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nature, and children's books.
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(All events are free unless otherwise noted)
Thursday, June 6, 7pm
with author Karl Beitel
A history of the antigentrification and housing rights movement in San Francisco, Local Protest, Global Movements examines the ability of local urban movements to engage in meaningful contestation with private real estate capital and area governmental leaders in the era of urban neoliberalism.
"Local Protest, Global Movements is a well-written analysis of recent developments in the nation’s most interesting city, offered from a progressive perspective and enhanced by case studies. This book focuses attention on the larger historical/political/global context, state–civil society relations, the role of protest and urban social justice movements, and citizen participation—providing lessons for cities well beyond San Francisco." —Chester Hartman, Director of Research, Poverty & Race Research Action Council, author of City for Sale: The Transformation of San Francisco
Friday, June 7, 7-9 pm
Featuring Michael G. Bauer, Rebecca Blakely, Kristen Gleason and Genine Lentine
(Readings start at 7:30)
LOCATION: The 3rd Floor McRoskey Mattress Factory
1687 Market St @Gough, San Francisco
$5—or free with purchase of the book
Hosted by The McRoskey Mattress Company
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Tuesday, June 18, 7pm
LOCATION: The 3rd Floor McRoskey Mattress Factory
1687 Market St @Gough, San Francisco
In tone and sensibility, this book wonderful book is most akin to her book The Field Guide to Getting Lost.
San Francisco writer Rebecca Solnit is the author of thirteen books about art, landscape, public and collective life, ecology, politics, hope, meandering, reverie, and memory. They include Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas, a book of 22 maps and nearly 30 collaborators; A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster, and many others, including Storming the Gates of Paradise; A Field Guide to Getting Lost; Wanderlust: A History of Walking; and River of Shadows, Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West (for which she received the National Book Critics Circle Award).
She has worked with climate change, Native American land rights, antinuclear, human rights, antiwar and other issues as an activist and journalist. She is a contributing editor to Harper’s and frequent contributor to the political site Tomdispatch.com.
$5 or Free with purchase of the book.
Hosted by the McRoskey Mattress Company
Monday July 15, 7 pm In Conjunction with LaborFest 2013
In 1966, Rebecca Wilson’s father, a Union Leader and civil rights activist, was assassinated on the street in San Francisco. Rebecca— known throughout as “Becky”—was three years old. A House with No Roof is Wilson’s gripping memoir of how the murder of her father propelled her family into a life-long search for solace and understanding.
“With grace and confidence and occasional humor, Wilson reconciles what could have been with what actually was.” — SF Gate
“… a tale of grief and great honesty. The book is touching and plainly-told …” — Thumbnail Book Reviews
" … Sad, funny and remarkably unbitter ...” — Pacific Sun
“…an honest story about the bond of a family, a bond that sticks through tragedy.”
— Sacramento News & Review
“Rebecca Wilson's A House with No Roof is a deeply touching story of spirit, of whatever thrust helps us keep moving forward, and of the sweetness and sorrow of families...I think her story will blow you away.” — Anne Lamott, author of Imperfect Birds
Latest Print Edition is One Dollar.
SF Public Press website
California Northern Magazine is a biannual publication exploring the region's cultures, environments, histories, and identities. It provides a rare California-based forum for exceptional essays, long-form journalism, literature, and photography. $6.95
A mere $18 dollars!
Boycott Grapes silk screen printed and signed by the artist
Unframed $150.00
This poster, which was originally produced in the 1970s, played an important part in the Grape Boycott taking place at the time. It is now part of the permanent collection of the Smithsonian Institute and the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico. This is the first time it has been reproduced since that time.
Cover art by Gent Sturgeon, creator of The Green Arcade's logo.
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