protest calling for President Donald Trump to make his tax returns public.
Video by Thomas K. Pendergast. Edited by Jesse Garnier.
Berkeley ‘March 4 Trump’ rally sparks violent clash
First posted on March 4, 2017, at SFBay.ca, an Internet news service for the San Francisco Bay Area.)
Police said 10 people were arrested and seven suffered injuries at a “March 4 Trump” rally Saturday afternoon in downtown Berkeley.
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SAN FRANCISCO, July 9, 2016 -- Black Lives Matter protest against police brutality.
(First posted July 14, 2016 on SFBay.ca, a news website for the San Francisco Bay Area.)
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Bonfires, a signature of warm-weather evenings for generations at Ocean Beach, San Francisco, Oct. 2015.
Jan. 23, 2015 -- Ocean Beach, SAN FRANCISCO: Jesse Liebl says he has been coming to San Francisco's Ocean Beach since 2010 about once every three months. He says a ban on bonfires will not stop people from throwing trash on the beach and will require resources to enforce.
http://aviewfromthebrink.typepad.com/beach-bonfires-on-hot-seat.html
Life on the road can be an adventure. Couple in sleeping bags at Grand View Park in San Francisco on May 29, 2014 at about 10:30 a.m. In the background is the Inner Sunset, Golden Gate Park, the Outer Richmond, Presidio, the mouth of the San Francisco Bay and in the distance are the Marin headlands.
May 19, 2013. Tolossa Gedefa Fufui of Ethiopia won the 12-kilometer, 102nd Bay to Breakers race with a time of 35:01. The Bay to Breakers is a 7.46-mile race from one side of San Francisco to the other, with competition including world-class runners from every continent.
The race stretches from sea level at the Embarcadero, uphill at a grade that tops 11 percent at one point to 215 feet above sea level, and then dips down to sea level again via the beautiful Golden Gate Park, where it ends when Lincoln hits the Great Highway at Ocean Beach.
A light fog rolling through the Golden Gate on Valentine’s Day morning, 2013, filtered the sunshine coming through it and appeared to turn the bridge tower pink, as hundreds joined Code Pink in dancing for the One Billion Rising international demonstration to oppose violence against women.
On Friday, November 2, 2012, San Francisco Bay Area residents gathered in the City’s Mission district to celebrate Dia de los Muertos, or, Day of the Dead.
Dia de los Muertos is a Mexican holiday that is celebrated across that country and in other countries, wherever there is a large ethnic Mexican population.
Traditionally it is a time for people to gather, remember and pray for friends and family members who have died. Here in Garfield Park, clothes lines were hung between trees and notes to deceased loved ones were clipped to them; also lit candles were placed underneath In Memoriam.
It has been held on November 1 and 2, since the Catholic church moved it to those dates to coincide with All Saints’ Day and All Soul’s Day. Scholars say the holiday originated with the indigenous people of the New World, going back thousands of years.
The Spanish attempted to wipe it out, considering it sacrilegious, but when this failed they opted to assimilate it into Christianity by moving it to those dates.
September 17, 2012 -- San Francisco police guard Wells Fargo bank as hundreds of Occupy protesters filled Montgomery Street in front of the company headquarters.