Bay Area Current covers working-class life and culture across the Bay Area.
Bay Area, California
Joined June 2025
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Things were different a century ago; hundreds of local leftist newspapers operated nationwide.
And today? Our media is dominated by billionaire venture capitalists and the corporate elite. Private equity, tech capitalists, and managers who love AI slop threaten local outlets.
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Wildland firefighters have become central figures in the fight against capitalism's ecological disaster. We spoke with a veteran federal wildland firefighter about the job's dangers, labor politics, and its joys.
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"It’s a deadly time to be a wildland firefighter. A fourth firefighter from the Knowles Fire burnover has passed away. Three weeks ago, on our way to Colorado, the initial three fatalities of the burnover passed away in their fire shelter."
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I interviewed a wildland firefighter about his work for @BayAreaCurrent: what a typical day is like, the self-organization of wildland firefighters, and what it takes to do the job. The photos are incredible, too:
"It’s a deadly time to be a wildland firefighter. A fourth firefighter from the Knowles Fire burnover has passed away. Three weeks ago, on our way to Colorado, the initial three fatalities of the burnover passed away in their fire shelter."
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Despite pushback, Oakland's politicos have given its cops another huge raise.
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SF is rich, but its kids struggle to get to school. Why? @SFUnified has outsourced buses to a private company, Zum. Only 43 of 122 schools are served, mostly for students with special needs, and drivers raise issues with student treatment, safety and more.
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Unionized SF Orchestra workers face cuts amid eye-watering boss pay and management's refusal to dip into a $270 M endowment. Workers hit picket lines and canceled opening night. The last time the musicians hit the picket lines was about 36 years ago.
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This depot worker's experiences dealing with Waymos gives a whole new meaning to 'enshittification.' bayareacurrent.com/theres-a-…
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And of course, know your enemy by reading the article here: bayareacurrent.com/sfs-tech-…
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United Steel Workers Local 5 has been on strike, and is now locked out, for over 134 days at Martinez Renewables. 𝐶𝑢𝑟𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑡 profiled one of those workers: Tomas Rivera, a proud union member and family man, who refuses to back down.
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This essay is featured in this week's edition of the Best of Journalism: buff.ly/o4ZygVs
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While marketing itself as "fully automated," Waymo's robotaxi service depends on low-level human labor: workers clean sensors and follow reset scripts. This interview describes chaotic contracting through Transdev.
By Stephanie Reist in @BayAreaCurrent
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From @BayAreaCurrent, tech advances always deliver new-fangled problems, right? In this Q&A with a Waymo tech person, dubbed “Robotaxi handler,” we learn “Waymo riders can be even more gross and depraved than their antisocial ideology reveals.” Like that time two pig heads were discovered in a Waymo’s backseat, just rolling around. bayareacurrent.com/theres-a-…
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Normalize doing profiles of everyday, rank-and-file workers who actually embody a form of heroism. Read about Tomas and his 130+ day strike and lockout:
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United Steel Workers Local 5 has been on strike, and is now locked out, for over 134 days at Martinez Renewables. 𝐶𝑢𝑟𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑡 profiled one of those workers: Tomas Rivera, a proud union member and family man, who refuses to back down.
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A poignant portrait of a Tomas Rivera, a Bay Area-born and bred, working-class guy who is standing up to one of the nation’s most powerful companies - new at @BayAreaCurrent
United Steel Workers Local 5 has been on strike, and is now locked out, for over 134 days at Martinez Renewables. 𝐶𝑢𝑟𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑡 profiled one of those workers: Tomas Rivera, a proud union member and family man, who refuses to back down.
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Thank you @hasanthehun for reading up on SF's homegrown techno-reactionaries.
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Meet SF's Billionaire Simps. We wanted to hear directly from the elite-lovers at their “March for Billionaires” in San Francisco — here’s just a few of the "interesting" things we heard.
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“It’s a matter of life and death that we organize.”
Three elderly and disabled Noe Valley tenants recently settled with their landlord in court after a a three-year eviction battle. But organizers say that the fight may be far from over.
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No trad dads here..in 2026, we’re transforming into socialist dads.
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Cops across California are getting incentivized to arrest more people for stealing from chain stores with the help of millions of dollars in grant money that they can use to buy surveillance technology from companies like Flock. bayareacurrent.com/shoplifti…
