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Left In SF (Free subscription) | 09/30/2008
Unbalanced and sensationalist coverage of a handful of youth is creating a dangerous mob mentality By Robert Haaland and Sofia Lee Morales Published in the SF Bay Guardian OPINION: "Illegal Alien." "Drug-dealing illegal immigrant youth." "Criminal youth." How many times have these dehumanizing words appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle in the last few months? Through unbalanced and...
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Politics (Free subscription) | 09/17/2008
... name changed is a problem. So, this is going to open a lot of doors for us.” SEUI Local 1021's Robert Haaland talked about the hell he went through trying to get such paperwork sorted out. Transgender hero Cecilia Chung worried that, “if San Francisco revokes its Sanctuary ordinance, just because of a couple of attacks, it will undo the hard work of the past two decades.” Municipal...
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Politics (Free subscription) | 09/15/2008
My nine-year-old son and I just finished reading Jack London's White Fang together, so I'm particularly vulnerable to stories about wolves, and this ad is especially grisly If you want to help Defenders of Wildlife air it in markets where it might help, there's a donation link included. By the way, Robert Haaland has put together a nice set of links on Palin's record here.
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Politics (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
by Amanda Witherell Graph from San Francisco Chronicle, July 26, 2007 Literally. Last night while the San Francisco Labor Council was meeting to vote on endorsements for the November election, the power cut out. “I immediately started chanting public power, public power,” said Robert Haaland, who was there on behalf of SEIU 1021. He was referring to the Clean Energy Act – Prop H on the...
