Good morning!

We’ve got an update in Eleni Balakrishnan’s important story on the rehiring of the SF sheriff’s deputy fired for allegedly running a “fight club” in the county jail. Public Defender Mano Raju spoke with Mission Local, and shared investigative materials available to the public from the “Cop Monitor” database.

Don’t miss Saturday’s screening at the Roxie of “Mission Love” a multi-director project with amazing stories of street life, family life, and protests in the Mission in the 1970s. ย There will be a discussion featuring Ray Balberan, 80, the veteran documentary filmmaker whose work chronicles decades of Mission activism.

A Cultural Mission suggests performances this weekend by the Supplicants and SticklerPhonicsโ€”and next week, the universe-spanning Sun Ra Arkestra.

And mark your calendars now for Joe Eskenazi‘s interview with mayoral candidate Asha Safai at Manny’s on February 2.

More soon,

Sara

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