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Talks: 2026 Videos

2026-06-05T21:28:55Z

Ccarlsson:

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'''Shaping San Francisco hosts Public Talks on a variety of topics, usually on Wednesday nights, a dozen times a year. Our topic themes vary, but we've grouped them over time into these categories: Art & Politics, Ecology, Historical Perspectives, Literary, and Social Movements.'''

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June 3, 2026 

Rewilding San Francisco

World Environment Day with its Global Call for Climate Action is June 5. Restoring nature reduces our climate impact while making our life-places more resilient to climate disruption. Join us for a panel discussion with community stewards caring for and rewilding San Francisco's public open spaces. Learn about current stewardship work and strategies for helping nature thrive in San Francisco so that San Franciscans can thrive in nature. Tom Radulovich (Livable City), Peter Brastow (SF Dept. of Environment), Sophie Constantinou (Citizen Film and Bernal Cut), and Ildiko Polony (Sutro Stewards).

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May 27, 2026 

AI and Empire Building

We bring together several sharp critics of the hype machine that has long characterized the internet and our successive tech booms, currently blowing up in the AI bubble. Lost in the hand wringing over the more exaggerated claims of boosters and doomers is the ongoing reproduction of a colonial seizure of what should be our common wealth. This process has long historic roots and in some ways it is thanks to our amnesiac culture that the current crop of billionaire investors and tech bros have gotten away with doing it all again. Wendy Liu, Alex Hanna, Tamara Kneese, and Elizabeth Travelslight.

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April 16, 2026 

San Francisco: A Liberal Oligarchy?

New tech oligarchs have thrown their money around to shape city politics for the past decade. We now have a billionaire bluejeans heir for mayor. We explore how organized money and corporate power managed to steer San Francisco going back through the post-WWII cold war, the long decline of Catholic morality, and the explosion of social movements and the sexual revolution the city is known for. Join political scientist Lincoln Mitchell, former supervisor and Mayoral candidate Tom Ammiano, and neighborhood activist and writer Romalyn Schmaltz for a spirited romp through the tangled and conflicted histories of the past few decades.

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March 25, 2026 

Re-Imagining Serra

Chris Cuadrado's artist activation uses multimedia technology to create an alternative statue emerging from the rubble of what has been torn down. Chris investigates the act of reappropriation to rebuild the memory of Junipero Serra. Based on collected ephemera, photographs, video footage, and sourced miniature replicas related to the statue, a screening and sound sculpture is a meditation on the figure of Padre Junipero Serra. Attendees will be invited to reflect on monuments, legacy, and public space.

Part of Shaping Legacy: San Francisco Monuments & Memorials, a project of San Francisco Arts Commission, with Adriana Camarena, Kim Shuck, and Chris Cuadrado. Thanks to Association of Ramaytush Ohlone for guidance throughout the year.

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March 11, 2026 

City of Redwood

James Michael Buckley’s 2024 ''City of Wood: San Francisco and the Architecture of the Redwood Lumber Industry'' reconnects us to the built environment from San Francisco all the way up to Eureka in the far north of California, past and present. David Schmidt’s brand new majesterial ''San Francisco Bay Area: An Environmental History'' contains a close look at the historic forests of the Bay Area and how they were cut down to help build the region. Together these speakers will help us see how profoundly the iconic trees of the west coast literally undergird our everyday lives even today.

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February 25, 2026 

Memory Keeping from Indigenous Perspectives

Shaping San Francisco’s year-long case study of the Padre Junípero Serra statue included a folklife-based, community-led research process centered on memory-keeping practices. Indigenous community researchers explored everyday practices from their own cultures that carry collective knowledge. The researchers included members of Urban Native communities, Indigenous migrants from Latin America and the Caribbean, and urban youth. Their research invites reflection on how genocide, relocation, and migration continue to erode Indigenous ways of knowing, and how communities continue to protect and hold on to them. The process was facilitated by storyteller Adriana Camarena. Several community researchers will share their findings. The discussion will be presented in Spanish and English.

Part of Shaping Legacy: San Francisco Monuments & Memorials, a project of San Francisco Arts Commission 

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February 11, 2026 

The Priest, the Imperialist, and the Sculptor

We close a year-long case study of the Padre Junipero Serra statue. Jonathan Cordero (Association of Ramaytush Ohlone) critically examines the romantic myth that supports the veneration of Serra and reveals the actual calamitous impact of the mission system. Chris Carlsson explains how an unlikely series of events led to the so-called “Mission Revival”, the commissioning of the statue by James Phelan, and giving Serra an undeserved new role in a manufactured public memory. He reveals that the statue's placement in Golden Gate Park in 1907 in fact bolstered a white supremacist agenda at the dawn of the 20th century. LisaRuth Elliott explores Douglas Tilden, the cosmopolitan sculptor revered in the deaf community, and his many other contributions to the SF civic art collection and beyond. This evening is a chance to talk about the reanimation of a man through a monument, the fraught relationship between a patron of the arts and his protegé, and how these honorific likenesses and what they are supposed to signify become part of our urban space.

Part of Shaping Legacy: San Francisco Monuments & Memorials, a project of San Francisco Arts Commission

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2026-06-05T20:53:50Z

Ccarlsson: /* Ecology */

Shaping San Francisco hosts Public Talks on a variety of topics on Wednesday nights, 10–18 times a year. Our topic themes vary, but we've grouped them over time into the categories listed below. These Public Talks have been archived in audio and since 2014 in video. Browse our offerings, and catch up on almost two decades of public discussions. Find them also at the Shaping San Francisco collection on the [https://archive.org/details/shaping_sf Internet Archive], and embedded in archival pages at [http://shapingsf.org/public-talks/index.html shapingsf.org].

''Unlinked Talks mean there is no audio or video available.''

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<li>[[#art|Art & Politics]]</li>
<li>[[#ecology|Ecology]]</li>
<li>[[#history|Historical Perspectives]]</li>
<li>[[#lit|Literary]]</li>
<li>[[#social|Social Movements]]</li>
</ul>

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==Art & Politics==

Public Talks: Art & Politics / 2024- 

:[[Talks: 2026 Videos#v_mar25-26|March 25, 2026: Chris "L7" Cuadrado—Re-Imagining Serra]]

:[[Talks: 2025 Videos#v_oct1-25|October 1, 2025: Eric Drooker—''Naked City'']]

:[[Talks: 2024 Videos#v_sep25-24|September 25, 2024: Will Maynez Interprets Diego Rivera]]

:[[Talks: 2024 Videos#v_may8-24|May 8, 2024: Hughen/Starkweather]]

[[Talks:_Art_%26_Politics_/_2015-2020|Public Talks: Art & Politics / 2015-2020]] 

:[[Talks: Art & Politics_/_2015-2020-#feb26-20|February 26, 2020: Miranda Bergman]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics_/_2015-2020#sep11-19|September 11, 2019: San Francisco Poster Syndicate]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2015-20209#apr3-19|April 3, 2019: Chris "L7" Cuadrado]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2015-2020#feb13-19|February 13, 2019: Seth Eisen/OUT of Site]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2015-2020#nov28-18|November 28, 2018: Public Art and Murals: Controversy, Neglect, Restoration]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2015-2020#may2-18|May 2, 2018: Kal Spelletich--Do Androids Dream of Surplus Value?]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2015-2020#apr4-18|April 4, 2018: Insurgent Country Music and its Roots in the Golden State]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2015-2020#mar14-18|March 14, 2018: Ilana Crispi: Tenderloin and Mission Dirt]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2015-2020#feb28-18|February 28, 2018: Lou Dematteis]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2015-2020#nov8-17|November 8, 2017: Seth Eisen "OUT of Site"]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2015-2020#jun7-17|June 7, 2017: Kent Minault's "Diggerly-Do's"]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2015-2020#jan25-17|January 25, 2017: Packard Jennings]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2015-2020#sep28-16|September 28, 2016: Jenny Odell, Art as Archiving, Archiving as Art]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2015-2020#feb24-16|February 24, 2016: Mauro Ffortissimo with Dean Mermell]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2015-2020#nov4-15|November 4, 2015: Guillermo Gomez-Peña]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2015-2020#sep30-15|September 30, 2015: Nato Green]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2015-2020#mar4-15|March 4, 2015: Sirron Norris]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2015-2020#feb11-15|February 11, 2015: Rene Yañez]]

[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2011-2014|Public Talks: Art & Politics / 2011-2014]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2011-2014#nov12-14|November 12, 2014: Janet Delaney]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2011-2014#apr30-14|April 30, 2014: Yolanda Lopez]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2011-2014#mar26-14|March 26, 2014: Norman Nawrocki — Cazzarola!]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2011-2014#jan22-14|January 22, 2014: Songs of Freedom celebration]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2011-2014#apr24-13|April 24, 2013: Rebar]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2011-2014#nov7-12|November 7, 2012: Clarion Alley Mural Project]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2011-2014#may16-12|May 16, 2012: Amy Franceschini]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2011-2014#may9-12|May 9, 2012: Rock, Posters, and Politics!]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2011-2014#apr18-12|April 18, 2012: "Reel Hood Heroes": Conscious Youth Media Crew]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2011-2014#mar21-12|March 21, 2012: Jess Curtis: Body of Work]]

:October 19, 2011: An Open Rehearsal of Trial of Lucullus

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2011-2014#may25-11|May 25, 2011: Lost Murals, Political Posters, Underground Comix: Ten Years That Shook the City: San Francisco 1968-78]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2011-2014#feb9-11|February 9, 2011: Eric Drooker and HOWL]]

[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2007-2010|Public Talks: Art & Politics / 2007-2010]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2007-2010#oct27-10|October 27, 2010: A Staged Reading of Money, a WPA Comedy from 1937]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2007-2010#sep22-10|September 22, 2010: RIGO]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2007-2010#may19-10|May 19, 2010: History of San Francisco's Carnaval]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2007-2010#mar10-10|March 10, 2010: Socially Engaged Printmaking Today]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2007-2010#feb17-10|February 17, 2010: Melanie Cervantes and Jesus Barraza]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2007-2010#jan20-10|January 20, 2010: Patricia Rodriguez]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2007-2010#dec9-09|December 9, 2009: Keith Hennessy]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2007-2010#nov18-09|November 18, 2009: Philippines: Immigration Politics and the Body]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2007-2010#sep23-09|September 23, 2009: From India to the Bay Area: Culture and Economy]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2007-2010#sep16-09|September 16, 2009: Conscious Youth Media Crew]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2007-2010#may27-09|May 27, 2009: Susan Greene]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2007-2010#apr15-09|April 15, 2009: Russell Howze]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2007-2010#mar18-09|March 18, 2009: Jet Martinez]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2007-2010#feb18-09|February 18, 2009: Doug Minkler]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2007-2010#oct8-08|October 8, 2008: San Francisco Print Collective]]

:September 10, 2008: Art as Intervention

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2007-2010#mar19-08|March 19, 2008: Favianna Rodriguez]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2007-2010#feb20-08|February 20, 2008: Eric Drooker]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2007-2010#jan16-08|January 16, 2008: Andrew Schoultz]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2007-2010#oct17-07|October 17, 2007: Hugh D’Andrade]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2007-2010#sep19-07|September 19, 2007: Mona Caron]]

:September 12, 2007: Grant Funding for the Arts in San Francisco: A Discussion

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==Ecology==

Public Talks: Ecology / 2026

:[[Talks: 2026 Videos#v_jun3-26|June 3, 2026: Rewilding San Francisco]]

:[[Talks: 2026 Videos#v_mar11-26|March 11, 2026: City of Redwood]]

Public Talks: Ecology / 2024-2025

:[[Talks: 2025 Videos#v_mar26-25|March 26, 2025: Biospheric Dialogue]]

:[[Talks: 2024 Videos#v_mar26-24|March 26, 2024: Cultivating Food Resilience and Combating Global Challenges]]

Public Talks: Ecology / 2020-2023

:[[Talks: 2023 Videos#v_dec2-23|December 2, 2023: Thinkwalk—1862 Flood]]

:[[Talks: 2023 Videos#v_sep30-23|September 30, 2023: Natural Areas II Bike Tour: Golden Gate Park to Lobos Valley]]

:[[Talks: 2023 Videos#v_sep23-23|September 23, 2023: Frisco Bay Mussel Group: A Look Back]]

:[[Talks: 2023 Videos#v_sep22-23|September 22, 2023: San Francisco Natural History with Greg Gaar]]

:[[Talks: 2023 Videos#v_apr23-23|April 23, 2023: Special Anniversary Bike Tour: Natural Areas and Native Plants]]

:[[Talks: 2023 Videos#v_mar18-23|March 18, 2023: Urban Forum: Walk and Talk—Journey to the Highest Peak: Mt. Davidson]]

:[[Talks: 2022 Videos#v_nov5-22|November 5, 2022: Urban Forum: Walk and Talk—China Beach to Mountain Lake]]

:[[Talks: 2022 Videos#v_oct15-22|October 15, 2022: Urban Forum: Walk and Talk—Tunnel Tops to Francisco Park]]

:[[Talks: 2022 Videos#v_sep24-22|September 24, 2022: Urban Forum: Walk and Talk—Chain of Lakes, Golden Gate Park]]

:[[Talks: 2022 Videos#v_apr9-22|April 9, 2022: Urban Forum: Walk and Talk—San Bruno Mountain]]

:[[Talks: 2022 Videos#v_mar26-22|March 26, 2022: Urban Forum: Walk and Talk—Fort Funston to Pine Lake]]

:[[Talks: 2022 Videos#v_jan29-22|January 29, 2022: Urban Forum: Walk and Talk—Visitacion Valley and Little Hollywood]]

:[[Talks: 2021 Videos#v_nov6-21|November 6, 2021: Urban Forum: Walk and Talk—Glen Canyon and Sutro Forest]]

:[[Talks: 2021 Videos#v_oct9-21|October 9, 2021: Urban Forum: Walk and Talk—Bayview Hill and Candlestick Point State Recreation Area]]

:[[Talks: 2021 Videos#v_aug28-21|August 28, 2021: Urban Forum: Walk and Talk—Grandview Peak and Golden Gate Heights]]

:[[Talks: 2021 Videos#v_jun26-21|June 26, 2021: Urban Forum: Walk and Talk—Dogpatch, Warm Water Cove, Shipyards and Crane Cove Park]]

:[[Talks: 2021 Videos#v_apr10-21|April 10, 2021: Urban Forum: Walk and Talk—Presidio: Crissy Field to El Polín Spring]]

:[[Talks: 2020 Videos#v_dec13-20|December 13, 2020: King Tide/Sea Level Rise Mission Bay Virtual Walking Tour]]

:[[Talks: 2020 Videos#v_sep19-20|September 19, 2020: Urban Forum: Walk and Talk—India Basin and Heron's Head Park]]

[[Talks: Ecology / 2018-2019|Public Talks: Ecology / 2018-2019]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2018-2019#sep25-19|September 25, 2019: Neighborhood Corridors: Memory and Ecology]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2018-2019#may22-19|May 22, 2019: Local Ecological Justice and Urbanity]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2018-2019#mar27-19|March 27, 2019: Sea Level Rise: Pacific Ocean and the Bay Area]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2018-2019#mar28-18|March 28, 2018: Saving the Bay from the "Future"]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2018-2019#mar7-18|March 7, 2018: Resilient by Design: The Language of Water]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2018-2019#feb7-18|February 7, 2018: Building a Deep Map--Beyond Buildings and Views]]

[[Talks: Ecology / 2015-2017|Public Talks: Ecology / 2015-2017]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2015-2017#sep27-17|September 27, 2017: Other Food Systems Are Possible]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2015-2017#may10-17|May 10, 2017: From the Delta to the Bayshore: Adaptation Infrastructure and Rising Seas]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2015-2017#feb8-17|February 8, 2017: Citizen Science/Extinction Culture]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2015-2017#nov30-16|November 30, 2016: Unseen City]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2015-2017#may11-16|May 11, 2016: What’s Going Right with the Global Environment!]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2015-2017#apr27-16|April 27, 2016: Oil, Soil, and (Climate) Turmoil]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2015-2017#apr13-16|April 13, 2016: Synthetic Biology: DIY Tinkering Meets Big Capital]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2015-2017#dec2-15|December 2, 2015: Tending the Urban Wild]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2015-2017#may13-15|May 13, 2015: Plumbing California: Past, Present, and Future]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2015-2017#may6-15|May 6, 2015: Rewilding and the Anthropocene]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2015-2017#apr22-15|April 22, 2015: Telling Stories with Bricks]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2015-2017#feb4-15|February 4, 2015: San Francisco’s Wild Menu: Flora, Fauna, Feast]]

[[Talks: Ecology / 2012-2014|Public Talks: Ecology / 2012-2014]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2012-2014#nov5-14|November 5, 2014: Trees and History]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2012-2014#sep10-14|September 10, 2014: The Evolving Eastern Shoreline]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2012-2014#may14-14|May 14, 2014: Political Economy of Bees]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2012-2014#may7-14|May 7, 2014: Dogs, Density, and Natural Areas]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2012-2014#apr9-14|April 9, 2014: Urban Farming and Urban Nature: Are We Competing or Cooperating?]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2012-2014#mar12-14|March 12, 2014: Saltworks and Shorelines: a Visual and Social History of the San Francisco Bay]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2012-2014#feb26-14|February 26, 2014: Design Radicals: Berkeley 1960s and Today]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2012-2014#feb5-14|February 5, 2014: Becoming a Biodiversity City]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2012-2014#oct30-13|October 30, 2013: Liberation Biology]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2012-2014#may22-13|May 22, 2013: Talking About Ecology and Science in Public]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2012-2014#mar27-13|March 27, 2013: Designing Resilient Landscapes: What history teaches us about San Francisco and the Bay-Delta Estuary]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2012-2014#jan16-13|January 16, 2013: The Tigers of Market Street: Butterfly Habitat along a Busy Urban Corridor]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2012-2014#dec5-12|December 5, 2012: Planning 4th Street: Remaking a San Francisco Corridor]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2012-2014#aug28-12|August 28, 2012: The Next Step in Sustainability]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2012-2014#may23-12|May 23, 2012: What Are Our Streets For?]]

[[Talks: Ecology / 2010-2011|Public Talks: Ecology / 2010-2011]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2010-2011#nov9-11|November 9, 2011: In Search of San Francisco's Eradicated Landscapes]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2010-2011#oct26-11|October 26, 2011: Urban Homesteading]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2010-2011#sep28-11|September 28, 2011: Did Laguna Dolores Exist?]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2010-2011#sep14-11|September 14, 2011: Endangered Species Campaigning]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2010-2011#jun8-11|June 8, 2011: Ecology and Food of the 1970s: Ten Years That Shook the City: San Francisco 1968-78]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2010-2011#mar30-11|March 30, 2011: Reciprocal Bio-Regional Culture from the Bay Area to the Sierras]]

:February 23, 2011: Underground Food Politics

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2010-2011#feb16-11|February 16, 2011: Vanished Waters: A History of San Francisco's Mission Bay]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2010-2011#jan26-11|January 26, 2011: Environmental History of Golden Gate Park]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2010-2011#nov17-10|November 17, 2010: Watersheds from California to Mexico]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2010-2011#nov10-10|November 10, 2010: Eco-Politics, a Strategic Roundtable]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2010-2011#may26-10|May 26, 2010: Twin Peaks Bioregional Park: A Conservation Strategy for the Heart of San Francisco]]

:May 12, 2010: Circle the Food Wagons!—Local Food Economies

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2010-2011#feb24-10|February 24, 2010: San Francisco Golf Courses, Parks, Natural Areas]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2010-2011#jan27-10|January 27, 2010: Urban Forest]]

[[Talks: Ecology / 2008-2009|Public Talks: Ecology / 2008-2009]]

:October 28, 2009: Climate Change/Climate Justice

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2008-2009#sep30-09|September 30, 2009: Ecology and Redevelopment in Bayview/Hunter's Point ]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2008-2009#may13-09|May 13, 2009: Can Capitalism really “Go Green?”]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2008-2009#apr29-09|April 29, 2009: Permacultural Transformation for the Urban Dweller]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2008-2009#mar25-09|March 25, 2009: Toxic San Francisco]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2008-2009#feb25-09|February 25, 2009: Bees in the City]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2008-2009#jan29-09|January 28, 2009: Lake Merced Natural Area's Future]]

:November 19, 2008: Green Streets: Redesigning San Francisco One Block at a Time

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2008-2009#oct29-08|October 29, 2008: Candlestick Point: State Park for the People]]

:February 27, 2008: San Francisco's Imperiled and Surviving Birds

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2008-2009#jan30-08|January 30, 2008: Endangered Species Big Year]]

[[Talks: Ecology / 2006-2007|Public Talks: Ecology / 2006-2007]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2006-2007#nov28-07|November 28, 2007: Food Security & Urban Agriculture]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2006-2007#oct24-07|October 24, 2007: New Politics for Green Cities]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2006-2007#sep26-07|September 26, 2007: San Francisco Water Sources]]

:May 30, 2007: San Francisco Ecology: Butterflies in the City

:May 2, 2007: Immigration, Work, and Agriculture: From Enclosures to Fast-Food

:April 25, 2007: The National Park Where We Live

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2006-2007#feb28-07|February 28, 2007: Laying a Foundation for a Green City (3 podcasts) ]]

:January 31, 2007: Grassroots Activism to Save San Bruno Mountain

:November 29, 2006: Native Habitat Restoration: Frogs in San Francisco

:October 25, 2006: Recycling Activism: Trash and Toxics

:September 27, 2006: Activism in and for the San Francisco Bay Ecosystem

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2006-2007#may31-06|May 31, 2006 : Can San Francisco Feed Itself? (3 podcasts)]]

:May 10, 2006: San Francisco's Food Revolt

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2006-2007#apr26-06|April 26, 2006: Reclaiming Bay Area Military Bases (2 podcasts)]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2006-2007#mar29-06|March 29, 2006: Natural Disasters and Community Response (4 podcasts)]]

:February 22, 2006: Nature in the Urban Environment

:January 25, 2006: Natural Areas of San Francisco: a Pre-Urban View

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==Historical Perspectives==

Public Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2026-

:[[Talks: 2026 Videos#v_apr16-26|April 16, 2026: San Francisco: A Liberal Oligarchy?]]

:[[Talks: 2026 Videos#v_feb25-26|February 25, 2026: Memory Keeping from Indigenous Perspectives]]

:[[Talks: 2026 Videos#v_feb11-26|February 11, 2026: The Priest, the Imperialist, and the Sculptor]]

Public Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2021-2025

:[[Talks: 2025 Videos#v_dec10-25|December 10, 2025: Radiation in our Midst]]

:[[Talks: 2025 Videos#v_nov19-25|November 19, 2025: Logistics, Containers, Seafarers]]

:[[Talks: 2025 Videos#v_nov5-25|November 5, 2025: Auto Row to Robo-cars: A Century of Protesting Carmageddon]]

:[[Talks: 2025 Videos#v_may14-25|May 14, 2025: HUAC and the New McCarthyism]]

:[[Talks: 2025 Videos#v_apr16-25|April 16, 2025: Explosivity: Port Chicago & Beyond]]

:[[Talks: 2024 Videos#v_oct16-24|October 16, 2024: Rebel Airwaves: Looking back at 75 years of KPFA]]

:[[Talks: 2024 Videos#v_oct9-24|October 9, 2024: The First Post-Pandemic Political Era: After WWI]]

:[[Talks: 2024 Videos#v_sep25-24|September 25, 2024: Will Maynez Interprets Diego Rivera]]

:[[Talks: 2024 Videos#v_sep11-24|September 11, 2024: Muni Labor, Muni Love]]

:[[Talks: 2024 Videos#v_apr24-24|April 24, 2024: History of Monopoly (the game)]]

:[[Talks: 2024 Videos#v_apr10-24|April 10, 2024: Life and Death in a Great American City]]

:[[Talks: 2023 Videos#v_dec5-23|December 15, 2023: Talking History with Gary Kamiya]]

:[[Talks: 2023 Videos#v_nov15-23|November 15, 2023: Living in the Archives]]

:[[Talks: 2023 Videos#v_nov8-23|November 8, 2023: Peoples History of SFO]]

:[[Talks: 2023 Videos#v_oct28-23|October 28, 2023: Lone Mountain Cemeteries]]

:[[Talks: 2023 Videos#v_oct24-23|October 24, 2023: Mountain View Cemetery]]

:[[Talks: 2023 Videos#v_sep27-23|September 27, 2023: Trains into the Outside Lands]]

:[[Talks: 2023 Videos#v_aug26-23|August 26, 2023: Bicycle Messenger Crackdown Commemoration Ride]]

:[[Talks: 2023 Videos#v_jun14-23|June 14, 2023: San Francisco and the New Deal]]

:[[Talks: 2023 Videos#v_may20-23|May 20, 2023: Urban Forum: Walk and Talk—Food and Baseball in SOMA and the Mission]]

:[[Talks: 2023 Videos#v_mar26-23|March 26, 2023: Tour of the Oakland Tribune Tower]]

:[[Talks: 2023 Videos#v_jan28-23|January 28, 2023: Urban Forum: Walk and Talk—Bernal Cut to Diamond Heights]]

:[[Talks: 2022 Videos#v_nov19-22|November 19, 2022: Urban Forum: Walk and Talk—Pacific Heights and Cow Hollow]]

:[[Talks: 2021 Videos#v_sep18-21|September 18 2021: Urban Forum: Walk and Talk—Eureka Valley and Corbett Heights]]

:[[Talks: 2021 Videos#v_mar6-21|March 6 2021: Urban Forum: Walk and Talk—Bernal Heights and the Bernal Cut]]

[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2019|Public Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2019-2020]]

:[[Talks: Spring 2020 Videos#v_nov14-20|November 14, 2020: Urban Forum: Walk and Talk—McLaren Park and Philosophers' Way]]

:[[Talks: Spring 2020 Videos#v_sep26-20|September 26, 2020: Urban Forum: Walk and Talk—Fort Mason and Black Point]]

:August 29, 2020: Urban Forum: Walk and Talk—SF General Hospital and Potrero Hill ''No recording available''

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2019-2020#mar11-20|March 11, 2020: ''Hidden San Francisco'': Book Release and Birthday Party]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2019-2020#dec11-19|December 11, 2019: Valencia Street as a Lesbian Corridor: Living Memories]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2019-2020#nov13-19|November 13, 2019: Progress to Poverty: Land and Rents]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2019-2020#nov6-19|November 6, 2019: Alcatraz Occupation: A Beginning]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2019-2020#oct23-19|October 23, 2019: Shellmounds, Indigenous Culture, and Ecology on the San Francisco Bay]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2019-2020#oct2-19|October 2, 2019: Storytelling and the Memory Keepers]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2019-2020#may29-19|May 29, 2019: Americans in the Spanish Civil War]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2019-2020#apr10-19|April 10, 2019: Neighborhood Newspapers of San Francisco]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2019-2020#feb6-19|February 6, 2019: Internment and its Aftermath]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2019-2020#jan23-19|January 23, 2019: Before San Francisco: Spanish and Mexican Peninsula]]

[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2017-2018|Public Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2017-2018]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2017-2018#nov7-18|November 7, 2018: The War to End All Wars]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2017-2018#oct31-18|October 31, 2018: The Jazz of Modern Basketball: Racism and Virtuosity at the Roots of the Golden State Warriors]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2017-2018#oct10-18|October 10, 2018: Missing Pieces: Remembering Elements of a Gone City]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2017-2018#sep26-18|September 26, 2018: Model SF: Collectively Shaping the City]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2017-2018#may23-18|May 23, 2018: Archives and Memory: New Ways of Making History]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2017-2018#may9-18|May 9, 2018: Platform Cooperatives]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2017-2018#apr25-18|April 25, 2018: Universal Basic Income, Is It time?]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2017-2018#jan24-18|January 24, 2018: Dogpatch Then and Now]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2017-2018#dec6-17|December 6, 2017: Popular Front to Cold War]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2017-2018#oct11-17|October 11, 2017: Speeding Through the Unseen, From Coding to Commons]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2017-2018#oct4-17|October 4, 2017: Art and Architecture During the Depression]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2017-2018#may3-17|May 3, 2017: Agents of Change: California Labor History]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2017-2018#feb22-17|February 22, 2017: Progressive Transgressions]]

[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2015-2016|Public Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2015-2016]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2015-2016#dec7-16|December 7, 2016: Divided We Fall: Immigration and Scapegoating]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2015-2016#nov9-16|November 9, 2016: The Housing Crisis and The Growth Consensus: What's Wrong with this Picture?]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2015-2016#oct5-16|October 5, 2016: 19th Century California Indian Slavery and Genocide]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2015-2016#may25-16|May 25, 2016: Audible Cities]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2015-2016#apr20-16|April 20, 2016: San Francisco, 1960s & 70s: Cultural Ecology and Experimentation]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2015-2016#mar16-16|March 16, 2016: Street Names, Streetcars, and Street Life]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2015-2016#mar9-16|March 9, 2016: Rise and Fall of Third Worldism]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2015-2016#feb10-16|February 10, 2016: New (Old) Paradigms in Medicine]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2015-2016#jan27-16|January 27, 2016: Easter Rebellion and Irish San Francisco]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2015-2016#dec9-15|December 9, 2015: United Nations and New Deal]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2015-2016#oct7-15|October 7, 2015: Archaeology Finds…Daily Family Life in Early SF Settlements]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2015-2016#apr8-15|April 8, 2015: The Tenderloin: SF’s Most Fraught Neighborhood]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2015-2016#feb24-15|February 24, 2015: Promises of Progress: Panama-Pacific International Exposition]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2015-2016#jan21-15|January 21, 2015: Washed Away—Newfound Extreme Weather History]]

[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2013-2014|Public Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2013-2014]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2013-2014#dec3-14|December 3, 2014: Tunneling San Francisco Then and Now: Where's the Public Interest?]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2013-2014#oct9-14|October 9, 2014: Making History by Making Maps]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2013-2014#sep24-14|September 24, 2014: No Future at College?!?]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2013-2014#may28-14|May 28, 2014: San Francisco's Ghadar Party Heritage]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2013-2014#apr16-14|April 16, 2014: Upton Sinclair/End Poverty in California]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2013-2014#mar19-14|March 19, 2014: Stop, Thief! The Commons, Enclosures, and Resistance]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2013-2014#jan15-14|January 15, 2014: Latinos at the Golden Gate: Creating Community & Identity in San Francisco]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2013-2014#oct9-13|October 9, 2013: Bay Area Indigenous Pre-History]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2013-2014#sep25-13|September 25, 2013: Radical Archiving and Cataloging as Social History]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2013-2014#sep11-13|September 11, 2013: The Bay Bridge, 1936-2013]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2013-2014#apr13-13|April 13, 2013: Chinese Whispers]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2013-2014#feb27-13|February 27, 2013: Pier 70, Transforming 19th Century Ironworks to a 21st Century ... ?]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2013-2014#jan30-13|January 30, 2013: Catastrophism: The Apocalyptic Politics of Collapse and Rebirth]]

[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2010-2012|Public Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2010-2012]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2010-2012#dec12-12|December 12, 2012: Old City Hall: Corruption & Racism in 19th Century San Francisco]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2010-2012#jul17-12|July 17, 2012: Bristol Radical History Group “History From Below”]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2010-2012#may30-12|May 30, 2012: FoundSF: Dissent]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2010-2012#may2-12|May 2, 2012: Mat Callahan presents the "James Connolly--Songs of Freedom" project]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2010-2012#apr25-12|April 25, 2012: Radically Gay: Harry Hay, LGBT pioneer]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2010-2012#jan18-12|January 18, 2012: The Vietnam War Continues]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2010-2012#dec14-11|December 14, 2011: Centennial Anniversary! Women Get the Vote!]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2010-2012#nov30-11|November 30, 2011: The History of the Future]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2010-2012#oct12-11|October 12, 2011: Reimagining Market Street]]

:May 11, 2011: A Virtual Civil Liberties Tour of San Francisco

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2010-2012#jan19-11|January 19, 2011: Before (and After) the Car: San Francisco's Transit History]]

:January 12, 2011: Rick Prelinger's Lost Landscapes of Detroit

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2010-2012#jan13-10|January 13, 2010: Prohibition in San Francisco: Then and Now]]

[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2006-2009|Public Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2006-2009]]

:December 16, 2009 : Rick Prelinger's Lost Landscapes of the East Bay

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2006-2009#nov11-09|November 11, 2009: Alcatraz: 40th Anniversary of Indigenous Occupation]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2006-2009#sep9-09|September 9, 2009: Final Tap: An Unofficial History of Beer]]

:February 11, 2009: Rick Prelinger's Lost Landscapes III: Film Fragments of San Francisco

:January 21, 2009: FoundSF: San Francisco History Wiki Workshop

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2006-2009#nov12-08|November 12, 2008: The Invisible Public Legacy of the Great Depression]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2006-2009#sep17-08|September 17, 2008: SF State Strike 40th Anniversary]]

:December 19, 2007: Rick Prelinger's Lost Landscapes: Film Fragments of San Francisco

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2006-2009#apr11-07|April 11, 2007: Lowriders: When the Mission was Low and Slow]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2006-2009#feb14-07|February 14, 2007: A History of Land Grabs in San Francisco and Some Counter-efforts]]

:December 6, 2006: Rick Prelinger's Lost Landscapes: Film Fragments of San Francisco

:November 8, 2006: Sexual and Reproductive Freedom Since the 1960s

:June 14, 2006: Films by Calvin Roberts: A San Franciscan’s Lost History

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2006-2009#apr12-06|April 12, 2006: Black Exodus and Black Eviction in San Francisco]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2006-2009#feb8-06|February 8, 2006: Philippines & San Francisco: Connected Through History]]

:January 18, 2006: Labor strength: Historic Bay Area General Strikes

==Literary==

[[Talks: Literary / 2010-2017|Public Talks: Literary / 2010-2017]]

:[[Talks: Literary / 2010-2017#mar11-20|March 11, 2020: ''Hidden San Francisco": Book Release and Birthday Party]]

:[[Talks: Literary / 2010-2017#mar8-17|March 8, 2017: Local History in Your Ear]]

:[[Talks: Literary / 2010-2017#nov11-15|November 11, 2015: Literary Liberalism and the Western Voice]]

:[[Talks: Literary / 2010-2017#nov13-13|November 13, 2013: Literary Treasures of the North Mission]]

:[[Talks: Literary / 2010-2017#oct16-13|October 16, 2013: Unsettlers: El Cabe]]

:[[Talks: Literary / 2010-2017#may8-13|May 8, 2013: Unsettlers: Migrants, Homies, and Mammas in the Mission]]

:[[Talks: Literary / 2010-2017#apr13-11|April 13, 2011: History of the Charles H. Kerr Publishing Co.]]

