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Reinstate Ross! Reinstate Ross!

09.09.12 - 11:17 pm |
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More than l00 women supporters of suspended Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi gathered on the City Hall steps Sunday  to stand with Ross in a show of support and  a photo shoot.

The women held signs reading “Stand with Eliana and Ross, Reinstate our Sheriff” and “I believe Eliana” in English and Spanish.

Ross told the women that Mayor Ed Lee was seeking his ouster as sheriff as a way to knock out the top elected progressives in the city and to consolidate power against the progressive community. Read more »

Louis Dunn: A woman's place

09.03.12 - 2:46 pm |
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Louis Dunn puts Ann Romney in her place.  Click on the art to see the full size poster. 

Louis Dunn: Clint and Mitt

09.03.12 - 2:26 pm |
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Louis Dunn, longtime Guardian cartoonist, comments on the entry of Clint Eastwood into prime time television before Mitt Romney's acceptance speech at the 2012 Republican National Convention. Click on the art to view the full poster.

Follow the jump to watch Clint's 12-minute improv "speech."

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Louis Dunn: Republican Convention manual

09.03.12 - 2:05 pm |
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Louis Dunn, longtime Guardian cartoonist, comments on an incident at the Republican National Convention where two attendees threw peanuts at a black CNN camerawoman and said, “This is how we feed animals.”  Click on the art to see the full size poster.

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Dick Meister: Clint wasn't always this politically inept

09.03.12 - 7:34 am |
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By Dick Meister

Dick Meister is a San Francisco columnist and serious ice cream aficionado who has covered politics for more than a half-century as a reporter, editor, author and commentator. Contact him through his website, www.dickmeister.com

You might reasonably think Clint Eastwood lacks political savvy, given his bizarre presentation at the Republican National Convention.  But he was once plenty savvy, as he showed clearly during his two-year stint as mayor of tourist favorite Carmel, California.

Prior to his election, folks in Carmel and elsewhere tended to think of Clint as just a rugged, handsome movie actor playing at politics. But, boy, were they wrong. Listen to what Carmel resident Jean Lajigian said after Eastwood took office in 1986: Read more »

Dick Meister: Labor Day began in San Francisco in 1886

08.31.12 - 11:19 am |
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By Dick Meister

Dick Meister, former labor editor of the SF Chronicle and KQED-TV Newsroom, has covered labor and politics for more than a half-century. Contact him through his website, www.dickmeister.com, which includes more than 350 of his columns.

By some reckoning, this is the 118th Labor Day, since it was first observed as a national holiday in 1894. But the observation actually began a quarter-century earlier in San Francisco.

It was on Feb. 21, 1868. Brass bands blared, flags, banners and torch lights waved high as more than 3000 union members marched proudly through the city's downtown streets, led by shipyard workers and carpenters and men from dozens of other construction trades.

"A jollification," the marchers called their parade – the climax of a three-year campaign of strikes and other pressures that had culminated in the establishment of the eight-hour workday as a legal right in California. Read more »

Louis Dunn: Summing up Christie's keynote speech

08.30.12 - 8:49 am |
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Louis Dunn, longtime Guardian cartoonist, sums up the keynote speech of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie at the Republican convention.

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Louis Dunn: Who is Paul Rand?

08.29.12 - 11:43 am |
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Louis Dunn, longtime Guardian cartoonist, answers the question on the eve of the Republican  convention in Tampa Bay.

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Dick Meister: Let's count our blessings on Labor Day!

08.28.12 - 9:18 am |
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By Dick Meister

Dick Meister, former labor editor of the SF Chronicle and KQED-TV Newsroom, has covered labor and politics for more than a half-century. Contact him through his website, www.dickmeister.com, which includes more than 350 of his columns.

OK, it's time to celebrate Labor Day, time to celebrate the labor movement that won a wide range of benefits for working people. That includes, of course, a paid day off on Labor Day and other holidays or extra pay for working on the holidays. But there's much more than that. Much more.

We can also thank unions for: Read more »

Dick Meister: Green is good for us all

08.26.12 - 7:50 pm |
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By Dick Meister

Dick Meister, former labor editor of the SF Chronicle and KQED-TV Newsroom, has covered labor and politics for more than a half-century. Contact him through his website, www.dickmeister.com, which includes more than 350 of his columns.

Millions of American workers badly need jobs, and the owners of many thousands of commercial buildings badly need "green retrofitting" to improve their energy efficiency and thus cut operational costs while simultaneously helping clean up the environment.

The conclusion should be obvious: Let the retrofitting begin, for the benefit of everyone – those who need the work, the employers who want it done, and the rest of us , who would benefit greatly from it.

Details of what could and should be done – and why and by whom – are laid out in a new briefing paper from the well-regarded National Employment Law Project, otherwise known as NELP. Read more »