![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | What's Natural About Natural Disasters? - Shaping San Francisco Talks
Earthquakes, tsunamis, floods, epidemic flu, chronic disease, etc. What are the elements of a community response based on mutual aid, cooperation, and a renewed commitment to a public health infrastructure? Chris Carlsson, the host, and Tom Athanasiou of Eco-Equity, speak in the first of four half hour shows from the Shaping San Francisco "Nature in the City" Talks at CounterPULSE.
Keywords: San Francisco, Nature in the City, ecology, global warming, climate change, carbon reduction, sky is falling
Downloads: 235 |
| Learnin' + Teachin' -- The Future of Education: Part 3 - Shaping San Francisco Talks
Part 3 of the Future of Education talk, featuring audience-led dialogue with Will Grant, Lisa Schiff, Ken Tray, and Karen Allen.
Keywords: San Francisco, public schools, literacy, adult education, parents, homeschooling, religion, textbooks, social interaction
Downloads: 206 |
| Jack Kerouac - Shaping San Francisco
small clip of Kerouac describing San Francisco.
Keywords: Kerouac; beats; San Francisco
Downloads: 202 |
| Black Exodus or Black Eviction? - Shaping San Francisco
A four-part radio series based on the Public Talk at CounterPULSE in April 2006, featuring Kevin Epps, Alicia Schwartz of People Organized to Win Employment Rights (POWER), and Espanola Jackson of Bayview-Hunters Point.
Keywords: gentrification, African-American, San Francisco, redevelopment, Bayview-Hunter's Point
Downloads: 189
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| Infrastructure_Wars - Shaping San Francisco Talks
A 3-part radio program based on a Public Talk at CounterPULSE on March 8, 2006, under the Shaping San Francisco Spring Talks series. A historical look at how San Franciscans have fought for a human-centered city. From saving Telegraph Hill, stopping freeways, and resisting redevelopment, the corporate agenda has been thwarted again and again. Today new movements are again contesting the direction of the city...
Keywords: anti-highrise; freeway revolt; citizens movements; saving Telegraph Hill; redevelopment
Downloads: 159 |
| What's Natural About Natural Disasters? Part 2 - Shaping San Francisco Talks
Continuing from part one, this half hour features Sherlina Nager of Literacy for Environmental Justice, a group from San Francisco's Bayview/Hunter's Point. She speaks to the class divisions that mean so-called "natural" disasters impact different populations in radically different ways. She describes environmental justice as a movement that is led by communities of color against environmental racism, and the goal is to set up sustainable, self-determined and just communities, dating back to 198...
Keywords: San Francisco, cancer epidemic, environmental justice, racism
Downloads: 157 |
| The Green City - Shaping San Francisco Talks
Integrating urban life with local nature, biodiversity, and resources is the challenge of our time. New and veteran activists share visions, strategies, and how they are laying the foundation for a truly Green City. Featuring Peter Berg of Planet Drum Foundation, Bonnie Sherk of A Living Library project, Peter Brastow of Nature in the City.
Keywords: San Francisco, biodiversity, restoration, urban sustainability, regional ecology
Downloads: 143 |
| Can San Francisco Feed Itself? Part 2 - Shaping San Francisco Talks
Continuing part one on the theme of urban agriculture and food security. This episode features Antonio Alcala of Alemany Farm and Brahm Ahmadi of the People's Grocery.
Keywords: San Francisco, urban agriculture, community gardening, weeds, Slow Food, farming, organics, People's Grocery, Alemany Farm
Downloads: 124 |
| Philippines and San Francisco: Part 1 - Shaping San Francisco Talks
From the barely remembered American-Philippine War of 1899-1904 that killed a half million Filipinos, to the Central Valley-driven immigration of Filipino men in the 1910s and 1920s, and from the rise to the ultimate demise of Manilatown, San Francisco has been a vital crossroads for Filipinos, and Filipinos in turn have left important marks in the city. Join the authors of The Forbidden Book and other Filipino-American scholars and activists...
Keywords: San Francisco; Philippines; Mark Twain; Spanish-American War; Philippines-US war
Downloads: 122 |
| Laughing Sal - Shaping San Francisco
The eerie, unforgettable sound of Laughing Sal, fixture at Playland for decades, now at the Musee Mecanique.
