...es: Art & Politics, Ecology, Historical Perspectives, Literary, and Social Movements.''' ...tions. We go through quite a bit of history of industry and related labor, global influences, and transportation. Hosted by Chris Carlsson and LisaRuth Ellio

...ought together activists and the interested to discuss contemporary Social Movements. Here are the Talks we held at CounterPULSE at 1310 Mission Street in 2006, ...nt, and the effects that these participatory organizations have had on the local economy.

...ought together activists and the interested to discuss contemporary Social Movements. Here are the Talks we held at CounterPULSE at 1310 Mission Street in 2009, ...er of BLAST; and Lynn Murphy, program officer for the Hewlett Foundation's Global Development and Population Program — who have successfully co-created pro

...ulted in the arrest of almost 2,000, the most arrested at any anti-nuclear protest in the United States. The organizers deemed the demonstration a success aft ...es on the blockade—the Cal Poly faculty and staff, the ordinary folks, the local residents who kept bringing food supplies to the camp.

...e pride in the Allende government as a democratic victory of the Left in a global political climate in which the Right was gaining traction and crushing the ...ngaged with existent political organizations to support their livelihoods, protest the military dictatorship, and support the resistance movement within Chile

...he Richmond Progressive Alliance soundly defeated the candidates backed by local political broker Chevron, despite the oil giant outspending the other candi ...tice movement, and the lessons it brings to the environmental movement and movements for justice more broadly.

...m boom in the late 1990s. MAC quickly learned the importance of zoning and local government’s land use powers as a potential terrain of engagement in seek ...ing no particular organizational affiliation. Community forums held at the local performing and visual arts venue Cellspace in 1999 were attended by upwards

...P to craft additional proposals to address retention of community-oriented local businesses and social services, as well as the development of affordable ho ...include a local servicing component to give preferential consideration to local, community-oriented nonprofits; locally owned small businesses; and cultura

''Local Protest, Global Movements'' by Karl Beitel

...ganization's meeting. Hundreds of San Franciscans headed north to join the protest, and this is one account, written a couple of months after the historic shu Showdown in Seattle, the WTO, the Protest of the Century. Well, it's been more than a month since the exciting events

...ion also explains why the APSP focus on tactics of street mobilization and protest. ...resses since 1981 that determine national decisions and strategies. On the local level, the party also hosts assemblies with non-party members.

...hting Back," ACT UP/San Francisco's contribution to a national day of AIDS protest. The organization was then in its heyday as a serious advocacy group. I joi ...for action and drew attention to the policy failures of federal, state and local governments. Demonstrators then wrapped the blocky columns at the entrance

...r nonsense. Fear of police violence and imprisonment in response to public protest plays a crucial role in strengthening the popularity of electoral politics. ...orrupt and reformist that positive change only occurs when confrontational movements raise social costs so high that it becomes smarter (and cheaper!) to change

[[Image:Cc-and-halloul-at-fernando-eviction-protest 20190531 113713.jpg]] '''At the anti-eviction protest, May 31, 2019, on Howard Street in San Francisco.'''

...that hints at the horizontalist egalitarian politics of Bay Area political movements, too. ...950. As the NCAA rose to prominence, Bay Area fans were primed for another local team to make a national splash. When the USF Dons became a national power i

'''Punks rock out in front of the Moscone Convention Center during protest concert at the [[THE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION COMES TO TOWN|1984 Democratic Na ...ed by the leather-jacketed boys from the East" (Erickson, 1985, p.11). The local detonator was a cabaret act performed by "Mary Monday and her Britches" at

...have the organizing efforts of dedicated radicals and the peculiarities of local political structures. But these visible parts of civic resistance need root ...eg the question of the origins of urban protest by reference to grassroots movements and to reject any class analysis of such upheavals. Others refer vaguely to

...of the most virulent “Clean up Market Street” campaigns in recent memory. Local newspaper publisher, Ted Fang, had just purchased the nearly moribund after ...of Fang’s property in the area. But Fang’s Examiner made enough noise that local TV and even the Chronicle started to pick up the drumbeat.

Few remember now that Greenpeace was founded in 1970 in Vancouver, Canada to protest the US government’s testing of nuclear weapons in the Aleutian Islands of ...organic or commercial. It’s important for people to be connected to their local agriculture.”(14)

...ulture that was to proliferate in many directions: the antiwar and ecology movements, the fight against censorship, the pursuit of gay, lesbian, minority, and w ...m Everson, whose Untide Press published Kenneth Patchen’s poetry of social protest. Between 1946 and 1952, Rexroth held Friday evening soirées at his home at