628
628
Apr 17, 2014
04/14
by
Adriana Camarena
movies
eye 628
favorite 0
comment 0
Patricia Kerman, now a disabled senior citizen, has lived in her current flat for the past 27 years and Tom Rapp has lived there as her roommate for the last 15 of them. They are being Ellis Acted from their home by their landlord Kaushik Dattani. The original footage was captured on January 17, 2014 as part of a storytelling circle called "Campfire: Eviction Ghost Stories and Other Housing Horrors." This mini-clip is part of a series of mini-clips honoring fourteen City storytellers...
Topics: Campfire, Eviction, Ellis Act, Mission District, Adriana Camarena, Tom Rapp, Patricia Kerman,...
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337
Apr 20, 2014
04/14
by
Adriana Camarena
movies
eye 337
favorite 0
comment 0
Steven has lived in San Francisco for 30 years. He was evicted from his apartment at 940 Capp Street after 26 years of living there by the resident owners of the house via family members move-in. He feels this move-in eviction was retaliation for, among other justifiable actions, his declining to sign a new and illegal rental agreement that would have doubled his rent. Karen Uchiyama, Esq. was their counsel.
Topics: Campfire, Eviction, Ellis Act, Mission District, Adriana Camarena, Steven Black, CalHumanities,...
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480
Apr 20, 2014
04/14
by
Adriana Camarena
movies
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favorite 0
comment 0
Lauren Montana Swiger is an activist, musician, and community member who was evicted from the Mission, along with her teenage daughter. It was an Owner-Move-In eviction, one of three kinds of no-fault evictions displacing San Franciscan families and communities. Montana and her daughter were forced to relocate to Berkeley. It’s pretty there, but they mourn the loss of daily living in a community that they toiled to create with other parents and kids to challenge the stereotypes of oppression...
Topics: Campfire, Eviction, Ellis Act, Mission District, Adriana Camarena, Lauren Swiger, CalHumanities,...
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Apr 17, 2014
04/14
by
Adriana Camarena
movies
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favorite 1
comment 0
Three residents of the Mission District of San Francisco: Polo Gonzalez, Sarah Brendt, and Rio Yañez share their stories of eviction. They are lifelong San Franciscans, respectively, a cafe manager, a public school teacher, and an artist. In their narratives they also represent their elders: Ana Gutierrez (Polo’s senior mom), Mary Phillips (Sarah’s 98 year old neighbor), and Rene Yañez and Yolanda Lopez (Rio’s parents and legendary Mission artists). All of them are being Ellis Act...
Topics: Campfire, Eviction, Ellis Act, Mission District, Adriana Camarena, Rio Yanez, Sarah Brendt, Yolanda...
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546
Apr 20, 2014
04/14
by
Adriana Camarena
movies
eye 546
favorite 0
comment 0
Michael "Med-O" Whitson and LisaRuth Elliot were flatmates at 1668 Page St. in the Haight. After their building was sold and they initially refused to accept a buy-out settlement, the new owners hired the leading landlord law firm of Fried & Williams to pursue an Ellis Act Eviction in 2013. LisaRuth lived on Page Street for 3 and 1/2 years. LisaRuth is a community historian, artist, bread baker, urban farmer, writer, editor, everyday bicyclist, activist, and San Francisco resident...
Topics: Campfire, Eviction, Ellis Act, Mission District, Adriana Camarena, LisaRuth Elliott, CalHumanities,...
567
567
Apr 18, 2014
04/14
by
Adriana Camarena
movies
eye 567
favorite 0
comment 0
Río Yañez, alongside his mother and father – Yolanda Lopez and Rene Yañez – are being evicted from their family home at San Jose Ave, near 26th Street in the Mission by Realty West. His family has lived in the same apartment on San Jose Ave. since 1978. The original footage was captured on January 17, 2014 as part of a storytelling circle called "Campfire: Eviction Ghost Stories and Other Housing Horrors." This mini-clip is part of a series of mini-clips honoring fourteen...
Topics: Campfire, Eviction, Ellis Act, Mission District, Adriana Camarena, Rio Yañez, CalHumanities,...
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426
Apr 20, 2014
04/14
by
Adriana Camarena
movies
eye 426
favorite 0
comment 0
Jason and Sandy were evicted from 6511 Raymond St. Oakland by Dan Daigle. They had been living there 3 years and 5 months, since they arrived to the Bay Area. An Oakland story was included because few people understand that the epidemic of evictions is wrecking havoc in Bay Area wide communities. Residents of San Francisco have approved regulations to protect tenants, and despite this democratic exercise, real estate speculators find loopholes to damage communities. Residents pushed out of San...
Topics: Campfire, Eviction, Ellis Act, Mission District, Adriana Camarena, Sandy Juarez, Jason Wallach,...
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466
Apr 16, 2014
04/14
by
Adriana Camarena
movies
eye 466
favorite 0
comment 0
Benito Santiago is a disabled elder, musician, and public school teacher currently being Ellis Act evicted from his lifelong San Francisco home on Duboce Street. The original footage was captured on January 17, 2014 as part of a storytelling circle called "Campfire: Eviction Ghost Stories and Other Housing Horrors." This mini-clip is part of a series of mini-clips honoring fourteen City storytellers who shared their eviction horror stories that evening around the fire. Related event...