:[[Talks: Literary / 2010-2017#mar23-11|March 23, 2011: The Radical Futures Of The Book]]

:[[Talks: Literary / 2010-2017#oct20-10|October 20, 2010: Hard Boiled for Hard Times—Crime Authors in the City]]

:[[Talks: Literary / 2010-2017#oct13-10|October 13, 2010: Outspoken Authors Speak Out]]

:[[Talks: Literary / 2010-2017#mar24-10|March 24, 2010: Science Fiction and the Struggle for Justice]]

:[[Talks: Literary / 2010-2017#mar17-10|March 17, 2010: Crime/Noir Writers Describe Their Crimes in the City]]

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==Social Movements==

Public Talks: Social Movements / 2026-

:[[Talks: 2026 Videos#v_may27-26|May 27, 2026: AI and Empire Building]]

[[Talks: Social Movements / 2020|Public Talks: Social Movements / 2020-2025]]

:[[Talks: 2025 Videos#v_oct22-25|October 22, 2025: Social Housing: Challenging YIMBYs and NIMBYs]]

:[[Talks: 2025 Videos#v_feb26-25|February 26, 2025: New Luddites vs. Biopiracy and AI]]

:[[Talks: 2024 Videos#v_dec4-24|December 4, 2024: Refusing Silicon Valley]]

:[[Talks: 2024 Videos#v_jul5-24|July 5, 2024: 1934 Big Strike 90th Anniversary]]

:[[Talks: 2024 Videos#v_may22-24|May 22, 2024: Rainbow Grocery Cooperative]]

:[[Talks: 2022 Videos#v_may28-22|May 28, 2022: Urban Forum Walk n Talk: CCSF to SFSU]]

:[[Talks: 2021 Videos#v_nov18-21|November 18, 2021: An Irish Catholic Liberal: Bishop Mark J. Hurley and the 1968-69 Strike at State]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2020#jan29-20|January 29, 2020: Enola Gay Faggot Affinity Group]]

[[Talks: Social Movements / 2018-2019|Public Talks: Social Movements / 2018-2019]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2018-2019#dec4-19|December 4, 2019: Seattle/WTO Shutdown: 20th Anniversary]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2018-2019#oct15-19|October 15, 2019: For the Record: Eyewitness Testimonies of the police murder of Luis Góngora Pat]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2018-2019#oct9-19|October 9, 2019: Expanding San Francisco’s Common Wealth]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2018-2019#may8-19|May 8, 2019: The Women of Los Siete de la Raza]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2018-2019#mar13-19|March 13, 2019: Dockworker Power in the Bay Area and South Africa]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2018-2019#dec5-18|December 5, 2018: Movements of Movements]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2018-2019#oct24-18|October 24, 2018: Rethinking 1968: What Happened, How Has It Shaped Us?]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2018-2019#oct3-18|October 3, 2018: Women, Power, and the Vote: 1911 Suffrage to the 2018 Midterms]]

[[Talks: Social Movements / 2015-2017|Public Talks: Social Movements / 2015-2017]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2015-2017#dec13-17|December 13, 2017: San Francisco's Freeway Revolt]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2015-2017#oct18-17|October 18, 2017: 50th Anniversary of the Stop the Draft Week Protests]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2015-2017#may31-17|May 31, 2017: Summer of Love or Vietnam Summer?]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2015-2017#mar22-17|March 22, 2017: We've Done This Before: 1980s Movements]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2015-2017#oct26-16|October 26, 2016: Death of Money: Diggers 50 Years Later]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2015-2017#oct12-16|October 12, 2016: Compton's Cafeteria 50th Anniversary—The Transformation of Trans Politics and Identity]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2015-2017#sep14-16|September 14, 2016: Hunter's Point Rebellion, 50 Years Later]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2015-2017#oct14-15|October 14, 2015: Housing is a Human Right!]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2015-2017#sep23-15|September 23, 2015: Prisoners and Politics: from the San Quentin Six to Pelican Bay]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2015-2017#apr29-15|April 29, 2015: Union Demise and New Workers’ Movements]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2015-2017#apr1-15|April 1, 2015: Vietnam War, Dissent, and the U.S. Military]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2015-2017#jan14-15|January 14, 2015: Home on the Grange]]

[[Talks: Social Movements / 2012-2014|Public Talks: Social Movements / 2012-2014]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2012-2014#dec10-14|December 10, 2014: Latin American Social Movements]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2012-2014#oct29-14|October 29, 2014: San Francisco’s Housing Wars 2014 ]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2012-2014#oct1-14|October 1, 2014: A History of LGBTQ Spaces . . .Where you Least Expect Them]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2012-2014#dec4-13|December 4, 2013: Remembering Los Siete]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2012-2014#nov6-13|November 6, 2013: Confronting Cultural Genocide]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2012-2014#oct2-13|October 2, 2013: The Red Army Faction—Dancing With Imperialism]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2012-2014#may20-13|May 20, 2013: "We are not machines!" The Situation and Struggles of the iSlaves in China]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2012-2014#mar13-13|March 13, 2013: Asia's Unknown Uprisings]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2012-2014#feb20-13|February 20, 2013: The Revolution of Everyday Life]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2012-2014#oct17-12|October 17, 2012: Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2012-2014#oct10-12|October 10, 2012: Ohlone Profiles Project]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2012-2014#sep12-12|September 12, 2012: Mexico Today: Dinosaurs, Popular Refusal, and Hashtags!]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2012-2014#apr11-12|April 11, 2012: West of Eden: Communes and Utopia in Northern California]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2012-2014#mar28-12|March 28, 2012: Selma James and George Katsiaficas]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2012-2014#mar14-12|March 14, 2012: Rebooting the Rainbow]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2012-2014#feb22-12|February 22, 2012: Policing San Francisco: 1930s-1960s]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2012-2014#feb15-12|February 15, 2012: Corporate Personhood?!?]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2012-2014#jan25-12|January 25, 2012: Occupy Everything! An Open Discussion]]

[[Talks: Social Movements / 2009-2011|Public Talks: Social Movements / 2009-2011]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2009-2011#nov16-11|November 16, 2011: The Good, The Bad, and the Alternatives to Mass Education]]

:September 21, 2011: Dublin Community Activism Against Drug Addiction

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2009-2011#may18-11|May 18, 2011: Mission Politics in the 1970s: Ten Years That Shook the City: San Francisco 1968-78]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2009-2011#apr27-11|April 27, 2011: Overcoming Work and Sacrifice]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2009-2011#apr20-11|April 20, 2011: Radical Approaches to Organizing Work]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2009-2011#mar16-11|March 16, 2011: Movements and Political Generations]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2009-2011#mar9-11|March 9, 2011: The Struggles of the Balkans and Romani in Fact and Fiction]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2009-2011#dec15-10|December 15, 2010: Navigating the Criminal Courts: A Guide for Activists]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2009-2011#dec8-10|December 8, 2010: Haiti: Gender and Continuity in the Midst of Disaster]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2009-2011#sep29-10|September 29, 2010: Education Crisis/Radical Responses]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2009-2011#sep15-10|September 15, 2010: Imprisoned But Unbowed: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2009-2011#apr21-10|April 21, 2010: Ten Years That Shook the City -- Sneak Preview]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2009-2011#apr14-10|April 14, 2010: U.S. Social Forum, Detroit]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2009-2011#mar31-10|March 31, 2010: Songs To Enemies And Deserts, A Film Screening About Rebellion In Darfur]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2009-2011#feb10-10|February 10, 2010: Queer workers: Class, Gentrification and Struggle in San Francisco]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2009-2011#oct21-09|October 21, 2009: Bicycling in San Francisco]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2009-2011#oct14-09|October 14, 2009: The Politics of ‘Third Space’ in Global Videos and Installations]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2009-2011#may20-09|May 20, 2009: Anti-systemic Knowledge: Learning from the South]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2009-2011#apr22-09|April 22, 2009: Global Commons/Global Enclosures]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2009-2011#apr8-09|April 8, 2009: Anti-War Then and Now]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2009-2011#mar11-09|March 11, 2009: Local Remanufacturing Our Way out of the Depression]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2009-2011#jan14-09|January 14, 2009: Hearing the City: Radio in San Francisco]]

[[Talks: Social Movements / 2006-2008|Public Talks: Social Movements / 2006-2008]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2006-2008#dec17-08|December 17, 2008: Lessons and Advice on How to Survive an Economic Meltdown]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2006-2008#dec10-08|December 10, 2008: Neighborhood Newspapers: Community Journalism in San Francisco]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2006-2008#oct22-08|October 22, 2008: Worker Cooperative Alternatives to Precariousness]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2006-2008#sep24-08|September 24, 2008: Global Africa: Liberation, Decolonialization, and Diaspora]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2006-2008#mar12-08|March 12, 2008: Arab San Francisco]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2006-2008#feb13-08|February 13, 2008: Community Art Spaces Survive Urban Pressures]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2006-2008#jan9-08|January 9, 2008: Class and Power in Queer San Francisco]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2006-2008#dec12-07|December 12, 2007: News and the Future of Journalism]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2006-2008#nov14-07|November 14, 2007: Public Commons vs. Corporate Privatization]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2006-2008#oct10-07|October 10, 2007: Voting Perspectives]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2006-2008#mar7-07|March 7, 2007: Learnin’ + Teachin’: The Future of Education (4 podcasts)]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2006-2008#jan17-07|January 17, 2007: The Public Health Epidemic in a Therapy Society (3 podcasts)]]

:December 13, 2006: Tactical Evolution: Protest Culture, Dissent, and Radical Change

:October 11, 2006: Bolivar, Zapata and Sandino Ghosts and Revolution in South America

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2006-2008#mar8-06|March 8, 2006: Infrastructure Wars: Sustainable Movements (3 podcasts)]]

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Talks: 2026 Videos

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''' Primary Source '''

'''Shaping San Francisco hosts Public Talks on a variety of topics, usually on Wednesday nights, a dozen times a year. Our topic themes vary, but we've grouped them over time into these categories: Art & Politics, Ecology, Historical Perspectives, Literary, and Social Movements.'''

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June 3, 2026 

Rewilding San Francisco

World Environment Day with its Global Call for Climate Action is June 5. Restoring nature reduces our climate impact while making our life-places more resilient to climate disruption. Join us for a panel discussion with community stewards caring for and rewilding San Francisco's public open spaces. Learn about current stewardship work and strategies for helping nature thrive in San Francisco so that San Franciscans can thrive in nature. Tom Radulovich (Livable City), Peter Brastow (SF Dept. of Environment), Sophie Constantinou (Citizen Film and Bernal Cut), and Ildiko Polony (Sutro Stewards).

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May 27, 2026 

AI and Empire Building

We bring together several sharp critics of the hype machine that has long characterized the internet and our successive tech booms, currently blowing up in the AI bubble. Lost in the hand wringing over the more exaggerated claims of boosters and doomers is the ongoing reproduction of a colonial seizure of what should be our common wealth. This process has long historic roots and in some ways it is thanks to our amnesiac culture that the current crop of billionaire investors and tech bros have gotten away with doing it all again. Wendy Liu, Alex Hanna, Tamara Kneese, and Elizabeth Travelslight.

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April 16, 2026 

San Francisco: A Liberal Oligarchy?

New tech oligarchs have thrown their money around to shape city politics for the past decade. We now have a billionaire bluejeans heir for mayor. We explore how organized money and corporate power managed to steer San Francisco going back through the post-WWII cold war, the long decline of Catholic morality, and the explosion of social movements and the sexual revolution the city is known for. Join political scientist Lincoln Mitchell, former supervisor and Mayoral candidate Tom Ammiano, and neighborhood activist and writer Romalyn Schmaltz for a spirited romp through the tangled and conflicted histories of the past few decades.

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March 25, 2026 

Re-Imagining Serra

Chris Cuadrado's artist activation uses multimedia technology to create an alternative statue emerging from the rubble of what has been torn down. Chris investigates the act of reappropriation to rebuild the memory of Junipero Serra. Based on collected ephemera, photographs, video footage, and sourced miniature replicas related to the statue, a screening and sound sculpture is a meditation on the figure of Padre Junipero Serra. Attendees will be invited to reflect on monuments, legacy, and public space.

Part of Shaping Legacy: San Francisco Monuments & Memorials, a project of San Francisco Arts Commission, with Adriana Camarena, Kim Shuck, and Chris Cuadrado. Thanks to Association of Ramaytush Ohlone for guidance throughout the year.

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March 11, 2026 

City of Redwood

James Michael Buckley’s 2024 ''City of Wood: San Francisco and the Architecture of the Redwood Lumber Industry'' reconnects us to the built environment from San Francisco all the way up to Eureka in the far north of California, past and present. David Schmidt’s brand new majesterial ''San Francisco Bay Area: An Environmental History'' contains a close look at the historic forests of the Bay Area and how they were cut down to help build the region. Together these speakers will help us see how profoundly the iconic trees of the west coast literally undergird our everyday lives even today.

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February 25, 2026 

Memory Keeping from Indigenous Perspectives

Shaping San Francisco’s year-long case study of the Padre Junípero Serra statue included a folklife-based, community-led research process centered on memory-keeping practices. Indigenous community researchers explored everyday practices from their own cultures that carry collective knowledge. The researchers included members of Urban Native communities, Indigenous migrants from Latin America and the Caribbean, and urban youth. Their research invites reflection on how genocide, relocation, and migration continue to erode Indigenous ways of knowing, and how communities continue to protect and hold on to them. The process was facilitated by storyteller Adriana Camarena. Several community researchers will share their findings. The discussion will be presented in Spanish and English.

Part of Shaping Legacy: San Francisco Monuments & Memorials, a project of San Francisco Arts Commission 

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February 11, 2026 

The Priest, the Imperialist, and the Sculptor

We close a year-long case study of the Padre Junipero Serra statue. Jonathan Cordero (Association of Ramaytush Ohlone) critically examines the romantic myth that supports the veneration of Serra and reveals the actual calamitous impact of the mission system. Chris Carlsson explains how an unlikely series of events led to the so-called “Mission Revival”, the commissioning of the statue by James Phelan, and giving Serra an undeserved new role in a manufactured public memory. He reveals that the statue's placement in Golden Gate Park in 1907 in fact bolstered a white supremacist agenda at the dawn of the 20th century. LisaRuth Elliott explores Douglas Tilden, the cosmopolitan sculptor revered in the deaf community, and his many other contributions to the SF civic art collection and beyond. This evening is a chance to talk about the reanimation of a man through a monument, the fraught relationship between a patron of the arts and his protegé, and how these honorific likenesses and what they are supposed to signify become part of our urban space.

Part of Shaping Legacy: San Francisco Monuments & Memorials, a project of San Francisco Arts Commission

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Category:Book Excerpts

2026-06-02T05:22:12Z

Ccarlsson:

[[category:Theme]] [[category:Books]]

[[Image:American-Genocide-cover.jpg|200px]]

[[Hastings College of Law Built on Genocide?|Hastings College of Law Built on Genocide?]]

''Excerpted with permission from [http://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300230697/american-genocide ''An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873''] (Yale University Press: New Haven & London 2016)''

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[[Image:A-Negotiated-Landscape-book-cover.jpg|200px]]

[[A Waterfront Planned: The 1990s and the New Millennium|A Waterfront Planned: The 1990s and the New Millennium]]

[[The Embarcadero Reborn|The Embarcadero Reborn]]

[[The Waterfront Land Use Plan|The Waterfront Land Use Plan]]

[[Problems of Waterfront Planning|Problems of Waterfront Planning]]

[[A Waterfront for the People?|A Waterfront for the People?]]

The pages from this book [http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/N/bo12387078.html ''A Negotiated Landscape''] © 2011 Jasper Rubin and the Center for American Places at Columbia College Chicago, are excerpted with permission.

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[[Image:BART-cover-RGB-onlineuse.jpg|200px]]

''Originally published in [https://heydaybooks.com/catalog/bart-the-dramatic-history-of-the-bay-area-rapid-transit-system/ ''BART: The Dramatic History of the Bay Area Rapid Transit System'' Heyday Books]: Berkeley CA, 2016''

[[Key System and March of Progress|Key System and March of Progress]]

[[San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit Commission—The Beginnings|San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit Commission—The Beginnings]]

[[Planning and Selling BART|Planning and Selling BART]]

[[Building San Francisco's BART tunnels|Building San Francisco's BART tunnels]]

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[[Image:Bump-city-cover.jpg|200px]]

''Bump City'' by John Krich (City Miner Books, Berkeley CA: 1979);
Originally a chapter in ''Bump City'' called “Captain Sal and the Age of Irony”

[[Incredible Bottom of the Ninth Comeback! The Oakland A’s Win Game 5 of the 1972 World Series|Incredible Bottom of the Ninth Comeback! The Oakland A’s Win Game 5 of the 1972 World Series]]

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[[Image:Front-cover-web-resolution-72-dpi.jpg|200px]]

[[Chinatown Vice|Chinatown Vice]]

[[The Golden Dragon Restaurant Massacre|The Golden Dragon Restaurant Massacre]]

[[The Six Companies|The Six Companies]]

''By Kevin J. Mullen, excerpted with permission from "Chinatown Squad"''

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[[Image:Issel Church and State sm.jpg|200px]]

''From pages 1-6, the Introduction to [http://www.temple.edu/tempress/titles/2257_reg.html '''Church and State in the City: Catholics and Politics in Twentieth-Century San Francisco'''] by William Issel. Used by permission of Temple University Press. © 2013 by Temple University. All Rights Reserved.''

[[Catholic San Francisco: A City of Contests|Catholic San Francisco: A City of Contests]]

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[[Image:CGC-cover.jpg|200px|]]

''Excerpted with permission from [http://bloomsbury.com/us/cool-gray-city-of-love-9781608199600/ Bloomsbury], from the book “Cool Gray City of Love” available here: [http://www.indiebound.org/book/9781608199600 IndieBound], [http://www.citylights.com/book/?GCOI=87286100740730 City Lights], [http://www.amazon.com/Cool-Gray-City-Love-Francisco/dp/1608199606/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1386633018&sr=1-1&keywords=cool+gray+city+of+love+49+views+of+san+francisco Amazon], and [http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/cool-gray-city-of-love-gary-kamiya/1114764186?ean=9781608199600 B&N].''

[[Searching for the Yelamu in San Francisco|Searching for the Yelamu in San Francisco]]

[[Western Addition: A Basic History|Western Addition: A Basic History]]

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[[Image:Copaganda-cover-288px.jpg|200px]]

''Copyright © 2025 by Alec Karakatsanis. This excerpt originally appeared in [https://thenewpress.org/books/copaganda/ ''Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News''], published by The New Press. Reprinted here with permission.''

[[Copaganda: The Recall of DA Chesa Boudin|Copaganda: The Recall of DA Chesa Boudin]]

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[[Image:labor1$waitresses$dishout_itm$dish-cover.jpg|200px]]

[http://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/86dnq7dp9780252061868.html ''Dishing It Out: Waitresses and Their Unions in the Twentieth Century''], by Dorothy Sue Cobble (1991: University of Illinois Press: Urbana and Chicago

[[WAITRESSES and UNIONS The Fruits of Solidarity|WAITRESSES and UNIONS The Fruits of Solidarity]]

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[[Image:Paulson cover 200px.jpg]]

Excerpted from ''Forty Years of Making ‘Good Trouble’—The Selected Writings of a San Francisco Labor Leader'' © Tim Paulson, 2021

First published in the U.S. by Senders Communications Group, 16501 Ventura Blvd. #400, Encino, CA 91436

[[Labor and the San Francisco Universal Health Care Security Ordinance|Labor and the San Francisco Universal Health Care Security Ordinance]]

[[San Francisco is Beautiful, Difficult — but still a Union City|San Francisco is Beautiful, Difficult — but still a Union City]]

[[SF Labor Council Helps Cruise Line Workers|SF Labor Council Helps Cruise Line Workers]]

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[[Image:Free-City-cover.jpg|200px]]

''Originally published as the Epilogue in ''[https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1141 Free City! The Fight for San Francisco's City College and Education for All]'' by PM Press, 2021''

[[City College of SF: One Struggle Sets the Table for the Next|City College of SF: One Struggle Sets the Table for the Next]]

'''The following pages are not excerpted directly from this book, but are earlier versions that ended up after further revisions as chapters.'''

[[Education ‘Reform’ Meets Gentrification in San Francisco at City College|Education ‘Reform’ Meets Gentrification in San Francisco at City College]]

[[City College Faculty Fights for Fairness|City College Faculty Fights for Fairness]]

[[Development Pressure Engulfs City College|Development Pressure Engulfs City College]]

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[[Image:Gods-hotel-cover.jpg|200px]]

''from [http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/306891/gods-hotel-by-victoria-sweet/9781594486548 ''God's Hotel: A Doctor, A Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine''] by Victoria Sweet, copyright © 2012 by Victoria Sweet. Used by permission of Riverhead, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC.''

[[Laguna Honda Hospital|Laguna Honda Hospital]]

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[[Image:Front cover.jpg|200px]]

Excerpted from ''[https://www.amazon.com/God-Squad-Born-Again-Francisco-Giants/dp/1631322079/ The God Squad: The Born-Again San Francisco Giants of 1978].''

[[BOO! The Giants' Johnnie LeMaster|BOO! The Giants' Johnnie LeMaster]]

[[Dave Dravecky's Miraculous Comeback|Dave Dravecky's Miraculous Comeback]]

[[The God Squad|The God Squad]]

[[Jack Clark's Revenge on the Dodgers|Jack Clark's Revenge on the Dodgers]]

[[Mike Ivie: The Miracle Man|Mike Ivie: The Miracle Man]]

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[[Image:Baranski-Housing-City-by-the-Bay-Cover-288px.jpg|200px]]

''Excerpted from [https://www.sup.org/books/history/housing-city-bay ''Housing the City by the Bay: Tenant Activism, Civil Rights, and Class Politics in San Francisco''] by John Baranski, published by Stanford University Press. Used by permission. © Copyright 2019 by John Baranski. All rights reserved.''

[[Post-1906 Quake Housing Reform|Post-1906 Quake Housing Reform]]

[[Burnham Plan and Tenement Housing|Burnham Plan and Tenement Housing]]

[[San Francisco Housing Association|San Francisco Housing Association]]

[[California Commission of Immigration and Housing|California Commission of Immigration and Housing]]

[[World War I Housing Reform Effort|World War I Housing Reform Effort]]

[[Segregated and Substandard Housing in the 1920s|Segregated and Substandard Housing in the 1920s]]

[[Housing Crisis Worsens at Start of Depression|Housing Crisis Worsens at Start of Depression]]

[[Chinatown Tenants Win Public Housing Rent Strike|Chinatown Tenants Win Public Housing Rent Strike]]

[[San Francisco Housing Authority and Mayor Moscone|San Francisco Housing Authority and Mayor Moscone]]

[[San Francisco Housing Authority Tries to Buy I-Hotel|San Francisco Housing Authority Tries to Buy I-Hotel]]

[[San Francisco Housing Authority and CANE|San Francisco Housing Authority and CANE]]

[[San Francisco Housing Authority in the 1970s|San Francisco Housing Authority in the 1970s]]

[[Neoliberalism Dismantles Public Housing|Neoliberalism Dismantles Public Housing]]

[[SF Housing Authority Copes With Neoliberalism|SF Housing Authority Copes With Neoliberalism]]

[[Homelessness Surges in Wake of Neoliberalism|Homelessness Surges in Wake of Neoliberalism]]

[[Pink Palace Controversy|Pink Palace Controversy]]

[[Public Housing Tenant Movement Fractures|Public Housing Tenant Movement Fractures]]

[[Safety Net Torn Up by Government|Safety Net Torn Up by Government]]

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[[Image:Industrial-Cowboys-cover.jpg|200px|]]

''This excerpt from [https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520245341/industrial-cowboys ''Industrial Cowboys Miller & Lux and the Transformation of the Far West, 1850-1920''] is used with permission. © David Igler, University of California Press: 2001''

[[Miller & Lux and the Dirty Plate Route|Miller & Lux and the Dirty Plate Route]]

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[[Image:Latinos-at-the-golden-gate-cover.jpg|200px]]

''excerpted from '''[http://www.uncpress.unc.edu/browse/book_detail?title_id=3444 Latinos at the Golden Gate: Creating Community and Identity in San Francisco]''', by Tomás F. Summers Sandoval Jr., Copyright © 2013 by the [http://www.uncpress.unc.edu University of North Carolina Press]. Used by permission of the publisher.''

[[Midcentury Migrations|Midcentury Migrations]]

[[Tributary to San Francisco|Tributary to San Francisco]]

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[[Image:Lee-Felsenstein-book-cover 200px.jpg]]

Excerpted with permission from: ''Me and My Big Ideas: Counterculture, Social Media, and the Future'' by Lee Felsenstein published by [https://www.FelsenSigns.com FelsenSigns]

[[Free Speech Movement 1964|Free Speech Movement 1964]]

[[Working at Ampex|Working at Ampex]]

[[Berkeley Barb and People's Park|Berkeley Barb and People's Park]]

[[Founding of Ohlone Park|Founding of Ohlone Park]]

[[Resource One|Resource One]]

[[Installing a Mainframe at Project One|Installing a Mainframe at Project One]]

[[Community Memory: The Beginning|Community Memory: The Beginning]]

[[Community Memory Evolves|Community Memory Evolves]]

[[Homebrew Computer Club|Homebrew Computer Club]]

[[Reflections on the End of Community Memory|Reflections on the End of Community Memory]]

[[Craigslist|Craigslist]]

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[[Image:Karl-book-2258 reg.gif]]

[[Mission Anti-Displacement Coalition|Mission Anti-Displacement Coalition]]

[[Rezoning the Eastern Neighborhoods in Early 2000s|Rezoning the Eastern Neighborhoods in Early 2000s]]

''Excerpts from [http://www.temple.edu/tempress/titles/2258_reg.html '''Local Protest, Global Movements: Capital, Community, and State In San Francisco'''] by Karl Beitel. Used by permission of Temple University Press. © 2013 by Temple University. All Rights Reserved.''

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[[Image:Berglund-Making-San-Francisco-American-cover.jpg|200px]]

''Exerpts from [https://kuecprd.ku.edu/~upress/cgi-bin/award-winners/978-0-7006-1722-7.html ''Making San Francisco American: Cultural Frontiers in the Urban West, 1846-1906''] by Barbara Berglund (University Press of Kansas: Lawrence KS 2007)''

[[California Midwinter Fair of 1894: An Orientalist Exposition|California Midwinter Fair of 1894: An Orientalist Exposition]]

[[California Midwinter Fair of 1894: ’49 Mining Camp glorifies Gold Rush Fantasies|California Midwinter Fair of 1894: ’49 Mining Camp glorifies Gold Rush Fantasies]]

[[California Midwinter Fair of 1894: Women’s Work and Vice|California Midwinter Fair of 1894: Women’s Work and Vice]]

[[California Midwinter Fair of 1894: Depression and Poverty|California Midwinter Fair of 1894: Depression and Poverty]]

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[[Image:Medicine of Memoroy 9780292752672.jpg|200px]]

''Excerpted with permission from [https://utpress.utexas.edu/9780292752672/the-medicine-of-memory/| ''The Medicine of Memory''] by Alejandro Murguía, published by the University of Texas Press, 2002.''

[[The "Good Old Mission Days" Never Existed!|The "Good Old Mission Days" Never Existed!]]

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[[Image:Mission-High-book-cover.jpg|200px]]

''Excerpted with permission from ''Mission High: One School, How Experts Tried to Fail It, and the Students and Teachers Who Made It Triumph'', [https://www.boldtypebooks.com/titles/kristina-rizga/mission-high/9781568584621/ Bold Type Books]: 2015''

[[Mission High School’s Innovative Anti-Racist Teaching|Mission High School’s Innovative Anti-Racist Teaching]]

[[Desegregating San Francisco Public Schools in the 1960s|Desegregating San Francisco Public Schools in the 1960s]]

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[[Image:More Than Shelter cover.jpg|200px]]

[[San Francisco Housing Authority 1937-1965: The Early Decades|San Francisco Housing Authority 1937-1965: The Early Decades]]

''Excerpted from [https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/more-than-shelter ''More than Shelter: Activism and Community in San Francisco Public Housing''] by Amy L. Howard. Used by permission of the University of Minnesota Press. © Copyright 2014 by the Regents of the University of Minnesota. All rights reserved.''

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[[Image:Neon-Girls-book-cover.jpg|200px]]

[[Strip-Club Business: A Brief History|Strip-Club Business: A Brief History]]

''by Jennifer Worley, excerpted from [https://www.harpercollins.com/products/neon-girls-jennifer-worley?variant=32206140571682 ''Neon Girls: A Stripper's Education in Protest and Power''] HarperCollins Books: 2020,'' a first-hand account of the epic union organizing campaign at the Lusty Lady Club in North Beach.''

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[[Image:Nanette-Jordan-Book-Cover.jpg|200px]]

"Originally published in [https://www.amazon.com/Painting-Paintings-gilded-memoir-Revised/dp/B09TRLHBR2/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= ''Painting on Paintings: A Gilded Memoir''], ''2022. Excerpted with Nanette Jordan's permission. ''

[[Sutro Baths Eerie Ice Rink|Sutro Baths Eerie Ice Rink]]

[[Playland is a Nightmare|Playland is a Nightmare]]

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[[Image:SFBay-History-WEB2-360x570.jpg|200px]]

''Excerpted from David D. Schmidt's ''San Francisco Bay Area: An Environmental History.'' Available from [https://backcountrypress.com/book/san-francisco-bay-area/ Backcountry Press].''

[[Abalone Boom and Bust|Abalone Boom and Bust]]

[[Bay Area Military Bases|Bay Area Military Bases]]

[[Borax King and Key System in East Bay|Borax King and Key System in East Bay]]

[[Chinese Shrimp Camps Along The Bay|Chinese Shrimp Camps Along The Bay]]

[[David Hewes and His Steam Paddy Works|David Hewes and His Steam Paddy Works]]

[[Edgar and Peggy Wayburn, Phillip Burton Saved Vast Lands|Edgar and Peggy Wayburn, Phillip Burton Saved Vast Lands]]

[[Filling The Bay Along San Francisco’s Southern Waterfront|Filling The Bay Along San Francisco’s Southern Waterfront]]

[[Mercury Mining|Mercury Mining]]

[[Oysters, Pirates, and Pollution|Oysters, Pirates, and Pollution]]

[[Restoring Natural Areas in San Francisco|Restoring Natural Areas in San Francisco]]

[[Restoring Natural Areas on Federal Lands in San Francisco: Presidio and Fort Funston|Restoring Natural Areas on Federal Lands in San Francisco: Presidio and Fort Funston]]

[[San Francisco's Drinking Water|San Francisco's Drinking Water]]

[[San Francisco's Garbage: From Mission Bay to Altamont|San Francisco's Garbage: From Mission Bay to Altamont]]

[[San Francisco’s Struggles With Sewage, 1860s-1990s|San Francisco’s Struggles With Sewage, 1860s-1990s]]

[[Saving Richardson Bay; Harold Gilliam Sounds the Alarm 1955-58|Saving Richardson Bay; Harold Gilliam Sounds the Alarm 1955-58]]

[[When Crab Was King at Fisherman’s Wharf|When Crab Was King at Fisherman’s Wharf]]

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[[Image:Secret-Ugly-full-cover 6-inches.jpg|200px]]

''Excerpted from ''The Secret Ugly: The Hidden History of US Germ War in Korea'' by Thomas Powell, [mailto:edgewatereditions@gmail.com Edgewater Editions]: 2023.''

