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Feb 12, 2022
02/22
Feb 12, 2022
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Chris Carlsson
movies
eye 1,918
favorite 5
comment 2
canoeing under the piers along San Francisco's waterfront.
favoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 2 reviews )
Topics: waterfront, Piers, canoe
23,146
23K
Feb 19, 2020
02/20
Feb 19, 2020
movies
eye 23,146
favorite 18
comment 6
Footage taken about a month after the massive earthquake and fire of 1906.
favoritefavoritefavorite ( 6 reviews )
Topics: Earthquake, Fire, 1906
134,034
134K
Aug 27, 2019
08/19
Aug 27, 2019
by
Chris Carlsson
movies
eye 134,034
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.
favoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 13 reviews )
Topics: Presidio, Gay Sex, Harry Hay
7,228
7.2K
Feb 25, 2016
02/16
Feb 25, 2016
movies
eye 7,228
favorite 10
comment 4
Ferlinghetti in his Potrero Hill home in 1965, ruminating on San Francisco
favoritefavoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 4 reviews )
Topics: Ferlinghetti, Potrero Hill, poetry
13,215
13K
Jan 31, 2016
01/16
Jan 31, 2016
by
Shaping San Francisco
movies
eye 13,215
favorite 1
comment 1
Animation showing Yosemite's Hetch Hetchy Valley before and after inundation, with a quote from John Muir
( 1 reviews )
Topics: John Muir, Hetch Hetchy, San Francisco water system
14,890
15K
Apr 18, 2014
04/14
Apr 18, 2014
by
Kathy Katz and Mike Kavanagh
movies
eye 14,890
favorite 21
comment 9
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...
favoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 9 reviews )
Topics: Farm, San Francisco, punk rock, 1970s, eviction, utopian experiment
1,825
1.8K
Nov 19, 2013
11/13
Nov 19, 2013
by
Matthew Chong
movies
eye 1,825
favorite 2
comment 1
A medley of images from Fleet Week in San Francisco by Matthew Chong
favoritefavoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: Fleet Week, militarism, patriotism, San Francisco
11,528
12K
Nov 10, 2013
11/13
Nov 10, 2013
by
Christian Bruno and Sam Green
movies
eye 11,528
favorite 23
comment 3
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.
favoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 3 reviews )
Topics: Film Festival, 1969, Pie Fight
3,646
3.6K
Jul 19, 2013
07/13
Jul 19, 2013
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Peace Navy
movies
eye 3,646
favorite 1
comment 4
excerpt from documentary on Fleet Week created by the Peace Navy as part of their campaign against the event.
favoritefavoritefavorite ( 4 reviews )
Topics: Peace Navy, Fleet Week, anti-militarism
3,056
3.1K
Jul 17, 2013
07/13
Jul 17, 2013
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California Newsreel
movies
eye 3,056
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.
favoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 2 reviews )
Topics: Redevelopment, ILWU, Harry Bridges
3,927
3.9K
Sep 11, 2012
09/12
Sep 11, 2012
by
Chris Carlsson
movies
eye 3,927
favorite 1
comment 2
Scenes from the chaotic 3rd birthday Critical Mass bike ride in San Francisco
favoritefavorite ( 2 reviews )
Topics: Critical Mass, bicycles, San Francisco
1,906
1.9K
Jul 16, 2012
07/12
Jul 16, 2012
by
John Fulbright
movies
eye 1,906
favorite 1
comment 4
How a shrine to Shiva emerged in Golden Gate Park in the form of a cement pylon.
favoritefavorite ( 4 reviews )
Topics: Shiva, Golden Gate Park, religion
7,426
7.4K
Mar 4, 2011
03/11
Mar 4, 2011
by
Bay Area Coalition Against Operation Rescue
movies
eye 7,426
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.
favoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: abortion, women, Operation Rescue
2,610
2.6K
Feb 28, 2011
02/11
Feb 28, 2011
by
Mary Ellen Churchill
movies
eye 2,610
favorite 0
comment 2
Alliance for the Rank and File activists in Local 2 HERE led a strike against Zim's Coffeehouse chain.
favoritefavorite ( 2 reviews )
Topics: strike, restaurant workers, Local 2
11,604
12K
Jul 11, 2010
07/10
Jul 11, 2010
movies
eye 11,604
favorite 16
comment 5
Mud people descend on downtown San Francisco... the only rules? No walking and no talking! Merry mayhem ensues.
favoritefavoritefavorite ( 5 reviews )
Topics: mud people, financial district, anarchy
6,698
6.7K
Mar 22, 2010
03/10
Mar 22, 2010
movies
eye 6,698
favorite 5
comment 2
West Portal tunnel under construction, Portola Drive cutting through empty surrounding hillsides.
favoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 2 reviews )
Topics: West Portal, Portola Drive, Sutro Forest
5,220
5.2K
Apr 19, 2009
04/09
Apr 19, 2009
by
Chris Carlsson
movies
eye 5,220
favorite 2
comment 1
Herb Mills, former secretary-treasurer of Local 10 ILWU, describes the role of containerization in the global economy.
favoritefavoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: containerization, longshoring, globalization
22,868
23K
Sep 16, 2008
09/08
Sep 16, 2008
movies
eye 22,868
favorite 13
comment 5
Newsreel footage from the Market Street celebration of the end of WWI in San Francisco, 1918.
favoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 5 reviews )
Topics: WWI, San Francisco, 1918
7,402
7.4K
Aug 13, 2008
08/08
Aug 13, 2008
movies
eye 7,402
favorite 4
comment 2
Fatty Arbuckle and one of his adoring dames, posing for the publicity cameras of the PPIE in 1915.
favoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 2 reviews )
Topics: Fatty Arbuckle, PPIE, 1915
2,606
2.6K
Aug 13, 2008
08/08
Aug 13, 2008
by
Chris Carlsson
movies
eye 2,606
favorite 0
comment 1
Harry Hay describes the scene along Market Street on July 9, 1934 as strikers tore hats from bankers and kept their own security.
favoritefavoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: Harry Hay, 1934 Strike, Funeral
2,564
2.6K
Aug 12, 2008
08/08
Aug 12, 2008
by
Craig Baldwin
movies
eye 2,564
favorite 3
comment 1
Street theater held across from Gartland Pit in the mid-1980s. Peter Plate on megaphone.
favoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: Gartland Pit, Street Theater, Peter Plate
4,418
4.4K
Aug 12, 2008
08/08
Aug 12, 2008
movies
eye 4,418
favorite 11
comment 1
Hazel Lagenour, first woman to swim across the Golden Gate, in 1911, provided courtesy Bill Pickelhaupt.
favoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: First swim, Golden Gate, Hazel Lagenour
6,637
6.6K
Aug 12, 2008
08/08
Aug 12, 2008
by
Pathé News
movies
eye 6,637
favorite 17
comment 1
Original Pathe News newsreel footage describing the unfolding General Strike in breathless and fearsome tones. Another similar newsreel .
favoritefavoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: Big Strike, 1934, newsreel
4,844
4.8K
Aug 10, 2008
08/08
Aug 10, 2008
movies
eye 4,844
favorite 8
comment 1
silent footage of strikers marching, parading along waterfront, cops on horseback, scenes of the Embarcadero
favoritefavoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: waterfront strike, longshoremen, 1934
6,676
6.7K
Aug 10, 2008
08/08
Aug 10, 2008
by
Paper Tiger TV West
movies
eye 6,676
favorite 11
comment 1
scenes from demonstrations against the 1991 Gulf War in San Francisco.
favoritefavoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: Gulf War I991, civic center, anti-war protests
5,800
5.8K
Aug 7, 2008
08/08
Aug 7, 2008
by
Chris Carlsson
movies
eye 5,800
favorite 4
comment 1
Harry Hay describes the pickup scene at the North Beach bar Finocchio's in the early 1930s.
favoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: Harry Hay, Finocchio's, gay dating
4,970
5.0K
Aug 5, 2008
08/08
Aug 5, 2008
by
Chunkmoonhunter Productions
movies
eye 4,970
favorite 11
comment 1
Hundreds of police attack the I-Hotel on Kearny in 1977 to evict the remaining tenants.
favoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: I-Hotel, police, eviction
3,638
3.6K
Aug 5, 2008
08/08
Aug 5, 2008
by
Chris Carlsson
movies
eye 3,638
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.
favoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: ILWU, hiring hall, longshoremen
1,484
1.5K
Aug 5, 2008
08/08
Aug 5, 2008
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.
favoritefavoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: waterfront, ILWU, working class culture
1,408
1.4K
Aug 1, 2008
08/08
Aug 1, 2008
movies
eye 1,408
favorite 1
comment 1
Lucius Cabins, Helen Highwater and Linda Thomas hawking Processed World magazine at Market and Montgomery in the summer of 1982.
favoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: Processed World, financial district, dissent
9,455
9.5K
Jul 30, 2008
07/08
Jul 30, 2008
movies
eye 9,455
favorite 14
comment 1
Turn of the 19th century crowds at Ocean Beach
favoritefavoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: Ocean Beach, Cliff House, 1900
5,968
6.0K
Jul 30, 2008
07/08
Jul 30, 2008
movies
eye 5,968
favorite 13
comment 1
3 seconds of the Cliff House from Ocean Beach, people milling about on the beach in the foreground.
favoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: Cliff House, Ocean Beach, 1900
13,824
14K
Jul 29, 2008
07/08
Jul 29, 2008
movies
eye 13,824
favorite 2
comment 1
Difficult to discern, but President Teddy Roosevelt is in a procession heading up Van Ness in this short clip.
favoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: Teddy Roosevelt, Van Ness, parade
11,296
11K
Jul 29, 2008
07/08
Jul 29, 2008
movies
eye 11,296
favorite 12
comment 2
scenes of students being washed down rotunda stairs in SF City Hall during mass arrests at HUAC hearings, May 1960.
favoritefavoritefavorite ( 2 reviews )
Topics: HUAC, protests, City Hall
4,971
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Jul 26, 2008
07/08
Jul 26, 2008
by
Chris Carlsson
movies
eye 4,971
favorite 3
comment 1
canoe ride into Mission Creek before the freeway was reconfigured or Mission Bay was built.
favoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: Mission Creek, freeways, Mission Bay
9,148
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Jul 26, 2008
07/08
Jul 26, 2008
movies
eye 9,148
favorite 13
comment 3
Animation dramatizing the choice between "prosperity" and "anarchy, sedition, and lawlessness" in 1916
favoritefavoritefavorite ( 3 reviews )
Topics: Tom Mooney, Preparedness Day, bomb
3,701
3.7K
Jul 26, 2008
07/08
Jul 26, 2008
by
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".
favoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: Tom Mooney, San Quentin, Preparedness Day
8,936
8.9K
Jul 19, 2008
07/08
Jul 19, 2008
by
Chris Carlsson
movies
eye 8,936
favorite 11
comment 1
Seal Rock off the Cliff House, the ocean roaring around it.
favoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: Seal Rock, Pacific Ocean, Cliff House view
5,585
5.6K
Jul 19, 2008
07/08
Jul 19, 2008
movies
eye 5,585
favorite 2
comment 2
footage of Catholic Feast Day parade on Potrero Hill, April 25, 1937.
favoritefavoritefavorite ( 2 reviews )
Topics: Potrero Hill, Parade, Feast Day
5,939
5.9K
Jul 16, 2008
07/08
Jul 16, 2008
movies
eye 5,939
favorite 6
comment 1
panoramic view of the PPIE on San Francisco's northern edge, 1915, as broadcast in a 1930s newsreel.
favoritefavoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: PPIE, World's Fairs, Marina District
3,376
3.4K
Jul 16, 2008
07/08
Jul 16, 2008
by
Chris Carlsson
movies
eye 3,376
favorite 1
comment 1
Sea Lions cavort on piers facing San Francisco's Pier 39.
favoritefavoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: Sea Lions, Pier 39, Tourism
3,075
3.1K
Jul 11, 2008
07/08
Jul 11, 2008
movies
eye 3,075
favorite 2
comment 1
Mayor Angelo Rossi appeals to San Franciscans to allow business to proceed, while most of the city is on strike in July 1934.
favoritefavoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: Mayor Rossi, General Strike, 1934
7,513
7.5K
Jul 9, 2008
07/08
Jul 9, 2008
movies
eye 7,513
favorite 9
comment 1
A strike begins at the Union Iron Works at the foot of Potrero Hill in 1917.
favoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: Strike, Potrero Hill, Union Iron Works
4,532
4.5K
Jul 9, 2008
07/08
Jul 9, 2008
by
Chris Carlsson
movies
eye 4,532
favorite 6
comment 2
The San Francisco Illegal Soapbox Society conducted races on Bernal Heights for years, and still does at unpredictable times.
favoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 2 reviews )
Topics: Soapbox Derby, Bernal Heights, underground culture
12,958
13K
Jul 5, 2008
07/08
Jul 5, 2008
movies
eye 12,958
favorite 6
comment 1
Dedication of Dewey Monument in Union Square, c. 1903. St. Francis Hotel visible behind scene.
favoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: Union Square, Dewey Monument, 1903
13,016
13K
Jun 27, 2008
06/08
Jun 27, 2008
by
Glenn Bachmann
movies
eye 13,016
favorite 17
comment 2
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.
favoritefavorite ( 2 reviews )
Topics: Punk, Vats, Brewery
32,175
32K
Jun 20, 2008
06/08
Jun 20, 2008
movies
eye 32,175
favorite 38
comment 1
Riot and destruction at City Hall in the wake of the slap-on-the-wrist manslaughter verdict against Dan White, murderer of Harvey Milk and Mayor George Moscone.
favoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: riot, White Night, Harvey Milk
2,328
2.3K
Jun 9, 2008
06/08
Jun 9, 2008
by
Chris Carlsson
movies
eye 2,328
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.
favoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: Islais Creek, wetlands, Bernal Heights
3,656
3.7K
Jun 9, 2008
06/08
Jun 9, 2008
by
Chris Carlsson
movies
eye 3,656
favorite 3
comment 1
"Diamond Dave" Whitaker recites his Digger poem
favoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: Diamond Dave Whitaker, Diggers, counterculture
14,729
15K
Jun 6, 2008
06/08
Jun 6, 2008
movies
eye 14,729
favorite 21
comment 2
scenes of Japanese-Americans being shipped out of the Fillmore on their way to "internment".
favoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 2 reviews )
Topics: Japanese Internment, WWII, war crimes
8,423
8.4K
May 18, 2008
05/08
May 18, 2008
movies
eye 8,423
favorite 14
comment 1
Before occupational health and safety, this is how excavation was done. A steam shovel is digging a tunnel for the SF Muni, c. 1917.
favoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: steam shovel, digging tunnels, excavation
5,038
5.0K
Apr 18, 2008
04/08
Apr 18, 2008
by
Mary Ellen Churchill
movies
eye 5,038
favorite 2
comment 1
Alejandro Murguia, who fought in the 1978 Sandinista Revolution in Nicaragua, describes the role San Francisco played in the uprising.
favoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: Sandinistas, Nicaragua, Bernal Heights
3,908
3.9K
Mar 17, 2008
03/08
Mar 17, 2008
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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.
favoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: Willie Brown, Biotic Baking Brigade, pie-throwing
7,863
7.9K
Mar 17, 2008
03/08
Mar 17, 2008
movies
eye 7,863
favorite 12
comment 1
Sped-up trip eastward along the old Sutro Steam railroad from Cliff house back towards the then-empty Golden Gate.
favoritefavoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: Golden Gate, Lands End, railroad
2,945
2.9K
Feb 10, 2008
02/08
Feb 10, 2008
by
Chris Carlsson
movies
eye 2,945
favorite 0
comment 1
Artist Mona Caron describes the meaning of her mural along the newly christened Duboce Bikeway.
favoritefavoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: murals, Duboce Bikeway, Mona Caron
2,474
2.5K
May 22, 2007
05/07
May 22, 2007
movies
eye 2,474
favorite 1
comment 1
It depicts the Art Attack staged on Friday, June 18, 1999 called "Wall Street West is All Tied Up!" which happened on Montgomery Street between California and Pine Streets at apx. 12:25 p.m.
favoritefavoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
2,229
2.2K
Mar 28, 2007
03/07
Mar 28, 2007
movies
eye 2,229
favorite 5
comment 1
Excerpt from the ACLU's "Operation Correction" in which they took an anti-communist propaganda film paid for by the U.S. gov't. and added a new soundtrack explaining what really happened at the May 1960 HUAC hearings in San Francisco.
favoritefavoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: HUAC, 1960, ACLU
1,459
1.5K
Jun 10, 2006
06/06
Jun 10, 2006
by
Chris Carlsson
movies
eye 1,459
favorite 4
comment 1
Heart of the City Farmers' Market in UN Plaza, San Francisco
favorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: Farmers' Market, UN Plaza, Civic Center
2,413
2.4K
Jan 22, 2006
01/06
Jan 22, 2006
by
Mary Ellen Churchill
movies
eye 2,413
favorite 3
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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.
favoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: Union democracy, rank and file, corruption
8,780
8.8K
Nov 26, 2005
11/05
Nov 26, 2005
movies
eye 8,780
favorite 12
comment 1
Silent footage of picketers marching through the streets and attacking a scab-driven streetcar at Haight and Buchanan during violent 1917 streetcar strike.
favoritefavoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: Streetcar strike, URR, 1917
6,787
6.8K
Sep 11, 2005
09/05
Sep 11, 2005
movies
eye 6,787
favorite 9
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brief excerpt from a documentary on the Key System, which once ran trains across the Bay Bridge.
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Topics: Key System, Ferry Building, Bay trains
8,362
8.4K
Jun 11, 2005
06/05
Jun 11, 2005
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Biker-X
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eye 8,362
favorite 5
comment 1
footage of the chaotic July 1997 ride in which Mayor Brown unleashed the police to attack bicyclists.
favoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: bicycles, Critical Mass, police riot
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824
Apr 29, 2004
04/04
Apr 29, 2004
by
Jim Swanson
movies
eye 824
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comment 1
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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Summer 2014 campaign video to gain long-term sustainers to support the ongoing work of Shaping San Francisco, a vital public utility (though seldom recognized as such) that provides a living archive of San Francisco, and by the project's very existence, holds down an important niche in the local cultural ecology of the City. Walking and Bicycle history tours, Public Talks both live and archived online, and the ever-expanding archive at Foundsf.org are irreplaceable treasures of San Francisco's...
Topics: history, politics, ecology, tours, bicycles, walking, fundraising, support, sustainers, 3% Solution
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Art & Politics: Seth Eisen "OUT of Site" Seth Eisen and James Metzger and collaborators Colin Creveling, Rayan Hayes, Mary Vice, and Diego Gomez bring to life research and performance excerpts from Eye Zen Presents's newest project (a collaboration with Shaping SF)—a series of queer history performance-driven walking tours through the streets of San Francisco. This performative talk explores the ways that queer people have historically created community, how our communities...