Topics: Campfire, Eviction, Ellis Act, Mission District, Adriana Camarena, Benito Santiago, CalHumanities,...
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638
Apr 20, 2014
04/14
by
Adriana Camarena
movies
eye 638
favorite 0
comment 0
Donna, her husband Robert “Jawara” Johnson, and the family dogs Xochitl (age 4) and DJ (age 2 and ½) were served with Ellis Act eviction papers in 2012, and forced out of their 73-B Pearl Street in San Francisco by serial evictors Kwok Chung Wong and Har Kwan Luk . Since 2003, this company has Ellis Acted 30 units in San Francisco, including the 6 units at Donna’s former home building on Pearl Street.
Topics: Campfire, Eviction, Ellis Act, Mission District, Adriana Camarena, Donna Johnson, CalHumanities,...
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226
Apr 20, 2014
04/14
by
Adriana Camarena
movies
eye 226
favorite 0
comment 0
Zeph works as a cultural activist at the intersections of art, social justice, and the transgressive body. Since 2011, Zeph has helped move 35 friends due to eviction and has focused on creative direct action responding to the economic crisis and displacement. Zeph was evicted in 2012 along with 16 artists from the Million Fishes Collective, which used to stand at Bryant and 23rd. The spiritless office space that now inhabits the former collective space sits directly across from the infamous...
Topics: Campfire, Eviction, Ellis Act, Mission District, Adriana Camarena, Zeph Fishlyn, CalHumanities,...
547
547
Apr 20, 2014
04/14
by
Adriana Camarena
movies
eye 547
favorite 0
comment 0
Michael "Med-O" Whitson and LisaRuth Elliot were flatmates at 1668 Page St. in the Haight. After their building was sold and they initially refused to accept a buy-out settlement, the new owners hired the leading landlord law firm of Fried & Williams to pursue an Ellis Act Eviction in 2013. Michael has lived 32 years in the Bay Area and 30 of those years in his apartment on Page St. He is a community builder, musician, poet, writer, and activist, which is why he moved to San...
Topics: Campfire, Eviction, Ellis Act, Mission District, Adriana Camarena, Michael "Med-o"...
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455
Apr 18, 2014
04/14
by
Adriana Camarena
movies
eye 455
favorite 0
comment 0
Polo Gonzalez is a Mission District local. He has been involved in community services since his youth, including graffiti abatement programs, volunteering at event security for Carnival, and most recently, collaborating with the DJ Project at Horizons Unlimited, which teaches youth creative and business management skills. Today, he is a manager at a Philz Coffeehouse, where he politely admonishes clients who call The Mission, “The Mish” , to please call it by its proper name. His family was...
Topics: Campfire, Eviction, Ellis Act, Mission District, Adriana Camarena, Polo Gonzalez, CalHumanities,...
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725
Apr 16, 2014
04/14
by
Adriana Camarena
movies
eye 725
favorite 0
comment 0
Sarah Brandt is a San Francisco public school teacher and lifelong City dweller, who is currently being Ellis Act evicted from her Mission District apartment, alongside her 98 year old neighbor, Mary Elizabeth (M.E. or Emmy) Phillips. Emmy has lived in her home for over 40 years. The original footage was captured on January 17, 2014 as part of a storytelling circle called "Campfire: Eviction Ghost Stories and Other Housing Horrors." This mini-clip is part of a series of mini-clips...
Topics: Campfire, Eviction, Ellis Act, Mission District, Adriana Camarena, Sarah Brandt, Mary Phillips,...
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7.4K
Feb 11, 2004
02/04
by
Bay Area Coalition Against Operation Rescue
movies
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favorite 6
comment 1
excerpted from a documentary prepared by the Bay Area Coalition Against Operation Rescue, showing the battles that took place in the late 1980s between anti-abortion direct action groups like OR, and women who defended clinics against them.
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Topics: abortion, women, Operation Rescue
4,419
4.4K
May 4, 2004
05/04
by
Bert Gould
movies
eye 4,419
favorite 13
comment 0
Pathe News newsreel footage of the first days of San Francisco's General Strike, stores and streets empty. Another similar newsreel.
Topics: Big Strike, 1934, newsreel
8,365
8.4K
May 4, 2004
05/04
by
Biker-X
movies
eye 8,365
favorite 5
comment 1
footage of the chaotic July 1997 ride in which Mayor Brown unleashed the police to attack bicyclists.
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Topics: bicycles, Critical Mass, police riot
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3.9K
May 10, 2004
05/04
by
Biotic Baking Brigade
movies
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comment 1
Mayor Willie Brown is hit with 3 pies by activists of the Biotic Baking Brigade at a "Clean-up" event in Bayview/Hunter's Point.
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Topics: Willie Brown, Biotic Baking Brigade, pie-throwing
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26K
May 4, 2004
05/04
by
Caitlin Manning
movies
eye 26,330
favorite 15
comment 0
The infamous Geneva Towers housing project was imploded to make way for improved public housing.