[[War in Korea|War in Korea]]

[[Powell/Schuman Sedition Trial|Powell/Schuman Sedition Trial]]

[[Bill Powell Exposes Post-WWII US-Japan Germ War Deal|Bill Powell Exposes Post-WWII US-Japan Germ War Deal]]

[[Growing Up ‘Red’ in 1950s San Francisco|Growing Up ‘Red’ in 1950s San Francisco]]

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[[Image:Sixth-star-cover-72-dpi-4x5.jpg|200px]]

'''Sixth Star book cover'''

[[The Sixth Star|The Sixth Star]]

[[Women's Suffrage 1870|Women's Suffrage 1870]]

[[Ellen Clark Sargent|Ellen Clark Sargent]]

[[Emily Pitts Stevens|Emily Pitts Stevens]]

[[Women’s Co-operative Printing Union|Women’s Co-operative Printing Union]]

[[West Coast Women's Congress Association|West Coast Women's Congress Association]]

[[Suffragettes Gather|Suffragettes Gather]]

[[Sarah B. Cooper|Sarah B. Cooper]]

[[The Bifurcated Skirt|The Bifurcated Skirt]]

[[First California Women in Law|First California Women in Law]]

[[Nellie Holbrook Blinn|Nellie Holbrook Blinn]]

[[Elizabeth Lowe Watson|Elizabeth Lowe Watson]]

[[Championing the Working Woman|Championing the Working Woman]]

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[[Image:Coyote sleeping-where-I-fall-cover.jpg|200px]]

''Excerpted with permission from "Sleeping Where I Fall" by [http://www.petercoyote.com/sleeping.html Peter Coyote], published by Counterpoint, Washington, D.C., 1998''

[[The Digger Concept of 'Free'|The Digger Concept of 'Free']]

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[[Image:Street fight 9781613762608.jpg|200px]]

[[Second Freeway Revolt|Second Freeway Revolt]]

[[Conservative Fight to Save Central Freeway|Conservative Fight to Save Central Freeway]]

[[Dueling Ballots: The Central Freeway’s Fate|Dueling Ballots: The Central Freeway’s Fate]]

These articles are excerpted, with permission, from Henderson's book [http://www.umass.edu/umpress/title/street-fight ''Street Fight: The Politics of Mobility in San Francisco''], © 2013

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[[Image:Streetopia cover 9780692424285.jpg|200px|left]] ''Excerpts from [https://www.ericadawnlyle.info/streetopiabook ''Streetopia''], in the essay "The Uses of Market Street"''

[[Redevelopment vs. Ecotopia|Redevelopment vs. Ecotopia]]

[[San Francisco Singularity?|San Francisco Singularity?]]

[[Uses of Market Street|Uses of Market Street]]

[[Problem with Parklets|Problem with Parklets]]

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[[Image:Roxanas Children book cover.jpg|200px]]

[[Yankee Women|Yankee Women]]

''Excerpted from ''Roxana's Children: The Biography of a Nineteenth-Century Vermont Family'' by Lynn A. Bonfield and Mary C. Morrison (Amherst: © 1995, University of Massachusetts Press)''.''

Category:Talks

2026-05-29T20:21:16Z

Ccarlsson: /* Social Movements */

Shaping San Francisco hosts Public Talks on a variety of topics on Wednesday nights, 10–18 times a year. Our topic themes vary, but we've grouped them over time into the categories listed below. These Public Talks have been archived in audio and since 2014 in video. Browse our offerings, and catch up on almost two decades of public discussions. Find them also at the Shaping San Francisco collection on the [https://archive.org/details/shaping_sf Internet Archive], and embedded in archival pages at [http://shapingsf.org/public-talks/index.html shapingsf.org].

''Unlinked Talks mean there is no audio or video available.''

<ul>
<li>[[#art|Art & Politics]]</li>
<li>[[#ecology|Ecology]]</li>
<li>[[#history|Historical Perspectives]]</li>
<li>[[#lit|Literary]]</li>
<li>[[#social|Social Movements]]</li>
</ul>

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==Art & Politics==

Public Talks: Art & Politics / 2024- 

:[[Talks: 2026 Videos#v_mar25-26|March 25, 2026: Chris "L7" Cuadrado—Re-Imagining Serra]]

:[[Talks: 2025 Videos#v_oct1-25|October 1, 2025: Eric Drooker—''Naked City'']]

:[[Talks: 2024 Videos#v_sep25-24|September 25, 2024: Will Maynez Interprets Diego Rivera]]

:[[Talks: 2024 Videos#v_may8-24|May 8, 2024: Hughen/Starkweather]]

[[Talks:_Art_%26_Politics_/_2015-2020|Public Talks: Art & Politics / 2015-2020]] 

:[[Talks: Art & Politics_/_2015-2020-#feb26-20|February 26, 2020: Miranda Bergman]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics_/_2015-2020#sep11-19|September 11, 2019: San Francisco Poster Syndicate]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2015-20209#apr3-19|April 3, 2019: Chris "L7" Cuadrado]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2015-2020#feb13-19|February 13, 2019: Seth Eisen/OUT of Site]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2015-2020#nov28-18|November 28, 2018: Public Art and Murals: Controversy, Neglect, Restoration]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2015-2020#may2-18|May 2, 2018: Kal Spelletich--Do Androids Dream of Surplus Value?]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2015-2020#apr4-18|April 4, 2018: Insurgent Country Music and its Roots in the Golden State]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2015-2020#mar14-18|March 14, 2018: Ilana Crispi: Tenderloin and Mission Dirt]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2015-2020#feb28-18|February 28, 2018: Lou Dematteis]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2015-2020#nov8-17|November 8, 2017: Seth Eisen "OUT of Site"]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2015-2020#jun7-17|June 7, 2017: Kent Minault's "Diggerly-Do's"]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2015-2020#jan25-17|January 25, 2017: Packard Jennings]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2015-2020#sep28-16|September 28, 2016: Jenny Odell, Art as Archiving, Archiving as Art]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2015-2020#feb24-16|February 24, 2016: Mauro Ffortissimo with Dean Mermell]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2015-2020#nov4-15|November 4, 2015: Guillermo Gomez-Peña]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2015-2020#sep30-15|September 30, 2015: Nato Green]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2015-2020#mar4-15|March 4, 2015: Sirron Norris]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2015-2020#feb11-15|February 11, 2015: Rene Yañez]]

[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2011-2014|Public Talks: Art & Politics / 2011-2014]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2011-2014#nov12-14|November 12, 2014: Janet Delaney]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2011-2014#apr30-14|April 30, 2014: Yolanda Lopez]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2011-2014#mar26-14|March 26, 2014: Norman Nawrocki — Cazzarola!]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2011-2014#jan22-14|January 22, 2014: Songs of Freedom celebration]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2011-2014#apr24-13|April 24, 2013: Rebar]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2011-2014#nov7-12|November 7, 2012: Clarion Alley Mural Project]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2011-2014#may16-12|May 16, 2012: Amy Franceschini]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2011-2014#may9-12|May 9, 2012: Rock, Posters, and Politics!]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2011-2014#apr18-12|April 18, 2012: "Reel Hood Heroes": Conscious Youth Media Crew]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2011-2014#mar21-12|March 21, 2012: Jess Curtis: Body of Work]]

:October 19, 2011: An Open Rehearsal of Trial of Lucullus

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2011-2014#may25-11|May 25, 2011: Lost Murals, Political Posters, Underground Comix: Ten Years That Shook the City: San Francisco 1968-78]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2011-2014#feb9-11|February 9, 2011: Eric Drooker and HOWL]]

[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2007-2010|Public Talks: Art & Politics / 2007-2010]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2007-2010#oct27-10|October 27, 2010: A Staged Reading of Money, a WPA Comedy from 1937]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2007-2010#sep22-10|September 22, 2010: RIGO]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2007-2010#may19-10|May 19, 2010: History of San Francisco's Carnaval]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2007-2010#mar10-10|March 10, 2010: Socially Engaged Printmaking Today]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2007-2010#feb17-10|February 17, 2010: Melanie Cervantes and Jesus Barraza]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2007-2010#jan20-10|January 20, 2010: Patricia Rodriguez]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2007-2010#dec9-09|December 9, 2009: Keith Hennessy]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2007-2010#nov18-09|November 18, 2009: Philippines: Immigration Politics and the Body]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2007-2010#sep23-09|September 23, 2009: From India to the Bay Area: Culture and Economy]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2007-2010#sep16-09|September 16, 2009: Conscious Youth Media Crew]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2007-2010#may27-09|May 27, 2009: Susan Greene]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2007-2010#apr15-09|April 15, 2009: Russell Howze]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2007-2010#mar18-09|March 18, 2009: Jet Martinez]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2007-2010#feb18-09|February 18, 2009: Doug Minkler]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2007-2010#oct8-08|October 8, 2008: San Francisco Print Collective]]

:September 10, 2008: Art as Intervention

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2007-2010#mar19-08|March 19, 2008: Favianna Rodriguez]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2007-2010#feb20-08|February 20, 2008: Eric Drooker]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2007-2010#jan16-08|January 16, 2008: Andrew Schoultz]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2007-2010#oct17-07|October 17, 2007: Hugh D’Andrade]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2007-2010#sep19-07|September 19, 2007: Mona Caron]]

:September 12, 2007: Grant Funding for the Arts in San Francisco: A Discussion

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==Ecology==

Public Talks: Ecology / 2026

:[[Talks: 2026 Videos#v_mar11-26|March 11, 2026: City of Redwood]]

Public Talks: Ecology / 2024-2025

:[[Talks: 2025 Videos#v_mar26-25|March 26, 2025: Biospheric Dialogue]]

:[[Talks: 2024 Videos#v_mar26-24|March 26, 2024: Cultivating Food Resilience and Combating Global Challenges]]

Public Talks: Ecology / 2020-2023

:[[Talks: 2023 Videos#v_dec2-23|December 2, 2023: Thinkwalk—1862 Flood]]

:[[Talks: 2023 Videos#v_sep30-23|September 30, 2023: Natural Areas II Bike Tour: Golden Gate Park to Lobos Valley]]

:[[Talks: 2023 Videos#v_sep23-23|September 23, 2023: Frisco Bay Mussel Group: A Look Back]]

:[[Talks: 2023 Videos#v_sep22-23|September 22, 2023: San Francisco Natural History with Greg Gaar]]

:[[Talks: 2023 Videos#v_apr23-23|April 23, 2023: Special Anniversary Bike Tour: Natural Areas and Native Plants]]

:[[Talks: 2023 Videos#v_mar18-23|March 18, 2023: Urban Forum: Walk and Talk—Journey to the Highest Peak: Mt. Davidson]]

:[[Talks: 2022 Videos#v_nov5-22|November 5, 2022: Urban Forum: Walk and Talk—China Beach to Mountain Lake]]

:[[Talks: 2022 Videos#v_oct15-22|October 15, 2022: Urban Forum: Walk and Talk—Tunnel Tops to Francisco Park]]

:[[Talks: 2022 Videos#v_sep24-22|September 24, 2022: Urban Forum: Walk and Talk—Chain of Lakes, Golden Gate Park]]

:[[Talks: 2022 Videos#v_apr9-22|April 9, 2022: Urban Forum: Walk and Talk—San Bruno Mountain]]

:[[Talks: 2022 Videos#v_mar26-22|March 26, 2022: Urban Forum: Walk and Talk—Fort Funston to Pine Lake]]

:[[Talks: 2022 Videos#v_jan29-22|January 29, 2022: Urban Forum: Walk and Talk—Visitacion Valley and Little Hollywood]]

:[[Talks: 2021 Videos#v_nov6-21|November 6, 2021: Urban Forum: Walk and Talk—Glen Canyon and Sutro Forest]]

:[[Talks: 2021 Videos#v_oct9-21|October 9, 2021: Urban Forum: Walk and Talk—Bayview Hill and Candlestick Point State Recreation Area]]

:[[Talks: 2021 Videos#v_aug28-21|August 28, 2021: Urban Forum: Walk and Talk—Grandview Peak and Golden Gate Heights]]

:[[Talks: 2021 Videos#v_jun26-21|June 26, 2021: Urban Forum: Walk and Talk—Dogpatch, Warm Water Cove, Shipyards and Crane Cove Park]]

:[[Talks: 2021 Videos#v_apr10-21|April 10, 2021: Urban Forum: Walk and Talk—Presidio: Crissy Field to El Polín Spring]]

:[[Talks: 2020 Videos#v_dec13-20|December 13, 2020: King Tide/Sea Level Rise Mission Bay Virtual Walking Tour]]

:[[Talks: 2020 Videos#v_sep19-20|September 19, 2020: Urban Forum: Walk and Talk—India Basin and Heron's Head Park]]

[[Talks: Ecology / 2018-2019|Public Talks: Ecology / 2018-2019]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2018-2019#sep25-19|September 25, 2019: Neighborhood Corridors: Memory and Ecology]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2018-2019#may22-19|May 22, 2019: Local Ecological Justice and Urbanity]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2018-2019#mar27-19|March 27, 2019: Sea Level Rise: Pacific Ocean and the Bay Area]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2018-2019#mar28-18|March 28, 2018: Saving the Bay from the "Future"]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2018-2019#mar7-18|March 7, 2018: Resilient by Design: The Language of Water]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2018-2019#feb7-18|February 7, 2018: Building a Deep Map--Beyond Buildings and Views]]

[[Talks: Ecology / 2015-2017|Public Talks: Ecology / 2015-2017]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2015-2017#sep27-17|September 27, 2017: Other Food Systems Are Possible]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2015-2017#may10-17|May 10, 2017: From the Delta to the Bayshore: Adaptation Infrastructure and Rising Seas]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2015-2017#feb8-17|February 8, 2017: Citizen Science/Extinction Culture]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2015-2017#nov30-16|November 30, 2016: Unseen City]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2015-2017#may11-16|May 11, 2016: What’s Going Right with the Global Environment!]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2015-2017#apr27-16|April 27, 2016: Oil, Soil, and (Climate) Turmoil]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2015-2017#apr13-16|April 13, 2016: Synthetic Biology: DIY Tinkering Meets Big Capital]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2015-2017#dec2-15|December 2, 2015: Tending the Urban Wild]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2015-2017#may13-15|May 13, 2015: Plumbing California: Past, Present, and Future]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2015-2017#may6-15|May 6, 2015: Rewilding and the Anthropocene]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2015-2017#apr22-15|April 22, 2015: Telling Stories with Bricks]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2015-2017#feb4-15|February 4, 2015: San Francisco’s Wild Menu: Flora, Fauna, Feast]]

[[Talks: Ecology / 2012-2014|Public Talks: Ecology / 2012-2014]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2012-2014#nov5-14|November 5, 2014: Trees and History]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2012-2014#sep10-14|September 10, 2014: The Evolving Eastern Shoreline]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2012-2014#may14-14|May 14, 2014: Political Economy of Bees]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2012-2014#may7-14|May 7, 2014: Dogs, Density, and Natural Areas]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2012-2014#apr9-14|April 9, 2014: Urban Farming and Urban Nature: Are We Competing or Cooperating?]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2012-2014#mar12-14|March 12, 2014: Saltworks and Shorelines: a Visual and Social History of the San Francisco Bay]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2012-2014#feb26-14|February 26, 2014: Design Radicals: Berkeley 1960s and Today]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2012-2014#feb5-14|February 5, 2014: Becoming a Biodiversity City]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2012-2014#oct30-13|October 30, 2013: Liberation Biology]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2012-2014#may22-13|May 22, 2013: Talking About Ecology and Science in Public]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2012-2014#mar27-13|March 27, 2013: Designing Resilient Landscapes: What history teaches us about San Francisco and the Bay-Delta Estuary]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2012-2014#jan16-13|January 16, 2013: The Tigers of Market Street: Butterfly Habitat along a Busy Urban Corridor]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2012-2014#dec5-12|December 5, 2012: Planning 4th Street: Remaking a San Francisco Corridor]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2012-2014#aug28-12|August 28, 2012: The Next Step in Sustainability]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2012-2014#may23-12|May 23, 2012: What Are Our Streets For?]]

[[Talks: Ecology / 2010-2011|Public Talks: Ecology / 2010-2011]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2010-2011#nov9-11|November 9, 2011: In Search of San Francisco's Eradicated Landscapes]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2010-2011#oct26-11|October 26, 2011: Urban Homesteading]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2010-2011#sep28-11|September 28, 2011: Did Laguna Dolores Exist?]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2010-2011#sep14-11|September 14, 2011: Endangered Species Campaigning]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2010-2011#jun8-11|June 8, 2011: Ecology and Food of the 1970s: Ten Years That Shook the City: San Francisco 1968-78]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2010-2011#mar30-11|March 30, 2011: Reciprocal Bio-Regional Culture from the Bay Area to the Sierras]]

:February 23, 2011: Underground Food Politics

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2010-2011#feb16-11|February 16, 2011: Vanished Waters: A History of San Francisco's Mission Bay]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2010-2011#jan26-11|January 26, 2011: Environmental History of Golden Gate Park]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2010-2011#nov17-10|November 17, 2010: Watersheds from California to Mexico]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2010-2011#nov10-10|November 10, 2010: Eco-Politics, a Strategic Roundtable]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2010-2011#may26-10|May 26, 2010: Twin Peaks Bioregional Park: A Conservation Strategy for the Heart of San Francisco]]

:May 12, 2010: Circle the Food Wagons!—Local Food Economies

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2010-2011#feb24-10|February 24, 2010: San Francisco Golf Courses, Parks, Natural Areas]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2010-2011#jan27-10|January 27, 2010: Urban Forest]]

[[Talks: Ecology / 2008-2009|Public Talks: Ecology / 2008-2009]]

:October 28, 2009: Climate Change/Climate Justice

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2008-2009#sep30-09|September 30, 2009: Ecology and Redevelopment in Bayview/Hunter's Point ]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2008-2009#may13-09|May 13, 2009: Can Capitalism really “Go Green?”]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2008-2009#apr29-09|April 29, 2009: Permacultural Transformation for the Urban Dweller]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2008-2009#mar25-09|March 25, 2009: Toxic San Francisco]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2008-2009#feb25-09|February 25, 2009: Bees in the City]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2008-2009#jan29-09|January 28, 2009: Lake Merced Natural Area's Future]]

:November 19, 2008: Green Streets: Redesigning San Francisco One Block at a Time

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2008-2009#oct29-08|October 29, 2008: Candlestick Point: State Park for the People]]

:February 27, 2008: San Francisco's Imperiled and Surviving Birds

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2008-2009#jan30-08|January 30, 2008: Endangered Species Big Year]]

[[Talks: Ecology / 2006-2007|Public Talks: Ecology / 2006-2007]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2006-2007#nov28-07|November 28, 2007: Food Security & Urban Agriculture]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2006-2007#oct24-07|October 24, 2007: New Politics for Green Cities]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2006-2007#sep26-07|September 26, 2007: San Francisco Water Sources]]

:May 30, 2007: San Francisco Ecology: Butterflies in the City

:May 2, 2007: Immigration, Work, and Agriculture: From Enclosures to Fast-Food

:April 25, 2007: The National Park Where We Live

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2006-2007#feb28-07|February 28, 2007: Laying a Foundation for a Green City (3 podcasts) ]]

:January 31, 2007: Grassroots Activism to Save San Bruno Mountain

:November 29, 2006: Native Habitat Restoration: Frogs in San Francisco

:October 25, 2006: Recycling Activism: Trash and Toxics

:September 27, 2006: Activism in and for the San Francisco Bay Ecosystem

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2006-2007#may31-06|May 31, 2006 : Can San Francisco Feed Itself? (3 podcasts)]]

:May 10, 2006: San Francisco's Food Revolt

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2006-2007#apr26-06|April 26, 2006: Reclaiming Bay Area Military Bases (2 podcasts)]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2006-2007#mar29-06|March 29, 2006: Natural Disasters and Community Response (4 podcasts)]]

:February 22, 2006: Nature in the Urban Environment

:January 25, 2006: Natural Areas of San Francisco: a Pre-Urban View

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==Historical Perspectives==

Public Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2026-

:[[Talks: 2026 Videos#v_apr16-26|April 16, 2026: San Francisco: A Liberal Oligarchy?]]

:[[Talks: 2026 Videos#v_feb25-26|February 25, 2026: Memory Keeping from Indigenous Perspectives]]

:[[Talks: 2026 Videos#v_feb11-26|February 11, 2026: The Priest, the Imperialist, and the Sculptor]]

Public Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2021-2025

:[[Talks: 2025 Videos#v_dec10-25|December 10, 2025: Radiation in our Midst]]

:[[Talks: 2025 Videos#v_nov19-25|November 19, 2025: Logistics, Containers, Seafarers]]

:[[Talks: 2025 Videos#v_nov5-25|November 5, 2025: Auto Row to Robo-cars: A Century of Protesting Carmageddon]]

:[[Talks: 2025 Videos#v_may14-25|May 14, 2025: HUAC and the New McCarthyism]]

:[[Talks: 2025 Videos#v_apr16-25|April 16, 2025: Explosivity: Port Chicago & Beyond]]

:[[Talks: 2024 Videos#v_oct16-24|October 16, 2024: Rebel Airwaves: Looking back at 75 years of KPFA]]

:[[Talks: 2024 Videos#v_oct9-24|October 9, 2024: The First Post-Pandemic Political Era: After WWI]]

:[[Talks: 2024 Videos#v_sep25-24|September 25, 2024: Will Maynez Interprets Diego Rivera]]

:[[Talks: 2024 Videos#v_sep11-24|September 11, 2024: Muni Labor, Muni Love]]

:[[Talks: 2024 Videos#v_apr24-24|April 24, 2024: History of Monopoly (the game)]]

:[[Talks: 2024 Videos#v_apr10-24|April 10, 2024: Life and Death in a Great American City]]

:[[Talks: 2023 Videos#v_dec5-23|December 15, 2023: Talking History with Gary Kamiya]]

:[[Talks: 2023 Videos#v_nov15-23|November 15, 2023: Living in the Archives]]

:[[Talks: 2023 Videos#v_nov8-23|November 8, 2023: Peoples History of SFO]]

:[[Talks: 2023 Videos#v_oct28-23|October 28, 2023: Lone Mountain Cemeteries]]

:[[Talks: 2023 Videos#v_oct24-23|October 24, 2023: Mountain View Cemetery]]

:[[Talks: 2023 Videos#v_sep27-23|September 27, 2023: Trains into the Outside Lands]]

:[[Talks: 2023 Videos#v_aug26-23|August 26, 2023: Bicycle Messenger Crackdown Commemoration Ride]]

:[[Talks: 2023 Videos#v_jun14-23|June 14, 2023: San Francisco and the New Deal]]

:[[Talks: 2023 Videos#v_may20-23|May 20, 2023: Urban Forum: Walk and Talk—Food and Baseball in SOMA and the Mission]]

:[[Talks: 2023 Videos#v_mar26-23|March 26, 2023: Tour of the Oakland Tribune Tower]]

:[[Talks: 2023 Videos#v_jan28-23|January 28, 2023: Urban Forum: Walk and Talk—Bernal Cut to Diamond Heights]]

:[[Talks: 2022 Videos#v_nov19-22|November 19, 2022: Urban Forum: Walk and Talk—Pacific Heights and Cow Hollow]]

:[[Talks: 2021 Videos#v_sep18-21|September 18 2021: Urban Forum: Walk and Talk—Eureka Valley and Corbett Heights]]

:[[Talks: 2021 Videos#v_mar6-21|March 6 2021: Urban Forum: Walk and Talk—Bernal Heights and the Bernal Cut]]

[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2019|Public Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2019-2020]]

:[[Talks: Spring 2020 Videos#v_nov14-20|November 14, 2020: Urban Forum: Walk and Talk—McLaren Park and Philosophers' Way]]

:[[Talks: Spring 2020 Videos#v_sep26-20|September 26, 2020: Urban Forum: Walk and Talk—Fort Mason and Black Point]]

:August 29, 2020: Urban Forum: Walk and Talk—SF General Hospital and Potrero Hill ''No recording available''

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2019-2020#mar11-20|March 11, 2020: ''Hidden San Francisco'': Book Release and Birthday Party]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2019-2020#dec11-19|December 11, 2019: Valencia Street as a Lesbian Corridor: Living Memories]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2019-2020#nov13-19|November 13, 2019: Progress to Poverty: Land and Rents]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2019-2020#nov6-19|November 6, 2019: Alcatraz Occupation: A Beginning]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2019-2020#oct23-19|October 23, 2019: Shellmounds, Indigenous Culture, and Ecology on the San Francisco Bay]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2019-2020#oct2-19|October 2, 2019: Storytelling and the Memory Keepers]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2019-2020#may29-19|May 29, 2019: Americans in the Spanish Civil War]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2019-2020#apr10-19|April 10, 2019: Neighborhood Newspapers of San Francisco]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2019-2020#feb6-19|February 6, 2019: Internment and its Aftermath]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2019-2020#jan23-19|January 23, 2019: Before San Francisco: Spanish and Mexican Peninsula]]

[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2017-2018|Public Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2017-2018]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2017-2018#nov7-18|November 7, 2018: The War to End All Wars]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2017-2018#oct31-18|October 31, 2018: The Jazz of Modern Basketball: Racism and Virtuosity at the Roots of the Golden State Warriors]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2017-2018#oct10-18|October 10, 2018: Missing Pieces: Remembering Elements of a Gone City]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2017-2018#sep26-18|September 26, 2018: Model SF: Collectively Shaping the City]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2017-2018#may23-18|May 23, 2018: Archives and Memory: New Ways of Making History]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2017-2018#may9-18|May 9, 2018: Platform Cooperatives]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2017-2018#apr25-18|April 25, 2018: Universal Basic Income, Is It time?]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2017-2018#jan24-18|January 24, 2018: Dogpatch Then and Now]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2017-2018#dec6-17|December 6, 2017: Popular Front to Cold War]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2017-2018#oct11-17|October 11, 2017: Speeding Through the Unseen, From Coding to Commons]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2017-2018#oct4-17|October 4, 2017: Art and Architecture During the Depression]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2017-2018#may3-17|May 3, 2017: Agents of Change: California Labor History]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2017-2018#feb22-17|February 22, 2017: Progressive Transgressions]]

[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2015-2016|Public Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2015-2016]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2015-2016#dec7-16|December 7, 2016: Divided We Fall: Immigration and Scapegoating]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2015-2016#nov9-16|November 9, 2016: The Housing Crisis and The Growth Consensus: What's Wrong with this Picture?]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2015-2016#oct5-16|October 5, 2016: 19th Century California Indian Slavery and Genocide]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2015-2016#may25-16|May 25, 2016: Audible Cities]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2015-2016#apr20-16|April 20, 2016: San Francisco, 1960s & 70s: Cultural Ecology and Experimentation]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2015-2016#mar16-16|March 16, 2016: Street Names, Streetcars, and Street Life]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2015-2016#mar9-16|March 9, 2016: Rise and Fall of Third Worldism]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2015-2016#feb10-16|February 10, 2016: New (Old) Paradigms in Medicine]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2015-2016#jan27-16|January 27, 2016: Easter Rebellion and Irish San Francisco]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2015-2016#dec9-15|December 9, 2015: United Nations and New Deal]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2015-2016#oct7-15|October 7, 2015: Archaeology Finds…Daily Family Life in Early SF Settlements]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2015-2016#apr8-15|April 8, 2015: The Tenderloin: SF’s Most Fraught Neighborhood]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2015-2016#feb24-15|February 24, 2015: Promises of Progress: Panama-Pacific International Exposition]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2015-2016#jan21-15|January 21, 2015: Washed Away—Newfound Extreme Weather History]]

[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2013-2014|Public Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2013-2014]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2013-2014#dec3-14|December 3, 2014: Tunneling San Francisco Then and Now: Where's the Public Interest?]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2013-2014#oct9-14|October 9, 2014: Making History by Making Maps]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2013-2014#sep24-14|September 24, 2014: No Future at College?!?]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2013-2014#may28-14|May 28, 2014: San Francisco's Ghadar Party Heritage]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2013-2014#apr16-14|April 16, 2014: Upton Sinclair/End Poverty in California]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2013-2014#mar19-14|March 19, 2014: Stop, Thief! The Commons, Enclosures, and Resistance]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2013-2014#jan15-14|January 15, 2014: Latinos at the Golden Gate: Creating Community & Identity in San Francisco]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2013-2014#oct9-13|October 9, 2013: Bay Area Indigenous Pre-History]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2013-2014#sep25-13|September 25, 2013: Radical Archiving and Cataloging as Social History]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2013-2014#sep11-13|September 11, 2013: The Bay Bridge, 1936-2013]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2013-2014#apr13-13|April 13, 2013: Chinese Whispers]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2013-2014#feb27-13|February 27, 2013: Pier 70, Transforming 19th Century Ironworks to a 21st Century ... ?]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2013-2014#jan30-13|January 30, 2013: Catastrophism: The Apocalyptic Politics of Collapse and Rebirth]]

[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2010-2012|Public Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2010-2012]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2010-2012#dec12-12|December 12, 2012: Old City Hall: Corruption & Racism in 19th Century San Francisco]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2010-2012#jul17-12|July 17, 2012: Bristol Radical History Group “History From Below”]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2010-2012#may30-12|May 30, 2012: FoundSF: Dissent]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2010-2012#may2-12|May 2, 2012: Mat Callahan presents the "James Connolly--Songs of Freedom" project]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2010-2012#apr25-12|April 25, 2012: Radically Gay: Harry Hay, LGBT pioneer]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2010-2012#jan18-12|January 18, 2012: The Vietnam War Continues]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2010-2012#dec14-11|December 14, 2011: Centennial Anniversary! Women Get the Vote!]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2010-2012#nov30-11|November 30, 2011: The History of the Future]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2010-2012#oct12-11|October 12, 2011: Reimagining Market Street]]

:May 11, 2011: A Virtual Civil Liberties Tour of San Francisco

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2010-2012#jan19-11|January 19, 2011: Before (and After) the Car: San Francisco's Transit History]]

:January 12, 2011: Rick Prelinger's Lost Landscapes of Detroit

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2010-2012#jan13-10|January 13, 2010: Prohibition in San Francisco: Then and Now]]

[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2006-2009|Public Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2006-2009]]

:December 16, 2009 : Rick Prelinger's Lost Landscapes of the East Bay

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2006-2009#nov11-09|November 11, 2009: Alcatraz: 40th Anniversary of Indigenous Occupation]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2006-2009#sep9-09|September 9, 2009: Final Tap: An Unofficial History of Beer]]

:February 11, 2009: Rick Prelinger's Lost Landscapes III: Film Fragments of San Francisco

:January 21, 2009: FoundSF: San Francisco History Wiki Workshop

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2006-2009#nov12-08|November 12, 2008: The Invisible Public Legacy of the Great Depression]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2006-2009#sep17-08|September 17, 2008: SF State Strike 40th Anniversary]]

:December 19, 2007: Rick Prelinger's Lost Landscapes: Film Fragments of San Francisco

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2006-2009#apr11-07|April 11, 2007: Lowriders: When the Mission was Low and Slow]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2006-2009#feb14-07|February 14, 2007: A History of Land Grabs in San Francisco and Some Counter-efforts]]

:December 6, 2006: Rick Prelinger's Lost Landscapes: Film Fragments of San Francisco

:November 8, 2006: Sexual and Reproductive Freedom Since the 1960s

:June 14, 2006: Films by Calvin Roberts: A San Franciscan’s Lost History

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2006-2009#apr12-06|April 12, 2006: Black Exodus and Black Eviction in San Francisco]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2006-2009#feb8-06|February 8, 2006: Philippines & San Francisco: Connected Through History]]

:January 18, 2006: Labor strength: Historic Bay Area General Strikes

==Literary==

[[Talks: Literary / 2010-2017|Public Talks: Literary / 2010-2017]]

:[[Talks: Literary / 2010-2017#mar11-20|March 11, 2020: ''Hidden San Francisco": Book Release and Birthday Party]]

:[[Talks: Literary / 2010-2017#mar8-17|March 8, 2017: Local History in Your Ear]]

:[[Talks: Literary / 2010-2017#nov11-15|November 11, 2015: Literary Liberalism and the Western Voice]]

:[[Talks: Literary / 2010-2017#nov13-13|November 13, 2013: Literary Treasures of the North Mission]]

:[[Talks: Literary / 2010-2017#oct16-13|October 16, 2013: Unsettlers: El Cabe]]

:[[Talks: Literary / 2010-2017#may8-13|May 8, 2013: Unsettlers: Migrants, Homies, and Mammas in the Mission]]

:[[Talks: Literary / 2010-2017#apr13-11|April 13, 2011: History of the Charles H. Kerr Publishing Co.]]

