Fuck Waymo—Long Live Kit Kat! A self-driving car killed a beloved SF cat. Kit Kat's murder fits into the long history of tech companies using the Bay as a testing ground — at our expense. But the Bay has had enough. Read @alexhanna.bsky.social's searing take: bayareacurrent.com/fuck-waymo-l...

Introducing: Sound Ward — Bay Area Current's new column on bottom-up, underground & DIY music scenes across the Bay. This week: DJ's associated with NO BIAS discuss their role as cultural workers — and call for government grants for music makers. Read on: bayareacurrent.com/sound-ward-n...

Bring NYC’s socialist insurgency to the Bay! Same problems: The majority of people across the Bay Area face the same cost-of-living issues as New Yorkers. Same enemies: centrist Democrats who cozy up to local billionaires. No Nation But Zohran Nation: bayareacurrent.com/no-nation-bu...

My first for @bayareacurrent.bsky.social -- A self-driving car killed a beloved SF cat. It’s part of a long history of tech companies using the Bay as a testing ground at our expense. People have had enough. bayareacurrent.com/fuck-waymo-l...

Subscribe to the @bayareacurrent.bsky.social -- get ON IT. This week's events calendar is the best one yet. 1) texting templates to get your friends out the door for parties + 2) KATE BUSH COVER BAND in El Cerrito on Halloween?! Be still my Wuthering Heart. bayareacurrent.com/email/fdc690...

The People’s Answer to ICE: Crowdsourcing Community Defense. People Over Papers' site map offers a glimpse into the informal media people use to warn neighbors when systems of formal confirmation can't match the need: bayareacurrent.com/the-peoples-...

Loo Review: The Bay Area’s Best Public Restrooms A guide to the best, worst, and possibly scariest bathrooms in the Bay Area — the parks edition. Because working people deserve great public restrooms. bayareacurrent.com/loo-review-p...

Bay Area Current sat down with the director of Union — @unionthefilm.bsky.social — (2024) to talk about labor narratives, Amazon and the role of left media. bayareacurrent.com/brett-story-...

bayareacurrent.com/scene-report... Trump threatened the Bay with an ICE surge in October 2025, and working-class people mobilized in opposition. We spoke with those who turned out — here's what they told us.

IT HAS HAPPENED -- an event has appeared on @coyotemedia.org, @oaklandreviewofbooks.org and @bayareacurrent.bsky.social calendars. The bay area indie calendar EGOT. What event is it? Well you will have to read all three calendars to find out. Yes I am a social media genius thank you.

It hasn't happened yet but I like to think that if an event makes it onto the @bayareacurrent.bsky.social, @oaklandreviewofbooks.org, and @coyotemedia.org calendar that's like winning the Bay Area event EGOT or something.

"AC Transit, the East Bay’s largest local transit provider, has faced recent worker and rider campaigns to fix its merciless schedules, which forces drivers to skip essential breaks while causing delays for riders." bayareacurrent.com/the-people-a...

"AC Transit, the East Bay’s largest local transit provider, has faced recent worker and rider campaigns to fix its merciless schedules, which forces drivers to skip essential breaks while causing delays for riders." bayareacurrent.com/the-people-a...

Confessions & Obsessions — our new monthly questionnaire — tries to get to the bottom of things. First up: we ask the Bay's legendary lawyer Anh Phoong... is she modern or postmodern? bayareacurrent.com/confessions-...

"In 2024, Hayward and Richmond were the first two U.S. cities to divest from the occupation of Palestine, and the city of Dublin passed an EIP last month."

Breaking ~ PALESTINE ORGANIZERS WIN: Divestment from Israel Becomes Policy for Alameda County. Hundreds of working-class people from across the Bay turned out to win a long-term ethical investment policy. bayareacurrent.com/palestine-or...

Read the full story by @bayareacurrent.bsky.social here bayareacurrent.com/why-bay-area...

You know that times have changed when workers start unionizing the Bay's suburban strip malls. "The pay is just too low — new staff start at $16.96/hour, barely above the California minimum wage, and they work 35 hours a week with no overtime." bayareacurrent.com/unionizing-t...

Unionizing Verve Coffee workers are throwing a pre-election rally today at 2101 Market St in SF. We wanted to learn more about their growing fight, so we attended their Sept 1st rally at Verve Coffee's flagship store in Santa Cruz. Here's what we learned: bayareacurrent.com/sc-verve-uni...

Ever get one of those "STOP AI" fliers? We looked into the group that argues that, if society does nothing, AI will kill us all. bayareacurrent.com/why-bay-area...

"It can be tempting to gather politically around AI, as a visible symbol of the changes & upheavals that face us, but in organizing against the technology instead of the industry that mobilizes it, we risk losing the political momentum to shape the future we want." - @bayareacurrent.bsky.social

Almost none of the issues that made life miserable have been addressed: no heat, mold, rodents, and walls that continue falling apart. Like so many other working class tenants across the Bay, the next steps are unclear, but the range of possibility is wide open.

Tenants organized to force the city bureaucracy to intervene, and the city ordered the landlord to send a representative to a meeting with tenants. At that meeting the landlords representative left within five minutes, failing to address any of their concerns.

A decade without heat and apartments with mold, bugs, and rodents—tenants and their tenant union (TANC) are locked in an ongoing battle with the landlord, Byong Yu, who also owns KP Market in Uptown Oakland. bayareacurrent.com/a-decade-wit...

A decade without heat and apartments with mold, bugs, and rodents—tenants and their tenant union (TANC) are locked in an ongoing battle with the landlord, Byong Yu, who also owns KP Market in Uptown Oakland. bayareacurrent.com/a-decade-wit...

