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	[http://lymarch.com/videos_here.html Glenn Lym] presents an architectural and political history of the 27-year project of building the original City Hall, a building that fell down in the 1906 earthquake, revealing deeply inadequate and corrupt building practices. Meanwhile, when contruction began in the 1870s, the white working class was raging against capitalism and the Chinese in equal parts, providing the impetus for the 1882 federal Chinese Exclusion Act. [http://www.chriscarlsson.com Chris Carlsson] will join the conversation to connect the social and physical histories.		[http://lymarch.com/videos_here.html Glenn Lym] presents an architectural and political history of the 27-year project of building the original City Hall, a building that fell down in the 1906 earthquake, revealing deeply inadequate and corrupt building practices. Meanwhile, when contruction began in the 1870s, the white working class was raging against capitalism and the Chinese in equal parts, providing the impetus for the 1882 federal Chinese Exclusion Act. [http://www.chriscarlsson.com Chris Carlsson] will join the conversation to connect the social and physical histories.

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	Roger Wilson of the [http://www.brh.org.uk/ Bristol Radical History group] gives a wide-ranging Talk covering 17th and 18th century history around Bristol, England, including a debunking of the common narrative of the anti-slavery movement, putting the working people of England back into the saga. He also gives a fresh look of the mass riots of 1831, and brings the interventions of the Bristol Radical History Group in our era into the unfolding of "history from below." If you want to find out what unites a 17th Century blasphemous preacher and some drunken Can-Can dancers give a listen.		Roger Wilson of the [http://www.brh.org.uk/ Bristol Radical History group] gives a wide-ranging Talk covering 17th and 18th century history around Bristol, England, including a debunking of the common narrative of the anti-slavery movement, putting the working people of England back into the saga. He also gives a fresh look of the mass riots of 1831, and brings the interventions of the Bristol Radical History Group in our era into the unfolding of "history from below." If you want to find out what unites a 17th Century blasphemous preacher and some drunken Can-Can dancers give a listen.

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	Trace the vital history of political dissent in San Francisco with Chris Carlsson, using our FoundSF collection to connect past movements with today's, with a focus on the anti-nuclear and anti-war movements of the 1970s and 1980s through the today's Occupy movement. This will be the final Shaping San Francisco Talk at CounterPULSE, ending our 7th season.		Trace the vital history of political dissent in San Francisco with Chris Carlsson, using our FoundSF collection to connect past movements with today's, with a focus on the anti-nuclear and anti-war movements of the 1970s and 1980s through the today's Occupy movement. This will be the final Shaping San Francisco Talk at CounterPULSE, ending our 7th season.

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	Musician and author, Mat Callahan, presents the James Connolly-Songs of Freedom project. "Songs of Freedom" is a collection of lyrics edited by Irish revolutionary, James Connolly, and published in New York in 1907. Its rediscovery and revival is a project undertaken by Callahan and a group of Irish, American and Swiss musicians. Tonight's event will include an account of how this project began as well as a performance of some of the songs. Callahan will discuss Connolly's contribution to art and politics with a special emphasis on its relevance to the struggle for freedom today.		Musician and author, Mat Callahan, presents the James Connolly-Songs of Freedom project. "Songs of Freedom" is a collection of lyrics edited by Irish revolutionary, James Connolly, and published in New York in 1907. Its rediscovery and revival is a project undertaken by Callahan and a group of Irish, American and Swiss musicians. Tonight's event will include an account of how this project began as well as a performance of some of the songs. Callahan will discuss Connolly's contribution to art and politics with a special emphasis on its relevance to the struggle for freedom today.

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	Harry Hay was a co-founder of the Mattachine Society, participant in the San Francisco General Strike of 1934, organizer of the first Radical Faerie Gathering. Harry Hay was at the heart of arts, activism, spirituality and sexual identities in the 20th century. Learn about this amazing man and discuss his legacies today. With Will Roscoe, editor of "Radically Gay: Gay Liberation in the Words of its Founder--Harry Hay" (Beacon Press: 1996), and Joey Cain, curator of the new exhibit on Harry Hay at the Main SF Public Library, opening April 26.		Harry Hay was a co-founder of the Mattachine Society, participant in the San Francisco General Strike of 1934, organizer of the first Radical Faerie Gathering. Harry Hay was at the heart of arts, activism, spirituality and sexual identities in the 20th century. Learn about this amazing man and discuss his legacies today. With Will Roscoe, editor of "Radically Gay: Gay Liberation in the Words of its Founder--Harry Hay" (Beacon Press: 1996), and Joey Cain, curator of the new exhibit on Harry Hay at the Main SF Public Library, opening April 26.