Topics: public housing, Geneva Towers, implosion
10,637
11K
May 4, 2004
05/04
by
Caitlin Manning
movies
eye 10,637
favorite 9
comment 0
short excerpt from documentary "Stripped Bare" highlighting the sex-positive retail operation Good Vibrations, a long-time resident on Valencia Street in the Mission.
Topics: Good Vibrations, sex-positive, vibrators
3,058
3.1K
Feb 11, 2004
02/04
by
California Newsreel
movies
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favorite 2
comment 2
excerpted from a one-hour documentary called "Redevelopment: A Marxist Analysis", this clip shows the frustration of the retired longshoremen in the Yerba Buena project area when ILWU president Harry Bridges failed to support their struggle against displacement.
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Topics: Redevelopment, ILWU, Harry Bridges
1,460
1.5K
May 4, 2004
05/04
by
Chris Carlsson
movies
eye 1,460
favorite 4
comment 1
Heart of the City Farmers' Market in UN Plaza, San Francisco
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Topics: Farmers' Market, UN Plaza, Civic Center
785
785
Aug 10, 2020
08/20
by
Chris Carlsson
movies
eye 785
favorite 0
comment 0
In February 2020, Pluto Press published Hidden San Francisco: The Guide to Lost Landscapes, Unsung Heroes, and Radical Histories by Chris Carlsson. This video, offering a short account of the epic Los Siete de la Raza case in 1969-70 and the movement that arose out of it, is the 12th of just over a dozen "stops" (there are 85 "stops" in four themed chapters, and an additional 44 "stops" in five walking tours in the appendix) turned into short videos. I hope it will...
Topics: Los Siete de la Raza, Los Siete, Committee to Defend Los Siete, latino, latina, Mission District,...
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8.9K
May 10, 2004
05/04
by
Chris Carlsson
movies
eye 8,941
favorite 11
comment 1
Seal Rock off the Cliff House, the ocean roaring around it.
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Topics: Seal Rock, Pacific Ocean, Cliff House view
3,641
3.6K
May 4, 2004
05/04
by
Chris Carlsson
movies
eye 3,641
favorite 0
comment 1
Herb Mills, former secretary-treasurer of ILWU Local 10, describes the importance of the Hiring Hall to the culture and politics of longshoring.
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Topics: ILWU, hiring hall, longshoremen
5,377
5.4K
Jan 21, 2009
01/09
by
Chris Carlsson
movies
eye 5,377
favorite 0
comment 0
Roberto Lovato, who grew up on Folsom near 25th Street during the 1970s, describes how his father was involved in the "alternative economy" centered on Hunt's Donuts at 20th and Mission, and how it benefitted his extended Salvadoran families in San Francisco and in El Salvador.
Topics: Crime, Salvadoran community, Mission District
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2.9K
May 10, 2004
05/04
by
Chris Carlsson
movies
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favorite 0
comment 1
Artist Mona Caron describes the meaning of her mural along the newly christened Duboce Bikeway.
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Topics: murals, Duboce Bikeway, Mona Caron
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2.8K
Feb 11, 2004
02/04
by
Chris Carlsson
movies
eye 2,837
favorite 5
comment 0
Huge anti-Iraq War demonstrations rocked U.S. cities in autumn 2002 and winter 2003. This shows the January 18, 2003 demonstration in San Francisco.
Topics: Anti-Iraq war, San Francisco, protest
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763
Jul 9, 2020
07/20
by
Chris Carlsson
movies
eye 763
favorite 0
comment 0
In February 2020, Pluto Press published Hidden San Francisco: The Guide to Lost Landscapes, Unsung Heroes, and Radical Histories by Chris Carlsson. This video is the third of a baker's dozen of "stops" (there are 85 "stops" in four themed chapters, and an additional 44 "stops" in five walking tours in the appendix) turned into short videos. I hope it will whet your appetite for both buying the book (available at...
Topics: Sailors Union of the Pacific, sailors, seamen, shanghaiing, crimps, able-bodied seamen, Andrew...
1,922
1.9K
Jul 6, 2020
07/20
by
Chris Carlsson
movies
eye 1,922
favorite 1
comment 0
In February 2020, Pluto Press published Hidden San Francisco: A Guide to Lost Landscapes, Unsung Heroes, and Radical Histories by Chris Carlsson. This video is the first of a "baker's dozen" of "stops" (there are 85 "stops" in four themed chapters, and another 44 "stops" in an appendix of five walking tours) turned into short videos. I hope it will whet your appetite both for buying the book (get it at...
Topics: Mission, Indigenous, Ohlone, slavery, Indian slavery, Franciscans, Serra, Mission Dolores, Chula...
6,017
6.0K
May 4, 2004
05/04
by
Chris Carlsson
movies
eye 6,017
favorite 3
comment 0
Pelicans soar across the water in front of the San Francisco skyline.
Topics: pelicans, SF Bay, waterfront
4,048
4.0K
May 4, 2004
05/04
by
Chris Carlsson
movies
eye 4,048
favorite 4
comment 0
footage of 1994 Carnival in SF proceeding on 24th Street.