OAKLAND TENANTS: This year, the maximum allowable rent increase is .8% if your building is covered by the Oakland rent stabilization. Get more helpful info about your rights here: bayareacurrent.com/tenant-in-oa...

The Santa Cruz Veterans Hall is an example of what public space can look like: a place where DIY culture meets veteran community support—underwritten by the county government. @becsgross.bsky.social explores how this decades-old space has survived and thrived. bayareacurrent.com/in-santa-cru...

The Santa Cruz Veterans Hall is an example of what public space can look like: a place where DIY culture meets veteran community support—underwritten by the county government. @becsgross.bsky.social explores how this decades-old space has survived and thrived. bayareacurrent.com/in-santa-cru...

These anti-worker billboards are part of a wider pattern. Weny Liu @dellsystem.bsky.social elsewhere writes that the proliferation of tech billboards across SF represents the domination of our cities and lives by powerful tech capitalists. bayareacurrent.com/the-billboar...

"Stop Hiring Humans" billboards menaced SF workers with messages of automation and unemployment. The ads were strategic: by pissing working-class people off, the tech company received the kind of attention that venture capitalist investors love. 🔗 bayareacurrent.com/ai-tech-comp...

For months, a startup named Artisan has covered San Francisco with billboards saying “Stop Hiring Humans” and “The Era of AI Employees Is Here.” But does their product live up to the hype? For Bay Area Current, Wendy Liu @dellsystem.bsky.social investigates. bayareacurrent.com/ai-tech-comp...

Verve coffee workers in SF and Santa Cruz want living wages, and fighting for a union is how they'll win big. Their fight is part of an industry-wide rebellion against corporate greed. And these workers are prepared to go the distance. bayareacurrent.com/verve-coffee...

BREAKING NEWS: Touchstone Climbing gym workers across Northern California trounced management and won their union election! Workers have joined up with Touchstone Workers United, an affiliate of @seiu.org. Read about how these workers began their fight here: bayareacurrent.com/touchstone-c...

This Oakland DIY singing group, known as the Free Key Choir, has gone from just-for-fun to the next-big-thing, with a Pacific Northwest tour on the books. @copypasteyonders.bsky.social explores how a do-it-yourself ethos was central to their success. bayareacurrent.com/all-rise-the...

This Oakland DIY singing group, known as the Free Key Choir, has gone from just-for-fun to the next-big-thing, with a Pacific Northwest tour on the books. @copypasteyonders.bsky.social explores how a do-it-yourself ethos was central to their success. bayareacurrent.com/all-rise-the...

BREAKING NEWS: Touchstone Climbing gym workers across Northern California trounced management and won their union election! Workers have joined up with Touchstone Workers United, an affiliate of @seiu.org. Read about how these workers began their fight here: bayareacurrent.com/touchstone-c...

Verve coffee workers in SF and Santa Cruz want living wages, and fighting for a union is how they'll win big. Their fight is part of an industry-wide rebellion against corporate greed. And these workers are prepared to go the distance. bayareacurrent.com/verve-coffee...

🫵 Know your enemy bayareacurrent.com/ai-tech-comp... by @dellsystem.bsky.social @bayareacurrent.bsky.social

For months, a startup named Artisan has covered San Francisco with billboards saying “Stop Hiring Humans” and “The Era of AI Employees Is Here.” But does their product live up to the hype? For Bay Area Current, Wendy Liu @dellsystem.bsky.social investigates. bayareacurrent.com/ai-tech-comp...

"Stop Hiring Humans" billboards menaced SF workers with messages of automation and unemployment. The ads were strategic: by pissing working-class people off, the tech company received the kind of attention that venture capitalist investors love. 🔗 bayareacurrent.com/ai-tech-comp...

Three documentary films now appear as parts of the struggle for Palestinian freedom and dignity. But what does it mean to make documentaries to amid a genocide? This three part film review contours the promise and limits of on-screen representation. bayareacurrent.com/what-it-mean...

What's behind all these new labor unions? We sat down with some of the young workers building the Bay Area's renewed workers' movement. They told us that leftist politics and ideas motivated them to build worker power on the shopfloor. bayareacurrent.com/meet-the-you...

Three documentary films now appear as parts of the struggle for Palestinian freedom and dignity. But what does it mean to make documentaries to amid a genocide? This three part film review contours the promise and limits of on-screen representation. bayareacurrent.com/what-it-mean...

Deni Leonard—a 79-year-old indigenous elder and member of the Tenants and Neighborhood Councils (TANC)—has a long history of organizing for working-class power. We spoke with Deni about his experience with the Vietnam War resistance and today's fights. Interview: bayareacurrent.com/we-kept-on-d...

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Trad-Cath: OUT. Gay-Socialist-Cath: IN. Nick Thacker writes about how a gay leftist found alignment with Catholicism. But real tensions have developed elsewhere—between spiritual devotion and today's urgent need for political action. bayareacurrent.com/gay-life-of-...

Breaking News: San Francisco Homeless Outreach Team workers won their union with @nuhw.org despite management's anti-union push! Their fight was supported by @dsaeastbay.bsky.social's @organizeworkers.bsky.social outfit, which helps workers build shopfloor power. bayareacurrent.com/breaking-new...

Breaking News: San Francisco Homeless Outreach Team workers won their union with @nuhw.org despite management's anti-union push! Their fight was supported by @dsaeastbay.bsky.social's @organizeworkers.bsky.social outfit, which helps workers build shopfloor power. bayareacurrent.com/breaking-new...

Trad-Cath: OUT. Gay-Socialist-Cath: IN. Nick Thacker writes about how a gay leftist found alignment with Catholicism. But real tensions have developed elsewhere—between spiritual devotion and today's urgent need for political action. bayareacurrent.com/gay-life-of-...

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