VIDEO: Police Attack Student Rally At CCSF City College Of San Francisco

Student protesters were pepper sprayed, hit with batons, tackled, and arrested today at the City College of San Francisco’s main campus.

MintPress News Desk
By MintPress News Desk
Cop Beating

Student protesters were pepper sprayed, hit with batons, tackled, and arrested today at the City College of San Francisco’s main campus. The students were protesting the presence of Special Trustee Robert Agrella, tasked by the state authorities with saving the college, usurping the authority of its locally elected Board of Trustees. City College

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Medical Marijuana Group Issues its First Quality Certificates

Just two months after announcing a program to verify the safety and quality of medical marijuana, Americans for Safe Access announced the first two dispensaries to pass the certification process.

Katie Rucke
By Katie Rucke
Jake Dimmock, co-owner of the Northwest Patient Resource Center medical marijuana dispensary, works with flowering plants in a grow room, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)

About two months after the medical marijuana patient advocacy group Americans for Safe Access announced that it would launch a program to verify medical marijuana products sold at licensed businesses, the group announced the certification of the first two dispensaries in the country: Berkeley Patients Group and SPARC of San Francisco. The

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Micro-Housing: Tiny Steps To Better Living Or A Delusory Solution?

Some tout the miniature housing as revolutionary, but critics say it’s not a legitimate solution to ever-escalating rent and tumbling quality.

Mary Pappenfus
By Mary Pappenfus

SAN FRANCISCO --- The first renters in San Francisco's cutting-edge new apartments will be able to see their entire home from the living room sofa, and will likely be able to reach out and touch a good portion of it by standing and stretching their arms. Thanks to a change in zoning law, the city is in the process of offering the smallest legal

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San Francisco Style Crime Reduction – “Stop And Offer Therapy”

The heart of the approach is to deal with victims before they become criminals, and to recognize the “mental health connection to public safety.”

Mary Pappenfus
By Mary Pappenfus

SAN FRANCISCO ---What a difference a coast makes. On the East Coast, New York City has vigorously defended its controversial stop-and-frisk policy, a crime-reduction strategy that relies on arbitrary street-level police searches, mostly of minorities. Though Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio is expected to terminate the tactic, several other cities plan

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Defying Organizers, SF Pride Paraders Demonstrate In Support Of Bradley Manning

Imprisoned WikiLeaks whistleblower Bradley Manning’s supporters were the largest non-corporate contingent in the parade.

Sarah Lazare
By Sarah Lazare

Over one thousand marched in a boisterous Bradley Manning contingent at SF Pride Sunday, in a show of defiance against the Pride board's decision to exclude Manning as Grand Marshal and welcome in military recruiters. Manning's supporters—who appointed Manning 'Community Grand Marshal'—were the largest non-corporate contingent in the

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Strike Shuts Down San Francisco’s BART Rail

Reports indicate that the absence of the rail system has put another 60,000 vehicles on already-clogged roads in the city.

Katie Rucke
By Katie Rucke

For the first time since 1997, public transit workers in San Francisco are on strike, resulting in a massive headache for commuters in the Bay Area. The city’s San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit, commonly known as BART, officially shut down at 2 a.m. on Monday morning after the BART union and BART officials failed to reach an agreement regarding

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