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	<em>Enforcing the Silence</em>, Tony Nguyen’s film about Vietnamese community in the U.S., explores silence and loss in the tragic story of a young community worker who may have been murdered for expressing his political beliefs. Lam Duong founded the Vietnamese Youth Development Center in San Francisco and published a liberal newspaper that reprinted stories from communist Vietnam following the Vietnam War. On July 21, 1981, the 27-year-old was shot dead outside his apartment in broad daylight. Within days of Lam’s murder, news spread that a shadowy, anti-communist group had claimed responsibility, sending a chilling message to Vietnamese refugees everywhere: stay in line with your political views or risk death. Between 1982 and 1990, five more Vietnamese Americans – four of them journalists – were violently killed, many believe for political reasons. Thirty years later, new filmmaker uncovers truths that Vietnamese Americans have never publicly explored. Listen to the discussion following the film.		<em>Enforcing the Silence</em>, Tony Nguyen’s film about Vietnamese community in the U.S., explores silence and loss in the tragic story of a young community worker who may have been murdered for expressing his political beliefs. Lam Duong founded the Vietnamese Youth Development Center in San Francisco and published a liberal newspaper that reprinted stories from communist Vietnam following the Vietnam War. On July 21, 1981, the 27-year-old was shot dead outside his apartment in broad daylight. Within days of Lam’s murder, news spread that a shadowy, anti-communist group had claimed responsibility, sending a chilling message to Vietnamese refugees everywhere: stay in line with your political views or risk death. Between 1982 and 1990, five more Vietnamese Americans – four of them journalists – were violently killed, many believe for political reasons. Thirty years later, new filmmaker uncovers truths that Vietnamese Americans have never publicly explored. Listen to the discussion following the film.

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	2011 marks the 100th anniversary of women winning the right to vote in California, making it the sixth state, or the Sixth Star, to recognize women as political actors. LisaRuth Elliott and Sue Englander tell us about these women, their collective organizing strategies, the nexus between movements, voting, and class issues, the connection to Spiritualism in the United States, and their previous attempt in 1896 to convince voting men to amend the State Constitution.		2011 marks the 100th anniversary of women winning the right to vote in California, making it the sixth state, or the Sixth Star, to recognize women as political actors. LisaRuth Elliott and Sue Englander tell us about these women, their collective organizing strategies, the nexus between movements, voting, and class issues, the connection to Spiritualism in the United States, and their previous attempt in 1896 to convince voting men to amend the State Constitution.

	<iframe src="~~http~~://www.archive.org/embed/CentennialAnniversaryWomenGetTheVote" width="411" height="30" frameborder="0"></iframe>		<iframe src="https://www.archive.org/embed/CentennialAnniversaryWomenGetTheVote" width="411" height="30" frameborder="0"></iframe>

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	Megan Prelinger’s book <em>Another Science Fiction</em> takes a whimsical look at how the Space Race was promoted during its heyday 1957-62, offering a pointed look into a twisted type of corporate “utopian” thinking that informed a whole generation. Meanwhile, Starhawk’s <em>The Fifth Sacred Thing</em> and Chris Carlsson’s <em>After The Deluge</em> both present alternative utopian futures for San Francisco a century or more in the future. Join the conversation with these three authors as they ponder utopias and dystopias, imagination and revolution, and the power of social movements and propaganda to shape different futures. (Unfortunately the recording failed between the introduction and near the beginning of the 2nd speaker, Chris Carlsson, so Megan Prelinger's presentation is not in this recording, though she does appear during the Q&A with the audience on several occasions. Our deepest apologies for this technical failure and resultant omission.) <br /></p>		Megan Prelinger’s book <em>Another Science Fiction</em> takes a whimsical look at how the Space Race was promoted during its heyday 1957-62, offering a pointed look into a twisted type of corporate “utopian” thinking that informed a whole generation. Meanwhile, Starhawk’s <em>The Fifth Sacred Thing</em> and Chris Carlsson’s <em>After The Deluge</em> both present alternative utopian futures for San Francisco a century or more in the future. Join the conversation with these three authors as they ponder utopias and dystopias, imagination and revolution, and the power of social movements and propaganda to shape different futures. (Unfortunately the recording failed between the introduction and near the beginning of the 2nd speaker, Chris Carlsson, so Megan Prelinger's presentation is not in this recording, though she does appear during the Q&A with the audience on several occasions. Our deepest apologies for this technical failure and resultant omission.) <br /></p>

