Sanjana Friedman

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  • Nov 12, 2025
    The first direct action taken by an operative of the San Francisco 10X Project was the installation of an unauthorized tree swing on a grassy knoll in Bernal Heights. Mechanically,...
  • Jul 10, 2025
    In late June in Presidio Heights, several dozen people gathered in an apartment to hear a pair of French brothers lay out their plans to build a twenty-meter titanium statue of...
  • Jun 9, 2025
    Wednesday morning at the corner of Sacramento and Cherry. The three of us—me, the bus driver, and an elderly woman—peer into a parked bus with muted awe. Inside, an...
  • Feb 27, 2025
    Urban Alchemy, a San Francisco–based homeless-services nonprofit, is an organization of many slogans. Those include, among others: No fuckery (“Fuckery is...