Topics: Carnival, Mission, Music
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3.9K
Apr 28, 2004
04/04
by
Chris Carlsson
movies
eye 3,931
favorite 1
comment 2
Scenes from the chaotic 3rd birthday Critical Mass bike ride in San Francisco
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Topics: Critical Mass, bicycles, San Francisco
4,537
4.5K
May 10, 2004
05/04
by
Chris Carlsson
movies
eye 4,537
favorite 6
comment 2
The San Francisco Illegal Soapbox Society conducted races on Bernal Heights for years, and still does at unpredictable times.
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Topics: Soapbox Derby, Bernal Heights, underground culture
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376
Jul 19, 2020
07/20
by
Chris Carlsson
movies
eye 376
favorite 0
comment 0
In February 2020, Pluto Press published Hidden San Francisco: The Guide to Lost Landscapes, Unsung Heroes, and Radical Histories by Chris Carlsson. This video, on the surprising role of the United Farmworkers Union in getting DDT banned, is the 6th of a baker's dozen of "stops" (there are 85 "stops" in four themed chapters, and an additional 44 "stops" in five walking tours in the appendix) turned into short videos. I hope it will whet your appetite for both buying...
Topics: pesticides, UFW, Mexican-American, Filipino-American, organizing, California agriculture, organic...
4,279
4.3K
Feb 11, 2004
02/04
by
Chris Carlsson
movies
eye 4,279
favorite 4
comment 0
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz interviewed by Chris Carlsson July 6, 1999, on 1970s Central American Solidarity Movements in San Francisco, their influence on and from the growing gay movement in the city.
Topics: Sandinistas, San Francisco, Gay Movement
134,041
134K
May 4, 2004
05/04
by
Chris Carlsson
movies
eye 134,041
favorite 93
comment 13
Harry Hay describes gay sex when BVD's were still predominant underwear, before zippers in the 1930s... men would meet at Presidio guardhouse and go into the bushes.
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Topics: Presidio, Gay Sex, Harry Hay
1,484
1.5K
May 4, 2004
05/04
by
Chris Carlsson
movies
eye 1,484
favorite 3
comment 1
Herb Mills, former secretary-treasurer of ILWU Local 10, describes the lost landscape and culture of the old waterfront in San Francisco.
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Topics: waterfront, ILWU, working class culture
2,903
2.9K
May 4, 2004
05/04
by
Chris Carlsson
movies
eye 2,903
favorite 0
comment 0
Ed Dunne, longtime member of the Haight Ashbury Recycling Center, describes how he got involved, how the center works, and what some of the problems are of solid waste disposal.
Topics: recycling, HANC, Ed Dunne
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12K
Feb 11, 2004
02/04
by
Chris Carlsson
movies
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favorite 3
comment 0
A Summer of Love poem/rap by San Francisco legend "Diamond Dave" Whitaker.
Topics: Summer of Love, Diamond Dave Whitaker, spoken word
1,008
1.0K
Aug 6, 2020
08/20
by
Chris Carlsson
movies
eye 1,008
favorite 1
comment 0
In February 2020, Pluto Press published Hidden San Francisco: The Guide to Lost Landscapes, Unsung Heroes, and Radical Histories by Chris Carlsson. This video, offering a brief overview of the San Francisco Diggers and their impact on the politics of the 1960s and beyond, is the 11th of a baker's dozen of "stops" (there are 85 "stops" in four themed chapters, and an additional 44 "stops" in five walking tours in the appendix) turned into short videos. I hope it...
Topics: Diggers, free, Panhandle, food, food conspiracy, free stores, food giveaway, life performance,...
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8.8K
Feb 11, 2004
02/04
by
Chris Carlsson
movies
eye 8,761
favorite 1
comment 0
Former editor of San Francisco Sun Reporter, Thomas Fleming, gives his account of the 1966 Hunter's Point Riot, which led to three days of martial law in some neighborhoods of San Francisco.
Topics: Thomas Fleming, 1966 Hunter's Point riot, Black San Francisco
1,561
1.6K
Jul 6, 2020
07/20
by
Chris Carlsson
movies
eye 1,561
favorite 3
comment 0
In February 2020, Pluto Press published Hidden San Francisco: The Guide to Lost Landscapes, Unsung Heroes, and Radical Histories by Chris Carlsson. This video is the second of a baker's dozen of "stops" (there are 85 "stops" in four themed chapters, and an additional 44 "stops" in five walking tours in the appendix) turned into short videos. I hope it will whet your appetite for both buying the book (available at...
Topics: racism, underground railroad, Mary Ellen Pleasant, Archy Lee, 1850s, gold rush, slavery, Fugitive...
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161
Aug 13, 2020
08/20
by
Chris Carlsson
movies
eye 161
favorite 1
comment 0
In February 2020, Pluto Press published Hidden San Francisco: A Guide to Lost Landscapes, Unsung Heroes, and Radical Histories by Chris Carlsson. This video looks at the role of working women in California campaign for women's suffrage in 1911. It is the 13th of just over a dozen short videos of "stops" (there are 85 "stops" in four themed chapters, and an additional 44 "stops" in five walking tours in the appendix). I hope it will whet your appetite for both...
Topics: suffrage, women, women's right to vote, working women, waitresses, Maud Younger, 1911, progressive...
