A healthcare corporation threatened to shut down a critical hospital for low income San Franciscans. The story of how community and labor groups successfully saved a hospital and forced real benefits over profit.

[people. power. media] believes that our communities’ struggles for self-determination are inextricably linked to this moment – to the Palestinian movement for freedom from Israeli occupation and an end to the ongoing genocide against Palestinian people.

In this series of essays, [people. power. media] lays out a revolutionary framework to achieve equity in city planning. This piece on Culture and Arts is the third on this entirely new approach.

Building Community!

& New COVID-19 Resources

Check out what People Power Media has been up to! And, if you missed our previous resource and action guides, you can view them here.

As we continue to shelter-in-place, we know that everyone is doing their best to stay healthy and help each other. The landscape keeps shifting minute by minute. People Power Media will keep doing our best to bring you the latest ways to stay engaged. If you missed the first resource guide, you can view it here. This list of actions and resources is focused on San Francisco, the East Bay and California.

We hope that every one of you is able to stay safe and healthy during this time. This list of actions and resources is for San Francisco and California. If you don't live there and would like us to circulate a similar guide for your area, please let us know!

Friends, family and supporters including local politicians gathered before dawn on Saturday to welcome back home wounded journalist and activist, Brandon Lee. Lee was born and raised in San Francisco and was shot outside his home in the northern Philippines in August of this year.

On a day meant to be a worldwide celebration, in San Francisco there was a tearful reminder that defenders of indigenous people are under constant threat. Dozens rallied in grief and prayer in front of San Francisco’s City Hall to express support for Brandon Lee, a journalist and activist from San Francisco’s Sunset District who was shot and critically wounded just three days prior at his home in the Philippines.

On Monday July 22, Filipino leaders from the Bay Area held a rally at the Philippine Consulate to coincide with Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte’s State of the Nation Address (SONA) that he delivers to the Philippines Congress. Every year, in Manila, there is a rally called the People’s SONA delivered as the people’s counter narrative to the President’s address. This rally asserts the true State of the Nation from the people’s lived experience and demands for the government to change the conditions of the Filipino people.

People Power Media's images of the march of workers on May Day 2017, the first during President Donald Trump.

For the past month, since April 13, nearly 40,000 Verizon union employees, with the Communications Workers of America (CWA) and International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW), have been on strike, protesting outside of corporate and retail locations across the country.

Nearly 200 protesters from the Filipino community, faith groups, and civic organizations gathered in front of the Philippine Consulate in downtown San Francisco on April 5, calling for justice and demanding accountability for the Philippine government’s violent action against protesting farmers on April 1 that resulted in two deaths and 116 injured in Kidapawan, Philippines.

Domestic worker files a complaint against top Uber Executive and his wife.

Middle school student from Mendota in western Fresno County breaks down the impacts of the California drought on farm workers in one of People Power Media's best interviewees.

On November 27, 2014, the International Indian Treaty Council (IITC) hosted the 30th Indigenous Peoples' Annual UnThanksgiving Sunrise Gathering on Alcatraz Island.

FCC Proposed Limits To Internet Access Will Limit The Voices Of Marginalized Communities

UC Berkeley Economists Present Research Analyzing Effects of San Francisco Minimum Wage Measure

Apple products being pushed here in the US and other countries gets people excited, but it never crosses your mind how exactly they’re able to push out a new product every year.

Undocumented farm workers are hit the hardest because of California's extreme drought. We went to the heart of the Central Valley, west Fresno County, to talk to residents about how they're surviving the massive job losses.

On May 16, 2014, representatives from BAYAN-USA, Migrante and NAFCON met with the Philippines Ambassador to the US, Jose L. Cuisa, Jr. at the Philippines Consulate in San Francisco.