Cindy MilsteinAre Our Communities Strong Enough for Police to Be Obsolete?A new wildly fanciful and completely essential goal, with so many potential tactical and strategic angled to make it materialize, seems to…Jan 9, 2015Jan 9, 2015
Cindy MilsteinHard RememberingMy dad was born in Chicago. I think. I’m not sure. I can’t remember. I can hardly recall him, as him, as living.Jan 7, 2015Jan 7, 2015
Cindy MilsteinHey Whites, Here’s a Good Start to Challenging White Supremacy: No More “White Blocs”Prologue, or please note: This was written as a quick Facebook rant on a topic that deserves far more reasoned thinking on my part. It…Dec 18, 2014Dec 18, 2014
Cindy MilsteinSolidarity, as Weapon & Practice, versus Killer Cops & White SupremacyLast night, December 10, 2014, after marching for about four hours from downtown Berkeley to downtown Oakland, with only about three…Dec 12, 2014Dec 12, 2014
Cindy MilsteinHeartsick Rebel HeartsThere are two camps in the war zone littered, increasingly, with the dying and dead that US cities now constitute: those with hearts and…Dec 5, 2014Dec 5, 2014
Cindy Milstein“From Ayotzinapa to Ferguson, the State Is Our Enemy”So much could be said of yesterday’s large, boisterous, self-organized #ShutItDownForMikeBrown disruption of downtown San Francisco…Nov 29, 2014Nov 29, 2014
Cindy MilsteinThe Legacy That Is FergusonWe learn history badly in this nation, if we learn it at all. It is well erased, well whitewashed, displaced from the visual landscape and…Nov 25, 2014Nov 25, 2014
Cindy MilsteinIncreasingly, If You Want to Stay, Home in San Francisco = ResistanceThere’s a noticeable and necessary sea change in “solidarity not charity” eviction defense in San Francisco, as evidenced by the November…Nov 19, 2014Nov 19, 2014
Cindy MilsteinGravediggers for CapitalismIt’s another beautiful day in my neighborhood, San Francisco’s Mission. And as usual, there are many unneighborly new neighbors moving in …Nov 18, 2014Nov 18, 2014
Cindy MilsteinTemporary ShelterI know such moments are fleeting — because here in San Francisco almost more than any of global city, at least in North America, capitalism…Nov 18, 2014Nov 18, 2014