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1.9K
May 10, 2004
05/04
by
Chris Carlsson
movies
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favorite 5
comment 2
canoeing under the piers along San Francisco's waterfront.
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Topics: waterfront, Piers, canoe
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8.7K
May 4, 2004
05/04
by
Chris Carlsson
movies
eye 8,748
favorite 6
comment 0
Footage shot from a canoe ride under the Bay Bridge takes a look back at the San Francisco waterfront from under the bridge.
Topics: Bay Bridge, SF Bay, waterfront
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May 5, 2004
05/04
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Chris Carlsson
movies
eye 4,977
favorite 3
comment 1
canoe ride into Mission Creek before the freeway was reconfigured or Mission Bay was built.
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Topics: Mission Creek, freeways, Mission Bay
2,331
2.3K
May 10, 2004
05/04
by
Chris Carlsson
movies
eye 2,331
favorite 2
comment 1
Lifelong Bernal Heights resident George Will describes growing up in the marshland near the Old Clam House on Bayshore Blvd. in the 'teens.
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Topics: Islais Creek, wetlands, Bernal Heights
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5.2K
Apr 28, 2004
04/04
by
Chris Carlsson
movies
eye 5,224
favorite 2
comment 1
Herb Mills, former secretary-treasurer of Local 10 ILWU, describes the role of containerization in the global economy.
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Topics: containerization, longshoring, globalization
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318
Aug 17, 2020
08/20
by
Chris Carlsson
movies
eye 318
favorite 0
comment 0
In February 2020, Pluto Press published Hidden San Francisco: A Guide to Lost Landscapes, Unsung Heroes, and Radical Histories by Chris Carlsson. This video looks at Yosemite Slough and Candlestick Point State Recreation Area. It is the 14th of just over a dozen short videos of "stops" (there are 85 "stops" in four themed chapters, and an additional 44 "stops" in five walking tours in the appendix). I hope it will whet your appetite for both buying the book...
Topics: Candlestick Point State Recreation Area, urban parks, urban state parks, creeks, sloughs, Yosemite...
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2.3K
Jul 16, 2020
07/20
by
Chris Carlsson
movies
eye 2,323
favorite 1
comment 0
In February 2020, Pluto Press published Hidden San Francisco: The Guide to Lost Landscapes, Unsung Heroes, and Radical Histories by Chris Carlsson. This video, on San Francisco's storied "Freeway Revolt," is the 5th of a baker's dozen of "stops" (there are 85 "stops" in four themed chapters, and an additional 44 "stops" in five walking tours in the appendix) turned into short videos. I hope it will whet your appetite for both buying the book (available at...
Topics: freeway, freeway revolt, Sue Bierman, Embarcadero Freeway, Central Freeway, Malvina Reynolds,...
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732
Aug 20, 2020
08/20
by
Chris Carlsson
movies
eye 732
favorite 0
comment 0
In February 2020, Pluto Press published Hidden San Francisco: A Guide to Lost Landscapes, Unsung Heroes, and Radical Histories by Chris Carlsson. This video looks at the long debate over whether there was a fresh water lake in the Mission, confused with the tidal lagoon called Laguna Dolores. It is the 15th and final of just over a dozen short videos of "stops" (there are 85 "stops" in four themed chapters, and an additional 44 "stops" in five walking tours in the...
Topics: Laguna Dolores, fresh water lake, Mission Dolores, Mission district, creeks, aquifers, tidal inlet,...
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5.8K
May 4, 2004
05/04
by
Chris Carlsson
movies
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favorite 4
comment 1
Harry Hay describes the pickup scene at the North Beach bar Finocchio's in the early 1930s.
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Topics: Harry Hay, Finocchio's, gay dating
5,701
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Feb 11, 2004
02/04
by
Chris Carlsson
movies
eye 5,701
favorite 1
comment 0
Harry Hay, venerable co-founder of modern Gay movement, tells about being in crowd during 1934 waterfront strike in San Francisco, how militia was shooting into crowd, and bullets whizzed past his head.
Topics: Harry Hay, 1934 General Strike, San Francisco
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13K
Apr 28, 2004
04/04
by
Chris Carlsson
movies
eye 12,562
favorite 2
comment 0
Thomas Fleming, former editor of SF Sun Reporter, tells how then Mayor Roger Lapham wondered in a 1946 press conference when the thousands of African-Americans who had come to work in SF during WWII would return to the South. Fleming sets him straight.
Topics: Fleming, African-Americans in SF, Mayor Lapham
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May 5, 2004
05/04
by
Chris Carlsson
movies
eye 9,818
favorite 2
comment 0
shot from a canoe off Pier 33 looking up at Coit Tower and Telegraph Hill.
Topics: Telegraph Hill, SF Bay, Coit Tower
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3.7K
May 10, 2004
05/04
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Chris Carlsson
movies
eye 3,657
favorite 3
comment 1
"Diamond Dave" Whitaker recites his Digger poem
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Topics: Diamond Dave Whitaker, Diggers, counterculture
3,377
3.4K
May 10, 2004
05/04
by
Chris Carlsson
movies
eye 3,377
favorite 1
comment 1
Sea Lions cavort on piers facing San Francisco's Pier 39.
