1,916
1.9K
Feb 12, 2022
02/22
Feb 12, 2022
by
Chris Carlsson
movies
eye 1,916
favorite 5
comment 2
canoeing under the piers along San Francisco's waterfront.
favoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 2 reviews )
Topics: waterfront, Piers, canoe
23,143
23K
Feb 19, 2020
02/20
Feb 19, 2020
movies
eye 23,143
favorite 18
comment 6
Footage taken about a month after the massive earthquake and fire of 1906.
favoritefavoritefavorite ( 6 reviews )
Topics: Earthquake, Fire, 1906
134,029
134K
Aug 27, 2019
08/19
Aug 27, 2019
by
Chris Carlsson
movies
eye 134,029
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
7,226
7.2K
Feb 25, 2016
02/16
Feb 25, 2016
movies
eye 7,226
favorite 10
comment 4
Ferlinghetti in his Potrero Hill home in 1965, ruminating on San Francisco
favoritefavoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 4 reviews )
Topics: Ferlinghetti, Potrero Hill, poetry
13,213
13K
Jan 31, 2016
01/16
Jan 31, 2016
by
Shaping San Francisco
movies
eye 13,213
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
by
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
3,055
3.1K
Jul 17, 2013
07/13
Jul 17, 2013
by
California Newsreel
movies
eye 3,055
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
3,926
3.9K
Sep 11, 2012
09/12
Sep 11, 2012
by
Chris Carlsson
movies
eye 3,926
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
7,425
7.4K
Mar 4, 2011
03/11
Mar 4, 2011
by
Bay Area Coalition Against Operation Rescue
movies
eye 7,425
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
6,694
6.7K
Mar 22, 2010
03/10
Mar 22, 2010
movies
eye 6,694
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
5,219
5.2K
Apr 19, 2009
04/09
Apr 19, 2009
by
Chris Carlsson
movies
eye 5,219
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
7,399
7.4K
Aug 13, 2008
08/08
Aug 13, 2008
movies
eye 7,399
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
4,417
4.4K
Aug 12, 2008
08/08
Aug 12, 2008
movies
eye 4,417
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
6,675
6.7K
Aug 10, 2008
08/08
Aug 10, 2008
by
Paper Tiger TV West
movies
eye 6,675
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
5,799
5.8K
Aug 7, 2008
08/08
Aug 7, 2008
by
Chris Carlsson
movies
eye 5,799
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
4,969
5.0K
Aug 5, 2008
08/08
Aug 5, 2008
by
Chunkmoonhunter Productions
movies
eye 4,969
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
5,966
6.0K
Jul 30, 2008
07/08
Jul 30, 2008
movies
eye 5,966
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
13,820
14K
Jul 29, 2008
07/08
Jul 29, 2008
movies
eye 13,820
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
5.0K
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
9,147
9.1K
Jul 26, 2008
07/08
Jul 26, 2008
movies
eye 9,147
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
3,700
3.7K
Jul 26, 2008
07/08
Jul 26, 2008
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Mooney Defense
movies
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favorite 3
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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
8,933
8.9K
Jul 19, 2008
07/08
Jul 19, 2008
by
Chris Carlsson
movies
eye 8,933
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
5,582
5.6K
Jul 19, 2008
07/08
Jul 19, 2008
movies
eye 5,582
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
5,937
5.9K
Jul 16, 2008
07/08
Jul 16, 2008
movies
eye 5,937
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
7,511
7.5K
Jul 9, 2008
07/08
Jul 9, 2008
movies
eye 7,511
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
12,956
13K
Jul 5, 2008
07/08
Jul 5, 2008
movies
eye 12,956
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
13,011
13K
Jun 27, 2008
06/08
Jun 27, 2008
by
Glenn Bachmann
movies
eye 13,011
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
32,171
32K
Jun 20, 2008
06/08
Jun 20, 2008
movies
eye 32,171
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
14,723
15K
Jun 6, 2008
06/08
Jun 6, 2008
movies
eye 14,723
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
8,422
8.4K
May 18, 2008
05/08
May 18, 2008
movies
eye 8,422
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
5,037
5.0K
Apr 18, 2008
04/08
Apr 18, 2008
by
Mary Ellen Churchill
movies
eye 5,037
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
3,907
3.9K
Mar 17, 2008
03/08
Mar 17, 2008
by
Biotic Baking Brigade
movies
eye 3,907
favorite 0
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
comment 1
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
6,786
6.8K
Sep 11, 2005
09/05
Sep 11, 2005
movies
eye 6,786
favorite 9
comment 1
brief excerpt from a documentary on the Key System, which once ran trains across the Bay Bridge.
favoritefavoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: Key System, Ferry Building, Bay trains
8,361
8.4K
Jun 11, 2005
06/05
Jun 11, 2005
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Biker-X
movies
eye 8,361
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
favorite 0
comment 1
Original opening animation for Shaping San Francisco CD-ROM in 1998.
favoritefavoritefavorite ( 1 reviews )
Topics: San Francisco, animation, Jim Swanson
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Josephine and Regina Alioto recount the story of Pietro Alioto and his candy and ice cream parlor at Lombard and Mason, 1910-1930s.