:[[Talks: Literary / 2010-2017#mar23-11|March 23, 2011: The Radical Futures Of The Book]]

:[[Talks: Literary / 2010-2017#oct20-10|October 20, 2010: Hard Boiled for Hard Times—Crime Authors in the City]]

:[[Talks: Literary / 2010-2017#oct13-10|October 13, 2010: Outspoken Authors Speak Out]]

:[[Talks: Literary / 2010-2017#mar24-10|March 24, 2010: Science Fiction and the Struggle for Justice]]

:[[Talks: Literary / 2010-2017#mar17-10|March 17, 2010: Crime/Noir Writers Describe Their Crimes in the City]]

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==Social Movements==

Public Talks: Social Movements / 2026-

:[[Talks: 2026 Videos#v_may27-26|May 27, 2026: AI and Empire Building]]

[[Talks: Social Movements / 2020|Public Talks: Social Movements / 2020-2025]]

:[[Talks: 2025 Videos#v_oct22-25|October 22, 2025: Social Housing: Challenging YIMBYs and NIMBYs]]

:[[Talks: 2025 Videos#v_feb26-25|February 26, 2025: New Luddites vs. Biopiracy and AI]]

:[[Talks: 2024 Videos#v_dec4-24|December 4, 2024: Refusing Silicon Valley]]

:[[Talks: 2024 Videos#v_jul5-24|July 5, 2024: 1934 Big Strike 90th Anniversary]]

:[[Talks: 2024 Videos#v_may22-24|May 22, 2024: Rainbow Grocery Cooperative]]

:[[Talks: 2022 Videos#v_may28-22|May 28, 2022: Urban Forum Walk n Talk: CCSF to SFSU]]

:[[Talks: 2021 Videos#v_nov18-21|November 18, 2021: An Irish Catholic Liberal: Bishop Mark J. Hurley and the 1968-69 Strike at State]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2020#jan29-20|January 29, 2020: Enola Gay Faggot Affinity Group]]

[[Talks: Social Movements / 2018-2019|Public Talks: Social Movements / 2018-2019]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2018-2019#dec4-19|December 4, 2019: Seattle/WTO Shutdown: 20th Anniversary]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2018-2019#oct15-19|October 15, 2019: For the Record: Eyewitness Testimonies of the police murder of Luis Góngora Pat]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2018-2019#oct9-19|October 9, 2019: Expanding San Francisco’s Common Wealth]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2018-2019#may8-19|May 8, 2019: The Women of Los Siete de la Raza]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2018-2019#mar13-19|March 13, 2019: Dockworker Power in the Bay Area and South Africa]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2018-2019#dec5-18|December 5, 2018: Movements of Movements]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2018-2019#oct24-18|October 24, 2018: Rethinking 1968: What Happened, How Has It Shaped Us?]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2018-2019#oct3-18|October 3, 2018: Women, Power, and the Vote: 1911 Suffrage to the 2018 Midterms]]

[[Talks: Social Movements / 2015-2017|Public Talks: Social Movements / 2015-2017]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2015-2017#dec13-17|December 13, 2017: San Francisco's Freeway Revolt]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2015-2017#oct18-17|October 18, 2017: 50th Anniversary of the Stop the Draft Week Protests]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2015-2017#may31-17|May 31, 2017: Summer of Love or Vietnam Summer?]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2015-2017#mar22-17|March 22, 2017: We've Done This Before: 1980s Movements]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2015-2017#oct26-16|October 26, 2016: Death of Money: Diggers 50 Years Later]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2015-2017#oct12-16|October 12, 2016: Compton's Cafeteria 50th Anniversary—The Transformation of Trans Politics and Identity]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2015-2017#sep14-16|September 14, 2016: Hunter's Point Rebellion, 50 Years Later]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2015-2017#oct14-15|October 14, 2015: Housing is a Human Right!]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2015-2017#sep23-15|September 23, 2015: Prisoners and Politics: from the San Quentin Six to Pelican Bay]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2015-2017#apr29-15|April 29, 2015: Union Demise and New Workers’ Movements]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2015-2017#apr1-15|April 1, 2015: Vietnam War, Dissent, and the U.S. Military]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2015-2017#jan14-15|January 14, 2015: Home on the Grange]]

[[Talks: Social Movements / 2012-2014|Public Talks: Social Movements / 2012-2014]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2012-2014#dec10-14|December 10, 2014: Latin American Social Movements]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2012-2014#oct29-14|October 29, 2014: San Francisco’s Housing Wars 2014 ]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2012-2014#oct1-14|October 1, 2014: A History of LGBTQ Spaces . . .Where you Least Expect Them]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2012-2014#dec4-13|December 4, 2013: Remembering Los Siete]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2012-2014#nov6-13|November 6, 2013: Confronting Cultural Genocide]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2012-2014#oct2-13|October 2, 2013: The Red Army Faction—Dancing With Imperialism]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2012-2014#may20-13|May 20, 2013: "We are not machines!" The Situation and Struggles of the iSlaves in China]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2012-2014#mar13-13|March 13, 2013: Asia's Unknown Uprisings]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2012-2014#feb20-13|February 20, 2013: The Revolution of Everyday Life]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2012-2014#oct17-12|October 17, 2012: Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2012-2014#oct10-12|October 10, 2012: Ohlone Profiles Project]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2012-2014#sep12-12|September 12, 2012: Mexico Today: Dinosaurs, Popular Refusal, and Hashtags!]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2012-2014#apr11-12|April 11, 2012: West of Eden: Communes and Utopia in Northern California]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2012-2014#mar28-12|March 28, 2012: Selma James and George Katsiaficas]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2012-2014#mar14-12|March 14, 2012: Rebooting the Rainbow]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2012-2014#feb22-12|February 22, 2012: Policing San Francisco: 1930s-1960s]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2012-2014#feb15-12|February 15, 2012: Corporate Personhood?!?]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2012-2014#jan25-12|January 25, 2012: Occupy Everything! An Open Discussion]]

[[Talks: Social Movements / 2009-2011|Public Talks: Social Movements / 2009-2011]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2009-2011#nov16-11|November 16, 2011: The Good, The Bad, and the Alternatives to Mass Education]]

:September 21, 2011: Dublin Community Activism Against Drug Addiction

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2009-2011#may18-11|May 18, 2011: Mission Politics in the 1970s: Ten Years That Shook the City: San Francisco 1968-78]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2009-2011#apr27-11|April 27, 2011: Overcoming Work and Sacrifice]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2009-2011#apr20-11|April 20, 2011: Radical Approaches to Organizing Work]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2009-2011#mar16-11|March 16, 2011: Movements and Political Generations]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2009-2011#mar9-11|March 9, 2011: The Struggles of the Balkans and Romani in Fact and Fiction]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2009-2011#dec15-10|December 15, 2010: Navigating the Criminal Courts: A Guide for Activists]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2009-2011#dec8-10|December 8, 2010: Haiti: Gender and Continuity in the Midst of Disaster]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2009-2011#sep29-10|September 29, 2010: Education Crisis/Radical Responses]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2009-2011#sep15-10|September 15, 2010: Imprisoned But Unbowed: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2009-2011#apr21-10|April 21, 2010: Ten Years That Shook the City -- Sneak Preview]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2009-2011#apr14-10|April 14, 2010: U.S. Social Forum, Detroit]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2009-2011#mar31-10|March 31, 2010: Songs To Enemies And Deserts, A Film Screening About Rebellion In Darfur]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2009-2011#feb10-10|February 10, 2010: Queer workers: Class, Gentrification and Struggle in San Francisco]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2009-2011#oct21-09|October 21, 2009: Bicycling in San Francisco]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2009-2011#oct14-09|October 14, 2009: The Politics of ‘Third Space’ in Global Videos and Installations]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2009-2011#may20-09|May 20, 2009: Anti-systemic Knowledge: Learning from the South]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2009-2011#apr22-09|April 22, 2009: Global Commons/Global Enclosures]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2009-2011#apr8-09|April 8, 2009: Anti-War Then and Now]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2009-2011#mar11-09|March 11, 2009: Local Remanufacturing Our Way out of the Depression]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2009-2011#jan14-09|January 14, 2009: Hearing the City: Radio in San Francisco]]

[[Talks: Social Movements / 2006-2008|Public Talks: Social Movements / 2006-2008]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2006-2008#dec17-08|December 17, 2008: Lessons and Advice on How to Survive an Economic Meltdown]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2006-2008#dec10-08|December 10, 2008: Neighborhood Newspapers: Community Journalism in San Francisco]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2006-2008#oct22-08|October 22, 2008: Worker Cooperative Alternatives to Precariousness]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2006-2008#sep24-08|September 24, 2008: Global Africa: Liberation, Decolonialization, and Diaspora]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2006-2008#mar12-08|March 12, 2008: Arab San Francisco]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2006-2008#feb13-08|February 13, 2008: Community Art Spaces Survive Urban Pressures]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2006-2008#jan9-08|January 9, 2008: Class and Power in Queer San Francisco]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2006-2008#dec12-07|December 12, 2007: News and the Future of Journalism]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2006-2008#nov14-07|November 14, 2007: Public Commons vs. Corporate Privatization]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2006-2008#oct10-07|October 10, 2007: Voting Perspectives]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2006-2008#mar7-07|March 7, 2007: Learnin’ + Teachin’: The Future of Education (4 podcasts)]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2006-2008#jan17-07|January 17, 2007: The Public Health Epidemic in a Therapy Society (3 podcasts)]]

:December 13, 2006: Tactical Evolution: Protest Culture, Dissent, and Radical Change

:October 11, 2006: Bolivar, Zapata and Sandino Ghosts and Revolution in South America

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2006-2008#mar8-06|March 8, 2006: Infrastructure Wars: Sustainable Movements (3 podcasts)]]

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[[category:Theme]]

Category:Talks

2026-05-29T20:20:50Z

Ccarlsson: /* Social Movements */

Shaping San Francisco hosts Public Talks on a variety of topics on Wednesday nights, 10–18 times a year. Our topic themes vary, but we've grouped them over time into the categories listed below. These Public Talks have been archived in audio and since 2014 in video. Browse our offerings, and catch up on almost two decades of public discussions. Find them also at the Shaping San Francisco collection on the [https://archive.org/details/shaping_sf Internet Archive], and embedded in archival pages at [http://shapingsf.org/public-talks/index.html shapingsf.org].

''Unlinked Talks mean there is no audio or video available.''

<ul>
<li>[[#art|Art & Politics]]</li>
<li>[[#ecology|Ecology]]</li>
<li>[[#history|Historical Perspectives]]</li>
<li>[[#lit|Literary]]</li>
<li>[[#social|Social Movements]]</li>
</ul>

<hr>

==Art & Politics==

Public Talks: Art & Politics / 2024- 

:[[Talks: 2026 Videos#v_mar25-26|March 25, 2026: Chris "L7" Cuadrado—Re-Imagining Serra]]

:[[Talks: 2025 Videos#v_oct1-25|October 1, 2025: Eric Drooker—''Naked City'']]

:[[Talks: 2024 Videos#v_sep25-24|September 25, 2024: Will Maynez Interprets Diego Rivera]]

:[[Talks: 2024 Videos#v_may8-24|May 8, 2024: Hughen/Starkweather]]

[[Talks:_Art_%26_Politics_/_2015-2020|Public Talks: Art & Politics / 2015-2020]] 

:[[Talks: Art & Politics_/_2015-2020-#feb26-20|February 26, 2020: Miranda Bergman]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics_/_2015-2020#sep11-19|September 11, 2019: San Francisco Poster Syndicate]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2015-20209#apr3-19|April 3, 2019: Chris "L7" Cuadrado]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2015-2020#feb13-19|February 13, 2019: Seth Eisen/OUT of Site]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2015-2020#nov28-18|November 28, 2018: Public Art and Murals: Controversy, Neglect, Restoration]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2015-2020#may2-18|May 2, 2018: Kal Spelletich--Do Androids Dream of Surplus Value?]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2015-2020#apr4-18|April 4, 2018: Insurgent Country Music and its Roots in the Golden State]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2015-2020#mar14-18|March 14, 2018: Ilana Crispi: Tenderloin and Mission Dirt]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2015-2020#feb28-18|February 28, 2018: Lou Dematteis]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2015-2020#nov8-17|November 8, 2017: Seth Eisen "OUT of Site"]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2015-2020#jun7-17|June 7, 2017: Kent Minault's "Diggerly-Do's"]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2015-2020#jan25-17|January 25, 2017: Packard Jennings]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2015-2020#sep28-16|September 28, 2016: Jenny Odell, Art as Archiving, Archiving as Art]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2015-2020#feb24-16|February 24, 2016: Mauro Ffortissimo with Dean Mermell]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2015-2020#nov4-15|November 4, 2015: Guillermo Gomez-Peña]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2015-2020#sep30-15|September 30, 2015: Nato Green]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2015-2020#mar4-15|March 4, 2015: Sirron Norris]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2015-2020#feb11-15|February 11, 2015: Rene Yañez]]

[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2011-2014|Public Talks: Art & Politics / 2011-2014]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2011-2014#nov12-14|November 12, 2014: Janet Delaney]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2011-2014#apr30-14|April 30, 2014: Yolanda Lopez]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2011-2014#mar26-14|March 26, 2014: Norman Nawrocki — Cazzarola!]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2011-2014#jan22-14|January 22, 2014: Songs of Freedom celebration]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2011-2014#apr24-13|April 24, 2013: Rebar]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2011-2014#nov7-12|November 7, 2012: Clarion Alley Mural Project]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2011-2014#may16-12|May 16, 2012: Amy Franceschini]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2011-2014#may9-12|May 9, 2012: Rock, Posters, and Politics!]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2011-2014#apr18-12|April 18, 2012: "Reel Hood Heroes": Conscious Youth Media Crew]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2011-2014#mar21-12|March 21, 2012: Jess Curtis: Body of Work]]

:October 19, 2011: An Open Rehearsal of Trial of Lucullus

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2011-2014#may25-11|May 25, 2011: Lost Murals, Political Posters, Underground Comix: Ten Years That Shook the City: San Francisco 1968-78]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2011-2014#feb9-11|February 9, 2011: Eric Drooker and HOWL]]

[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2007-2010|Public Talks: Art & Politics / 2007-2010]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2007-2010#oct27-10|October 27, 2010: A Staged Reading of Money, a WPA Comedy from 1937]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2007-2010#sep22-10|September 22, 2010: RIGO]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2007-2010#may19-10|May 19, 2010: History of San Francisco's Carnaval]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2007-2010#mar10-10|March 10, 2010: Socially Engaged Printmaking Today]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2007-2010#feb17-10|February 17, 2010: Melanie Cervantes and Jesus Barraza]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2007-2010#jan20-10|January 20, 2010: Patricia Rodriguez]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2007-2010#dec9-09|December 9, 2009: Keith Hennessy]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2007-2010#nov18-09|November 18, 2009: Philippines: Immigration Politics and the Body]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2007-2010#sep23-09|September 23, 2009: From India to the Bay Area: Culture and Economy]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2007-2010#sep16-09|September 16, 2009: Conscious Youth Media Crew]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2007-2010#may27-09|May 27, 2009: Susan Greene]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2007-2010#apr15-09|April 15, 2009: Russell Howze]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2007-2010#mar18-09|March 18, 2009: Jet Martinez]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2007-2010#feb18-09|February 18, 2009: Doug Minkler]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2007-2010#oct8-08|October 8, 2008: San Francisco Print Collective]]

:September 10, 2008: Art as Intervention

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2007-2010#mar19-08|March 19, 2008: Favianna Rodriguez]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2007-2010#feb20-08|February 20, 2008: Eric Drooker]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2007-2010#jan16-08|January 16, 2008: Andrew Schoultz]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2007-2010#oct17-07|October 17, 2007: Hugh D’Andrade]]

:[[Talks: Art & Politics / 2007-2010#sep19-07|September 19, 2007: Mona Caron]]

:September 12, 2007: Grant Funding for the Arts in San Francisco: A Discussion

<hr>

==Ecology==

Public Talks: Ecology / 2026

:[[Talks: 2026 Videos#v_mar11-26|March 11, 2026: City of Redwood]]

Public Talks: Ecology / 2024-2025

:[[Talks: 2025 Videos#v_mar26-25|March 26, 2025: Biospheric Dialogue]]

:[[Talks: 2024 Videos#v_mar26-24|March 26, 2024: Cultivating Food Resilience and Combating Global Challenges]]

Public Talks: Ecology / 2020-2023

:[[Talks: 2023 Videos#v_dec2-23|December 2, 2023: Thinkwalk—1862 Flood]]

:[[Talks: 2023 Videos#v_sep30-23|September 30, 2023: Natural Areas II Bike Tour: Golden Gate Park to Lobos Valley]]

:[[Talks: 2023 Videos#v_sep23-23|September 23, 2023: Frisco Bay Mussel Group: A Look Back]]

:[[Talks: 2023 Videos#v_sep22-23|September 22, 2023: San Francisco Natural History with Greg Gaar]]

:[[Talks: 2023 Videos#v_apr23-23|April 23, 2023: Special Anniversary Bike Tour: Natural Areas and Native Plants]]

:[[Talks: 2023 Videos#v_mar18-23|March 18, 2023: Urban Forum: Walk and Talk—Journey to the Highest Peak: Mt. Davidson]]

:[[Talks: 2022 Videos#v_nov5-22|November 5, 2022: Urban Forum: Walk and Talk—China Beach to Mountain Lake]]

:[[Talks: 2022 Videos#v_oct15-22|October 15, 2022: Urban Forum: Walk and Talk—Tunnel Tops to Francisco Park]]

:[[Talks: 2022 Videos#v_sep24-22|September 24, 2022: Urban Forum: Walk and Talk—Chain of Lakes, Golden Gate Park]]

:[[Talks: 2022 Videos#v_apr9-22|April 9, 2022: Urban Forum: Walk and Talk—San Bruno Mountain]]

:[[Talks: 2022 Videos#v_mar26-22|March 26, 2022: Urban Forum: Walk and Talk—Fort Funston to Pine Lake]]

:[[Talks: 2022 Videos#v_jan29-22|January 29, 2022: Urban Forum: Walk and Talk—Visitacion Valley and Little Hollywood]]

:[[Talks: 2021 Videos#v_nov6-21|November 6, 2021: Urban Forum: Walk and Talk—Glen Canyon and Sutro Forest]]

:[[Talks: 2021 Videos#v_oct9-21|October 9, 2021: Urban Forum: Walk and Talk—Bayview Hill and Candlestick Point State Recreation Area]]

:[[Talks: 2021 Videos#v_aug28-21|August 28, 2021: Urban Forum: Walk and Talk—Grandview Peak and Golden Gate Heights]]

:[[Talks: 2021 Videos#v_jun26-21|June 26, 2021: Urban Forum: Walk and Talk—Dogpatch, Warm Water Cove, Shipyards and Crane Cove Park]]

:[[Talks: 2021 Videos#v_apr10-21|April 10, 2021: Urban Forum: Walk and Talk—Presidio: Crissy Field to El Polín Spring]]

:[[Talks: 2020 Videos#v_dec13-20|December 13, 2020: King Tide/Sea Level Rise Mission Bay Virtual Walking Tour]]

:[[Talks: 2020 Videos#v_sep19-20|September 19, 2020: Urban Forum: Walk and Talk—India Basin and Heron's Head Park]]

[[Talks: Ecology / 2018-2019|Public Talks: Ecology / 2018-2019]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2018-2019#sep25-19|September 25, 2019: Neighborhood Corridors: Memory and Ecology]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2018-2019#may22-19|May 22, 2019: Local Ecological Justice and Urbanity]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2018-2019#mar27-19|March 27, 2019: Sea Level Rise: Pacific Ocean and the Bay Area]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2018-2019#mar28-18|March 28, 2018: Saving the Bay from the "Future"]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2018-2019#mar7-18|March 7, 2018: Resilient by Design: The Language of Water]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2018-2019#feb7-18|February 7, 2018: Building a Deep Map--Beyond Buildings and Views]]

[[Talks: Ecology / 2015-2017|Public Talks: Ecology / 2015-2017]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2015-2017#sep27-17|September 27, 2017: Other Food Systems Are Possible]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2015-2017#may10-17|May 10, 2017: From the Delta to the Bayshore: Adaptation Infrastructure and Rising Seas]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2015-2017#feb8-17|February 8, 2017: Citizen Science/Extinction Culture]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2015-2017#nov30-16|November 30, 2016: Unseen City]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2015-2017#may11-16|May 11, 2016: What’s Going Right with the Global Environment!]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2015-2017#apr27-16|April 27, 2016: Oil, Soil, and (Climate) Turmoil]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2015-2017#apr13-16|April 13, 2016: Synthetic Biology: DIY Tinkering Meets Big Capital]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2015-2017#dec2-15|December 2, 2015: Tending the Urban Wild]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2015-2017#may13-15|May 13, 2015: Plumbing California: Past, Present, and Future]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2015-2017#may6-15|May 6, 2015: Rewilding and the Anthropocene]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2015-2017#apr22-15|April 22, 2015: Telling Stories with Bricks]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2015-2017#feb4-15|February 4, 2015: San Francisco’s Wild Menu: Flora, Fauna, Feast]]

[[Talks: Ecology / 2012-2014|Public Talks: Ecology / 2012-2014]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2012-2014#nov5-14|November 5, 2014: Trees and History]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2012-2014#sep10-14|September 10, 2014: The Evolving Eastern Shoreline]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2012-2014#may14-14|May 14, 2014: Political Economy of Bees]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2012-2014#may7-14|May 7, 2014: Dogs, Density, and Natural Areas]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2012-2014#apr9-14|April 9, 2014: Urban Farming and Urban Nature: Are We Competing or Cooperating?]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2012-2014#mar12-14|March 12, 2014: Saltworks and Shorelines: a Visual and Social History of the San Francisco Bay]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2012-2014#feb26-14|February 26, 2014: Design Radicals: Berkeley 1960s and Today]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2012-2014#feb5-14|February 5, 2014: Becoming a Biodiversity City]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2012-2014#oct30-13|October 30, 2013: Liberation Biology]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2012-2014#may22-13|May 22, 2013: Talking About Ecology and Science in Public]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2012-2014#mar27-13|March 27, 2013: Designing Resilient Landscapes: What history teaches us about San Francisco and the Bay-Delta Estuary]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2012-2014#jan16-13|January 16, 2013: The Tigers of Market Street: Butterfly Habitat along a Busy Urban Corridor]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2012-2014#dec5-12|December 5, 2012: Planning 4th Street: Remaking a San Francisco Corridor]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2012-2014#aug28-12|August 28, 2012: The Next Step in Sustainability]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2012-2014#may23-12|May 23, 2012: What Are Our Streets For?]]

[[Talks: Ecology / 2010-2011|Public Talks: Ecology / 2010-2011]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2010-2011#nov9-11|November 9, 2011: In Search of San Francisco's Eradicated Landscapes]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2010-2011#oct26-11|October 26, 2011: Urban Homesteading]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2010-2011#sep28-11|September 28, 2011: Did Laguna Dolores Exist?]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2010-2011#sep14-11|September 14, 2011: Endangered Species Campaigning]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2010-2011#jun8-11|June 8, 2011: Ecology and Food of the 1970s: Ten Years That Shook the City: San Francisco 1968-78]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2010-2011#mar30-11|March 30, 2011: Reciprocal Bio-Regional Culture from the Bay Area to the Sierras]]

:February 23, 2011: Underground Food Politics

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2010-2011#feb16-11|February 16, 2011: Vanished Waters: A History of San Francisco's Mission Bay]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2010-2011#jan26-11|January 26, 2011: Environmental History of Golden Gate Park]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2010-2011#nov17-10|November 17, 2010: Watersheds from California to Mexico]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2010-2011#nov10-10|November 10, 2010: Eco-Politics, a Strategic Roundtable]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2010-2011#may26-10|May 26, 2010: Twin Peaks Bioregional Park: A Conservation Strategy for the Heart of San Francisco]]

:May 12, 2010: Circle the Food Wagons!—Local Food Economies

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2010-2011#feb24-10|February 24, 2010: San Francisco Golf Courses, Parks, Natural Areas]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2010-2011#jan27-10|January 27, 2010: Urban Forest]]

[[Talks: Ecology / 2008-2009|Public Talks: Ecology / 2008-2009]]

:October 28, 2009: Climate Change/Climate Justice

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2008-2009#sep30-09|September 30, 2009: Ecology and Redevelopment in Bayview/Hunter's Point ]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2008-2009#may13-09|May 13, 2009: Can Capitalism really “Go Green?”]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2008-2009#apr29-09|April 29, 2009: Permacultural Transformation for the Urban Dweller]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2008-2009#mar25-09|March 25, 2009: Toxic San Francisco]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2008-2009#feb25-09|February 25, 2009: Bees in the City]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2008-2009#jan29-09|January 28, 2009: Lake Merced Natural Area's Future]]

:November 19, 2008: Green Streets: Redesigning San Francisco One Block at a Time

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2008-2009#oct29-08|October 29, 2008: Candlestick Point: State Park for the People]]

:February 27, 2008: San Francisco's Imperiled and Surviving Birds

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2008-2009#jan30-08|January 30, 2008: Endangered Species Big Year]]

[[Talks: Ecology / 2006-2007|Public Talks: Ecology / 2006-2007]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2006-2007#nov28-07|November 28, 2007: Food Security & Urban Agriculture]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2006-2007#oct24-07|October 24, 2007: New Politics for Green Cities]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2006-2007#sep26-07|September 26, 2007: San Francisco Water Sources]]

:May 30, 2007: San Francisco Ecology: Butterflies in the City

:May 2, 2007: Immigration, Work, and Agriculture: From Enclosures to Fast-Food

:April 25, 2007: The National Park Where We Live

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2006-2007#feb28-07|February 28, 2007: Laying a Foundation for a Green City (3 podcasts) ]]

:January 31, 2007: Grassroots Activism to Save San Bruno Mountain

:November 29, 2006: Native Habitat Restoration: Frogs in San Francisco

:October 25, 2006: Recycling Activism: Trash and Toxics

:September 27, 2006: Activism in and for the San Francisco Bay Ecosystem

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2006-2007#may31-06|May 31, 2006 : Can San Francisco Feed Itself? (3 podcasts)]]

:May 10, 2006: San Francisco's Food Revolt

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2006-2007#apr26-06|April 26, 2006: Reclaiming Bay Area Military Bases (2 podcasts)]]

:[[Talks: Ecology / 2006-2007#mar29-06|March 29, 2006: Natural Disasters and Community Response (4 podcasts)]]

:February 22, 2006: Nature in the Urban Environment

:January 25, 2006: Natural Areas of San Francisco: a Pre-Urban View

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==Historical Perspectives==

Public Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2026-

:[[Talks: 2026 Videos#v_apr16-26|April 16, 2026: San Francisco: A Liberal Oligarchy?]]

:[[Talks: 2026 Videos#v_feb25-26|February 25, 2026: Memory Keeping from Indigenous Perspectives]]

:[[Talks: 2026 Videos#v_feb11-26|February 11, 2026: The Priest, the Imperialist, and the Sculptor]]

Public Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2021-2025

:[[Talks: 2025 Videos#v_dec10-25|December 10, 2025: Radiation in our Midst]]

:[[Talks: 2025 Videos#v_nov19-25|November 19, 2025: Logistics, Containers, Seafarers]]

:[[Talks: 2025 Videos#v_nov5-25|November 5, 2025: Auto Row to Robo-cars: A Century of Protesting Carmageddon]]

:[[Talks: 2025 Videos#v_may14-25|May 14, 2025: HUAC and the New McCarthyism]]

:[[Talks: 2025 Videos#v_apr16-25|April 16, 2025: Explosivity: Port Chicago & Beyond]]

:[[Talks: 2024 Videos#v_oct16-24|October 16, 2024: Rebel Airwaves: Looking back at 75 years of KPFA]]

:[[Talks: 2024 Videos#v_oct9-24|October 9, 2024: The First Post-Pandemic Political Era: After WWI]]

:[[Talks: 2024 Videos#v_sep25-24|September 25, 2024: Will Maynez Interprets Diego Rivera]]

:[[Talks: 2024 Videos#v_sep11-24|September 11, 2024: Muni Labor, Muni Love]]

:[[Talks: 2024 Videos#v_apr24-24|April 24, 2024: History of Monopoly (the game)]]

:[[Talks: 2024 Videos#v_apr10-24|April 10, 2024: Life and Death in a Great American City]]

:[[Talks: 2023 Videos#v_dec5-23|December 15, 2023: Talking History with Gary Kamiya]]

:[[Talks: 2023 Videos#v_nov15-23|November 15, 2023: Living in the Archives]]

:[[Talks: 2023 Videos#v_nov8-23|November 8, 2023: Peoples History of SFO]]

:[[Talks: 2023 Videos#v_oct28-23|October 28, 2023: Lone Mountain Cemeteries]]

:[[Talks: 2023 Videos#v_oct24-23|October 24, 2023: Mountain View Cemetery]]

:[[Talks: 2023 Videos#v_sep27-23|September 27, 2023: Trains into the Outside Lands]]

:[[Talks: 2023 Videos#v_aug26-23|August 26, 2023: Bicycle Messenger Crackdown Commemoration Ride]]

:[[Talks: 2023 Videos#v_jun14-23|June 14, 2023: San Francisco and the New Deal]]

:[[Talks: 2023 Videos#v_may20-23|May 20, 2023: Urban Forum: Walk and Talk—Food and Baseball in SOMA and the Mission]]

:[[Talks: 2023 Videos#v_mar26-23|March 26, 2023: Tour of the Oakland Tribune Tower]]

:[[Talks: 2023 Videos#v_jan28-23|January 28, 2023: Urban Forum: Walk and Talk—Bernal Cut to Diamond Heights]]

:[[Talks: 2022 Videos#v_nov19-22|November 19, 2022: Urban Forum: Walk and Talk—Pacific Heights and Cow Hollow]]

:[[Talks: 2021 Videos#v_sep18-21|September 18 2021: Urban Forum: Walk and Talk—Eureka Valley and Corbett Heights]]

:[[Talks: 2021 Videos#v_mar6-21|March 6 2021: Urban Forum: Walk and Talk—Bernal Heights and the Bernal Cut]]

[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2019|Public Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2019-2020]]

:[[Talks: Spring 2020 Videos#v_nov14-20|November 14, 2020: Urban Forum: Walk and Talk—McLaren Park and Philosophers' Way]]

:[[Talks: Spring 2020 Videos#v_sep26-20|September 26, 2020: Urban Forum: Walk and Talk—Fort Mason and Black Point]]

:August 29, 2020: Urban Forum: Walk and Talk—SF General Hospital and Potrero Hill ''No recording available''

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2019-2020#mar11-20|March 11, 2020: ''Hidden San Francisco'': Book Release and Birthday Party]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2019-2020#dec11-19|December 11, 2019: Valencia Street as a Lesbian Corridor: Living Memories]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2019-2020#nov13-19|November 13, 2019: Progress to Poverty: Land and Rents]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2019-2020#nov6-19|November 6, 2019: Alcatraz Occupation: A Beginning]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2019-2020#oct23-19|October 23, 2019: Shellmounds, Indigenous Culture, and Ecology on the San Francisco Bay]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2019-2020#oct2-19|October 2, 2019: Storytelling and the Memory Keepers]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2019-2020#may29-19|May 29, 2019: Americans in the Spanish Civil War]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2019-2020#apr10-19|April 10, 2019: Neighborhood Newspapers of San Francisco]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2019-2020#feb6-19|February 6, 2019: Internment and its Aftermath]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2019-2020#jan23-19|January 23, 2019: Before San Francisco: Spanish and Mexican Peninsula]]

[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2017-2018|Public Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2017-2018]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2017-2018#nov7-18|November 7, 2018: The War to End All Wars]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2017-2018#oct31-18|October 31, 2018: The Jazz of Modern Basketball: Racism and Virtuosity at the Roots of the Golden State Warriors]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2017-2018#oct10-18|October 10, 2018: Missing Pieces: Remembering Elements of a Gone City]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2017-2018#sep26-18|September 26, 2018: Model SF: Collectively Shaping the City]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2017-2018#may23-18|May 23, 2018: Archives and Memory: New Ways of Making History]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2017-2018#may9-18|May 9, 2018: Platform Cooperatives]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2017-2018#apr25-18|April 25, 2018: Universal Basic Income, Is It time?]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2017-2018#jan24-18|January 24, 2018: Dogpatch Then and Now]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2017-2018#dec6-17|December 6, 2017: Popular Front to Cold War]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2017-2018#oct11-17|October 11, 2017: Speeding Through the Unseen, From Coding to Commons]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2017-2018#oct4-17|October 4, 2017: Art and Architecture During the Depression]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2017-2018#may3-17|May 3, 2017: Agents of Change: California Labor History]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2017-2018#feb22-17|February 22, 2017: Progressive Transgressions]]

[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2015-2016|Public Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2015-2016]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2015-2016#dec7-16|December 7, 2016: Divided We Fall: Immigration and Scapegoating]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2015-2016#nov9-16|November 9, 2016: The Housing Crisis and The Growth Consensus: What's Wrong with this Picture?]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2015-2016#oct5-16|October 5, 2016: 19th Century California Indian Slavery and Genocide]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2015-2016#may25-16|May 25, 2016: Audible Cities]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2015-2016#apr20-16|April 20, 2016: San Francisco, 1960s & 70s: Cultural Ecology and Experimentation]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2015-2016#mar16-16|March 16, 2016: Street Names, Streetcars, and Street Life]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2015-2016#mar9-16|March 9, 2016: Rise and Fall of Third Worldism]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2015-2016#feb10-16|February 10, 2016: New (Old) Paradigms in Medicine]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2015-2016#jan27-16|January 27, 2016: Easter Rebellion and Irish San Francisco]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2015-2016#dec9-15|December 9, 2015: United Nations and New Deal]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2015-2016#oct7-15|October 7, 2015: Archaeology Finds…Daily Family Life in Early SF Settlements]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2015-2016#apr8-15|April 8, 2015: The Tenderloin: SF’s Most Fraught Neighborhood]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2015-2016#feb24-15|February 24, 2015: Promises of Progress: Panama-Pacific International Exposition]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2015-2016#jan21-15|January 21, 2015: Washed Away—Newfound Extreme Weather History]]

[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2013-2014|Public Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2013-2014]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2013-2014#dec3-14|December 3, 2014: Tunneling San Francisco Then and Now: Where's the Public Interest?]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2013-2014#oct9-14|October 9, 2014: Making History by Making Maps]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2013-2014#sep24-14|September 24, 2014: No Future at College?!?]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2013-2014#may28-14|May 28, 2014: San Francisco's Ghadar Party Heritage]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2013-2014#apr16-14|April 16, 2014: Upton Sinclair/End Poverty in California]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2013-2014#mar19-14|March 19, 2014: Stop, Thief! The Commons, Enclosures, and Resistance]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2013-2014#jan15-14|January 15, 2014: Latinos at the Golden Gate: Creating Community & Identity in San Francisco]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2013-2014#oct9-13|October 9, 2013: Bay Area Indigenous Pre-History]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2013-2014#sep25-13|September 25, 2013: Radical Archiving and Cataloging as Social History]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2013-2014#sep11-13|September 11, 2013: The Bay Bridge, 1936-2013]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2013-2014#apr13-13|April 13, 2013: Chinese Whispers]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2013-2014#feb27-13|February 27, 2013: Pier 70, Transforming 19th Century Ironworks to a 21st Century ... ?]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2013-2014#jan30-13|January 30, 2013: Catastrophism: The Apocalyptic Politics of Collapse and Rebirth]]

[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2010-2012|Public Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2010-2012]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2010-2012#dec12-12|December 12, 2012: Old City Hall: Corruption & Racism in 19th Century San Francisco]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2010-2012#jul17-12|July 17, 2012: Bristol Radical History Group “History From Below”]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2010-2012#may30-12|May 30, 2012: FoundSF: Dissent]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2010-2012#may2-12|May 2, 2012: Mat Callahan presents the "James Connolly--Songs of Freedom" project]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2010-2012#apr25-12|April 25, 2012: Radically Gay: Harry Hay, LGBT pioneer]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2010-2012#jan18-12|January 18, 2012: The Vietnam War Continues]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2010-2012#dec14-11|December 14, 2011: Centennial Anniversary! Women Get the Vote!]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2010-2012#nov30-11|November 30, 2011: The History of the Future]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2010-2012#oct12-11|October 12, 2011: Reimagining Market Street]]

:May 11, 2011: A Virtual Civil Liberties Tour of San Francisco

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2010-2012#jan19-11|January 19, 2011: Before (and After) the Car: San Francisco's Transit History]]

:January 12, 2011: Rick Prelinger's Lost Landscapes of Detroit

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2010-2012#jan13-10|January 13, 2010: Prohibition in San Francisco: Then and Now]]

[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2006-2009|Public Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2006-2009]]

:December 16, 2009 : Rick Prelinger's Lost Landscapes of the East Bay

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2006-2009#nov11-09|November 11, 2009: Alcatraz: 40th Anniversary of Indigenous Occupation]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2006-2009#sep9-09|September 9, 2009: Final Tap: An Unofficial History of Beer]]

:February 11, 2009: Rick Prelinger's Lost Landscapes III: Film Fragments of San Francisco

:January 21, 2009: FoundSF: San Francisco History Wiki Workshop

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2006-2009#nov12-08|November 12, 2008: The Invisible Public Legacy of the Great Depression]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2006-2009#sep17-08|September 17, 2008: SF State Strike 40th Anniversary]]

:December 19, 2007: Rick Prelinger's Lost Landscapes: Film Fragments of San Francisco

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2006-2009#apr11-07|April 11, 2007: Lowriders: When the Mission was Low and Slow]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2006-2009#feb14-07|February 14, 2007: A History of Land Grabs in San Francisco and Some Counter-efforts]]

:December 6, 2006: Rick Prelinger's Lost Landscapes: Film Fragments of San Francisco

:November 8, 2006: Sexual and Reproductive Freedom Since the 1960s

:June 14, 2006: Films by Calvin Roberts: A San Franciscan’s Lost History

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2006-2009#apr12-06|April 12, 2006: Black Exodus and Black Eviction in San Francisco]]

:[[Talks: Historical Perspectives / 2006-2009#feb8-06|February 8, 2006: Philippines & San Francisco: Connected Through History]]

:January 18, 2006: Labor strength: Historic Bay Area General Strikes

==Literary==

[[Talks: Literary / 2010-2017|Public Talks: Literary / 2010-2017]]

:[[Talks: Literary / 2010-2017#mar11-20|March 11, 2020: ''Hidden San Francisco": Book Release and Birthday Party]]

:[[Talks: Literary / 2010-2017#mar8-17|March 8, 2017: Local History in Your Ear]]

:[[Talks: Literary / 2010-2017#nov11-15|November 11, 2015: Literary Liberalism and the Western Voice]]

:[[Talks: Literary / 2010-2017#nov13-13|November 13, 2013: Literary Treasures of the North Mission]]

:[[Talks: Literary / 2010-2017#oct16-13|October 16, 2013: Unsettlers: El Cabe]]

:[[Talks: Literary / 2010-2017#may8-13|May 8, 2013: Unsettlers: Migrants, Homies, and Mammas in the Mission]]

:[[Talks: Literary / 2010-2017#apr13-11|April 13, 2011: History of the Charles H. Kerr Publishing Co.]]

