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Herb Mills Solidarity And Morality

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 06:37:17 GMT

Herb Mills, retired Secretary-Treasurer of ILWU Local 10, describes here the solidarity among longshoremen on the job which gives rise to moral actors, reinforcing an ethical system of mutual respect and mutual aid that was the underpinning of the longshore union during its heyday from the 1930s to ....

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The Farm (documentary)

Sun, 24 Mar 2013 07:41:58 GMT

A 47-minute documentary about San Francisco's "The Farm," which was a remarkable urban laboratory and creative space, in addition to being a farm with animals, vegetables, fruit trees, farmers, circus performers, discussions, performance, punk rock shows, and much much more......

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Herb Mills The Old Days

Wed, 20 Mar 2013 05:42:49 GMT

Retired Secretary-Treasurer Herb Mills (ILWU Local 10) talks about the "old days" on the waterfront, both from the point of view of the longshoremen who came out of the notorious "shape-up"of the 1920s and found dignity and respect and good wages via the union, but also the scene along the waterfron....

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Herb Mills A Highly Skilled Job

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 04:50:50 GMT

Retired Secretary-Treasure of ILWU Local 10 Herb Mills gives an entertaining and eloquent description of the labor process of longshoring pre-containerization, detailing how the solidarity and moral cohesion of the men was created through their shared labor in the holds of ships and on docks along S....

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Harry Hay on Language and Labels in the 1930s

Sun, 22 Jul 2012 06:12:33 GMT

Another clip from the 1996 video interview with Mattachine Society founder Harry Hay in which he describes the absence of language to describes gays in the 1930s. The word "homosexual" wasn't even in the dictionary until about 1939, so he recounts how men in the community back then would refer to ea....

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Harry Hay on 19th century Remittance Men

Sun, 22 Jul 2012 05:32:25 GMT

A short clip from a longer 1996 interview with Mattachine Society founder Harry Hay in which he describes the common 19th century phenomenon of "Remittance Men." They were the outcast, typically gay, children of well-off families who were sent "as far away as possible," i.e....

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Susan Swift on antinuclear politics and organized labor

Wed, 30 May 2012 22:25:31 GMT

Excerpted from the Ecology Emerges interview with Susan Swift. She is a former Abalone Alliance staffer who grew disaffected and resigned a year after the big Diablo Canyon direct action campaign, in part due to the inability of the Abalone Alliance to make alliances with organized labor,or to even ....

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Susan Swift on Antinuclear politics,organized labor, and tactics

Wed, 30 May 2012 07:54:38 GMT

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Harry Hay 1996 interview

Sun, 22 Apr 2012 19:36:15 GMT

Founder of the Mattachine Society, long-time gay rights pioneer and activist Harry Hay sits down for an hour and a half rumination on politics and history, covering stories from the 1920s to the 1980s..

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Ecology Emerges: Linda Weiner2

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 03:25:24 GMT

Part of Shaping San Francisco's "Ecology Emerges" series of interviews, in this one Linda Weiner describes her involvement with the northern California chapter of the Sierra Club, her work on global climate change and environmental justice, including some reflection on her own trajectory from social....

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Ecology Emerges: Linda Weiner

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 03:08:28 GMT

Linda Weiner became active with the local Executive Committee of the Sierra Club in the Bay Area over a decade ago, focusing on climate change and other issues, after a long career in social services..

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Ecology Emerges: Susan Swift

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 10:00:49 GMT

Susan Swift was involved in the Abalone Alliance anti-nuclear efforts of the late 1970s and early 1980s. She was one of the only paid staffers during the lead-up to the big blockade and occupation of the PG&E Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant....

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Americana Game SF State 1968

Sun, 04 Sep 2011 00:18:32 GMT

Former SDS activist Bruce Hartford describes how the local chapter at San Francisco State College created a game called "Americana" on the commons prior to the big strike in 1968. A Shaping San Francisco interview conducted by LisaRuth Elliott and shot by Chris Carlsson in June 2011..

