Vanguard Vanquished

SF Weekly covers the Vanguard Foundation demise as yet another Bay Area radical institution succumbs to greed. After the 2007 collapse of New College of California, it seems time for Bay Area radicals to reassess how they go about the business of funding activism for social change. As an incubator of ideas, the Bay Area ought to be able to come up with something better than celebrities and trust funders to lead the way. One can only hope.