San Francisco

Overwhelmed By Strike, San Francisco Schools Found Money For Top Demands

April 1, 2026 Danielle Smith, Labor Notes. Resist! Public schools, San Francisco, Strikes, Teachers, Unions

Six thousand San Francisco educators won fully funded health care, sanctuary schools, and an up to 8.5 percent raise over two years by walking out for the first time in nearly 50 years. After just four days on strike, February 9 to 12, they won their top demands—some of which the district had previously refused even to bargain over. “It was hard and it was joyful and we f-ing beat them,” said Ilan Desai-Geller, a high school teacher who served on the bargaining committee and as a regional strike captain. “They found the money all of a sudden. “They found the money for the things they said they couldn’t. They agreed to the language they said they couldn’t.”

San Francisco Educators Win Major Victory After Citywide Strike

February 14, 2026 Devin B. Martinez, People's Dispatch. Resist! Education, San Francisco, Strikes, Teachers, Unions, Victory

The walkout is the first major educator strike in the city in decades and the first conducted jointly by certified and classified workers. Educators shut down schools across the district and mobilized thousands of workers, families, and businesses. Hundreds of picket lines were seen throughout the city. Before the strike, contract negotiations had stalled for nearly a year, as district officials attempted to push austerity measures that would further shift healthcare costs onto workers, maintain poverty wages for support staff, and fail to address the worsening staffing and support crisis.

San Francisco Teachers Begin First Strike In Nearly 50 Years

February 11, 2026 The Guardian. Resist! Public schools, San Francisco, Strikes, Teachers, Worker Rights

About 6,000 public schoolteachers in San Francisco went on strike on Monday, the first public schoolteachers strike in the city in nearly 50 years. The strike comes after teachers and the district failed to reach an agreement over higher wages, health benefits and more resources for special needs students. The San Francisco Unified School District closed all its 120 schools and said it would offer independent study to some of the district’s 50,000 students. “We will continue to stand together until we win the schools our students deserve and the contracts our members deserve,” Cassondra Curiel, president of the United Educators of San Francisco, said at a Monday morning news conference.

San Francisco Educators Prepare Strike As Vacancy Crisis Deepens

February 7, 2026 Cameron Harrison, People's World. Resist! Education, Public schools, San Francisco, Strikes, Teachers, Worker Rights

San Francisco — In a resounding strike mandate, over 5,200 members of the United Educators of San Francisco (UESF) have voted 97.6% to authorize a strike on Jan. 9, setting the stage for the city’s first teachers’ walkout since 1979. That is, unless the school district addresses a severe vacancy and turnover crisis. The union announced the overwhelming mandate on Jan. 5 at a press conference as educators gathered for strike preparation. They cited the San Francisco Unified School District’s (SFUSD) failure to prioritize classroom stability, fully funded healthcare, and critical support for special education students as the primary reason for the strike.

San Francisco’s War On RV Communities Is Bureaucratic Cruelty By Design

July 27, 2025 Armando Bravo Martinez, El Tecolote. Educate! Affordable Housing, discrimination, Police, San Francisco

I used to think San Francisco was a compassionate city. But I’ve come to understand that what looks like bureaucratic dysfunction is often deliberate: a system engineered to displace. Over the past year, I’ve watched my RV community be targeted, harassed, and evicted. Not by accident—but by design. It began on Bernal Heights Boulevard, where our small group — about 12 RVs with individuals, families, and pets — lived in relative peace. We shared meals and watched each other’s things while folks went to work. Then came a wave of 311 complaints: reports of sewage, parking issues, even allegations of harassment we believe were fabricated. Police soon followed. One officer warned us we’d be arrested “if we so much as winked at a teenager.”

UC San Francisco Fired Me For Speaking Out Against Genocide

June 17, 2025 Rupa Marya, Mondoweiss. Resist! Doctors, Genocide, Higher Education, Palestine, Palestine Solidarity, Repression, San Francisco, University of California

In May 2025, after 23 years of service, I was fired from my position as a Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). As healthcare workers were being targeted, tortured, and killed in Gaza by Israel’s US-backed genocide, I could not remain quiet. I spoke out as Gaza’s hospitals were bombed. I brought everything I had as a physician dedicated to building a world of health for all, as a scholar of colonialism and health, as an activist who has stood with Indigenous grandmothers at Standing Rock and survivors of racist police violence in San Francisco, and as a mother who cares for my own children and as a corollary, all children.

A People’s History Of San Francisco’s Most Notorious Neighborhood

April 1, 2025 Steve Early, Popular Resistance. Strategize! Book Review, Gentrification, San Francisco, Tenderloin District

Few San Francisco neighborhoods have had more ups and downs than the 33-block area still called “The Tenderloin”—a name which derives from the late 19th century police practice of shaking down local restaurants and butcher shops by taking their best cuts of beef in lieu of cash bribes. At various periods in its storied past, the Tenderloin has been home to famous brothels, Prohibition-era speakeasies, San Francisco’s first gay bars, well-known hotels and jazz clubs, film companies and recording studies, and professional boxing gyms.

Supreme Court Weakens Rules On Discharging Raw Sewage Into Water

March 5, 2025 Cristen Hemingway Jaynes, EcoWatch. Educate! Clean Water Act, Department of Labor, EPA, pollution, San Francisco, Supreme Court, Water

The United States Supreme Court has voted five to four to weaken rules that govern how much pollution is discharged into the country’s water supply, undermining the 1972 Clean Water Act. The case involved San Francisco suing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) after the city was found to have violated the terms of a permit required for the discharge of wastewater pollution into the Pacific Ocean, reported The Washington Post. San Francisco officials argued that the EPA’s authority had been exceeded due to vague permit rules that made it impossible to tell when a line had been crossed.