Keywords: Laughing Sal; doll; Playland
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| Learnin' + Teachin' -- The Future of Education - Shaping San Francisco Talks
In decaying and resource-starved public schools, teachers and staffers with incredible vision and energy are trying to make education work. But what do we want from education now? Should it be organized around children spending mandatory time in classrooms or should we take a hint from the burgeoning homeschooling movement and look toward other models? Let's challenge our assumptions in this open-ended discussion...
Keywords: San Francisco, public schools, parents, homeschooling, religion, textbooks, social interaction
Downloads: 107 |
| Reclaiming Bay Area Military Bases Part 2 - Shaping San Francisco Talks
From the "Nature in the City" series of Shaping San Francisco Talks at CounterPULSE, this one features speakers on cleaning up after the military, restoring the former military bases around the San Francisco Bay. In part 2 we hear from Arthur Feinstein chair of the SF Bay Joint Venture; Doug Biggs, community resources director of the Alameda Point Collaborative, Kat Steele, founder of the Urban Permaculture Guild.
Keywords: San Francisco, Alameda Naval Air Station, homeless, housing, permaculture, bird refuge
Downloads: 104 |
| Can San Francisco Feed Itself? Part 3 - Shaping San Francisco Talks
continuing the 3-part discussion of "Can San Francisco Feed Itself?" covering questions of urban agriculture, community food security, slow and organic food, and more. This episode features author Margit Roos-Collins ("Flavors of Home"), Lane Cunningham, and some Q&A and discussion with the audience.
Keywords: San Francisco, urban agriculture, community gardening, weeds, Slow Food, farming, organics
Downloads: 95 |
| The Green City: Part 2 - Shaping San Francisco Talks
continuing the conversation, Peter Brastow of Nature in the City, Brian Holland of Bay Localize, and Peter Berg of Planet Drum Foundation, along with Chris Carlsson, host, and the audience.
Keywords: San Francisco, quail, chorus frog, localization, carbon impacts, product redesign
Downloads: 92 |
| Global Commons/Global Enclosures - Shaping San Francisco
A critique of the idea of a global commons, the history and context of the commons under feudalism, demonstrating the boundary between 'commons' and 'commodity'. Also how Via Campesina is using the commons in "food sovereignty" politics âhow seed politics offers a model for international decommodification. Iain Boal and Raj Patel, part of the Shaping San Francisco Talks series at CounterPULSE, recorded April 22, 2009.
Keywords: commons; global; food security; food sovereignty; globalization; anti-globalization
Downloads: 89 |
| A Bicycle Built for Two - Shaping San Francisco
Traditional tune of the late 19th century that accompanied the bicycling boom of that era.
Keywords: Bicycle; 19th century; traditional
Downloads: 85 |
| What's Natural About Natural Disasters? Part 3 - Shaping San Francisco Talks
continuing the conversation about the category of "natural disaster" and how many things taken for granted as normal or natural are actually artifacts of human culture. This episode features Chris Carlsson and Peter Davidson.
Keywords: public health; heroin overdose; natural disaster
Downloads: 84 |
| Land Grabs - Shaping San Francisco Talks
San Francisco's entire history is based on land grabs, within its own borders, and far beyond. Sketching this history to the present, we will also look at counter-efforts to grab land and to create open and cooperative spaces in an ever-more commercially tyrannized society. Chris Carlsson and James Tracy.
Keywords: San Francisco, Pacific Rim, Pribiloff Islands, seals, whales, land grants, Mexican ranchos, squatting, water lots, cemeteries, Mission Bay, redevelopment, Potrero Commons
Downloads: 69 |
| Irish v. Chinese 1877 - Shaping San Francisco
Dramatization of Irish couple arguing over the anti-Chinese agitation in San Francisco in 1877. Original recording by Haight Ashbury Community Radio project, 1980.
Keywords: Irish; Chinese; labor; capitalists; racism
Downloads: 69 |
| Learnin' + Teachin' -- The Future of Education: Part 4 - Shaping San Francisco Talks
Part 4 of the Future of Education talk, featuring audience-led dialogue with Will Grant, Lisa Schiff, Ken Tray, and Karen Allen.