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	A discussion with Chris Carlsson and Tom Radulovich about the future of Market Street is taking place in many forums in the City, preparing the way for a new boulevard in 2015. The history of Market Street is peppered with architectural and social solutions that have not worked out as planned. We take a look at the long history of Market Street and San Francisco, the various momentous and controversial redesigns that have happened over the decades, question the assumptions about urban design that underly the current municipal discussions, and set the stage for a discussion of what's coming. Thanks to Rick Prelinger, for providing videos of life on Market Street from the early 20th century to more recent decades.		A discussion with Chris Carlsson and Tom Radulovich about the future of Market Street is taking place in many forums in the City, preparing the way for a new boulevard in 2015. The history of Market Street is peppered with architectural and social solutions that have not worked out as planned. We take a look at the long history of Market Street and San Francisco, the various momentous and controversial redesigns that have happened over the decades, question the assumptions about urban design that underly the current municipal discussions, and set the stage for a discussion of what's coming. Thanks to Rick Prelinger, for providing videos of life on Market Street from the early 20th century to more recent decades.

	<iframe src="~~http~~://www.archive.org/embed/RevisitingMarketStreet" width="411" height="30" frameborder="0"></iframe>		<iframe src="https://www.archive.org/embed/RevisitingMarketStreet" width="411" height="30" frameborder="0"></iframe>

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	Historian Chris Carlsson presents vivid account of how San Franciscans moved around this peninsula through time: walking through the sand, horse-drawn stagecoaches, Clipper ships and shanghaiing, cable cars, ghosts of train routes and former freeways, plus the role of mass bicycle rides in both the 19th and 20th centuries.		Historian Chris Carlsson presents vivid account of how San Franciscans moved around this peninsula through time: walking through the sand, horse-drawn stagecoaches, Clipper ships and shanghaiing, cable cars, ghosts of train routes and former freeways, plus the role of mass bicycle rides in both the 19th and 20th centuries.

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	With Dick Boyd, author of <em>Broadway, North Beach, The Golden Years: A Saloon Keeper's Tales</em> and former owner of Pierre's, a bar in North Beach from 1960-65; Sean Lavon Nash; and Michael Whitson, a marijuana prohibition expert, compare the alcohol Prohibition of the 1920s-30s to the contemporary prohibition on marijuana.		With Dick Boyd, author of <em>Broadway, North Beach, The Golden Years: A Saloon Keeper's Tales</em> and former owner of Pierre's, a bar in North Beach from 1960-65; Sean Lavon Nash; and Michael Whitson, a marijuana prohibition expert, compare the alcohol Prohibition of the 1920s-30s to the contemporary prohibition on marijuana.

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	'''Shaping San Francisco hosts Public Talks on a variety of topics on Wednesday nights, about 18 times a year. One recurrent theme has been Historical Perspectives, which covers all sorts of topics that delve into our shared and disputed understandings of what shaped our world. Here are the Talks we held at CounterPULSE at 1310 Mission Street in ~~2006, 2007, 2008~~, and ~~2009~~.'''		'''Shaping San Francisco hosts Public Talks on a variety of topics on Wednesday nights, about 18 times a year. One recurrent theme has been Historical Perspectives, which covers all sorts of topics that delve into our shared and disputed understandings of what shaped our world. Here are the Talks we held at CounterPULSE at 1310 Mission Street in 2010 and 2011, and at 518 Valencia Street in 2012.'''

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	Elaine Elinson and Stan Yogi, authors of <em>Wherever There’s a Fight — How Runaway Slaves, Suffragists, Immigrants, Strikers, and Poets Shaped Civil Liberties in California</em>, (winner of the 2010 Gold Medal in Californiana from the California Book Awards) show historic and contemporary images of places you may have walked by every day, without realizing the civil liberties battles that were fought there. Learn about a bold African-American woman who refused to give up her seat on a streetcar almost a century before Rosa Parks, the Chinese laundry owner who fought discriminatory laws up to the U.S. Supreme Court, and the man who defied President Roosevelt’s incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II.		Elaine Elinson and Stan Yogi, authors of <em>Wherever There’s a Fight — How Runaway Slaves, Suffragists, Immigrants, Strikers, and Poets Shaped Civil Liberties in California</em>, (winner of the 2010 Gold Medal in Californiana from the California Book Awards) show historic and contemporary images of places you may have walked by every day, without realizing the civil liberties battles that were fought there. Learn about a bold African-American woman who refused to give up her seat on a streetcar almost a century before Rosa Parks, the Chinese laundry owner who fought discriminatory laws up to the U.S. Supreme Court, and the man who defied President Roosevelt’s incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II.