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Topics: Sea Lions, Pier 39, Tourism
8,773
8.8K
Jun 22, 2004
06/04
by
Chris Carlsson
movies
eye 8,773
favorite 3
comment 0
Artist Pele DeLappe describes her encounter at age 15 with Frieda Rivera (Kahlo), sitting around painting and smoking cigarettes together, while Diego Rivera was painting the San Francisco Stock Exchange mural (c. 1930)
Topics: Frieda Kahlo, Diego Rivera, Pele DeLappe
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3.6K
May 4, 2004
05/04
by
Chris Carlsson
movies
eye 3,633
favorite 6
comment 0
images from the End of the World's Fair, held May 12, 1984, marching up Market Street and ending at Dolores Park.
Topics: End of the World's Fair, San Francisco, 1984
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896
Aug 3, 2020
08/20
by
Chris Carlsson
movies
eye 896
favorite 0
comment 0
In February 2020, Pluto Press published Hidden San Francisco: The Guide to Lost Landscapes, Unsung Heroes, and Radical Histories by Chris Carlsson. This video, showing the remarkable protests that rocked City Hall against the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), is the 10th of a baker's dozen of "stops" (there are 85 "stops" in four themed chapters, and an additional 44 "stops" in five walking tours in the appendix) turned into short videos. I hope it...
Topics: HUAC, House UnAmerican Activities Committee, anti-communism, students, student protest, City Hall,...
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Jul 23, 2020
07/20
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Chris Carlsson
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In February 2020, Pluto Press published Hidden San Francisco: The Guide to Lost Landscapes, Unsung Heroes, and Radical Histories by Chris Carlsson. This video, on Harry Bridges, long-time leader of the International Longshore and Warehouse Union and the namesake of the plaza in front of the Ferry Building, is the 7th of a baker's dozen of "stops" (there are 85 "stops" in four themed chapters, and an additional 44 "stops" in five walking tours in the appendix)...
Topics: Harry Bridges, longshore, longshoring, dockworkers, Port of San Francisco, ILWU, International...
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Jul 31, 2020
07/20
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Chris Carlsson
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In February 2020, Pluto Press published Hidden San Francisco: The Guide to Lost Landscapes, Unsung Heroes, and Radical Histories by Chris Carlsson. This video, on the odd and hilarious saga of the early 20th century Eucalpytus "Wood Rush," is the 9th of a baker's dozen of "stops" (there are 85 "stops" in four themed chapters, and an additional 44 "stops" in five walking tours in the appendix) turned into short videos. I hope it will whet your appetite...
Topics: Eucalyptus, hardwood, hardwood famine, hucksters, hustle, get-rich-quick, woodlands, Sutro Forest,...
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Jul 27, 2020
07/20
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Chris Carlsson
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In February 2020, Pluto Press published Hidden San Francisco: The Guide to Lost Landscapes, Unsung Heroes, and Radical Histories by Chris Carlsson. This video, on the remarkable carving and flattening of hills throughout San Francisco's history, is the 8th of a baker's dozen of "stops" (there are 85 "stops" in four themed chapters, and an additional 44 "stops" in five walking tours in the appendix) turned into short videos. I hope it will whet your appetite for...
Topics: hills, steamshovels, sand dunes, Broadway cut, 2nd Street Cut, Rincon Hill, Irish Hill, Long...
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Jul 14, 2020
07/20
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Chris Carlsson
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n February 2020, Pluto Press published Hidden San Francisco: The Guide to Lost Landscapes, Unsung Heroes, and Radical Histories by Chris Carlsson. This video is the 4th of a baker's dozen of "stops" (there are 85 "stops" in four themed chapters, and an additional 44 "stops" in five walking tours in the appendix) turned into short videos. I hope it will whet your appetite for both buying the book (available at...
Topics: roads, Mission Plank Road, Oregon fir, wooden roads, sand dunes, bogs, bridges, bay mud, aquifer,...
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May 4, 2004
05/04
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Chris Carlsson
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Harry Hay describes the scene along Market Street on July 9, 1934 as strikers tore hats from bankers and kept their own security.
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Topics: Harry Hay, 1934 Strike, Funeral
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Jul 9, 2014
07/14
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Chris Carlsson and Michael Whitson
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In April 1990, some friends toured the East, from East Berlin to Sczcezin, Poland, to Gdansk, Warsaw, and Wroclaw, and finally to Prague, Czechoslovakia. We encountered a wildcat train strike across the border in Poland which at the time seemed rather momentous, with aspiring middle-class politicians representing "Solidarnosc" pitted against the rank-and-file train workers. We rode across Poland in a cab, met anarchists and other radicals along the way, and even have a short clip of...
Topics: Anti-Economy League of San Francisco, Eastern Europe, East Berlin, Poland, Gdansk, Solidarnosc,...
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Feb 11, 2004
02/04
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Christian Bruno and Sam Green
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The 1969 San Francisco International Film Festival opens on the steps of City Hall, but is unexpectedly attacked by independent filmmakers with pies. This footage was long-lost and then found and made into a movie in the late 1990s.