:[[Talks: Literary / 2010-2017#mar23-11|March 23, 2011: The Radical Futures Of The Book]]

:[[Talks: Literary / 2010-2017#oct20-10|October 20, 2010: Hard Boiled for Hard Times—Crime Authors in the City]]

:[[Talks: Literary / 2010-2017#oct13-10|October 13, 2010: Outspoken Authors Speak Out]]

:[[Talks: Literary / 2010-2017#mar24-10|March 24, 2010: Science Fiction and the Struggle for Justice]]

:[[Talks: Literary / 2010-2017#mar17-10|March 17, 2010: Crime/Noir Writers Describe Their Crimes in the City]]

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==Social Movements==

[[Public Talks: Social Movements / 2026-]]

:[[Talks: 2026 Videos#v_may27-26|May 27, 2026: AI and Empire Building]]

[[Talks: Social Movements / 2020|Public Talks: Social Movements / 2020-2025]]

:[[Talks: 2025 Videos#v_oct22-25|October 22, 2025: Social Housing: Challenging YIMBYs and NIMBYs]]

:[[Talks: 2025 Videos#v_feb26-25|February 26, 2025: New Luddites vs. Biopiracy and AI]]

:[[Talks: 2024 Videos#v_dec4-24|December 4, 2024: Refusing Silicon Valley]]

:[[Talks: 2024 Videos#v_jul5-24|July 5, 2024: 1934 Big Strike 90th Anniversary]]

:[[Talks: 2024 Videos#v_may22-24|May 22, 2024: Rainbow Grocery Cooperative]]

:[[Talks: 2022 Videos#v_may28-22|May 28, 2022: Urban Forum Walk n Talk: CCSF to SFSU]]

:[[Talks: 2021 Videos#v_nov18-21|November 18, 2021: An Irish Catholic Liberal: Bishop Mark J. Hurley and the 1968-69 Strike at State]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2020#jan29-20|January 29, 2020: Enola Gay Faggot Affinity Group]]

[[Talks: Social Movements / 2018-2019|Public Talks: Social Movements / 2018-2019]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2018-2019#dec4-19|December 4, 2019: Seattle/WTO Shutdown: 20th Anniversary]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2018-2019#oct15-19|October 15, 2019: For the Record: Eyewitness Testimonies of the police murder of Luis Góngora Pat]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2018-2019#oct9-19|October 9, 2019: Expanding San Francisco’s Common Wealth]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2018-2019#may8-19|May 8, 2019: The Women of Los Siete de la Raza]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2018-2019#mar13-19|March 13, 2019: Dockworker Power in the Bay Area and South Africa]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2018-2019#dec5-18|December 5, 2018: Movements of Movements]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2018-2019#oct24-18|October 24, 2018: Rethinking 1968: What Happened, How Has It Shaped Us?]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2018-2019#oct3-18|October 3, 2018: Women, Power, and the Vote: 1911 Suffrage to the 2018 Midterms]]

[[Talks: Social Movements / 2015-2017|Public Talks: Social Movements / 2015-2017]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2015-2017#dec13-17|December 13, 2017: San Francisco's Freeway Revolt]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2015-2017#oct18-17|October 18, 2017: 50th Anniversary of the Stop the Draft Week Protests]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2015-2017#may31-17|May 31, 2017: Summer of Love or Vietnam Summer?]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2015-2017#mar22-17|March 22, 2017: We've Done This Before: 1980s Movements]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2015-2017#oct26-16|October 26, 2016: Death of Money: Diggers 50 Years Later]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2015-2017#oct12-16|October 12, 2016: Compton's Cafeteria 50th Anniversary—The Transformation of Trans Politics and Identity]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2015-2017#sep14-16|September 14, 2016: Hunter's Point Rebellion, 50 Years Later]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2015-2017#oct14-15|October 14, 2015: Housing is a Human Right!]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2015-2017#sep23-15|September 23, 2015: Prisoners and Politics: from the San Quentin Six to Pelican Bay]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2015-2017#apr29-15|April 29, 2015: Union Demise and New Workers’ Movements]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2015-2017#apr1-15|April 1, 2015: Vietnam War, Dissent, and the U.S. Military]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2015-2017#jan14-15|January 14, 2015: Home on the Grange]]

[[Talks: Social Movements / 2012-2014|Public Talks: Social Movements / 2012-2014]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2012-2014#dec10-14|December 10, 2014: Latin American Social Movements]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2012-2014#oct29-14|October 29, 2014: San Francisco’s Housing Wars 2014 ]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2012-2014#oct1-14|October 1, 2014: A History of LGBTQ Spaces . . .Where you Least Expect Them]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2012-2014#dec4-13|December 4, 2013: Remembering Los Siete]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2012-2014#nov6-13|November 6, 2013: Confronting Cultural Genocide]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2012-2014#oct2-13|October 2, 2013: The Red Army Faction—Dancing With Imperialism]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2012-2014#may20-13|May 20, 2013: "We are not machines!" The Situation and Struggles of the iSlaves in China]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2012-2014#mar13-13|March 13, 2013: Asia's Unknown Uprisings]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2012-2014#feb20-13|February 20, 2013: The Revolution of Everyday Life]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2012-2014#oct17-12|October 17, 2012: Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2012-2014#oct10-12|October 10, 2012: Ohlone Profiles Project]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2012-2014#sep12-12|September 12, 2012: Mexico Today: Dinosaurs, Popular Refusal, and Hashtags!]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2012-2014#apr11-12|April 11, 2012: West of Eden: Communes and Utopia in Northern California]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2012-2014#mar28-12|March 28, 2012: Selma James and George Katsiaficas]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2012-2014#mar14-12|March 14, 2012: Rebooting the Rainbow]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2012-2014#feb22-12|February 22, 2012: Policing San Francisco: 1930s-1960s]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2012-2014#feb15-12|February 15, 2012: Corporate Personhood?!?]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2012-2014#jan25-12|January 25, 2012: Occupy Everything! An Open Discussion]]

[[Talks: Social Movements / 2009-2011|Public Talks: Social Movements / 2009-2011]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2009-2011#nov16-11|November 16, 2011: The Good, The Bad, and the Alternatives to Mass Education]]

:September 21, 2011: Dublin Community Activism Against Drug Addiction

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2009-2011#may18-11|May 18, 2011: Mission Politics in the 1970s: Ten Years That Shook the City: San Francisco 1968-78]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2009-2011#apr27-11|April 27, 2011: Overcoming Work and Sacrifice]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2009-2011#apr20-11|April 20, 2011: Radical Approaches to Organizing Work]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2009-2011#mar16-11|March 16, 2011: Movements and Political Generations]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2009-2011#mar9-11|March 9, 2011: The Struggles of the Balkans and Romani in Fact and Fiction]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2009-2011#dec15-10|December 15, 2010: Navigating the Criminal Courts: A Guide for Activists]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2009-2011#dec8-10|December 8, 2010: Haiti: Gender and Continuity in the Midst of Disaster]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2009-2011#sep29-10|September 29, 2010: Education Crisis/Radical Responses]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2009-2011#sep15-10|September 15, 2010: Imprisoned But Unbowed: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2009-2011#apr21-10|April 21, 2010: Ten Years That Shook the City -- Sneak Preview]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2009-2011#apr14-10|April 14, 2010: U.S. Social Forum, Detroit]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2009-2011#mar31-10|March 31, 2010: Songs To Enemies And Deserts, A Film Screening About Rebellion In Darfur]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2009-2011#feb10-10|February 10, 2010: Queer workers: Class, Gentrification and Struggle in San Francisco]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2009-2011#oct21-09|October 21, 2009: Bicycling in San Francisco]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2009-2011#oct14-09|October 14, 2009: The Politics of ‘Third Space’ in Global Videos and Installations]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2009-2011#may20-09|May 20, 2009: Anti-systemic Knowledge: Learning from the South]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2009-2011#apr22-09|April 22, 2009: Global Commons/Global Enclosures]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2009-2011#apr8-09|April 8, 2009: Anti-War Then and Now]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2009-2011#mar11-09|March 11, 2009: Local Remanufacturing Our Way out of the Depression]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2009-2011#jan14-09|January 14, 2009: Hearing the City: Radio in San Francisco]]

[[Talks: Social Movements / 2006-2008|Public Talks: Social Movements / 2006-2008]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2006-2008#dec17-08|December 17, 2008: Lessons and Advice on How to Survive an Economic Meltdown]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2006-2008#dec10-08|December 10, 2008: Neighborhood Newspapers: Community Journalism in San Francisco]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2006-2008#oct22-08|October 22, 2008: Worker Cooperative Alternatives to Precariousness]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2006-2008#sep24-08|September 24, 2008: Global Africa: Liberation, Decolonialization, and Diaspora]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2006-2008#mar12-08|March 12, 2008: Arab San Francisco]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2006-2008#feb13-08|February 13, 2008: Community Art Spaces Survive Urban Pressures]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2006-2008#jan9-08|January 9, 2008: Class and Power in Queer San Francisco]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2006-2008#dec12-07|December 12, 2007: News and the Future of Journalism]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2006-2008#nov14-07|November 14, 2007: Public Commons vs. Corporate Privatization]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2006-2008#oct10-07|October 10, 2007: Voting Perspectives]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2006-2008#mar7-07|March 7, 2007: Learnin’ + Teachin’: The Future of Education (4 podcasts)]]

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2006-2008#jan17-07|January 17, 2007: The Public Health Epidemic in a Therapy Society (3 podcasts)]]

:December 13, 2006: Tactical Evolution: Protest Culture, Dissent, and Radical Change

:October 11, 2006: Bolivar, Zapata and Sandino Ghosts and Revolution in South America

:[[Talks: Social Movements / 2006-2008#mar8-06|March 8, 2006: Infrastructure Wars: Sustainable Movements (3 podcasts)]]

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Talks: 2026 Videos

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''' Primary Source '''

'''Shaping San Francisco hosts Public Talks on a variety of topics, usually on Wednesday nights, a dozen times a year. Our topic themes vary, but we've grouped them over time into these categories: Art & Politics, Ecology, Historical Perspectives, Literary, and Social Movements.'''

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May 27, 2026 

AI and Empire Building

We bring together several sharp critics of the hype machine that has long characterized the internet and our successive tech booms, currently blowing up in the AI bubble. Lost in the hand wringing over the more exaggerated claims of boosters and doomers is the ongoing reproduction of a colonial seizure of what should be our common wealth. This process has long historic roots and in some ways it is thanks to our amnesiac culture that the current crop of billionaire investors and tech bros have gotten away with doing it all again. Wendy Liu, Alex Hanna, Tamara Kneese, and Elizabeth Travelslight.

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April 16, 2026 

San Francisco: A Liberal Oligarchy?

New tech oligarchs have thrown their money around to shape city politics for the past decade. We now have a billionaire bluejeans heir for mayor. We explore how organized money and corporate power managed to steer San Francisco going back through the post-WWII cold war, the long decline of Catholic morality, and the explosion of social movements and the sexual revolution the city is known for. Join political scientist Lincoln Mitchell, former supervisor and Mayoral candidate Tom Ammiano, and neighborhood activist and writer Romalyn Schmaltz for a spirited romp through the tangled and conflicted histories of the past few decades.

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March 25, 2026 

Re-Imagining Serra

Chris Cuadrado's artist activation uses multimedia technology to create an alternative statue emerging from the rubble of what has been torn down. Chris investigates the act of reappropriation to rebuild the memory of Junipero Serra. Based on collected ephemera, photographs, video footage, and sourced miniature replicas related to the statue, a screening and sound sculpture is a meditation on the figure of Padre Junipero Serra. Attendees will be invited to reflect on monuments, legacy, and public space.

Part of Shaping Legacy: San Francisco Monuments & Memorials, a project of San Francisco Arts Commission, with Adriana Camarena, Kim Shuck, and Chris Cuadrado. Thanks to Association of Ramaytush Ohlone for guidance throughout the year.

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March 11, 2026 

City of Redwood

James Michael Buckley’s 2024 ''City of Wood: San Francisco and the Architecture of the Redwood Lumber Industry'' reconnects us to the built environment from San Francisco all the way up to Eureka in the far north of California, past and present. David Schmidt’s brand new majesterial ''San Francisco Bay Area: An Environmental History'' contains a close look at the historic forests of the Bay Area and how they were cut down to help build the region. Together these speakers will help us see how profoundly the iconic trees of the west coast literally undergird our everyday lives even today.

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February 25, 2026 

Memory Keeping from Indigenous Perspectives

Shaping San Francisco’s year-long case study of the Padre Junípero Serra statue included a folklife-based, community-led research process centered on memory-keeping practices. Indigenous community researchers explored everyday practices from their own cultures that carry collective knowledge. The researchers included members of Urban Native communities, Indigenous migrants from Latin America and the Caribbean, and urban youth. Their research invites reflection on how genocide, relocation, and migration continue to erode Indigenous ways of knowing, and how communities continue to protect and hold on to them. The process was facilitated by storyteller Adriana Camarena. Several community researchers will share their findings. The discussion will be presented in Spanish and English.

Part of Shaping Legacy: San Francisco Monuments & Memorials, a project of San Francisco Arts Commission 

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February 11, 2026 

The Priest, the Imperialist, and the Sculptor

We close a year-long case study of the Padre Junipero Serra statue. Jonathan Cordero (Association of Ramaytush Ohlone) critically examines the romantic myth that supports the veneration of Serra and reveals the actual calamitous impact of the mission system. Chris Carlsson explains how an unlikely series of events led to the so-called “Mission Revival”, the commissioning of the statue by James Phelan, and giving Serra an undeserved new role in a manufactured public memory. He reveals that the statue's placement in Golden Gate Park in 1907 in fact bolstered a white supremacist agenda at the dawn of the 20th century. LisaRuth Elliott explores Douglas Tilden, the cosmopolitan sculptor revered in the deaf community, and his many other contributions to the SF civic art collection and beyond. This evening is a chance to talk about the reanimation of a man through a monument, the fraught relationship between a patron of the arts and his protegé, and how these honorific likenesses and what they are supposed to signify become part of our urban space.

Part of Shaping Legacy: San Francisco Monuments & Memorials, a project of San Francisco Arts Commission

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Bay Area Military Bases

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Category:Book Excerpts

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[[category:Theme]] [[category:Books]]

[[Image:American-Genocide-cover.jpg|200px]]

[[Hastings College of Law Built on Genocide?|Hastings College of Law Built on Genocide?]]

''Excerpted with permission from [http://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300230697/american-genocide ''An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873''] (Yale University Press: New Haven & London 2016)''

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[[Image:A-Negotiated-Landscape-book-cover.jpg|200px]]

[[A Waterfront Planned: The 1990s and the New Millennium|A Waterfront Planned: The 1990s and the New Millennium]]

[[The Embarcadero Reborn|The Embarcadero Reborn]]

[[The Waterfront Land Use Plan|The Waterfront Land Use Plan]]

[[Problems of Waterfront Planning|Problems of Waterfront Planning]]

[[A Waterfront for the People?|A Waterfront for the People?]]

The pages from this book [http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/N/bo12387078.html ''A Negotiated Landscape''] © 2011 Jasper Rubin and the Center for American Places at Columbia College Chicago, are excerpted with permission.

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[[Image:BART-cover-RGB-onlineuse.jpg|200px]]

''Originally published in [https://heydaybooks.com/catalog/bart-the-dramatic-history-of-the-bay-area-rapid-transit-system/ ''BART: The Dramatic History of the Bay Area Rapid Transit System'' Heyday Books]: Berkeley CA, 2016''

[[Key System and March of Progress|Key System and March of Progress]]

[[San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit Commission—The Beginnings|San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit Commission—The Beginnings]]

[[Planning and Selling BART|Planning and Selling BART]]

[[Building San Francisco's BART tunnels|Building San Francisco's BART tunnels]]

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[[Image:Bump-city-cover.jpg|200px]]

''Bump City'' by John Krich (City Miner Books, Berkeley CA: 1979);
Originally a chapter in ''Bump City'' called “Captain Sal and the Age of Irony”

[[Incredible Bottom of the Ninth Comeback! The Oakland A’s Win Game 5 of the 1972 World Series|Incredible Bottom of the Ninth Comeback! The Oakland A’s Win Game 5 of the 1972 World Series]]

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[[Image:Front-cover-web-resolution-72-dpi.jpg|200px]]

[[Chinatown Vice|Chinatown Vice]]

[[The Golden Dragon Restaurant Massacre|The Golden Dragon Restaurant Massacre]]

[[The Six Companies|The Six Companies]]

''By Kevin J. Mullen, excerpted with permission from "Chinatown Squad"''

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[[Image:Issel Church and State sm.jpg|200px]]

''From pages 1-6, the Introduction to [http://www.temple.edu/tempress/titles/2257_reg.html '''Church and State in the City: Catholics and Politics in Twentieth-Century San Francisco'''] by William Issel. Used by permission of Temple University Press. © 2013 by Temple University. All Rights Reserved.''

[[Catholic San Francisco: A City of Contests|Catholic San Francisco: A City of Contests]]

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[[Image:CGC-cover.jpg|200px|]]

''Excerpted with permission from [http://bloomsbury.com/us/cool-gray-city-of-love-9781608199600/ Bloomsbury], from the book “Cool Gray City of Love” available here: [http://www.indiebound.org/book/9781608199600 IndieBound], [http://www.citylights.com/book/?GCOI=87286100740730 City Lights], [http://www.amazon.com/Cool-Gray-City-Love-Francisco/dp/1608199606/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1386633018&sr=1-1&keywords=cool+gray+city+of+love+49+views+of+san+francisco Amazon], and [http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/cool-gray-city-of-love-gary-kamiya/1114764186?ean=9781608199600 B&N].''

[[Searching for the Yelamu in San Francisco|Searching for the Yelamu in San Francisco]]

[[Western Addition: A Basic History|Western Addition: A Basic History]]

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[[Image:Copaganda-cover-288px.jpg|200px]]

''Copyright © 2025 by Alec Karakatsanis. This excerpt originally appeared in [https://thenewpress.org/books/copaganda/ ''Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News''], published by The New Press. Reprinted here with permission.''

[[Copaganda: The Recall of DA Chesa Boudin|Copaganda: The Recall of DA Chesa Boudin]]

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[[Image:labor1$waitresses$dishout_itm$dish-cover.jpg|200px]]

[http://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/86dnq7dp9780252061868.html ''Dishing It Out: Waitresses and Their Unions in the Twentieth Century''], by Dorothy Sue Cobble (1991: University of Illinois Press: Urbana and Chicago

[[WAITRESSES and UNIONS The Fruits of Solidarity|WAITRESSES and UNIONS The Fruits of Solidarity]]

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[[Image:Paulson cover 200px.jpg]]

Excerpted from ''Forty Years of Making ‘Good Trouble’—The Selected Writings of a San Francisco Labor Leader'' © Tim Paulson, 2021

First published in the U.S. by Senders Communications Group, 16501 Ventura Blvd. #400, Encino, CA 91436

[[Labor and the San Francisco Universal Health Care Security Ordinance|Labor and the San Francisco Universal Health Care Security Ordinance]]

[[San Francisco is Beautiful, Difficult — but still a Union City|San Francisco is Beautiful, Difficult — but still a Union City]]

[[SF Labor Council Helps Cruise Line Workers|SF Labor Council Helps Cruise Line Workers]]

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[[Image:Free-City-cover.jpg|200px]]

''Originally published as the Epilogue in ''[https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1141 Free City! The Fight for San Francisco's City College and Education for All]'' by PM Press, 2021''

[[City College of SF: One Struggle Sets the Table for the Next|City College of SF: One Struggle Sets the Table for the Next]]

'''The following pages are not excerpted directly from this book, but are earlier versions that ended up after further revisions as chapters.'''

[[Education ‘Reform’ Meets Gentrification in San Francisco at City College|Education ‘Reform’ Meets Gentrification in San Francisco at City College]]

[[City College Faculty Fights for Fairness|City College Faculty Fights for Fairness]]

[[Development Pressure Engulfs City College|Development Pressure Engulfs City College]]

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[[Image:Gods-hotel-cover.jpg|200px]]

''from [http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/306891/gods-hotel-by-victoria-sweet/9781594486548 ''God's Hotel: A Doctor, A Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine''] by Victoria Sweet, copyright © 2012 by Victoria Sweet. Used by permission of Riverhead, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC.''

[[Laguna Honda Hospital|Laguna Honda Hospital]]

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[[Image:Front cover.jpg|200px]]

Excerpted from ''[https://www.amazon.com/God-Squad-Born-Again-Francisco-Giants/dp/1631322079/ The God Squad: The Born-Again San Francisco Giants of 1978].''

[[BOO! The Giants' Johnnie LeMaster|BOO! The Giants' Johnnie LeMaster]]

[[Dave Dravecky's Miraculous Comeback|Dave Dravecky's Miraculous Comeback]]

[[The God Squad|The God Squad]]

[[Jack Clark's Revenge on the Dodgers|Jack Clark's Revenge on the Dodgers]]

[[Mike Ivie: The Miracle Man|Mike Ivie: The Miracle Man]]

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[[Image:Baranski-Housing-City-by-the-Bay-Cover-288px.jpg|200px]]

''Excerpted from [https://www.sup.org/books/history/housing-city-bay ''Housing the City by the Bay: Tenant Activism, Civil Rights, and Class Politics in San Francisco''] by John Baranski, published by Stanford University Press. Used by permission. © Copyright 2019 by John Baranski. All rights reserved.''

[[Post-1906 Quake Housing Reform|Post-1906 Quake Housing Reform]]

[[Burnham Plan and Tenement Housing|Burnham Plan and Tenement Housing]]

[[San Francisco Housing Association|San Francisco Housing Association]]

[[California Commission of Immigration and Housing|California Commission of Immigration and Housing]]

[[World War I Housing Reform Effort|World War I Housing Reform Effort]]

[[Segregated and Substandard Housing in the 1920s|Segregated and Substandard Housing in the 1920s]]

[[Housing Crisis Worsens at Start of Depression|Housing Crisis Worsens at Start of Depression]]

[[Chinatown Tenants Win Public Housing Rent Strike|Chinatown Tenants Win Public Housing Rent Strike]]

[[San Francisco Housing Authority and Mayor Moscone|San Francisco Housing Authority and Mayor Moscone]]

[[San Francisco Housing Authority Tries to Buy I-Hotel|San Francisco Housing Authority Tries to Buy I-Hotel]]

[[San Francisco Housing Authority and CANE|San Francisco Housing Authority and CANE]]

[[San Francisco Housing Authority in the 1970s|San Francisco Housing Authority in the 1970s]]

[[Neoliberalism Dismantles Public Housing|Neoliberalism Dismantles Public Housing]]

[[SF Housing Authority Copes With Neoliberalism|SF Housing Authority Copes With Neoliberalism]]

[[Homelessness Surges in Wake of Neoliberalism|Homelessness Surges in Wake of Neoliberalism]]

[[Pink Palace Controversy|Pink Palace Controversy]]

[[Public Housing Tenant Movement Fractures|Public Housing Tenant Movement Fractures]]

[[Safety Net Torn Up by Government|Safety Net Torn Up by Government]]

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[[Image:Industrial-Cowboys-cover.jpg|200px|]]

''This excerpt from [https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520245341/industrial-cowboys ''Industrial Cowboys Miller & Lux and the Transformation of the Far West, 1850-1920''] is used with permission. © David Igler, University of California Press: 2001''

[[Miller & Lux and the Dirty Plate Route|Miller & Lux and the Dirty Plate Route]]

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[[Image:Latinos-at-the-golden-gate-cover.jpg|200px]]

''excerpted from '''[http://www.uncpress.unc.edu/browse/book_detail?title_id=3444 Latinos at the Golden Gate: Creating Community and Identity in San Francisco]''', by Tomás F. Summers Sandoval Jr., Copyright © 2013 by the [http://www.uncpress.unc.edu University of North Carolina Press]. Used by permission of the publisher.''

[[Midcentury Migrations|Midcentury Migrations]]

[[Tributary to San Francisco|Tributary to San Francisco]]

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[[Image:Lee-Felsenstein-book-cover 200px.jpg]]

Excerpted with permission from: ''Me and My Big Ideas: Counterculture, Social Media, and the Future'' by Lee Felsenstein published by [https://www.FelsenSigns.com FelsenSigns]

[[Free Speech Movement 1964|Free Speech Movement 1964]]

[[Working at Ampex|Working at Ampex]]

[[Berkeley Barb and People's Park|Berkeley Barb and People's Park]]

[[Founding of Ohlone Park|Founding of Ohlone Park]]

[[Resource One|Resource One]]

[[Installing a Mainframe at Project One|Installing a Mainframe at Project One]]

[[Community Memory: The Beginning|Community Memory: The Beginning]]

[[Community Memory Evolves|Community Memory Evolves]]

[[Homebrew Computer Club|Homebrew Computer Club]]

[[Reflections on the End of Community Memory|Reflections on the End of Community Memory]]

[[Craigslist|Craigslist]]

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[[Image:Karl-book-2258 reg.gif]]

[[Mission Anti-Displacement Coalition|Mission Anti-Displacement Coalition]]

[[Rezoning the Eastern Neighborhoods in Early 2000s|Rezoning the Eastern Neighborhoods in Early 2000s]]

''Excerpts from [http://www.temple.edu/tempress/titles/2258_reg.html '''Local Protest, Global Movements: Capital, Community, and State In San Francisco'''] by Karl Beitel. Used by permission of Temple University Press. © 2013 by Temple University. All Rights Reserved.''

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[[Image:Berglund-Making-San-Francisco-American-cover.jpg|200px]]

''Exerpts from [https://kuecprd.ku.edu/~upress/cgi-bin/award-winners/978-0-7006-1722-7.html ''Making San Francisco American: Cultural Frontiers in the Urban West, 1846-1906''] by Barbara Berglund (University Press of Kansas: Lawrence KS 2007)''

[[California Midwinter Fair of 1894: An Orientalist Exposition|California Midwinter Fair of 1894: An Orientalist Exposition]]

[[California Midwinter Fair of 1894: ’49 Mining Camp glorifies Gold Rush Fantasies|California Midwinter Fair of 1894: ’49 Mining Camp glorifies Gold Rush Fantasies]]

[[California Midwinter Fair of 1894: Women’s Work and Vice|California Midwinter Fair of 1894: Women’s Work and Vice]]

[[California Midwinter Fair of 1894: Depression and Poverty|California Midwinter Fair of 1894: Depression and Poverty]]

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[[Image:Medicine of Memoroy 9780292752672.jpg|200px]]

''Excerpted with permission from [https://utpress.utexas.edu/9780292752672/the-medicine-of-memory/| ''The Medicine of Memory''] by Alejandro Murguía, published by the University of Texas Press, 2002.''

[[The "Good Old Mission Days" Never Existed!|The "Good Old Mission Days" Never Existed!]]

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[[Image:Mission-High-book-cover.jpg|200px]]

''Excerpted with permission from ''Mission High: One School, How Experts Tried to Fail It, and the Students and Teachers Who Made It Triumph'', [https://www.boldtypebooks.com/titles/kristina-rizga/mission-high/9781568584621/ Bold Type Books]: 2015''

[[Mission High School’s Innovative Anti-Racist Teaching|Mission High School’s Innovative Anti-Racist Teaching]]

[[Desegregating San Francisco Public Schools in the 1960s|Desegregating San Francisco Public Schools in the 1960s]]

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[[Image:More Than Shelter cover.jpg|200px]]

[[San Francisco Housing Authority 1937-1965: The Early Decades|San Francisco Housing Authority 1937-1965: The Early Decades]]

''Excerpted from [https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/more-than-shelter ''More than Shelter: Activism and Community in San Francisco Public Housing''] by Amy L. Howard. Used by permission of the University of Minnesota Press. © Copyright 2014 by the Regents of the University of Minnesota. All rights reserved.''

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[[Image:Neon-Girls-book-cover.jpg|200px]]

[[Strip-Club Business: A Brief History|Strip-Club Business: A Brief History]]

''by Jennifer Worley, excerpted from [https://www.harpercollins.com/products/neon-girls-jennifer-worley?variant=32206140571682 ''Neon Girls: A Stripper's Education in Protest and Power''] HarperCollins Books: 2020,'' a first-hand account of the epic union organizing campaign at the Lusty Lady Club in North Beach.''

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[[Image:Nanette-Jordan-Book-Cover.jpg|200px]]

"Originally published in [https://www.amazon.com/Painting-Paintings-gilded-memoir-Revised/dp/B09TRLHBR2/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= ''Painting on Paintings: A Gilded Memoir''], ''2022. Excerpted with Nanette Jordan's permission. ''

[[Sutro Baths Eerie Ice Rink|Sutro Baths Eerie Ice Rink]]

[[Playland is a Nightmare|Playland is a Nightmare]]

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[[Image:SFBay-History-WEB2-360x570.jpg|200px]]

''Excerpted from David D. Schmidt's ''San Francisco Bay Area: An Environmental History.'' Available from [https://backcountrypress.com/book/san-francisco-bay-area/ Backcountry Press].''