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Fleet Week 2011

Fri, 24 Jun 2011 19:53:14 GMT

A medley of images from Fleet Week in San Francisco by Matthew Chong.

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Ecology Emerges: Lenny Siegel

Sun, 15 May 2011 19:19:37 GMT

Another interview in the series of Ecology Emerges inquiries, this one with Lenny Siegel long-time activist in the South Bay, director of the Pacific Studies Center, anti-war and anti-nuke activist, fighter against toxic waste, and much more....

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Ecology Emerges: Nikki Henderson

Wed, 20 Apr 2011 18:56:57 GMT

Nikki Henderson, executive director of People's Grocery in Oakland, sits down to add her story to our Ecology Emerges series of interviews, tracking the arc of ecological activism from the early conservation movement to the environmentalism of the late 1960s and early 1970s, through the radicalizing....

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Jerry Mander on The Committee and Lenny Bruce

Wed, 20 Apr 2011 05:08:03 GMT

Jerry Mander describes being an advertising guy in the mid-1960s,hired to help promote the legendary comedic truope The Committee. While working in North Beach Mander rented a small apartment above City Lights Books and tells how he saw Lenny Bruce fall out of a window across the street..

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Recycling Histories

Mon, 11 Apr 2011 05:43:52 GMT

Ruth Gravanis, longtime San Francisco ecological activist and former board member of San Francisco Tomorrow and Mission Creek Conservancy, along with Karen Pickett, original member of the Berkeley Ecology Center's recycling program, as well as a longtime participant in Earth First! and forest preser....

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Saul Bloom on nukes the USS Missouri

Fri, 08 Apr 2011 22:15:22 GMT

Saul Bloom of ARC/Ecology in San Francisco describes his history as a Greenpeace staffer and early involvement in anti-nuke politics, with a focus on the campaign to stop the homeporting of the USS Missouri in San Francisco in the 1980s....

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The Sale of Alcatraz That Was Rescinded

Fri, 08 Apr 2011 08:35:38 GMT

Alvin Duskin and Jerry Mander describe the amazing story of Lamar Hunt's attempt to purchase Alcatraz from San Francisco in the late 1960s, and how they stopped it..

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Ecology Emerges: Oscar Grande

Fri, 08 Apr 2011 01:00:24 GMT

Oscar Grande is an organizer with PODER in San Francisco's Mission District, an organization dedicated to environmental and social justice..

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Movement, Generation, and Moments of Excess, March 16, 2011

Mon, 21 Mar 2011 23:11:46 GMT

"The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make." - William Morris With the apparent end of one era and the dawning of a new â and unknown one â we thus turn our attention to the question of inheritance and new generations....

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Struggles of the Balkans and Romani in Fact and Fiction

Sat, 12 Mar 2011 21:37:44 GMT

Not only have the Balkans been obliterated by NATO 'humanitarian intervention', eviscerated by imposed neoliberal economic restructuring, and their peoples, particularly the Roma gypsy flung to the corners of the earth, but they've suffered the indignities of centuries of lies, caricature, distortio....

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Ecology Emerges: Saul Bloom

Wed, 26 Jan 2011 12:47:47 GMT

Saul Bloom is the director of ARC/Ecology in San Francisco where he has been deeply involved in local military base decommissioning, ecological and economic agitation, and working for environmental and social justice....

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Ecology Emerges: John Knox

Wed, 26 Jan 2011 12:13:31 GMT

One of the interviews under the Shaping San Francisco "Ecology Emerges" oral history collection, tracing the arc from conservation to environmental justice, 1960s to the present. John Knox is the executive director of the Earth Island Institute, the third environmental organization founded by David ....

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Ecology Emerges: Peter Berg

Wed, 26 Jan 2011 12:02:21 GMT

Peter Berg was one of the original San Francisco Diggers and went on to co-found the Planet Drum Foundation. He was at the first UN Conference on the Environment in Stockholm Sweden in 1972, was one of the originators of Bioregionalism, and has been at the heart of many ecological battles, including....