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Topics: Film Festival, 1969, Pie Fight
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May 5, 2004
05/04
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Chunkmoonhunter Productions
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Hundreds of police attack the I-Hotel on Kearny in 1977 to evict the remaining tenants.
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Topics: I-Hotel, police, eviction
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May 4, 2004
05/04
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Craig Baldwin
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Street theater held across from Gartland Pit in the mid-1980s. Peter Plate on megaphone.
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Topics: Gartland Pit, Street Theater, Peter Plate
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275
Apr 21, 2022
04/22
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Curt Sanford
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Curt Sanford explores San Francisco's eastern shoreline by kayak, from approximately Mission Creek to Candlestick Point State Recreation Area. His look at the old industrial waterfront includes great histories of various buildings in the old Naval Shipyard, as well as a good history of the Grain Terminal in Islais Creek, along with amazing shots of mysterious tags in dark spaces, brilliant murals, images of pelicans and herons and seals and more! Based on a presentation he gave at Heron's Head...
Topics: kayak, shoreline, piers, Hunter's Point Naval Shipyard, Islais Creek, Ordnance Building, Heron's...
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May 15, 2017
05/17
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Elliot Rose Lewis
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Berkeley land use attorney David Mundstock describes his opinion of redevelopment policies used nationwide in the United States from the 1950s to the 1980s.
Topics: Redevelopment, class, property, displacement, eviction
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May 15, 2017
05/17
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Elliot Rose Lewis
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Attorney David Mundstock describes briefly fighting to stop the demolitions in 1970s Berkeley.
Topics: demolitions, evictions, redevelopment, displacement
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Feb 11, 2004
02/04
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Flyaway Productions
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Modern dancers "re-purpose" the Copra Crane on Islais Creek for a stunning dance performance. The Copra Crane has been the subject of a campaign to save it as a monument to the old days of longshoring at the creek.
Topics: dance, Copra Crane, Islais Creek
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Dec 12, 2014
12/14
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FoundSF
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Set of interview clips with Bay Area activist Bruce Hartford (1 of 2)
Topic: SF State Strike, San Francisco, Activism
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May 10, 2004
05/04
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Glenn Bachmann
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The old Falstaff brewery became a home to punk rockers in the early 1980s before its demolition. Here's a glimpse of an impromptu concert outside.
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Topics: Punk, Vats, Brewery
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562
Aug 3, 2015
08/15
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Jacob Penny
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Janet King describes the relationship of the Native American Health Center to broader efforts to re-establish rights for first peoples.
Topics: health care, indigenous, Native American
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Aug 3, 2015
08/15
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Jacob Sheynin
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Julie Hernandez, IPOC member and Shellmound Peace Walker is interviewed by Jacob Sheynin about her experiences on the 4-5 Peace Walks that have taken place over the past few years.
Topics: indigenous, IPOC, shellmounds, native american, peace
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Jan 8, 2009
01/09
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Jeremy Kaller
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For decades the San Francisco Bay Area has been a hub for the recycling movement. Despite the lack of surviving community recycling centers, the Bay Area is still home to a unique community of recyclers who push the envelope of possibilities.
Topics: Recycling, Ecology, Documentary, Reuse
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May 4, 2004
05/04
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Jim Swanson
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Using the well-worn image of Yerba Buena cove in 1847, this animation dramatizes the rapidity with which it filled up after the Gold Rush, with a voiceover introducing Shaping San Francisco's 1st CD release.
Topics: San Francisco, Yerba Buena Cove, 1847
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May 4, 2004
05/04
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Jim Swanson
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clip of cyclists rolling down Lombard Street during San Francisco's Critical Mass in 1995.
Topics: Critical Mass, Lombard Street, bicycles
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Apr 28, 2004
04/04
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Jim Swanson
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Original opening animation for Shaping San Francisco CD-ROM in 1998.
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Topics: San Francisco, animation, Jim Swanson
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May 10, 2004
05/04
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John Fulbright
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How a shrine to Shiva emerged in Golden Gate Park in the form of a cement pylon.
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Topics: Shiva, Golden Gate Park, religion
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Feb 11, 2004
02/04
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Kathy Katz and Mike Kavanagh
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An excerpt from Farmcore, a 45-minute documentary about The Farm, the remarkable rural oasis under the freeways in San Francisco from 1974-1986, an autonomous zone that housed farm animals, rehearsal, and performance space, theater and punk rock...
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Topics: Farm, San Francisco, punk rock, 1970s, eviction, utopian experiment
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71
Oct 5, 2020
10/20
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Leslie Valentine
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Hugh D'Andrade recounts his experiences with the 1990-91 Gulf War protests and compares them to later experiences in the 2003 Iraq War protests, and discusses politics and his trajectory through San Francisco and Bay Area radicalism c. 1990-2005.... Interview by Leslie Valentine
Topics: Iraq, protests, anti-war, Situationist, anarchist, direct action, politics, movements, art
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May 10, 2004
05/04
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Mary Ellen Churchill
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Alejandro Murguia, who fought in the 1978 Sandinista Revolution in Nicaragua, describes the role San Francisco played in the uprising.
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Topics: Sandinistas, Nicaragua, Bernal Heights
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May 10, 2004
05/04
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Mary Ellen Churchill
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Alliance for the Rank and File activists in Local 2 HERE led a strike against Zim's Coffeehouse chain.