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	How can we use history to make a positive intervention in a complex, troubled city that is working hard to build its future? LOST LANDSCAPES OF DETROIT (2010, 70 mins.) presents a diverse and vibrant city from 1917 through 1970 as it grew and changed, showing its residents, their activities and the places they lived and work, many now gone. Avoiding trendy "ruin porn," the show aims to blend nostalgia and provocation. This was first presented at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD) in winter 2010. Like other LOST LANDSCAPES events, much of the source material is silent and the audience is cordially invited to make the soundtrack through questions, comments, identifications, and discussion.		How can we use history to make a positive intervention in a complex, troubled city that is working hard to build its future? LOST LANDSCAPES OF DETROIT (2010, 70 mins.) presents a diverse and vibrant city from 1917 through 1970 as it grew and changed, showing its residents, their activities and the places they lived and work, many now gone. Avoiding trendy "ruin porn," the show aims to blend nostalgia and provocation. This was first presented at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD) in winter 2010. Like other LOST LANDSCAPES events, much of the source material is silent and the audience is cordially invited to make the soundtrack through questions, comments, identifications, and discussion.

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	<font size=4>Prohibition in San Francisco: Then and Now </font size>		<font size=4>Prohibition in San Francisco: Then and Now </font size>

	With Dick Boyd, author of <em>Broadway, North Beach, The Golden Years: A Saloon Keeper's Tales</em> and former owner of Pierre's, a bar in North Beach from 1960-65; Sean Lavon Nash; and Michael Whitson, a marijuana prohibition expert, compare the alcohol Prohibition of the 1920s-30s to the contemporary prohibition on marijuana.		With Dick Boyd, author of <em>Broadway, North Beach, The Golden Years: A Saloon Keeper's Tales</em> and former owner of Pierre's, a bar in North Beach from 1960-65; Sean Lavon Nash; and Michael Whitson, a marijuana prohibition expert, compare the alcohol Prohibition of the 1920s-30s to the contemporary prohibition on marijuana.

	<iframe src="http://www.archive.org/embed/ProhibitionThenAndNow" width="411" height="30" frameborder="0"></iframe>		<iframe src="http://www.archive.org/embed/ProhibitionThenAndNow" width="411" height="30" frameborder="0"></iframe>

	[[category:Labor]] [[category:2010s]] [[category:North Beach]] [[category:Women]] [[category:African-American]] [[category:Dissent]] [[category:Talks]] [[category:1930s]] [[category:Transit]] [[category:Downtown]] [[category:Anti-war]] [[category:Civic Center]] [[category:racism]] [[category:Irish]]		[[category:Labor]] [[category:2010s]] [[category:North Beach]] [[category:Women]] [[category:African-American]] [[category:Dissent]] [[category:Talks]] [[category:1930s]] [[category:Transit]] [[category:Downtown]] [[category:Anti-war]] [[category:Civic Center]] [[category:racism]] [[category:Irish]]

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'''Shaping San Francisco hosts Public Talks on a variety of topics on Wednesday nights, about 18 times a year. One recurrent theme has been Historical Perspectives, which covers all sorts of topics that delve into our shared and disputed understandings of what shaped our world. Here are the Talks we held at CounterPULSE at 1310 Mission Street in 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2009.'''

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<span id="dec12-12"><font size=4>December 12, 2012 </font size></span>

<font size=4>Old City Hall: Corruption & Racism in 19th Century San Francisco</font size>

[http://lymarch.com/videos_here.html Glenn Lym] presents an architectural and political history of the 27-year project of building the original City Hall, a building that fell down in the 1906 earthquake, revealing deeply inadequate and corrupt building practices. Meanwhile, when contruction began in the 1870s, the white working class was raging against capitalism and the Chinese in equal parts, providing the impetus for the 1882 federal Chinese Exclusion Act. [http://www.chriscarlsson.com Chris Carlsson] will join the conversation to connect the social and physical histories.