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Ecology Emerges: Kirsten Schwind

Sun, 23 Jan 2011 20:56:26 GMT

Part of the "Ecology Emerges" oral history interviews covering the last 50 years history of Bay Area ecological activism, from conservation to environmental justice. Kirsten Schwind is a director of Bay Localize, a project spanning a number of ecological intiatives in planning, transportation, commu....

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Ecology Emerges: Sylvia McLaughlin

Sun, 23 Jan 2011 20:35:32 GMT

An interview with one of the cofounders of Save The Bay in the early 1960s, Sylvia McLaughlin. This is part of Shaping San Francisco's oral history project "Ecology Emerges," covering the arc of environmental activism in the Bay Area from conservation through ecology to environmental and social just....

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Ecology Emerges: Karen Pickett

Sun, 23 Jan 2011 09:58:50 GMT

Part of the "Ecology Emerges" oral history interviews covering the last 50 years history of Bay Area ecological activism, from conservation to environmental justice. Karen Pickett was an early participant in the Berkeley Ecology Center, worked on its early recycling effort, later set one up at Merri....

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Ecology Emerges: Carole Schemmerling

Sun, 23 Jan 2011 06:44:58 GMT

An interview with Carole Schemmerling, cofounder of the East Bay Urban Creeks Council. The interview was in Berkeley at her home, part of the "Ecology Emerges" collection of oral histories, investigating the arc of conservation to environmentalism to ecology, environmental justice and finally, socia....

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Ecology Emerges: Juliet Ellis

Sun, 23 Jan 2011 03:36:00 GMT

One of the interviews done as part of the "Ecology Emeregs oral history project in 2009-2010 by Shaping San Francisco. Juliet Ellis is the executive director of Urban Habitat in Oakland and here tells how she got involved originally with Carl Anthony and eventually took on the leadership, orienting ....

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Ecology Emerges: Julia May

Sat, 22 Jan 2011 22:58:03 GMT

An interview under the "Ecology Emerges" project of oral histories on the arc of environmentalism, ecology, environmental and social justice, running from the 1950s to the 2000s. Julia May is a longtime staffer at Communities for a Better Environment, involved with water pollution, oil industry poli....

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Ecology Emerges: Bill Evers

Sat, 22 Jan 2011 21:58:02 GMT

An interview under the "Ecology Emerges" project of oral histories on the arc of environmentalism, ecology, environmental and social justice, running from the 1950s to the 2000s. Bill Evers was a founder of the California Planning & Conservation League, a member of the Bay Conservation and Developme....

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Ecology Emerges: Tom Turner

Sat, 22 Jan 2011 20:29:33 GMT

An interview under the "Ecology Emerges" project of oral histories on the arc of environmentalism, ecology, environmental and social justice, running from the 1950s to the 2000s. Tom was there at the founding of Friends of the Earth, working closely with David Brower, and edited the FoE journal "Not....

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Ecology Emerges: Sam Schuchat

Sat, 22 Jan 2011 10:36:04 GMT

An interview under the "Ecology Emerges" project of oral histories on the arc of environmentalism, ecology, environmental and social justice, running from the 1950s to the 2000s. Sam Schuchat is the executive director of the California Coastal Commission and has been something of an "undeveloper" as....

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Ecology Emerges: Ruth Gravanis

Sat, 22 Jan 2011 07:29:20 GMT

An interview under the "Ecology Emerges" project of oral histories on the arc of environmentalism, ecology, environmental and social justice, running from the 1950s to the 2000s. Ruth Gravanis has been long involevd in water and waste politics, especially at Mission Bay and Treasure Island, as well ....

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Ecology Emerges: Miya Yoshitani

Sat, 22 Jan 2011 03:20:38 GMT

An interview under the "Ecology Emerges" project of oral histories on the arc of environmentalism, ecology, environmental and social justice, running from the 1950s to the 2000s. Miya Yoshitani works with the Asian Pacific Environmental Network (APEN) for whom she has worked in Australia and the Eas....