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Topics: strike, restaurant workers, Local 2
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May 10, 2004
05/04
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Mary Ellen Churchill
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A rank and file member of Local 2 denounces the rampant corruption and anti-democratic practices of the union leadership under Joe Belardi.
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Topics: Union democracy, rank and file, corruption
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Jun 24, 2011
06/11
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Matthew Chong
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A medley of images from Fleet Week in San Francisco by Matthew Chong
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Topics: Fleet Week, militarism, patriotism, San Francisco
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Mar 24, 2013
03/13
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Mike Kavanaugh, MaryEllen Churchill, and Kathy Katz
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A 47-minute documentary about San Francisco's "The Farm," which was a remarkable urban laboratory and creative space, in addition to being a farm with animals, vegetables, fruit trees, farmers, circus performers, discussions, performance, punk rock shows, and much much more...
Topics: The Farm, Jack Wickert, Bonnie Ora Sherk, urban farming, urban gardening, circus, children,...
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May 5, 2004
05/04
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Mooney Defense
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Tom Mooney, filmed by his defense team in San Quentin, appeals for a new trial or a death sentence, rather than the endless years in jail... he had already been in jail for 16 years. Excerpt from "The Strange Case of Tom Mooney".
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Topics: Tom Mooney, San Quentin, Preparedness Day
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May 9, 2017
05/17
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Nick Kasimatis
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video by Nick Kasimatis The much-beloved Market Street Railway Mural is set to undergo a professional conservation effort to save the underlying substrate before artist Mona Caron repaints and rejuvenates the original 2003 mural. Historic panels of the many uses of Market Street over the years make this mural not only an incredible resource for local history, but an historic piece in its own right.
Topics: Market Street Railway Mural, murals, public art, conservation, Mona Caron
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May 4, 2004
05/04
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Paper Tiger TV West
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scenes from demonstrations against the 1991 Gulf War in San Francisco.
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Topics: Gulf War I991, civic center, anti-war protests
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May 10, 2004
05/04
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Paper Tiger TV West
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A protest against the silence surrounding the original genocide in North America staged at a "Queen Isabella" pageant.
Topics: Pageant, protest, Quincentennial
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May 4, 2004
05/04
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Pathé News
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Original Pathe News newsreel footage describing the unfolding General Strike in breathless and fearsome tones. Another similar newsreel .
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Topics: Big Strike, 1934, newsreel
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May 4, 2004
05/04
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Peace Navy
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excerpt from documentary on Fleet Week created by the Peace Navy as part of their campaign against the event.
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Topics: Peace Navy, Fleet Week, anti-militarism
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52
Nov 7, 2021
11/21
by
Shaping SF
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An urban forum "walk 'n talk" starting at Glen Park BART station, and meandering up through Glen Canyon, onto Portola Drive and west to Panoramic off Twin Beaks Blvd to the entry point to the Laguna Honda Trail. Coursing along behind the public hospital, the trail eventually runs westerly along an ivy-filled canyon that is directly above the MUNI Twin Peaks tunnel, leading eventually to a Clarendon Avenue exit. From there we went up and up to enter the Sutro Forest trail system,...
Topics: crosstown trail, Glen Canyon, Sutro Forest, Laguna Honda trail, nature in the city, restoration,...
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344
Jan 21, 2011
01/11
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Shaping San Francisco
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An interview under the "Ecology Emerges" project of oral histories on the arc of environmentalism, ecology, environmental and social justice, running from the 1950s to the 2000s. Antonio Roman-Alcala has been deeply involved in San Francisco permaculture projects over the past decade, notably including the Alemany Farm, the Rhode Island Street garden, and is the producer of the new documentary "In Search of Good Food."
Topics: permaculture, ecology, gardens, horticulture, food security, urban farming
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Mar 8, 2018
03/18
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Shaping San Francisco
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The “Language of Water” is a vision to retrofit strategic locations of the Islais Creek Watershed to reduce flood risk and invest in real resiliency from sea level rise, drought, flooding and demonstrating the state of the art practices available to the agency or the cities. This proposal includes plans to create multi-purpose, distributed infrastructure for water supply, wastewater and stormwater treatment and the incorporation of creek daylighting and floodable spaces that make room for...
Topics: sewers, sewerage, composting toilets, Hetch Hetchy, rainwater, graywater, black water, Islais...
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335
May 24, 2018
05/18
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Shaping San Francisco
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How do we “hold” (record/store) history now compared to the past? How do we “tell” history now, and has the relationship between archival sources and narrative arcs/presentation changed with digitalization? What do we learn from narration-free archival materials (a la Prelinger home movies, foundsf photo pages, etc.)? And popular attitudes towards history: who cares about footnotes? How are archivists beginning to shape new ways of making history public? Film archivist and librarian ...
Topics: archives, memory, hypertext, links, nonlinearity, public libraries, public collections, diversity,...
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Apr 21, 2015
04/15
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Shaping San Francisco
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A short film clip from Greta Snider's Hard Core Home Movie . Used by permission of the artist Greta Snider.
Topics: Snider, Film