Topics: queer, gay, homosexual, essentialism, assimilationism, history, historiography, queer history,...
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Adriana Camarena
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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,...
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The Maritime Museum at Aquatic Park recently underwent extensive renovation, bringing to public view murals and sculptures from the WPA that have long been hidden and overlooked. Other beautiful artworks grace public buildings throughout the East Bay and San Francisco, including Coit Tower, and on Treasure Island, where Maritime Museum artists went on to create work for the Golden Gate International Exposition in 1939. Join Richard Everett (Maritime Museum), Anne Schnoebelen (Treasure...
Topics: New Deal, art, architecture, WPA, PWA, murals, Diego Rivera, SF Arts Association, San Francisco Art...
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During the national marches against the NRA and the accelerating madness of mass shootings, San Franciscans turned out in large numbers to join the protest. This is at the corner of 7th and Market as demonstrators walked by for 4 minutes, but the entire length of the march took more than 45 minutes to pass... estimates put the crowd between 35,000 and 80,000... count them here!
Topics: guns, war, violence, mass shootings, protests, demonstrations, NRA, anti-NRA, National Rifle...
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Adriana Camarena
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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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Jason Mark, editor of Earth Island Journal and an active farmer at the Alemany Farm in San Francisco, interviewed as part of the Shaping San Francisco "Ecology Emerges" oral history project. The project documents participants in the ecology movement in the San Francisco Bay over the past 50 years.
Topics: ecology, Ecology Emerges, urban agriculture, economic growth, environmentalism, environmental...
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Chuck Wollenberg presents his new book Rebel Lawyer about Wayne Collins and his defense of Japanese-American rights during and after WWII. Novelist and essayist Karen Tei Yamashita shares her introduction to John Okada’s No-No Boy , the only 1950s novel to reflect on the post-Internment experience among Japanese-American families.
Topics: Japanese Internment, WWII, racism, anti-Asian racism, Chinese Exclusion Act, Japanese Exclusion,...
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John Knox, Executive Director of the Earth Island Institute in Berkeley, has been a resident of Noe Valley since the early 1970s. Here he describes some early community activism he was involved in and some of the old-timers he ran up against, as well as a funny anecdote about an awards ceremony with Mayor Moscone in City Hall.
Topics: Noe Valley, neighborhood association, community organizing, solar homes, 1970s solar energy,...
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Public Art and Murals: Controversy, Neglect, Restoration Not always seen by all as a public benefit, public art faces sometimes quiet neglect, sometimes outrage and controversy. Earlier this year, San Francisco Poet Laureate Kim Shuck brought attention to the appeal to remove the Pioneer Monument’s “Early Days” statue of a subjugated and emaciated indigenous figure in Civic Center. Calling for a rehearing, she wrote a poem each day—55 in all—until the Board of Appeals granted one...
Topics: Indigenous California, Ohlone, public art, statues, murals, tagging, vandalism, community,...
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Last year we embarked on a grand collaborative journey through the under-recognized LGBTQ+ history of North Beach with Seth Eisen’s OUT of Site performative walking tours. Seth returns with a look at his new SOMA tours coming in June and September, bringing forgotten queer histories and sites to life and exploring the intersections of labor history, the leather scene, bars, nightlife, and the immigrant experience. This is part of a series of solo artists giving a behind-the-scenes and...
Topics: queer, two-spirit, gay, LGBTQ, history, walking tours, performance, historical tours, SOMA, Happy...
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Women, Power, and the Vote: 1911 Suffrage to the 2018 Midterms Given the predictable buzz developing about the 2018 midterm elections and the predictions of a blue wave/a female wave, we want to convene a discussion rooted in history that can critically take on this frame of mind, especially in light of the recent election of London Breed and the likely re-election of Dianne Feinstein. It's not like we haven't had decades of powerful female politicians and leaders who have by and large done...
Topics: voting, elections, political power, grassroots, organizing, housing, race, gender, politicians,...