Keywords: San Francisco, public schools, literacy, adult education, parents, homeschooling, religion, textbooks, social interaction
Downloads: 66 |
| Reclaiming Bay Area Military Bases - Shaping San Francisco Talks
From the "Nature in the City" series of Shaping San Francisco Talks at CounterPULSE, this one features speakers on cleaning up after the military, restoring the former military bases around the San Francisco Bay. Chris Carlsson, host, Peter Brastow of Nature in the City, and Ruth Gravanis, coordinator of the Treasure Island wetlands project, Arthur Feinstein chair of the SF Bay Joint Venture.
Keywords: San Francisco, Treasure Island, Alameda Wildlife Preserve, birds, wetlands
Downloads: 66 |
| Philippines and San Francisco: Part 2 - Shaping San Francisco Talks
Part two of the Spring Talk at CounterPULSE on the Philippines and San Francisco. This part features MC Canlas and Estella Habal continuing the discussion of the Philippines-US war and then the long wave of Filipino immigration to San Francisco.
Keywords: San Francisco; Philippines; anti-Chinese racism; Chinese exclusion; anti-Japanese exclusion; Spanish-American War; Philippines-US war
Downloads: 65 |
| Can San Francisco Feed Itself? - Shaping San Francisco Talks
Can urban food production be compatible with urban native habitat conservation and restoration? What are the limits and advantages of systematic effort to grow food within the city? What should our relationship be to local gardening, regional Community-Supported Agriculture, and Slow Food? Five panelists and audience Q&A spread over three half hour radio shows. This show features Chris Carlsson and Raquel Rivera-Pinderhughes.
Keywords: San Francisco, urban agriculture, community gardening, weeds, Slow Food, farming, organics
Downloads: 64 |
| The Health Epidemic: Therapy Society and Eroding Public Health Part 2 - Shaping San Francisco Talks
Continuing the discussion of public health and the health care crisis, starting with Bill Mosca, director of the California State Oriental Medical Association, and followed by Jason Blantz, a mental health worker serving the disabled, indigent and poor on Medi-cal.
Keywords: San Francisco, health, sickness, therapy, medical care, single-payer, CNA, insurance
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| The Health Epidemic: Therapy Society and Eroding Public Health - Shaping San Francisco Talks
In the relatively wealthy Bay Area, state-of-the-art hi-tech medicine sits side by side with an ever-growing phalanx of alternative treatments and philosophies. Meanwhile a growing proportion of the population is denied access to any kind of health care. What should be the response of medical professionals, alternative practitioners and community organizers? What role, if any, do we want the state and business to have in health care provision? Let's pause and rethink some basic assumptions toget...
Keywords: San Francisco, health, sickness, therapy, medical care, single-payer, CNA, insurance
Downloads: 61 |
| Little Boxes Malvina Reynolds - Shaping San Francisco
excerpt from Malvina Reynolds song, composed about the houses lining the slopes of San Bruno Mountain near Daly City and San Francisco.
Keywords: Little boxes; suburbs; housing
Downloads: 60 |
| Land Grabs Part 2 - Shaping San Francisco Talks
continuing the discussion from part 1 on the long, sordid history of Land Grabs in San Francisco, and in this Talk, a refreshing turning of the tables where popular efforts begin grabbing land back for purposes other than private property and commerce, featuring Erick Lyle talking about 949 Market Street squat, the 3rd St corridor, mid-Market redevelopment; James Tracy speaks about Homes Not Jails and the SF Community Land Trust, Chris Carlsson tells about the recent history of art spaces, evict...
Keywords: San Francisco, mid-Market, blight, redevelopment, Homes Not Jails, squatting
Downloads: 57 |
| The Green City: Part 3 - Shaping San Francisco Talks
completing the 3-part series on The Green City, this features audience discussion with the panelists, Peter Brastow, Peter Berg, Brian Holland, and Bonnie Sherk.