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<span id="jul17-12"><font size=4>July 17, 2012 </font size></span>

<font size=4>Bristol Radical History Group “History From Below”</font size>

Roger Wilson of the [http://www.brh.org.uk/ Bristol Radical History group] gives a wide-ranging Talk covering 17th and 18th century history around Bristol, England, including a debunking of the common narrative of the anti-slavery movement, putting the working people of England back into the saga. He also gives a fresh look of the mass riots of 1831, and brings the interventions of the Bristol Radical History Group in our era into the unfolding of "history from below." If you want to find out what unites a 17th Century blasphemous preacher and some drunken Can-Can dancers give a listen.

<iframe src="http://archive.org/embed/BristolRadicalHistoryGroup" width="411" height="30" frameborder="0"></iframe>

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<span id="may30-12"><font size=4>May 30, 2012 </font size></span>

<font size=4>FoundSF: Dissent</font size>

Trace the vital history of political dissent in San Francisco with Chris Carlsson, using our FoundSF collection to connect past movements with today's, with a focus on the anti-nuclear and anti-war movements of the 1970s and 1980s through the today's Occupy movement. This will be the final Shaping San Francisco Talk at CounterPULSE, ending our 7th season.

<iframe src="http://archive.org/embed/FoundsfDissent" width="411" height="30" frameborder="0"></iframe>

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<span id="may2-12"><font size=4>May 2, 2012 </font size></span>

<font size=4>Mat Callahan presents the "James Connolly--Songs of Freedom" project</font size>

Musician and author, Mat Callahan, presents the James Connolly-Songs of Freedom project. "Songs of Freedom" is a collection of lyrics edited by Irish revolutionary, James Connolly, and published in New York in 1907. Its rediscovery and revival is a project undertaken by Callahan and a group of Irish, American and Swiss musicians. Tonight's event will include an account of how this project began as well as a performance of some of the songs. Callahan will discuss Connolly's contribution to art and politics with a special emphasis on its relevance to the struggle for freedom today.

<iframe src="http://archive.org/embed/MatCallahanPresentsThejamesConnolly--songsOfFreedomProject" width="411" height="30" frameborder="0"></iframe>

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<span id="apr25-12"><font size=4>April 25, 2012 </font size></span>

<font size=4>Radically Gay: Harry Hay, LGBT pioneer</font size>

Harry Hay was a co-founder of the Mattachine Society, participant in the San Francisco General Strike of 1934, organizer of the first Radical Faerie Gathering. Harry Hay was at the heart of arts, activism, spirituality and sexual identities in the 20th century. Learn about this amazing man and discuss his legacies today. With Will Roscoe, editor of "Radically Gay: Gay Liberation in the Words of its Founder--Harry Hay" (Beacon Press: 1996), and Joey Cain, curator of the new exhibit on Harry Hay at the Main SF Public Library, opening April 26.

<iframe src="http://archive.org/embed/RadicallyGayHarryHayLgbtPioneer" width="411" height="30" frameborder="0"></iframe>

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<span id="jan18-12"><font size=4>January 18, 2012 </font size></span>

<font size=4>The Vietnam War Continues</font size>

<em>Enforcing the Silence</em>, Tony Nguyen’s film about Vietnamese community in the U.S., explores silence and loss in the tragic story of a young community worker who may have been murdered for expressing his political beliefs. Lam Duong founded the Vietnamese Youth Development Center in San Francisco and published a liberal newspaper that reprinted stories from communist Vietnam following the Vietnam War. On July 21, 1981, the 27-year-old was shot dead outside his apartment in broad daylight. Within days of Lam’s murder, news spread that a shadowy, anti-communist group had claimed responsibility, sending a chilling message to Vietnamese refugees everywhere: stay in line with your political views or risk death. Between 1982 and 1990, five more Vietnamese Americans – four of them journalists – were violently killed, many believe for political reasons. Thirty years later, new filmmaker uncovers truths that Vietnamese Americans have never publicly explored. Listen to the discussion following the film.

<iframe src="http://www.archive.org/embed/EnforcingTheSilenceDiscussion" width="411" height="30" frameborder="0"></iframe>

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<span id="dec14-11"><font size=4>December 14, 2011 </font size></span>

<font size=4>Centennial Anniversary! Women Get the Vote!</font size>

2011 marks the 100th anniversary of women winning the right to vote in California, making it the sixth state, or the Sixth Star, to recognize women as political actors. LisaRuth Elliott and Sue Englander tell us about these women, their collective organizing strategies, the nexus between movements, voting, and class issues, the connection to Spiritualism in the United States, and their previous attempt in 1896 to convince voting men to amend the State Constitution.

