#community-based-organizations

#community-based-organizations

We are in a moment of crisis and potential. The promise of democracy, never fully realized, appears to be slipping away as rights are eroded and as people are disconnected from the civic sphere while living in a constant stream of misinformation. At the same time, organizations and people are gathering to determine how we can defend the democracy we know, and fight for one that's better. Masses of people mobilize for protests and small groups of neighbors fiercely protect one another, quickly developing new practices to keep each other safe in the face of government violence and repression.

Not UCSF (potentially out $5.8 million). Definitely not Livable City (quite possibly dropped from the public health budget entirely). And definitely not the health commissioners. "There is really no joy in any of the decisions that we've been trying to make,"said Department of Public Health Director Daniel Tsai to the nearly 100 people who came to make a case for reinstating their funding. "And sometimes it's a question of what is the least difficult or least harmful decision to make."