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Another alert this morning from Bay Resistance:

URGENT: Visiting Palestinians from Masafer Yatta are being detained at #SFO despite legal visas🚨

We’ve just confirmed that US Customs have been detaining two Palestinians from Masafer Yatta at SFO since they landed yesterday at 1pm. They were set to speak at several events hosted by churches and synagogues in the Bay Area.

We need community leaders, organizers, and EVERYONE to show up at SFO and pressure them to be released.

SFO International Arrivals

We need bodies immediately. Bring signs, bring support, bring love. Our community is not disposable. We will not be silent while Palestinians who come to share their stories are targeted here too.

#SanFrancisco #SF #BayArea #sfpol

art announcement: i'm very happy to announce that i have graduated from zine to MEGA-zine!

"keep dreaming of structured settings" is a 44 page full-color magazine of original collages on the theme of living in space and living under the ocean.

from the back cover:

"The year is 2025. The Amazon burns. Time is running out. How will humans live? The world is desperate for solutions.

In this magazine, you'll discover wondrous new opportunities for continued human life! Living with the dolphins, your own personal pool on Mars, exploration without limits, and so much more.

Join artist Marina Kukso on this new visual/textual adventure into the possible and ask yourself: is this a world you want to inhabit?"

it's available on etsy right now for only $10, so please consider getting one: https://www.etsy.com/listing/4316916338/mega-zine-keep-dreaming-of-structured

❤️ 🌌 🌊

URGENT NOTICE FROM BAY RESISTANCE: ICE Arrests Happening Now at Concord and SF Immigration Courts

We’ve just confirmed that ICE agents are at the Concord and SF Immigration Court RIGHT NOW detaining community members who are attending their hearings.

We need community leaders, organizers, and EVERYONE to show up in defense of our community right now in Concord and SF for an emergency sit in!

Concord Immigration Court - 1855 Gateway Blvd, Concord, CA 94520

Sf Immigration Court - 100 Montgomery st, SF, 94104

TODAY – Show up as soon as you can!

We need bodies immediately. Bring signs, bring support, bring love.

Our community is not disposable. We will not be silent while our neighbors are targeted.

#SanFrancisco #SF #BayArea #ICE

‘Honor And Fidelity’ Swings A Heavy Hammer of Action

The Fifth Foreign Legion 2: Honor And Fidelity (1992) by Andrew Keith and William H. Keith, Jr. makes no apologies for what it is. An antion fueled, combat driven story that offers the best military SF has to offer. The Keiths start the conflict early and never let up but they still find a way to twist and turn events to keep the reader guessing. Honor and Fidelity won’t change your life but it will get your heart racing.

Captain Colin Fraser, hero of the Hanuman campaign, finds himself and many of the other Hanuman veterans stationed on the backwater world of Polypheme. What’s worse is they are seconded as security for Seafarms Interstellar. As postings go it doesn’t get much worse for the Fifth Foreign Legion.

The native Nomad clans usually only attack the city-dwellers in small numbers and with …

Kenji looked at his transfer orders: "Report for advanced elite training. Division G."

He knew at once where these had come from. They had come straight from the General. And he knew why.

Three weeks ago, he'd been on leave, and, as any normal guy would, went to a nightclub. He'd had a couple of drinks - not enough to get drunk - danced hard, and met Mai, who was a very nice young woman just a couple of months older than him. One thing led to another, and they'd spent the night together - at her folks place, which she had been looking after while they were away.

And her parents had come home from their trip. While they were still in bed. In her room.

You'd think that parents of a 24 year old woman would have some respect for her personal space, but not her father. The …

I’m eager to watch this! As someone from NYC, these stories from taxi drivers are all too common.

“This Sunday, the San Francisco Documentary Festival will show a short documentary created by Fonseca, “Taken For A Ride: How San Francisco Backstabbed a Generation of Cab Drivers”…

Fonseca has been a full-time cab driver for 31 years, and he received his medallion in 2009, a month before the SFMTA changed its process around receiving medallions...

At first, cabbies earned more than enough to cover the price of payments to the SFMTA, and drivers expected the value of their medallions to rise over time, making money when they eventually transferred ownership.

But just months later, Uber and Lyft were introduced to the city, and the cab driving industry tanked. Now, drivers are stuck with overvalued medallions.”