[[Abalone Boom and Bust|Abalone Boom and Bust]]

[[Bay Area Military Bases|Bay Area Military Bases]]

[[Borax King and Key System in East Bay|Borax King and Key System in East Bay]]

[[Chinese Shrimp Camps Along The Bay|Chinese Shrimp Camps Along The Bay]]

[[David Hewes and His Steam Paddy Works|David Hewes and His Steam Paddy Works]]

[[Edgar and Peggy Wayburn, Phillip Burton Saved Vast Lands|Edgar and Peggy Wayburn, Phillip Burton Saved Vast Lands]]

[[Filling The Bay Along San Francisco’s Southern Waterfront|Filling The Bay Along San Francisco’s Southern Waterfront]]

[[Mercury Mining|Mercury Mining]]

[[Oysters, Pirates, and Pollution|Oysters, Pirates, and Pollution]]

[[Restoring Natural Areas in San Francisco|Restoring Natural Areas in San Francisco]]

[[Restoring Natural Areas on Federal Lands in San Francisco: Presidio and Fort Funston|Restoring Natural Areas on Federal Lands in San Francisco: Presidio and Fort Funston]]

[[San Francisco's Drinking Water|San Francisco's Drinking Water]]

[[San Francisco's Garbage: From Mission Bay to Altamont|San Francisco's Garbage: From Mission Bay to Altamont]]

[[San Francisco’s Struggles With Sewage, 1860s-1990s|San Francisco’s Struggles With Sewage, 1860s-1990s]]

[[Saving Richardson Bay; Harold Gilliam Sounds the Alarm 1955-58|Saving Richardson Bay; Harold Gilliam Sounds the Alarm 1955-58]]

[[When Crab Was King at Fisherman’s Wharf|When Crab Was King at Fisherman’s Wharf]]

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[[Image:Secret-Ugly-full-cover 6-inches.jpg|200px]]

''Excerpted from ''The Secret Ugly: The Hidden History of US Germ War in Korea'' by Thomas Powell, [mailto:edgewatereditions@gmail.com Edgewater Editions]: 2023.''

[[War in Korea|War in Korea]]

[[Powell/Schuman Sedition Trial|Powell/Schuman Sedition Trial]]

[[Bill Powell Exposes Post-WWII US-Japan Germ War Deal|Bill Powell Exposes Post-WWII US-Japan Germ War Deal]]

[[Growing Up ‘Red’ in 1950s San Francisco|Growing Up ‘Red’ in 1950s San Francisco]]

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[[Image:Sixth-star-cover-72-dpi-4x5.jpg|200px]]

'''Sixth Star book cover'''

[[The Sixth Star|The Sixth Star]]

[[Women's Suffrage 1870|Women's Suffrage 1870]]

[[Ellen Clark Sargent|Ellen Clark Sargent]]

[[Emily Pitts Stevens|Emily Pitts Stevens]]

[[Women’s Co-operative Printing Union|Women’s Co-operative Printing Union]]

[[West Coast Women's Congress Association|West Coast Women's Congress Association]]

[[Suffragettes Gather|Suffragettes Gather]]

[[Sarah B. Cooper|Sarah B. Cooper]]

[[The Bifurcated Skirt|The Bifurcated Skirt]]

[[First California Women in Law|First California Women in Law]]

[[Nellie Holbrook Blinn|Nellie Holbrook Blinn]]

[[Elizabeth Lowe Watson|Elizabeth Lowe Watson]]

[[Championing the Working Woman|Championing the Working Woman]]

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[[Image:Coyote sleeping-where-I-fall-cover.jpg|200px]]

''Excerpted with permission from "Sleeping Where I Fall" by [http://www.petercoyote.com/sleeping.html Peter Coyote], published by Counterpoint, Washington, D.C., 1998''

[[The Digger Concept of 'Free'|The Digger Concept of 'Free']]

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[[Image:Street fight 9781613762608.jpg|200px]]

[[Second Freeway Revolt|Second Freeway Revolt]]

[[Conservative Fight to Save Central Freeway|Conservative Fight to Save Central Freeway]]

[[Dueling Ballots: The Central Freeway’s Fate|Dueling Ballots: The Central Freeway’s Fate]]

These articles are excerpted, with permission, from Henderson's book [http://www.umass.edu/umpress/title/street-fight ''Street Fight: The Politics of Mobility in San Francisco''], © 2013

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[[Image:Streetopia cover 9780692424285.jpg|200px|left]] ''Excerpts from [https://www.ericadawnlyle.info/streetopiabook ''Streetopia''], in the essay "The Uses of Market Street"''

[[Redevelopment vs. Ecotopia|Redevelopment vs. Ecotopia]]

[[San Francisco Singularity?|San Francisco Singularity?]]

[[Uses of Market Street|Uses of Market Street]]

[[Problem with Parklets|Problem with Parklets]]

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[[Image:Roxanas Children book cover.jpg|200px]]

[[Yankee Women|Yankee Women]]

''Excerpted from ''Roxana's Children: The Biography of a Nineteenth-Century Vermont Family'' by Lynn A. Bonfield and Mary C. Morrison (Amherst: © 1995, University of Massachusetts Press)''.''

Bay Area Military Bases

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Bay Area Military Bases

2026-05-27T05:52:00Z

Ccarlsson: Created page with "''' Historical Essay ''' ''by David D. Schmidt, 2026'' ''An excerpt from the book, [https://backcountrypress.com/book/san-francisco-bay-area/ ''San Francisco Bay Area: An Environmental History''], by David D. Schmidt (Backcountry Press, 2025). This is a survey of former and current military bases around the San Francisco Bay, but is not a full list of all such sites. Image:Presidio Cris..."

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[[Image:American-Genocide-cover.jpg|200px]]

[[Hastings College of Law Built on Genocide?|Hastings College of Law Built on Genocide?]]

''Excerpted with permission from [http://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300230697/american-genocide ''An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873''] (Yale University Press: New Haven & London 2016)''

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[[Image:A-Negotiated-Landscape-book-cover.jpg|200px]]

[[A Waterfront Planned: The 1990s and the New Millennium|A Waterfront Planned: The 1990s and the New Millennium]]

[[The Embarcadero Reborn|The Embarcadero Reborn]]

[[The Waterfront Land Use Plan|The Waterfront Land Use Plan]]

[[Problems of Waterfront Planning|Problems of Waterfront Planning]]

[[A Waterfront for the People?|A Waterfront for the People?]]

The pages from this book [http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/N/bo12387078.html ''A Negotiated Landscape''] © 2011 Jasper Rubin and the Center for American Places at Columbia College Chicago, are excerpted with permission.

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[[Image:BART-cover-RGB-onlineuse.jpg|200px]]

''Originally published in [https://heydaybooks.com/catalog/bart-the-dramatic-history-of-the-bay-area-rapid-transit-system/ ''BART: The Dramatic History of the Bay Area Rapid Transit System'' Heyday Books]: Berkeley CA, 2016''

[[Key System and March of Progress|Key System and March of Progress]]

[[San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit Commission—The Beginnings|San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit Commission—The Beginnings]]

[[Planning and Selling BART|Planning and Selling BART]]

[[Building San Francisco's BART tunnels|Building San Francisco's BART tunnels]]

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[[Image:Bump-city-cover.jpg|200px]]

''Bump City'' by John Krich (City Miner Books, Berkeley CA: 1979);
Originally a chapter in ''Bump City'' called “Captain Sal and the Age of Irony”

[[Incredible Bottom of the Ninth Comeback! The Oakland A’s Win Game 5 of the 1972 World Series|Incredible Bottom of the Ninth Comeback! The Oakland A’s Win Game 5 of the 1972 World Series]]

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[[Image:Front-cover-web-resolution-72-dpi.jpg|200px]]

[[Chinatown Vice|Chinatown Vice]]

[[The Golden Dragon Restaurant Massacre|The Golden Dragon Restaurant Massacre]]

[[The Six Companies|The Six Companies]]

''By Kevin J. Mullen, excerpted with permission from "Chinatown Squad"''

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[[Image:Issel Church and State sm.jpg|200px]]

''From pages 1-6, the Introduction to [http://www.temple.edu/tempress/titles/2257_reg.html '''Church and State in the City: Catholics and Politics in Twentieth-Century San Francisco'''] by William Issel. Used by permission of Temple University Press. © 2013 by Temple University. All Rights Reserved.''

[[Catholic San Francisco: A City of Contests|Catholic San Francisco: A City of Contests]]

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[[Image:CGC-cover.jpg|200px|]]

''Excerpted with permission from [http://bloomsbury.com/us/cool-gray-city-of-love-9781608199600/ Bloomsbury], from the book “Cool Gray City of Love” available here: [http://www.indiebound.org/book/9781608199600 IndieBound], [http://www.citylights.com/book/?GCOI=87286100740730 City Lights], [http://www.amazon.com/Cool-Gray-City-Love-Francisco/dp/1608199606/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1386633018&sr=1-1&keywords=cool+gray+city+of+love+49+views+of+san+francisco Amazon], and [http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/cool-gray-city-of-love-gary-kamiya/1114764186?ean=9781608199600 B&N].''

[[Searching for the Yelamu in San Francisco|Searching for the Yelamu in San Francisco]]

[[Western Addition: A Basic History|Western Addition: A Basic History]]

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[[Image:Copaganda-cover-288px.jpg|200px]]

''Copyright © 2025 by Alec Karakatsanis. This excerpt originally appeared in [https://thenewpress.org/books/copaganda/ ''Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News''], published by The New Press. Reprinted here with permission.''

[[Copaganda: The Recall of DA Chesa Boudin|Copaganda: The Recall of DA Chesa Boudin]]

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[[Image:labor1$waitresses$dishout_itm$dish-cover.jpg|200px]]

[http://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/86dnq7dp9780252061868.html ''Dishing It Out: Waitresses and Their Unions in the Twentieth Century''], by Dorothy Sue Cobble (1991: University of Illinois Press: Urbana and Chicago

[[WAITRESSES and UNIONS The Fruits of Solidarity|WAITRESSES and UNIONS The Fruits of Solidarity]]

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[[Image:Paulson cover 200px.jpg]]

Excerpted from ''Forty Years of Making ‘Good Trouble’—The Selected Writings of a San Francisco Labor Leader'' © Tim Paulson, 2021

First published in the U.S. by Senders Communications Group, 16501 Ventura Blvd. #400, Encino, CA 91436

[[Labor and the San Francisco Universal Health Care Security Ordinance|Labor and the San Francisco Universal Health Care Security Ordinance]]

[[San Francisco is Beautiful, Difficult — but still a Union City|San Francisco is Beautiful, Difficult — but still a Union City]]

[[SF Labor Council Helps Cruise Line Workers|SF Labor Council Helps Cruise Line Workers]]

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[[Image:Free-City-cover.jpg|200px]]

''Originally published as the Epilogue in ''[https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1141 Free City! The Fight for San Francisco's City College and Education for All]'' by PM Press, 2021''

[[City College of SF: One Struggle Sets the Table for the Next|City College of SF: One Struggle Sets the Table for the Next]]

'''The following pages are not excerpted directly from this book, but are earlier versions that ended up after further revisions as chapters.'''

[[Education ‘Reform’ Meets Gentrification in San Francisco at City College|Education ‘Reform’ Meets Gentrification in San Francisco at City College]]

[[City College Faculty Fights for Fairness|City College Faculty Fights for Fairness]]

[[Development Pressure Engulfs City College|Development Pressure Engulfs City College]]

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[[Image:Gods-hotel-cover.jpg|200px]]

''from [http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/306891/gods-hotel-by-victoria-sweet/9781594486548 ''God's Hotel: A Doctor, A Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine''] by Victoria Sweet, copyright © 2012 by Victoria Sweet. Used by permission of Riverhead, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC.''

[[Laguna Honda Hospital|Laguna Honda Hospital]]

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[[Image:Front cover.jpg|200px]]

Excerpted from ''[https://www.amazon.com/God-Squad-Born-Again-Francisco-Giants/dp/1631322079/ The God Squad: The Born-Again San Francisco Giants of 1978].''

[[BOO! The Giants' Johnnie LeMaster|BOO! The Giants' Johnnie LeMaster]]

[[Dave Dravecky's Miraculous Comeback|Dave Dravecky's Miraculous Comeback]]

[[The God Squad|The God Squad]]

[[Jack Clark's Revenge on the Dodgers|Jack Clark's Revenge on the Dodgers]]

[[Mike Ivie: The Miracle Man|Mike Ivie: The Miracle Man]]

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[[Image:Baranski-Housing-City-by-the-Bay-Cover-288px.jpg|200px]]

''Excerpted from [https://www.sup.org/books/history/housing-city-bay ''Housing the City by the Bay: Tenant Activism, Civil Rights, and Class Politics in San Francisco''] by John Baranski, published by Stanford University Press. Used by permission. © Copyright 2019 by John Baranski. All rights reserved.''

[[Post-1906 Quake Housing Reform|Post-1906 Quake Housing Reform]]

[[Burnham Plan and Tenement Housing|Burnham Plan and Tenement Housing]]

[[San Francisco Housing Association|San Francisco Housing Association]]

[[California Commission of Immigration and Housing|California Commission of Immigration and Housing]]

[[World War I Housing Reform Effort|World War I Housing Reform Effort]]

[[Segregated and Substandard Housing in the 1920s|Segregated and Substandard Housing in the 1920s]]

[[Housing Crisis Worsens at Start of Depression|Housing Crisis Worsens at Start of Depression]]

[[Chinatown Tenants Win Public Housing Rent Strike|Chinatown Tenants Win Public Housing Rent Strike]]

[[San Francisco Housing Authority and Mayor Moscone|San Francisco Housing Authority and Mayor Moscone]]

[[San Francisco Housing Authority Tries to Buy I-Hotel|San Francisco Housing Authority Tries to Buy I-Hotel]]

[[San Francisco Housing Authority and CANE|San Francisco Housing Authority and CANE]]

[[San Francisco Housing Authority in the 1970s|San Francisco Housing Authority in the 1970s]]

[[Neoliberalism Dismantles Public Housing|Neoliberalism Dismantles Public Housing]]

[[SF Housing Authority Copes With Neoliberalism|SF Housing Authority Copes With Neoliberalism]]

[[Homelessness Surges in Wake of Neoliberalism|Homelessness Surges in Wake of Neoliberalism]]

[[Pink Palace Controversy|Pink Palace Controversy]]

[[Public Housing Tenant Movement Fractures|Public Housing Tenant Movement Fractures]]

[[Safety Net Torn Up by Government|Safety Net Torn Up by Government]]

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[[Image:Industrial-Cowboys-cover.jpg|200px|]]

''This excerpt from [https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520245341/industrial-cowboys ''Industrial Cowboys Miller & Lux and the Transformation of the Far West, 1850-1920''] is used with permission. © David Igler, University of California Press: 2001''

[[Miller & Lux and the Dirty Plate Route|Miller & Lux and the Dirty Plate Route]]

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[[Image:Latinos-at-the-golden-gate-cover.jpg|200px]]

''excerpted from '''[http://www.uncpress.unc.edu/browse/book_detail?title_id=3444 Latinos at the Golden Gate: Creating Community and Identity in San Francisco]''', by Tomás F. Summers Sandoval Jr., Copyright © 2013 by the [http://www.uncpress.unc.edu University of North Carolina Press]. Used by permission of the publisher.''

[[Midcentury Migrations|Midcentury Migrations]]

[[Tributary to San Francisco|Tributary to San Francisco]]

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[[Image:Lee-Felsenstein-book-cover 200px.jpg]]

Excerpted with permission from: ''Me and My Big Ideas: Counterculture, Social Media, and the Future'' by Lee Felsenstein published by [https://www.FelsenSigns.com FelsenSigns]

[[Free Speech Movement 1964|Free Speech Movement 1964]]

[[Working at Ampex|Working at Ampex]]

[[Berkeley Barb and People's Park|Berkeley Barb and People's Park]]

[[Founding of Ohlone Park|Founding of Ohlone Park]]

[[Resource One|Resource One]]

[[Installing a Mainframe at Project One|Installing a Mainframe at Project One]]

[[Community Memory: The Beginning|Community Memory: The Beginning]]

[[Community Memory Evolves|Community Memory Evolves]]

[[Homebrew Computer Club|Homebrew Computer Club]]

[[Reflections on the End of Community Memory|Reflections on the End of Community Memory]]

[[Craigslist|Craigslist]]

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[[Image:Karl-book-2258 reg.gif]]

[[Mission Anti-Displacement Coalition|Mission Anti-Displacement Coalition]]

[[Rezoning the Eastern Neighborhoods in Early 2000s|Rezoning the Eastern Neighborhoods in Early 2000s]]

''Excerpts from [http://www.temple.edu/tempress/titles/2258_reg.html '''Local Protest, Global Movements: Capital, Community, and State In San Francisco'''] by Karl Beitel. Used by permission of Temple University Press. © 2013 by Temple University. All Rights Reserved.''

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[[Image:Berglund-Making-San-Francisco-American-cover.jpg|200px]]

''Exerpts from [https://kuecprd.ku.edu/~upress/cgi-bin/award-winners/978-0-7006-1722-7.html ''Making San Francisco American: Cultural Frontiers in the Urban West, 1846-1906''] by Barbara Berglund (University Press of Kansas: Lawrence KS 2007)''

[[California Midwinter Fair of 1894: An Orientalist Exposition|California Midwinter Fair of 1894: An Orientalist Exposition]]

[[California Midwinter Fair of 1894: ’49 Mining Camp glorifies Gold Rush Fantasies|California Midwinter Fair of 1894: ’49 Mining Camp glorifies Gold Rush Fantasies]]

[[California Midwinter Fair of 1894: Women’s Work and Vice|California Midwinter Fair of 1894: Women’s Work and Vice]]

[[California Midwinter Fair of 1894: Depression and Poverty|California Midwinter Fair of 1894: Depression and Poverty]]

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[[Image:Medicine of Memoroy 9780292752672.jpg|200px]]

''Excerpted with permission from [https://utpress.utexas.edu/9780292752672/the-medicine-of-memory/| ''The Medicine of Memory''] by Alejandro Murguía, published by the University of Texas Press, 2002.''

[[The "Good Old Mission Days" Never Existed!|The "Good Old Mission Days" Never Existed!]]

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[[Image:Mission-High-book-cover.jpg|200px]]

''Excerpted with permission from ''Mission High: One School, How Experts Tried to Fail It, and the Students and Teachers Who Made It Triumph'', [https://www.boldtypebooks.com/titles/kristina-rizga/mission-high/9781568584621/ Bold Type Books]: 2015''

[[Mission High School’s Innovative Anti-Racist Teaching|Mission High School’s Innovative Anti-Racist Teaching]]

[[Desegregating San Francisco Public Schools in the 1960s|Desegregating San Francisco Public Schools in the 1960s]]

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[[Image:More Than Shelter cover.jpg|200px]]

[[San Francisco Housing Authority 1937-1965: The Early Decades|San Francisco Housing Authority 1937-1965: The Early Decades]]

''Excerpted from [https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/more-than-shelter ''More than Shelter: Activism and Community in San Francisco Public Housing''] by Amy L. Howard. Used by permission of the University of Minnesota Press. © Copyright 2014 by the Regents of the University of Minnesota. All rights reserved.''

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[[Image:Neon-Girls-book-cover.jpg|200px]]

[[Strip-Club Business: A Brief History|Strip-Club Business: A Brief History]]

''by Jennifer Worley, excerpted from [https://www.harpercollins.com/products/neon-girls-jennifer-worley?variant=32206140571682 ''Neon Girls: A Stripper's Education in Protest and Power''] HarperCollins Books: 2020,'' a first-hand account of the epic union organizing campaign at the Lusty Lady Club in North Beach.''

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[[Image:Nanette-Jordan-Book-Cover.jpg|200px]]

"Originally published in [https://www.amazon.com/Painting-Paintings-gilded-memoir-Revised/dp/B09TRLHBR2/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= ''Painting on Paintings: A Gilded Memoir''], ''2022. Excerpted with Nanette Jordan's permission. ''

[[Sutro Baths Eerie Ice Rink|Sutro Baths Eerie Ice Rink]]

[[Playland is a Nightmare|Playland is a Nightmare]]

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[[Image:SFBay-History-WEB2-360x570.jpg|200px]]

''Excerpted from David D. Schmidt's ''San Francisco Bay Area: An Environmental History.'' Available from [https://backcountrypress.com/book/san-francisco-bay-area/ Backcountry Press].''

[[Abalone Boom and Bust|Abalone Boom and Bust]]

[[Borax King and Key System in East Bay|Borax King and Key System in East Bay]]

[[Chinese Shrimp Camps Along The Bay|Chinese Shrimp Camps Along The Bay]]

[[David Hewes and His Steam Paddy Works|David Hewes and His Steam Paddy Works]]

[[Edgar and Peggy Wayburn, Phillip Burton Saved Vast Lands|Edgar and Peggy Wayburn, Phillip Burton Saved Vast Lands]]

[[Filling The Bay Along San Francisco’s Southern Waterfront|Filling The Bay Along San Francisco’s Southern Waterfront]]

[[Mercury Mining|Mercury Mining]]

[[Oysters, Pirates, and Pollution|Oysters, Pirates, and Pollution]]

[[Restoring Natural Areas in San Francisco|Restoring Natural Areas in San Francisco]]

[[Restoring Natural Areas on Federal Lands in San Francisco: Presidio and Fort Funston|Restoring Natural Areas on Federal Lands in San Francisco: Presidio and Fort Funston]]

[[San Francisco's Drinking Water|San Francisco's Drinking Water]]

[[San Francisco's Garbage: From Mission Bay to Altamont|San Francisco's Garbage: From Mission Bay to Altamont]]

[[San Francisco’s Struggles With Sewage, 1860s-1990s|San Francisco’s Struggles With Sewage, 1860s-1990s]]

[[Saving Richardson Bay; Harold Gilliam Sounds the Alarm 1955-58|Saving Richardson Bay; Harold Gilliam Sounds the Alarm 1955-58]]

[[When Crab Was King at Fisherman’s Wharf|When Crab Was King at Fisherman’s Wharf]]

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[[Image:Secret-Ugly-full-cover 6-inches.jpg|200px]]

''Excerpted from ''The Secret Ugly: The Hidden History of US Germ War in Korea'' by Thomas Powell, [mailto:edgewatereditions@gmail.com Edgewater Editions]: 2023.''

[[War in Korea|War in Korea]]

[[Powell/Schuman Sedition Trial|Powell/Schuman Sedition Trial]]

[[Bill Powell Exposes Post-WWII US-Japan Germ War Deal|Bill Powell Exposes Post-WWII US-Japan Germ War Deal]]

[[Growing Up ‘Red’ in 1950s San Francisco|Growing Up ‘Red’ in 1950s San Francisco]]

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'''Sixth Star book cover'''

[[The Sixth Star|The Sixth Star]]

[[Women's Suffrage 1870|Women's Suffrage 1870]]

[[Ellen Clark Sargent|Ellen Clark Sargent]]

[[Emily Pitts Stevens|Emily Pitts Stevens]]

[[Women’s Co-operative Printing Union|Women’s Co-operative Printing Union]]

[[West Coast Women's Congress Association|West Coast Women's Congress Association]]

[[Suffragettes Gather|Suffragettes Gather]]

[[Sarah B. Cooper|Sarah B. Cooper]]

[[The Bifurcated Skirt|The Bifurcated Skirt]]

[[First California Women in Law|First California Women in Law]]

[[Nellie Holbrook Blinn|Nellie Holbrook Blinn]]

[[Elizabeth Lowe Watson|Elizabeth Lowe Watson]]

[[Championing the Working Woman|Championing the Working Woman]]

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[[Image:Coyote sleeping-where-I-fall-cover.jpg|200px]]

''Excerpted with permission from "Sleeping Where I Fall" by [http://www.petercoyote.com/sleeping.html Peter Coyote], published by Counterpoint, Washington, D.C., 1998''

[[The Digger Concept of 'Free'|The Digger Concept of 'Free']]

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[[Image:Street fight 9781613762608.jpg|200px]]

[[Second Freeway Revolt|Second Freeway Revolt]]

[[Conservative Fight to Save Central Freeway|Conservative Fight to Save Central Freeway]]

[[Dueling Ballots: The Central Freeway’s Fate|Dueling Ballots: The Central Freeway’s Fate]]

These articles are excerpted, with permission, from Henderson's book [http://www.umass.edu/umpress/title/street-fight ''Street Fight: The Politics of Mobility in San Francisco''], © 2013

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[[Image:Streetopia cover 9780692424285.jpg|200px|left]] ''Excerpts from [https://www.ericadawnlyle.info/streetopiabook ''Streetopia''], in the essay "The Uses of Market Street"''

[[Redevelopment vs. Ecotopia|Redevelopment vs. Ecotopia]]

[[San Francisco Singularity?|San Francisco Singularity?]]

[[Uses of Market Street|Uses of Market Street]]

[[Problem with Parklets|Problem with Parklets]]

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[[Image:Roxanas Children book cover.jpg|200px]]

[[Yankee Women|Yankee Women]]

''Excerpted from ''Roxana's Children: The Biography of a Nineteenth-Century Vermont Family'' by Lynn A. Bonfield and Mary C. Morrison (Amherst: © 1995, University of Massachusetts Press)''.''

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''' Historical Essay '''

''by David D. Schmidt, 2026''

''An excerpt from the book, [https://backcountrypress.com/book/san-francisco-bay-area/ ''San Francisco Bay Area: An Environmental History''], by David D. Schmidt (Backcountry Press, 2025).

[[Image:TrashwagonSFEarly1900s.jpg]]

'''The early days of trash pickup, or scavenging, in San Francisco, c. 1900.'''

''Photo: courtesy David D. Schmidt''

From the 1850s to the 1960s, San Francisco's bay shoreline was continuously being filled with sand, soil, rock—and garbage. In the 1850s, owners of underwater lots along the shoreline hired workers to dig into nearby hills, cart sand and soil to the shore, and dump it into shallow waters. Trash was also thrown into the mix, but there wasn’t enough of it to contribute a significant portion of the fill.

As the city grew, so did the amount of trash it generated. [[Scavengers|Scavengers]] roamed the streets picking up castoffs that could be sold to businesses—rags (used to make paper), metal scraps, bottles, old sacks, bricks, bones, oyster shells. Some of the remaining trash ended up in Mission Bay and other open dumps, but burning the refuse in these dumps minimized the acreage needed.

The scavengers provided an early version of curbside recycling, slowly driving their horse-drawn wagons through the city and loudly calling out "rags, bottles, sacks"—for these were the items they could most easily sell. Residents would then come out of their homes carrying these recyclables.

[[Image:TrashCurbsideRecycling.jpg]]

'''Scavengers in San Francisco were already doing curbside recycling in the late 1800s, calling out "Rags, bottles, sacks!" Residents came out of their homes carrying these recyclables.'''

''Photo: BANC PIC 1905.17500.10:436--ALB, Roy D. Graves Pictorial Collection, Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.''

By the late 1870s, garbage collection was becoming more organized. Scavengers carted their unusable waste to the [[The Dumps at Mission Creek|Mission Bay waterfront]] at Sixth and Berry Streets, San Francisco’s [[Dumpville|first centralized dumpsite]]. By the 1880s, 300 wagonloads of waste were deposited here each day. By 1895, they had filled in 20 acres of Mission Bay.

The most pungent waste of Victorian-Era San Francisco was offal—the remains of livestock after butchers cut away the meat, bones, and other useful parts. San Franciscans ate lots of meat, but nobody wanted the stench of rotting animal carcasses nearby. The slaughterhouses had to be close to the city, in order to deliver meat quickly before it spoiled (there was no refrigeration), yet far enough away to minimize complaints. A location with tidal water flows, to carry away the offal twice daily, was ideal. Slaughterhouses clustered first at Mission Bay, and starting in 1868, at a similar tidal area three miles farther south, [[Butchertown's Beginnings|“Butchertown”]].

<big>'''Incineration, "Reduction," and Piggeries'''</big>

By the 1890s, the city’s population of more than 300,000 was creating so much trash that the Mission Bay dump was becoming a nuisance, attracting rats and seagulls to a location surrounded by the growing city. City officials looked to cities in the Eastern U. S. for solutions. Big cities there were building massive incinerators to burn dry waste, and “reduction” plants to transform animal carcasses into grease and plant fertilizer.

In 1896, San Francisco granted a 50-year franchise to Sanitary Reduction Works to incinerate dry waste. The firm built a Thackeray Destructor, with the capacity to burn 300 tons per day, the following year. The incinerator, known as the San Francisco Garbage Crematory, was at the foot of Potrero Hill, on the block bounded by Rhode Island, De Haro, Alameda, and 15th Streets. The company also built a reduction plant. Tall smokestacks lifted the smoke and gases from these facilities high into the air and, with prevailing winds, over the bay.

On windless days, the smell could be hellish—particularly from the reduction plant. Every day, wagonloads of spoiled food, fish, meat, offal and carcasses (including dead horses) were dumped into vats there, cooked, and mechanically pressed to remove liquids (which flowed into the bay), leaving grease (used to make candles and other products) and a dry “residuum,” sold as fertilizer. Reduction plant workers had to endure the horrific stench.

The reduction facility had no monopoly on food garbage. Much of it was still dealt with the old-fashioned way—by feeding it to pigs. Tank wagons filled with slops from restaurants, hotels and boarding houses made daily deliveries to two dozen hog farms in the then-rural Excelsior District near the San Francisco/San Mateo County line. The piggeries included Arthur Cooey’s on Athens Street near Brazil Avenue, with about 300 hogs, John Tyson’s on Madrid Street near Persia, with about 100, and Julius Woolf’s, on the corner of Paris and Italy Streets. A visitor to Woolf’s opined that “a pig was never confined in a more wretched set of pens.” But Woolf maintained that his operation was “a lady’s parlor,” compared to Tyson’s.

Hog farms lined [[Islais Creek Remembered|Islais Creek]] as it flowed through the Excelsior District (today it runs in a sewer pipe beneath Cayuga Street) toward its confluence with the bay at today’s I-280-101 Freeway Interchange. The creek was heavily polluted with runoff and seepage from the piggeries. In some places the pig farmers dug deep holes to keep the seepage out of the creek, but these only created another nuisance: open cesspools. People living in the vicinity, who could not avoid the odors, argued that the city should banish the hogs to points farther south.

<big>'''The 1907 Plague, War on Rats, and Crackdown on Trash Disposal'''</big>

The [[April 18, 1906: EARTHQUAKE! FIRE!|Great Earthquake and Fire of 1906]] marked two major changes in San Francisco's waste disposal practices. First, a huge amount of rubble from burned buildings had to be cleared away. The Southern Pacific Railroad provided a convenient solution by putting this waste on rail cars at their [[Southern Pacific Roundhouse|Mission Bay rail yard]], and transporting it just past the city limit via their new Bayshore rail line. The material was dumped on the tidal mudflats, and covered with soil and rock from nearby hills. The railroad rapidly filled dozens of acres of mudflats, and built a [[Bayshore Yard|roundhouse and an extensive railroad switching yard on the new land]].

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'''Workers loading demolition waste from buildings destroyed in the great earthquake and fire onto railcars, June 7, 1906. Trains dumped it just outside San Francisco city limits, filling in dozens of acres of shallow bay waters for a railyard.'''

''Turill & Miller, BANC PIC 1905.17500.9:055--ALB, Roy D. Graves Pictorial Collection, Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.''

Secondly, San Franciscans were forced to stop dumping trash in empty lots when there was a citywide outbreak of bubonic plague in 1907—the same disease that killed at least one-third of Europe’s population in the mid-1300s. Though scavengers were constantly on the move looking for recyclable castoffs, before 1907 there was no requirement to make trash pickups from every home, nor for residents to use garbage cans. For scavengers, the more garbage they brought to the incinerator, the more they had to pay to burn it. This created an incentive for residents and scavengers to dump trash they couldn’t recycle into the nearest empty lot.

In the months just after the 1906 Earthquake and Fire, there was no garbage collection in the burned areas, though thousands of people were working on rebuilding—and tossing trash from their lunches on the ground, where rats could feast on it.

On May 27, 1907, 13 months after the disaster, a sailor was admitted to a hospital showing symptoms of bubonic plague, and died before he could be questioned. In August, there were 13 cases, and the victims came from all across the city. By September, new cases were turning up every day. City officials recognized the dire threat of an epidemic. It wasn’t just loss of life: If the disease spread, the city’s port would be shut down, crippling businesses throughout the region.

Mayor Edward Robeson Taylor called for help from the federal government. President Teddy Roosevelt’s Surgeon General, Walter Wyman, named a task force of 16 high-ranking surgeons from the U.S. Public Health and Marine Hospital Service, and ordered them to San Francisco with all possible speed. They came by ship and train from as far away as Alaska and the East Coast.

Their first goal was to find the source of each case of plague, and then quickly eradicate all rats within a four-block radius. Rats were trapped in and around the home and workplace of each new victim, the carcasses taken to a special laboratory, and tissue samples examined under a microscope to find the plague bacteria: Yersinia pestis. Once Yersinia was confirmed, a strike force of doctors and workers was sent to the neighborhood to inspect houses and yards, fumigate basements, place poisoned bait under wooden sidewalks and in sewers, and lecture residents on what they must do: tear up wooden sidewalks, burn trash piles, cover yards and dirt floors in basements with concrete, scrub floors with lye and carbolic acid, and use garbage cans with tight-fitting lids. More than 1,700 buildings, beyond repair for purposes of rat-proofing, were condemned and demolished.