Congo Activists To NBA: Black Lives Matter In DRC

February 21, 2025 Ann Garrison, Black Agenda Report. Resist! Black Lives Matter (BLM), DR Congo, Rwanda, San Francisco, Sports, State Violence

Activists protested the National Basketball Association's close relationship with Rwanda outside the NBA All Star Game at San Francisco's Chase Center on Sunday, February 16. Their action was complemented by an online appeal to the NBA via their social media platforms particularly on X. The NBA has a longstanding relationship with the Rwandan dictatorship despite decades of UN documentation of its human rights abuses inside Rwanda and war crimes in the neighboring Democratic Republic of the Congo , where Rwandan troops and the Rwandan-commanded M23 militia now occupy the capital cities of Congo's North and South Kivu Provinces.

Arab Street Corner Bakery Challenges Inequality with Cooperation

January 12, 2025 Mari Nishitani, Grassroots Economic Organizing. Create! Arab Americans, California, Cooperatives, Restaurant Industry, Restaurants, San Francisco, Solidarity, Worker Rights and Jobs

Reem’s California is an Arab bakery shop in San Francisco. Proudly embracing the slogan “Arab Street Food made with California Love,” this restaurant serves traditional Arab bread infused with fresh, locally sourced ingredients from California. As soon as you step in, you will be welcomed by a vibrant mural titled “Seeds of Love” which includes a quote by Palestinian poet Fadwa Tuqan: “If it were in my hands, if I were able to flip this world, if I possessed the ability to fill this world with seeds of love.” This space is filled with the inviting aroma of freshly baked bread, a scent infused with the love, care, and mutual support of Palestinian Americans and local community organizers.

Demand The Reinstatement Of Dr. Rupa Marya At UC San Francisco

December 30, 2024 Alice Rothchild, Mondoweiss. Resist! California, Education, Genocide, Israel, Palestine, Retaliation, San Francisco

In September 2024, the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) placed Dr. Rupa Marya on paid leave and threatened her medical license. These actions against Dr. Marya, a professor of medicine who has written extensively on the health impacts of systemic oppression, provoked many important questions. After being approached by alarmed students, Dr. Marya raised concerns about the implications of admitting students who may have recently served in the Israeli Defense Force, which has credibly been accused of human rights violations, war crimes, and genocide in Gaza and the West Bank.

How San Francisco Longshoremen Made Their Union A Powerhouse

August 13, 2024 Peter Cole, Jacobin. Strategize! California, History, Longshoremen, San Francisco, Unions, Worker Rights and Jobs

Peter Cole is a professor of history at Western Illinois University and the author of Dockworker Power: Race & Activism in Durban and the San Francisco Bay Area (University of Illinois Press, 2018). In this interview, Cole and Jacobin’s Benjamin Y. Fong discussed the dedication and success of the longshore workers in the 1930s and ’40s in overcoming racial division on the docks. Clips from this interview are included in Episode 6 of Organize the Unorganized (among others), which also includes archival interviews with the first International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) president, Harry Bridges, and the first black president of ILWU Local 10, Cleophas Williams.

Kamala Harris’s Environmental Deceptions

August 10, 2024 Ann Garrison, Black Agenda Report. Educate! Environment, Environmental racism, History, Kamala Harris, San Francisco

Richard Nixon established the Environmental Protection Agency and the strongest environmental protections the US had ever seen in response to the mass movements of the 1960s. After Nixon, environmental laws gradually improved until Bill Clinton’s administration started rolling them back, especially through global “free trade” deals like NAFTA and those of the WTO, putting the environmental movement on the defensive. Every president since Clinton, Democrat or Republican, has successively worsened environmental protections. Obama expanded fossil fuel production more than any other president in US history, and Biden continued to expand it even more than Trump had. There’s little reason to think that Kamala Harris would be different, and she’s already reversed her opposition to fracking.

Appeal In Biden Gaza Genocide Case Heard Today

June 11, 2024 Center for Constitutional Rights. Resist! Biden administration, California, Genocide, Israel, Joe Biden, Palestine, San Francisco, US Imperialism

June 10, 2024, San Francisco, CA – Today before a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, Palestinians from Gaza and Palestinian-Americans with family in Gaza argued that the courts have a constitutional obligation to hear their claims that President Biden, Secretary of State Blinken, and Secretary of Defense Austin violated their legal duty to prevent – and are complicit in – Israel’s genocide in Gaza. The lower court had found a plausible case of genocide and urged the Biden administration to reexamine its “unflagging support” for Israel’s siege of Gaza, but dismissed the lawsuit in January, finding it was not the court’s place to rule on what it determined was a “political question.”

Union Members Step Up And Dig In For Palestine Solidarity

March 6, 2024 Bahaar Tadjbakhsh, Labor Notes. Strategize! Ceasefire, Labor Movement, Palestine, San Francisco

When street protests seem ignored by the war machine, what are union members to do? In the San Francisco Bay Area, unions and rank-and-file networks are using direct action and endorsement-revoking campaigns to target the politicians who are still shipping weapons to Israel for its scorched-earth campaign. Meanwhile we’ve held a teach-in and launched campaigns to boycott Israeli goods and divest our pensions from the occupation. Nearly six months in, Israel’s invasion of Gaza is responsible for 30,000 Palestinian deaths and counting. Across the U.S., more than 100 union locals, six internationals, and the AFL-CIO have called for a ceasefire.

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