<iframe src="http://www.archive.org/embed/CentennialAnniversaryWomenGetTheVote" width="411" height="30" frameborder="0"></iframe>

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<span id="nov30-11"><font size=4>November 30, 2011 </font size></span>

<font size=4>The History of the Future</font size>

Megan Prelinger’s book <em>Another Science Fiction</em> takes a whimsical look at how the Space Race was promoted during its heyday 1957-62, offering a pointed look into a twisted type of corporate “utopian” thinking that informed a whole generation. Meanwhile, Starhawk’s <em>The Fifth Sacred Thing</em> and Chris Carlsson’s <em>After The Deluge</em> both present alternative utopian futures for San Francisco a century or more in the future. Join the conversation with these three authors as they ponder utopias and dystopias, imagination and revolution, and the power of social movements and propaganda to shape different futures. (Unfortunately the recording failed between the introduction and near the beginning of the 2nd speaker, Chris Carlsson, so Megan Prelinger's presentation is not in this recording, though she does appear during the Q&A with the audience on several occasions. Our deepest apologies for this technical failure and resultant omission.) <br /></p>

<iframe src="http://www.archive.org/embed/HistoryOfTheFuture" width="411" height="30" frameborder="0"></iframe>

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<span id="oct12-11"><font size=4>October 12, 2011 </font size></span>

<font size=4>Reimagining Market Street</font size>

A discussion with Chris Carlsson and Tom Radulovich about the future of Market Street is taking place in many forums in the City, preparing the way for a new boulevard in 2015. The history of Market Street is peppered with architectural and social solutions that have not worked out as planned. We take a look at the long history of Market Street and San Francisco, the various momentous and controversial redesigns that have happened over the decades, question the assumptions about urban design that underly the current municipal discussions, and set the stage for a discussion of what's coming. Thanks to Rick Prelinger, for providing videos of life on Market Street from the early 20th century to more recent decades.

<iframe src="http://www.archive.org/embed/RevisitingMarketStreet" width="411" height="30" frameborder="0"></iframe>

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<span id="may11-11"><font size=4>May 11, 2011 </font size></span>

<font size=4>A Virtual Civil Liberties Tour of San Francisco</font size>

Elaine Elinson and Stan Yogi, authors of <em>Wherever There’s a Fight — How Runaway Slaves, Suffragists, Immigrants, Strikers, and Poets Shaped Civil Liberties in California</em>, (winner of the 2010 Gold Medal in Californiana from the California Book Awards) show historic and contemporary images of places you may have walked by every day, without realizing the civil liberties battles that were fought there. Learn about a bold African-American woman who refused to give up her seat on a streetcar almost a century before Rosa Parks, the Chinese laundry owner who fought discriminatory laws up to the U.S. Supreme Court, and the man who defied President Roosevelt’s incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II.

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<span id="jan19-11"><font size=4>January 19, 2011 </font size></span>

<font size=4>Before (and After) the Car: San Francisco's Transit History</font size>

Historian Chris Carlsson presents vivid account of how San Franciscans moved around this peninsula through time: walking through the sand, horse-drawn stagecoaches, Clipper ships and shanghaiing, cable cars, ghosts of train routes and former freeways, plus the role of mass bicycle rides in both the 19th and 20th centuries.

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<span id="jan12-11"><font size=4>January 12, 2011 </font size></span>

<font size=4>Rick Prelinger's Lost Landscapes of Detroit</font size>

How can we use history to make a positive intervention in a complex, troubled city that is working hard to build its future? LOST LANDSCAPES OF DETROIT (2010, 70 mins.) presents a diverse and vibrant city from 1917 through 1970 as it grew and changed, showing its residents, their activities and the places they lived and work, many now gone. Avoiding trendy "ruin porn," the show aims to blend nostalgia and provocation. This was first presented at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD) in winter 2010. Like other LOST LANDSCAPES events, much of the source material is silent and the audience is cordially invited to make the soundtrack through questions, comments, identifications, and discussion.

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<span id="jan13-10"><font size=4>January 13, 2010 </font size></span>

<font size=4>Prohibition in San Francisco: Then and Now </font size>

With Dick Boyd, author of <em>Broadway, North Beach, The Golden Years: A Saloon Keeper's Tales</em> and former owner of Pierre's, a bar in North Beach from 1960-65; Sean Lavon Nash; and Michael Whitson, a marijuana prohibition expert, compare the alcohol Prohibition of the 1920s-30s to the contemporary prohibition on marijuana.

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