The epidemic reached its height in September 1907, with 56 cases, 25 of them fatal. Among the victims were two small boys who had found a rat carcass in a basement, given it a funeral, and buried it. The city government offered rewards of 10 cents per carcass, equivalent to more than $2.00 today (people were warned not to touch the carcasses).

In January 1908, the mayor appointed a Citizens’ Health Committee of 25 men, most of them medical doctors, to mobilize the public. The committee distributed 3,000 new garbage cans to the poor and pushed through a new city ordinance compelling residents and businesses to use garbage cans with tight-fitting lids. They conducted a saturation publicity campaign, enlisting the help of every club, association, church, and labor union. By the time it was over, the committee asserted that “the garbage methods of half the kitchens in San Francisco were reformed” through the efforts of women volunteers. San Franciscans purchased 100,000 garbage cans in 1907-08—about one for every four people in the city.

Prior to this, many city residents couldn't care less about rats. Awareness that they spread the plague was far from universal. There had been an outbreak in San Francisco's Chinatown in 1904, but poorly informed (and racist) observers assumed that the risk was confined to the Chinese community.

Health inspectors warned produce sellers, butchers, grain merchants, and grocers that they faced severe fines or jail if they ignored the inspectors’ orders. Street food vendors were warned to stop throwing food waste into the streets. It was total war on rats. Between September 23, 1907, and March 1, 1909, the effort employed 400 workers who:

:• Conducted more than a million building inspections (all buildings were inspected at least once; some several times)
:• Abated 141,569 “nuisances” (dirt basements surfaced with concrete, wooden sidewalks removed, trash piles burned, etc.)
:• Disinfected 11,342 houses
:• Demolished 1,713 houses (during a time of dire housing shortage)
:• Placed more than 10 million pieces of poisoned rat bait
:• Trapped 319,734 rats
:• Killed an estimated 2,000,000 rats
:• Analyzed 154,840 rat carcasses for bacteria (finding 398 infected with plague)

The human casualties included 160 people sickened with bubonic plague, and 77 deaths.
The last fatality occurred in January, 1908, but the campaign continued for another year, until no more plague-infected rats were found. For the first time, scavengers were required to make trash pickups from every house, and any resident who refused was reported to the city’s Board of Health. People who had once dumped trash in empty lots were now sending it to the city incinerator, where the intense heat killed pathogens. But the city’s incinerator couldn’t burn it all, so the Board of Supervisors placed a $1 million bond measure on the May 1908 ballot to pay for an additional burner, and voters approved it.

<big>'''The Incinerator Debacle'''</big>

In 1910 the city was generating 800,000 lbs. of trash per day, equivalent to two pounds per person per day. By then, following the anti-rat campaign, San Francisco was one clean city. To ensure they’d get the best available incineration technology, city officials consulted New York City waste disposal expert and civil engineer Rudolph Hering. On Hering’s advice, they solicited bids on the new incinerator contract with exacting specifications to ensure more complete combustion and consequently, less air pollution.

The Power Specialty Company submitted the lowest bid. The firm built a [[Incinerator|new incinerator]] next to the Southern Pacific Railroad’s Islais Creek trestle in 1913, near the slaughterhouse district, Butchertown. The new facility not only burned trash, it heated boilers to run turbines that generated electricity.

The new incinerator was put through a four-week test in September 1914, burning an average of 109 tons of trash each day. Nearby residents complained about odors. City officials claimed the facility did not meet specifications. Power Specialty disagreed and sued the city to follow through on the contract. The city maintained that the incinerator had sometimes fallen below the specified minimum temperature of 1250 degrees F., and released odors, “obnoxious gases,” smoke, and dust.

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'''View west from about Evans and Marin. Twin Peaks, Peralta Heights, Islais Creek Incinerator smokestack and Isolation Hospital (Army and De Haro) in background. Houses on northeast ridge of Bernal Heights, background left. June 15, 1923.'''

''Photo: OpenSFHistory.org wnp36.03062''

The city lost the case initially, but refused to operate the new incinerator. The facility was never again used to burn trash, and eventually was turned into a warehouse. At Mission Bay, filled in completely by 1910, rail cars were filled with partially-burned trash from the old incinerator, to be dumped on the tidal flats just south of the city limit.

The city government bought out the old incinerator, the Thackeray Destructor, in 1918 and paid the Scavengers’ Protective Association, a cooperative of hundreds of Italian garbage collectors, to operate it. In the absence of a new incinerator, the old one was being loaded with up to 600 tons per day—twice its design capacity. The result was an increase in smoke and odor emissions, as well as a greater volume of half-burned garbage.

In 1926, the San Francisco Development Co., a group of landowners who lived near the incinerator, sued the city and the scavengers, seeking relief from the air pollution. In a May 17, 1929 court hearing, city officials admitted that burning embers from the incinerator’s smokestacks had landed on nearby rooftops. They admitted that the smoke was excessive and its smells noxious. On June 5, 1929, the court held for the neighbors, declaring that the burner was a nuisance and should be replaced by a new, cleaner model. The court postponed any decision on a remedy until after the November 1929 election, with five propositions on the ballot dealing with waste disposal.

Meanwhile, the Board of Supervisors sent City Engineer Michael M. O’Shaughnessy on a tour of Chicago, New York, Toronto, St. Paul, Minneapolis, Seattle, and Portland, Oregon to compare their incinerators. His August 5, 1929 report recommended building a trash burner like one he’d seen in New York City.

The ballot questions gave San Franciscans a choice between landfilling and incineration, but the results were muddled: Voters approved one proposition calling for incineration, but rejected another requiring the city to build an incinerator. They rejected measures to stop incineration, to dump all waste at the bayside county line site, and for the city government to take over the job of garbage collection and disposal.

In 1932, with no progress toward building a new incinerator, the court ordered the old one to shut down. After 36 years of smoke and foul smells, residents of Mission Bay and Potrero Hill could breathe easier.

<big>'''Bayside Dump Becomes “Sanitary Landfill” '''</big>

The incinerator shutdown immediately increased the volume of trash dumped at the bay shore landfill just south of the city limit. Waves battered the edge of the fill, exposing fermenting garbage and carrying trash away at high tide. These problems were solved in the late 1950s by building dikes between the bay and the trash, and covering the trash with a layer of soil or crushed rock each day.(1) The technique was developed by Jean Vincenz at the Fresno Sanitary Landfill in the mid-1930s, and became a model for enlightened waste disposal for the next 40 years. The Fresno Landfill, in fact, was briefly designated a national historic site in August 2001—until news media reported that the site was on EPA’s Superfund list for toxic waste cleanup.

“Sanitary Landfills,” as practiced in Fresno, [[San Francisco's Trash|San Francisco]], and thousands of other places, were a great advance for public health because they prevented smoky dump fires and minimized odors, rats, flies, and wind-tossed trash. However, contaminated liquids seeping downward (or outward) from these landfills could pollute groundwater or surface waters. As early as 1936, observers at the San Francisco bayside site noticed that this leachate dispersed into the bay:

<blockquote>“At extremely low tides during the winter a black liquid occasionally is observed seeping outward [toward the bay] from the lower portion of the fill. This seepage has an exceedingly disagreeable odor. Fortunately it creates no nuisance, because it flows almost immediately into the bay waters.”(2)</blockquote>

City Engineer John J. Casey estimated that the landfill was 50 feet deep, with about half of that below the original bay mud level, due to the tremendous weight of many layers of trash and earth pressing the bottom layers downward into the soft mud.

The city’s garbage had come full circle in just 40 years: From dumping in the bay (at Mission Bay), to incineration, to more “sanitary” dumping in the bay. The latter two practices, adopted as solutions to protect public health, would later be abandoned as harmful to public health and the environment.

The rock and earth for the landfill’s daily cover came from a nearby hill. Dynamite charges, a power shovel and four dump trucks removed 580 cubic yards of rock from the hill five days a week, year after year. By the early 1960s, the hill was nearly gone, the Bayshore (101) Freeway had been built along the landfill’s bayside border, and the dump had expanded a mile southward, getting closer and closer to the community of Brisbane.

Meanwhile, at Islais Creek Channel, and seven other points along the city’s southern waterfront, dumps of various sizes continued filling the bay with commercial and industrial waste. In 1958, newspaper columnists lampooned the city’s [[Candlestick Before and After Stadium Built|new bayside baseball stadium, Candlestick Park]], as “Candlestink Cove.” The largest dump left within the city limits in the 1960s was the city-owned operation at Islais Creek Channel, filling 155 acres of the bay with 900 tons of trash, demolition debris, and industrial waste per day.

<big>'''The Battle of Brisbane Lagoon and San Bruno Mountain '''</big>

Starting in 1957, when the new section of the 101 Freeway opened just south of the San Francisco/San Mateo County line, everyone traveling from SFO to the city had to pass the reeking repository of San Francisco’s solid waste, a million tons per year, which was gradually filling tidal Brisbane Lagoon with trash. It was a shock to first-time visitors expecting scenic vistas (see Filling the Bay/Saving the Bay chapter).

This dump was operated by the Sanitary Fill Company, an alliance of San Francisco’s two garbage collection companies. Soon after Brisbane incorporated and created a city government for the first time in 1961, Sanitary Fill made a secret bargain with three members of the city council: For the next 30 years, allow San Francisco’s 1,600 tons of garbage per day to be dumped into 250 acres of Brisbane Lagoon that the company had just purchased, and Brisbane would get $30,000 per year, plus property taxes forever from the new land on top of the landfill. In 1962, Sanitary Fill began building dikes to enclose the 250 acres.

Two years later, when the secret bargain came to light before Brisbane’s Planning Commission, they rejected it, but the city council had the final say. Council members waited until after their 1964 re-election campaigns, then approved the landfill expansion by a 3-2 vote. This decision touched off a "constant, constant uproar," in Brisbane, according to Dr. Paul Goercke, a Brisbane anti-dump activist. Dump opponents, led by Luman C. Drake and Brisbane Citizens for Civic Progress, petitioned for a referendum. The council set the special election for September 21, 1965—four days after the effective date of a new state law stopping the filling of any bayside wetlands subject to tidal action.

All summer long in 1965, Sanitary Fill’s trucks rumbled day and night to complete one dike in Brisbane Lagoon, and another enclosing a rectangle of open water at [[Sierra Point: From Dump to Office Park|Sierra Point]] on the bay side of the 101 Freeway. At 6:00 a.m. on August 26, as Brisbane residents looked on from the hillsides, Sanitary Fill completed the dike at Brisbane Lagoon. They also completed the Sierra Point dike in time to beat the deadline.

In the special election, Brisbane voters rejected the city council's dump deal. Sanitary Fill made a new offer with more money for the city—which the council again approved. Opponents again petitioned for a referendum, but this time voters approved the deal.

But the battle didn’t end there. Control of Brisbane’s city government see-sawed between the pro-dump and anti-dump factions. The diked area of Brisbane Lagoon reached capacity by November 1966, so the company prepared to fill its 105 diked acres at Sierra Point. Brisbane voters had passed an initiative to ban dumping there, but Sanitary Fill had nowhere else to put San Francisco’s 1,600 tons of trash per day, so the company obtained a court order stopping Brisbane from enforcing the initiative.(3) When the Sierra Point site was full in 1970, the city of Mountain View, 30 miles south of Brisbane, opened its own bayside landfill for San Francisco’s waste, on hundreds of acres of land that had subsided below sea level due to groundwater pumping.

Sierra Point was developed with office buildings atop the trash layers in the 1980s and 1990s, but the last 160 acres of Brisbane Lagoon are still open water. A mile north, overlooking the 101 Freeway, there’s a stairstep pattern in San Francisco’s [[Bayview Hill|Bayview Hill]], carved by bulldozers in the 1960s shaving away rock and earth to build the dikes and cover the landfills at Brisbane Lagoon and Sierra Point. Nearly 60 years after dumping ceased, however, nothing had been built on the Brisbane Lagoon landfill, because its 50-foot-thick layer of garbage made the ground too unstable to support heavy structures.

Trucking the waste an extra 30 miles to Mountain View doubled disposal costs, giving San Francisco’s two garbage collection companies an incentive to reduce the volume by recycling. They started in the early 1970s by using magnets to collect metal from the waste.

By the late 1980s, at the city government’s insistence, Sunset Scavenger and Golden Gate Disposal had initiated citywide curbside recycling pickups. In 1996, they began collecting food garbage from wholesale produce markets, farmers’ markets, and grocery stores, for composting. By 1998, they were recycling 40% of San Francisco’s waste. The scavengers too, had come full circle: As in the old days, they were again scavenging (recycling), not just landfilling trash.

By 2001, collection of food garbage for composting was underway at 1,000 San Francisco restaurants (out of about 6,000) and half a dozen schools, where teachers and students had volunteered to sort their lunch garbage. The downtown Hilton Hotel, the largest on the West Coast, alone collected more than 4,000 pounds of food garbage daily. The food waste was trucked to Solano County for the three-month process of conversion to rich plant fertilizer.

By 2003, every residence in the city had been given a special green bin on wheels for its compostable food and garden waste, a blue bin for other recyclables, and a black bin for the rest. By this time, the city was diverting 300 tons of food waste per day from landfills, to make 50,000 cubic yards of compost per year—enough to cover 11 square miles of farmland. And the numbers grew steadily, because the city charged restaurants less for compost pickups than landfill disposal. Scoma's at Fisherman's Wharf, which recycled 90% of its waste, saved about $10,000 a year.

To sort all the paper, cardboard, bottles, and cans collected in the blue recycle bins, in March 2003 the city's garbage disposal franchise holder (new name: Recology), opened a new facility, "Recycle Central" in a warehouse at Pier 96 on the southern San Francisco waterfront. Inside, mechanical sorting systems use conveyor belts and blasts of air to help workers separate the different materials.

In 2009, San Francisco became the first major U.S. city to require residents and businesses to set aside food and garden waste in bins for composting. By 2011, the city had collected a million tons of food waste—more than a ton for every resident. Overall, the city was recycling or composting an incredible 78% of its waste (measured by weight).

<big>'''Shoreline Amphitheater’s Gas Problem '''</big>

In 1968, the city of Mountain View bought the 544-acre Shoreline site, nearly a square mile of diked bayside wetlands. San Francisco then paid Mountain View for the privilege of dumping its trash there from 1970 to 1983. Throughout the 1970s, the Shoreline Landfill accepted 1,800 tons of waste per day—more than any other dump in the Bay Area, a total of 6 million tons in just 10 years. Mountain View also dumped its own garbage there, and at the adjacent 150-acre Vista Slope landfill.

When these landfills were full, they were capped with impermeable clay and plastic, topped with soil, and planted with grass and shrubs. In 1982, Mountain View opened Shoreline Park, a 180-acre golf course and public open space, and the Shoreline Amphitheater. By this time, San Francisco’s trash collectors had lined up the Altamont Landfill east of Livermore to receive their city’s waste. But Mountain View’s problems were just beginning.

In October 1986, a man attending a Steve Winwood concert at Shoreline took a cigarette lighter from his pocket and flicked it with his thumb. Instead of producing a tiny flame, it produced a five-foot-high geyser of fire that singed the hair of a woman sitting nearby. This and similar incidents, and the resulting lawsuit, induced Mountain View and Sanitary Fill to install a $2.5 million methane gas collection system.

Methane—natural gas—is a product of the decay of organic waste like food and garden clippings. This can only take place with water. At Shoreline, a contractor had neglected to cover the waste with an impermeable membrane (4) (in addition to soil), allowing water irrigating the grass to seep through cracks in the soil, allowing methane to form.

Mountain View sold the gas to PG&E and Laidlaw Gas Recovery, to mix it into PG&E’s natural gas pipelines. But methane still percolated upward, killing large patches of grass. Golfers were losing their balls down mysterious sinkholes. The golf course shut down, and its operator sued the city of Mountain View.

In December 1994, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge James R. Grube ordered the city to pay $4.1 million to the bankrupt golf course operator. Grube said Mountain View had violated state law by failing to remove methane from the landfill. By this time, the city had installed new piping to extract methane. The golf course got a new irrigation system and new turf, and reopened. After that, the quality and quantity of gas declined. By the late 1990s, the gas was being flared—burned at the end of a pipe on the site.

<big>'''Altamont: Battling the Mega-Dump'''</big>

The 232-acre Altamont Landfill, near Altamont Pass east of Livermore, is environmentally preferable to the old bayside dumps because it lies far from any waters or wetlands, and its nearly impervious clay soil prevents groundwater contamination. Also, it gets very little rain, minimizing the potential for runoff to mix with the waste. By the time San Francisco began trucking its trash to Altamont in 1983, the landfill was already receiving garbage from Oakland and other East Bay cities.

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'''Earthmovers put a thin daily cover of soil onto trash from all of San Francisco and much of the East Bay at the Altamont Landfill, east of Livermore.'''

''Photo: Christy Shake, 1997.''

San Francisco gained the distinction of having the Bay Area's longest "garbage commute," with trucks making daily round trips of nearly 100 miles. And thanks to San Francisco, Altamont became the region's largest-volume dumpsite, receiving up to 5,000 tons of garbage per day, or 1.6 million tons per year. This was more than twice the daily volume of Mountain View’s Shoreline Landfill, the highest-volume operation of the 1970s. But Altamont's owners, Waste Management of Alameda County, had even grander visions.

In 1995 Waste Management (owned by WMX Technologies Inc., the world's largest garbage disposal company), proposed to expand the Altamont landfill by 1.2 square miles. This would have allowed 160 million more tons of garbage—about 23 tons for each of the Bay Area’s roughly seven million residents.

Alameda County environmentalists were incensed. They had recently reached an interim goal of reducing the county's waste volume by 25%, thanks to Measure D. The initiative set a goal of 75%. Recycling advocates feared the proposed mega-dump would undercut efforts to meet that goal—and make Altamont the garbage destination for most of Northern California’s cities.

The county board of supervisors voted 3-2 in December 1996 to limit Altamont's extra capacity to 80 million tons, but still allowed daily tonnage to more than double. Environmentalists weren’t satisfied, arguing that traffic and air pollution generated by garbage trucks would also double. A coalition including the San Francisco Bay Chapter of the Sierra Club, the Northern California Recycling Association, a group of local landowners, and owners of a competing landfill sued the county to stop the expansion.

In September 1998, a San Francisco Superior Court Judge overturned the county's approval. A year later, Alameda County announced a compromise that allowed the dump to add another 250 acres, but limited annual garbage intake to the then-current level of 1.6 million tons. The mega-dump proposal was dead.

The agreement also set a $1.25 per ton fee on garbage dumped, to fund open space preservation, recycling education, and other efforts to help communities meet the state-mandated goal of recycling 50% of all trash by 2000.

By the 1990s, the Altamont Landfill was a state-of-the-art facility. Below the waste lies a seven-foot-thick, multi-layer barrier system to prevent contaminated liquids from reaching the soil. Perforated pipes in the barrier collected contaminated water, or leachate, pumped to a treatment plant and cleaned through chemical and microbial action. Tank trucks sprayed this treated water on the landfill's unpaved roadways to reduce dust. Other pipes collected the methane gas generated by rotting garbage. This gas was burned in an on-site generating station, creating enough electricity to light the landfill and power 6,500 homes.

''Questions? Email the author: davidnaturesf@gmail.com''

'''Notes'''

1. Stefanelli, Leonard Dominic, ''Garbage: The Saga of a Boss Scavenger in San Francisco'' (Reno and Las Vegas: University of Nevada Press, 2018), p. xiii.

2. ''Engineering News Record'', Feb. 27, 1936.

3. Stefanelli, op. cit., 98-100.

4. Stefanelli, op. cit., pp. 111-112.

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''Excerpted from David D. Schmidt's ''San Francisco Bay Area: An Environmental History.'' Available from [https://backcountrypress.com/book/san-francisco-bay-area/ Backcountry Press].''

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Phillip Burton

2026-05-26T05:18:09Z

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''' Historical Essay '''

''by Art Peterson''

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'''Congressman Phillip Burton statue at the Great Meadow in Fort Mason'''

''Photo: Chris Carlsson, 2010''

This is Phillip Burton, the one-time congressman from San Francisco, who, in 1972, pushed through the legislation that created the 80,000-acre Golden Gate National Recreation Area that serves 7 million Bay Area residents today. As may be clear enough from this representation of the man at Fort Mason, Burton was not a great outdoorsman himself. His biographer John Jacobs writes, he “was less at home in Muir Woods than in a darkened cocktail lounge with an unfiltered Chesterfield in one hand and a tumbler of Stoli in the other.”

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'''Burton in the late 1960s'''

''Photo: Wikimedia Commons''

A personal indifference to nature, however, did not make him any less responsive to the conservationists in his constituency, who, from the mid-1960s on, had been sounding the alarm about the perils of urban sprawl. Several factors were coming together to threaten the continued existence of Bay Area open space. A growing and more prosperous population needed housing, and the U.S. Army—which had acquired large parcels of land in the area for coastal defense—was eager to get rid of property that had become a white elephant. Developers were ready to pounce. Marincello, a development of 50 apartment buildings housing 25,000 people, was to be located on the Marin Headlands southwest of the Golden Gate Bridge.

Meanwhile, environmentalists, led by the Sierra Club, were cobbling together a bill that would give urban residents, many without the means to hop in the family car for a two-week excursion to Yellowstone, a green place of their own. Burton, who was chairman of the House Subcommittee on National Parks, was very much on board. When he met with [[Edgar and Peggy Wayburn, Phillip Burton Saved Vast Lands|Edgar Wayburn of the Sierra Club]] he asked him why he hadn’t included a particular parcel in the proposed park boundaries. Wayburn replied, “I didn’t think it would be politically feasible.” Burton answered, “You tell me what you want, not what’s politically feasible.” Wayburn came back with an expanded plan that Burton, using his skills as a coalition builder and vote counter, indeed, made feasible.

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'''Plaque about Phil Burton just above his statue at Fort Mason.'''

''Photo: Chris Carlsson, 2010''

Even President Richard Nixon was eager to get on board, making a hurried trip to the Bay Area in advance of the 1972 election. “Nixon to dedicate uncreated park,” the ''San Francisco Chronicle'' headline read.

When the bill passed, Burton waxed uncharacteristically poetic: “Here a man can walk and be lost in peace, hearing the sea, feeling the wind touching the land.” Jacobs says that Burton would be as likely to be that man he described as “he would be found taking LSD in a Berkeley commune.”

Parks, of course, were far from Burton’s only legislative interest. He used his unflagging energy to push for workers’ safety, coal miners’ protection, farm workers’ rights, AIDS research, and many other causes to benefit ordinary folks.

His success came at least as much from the pleasure he took in the political game as in the nobleness of his causes. Once when reminiscing with a fellow politician about issues surrounding the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, he mentioned “a thing of beauty.” “The place does have some lovely features,” his colleague said. “Not the park,” Burton said, “the bill.”

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[[Image:Bridge-cover final.jpg|240px|left]] ''Excerpted with permission from Art Peterson's book, [http://www.amazon.com/That-Bridge-Orange-Francisco-Curious/dp/0926664190/ "Why Is That Bridge Orange?"] published in 2013, by Inquiring Minds Productions.''

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Category:Book Excerpts

2026-05-26T05:16:50Z

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[[Hastings College of Law Built on Genocide?|Hastings College of Law Built on Genocide?]]

''Excerpted with permission from [http://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300230697/american-genocide ''An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873''] (Yale University Press: New Haven & London 2016)''

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[[A Waterfront Planned: The 1990s and the New Millennium|A Waterfront Planned: The 1990s and the New Millennium]]

[[The Embarcadero Reborn|The Embarcadero Reborn]]

[[The Waterfront Land Use Plan|The Waterfront Land Use Plan]]

[[Problems of Waterfront Planning|Problems of Waterfront Planning]]

[[A Waterfront for the People?|A Waterfront for the People?]]

The pages from this book [http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/N/bo12387078.html ''A Negotiated Landscape''] © 2011 Jasper Rubin and the Center for American Places at Columbia College Chicago, are excerpted with permission.

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''Originally published in [https://heydaybooks.com/catalog/bart-the-dramatic-history-of-the-bay-area-rapid-transit-system/ ''BART: The Dramatic History of the Bay Area Rapid Transit System'' Heyday Books]: Berkeley CA, 2016''

[[Key System and March of Progress|Key System and March of Progress]]

[[San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit Commission—The Beginnings|San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit Commission—The Beginnings]]

[[Planning and Selling BART|Planning and Selling BART]]

[[Building San Francisco's BART tunnels|Building San Francisco's BART tunnels]]

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[[Image:Bump-city-cover.jpg|200px]]

''Bump City'' by John Krich (City Miner Books, Berkeley CA: 1979);
Originally a chapter in ''Bump City'' called “Captain Sal and the Age of Irony”

[[Incredible Bottom of the Ninth Comeback! The Oakland A’s Win Game 5 of the 1972 World Series|Incredible Bottom of the Ninth Comeback! The Oakland A’s Win Game 5 of the 1972 World Series]]

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[[Image:Front-cover-web-resolution-72-dpi.jpg|200px]]

[[Chinatown Vice|Chinatown Vice]]

[[The Golden Dragon Restaurant Massacre|The Golden Dragon Restaurant Massacre]]

[[The Six Companies|The Six Companies]]

''By Kevin J. Mullen, excerpted with permission from "Chinatown Squad"''

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[[Image:Issel Church and State sm.jpg|200px]]

''From pages 1-6, the Introduction to [http://www.temple.edu/tempress/titles/2257_reg.html '''Church and State in the City: Catholics and Politics in Twentieth-Century San Francisco'''] by William Issel. Used by permission of Temple University Press. © 2013 by Temple University. All Rights Reserved.''

[[Catholic San Francisco: A City of Contests|Catholic San Francisco: A City of Contests]]

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[[Image:CGC-cover.jpg|200px|]]

''Excerpted with permission from [http://bloomsbury.com/us/cool-gray-city-of-love-9781608199600/ Bloomsbury], from the book “Cool Gray City of Love” available here: [http://www.indiebound.org/book/9781608199600 IndieBound], [http://www.citylights.com/book/?GCOI=87286100740730 City Lights], [http://www.amazon.com/Cool-Gray-City-Love-Francisco/dp/1608199606/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1386633018&sr=1-1&keywords=cool+gray+city+of+love+49+views+of+san+francisco Amazon], and [http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/cool-gray-city-of-love-gary-kamiya/1114764186?ean=9781608199600 B&N].''

[[Searching for the Yelamu in San Francisco|Searching for the Yelamu in San Francisco]]

[[Western Addition: A Basic History|Western Addition: A Basic History]]

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[[Image:Copaganda-cover-288px.jpg|200px]]

''Copyright © 2025 by Alec Karakatsanis. This excerpt originally appeared in [https://thenewpress.org/books/copaganda/ ''Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News''], published by The New Press. Reprinted here with permission.''

[[Copaganda: The Recall of DA Chesa Boudin|Copaganda: The Recall of DA Chesa Boudin]]

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[[Image:labor1$waitresses$dishout_itm$dish-cover.jpg|200px]]

[http://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/86dnq7dp9780252061868.html ''Dishing It Out: Waitresses and Their Unions in the Twentieth Century''], by Dorothy Sue Cobble (1991: University of Illinois Press: Urbana and Chicago

[[WAITRESSES and UNIONS The Fruits of Solidarity|WAITRESSES and UNIONS The Fruits of Solidarity]]

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[[Image:Paulson cover 200px.jpg]]

Excerpted from ''Forty Years of Making ‘Good Trouble’—The Selected Writings of a San Francisco Labor Leader'' © Tim Paulson, 2021

First published in the U.S. by Senders Communications Group, 16501 Ventura Blvd. #400, Encino, CA 91436

[[Labor and the San Francisco Universal Health Care Security Ordinance|Labor and the San Francisco Universal Health Care Security Ordinance]]

[[San Francisco is Beautiful, Difficult — but still a Union City|San Francisco is Beautiful, Difficult — but still a Union City]]

[[SF Labor Council Helps Cruise Line Workers|SF Labor Council Helps Cruise Line Workers]]

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[[Image:Free-City-cover.jpg|200px]]

''Originally published as the Epilogue in ''[https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1141 Free City! The Fight for San Francisco's City College and Education for All]'' by PM Press, 2021''

[[City College of SF: One Struggle Sets the Table for the Next|City College of SF: One Struggle Sets the Table for the Next]]

'''The following pages are not excerpted directly from this book, but are earlier versions that ended up after further revisions as chapters.'''

[[Education ‘Reform’ Meets Gentrification in San Francisco at City College|Education ‘Reform’ Meets Gentrification in San Francisco at City College]]

[[City College Faculty Fights for Fairness|City College Faculty Fights for Fairness]]

[[Development Pressure Engulfs City College|Development Pressure Engulfs City College]]

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[[Image:Gods-hotel-cover.jpg|200px]]

''from [http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/306891/gods-hotel-by-victoria-sweet/9781594486548 ''God's Hotel: A Doctor, A Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine''] by Victoria Sweet, copyright © 2012 by Victoria Sweet. Used by permission of Riverhead, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC.''

[[Laguna Honda Hospital|Laguna Honda Hospital]]

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[[Image:Front cover.jpg|200px]]

Excerpted from ''[https://www.amazon.com/God-Squad-Born-Again-Francisco-Giants/dp/1631322079/ The God Squad: The Born-Again San Francisco Giants of 1978].''

[[BOO! The Giants' Johnnie LeMaster|BOO! The Giants' Johnnie LeMaster]]

[[Dave Dravecky's Miraculous Comeback|Dave Dravecky's Miraculous Comeback]]

[[The God Squad|The God Squad]]

[[Jack Clark's Revenge on the Dodgers|Jack Clark's Revenge on the Dodgers]]

[[Mike Ivie: The Miracle Man|Mike Ivie: The Miracle Man]]

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[[Image:Baranski-Housing-City-by-the-Bay-Cover-288px.jpg|200px]]

''Excerpted from [https://www.sup.org/books/history/housing-city-bay ''Housing the City by the Bay: Tenant Activism, Civil Rights, and Class Politics in San Francisco''] by John Baranski, published by Stanford University Press. Used by permission. © Copyright 2019 by John Baranski. All rights reserved.''

[[Post-1906 Quake Housing Reform|Post-1906 Quake Housing Reform]]

[[Burnham Plan and Tenement Housing|Burnham Plan and Tenement Housing]]

[[San Francisco Housing Association|San Francisco Housing Association]]

[[California Commission of Immigration and Housing|California Commission of Immigration and Housing]]

[[World War I Housing Reform Effort|World War I Housing Reform Effort]]

[[Segregated and Substandard Housing in the 1920s|Segregated and Substandard Housing in the 1920s]]

[[Housing Crisis Worsens at Start of Depression|Housing Crisis Worsens at Start of Depression]]

[[Chinatown Tenants Win Public Housing Rent Strike|Chinatown Tenants Win Public Housing Rent Strike]]

[[San Francisco Housing Authority and Mayor Moscone|San Francisco Housing Authority and Mayor Moscone]]

[[San Francisco Housing Authority Tries to Buy I-Hotel|San Francisco Housing Authority Tries to Buy I-Hotel]]

[[San Francisco Housing Authority and CANE|San Francisco Housing Authority and CANE]]

[[San Francisco Housing Authority in the 1970s|San Francisco Housing Authority in the 1970s]]

[[Neoliberalism Dismantles Public Housing|Neoliberalism Dismantles Public Housing]]

[[SF Housing Authority Copes With Neoliberalism|SF Housing Authority Copes With Neoliberalism]]

[[Homelessness Surges in Wake of Neoliberalism|Homelessness Surges in Wake of Neoliberalism]]

[[Pink Palace Controversy|Pink Palace Controversy]]

[[Public Housing Tenant Movement Fractures|Public Housing Tenant Movement Fractures]]

[[Safety Net Torn Up by Government|Safety Net Torn Up by Government]]

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[[Image:Industrial-Cowboys-cover.jpg|200px|]]

''This excerpt from [https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520245341/industrial-cowboys ''Industrial Cowboys Miller & Lux and the Transformation of the Far West, 1850-1920''] is used with permission. © David Igler, University of California Press: 2001''

[[Miller & Lux and the Dirty Plate Route|Miller & Lux and the Dirty Plate Route]]

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[[Image:Latinos-at-the-golden-gate-cover.jpg|200px]]

''excerpted from '''[http://www.uncpress.unc.edu/browse/book_detail?title_id=3444 Latinos at the Golden Gate: Creating Community and Identity in San Francisco]''', by Tomás F. Summers Sandoval Jr., Copyright © 2013 by the [http://www.uncpress.unc.edu University of North Carolina Press]. Used by permission of the publisher.''

