Shaping San Francisco Talks online
Audio Archives: 2006-2010
INDEX

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2012

January 26, 2012: Occupy Everything open disussion

January 18, 2012: "Enforcing the Silence" discussion after the film

2011

December 14, 2011: Centennial Celebration! Women Get the Vote!

November 30, 2011: History of the Future

November 16, 2011: The Good, The Bad, and the Alternatives to Mass Education

November 9, 2011: In Search of San Francisco's Eradicated Landscapes

October 26, 2011: Urban Homesteading

October 12, 2011: Revisiting Market Street

September 28, 2011: The Mystery of Laguna Dolores

September 15, 2011: Endangered Species Campaigning

June 8, 2011: San Bruno Mountain, The Farm, People's Food System, Ecology Emerges ("Ten Years That Shook the City")

May 26, 2011: Lost Murals, Political Posters, Underground Comix
("Ten Years That Shook the City")

May 18, 2011: Los Siete, Sandinistas, Mujeres Muralistas
("Ten Years That Shook the City")

April 27, 2011: The Right to Be Lazy

April 20, 2011: New Ways to Work and Beyond

April 13, 2011: We Called Each Other Comrade--Kerr Publishing and Wisconsin

March 30, 2011: "CultureSheds and Watersheds"

March 23, 2011: Radical Futures of the Book

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

March 9, 2011: Don't Mourn, Balkanize! The Struggles of the Balkans
and Romani in Fact and Fiction

February 23, 2011: Underground Food Politics

February 16, 2011: Vanished Waters--A History of San Francisco's Mission Bay

February 9, 2011: Art & Politics--Eric Drooker, HOWL and More

January 26, 2011: Environmental History of Golden Gate Park

January 19, 2011: Before (and After) the Car:
Shaping San Francisco's Transit History

2010

December 15, 2010: Navigating the Criminal Courts: A Guide for Activists

December 8, 2010: Haiti—Gender and Continuity Amidst Disaster

November 17, 2010: Watersheds Lost and Found:
San Francisco, Guadalajara, Yuba

November 10, 2010: Eco-Politics Strategic Roundtable

October 27, 2010: (The Thrill of Finding) Money: A Staged Reading

October 20, 2010: Hardboiled for Hard Times—Crime in the City

October 13, 2010: Outspoken Authors Speak Out

September 29, 2010: Education Crisis/Radical Responses

September 22, 2010: Art & Politics: Rigo

September 15, 2010: Imprisoned but Unbowed:
Struggles of Incarcerated Women

May 26, 2010: Twin Peaks Bioregional Park

May 19, 2010: History of San Francisco' Carnaval

May 17, 2010: Ecology Emerges #4: Economies of Nature

April 28, 2010: Ecology Emerges #3: Nature in Cities

April 21, 2010: "Ten Years That Shook the City: San Francisco 1968-78"

April 14, 2010: U.S. Social Forum—Detroit, June 2010

March 31, 2010: Ecology Emerges #2: Bay Area as Incubator

March 24, 2010: Science Fiction and the Struggle for Justice

March 17, 2010: Crime in the City—Crime/Noir Writers

March 10, 2010: Socially Engaged Printmaking Today (first 15 mins. lost)

February 24, 2010: Golf Courses, Parks, Natural Areas

February 17, 2010: Art & Politics:
Zachary Kazares, Melinda Cervantes, Jesus Barraza

February 10, 2010: Queer Agenda, Gentrification

January 27, 2010: Urban Forest

January 20, 2010: Art & Politics: Patricia Rodriguez

January 13, 2010: Prohibition--Then and Now

2009

December 9, 2009: Art & Politics--Keith Hennessy, Saliva revisited

November 18, 2009: Philippines, Immigration Politics and the Body

November 11, 2009: Alcatraz: 40th anniversary of Indigenous Occupation

October 21, 2009: Bicycling in San Francisco

October 14, 2009: The Politics of 'Third Space' in Global Videos and Installations

September 30, 2009: Ecology & Redevelopment in Bayview Hunter's Point

September 23, 2009: From India to the Bay Area

September 16, 2009: Art & Politics--Conscious Youth Media Crew

September 9, 2009: Final Tap: An Unofficial History of Beer

May 27, 2009: Art & Politics, Susan Greene

May 20, 2009: Anti-Systemic Knowledge: Learning from the Global South

May 13, 2009: Are Green Jobs Different?
Can Capitalism "Go Green"?

April 29, 2009: Transition City: Permacultural Transformation

April 22, 2009: Global Commons/Global Enclosures

April 15, 2009: Art & Politics, Russell Howze/Stencil Nation

April 8, 2009: Anti-War Then and Now

March 25, 2009: Toxic San Francisco

March 18 09: Art & Politics, Jet Martinez

March 11, 2009: Local Remanufacturing Our Way out of the Depression

February 25, 2009: Bees in the City

Feb. 18, 2009: Art & Politics: Doug Minkler

January 28, 2009: Lake Merced Natural Area

Jan. 14, 2009: Hearing the City: Evolution of Radio

2008

December 17, 2008: Surviving the Economic Meltdown
One Neighborhood at a Time

November 12, 2008: The Indispensable New Deal

October 29, 2008: Candlestick Pt.--State Park for the People

Oct. 22, 2008: Precarious Job? The Cooperative Alternative!