Keywords: San Francisco, biodiversity, restoration, urban sustainability, regional ecology
Downloads: 54 |
| The Health Epidemic: Therapy Society and Eroding Public Health: Part 3 - Shaping San Francisco Talks
Continuing the discussion on the crisis in health care with Q&A among the panel and the audience. Chris Carlsson, Bill Mosca, Adrienne Pine, and Jason Blantz
Keywords: San Francisco, health, sickness, therapy, medical care, single-payer, CNA, insurance
Downloads: 54 |
| The Indispensable New Deal - Shaping San Francisco
Local historian, geographer and author Gray Brechin ("Imperial San Francisco") gives an opinionated and sharp tour through the hidden legacy of the New Deal in San Francisco and California. He looks at buildings, murals, and more, with a clear exposition of the different agencies that organized the work: CCC, WPA, PWA, etc. Held at CounterPULSE, Nov. 12, 2008, as part of the ongoing Shaping San Francisco Talks series.
Keywords: New Deal; WPA; Depression; 1930s; San Francisco; CCC; PWA; public works; FDR; Franklin Roosevelt
Downloads: 54 |
| Anti-Systemic Knowledge: Learning from the Global South - Shaping San Francisco
A talk on the coloniality of power and knowledge, transmodernity, border knowledge, indigenous socialism and the socialization of power, solidarity economies, and other contemporary practices, theories and radical political alternatives emerging from the Global South. The panelists will discuss autonomous self-activity in Venezuela, Amazonian social forums, poly-culturality, global indigenous movements, the conditions and politics of knowledge production during the early colonization of the Amer...
Keywords: Indigenous movements; theory; exteriority; mestizo; anti-colonialism; socialism; modernism
Downloads: 53 |
| Transition City: Permacultural Transformation - Shaping San Francisco
Redesigning urban life off the grid. How can urban dwellers begin immediately to move towards self-sufficiency? Weâll have several permaculture practitioners presenting step-by-step recommendations for the next six months, a 1-year and a 3-5 year transitionâ¦K. Ruby (Inst. Of Urban Homesteading), Novella Carpenter (Ghost Town Farm), Kevin Bayuk (SF Permaculture Guild), Laura Allen (Greywater Guerrillas)
Keywords: permaculture; graywater; rain catchment; ecology; urban agriculture; urban livestock; farming; nature in the city
Downloads: 53 |
| South Park - Gretchen Hildebrand
Gretchen Hildebrand reminisces about her experiences in and around South Park during the dotcom bubble and beyond.
Keywords: South Park; SOMA; San Francisco; 1990s; dotcom
Downloads: 50 |
| Food Security & Urban Agriculture - Shaping San Francisco
Our food system is being refashioned by new urban farmers, farmers markets and community-supported agriculture, and importantly, by savvy shoppers who demand local, organic and safe food. Still, food security is tenuous for too many of our neighbors. Amy Franceschini (Victory Gardens, past and present), Willow Rosenthal (City Slicker Farms), Jason Mark (Alemany Farm, and editor of Earth Island Journal)...
Keywords: localize; urban agriculture; food security; organic; fresh; local; gleaning; backyard; victory gardens
Downloads: 49 |
| Water lot speculation - Shaping San Francisco
Haight Ashbury Community Radio dramatization of water lot speculation in early San Francisco.
Keywords: real estate; water lots; speculation
Downloads: 45 |
| Kite Hill - Elizabeth Creely
Elizabeth Creely describes the semi-magical spot known as Kite Hill, with its amazing views, its surprising surroundings, and its role in San Francisco.
Keywords: Kite Hill; hills; San Francisco
Downloads: 42 |
| Buchla sound - Shaping San Francisco
buchla box sound
Keywords: electronic music; buchla box; buchla
Downloads: 37 |
| Anti-War Then and Now - Shaping San Francisco
Weâll take a look back at military resistance to the Vietnam War, including the mutiny of sailors on the Coral Sea, the anti-nuclear and anti-Central American War movements of the 1980s and hear from Iraq vets about the state of anti-war activities in the current conflict. David Solnit, Paul Cox and Sarah Lazare.
Keywords: Anti-war; Vietnam; Iraq; veterans; organizing; El Salvador; Nicaragua; resistance; GIs
Downloads: 35 |
| Learnin' + Teachin' -- The Future of Education: Part 2 - Shaping San Francisco Talks
Part two of the program on the future of education, featuring Will Grant, co-founder of statewide network in New Mexico of local leadership groups to transform education from K-12. He is followed by Ken Tray, high school teacher at Lowell High in San Francisco, and director of political education for United Educators of SF, the teachers' union.