[[Midcentury Migrations|Midcentury Migrations]]

[[Tributary to San Francisco|Tributary to San Francisco]]

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[[Image:Lee-Felsenstein-book-cover 200px.jpg]]

Excerpted with permission from: ''Me and My Big Ideas: Counterculture, Social Media, and the Future'' by Lee Felsenstein published by [https://www.FelsenSigns.com FelsenSigns]

[[Free Speech Movement 1964|Free Speech Movement 1964]]

[[Working at Ampex|Working at Ampex]]

[[Berkeley Barb and People's Park|Berkeley Barb and People's Park]]

[[Founding of Ohlone Park|Founding of Ohlone Park]]

[[Resource One|Resource One]]

[[Installing a Mainframe at Project One|Installing a Mainframe at Project One]]

[[Community Memory: The Beginning|Community Memory: The Beginning]]

[[Community Memory Evolves|Community Memory Evolves]]

[[Homebrew Computer Club|Homebrew Computer Club]]

[[Reflections on the End of Community Memory|Reflections on the End of Community Memory]]

[[Craigslist|Craigslist]]

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[[Image:Karl-book-2258 reg.gif]]

[[Mission Anti-Displacement Coalition|Mission Anti-Displacement Coalition]]

[[Rezoning the Eastern Neighborhoods in Early 2000s|Rezoning the Eastern Neighborhoods in Early 2000s]]

''Excerpts from [http://www.temple.edu/tempress/titles/2258_reg.html '''Local Protest, Global Movements: Capital, Community, and State In San Francisco'''] by Karl Beitel. Used by permission of Temple University Press. © 2013 by Temple University. All Rights Reserved.''

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[[Image:Berglund-Making-San-Francisco-American-cover.jpg|200px]]

''Exerpts from [https://kuecprd.ku.edu/~upress/cgi-bin/award-winners/978-0-7006-1722-7.html ''Making San Francisco American: Cultural Frontiers in the Urban West, 1846-1906''] by Barbara Berglund (University Press of Kansas: Lawrence KS 2007)''

[[California Midwinter Fair of 1894: An Orientalist Exposition|California Midwinter Fair of 1894: An Orientalist Exposition]]

[[California Midwinter Fair of 1894: ’49 Mining Camp glorifies Gold Rush Fantasies|California Midwinter Fair of 1894: ’49 Mining Camp glorifies Gold Rush Fantasies]]

[[California Midwinter Fair of 1894: Women’s Work and Vice|California Midwinter Fair of 1894: Women’s Work and Vice]]

[[California Midwinter Fair of 1894: Depression and Poverty|California Midwinter Fair of 1894: Depression and Poverty]]

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[[Image:Medicine of Memoroy 9780292752672.jpg|200px]]

''Excerpted with permission from [https://utpress.utexas.edu/9780292752672/the-medicine-of-memory/| ''The Medicine of Memory''] by Alejandro Murguía, published by the University of Texas Press, 2002.''

[[The "Good Old Mission Days" Never Existed!|The "Good Old Mission Days" Never Existed!]]

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[[Image:Mission-High-book-cover.jpg|200px]]

''Excerpted with permission from ''Mission High: One School, How Experts Tried to Fail It, and the Students and Teachers Who Made It Triumph'', [https://www.boldtypebooks.com/titles/kristina-rizga/mission-high/9781568584621/ Bold Type Books]: 2015''

[[Mission High School’s Innovative Anti-Racist Teaching|Mission High School’s Innovative Anti-Racist Teaching]]

[[Desegregating San Francisco Public Schools in the 1960s|Desegregating San Francisco Public Schools in the 1960s]]

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[[Image:More Than Shelter cover.jpg|200px]]

[[San Francisco Housing Authority 1937-1965: The Early Decades|San Francisco Housing Authority 1937-1965: The Early Decades]]

''Excerpted from [https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/more-than-shelter ''More than Shelter: Activism and Community in San Francisco Public Housing''] by Amy L. Howard. Used by permission of the University of Minnesota Press. © Copyright 2014 by the Regents of the University of Minnesota. All rights reserved.''

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[[Image:Neon-Girls-book-cover.jpg|200px]]

[[Strip-Club Business: A Brief History|Strip-Club Business: A Brief History]]

''by Jennifer Worley, excerpted from [https://www.harpercollins.com/products/neon-girls-jennifer-worley?variant=32206140571682 ''Neon Girls: A Stripper's Education in Protest and Power''] HarperCollins Books: 2020,'' a first-hand account of the epic union organizing campaign at the Lusty Lady Club in North Beach.''

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[[Image:Nanette-Jordan-Book-Cover.jpg|200px]]

"Originally published in [https://www.amazon.com/Painting-Paintings-gilded-memoir-Revised/dp/B09TRLHBR2/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= ''Painting on Paintings: A Gilded Memoir''], ''2022. Excerpted with Nanette Jordan's permission. ''

[[Sutro Baths Eerie Ice Rink|Sutro Baths Eerie Ice Rink]]

[[Playland is a Nightmare|Playland is a Nightmare]]

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[[Image:SFBay-History-WEB2-360x570.jpg|200px]]

''Excerpted from David D. Schmidt's ''San Francisco Bay Area: An Environmental History.'' Available from [https://backcountrypress.com/book/san-francisco-bay-area/ Backcountry Press].''

[[Abalone Boom and Bust|Abalone Boom and Bust]]

[[Borax King and Key System in East Bay|Borax King and Key System in East Bay]]

[[Chinese Shrimp Camps Along The Bay|Chinese Shrimp Camps Along The Bay]]

[[David Hewes and His Steam Paddy Works|David Hewes and His Steam Paddy Works]]

[[Edgar and Peggy Wayburn, Phillip Burton Saved Vast Lands|Edgar and Peggy Wayburn, Phillip Burton Saved Vast Lands]]

[[Filling The Bay Along San Francisco’s Southern Waterfront|Filling The Bay Along San Francisco’s Southern Waterfront]]

[[Mercury Mining|Mercury Mining]]

[[Oysters, Pirates, and Pollution|Oysters, Pirates, and Pollution]]

[[San Francisco's Drinking Water|San Francisco's Drinking Water]]

[[San Francisco's Garbage: From Mission Bay to Altamont|San Francisco's Garbage: From Mission Bay to Altamont]]

[[San Francisco’s Struggles With Sewage, 1860s-1990s|San Francisco’s Struggles With Sewage, 1860s-1990s]]

[[Saving Richardson Bay; Harold Gilliam Sounds the Alarm 1955-58|Saving Richardson Bay; Harold Gilliam Sounds the Alarm 1955-58]]

[[When Crab Was King at Fisherman’s Wharf|When Crab Was King at Fisherman’s Wharf]]

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[[Image:Secret-Ugly-full-cover 6-inches.jpg|200px]]

''Excerpted from ''The Secret Ugly: The Hidden History of US Germ War in Korea'' by Thomas Powell, [mailto:edgewatereditions@gmail.com Edgewater Editions]: 2023.''

[[War in Korea|War in Korea]]

[[Powell/Schuman Sedition Trial|Powell/Schuman Sedition Trial]]

[[Bill Powell Exposes Post-WWII US-Japan Germ War Deal|Bill Powell Exposes Post-WWII US-Japan Germ War Deal]]

[[Growing Up ‘Red’ in 1950s San Francisco|Growing Up ‘Red’ in 1950s San Francisco]]

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'''Sixth Star book cover'''

[[The Sixth Star|The Sixth Star]]

[[Women's Suffrage 1870|Women's Suffrage 1870]]

[[Ellen Clark Sargent|Ellen Clark Sargent]]

[[Emily Pitts Stevens|Emily Pitts Stevens]]

[[Women’s Co-operative Printing Union|Women’s Co-operative Printing Union]]

[[West Coast Women's Congress Association|West Coast Women's Congress Association]]

[[Suffragettes Gather|Suffragettes Gather]]

[[Sarah B. Cooper|Sarah B. Cooper]]

[[The Bifurcated Skirt|The Bifurcated Skirt]]

[[First California Women in Law|First California Women in Law]]

[[Nellie Holbrook Blinn|Nellie Holbrook Blinn]]

[[Elizabeth Lowe Watson|Elizabeth Lowe Watson]]

[[Championing the Working Woman|Championing the Working Woman]]

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[[Image:Coyote sleeping-where-I-fall-cover.jpg|200px]]

''Excerpted with permission from "Sleeping Where I Fall" by [http://www.petercoyote.com/sleeping.html Peter Coyote], published by Counterpoint, Washington, D.C., 1998''

[[The Digger Concept of 'Free'|The Digger Concept of 'Free']]

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[[Image:Street fight 9781613762608.jpg|200px]]

[[Second Freeway Revolt|Second Freeway Revolt]]

[[Conservative Fight to Save Central Freeway|Conservative Fight to Save Central Freeway]]

[[Dueling Ballots: The Central Freeway’s Fate|Dueling Ballots: The Central Freeway’s Fate]]

These articles are excerpted, with permission, from Henderson's book [http://www.umass.edu/umpress/title/street-fight ''Street Fight: The Politics of Mobility in San Francisco''], © 2013

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[[Image:Streetopia cover 9780692424285.jpg|200px|left]] ''Excerpts from [https://www.ericadawnlyle.info/streetopiabook ''Streetopia''], in the essay "The Uses of Market Street"''

[[Redevelopment vs. Ecotopia|Redevelopment vs. Ecotopia]]

[[San Francisco Singularity?|San Francisco Singularity?]]

[[Uses of Market Street|Uses of Market Street]]

[[Problem with Parklets|Problem with Parklets]]

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[[Image:Roxanas Children book cover.jpg|200px]]

[[Yankee Women|Yankee Women]]

''Excerpted from ''Roxana's Children: The Biography of a Nineteenth-Century Vermont Family'' by Lynn A. Bonfield and Mary C. Morrison (Amherst: © 1995, University of Massachusetts Press)''.''

San Francisco's Drinking Water

2026-05-26T05:13:49Z

Ccarlsson: Created page with "''' Historical Essay ''' ''by David D. Schmidt, 2026'' ''An excerpt from the book, [https://backcountrypress.com/book/san-francisco-bay-area/ ''San Francisco Bay Area: An Environmental History''], by David D. Schmidt (Backcountry Press, 2025). Image:norbeach$black-point-1870.jpg '''Black Point (now Fort Mason), 1870. A new company formed by John Bensley and Antoine (aka Anthony) Chabot..."

''' Historical Essay '''

''by David D. Schmidt, 2026''

''An excerpt from the book, [https://backcountrypress.com/book/san-francisco-bay-area/ ''San Francisco Bay Area: An Environmental History''], by David D. Schmidt (Backcountry Press, 2025).

[[Image:norbeach$black-point-1870.jpg]]

'''Black Point (now Fort Mason), 1870. A new company formed by John Bensley and Antoine (aka Anthony) Chabot brought water through the flume that skirts the cliffs. Small farms run down to the shore. Alcatraz is in the distance.'''

''Photo: Private Collection, San Francisco, CA''

<big>'''From Mule Carts to Crystal Springs'''</big>

In the Gold Rush boomtown of 1849, enterprising water purveyors in San Francisco set out by boat to collect water from the sources that had been supplying sailing ships with drinking water before their months-long ocean voyages: Sausalito (Spanish for “little willow grove”) in Marin, and Hunters Point, a narrow peninsula extending into the bay three miles south of the growing city, where [[Albion Brewery|a sparkling stream emerged from a cave]] just a stone's throw from the water's edge.

By 1851, the Saucelito Water and Steam Tug Company was pulling barges filled with water into San Francisco's harbor. The water was lifted in barrels onto 65 mule-drawn carts that circulated on the city's streets. Residents bought this precious water for up to $20 a bucket (in today’s dollars). Bathing was a luxury reserved for the wealthy, and the city was devastated by wildfires that spread rapidly without a water supply to put them out (see Fires and Floods Chapter). The first attempt to build a piped water system began in May 1853, when the Mountain Lake Water Company broke ground on an ambitious brick tunnel beneath the Presidio, with the goal of delivering water from the Presidio’s Mountain Lake,(1) through the tunnel and into a wooden flume to the city.

Two years later, the company had burned through its initial funding, and was unable to raise the money needed to finish the project.(2) So in 1857 the city government granted the water franchise, a legal monopoly, to a new company formed by John Bensley and Antoine (aka Anthony) Chabot, in return for providing water for firefighting and other "municipal purposes."

Bensley, a New Yorker who had gotten rich by consolidating Sacramento River steamboats into a monopoly, and Chabot, a French Canadian who had invented hydraulic mining for gold, invited Latvian-born hydraulic mining engineer Alexei Waldemar von Schmidt to join their company. Within a year, they had built a winding 7-mile redwood flume from Lobos Creek, at the west end of the Presidio, to a pumping station at today's [[Ghirardelli Square|Ghirardelli Square]]. The company also laid 14 miles of pipe and installed 100 fire hydrants. The first piped water reached customers on September 27, 1858.

The new system supplied two million gallons per day—not enough for the fast-growing city. A competing company, [[Spring Valley Water Company|Spring Valley Water Works]], had begun selling water from a spring at Mason and Washington Streets (where the Cable Car Barn is today) in 1856. Its production was miniscule by comparison—only 20,000 gallons per day—but it soon acquired the Bensley Company's most important asset: von Schmidt. In 1860 he became chief engineer and a major stockholder in Spring Valley.(3)

Under von Schmidt's dynamic direction, Spring Valley acquired another small water supplier, the Islais and Salinas Water Company, which had dammed a stream in Glen Canyon (today Glen Park), and flumed the water to their reservoir at Potrero Ave. and 16th Street. This brought Spring Valley's capacity up to 200,000 gallons per day—still much smaller than Bensley's, but von Schmidt had bigger plans. In 1861 he began building a diversion tunnel on San Mateo County’s Pilarcitos Creek, northeast of Half Moon Bay. This location had the county’s highest average annual rainfall—49 inches. The creek drained westward into the ocean, but von Schmidt's laborers used picks and shovels to dig their way eastward through Cahill Ridge, to divert the water to the San Mateo Creek watershed. From there, it flowed through a 32-mile wooden flume to San Francisco, arriving for the first time with great fanfare, as von Schmidt had planned for maximum publicity, on the Fourth of July, 1862.

[[Image:PilarcitosLakeCrysSprWatershedDDS.jpg]]

'''Pilarcitos Dam and Reservoir, built in 1863 in the Crystal Springs Watershed in San Mateo County, was the first dam to supply water to San Francisco.'''

''Photo: Christy Shake, 1997''

During the drought of 1862-63, these water systems proved inadequate. To store water for dry years, Von Schmidt completed the first dam on Pilarcitos Creek in 1863, and converted one of San Francisco's small natural lakes, [[Laguna Honda|Laguna Honda]] (Spanish for "Deep Lake"), into a concrete-lined reservoir for Pilarcitos water.

Von Schmidt predicted that San Francisco would soon outgrow San Mateo County’s water sources, so in 1864 he quit Spring Valley to study the feasibility of transporting water from Lake Tahoe. Spring Valley bought out the Bensley Company in 1865, making Spring Valley the citywide monopoly. Hermann Schussler took over as chief engineer, designing and building five dams over the next 30 years on the company's land in San Mateo County.

[[Image:CrystalSpringsDam.jpg]]

'''Lower Crystal Springs Dam, completed in 1888, was the world's largest concrete dam when it was built by San Francisco's Spring Valley Water Co. Today it lies under the [[Interstate 280’s History and Technology|Doran Bridge on I-280]].'''

''Photo: Christy Shake, 1997''

Among these was San Andreas Dam, which survived the 1906 Earthquake without leaking, despite sitting directly athwart the San Andreas Fault. The powerful quake moved half the dam eight feet upstream of the other half. Schussler's biggest project was Lower Crystal Springs Dam on San Mateo Creek. Built of interlocking concrete blocks, it was the world's largest concrete dam when completed in 1888. Still in use today, it lies beneath the Doran Bridge on I-280, invisible to thousands of drivers who pass over it daily.

<big>'''Hard Luck Dam: Calaveras and the Drive for a City-Owned System '''</big>

Despite Spring Valley's aggressive construction program, many San Franciscans were dissatisfied with the company. In 1873, the city government began its first effort to buy out and expand Spring Valley's system. Two years later, the city identified Calaveras Creek in southern Alameda County as a good location for a major dam, and started moving to buy the needed land and water rights, but Spring Valley moved faster and bought them first, leaving city officials high and dry. Spring Valley sat on the land for the next 38 years, until the State Railroad Commission (today's California Public Utilities Commission) in 1913 ordered the company to build the dam to meet San Francisco's needs.

Before the advent of bulldozers, a common dam-building technique in California was to use a hydraulic mining water cannon to wash away a hillside, channel the resulting slurry of mud and rock to a dam site, and deposit it between two narrow, parallel embankments—like the filling in a Double Stuf Oreo cookie—to create one wide dam. These mud-filled sandwich dams were cheaper to build, since they required less labor, but weaker than dams built of dry material. Spring Valley used this method for the Calaveras Dam.

On March 24, 1918, after the half-built dam had been soaked by winter rains, the upstream embankment partially collapsed, and the mud filling oozed out around it. Spring Valley had to redesign the dam and rebuild it from the ground up, which took another seven years.

Completed in 1925, Calaveras was the world’s highest earth-fill dam, at 215 feet—nearly as high as the concrete Hetch Hetchy Dam built at the same time. To deliver Hetch Hetchy’s water to San Franciscans, the city government needed to buy out Spring Valley's entire system, including pipelines beneath city streets. Voters in 1928 approved a bond proposition to buy out the Spring Valley system (albeit on the fifth try, for the needed 2/3 majority), making the city the new owner of Calaveras and the Crystal Springs Lakes in 1930—57 years after the city's buyout efforts began.

Calaveras Dam again became a concern in the 1960s, after the Calaveras Fault—just 1,500 yards from the dam—was recognized as a hazard. San Francisco’s Water Department strengthened the dam to meet earthquake safety standards in 1975. But after the [[Loma Prieta Earthquake, 1989|1989 Loma Prieta quake]], the state government toughened dam safety standards, and Calaveras again failed to make the grade. In 2001, the California Division of Safety of Dams ordered the city to keep the reservoir 60% empty, to prevent a potentially catastrophic wall of water from flattening Fremont if the dam failed. To replace it, San Francisco built an entirely new Calaveras Dam, containing enough rock and soil to fill 330,000 dump trucks.(4) It was completed in 2018 at a cost of $823 million.

San Francisco’s watershed lands around these dams in San Mateo County (about 40 square miles) and Alameda County (62 square miles) made the city the largest absentee landowner in these counties. By 2000, San Francisco also owned 12 reservoirs, two drinking water treatment plants, and 1,191 miles of pipes beneath city streets.

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<big>'''San Francisco Water Development Chronology'''</big>
:'''1776''' Mission Dolores founded near Mission Creek, Presidio founded near El Polin Spring
:'''1849''' Gold Rush "49ers" arrive; water sold by the bucket from mule-drawn carts
:'''1851''' Saucelito Water and Steam Tug Co. imports water by barge from Sausalito
:'''1850-1852''' San Francisco devastated by fire five times due to lack of water supply
:'''1858''' Bensley Company taps Lobos Creek in Presidio, builds flume, pipes, hydrants
:'''1862''' Tunnel, 32-mile flume bring Pilarcitos Creek water to San Francisco
:'''1863''' First Pilarcitos Dam completed
:'''1865''' Spring Valley buys out Bensley, gaining citywide monopoly
:'''1870''' Spring Valley completes San Andreas Dam on San Mateo Creek
:'''1875''' Spring Valley buys Calaveras Creek land and water rights in SW Alameda County
:'''1876''' Spring Valley builds Upper Crystal Springs Dam
:'''1888''' Spring Valley completes Lower Crystal Springs Dam, world's largest concrete dam
:'''1898-1900''' Spring Valley drills wells in Pleasanton, builds Sunol aqueduct to Crystal Springs
:'''1900''' New charter mandates that San Francisco develop its own water supply
:'''1906''' Earthquake severs water lines; more than half of homes, businesses destroyed by fire
:'''1908-1910''' City voters approve bond propositions to build Hetch Hetchy system
:'''1910-1911''' City buys land, water rights in Eleanor, Cherry Creek basins near Hetch Hetchy
:'''1913''' Congress approves Raker Act, allowing dam in Yosemite National Park
:'''1918''' Spring Valley's Calaveras Dam, under construction, collapses; City completes first dam in Hetch Hetchy area—Eleanor Dam, 70 feet high
:'''1923''' City completes 227-foot-high dam, flooding Hetch Hetchy Valley
:'''1925''' Spring Valley completes rebuilt 215-foot-high Calaveras Dam
:'''1924-34''' City builds tunnels, pipelines to bring Hetch Hetchy water to Crystal Springs
:'''1930''' City buys out Spring Valley system
:'''1934''' First Hetch Hetchy water reaches San Francisco
:'''1938''' Hetch Hetchy Dam raised 85.5 feet
:'''1949''' Voters approve bonds to build Cherry Valley Dam near Hetch Hetchy
:'''1952''' City completes second pipeline across San Joaquin Valley
:'''1956-1967''' City builds additional dams, tunnels, pipeline, hydroelectric power plants
:'''1965''' Hetch Hetchy system delivers record 220 million gallons per day (GPD); City completes 195-foot-high Turner Dam in southern Alameda County
:'''1968''' San Joaquin Pipeline #3 ups system capacity to 300 million GPD
:'''1967-1971''' City, Irrigation Districts build New Don Pedro Dam on Tuolumne River
:'''1972''' Bay Crossing Pipeline #4, San Andreas drinking water filtration plant completed
:'''1975''' City strengthens Calaveras Dam for earthquake safety
:'''1987-1992''' Worst drought of century spurs mandatory rationing: up to 45% reductions
:'''2002''' Voters approve $1.6 billion in bonds to repair, replace aging water infrastructure
:'''2018''' City completes $4.8 billion seismic safety, rebuild projects
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<big>'''O'Shaughnessy and the Hetch Hetchy Project'''</big>

By the time San Francisco bought out Spring Valley in 1930, the company's system could supply 65 million gallons per day (MGD)—more than 32 times as much as the Lobos Creek system in 1858. About 700 wells drilled throughout the city provided another 8.5 MGD. As early as 1900, however, city officials planned to tap a source that would dwarf the Spring Valley system. In 1901, [[Mayor James Phelan|Mayor James D. Phelan]] and City Engineer Carl Grunsky focused their attention on the Tuolumne River in the Sierra, due to its high volume, clean water, potential reservoir sites, and hydropower potential.

To prevent anyone else from beating the city to the water rights (as Spring Valley had done with Calaveras Creek), Phelan secretly filed for the Tuolumne water rights in his own name, then signed them over to the city in 1903. Opponents of the plan—Spring Valley, the Modesto and Turlock Irrigation Districts (which tapped the Tuolumne downstream in the San Joaquin Valley), and nature lovers led by John Muir—fought the proposed dam for 10 years. Muir famously proclaimed, "Dam Hetch Hetchy! As well dam for water tanks the people's cathedrals and churches, for no holier temple has ever been consecrated by the heart of man!"

Hetch Hetchy was much like Yosemite Valley, just 20 miles north of its famous twin: It had towering granite walls, waterfalls, a meandering river, meadows, oaks, a warmer climate than the surrounding mountains, and was within Yosemite National Park. Dam promoters contended that they would create a lake just as beautiful, but useful, too. Muir and park supporters throughout the nation vehemently disagreed and wrote more than 5,000 letters to the Secretary of the Interior and Congress, urging them to block the project.

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'''Hetch Hetchy Valley in Yosemite National Park was much like the more famous Yosemite Valley before it was flooded by San Francisco's O'Shaughnessy Dam in 1923.'''

''Photo: unknown provenance, c. 1912''

[[The Hetch Hetchy Story, Part I: John Muir, Preservationists vs. Conservationists|Conservationists were divided between Muir's preservationists]], and Progressives led by Mayor Phelan and Marin Congressman William Kent, who put the highest value on using public resources for the public’s benefit: The dam would supply water and electric power (which [[The Hetch Hetchy Story, Part II: PG&E and the Raker Act|never reached San Francisco customers]]).

San Francisco voters approved the dam by a lopsided 20-1 margin on a 1910 bond proposition, thanks to a widespread perception that Spring Valley's water system was to blame for the fire that devastated the city in 1906. In reality, the city’s water mains would have been ruptured by the quake with or without the Hetch Hetchy system.

In 1912, newly-elected San Francisco [[Mayor "Sunny Jim" Rolph|Mayor "Sunny Jim" Rolph]] contacted prominent civil engineer [[Michael M. O'Shaughnessy|Michael M. O'Shaughnessy]] and made him an offer: If he could live on half the money he was making as a private consultant, O'Shaughnessy could preside over the most massive engineering project in the West—Hetch Hetchy, as well as a new municipal railway system with tracks and tunnels throughout San Francisco. O'Shaughnessy, then 48, an Irish immigrant and graduate of the Royal University of Dublin, leaped at the chance.

The first challenge was to transport workers and supplies to the dam site. For this, O’Shaughnessy built a 68-mile-long railroad, completed in October 1917. Next, the workers needed electric power for lights, drills and machinery. For that, they built a 70-foot-high dam on Eleanor Creek (also in Yosemite National Park), and a three-mile system of flumes, tunnels, and canals to transport the water to a new powerhouse, which began generating electricity in May 1918.

Once construction began, the railroad delivered 2,000 cubic yards of cement per day, operating around the clock for four years. Workers carved a tunnel through granite to divert the Tuolumne River around the dam site. Boulders and gravel up to 91 feet deep in the riverbed had to be removed before concrete could be poured. When Hetch Hetchy (aka O’Shaughnessy) Dam was dedicated on July 7, 1923, it was the largest man-made structure in the West.

Another tunnel, 19 miles long, was carved through solid rock to deliver the water to Priest Reservoir, and from there down a steep drop to the Moccasin Powerhouse, completed in 1925. Moccasin not only generated power, but also money from selling it (to PG&E), to fund construction of the aqueduct to bring the water to the Bay Area.

Then came three years of work on a tunnel to move the water 16 miles beneath the Sierra foothills. City workers competed with contractors in tunnel-building speed—the city employees won, setting a new national record of 803 feet in a month, in September 1926. Next, they built 47.5 miles of pipelines across the San Joaquin Valley, and finally, the toughest job of all: a 25-mile-long tunnel under the Coast Range to San Francisco Bay.

The tunnels were key to making the system transport water entirely by gravity—no fuel-gulping pumping stations to force the water uphill. The gravity-based system delivered water at a lower cost, but took longer to build.

Construction of the Coast Range Tunnel began in 1927, after critics warned of the hazards: gases, groundwater, quicksand, and swelling ground. In one spot, the 18-foot-diameter tunnel was squeezed by ground swelling in 24 hours to just three feet in diameter. To solve this problem, portions of the tunnel were lined with a 3-foot thick shell of cement-like gunite.

On July 17, 1931, a methane explosion killed 12 workers. Construction halted for two years, but the two ends of the Coast Range Tunnel finally met on January 5, 1934, with O'Shaughnessy, joined by [[Mayor Angelo Rossi|Mayor Angelo Rossi]], extending his hand through a hole in the rock to Tunnel Foreman Pete Peterson. It was the world's longest water tunnel.

To celebrate the arrival of Hetch Hetchy water after 20 years of construction (and the deaths of 89 workers), city engineers built the Greek-columned Pulgas Water Temple, where visitors could see the clear Sierra water, 20 feet below them, pouring into a conduit to Crystal Springs Lake. The temple still stands along Canada Road in San Mateo County. Interior Secretary Harold Ickes came from Washington, D. C. to attend the opening ceremony on October 24, 1934. Twenty thousand people gathered around the Water Temple, but O'Shaughnessy didn't make it. He died of a heart attack on October 12, at age 72 – after 22 years building the Hetch Hetchy system.

<big>'''Hetch Hetchy System Became Like "Winchester Mystery House" '''</big>

In the heart of Silicon Valley is a bizarre, 105-room Victorian mansion, the Winchester Mystery House, built in the late 1800s by Sarah Winchester, widow of the man who invented the Winchester repeating rifle. She believed that as long as she kept building the house, she would stay alive. So she kept carpenters working on it for 38 years, until she died. But the city of San Francisco outdid Sarah Winchester, building and expanding the Hetch Hetchy Water and Power system for 58 years, starting in 1914.

In October 1933, even before Hetch Hetchy water reached San Francisco, O'Shaughnessy led the campaign for his last bond proposition—this one to finance raising the dam 85.5 feet, to a total of 311.5 feet. Voters approved, and when work was completed in 1938, after O’Shaughnessy’s death, city officials renamed the dam in his memory.

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'''The O'Shaughnessy Dam, completed in 1923 and raised to its current height in 1938, drowned the Hetch Hetchy Valley.'''

''Photo: David D. Schmidt, 1998''

In 1941, city engineers began planning their next dam at Cherry Creek Canyon, 17 miles northwest of Hetch Hetchy. In 1947, San Francisco voters approved funding for a second pipeline across the San Joaquin Valley, and a pipeline around the southern end of San Francisco Bay, to more than double the system's capacity to 150 MGD, completed in 1952. In 1955, voters approved bonds to build two more hydroelectric power plants, finished in 1960 and 1967.

After voters approved another bond proposition in 1961, the city built a third San Joaquin Valley pipeline, doubling the system's capacity again, to 300 MGD, when the pipeline opened in 1968. Construction of the New Don Pedro Dam, downstream from the Moccasin Powerhouse, got underway in 1967. The dam was dedicated in May 1971, and a fourth South Bay pipeline was completed in June 1972. By this time, Hetch Hetchy was supplying water not just for San Francisco but for San Mateo County, Hayward, Fremont, and parts of Santa Clara County.

In the 1960s, concerns over the purity of water in the Calaveras and San Antonio Reservoirs in the East Bay, where cattle graze upstream, prompted the city to build the Sunol Filtration Plant, completed in 1966. At the Crystal Springs Watershed in San Mateo County, cattle were excluded after 1940, but the possibility of contamination from other sources, such as runoff from the I-280 freeway (completed in 1973), led the city to build the San Andreas Filtration Plant, completed in 1972 and greatly expanded in 1992.

These facilities filter and disinfect all water in the system. The disinfection was originally done with highly toxic chlorine, but chlorination of water with organic materials in it (such as dead leaves) was shown in the 1990s to create toxic by-products. So in 2003 San Francisco joined many other cities disinfecting with chloramine, a compound of chlorine and ammonia.

In the 1970s, San Francisco's once-mighty construction program turned from expansion to maintenance. By 2000, the city struggled to maintain its aging water system. Pipelines and other facilities built in the 1920s and 1930s, and even earlier, needed replacement. But funding from Hetch Hetchy electric power sales, which had helped build the system, was largely unavailable in the 1980s and 1990s because Mayors Diane Feinstein, Art Agnos, Frank Jordan, and Willie Brown [[Who Pays for Public Water? S.F. vs. Suburbs|diverted a staggering $670 million]] to fill gaps in the city budget.

In 2002, Brown and the Board of Supervisors placed on the November ballot a $1.6 billion bond proposition to repair and rebuild the system. Feinstein, then a U.S. Senator, starred in ads paid for by the city’s Chamber of Commerce urging voters to approve it. The Sierra Club was opposed, contending that the bonds would not just replace aging infrastructure, but allow the city to build a fourth pipeline to take more water from the Tuolumne River, threatening fish and encouraging urban sprawl.

Voters approved the measure by a 53.3% margin—nothing like the 20-1 margin in 1910, but sufficient to pass. Five days later, as if on cue, one of the aqueduct's three pipelines ruptured in a farm field near Modesto, sending up a 100-foot geyser of water for nine hours before workers shut down the pipeline and patched it. At the Moccasin Powerhouse, when workers began reopening the gate regulating water flow into the pipelines, a six-inch metal pin broke, immobilizing the gate. Water delivery was cut in half as city engineers scrambled to find a replacement part, have it flown in from Colorado, and installed it. The $1.6 billion turned out to be just the down payment on a series of 83 water infrastructure seismic safety rebuild projects in the Bay Area (35 of them in San Francisco alone), completed by 2018 at a cost of $4.8 billion. New technology has given the joints in the system’s pipelines the ability to flex up to six feet, or compress without breaking, in an earthquake.(5)

The fourth Hetch Hetchy pipeline was never built, but another major renovation got underway in early 2022 when workers began repairing the 19-mile-long Mountain Tunnel, which transports water from the Kirkwood Powerhouse to Priest Reservoir in the Sierra foothills. The work can only be done during winter, when water demand is lower and the tunnel can be de-watered. The target date for completion was 2027.(6)

''Questions? Email the author: davidnaturesf@gmail.com''

'''Notes'''

1. There are no mountains around “Mountain Lake.” It was a bad translation of “Laguna de Loma Alta”: Lake of the High Hill, according to Gudde, Erwin G., and William Bright, ''California Place Names'', Fourth Edition (Berkeley: UC Press, 1998), p. 250.

2. Nolte, Carl, “Tunnel tells tale of 1850s dream: Relic of ambitious project found in Presidio,” ''San Francisco Chronicle'', Oct. 11, 2010.

3. Kamiya, Gary, “Barrel system washed out by city’s 1st water company, ''San Francisco Chronicle'', Feb. 20, 2016.

4. Rogers, Paul, “Calaveras Dam project reaches major milestone,” ''San Jose Mercury-News'', April 18, 2016.

5. Johnson, Lizzie, “Water system now set for the Big One,” ''San Francisco Chronicle'', July 31, 2015.

6. Hao, Claire, “Huge tunnel for water getting urgent repairs,” ''San Francisco Chronicle'', April 17, 2023.

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''Excerpted from David D. Schmidt's ''San Francisco Bay Area: An Environmental History.'' Available from [https://backcountrypress.com/book/san-francisco-bay-area/ Backcountry Press].''

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