Day Around the Bay: New Biopic Recounts SF’s Landmark 1977 Disability Rights Protest
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Leanne Maxwell (via SFist)
Local:
With San Francisco one-bedroom rents reaching $4,430 a month, more renters may be looking to the East Bay cities like Vallejo, Antioch, and Concord, where median rents are below $2,000, though prices are also climbing in Oakland and Emeryville. [SF Business Times]
A San Francisco jury convicted a 36-year-old man of rape, domestic violence, and child abuse after he held his former partner at knifepoint, sexually assaulted her, and threatened to kill her and her children over suspicions of infidelity in September 2023. [KRON4]
The new biopic Being Heumann about disability rights activist Judy Heumann brings the 1977 San Francisco Section 504 Sit-In to the screen, revisiting the 26-day occupation of a federal building that helped secure landmark civil rights protections for people with disabilities. [KQED]
National:
The Justice Department deployed 1,000 election monitors across all 50 states on Tuesday, focusing on predominantly Democratic jurisdictions, while expanding a criminal investigation into allegations involving a Democratic Senate campaign in Alaska. [Reuters]
False claims that the FBI uncovered more than 20,000 fraudulent Democratic ballots in a Houston warehouse spread across social media on Election Day, prompting Texas election officials and the FBI to deny that any such raid occurred. [Dallas News]
Ancestral remains were unearthed during border wall construction at Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in Arizona, just 15 days after a Hia-Ced O’odham elder warned that bulldozers would disturb her family’s burial sites. [ProPublica]
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