Keywords: San Francisco, public schools, literacy, adult education, parents, homeschooling, religion, textbooks, social interaction
Downloads: 34 |
| 40th Anniversary: San Francisco State Strike 1968-69 - Shaping San Francisco
The student/faculty strike at S.F. State College in 1968-69 was a seminal event, ushering in ethnic studies in higher education, contributing energy and activists to dozens of San Francisco political movements and much more. Learn about it from original participants: Roger Alvarado, Margaret Leahy, John Levin.
Keywords: Student strike; faculty strike; police violence; Ronald Reagan; S.I. Hayakawa; Black Student Union; Third World Alliance; ethnic studies
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| Global Africa: Liberation Movements Since 1945 - Shaping San Francisco
A discussion of African liberation movements and decolonialization from 1945 to the present, of political problems of the post-independence periodâcoups, civil wars, struggles against oppressive regimes, economic problems of post-independence, of cultural renaissance, and of links to movements in diaspora. Immanuel Wallerstein, Walter Turner and Will Grant. Recorded Sept. 24, 2008 at CounterPULSE, part of the ongoing Shaping San Francisco Talks series.
Keywords: Africa; colonialism; decolonization; South Africa; Kenya; Nigeria; Zimbabwe; Congo; independence; coups; civil wars
Downloads: 32 |
| Lyon Steps - Jaffe and Klein
A different look at the Lyon Steps.
Keywords: Steps; skateboards; bikers; punks
Downloads: 31 |
| Burnette Haskell - Shaping San Francisco
Recording of notes scribbled in margins of Haskell's notebooks in 1880s.
Keywords: Haskell; real estate; Hall of Records; radicals
Downloads: 30 |
| Employers Association - Shaping San Francisco
Haight Ashbury Community Radio Project dramatizes the sensibilities of the turn of the 19th-to-20th century Employers' Association, an organization bent on destroying labor unions.
Keywords: Employers Association; class war; 19th century
Downloads: 30 |
| End of the World's Fair audio - Shaping San Francisco
satirical advertisement for the May 12, 1984 End of the World's Fair held in San Francisco.
Keywords: satire; Reagan; subversive culture; humor
Downloads: 27 |
| Le Tank Solaire - Shaping San Francisco
Satirical radio advertisement for "Le Tank Solaire", the solar-powered defense strategy for the 1970s and 1980s, prepared by members of the Union of Concerned Commies.
Keywords: tank; solar; Chrys-is-ler Corp; satire
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| Denis Kearny - Shaping San Francisco
Dramatized rendition of speech by Denis Kearny in 1877, denouncing Chinese workers and capitalists in equal parts. Recorded by Haight Ashbury Community Radio Project, 1980.
Keywords: Denis Kearny; Workingmen's Party; 1877; riots; racism
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| Bicycling in San Francisco - Shaping San Francisco
A Shaping San Francisco Talk held at CounterPULSE, 1310 Mission at 9th in San Francisco on Wed. Oct. 21, 7:30pm 17 years of Critical Mass and 10,000 members of the Bike Coalition? what's right, what's not with the way bicycling and bicycling politics is developing at the end of the first decade of the 21st century? A broad discussion of bicycle etiquette, transportation and urban design, equipment and safety (good engineering vs...
Keywords: bicycling; bicycles; San Francisco Bicycle Coalition; bike boulevards; Critical Mass; red lights; helmets; courtesy; road rage; street design
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| Infrastructure Wars: Sustainable Movements - Shaping San Francisco Talks
An historical look at how San Franciscans have fought for a human-centered city. From saving Telegraph Hill, stopping freeways, and resisting development, the corporate agenda has been thwarted again and again. Today new movements are again contesting the direction of the city. Chris Carlsson, host, and Calvin Welch, housing activist, in this episode.
Keywords: San Francisco, landfill, sand dunes, creeks, wetlands, freeway revolt, earthquakes, housing, high-rise revolt
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| Art & Politics: Mona Caron - Shaping San Francisco
Inaugurating a new âthird Wednesdaysâ series at CounterPULSE, Mona Caron will present a slide show of her famous murals and many other works, talking about the politics of her art, and her ideas about the relationship of art and politics.
Keywords: murals; art; politics; painting; Switzerland; Intragna; Mona Caron
Downloads: 21 |
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