Community organizations and unions in San Francisco marched up Market Street on Saturday, carrying banners and blocking streets, to protest a planned rally by Nazis and racists.
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Berkeley police rough up credentialed freelancer
As photojournalist Brooke Anderson raised her camera to photograph the protest, “they (police) pushed my camera in my face and struck my camera and my arm with batons,” said Anderson, a member of Guild Freelancers, a unit of the Pacific Media Workers Guild CWA Local 39521.
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Guild Freelancers protests reporter’s expulsion from SFPD press conference
The expulsion of 48 Hills reporter Sana Saleem from a San Francisco Police Department press conference on Jan. 18 has prompted Guild Freelancers chair David Bacon to send a protest letter reminding Police Chief William Scott and Mayor Ed Lee that field officers and office staff must respect the constitutional rights of all journalists including freelancers such as Saleem.
Read MoreNonfiction Authors Panel and Q&A
Nonfiction Authors Panel and Q&A When: Tuesday Oct. 25 5.30 PM to 7.30 PM Where: San Francisco Main Library (Civic Center—100 Larkin Street) Latino/Hispanic meeting room on lower level Is there a book inside you? Hear from four journalists who took a book from idea to well-received finished product. Our lineup includes Carol Pogash (“Quotations […]
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Guild workshop educates photographers, draws new members
As #BlackLivesMatter protests heat up around the country, photographers covering these demonstrations increasingly find ourselves at odds with police as we do our jobs. Yet, many of us don’t know our rights in these situations. In September, the Pacific Media Workers Guild held a “Know Your Rights for Social Movement Photographers” workshop to build community among photographers doing this work and to educate our members about their rights.
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Service award winner embodies best of labor, Guild ideals
Rebecca Rosen Lum of the Pacific Media Workers Guild is the latest winner of the Guild’s prestigious Charles B. Dale Service Award. Although she wasn’t able to pick up the award in person at the CWA Convention, local leaders delivered it to her. “I couldn’t have been more stunned – or more thrilled – to win […]
Read MoreCity transparency measure goes to Oakland voters
Thanks partly to the Pacific Media Workers Guild’s efforts, a city charter amendment aimed at improving transparency in local government and politics will go before Oakland voters in November.
Read MoreBay News Rising a success (again)
At a time when freelancers and temps comprise more than one-third of the workforce, the Guild is reaching out to the next generation of journalists to help them prepare for self-employment.
Read MoreJournalist committed to the working class
When Paul Burton was a teenager, he got an old-school education about organized labor when he worked with his father, a union brick layer. Now he’s a labor writer and editor, and his respect for workers keeps growing.
Read MoreElection Committee certifies results
The Guild’s Local Election Committee has certified the results of last month’s election, finding that there were no procedural or substantive grounds for setting the results aside.
Read MoreGuild members rack up the awards
Long-time Guild members receive awards from the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association, The Newspaper Guild and the Society for Professional Journalists. We congratulate our talented members.
Read MoreFormer Chronicle reporter reflects on Distilled Spirits
Back in the day, before I came to accept my powerlessness over certain substances, there would have been a tear in my beer while chugging through Don Lattin’s new book, “Distilled Spirits: “Getting High, Then Sober, With a Famous Writer, A Forgotten Philosopher And a Hopeless Drunk.” It’s a memoir of sorts by the San […]
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