Adventures of Isabel

I just listened to some sound recordings I took at the demonstration yesterday (which I’m probably never going to do anything with, because it’s tedious work and time is short) and I couldn’t help but notice that the old standby “el pueblo unido jamás será vencido,” was perhaps not the most appropriate choice for a [...]

Around 150 people (by my notoriously unreliable estimate) gathered today in downtown San Francisco to protest Israeli airstrikes that have killed nearly 300 people in the Gaza Strip.

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Some photos from the May Day march in San Francisco
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Since last night, demonstrators have been gathered outside of Berkeley City Hall, waiting to see whether the City Council will repeal a letter it issued last month informing the US Marines that they were “uninvited and unwelcome” intruders in the city.After attracting international attention, and prompting republican lawmakers to call for federal funding to [...]