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Ecology Emerges: Larry Orman

Sat, 22 Jan 2011 01:21:16 GMT

An interview under the "Ecology Emerges" project of oral histories on the arc of environmentalism, ecology, environmental and social justice, running from the 1950s to the 2000s. Larry Orman, longtime director of the Greenbelt Alliance, now involved with GreenInfo.net, and a deep thinker on question....

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Ecology Emerges: Antonio Roman-Alcala

Fri, 21 Jan 2011 22:31:04 GMT

An interview under the "Ecology Emerges" project of oral histories on the arc of environmentalism, ecology, environmental and social justice, running from the 1950s to the 2000s. Antonio Roman-Alcala has been deeply involved in San Francisco permaculture projects over the past decade, notably includ....

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Ecology Emerges: Alvin Duskin

Fri, 21 Jan 2011 21:10:43 GMT

An interview under the "Ecology Emerges" project of oral histories on the arc of environmentalism, ecology, environmental and social justice, running from the 1950s to the 2000s. Alvin Duskin was a hero in San Francisco's anti-highrise movement of the early 1970s, helped direct and finance the anti-....

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Ecology Emerges: Judy Goldhaft

Fri, 21 Jan 2011 06:40:50 GMT

Judy Goldhaft is a cofounder of Planet Drum Foundation in San Francisco, and was previously one of the band of radicals known as the San Francisco Diggers. She also helped start the Frisco Bay Mussel Group in the late 1970s and has been in the middle of the emeregnce of bioregionalism....

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Ecology Emerges: Jerry Mander

Thu, 20 Jan 2011 18:10:33 GMT

Jerry Mander, an advertising guy in the 1960s who collaborated with David Brower's early Sierra Club campaigns against damming the Grand Canyon and many others, went on to write "Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television", "In the Absence of the Sacred" and was a cofounder of the Internationa....

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Ecology Emerges: Jason Mark

Tue, 18 Jan 2011 01:02:24 GMT

Jason Mark, editor of Earth Island Journal and an active farmer at the Alemany Farm in San Francisco, interviewed as part of the Shaping San Francisco "Ecology Emerges" oral history project. The project documents participants in the ecology movement in the San Francisco Bay over the past 50 years..

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Ecology Emerges: Doris Sloan

Sun, 16 Jan 2011 06:26:38 GMT

Doris Sloan, professor emeritus UC Berkeley in Geology, long-time Bay Area resident, once involved in the effort to stop the Bodega Bay Nuclear Plant, founder of the environmental studies program at UC Berkeley, interviewed as part of the Shaping San Francisco "Ecology Emerges" oral history project....

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Ferries Ply the Bay

Thu, 13 Jan 2011 17:09:24 GMT

From the PRelinger Archive's silent footage of San Francisco in the 1920s, this is an edited excerpt featuring the ferries and Ferry Building.

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Streetcars and Belt Line Railroad

Thu, 13 Jan 2011 08:24:17 GMT

Silent footage from the Prelinger Archive of streetcars and the Belt Line railroad in San Francisco in the 1920s..

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Chinatown Telephone Operators and other scenes c 1920s

Tue, 11 Jan 2011 06:10:11 GMT

Silent footage from the Prelinger Archive, edited to focus on Chinatown, with a few seconds of Chinatown Telephone operators working their switchboards..

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Powell Street scenes c 1920s

Tue, 11 Jan 2011 05:51:22 GMT

edited from silent footage from the Prelinger Archive to collect the images of Powell Street cable car turnaround and some shots going up and down Powell too..

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Pacific Trade and Longshoring work c 1920s

Tue, 11 Jan 2011 01:36:37 GMT

silent footage from the Prelinger Archive, edited to focus on the parts about Pacific Trade and the footage of longshoring, probably from the 1920s..

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Ecology Emerges: Monica Moore

Tue, 21 Sep 2010 19:37:09 GMT

Part of the Ecology Emerges oral history collection project by Shaping San Francisco, this is part one of the interview with Monica Moore, co-founder of the Pesticide Action Network..

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