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Saturday, July 5, 12-4 pm
"Bloody Thursday" Labor History
Bike Tour
Chris Carlsson hosts an excursion through San Francisco's labor history from a distinctly contrarian point of view. Labor and ecology intertwine to shape the world we've wrought. Find out the tangled tales of racist unions, mechanization battles, rank and file revolts, the 1934 General Strike, and much much more. Part of LaborFest.
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Sunday, July 20, 6-8:30 pm
"City Front" Bay History Cruise
Boat Tour
Chris Carlsson hosts an excursion through San Francisco’s eastern shoreline from Telegraph Hill to south of Candlestick Point. We provide close looks at Candlestick Point State Recreation Area, Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, India Basin and Heron’s Head Park, Islais Creek and Pier 80, Pier 70, and Mission Bay, the old City Front along the Embarcadero, the Bay Bridge, Ferry Building area from Pier 1 through Piers 7, 15, and 23.
Get tickets from Fish Emeryville. $75 per person. BYOB.
Explore Shaping San Francisco:
Ecology Emerges
Discussions and reflections on the history of Bay Area ecological activism, based on oral histories documenting the past 50 years.
Ecology Emerges is an oral history gathering project to explore the past 50 years of ecological activism in the Bay Area and the role that individual and institutional memories play in the development, policy proposals, and interrelationships that together make up the existing networks of ecological politics. We document the living ecological activist movement, in their own words, but also in a larger context of urban growth and globalization.
Oral Histories
Shaping San Francisco, as part of our ongoing work, sits down with people who have stories to tell and conducts oral history interviews.
Check them out here.
"Editor's Pick Tour" from FoundSF.org
Comprised of over 1,400 pages, and 2,500 historical photos, the wiki-based archive FoundSF.org is the product of hundreds of contributors, regular people who were compelled by the chance to investigate some piece of this City's past.
Shaping San Francisco is fiscally sponsored by Independent Arts & Media, a California non-profit corporation.