Oct. 8, 2008: Art & Politics: S.F. Print Collective

Sept. 24, 2008: Global Africa: Liberation movements since 1945

Sept. 17, 2008: San Francisco State Strike 1968-69

April 9, 2008: Nowtopia

March 26: Twin Peaks Bioregion

March 19, Art & Politics: Favianna Rodriguez

March 12, Arab San Francisco

Feb. 13, Political and Community Spaces

Jan. 30, GGNRA Big Year (Endangered Species)

Jan. 16, 08 Art & Politics: Andrew Schoultz

Jan. 9, 08 Class and Power in Queer San Francisco

2006-07 

Dec. 12, 07 Save the News!

Nov. 28, 07 Food Security & Urban Agriculture

Nov. 14, 07 Public Commons vs. Corporate Privatization

Oct. 24, 07 New Green City Politics

Oct. 17, 07 Art & Politics: Hugh D'Andrade

Oct. 10, 07 The Trouble With Voting

Sept 26, 07 Wet Infrastructure--Where and How Should
San Francisco Get its Water?

Sept 19, 07 Art & Politics: Mona Caron

April 11, 2007 When the Mission Was Low and Slow

Spring, Fall & Winter Talks events in 2006-07 were broadcast on 90.3 KUSF-FM, Thursdays at 10:30 p.m.

Learnin' & Teachin': The Future of Education
Originally broadcast March 7, 2007
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. With Lisa Schiff (Parents for Public Schools), Will Grant (BLAST), Karen Allen (home schooling advocate), Ken Tray (Lowell High School teacher and Teacher's Union shop steward).

Education Part One

Education Part Two

Education Part Three

Education Part Four

The Green City
Originally recorded February 28, 2007
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. With Peter Berg (Green City Project/Planet Drum Foundation), Peter Brastow (Nature in the City), Bonnie Sherk (A Living Library), and Brian Holland (Bay Localize).

Green City Part One

Green City Part Two

Green City Part Three

San Francisco Land Grabs
Originally recorded February 14, 2007
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. With Chris Carlsson, Erick Lyle (squatter theorist and practitioner), James Tracy (Community Land Trusts).

Land Grabs Part One

Land Grabs Part Two

The Health Epidemic: Therapy Society & Eroding Public Health
Originally recorded January 17, 2007
In the relatively wealthy Bay Area, state-of-the-art hi-tech medicine is inacessible to a growing proportion of the population. 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? With Adrienne Pine (California Nurses Association), Bill Mosca (California Oriental Medical Association), Jason Blantz (public health worker).

Health Epidemic Part One

Health Epidemic Part Two

Health Epidemic Part Three

Can San Francisco Feed Itself?
Originally recorded January, 2007
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? With Chris Carlsson, Raquel Rivera-Pinderhughes (SFSU), Lane Cunningham (foraging expert), Margit Roos-Collins (author), Antonio Alcala (Alemany Urban Farm), Brahm Ahmadi (People's Grocery).

Feed Itself? Part One

Feed Itself? Part Two

Feed Itself? Part Three

Reclaiming Bay Area Military Bases
Originally recorded April 26, 2006
On cleaning up after the military, restoring the former military bases around the San Francisco Bay. With Chris Carlsson, Peter Brastow of Nature in the City, Ruth Gravanis, coordinator of the Treasure Island wetlands project, Arthur Feinstein, chair of the SF Bay Joint Venture, Doug Biggs, community resources director of the Alameda Point Collaborative, and Kat Steele, founder of the Urban Permaculture Guild.

Military Bases Part One

Military Bases Part Two

Black Exodus/Black Eviction
Originally recorded April 12, 2006

The infamous redevelopment process of the 1960s did much to diminish a vibrant African-American community in the old Fillmore. The black population of San Francisco has been falling steadily since 1970. Is today's Bayview-Hunters' Point neighborhood facing another round of racist relocation? Community activists and historians will discuss the past to inform the present and change the future! With host Chris Carlsson, Kevin Epps (featuring excerpts from Straight Outta Hunters Point), Alicia Schwartz (People Organized to Win Employment Rights--POWER), and Espanola Jackson subbing for Willie Ratcliff (publisher, San Francisco Bayview newspaper)

Black Exodus/Black Eviction Part 1 (download mp3 pt 1)

Black Exodus/Black Eviction Part 2 (download mp3 pt 2)

Black Exodus/Black Eviction Part 3 (download mp3 pt 3)

Black Exodus/Black Eviction Part 4 (download mp3 pt 4)

What's Natural About Natural Disasters?
Originally recorded March 29, 2006.
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? With Shaping SF host Chris Carlsson, Tom Athanasiou of Eco-Equity, Sherlina Nager of Literacy for Environmental Justice, Peter Davidson, plus audience Q&A.

Natural Disasters Part One

Natural Disasters Part Two

Natural Disasters Part Three

Natural Disasters Part Four

Infrastructure Wars: Sustainable Movements
Originally recorded March 8, 2006

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. We'll have a look at the historic Burnham Plan and some other ideas for reshaping the city. With Chris Carlsson, Kyle Pedersen, and Calvin Welch.

Infrastructure Wars: Sustainable Movements Part One

Infrastructure Wars: Sustainable Movements Part Two

Infrastructure Wars: Sustainable Movements Part Three

America in the Philippines
February 8, 2006
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. Speakers: Chris Carlsson, Abraham Ignacio, Oscar Peneranda, MC Canlas, Terecita Bautista

Philippines Part One

Philippines Part Two