Topics: Italians, North Beach, Alioto, small business, 1930s, prohibition
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The Blue Collar Green Water Art & Culture Collective , made up of workers of the Inlandboatmen's Union who work the Blue and Gold Ferry to Tiburon and Sausalito, provide an hour-long multimedia art experience on the water. In addition to stunning views of the San Francisco Bay and the Golden Gate Bridge, the evening included readings, a short video screening, slideshow and animated video presentation on San Francisco waterfront history, presented by San Francisco Bay maritime working...
Topics: art, work, IBU, ILWU, 20th century labor history, labor, ferries, San Francisco Bay, fiction,...
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Former SDS activist Bruce Hartford describes how the local chapter at San Francisco State College created a game called "Americana" on the commons prior to the big strike in 1968. A Shaping San Francisco interview conducted by LisaRuth Elliott and shot by Chris Carlsson in June 2011.
Topics: San Francisco State, 1968, SDS, anti-war, 60s, Sixties, alienation, student movement
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Adaptation Infrastructure and Rising Seas: the Delta, the Delta Tunnels, restoration projects around the bay..... Tim Stroshane ( Restore the Delta ) and Brenda Goeden ( San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission ) discuss the politics and prospects of facing our rapidly changing future around and health of the bayshore. Wetlands restoration, Sea Level Rise, Delta Tunnels, Clean Water Act, future of EPA, and more.
Topics: restoration, wetlands, rising seas, delta tunnels, california plumbing, adaptation, dredge,...
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Doing science and making culture are increasingly intertwined as more and more amateur naturalists crowdsource the multi-layered experience of life on this planet. Authors of two new books Mary Ellen Hannibal ( Citizen Scientist: Searching for Heroes and Hope in an Age of Extinction ) and Ursula Heise ( Imagining Extinction: The Cultural Meanings of Endangered Species ) illuminate the tangled, dynamic processes of thinking and doing that help us understand where we are and what we...
Topics: Citizen Science, scientist, amateur, natural selection, Darwinism, cooperation, species, habitat,...
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The Jazz of Modern Basketball: Racism and Virtuosity at the Roots of the Golden State Warriors Shaping San Francisco’s Chris Carlsson digs into the long history of basketball as another season begins. The first African-American players entered the NBA in 1950, while black college stars led the USF Dons to consecutive national championships in 1955 and 1956, inventing a new style of aggressive defensive basketball. Today’s outspoken Warriors embody the decades-long Heritage in which...
Topics: Golden State Warriors, USF Dons, NBA, NCAA, NIT, racism, Jim Crow, Adolph Rupp, John McLendon, Bill...
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Are There Marxist Robots?!? Kal Spelletich, robot-maker and long-time artist, professor, actor, and all around raconteur of machinic chaos and dissent combines with Chris Carlsson, a persistent critic of the Planetary Work Society, to confront our collective anxiety. As Nick Dyer-Witheford ably puts it: "Digital capital [is] making a planetary working class tasked with working itself out of job, toiling relentlessly to develop a system of robots and networks, networked robots and robot...
Topics: robots, robot labor, automation, cybernetics, computers, artificial intelligence, labor theory of...
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San Francisco native (b. 1945) and resident Darrell Rogers remembers the early Willie Brown when he was an attorney at Scott and Sutter, and details the attitudes of the black community towards one of "its" most illustrious and well-known leaders, up to and including the enormous disillusionment he left behind.
Topics: Willie Brown, corruption, black San Francisco, African American, Fillmore, Hunter's Point, Bayview,...
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San Francisco native (b. 1945) and resident Darrell Rogers describes how he met the Panthers of San Francisco, and the Oakland-based Black Panthers, and the ways the two were different, and ultimately came to influence each other.
Topics: Black Panthers, Oakland, civil rights, black power
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Peter Berg was one of the original San Francisco Diggers and went on to co-found the Planet Drum Foundation. He was at the first UN Conference on the Environment in Stockholm Sweden in 1972, was one of the originators of Bioregionalism, and has been at the heart of many ecological battles, including California's Peripheral Canal. This is part of the "Ecology Emerges" oral history interview collection by Shaping San Francisco, tracing the arc of environmental activism from conservation...
Topics: ecology, Ecology Emerges, bioregionalism, watersheds, Peripheral Canal, Diggers
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The longest strike on the West Coast was held in 1971 by the International Longshore and Warehouse Union. The reasons for the strike were disputed, but as told here by longtime Secretary-Treasurer of Local 10 Herb Mills, the rank-and-file were in revolt against the "steady man" provision (9.43) of the 1966 second version of the Mechanization and Modernization Agreement between the ILWU and the Pacific Maritime Association. This rank-and-file revolt pitted them against Harry Bridges,...
Topics: 1971 strike, longshoremen, ILWU, Harry Bridges, rank and file, steady men, 9.43, crane operators,...
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Carlo Middione describes living in the Upper Haight when it was still red-lined by local banks, insurers, and real estate companies.
Topics: Haight-Ashbury, Upper Haight, redlining, housing