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INTELLIGENCE
NIGHT OF
BART TO THE FuTuRE
THE LIVING SF
BART was recently fined beaucoup
The venue for Craig Baldwin’s long-run- buckos for lax safety measures that
ning experimental film series Other led to the deaths of two workers. But
Cinema is Artists’ Television Access in good news, the train we all rely on to
— still holding on despite the rising tide see our pals across the Bay is getting
of upscale consumption ‘round 21st a brand new fleet starting in 2015,
Street and Valencia. So it’s appropriate featuring cockpit touch screens,
that Sat/26’s program “Contested bike racks, safer seats and roomier
San Francisco” bites into the charged accommodations. One caveat: the
atmosphere of ATA’s surrounding neigh- shiny new cars apparently are worse
borhood. Guest emcee Leslie Dreyer for wheelchairs than the trains we
will live-narrate Google bus protest have now. Life sized models of the new
videos by Heart of the City Collective, cars are touring the Bay Area until May
and will discuss the group’s strategy 9. Check out www.bart.gov to find out
alongside advocates for the SF Tenants where you can see them for yourself.
Union (who’ll benefit from door and bar
proceeds). Other Cinema will also show-
case “the particular psycho-geographic
SISTER
reasons why we live here in the first
place,” with works by SF luminary Sam JOY
Green and others. Plus: a Google bus
dart board! www.othercinema.com SNAPSHOT: EARTH DAY
A huge and color-
ful congregation
of celebrants phOtO BY @SANFRANCISlO
joined the Sisters Tag your Instagram photos #sfbgsnapshot for a chance to be featured
of Perpetual here in next week’s paper. Each week we’ll pick a new theme, and a new
Indulgence in favorite. Next week’s photo challenge theme: “wheel.”
Golden Gate Park
on Sunday for LESS FIDO mESS DOCumENTING SF
the 35th annual
JOYSTICKS FOR ALL easter with Professional pooper-scooper Sat/26, hundreds of filmmakers,
the Sisters. company Doody Calls has launched nonprofit organizations, and inspired
Out of the closet and into arcades! New Yes, there were a contest to award Northern citizens will take to the streets with
documentary Gaming in Color, featur- hunky Jesuses, California parks and public spaces cameras in hand to participate in One
ing a bevy of Bay Area gaymers, calls funny bunnies, 250,000 free “doggie bags” for Day In San Francisco. The collective
for the video game industry to get loud and even foxy owners to clean up after their pets. adventure in media creation aims to
and proud — and notes there are few Marys aplenty, Titling it the Doody Free water capture the city’s infinite dimensions,
LGBT characters, if any, in mainstream basking in the project, the company wants to as filmmakers seek answers to 10
video games. “Visibility is a way that an 4/20 sunshine. build a movement to help keep questions about San Francisco’s
industry says we recognize you exist... guardian photo contaminating waste out of run-off future. The resulting media will be
by amanda
this is about reflecting our society and water. E. Coli no more! Vote for showcased in an interactive, geo-
rhoades
connecting with our stories.” your favorite doggie space at www. tagged archive, and featured as part of
gamingincolor.vhx.tv doodyfreewater.org/california. a television series on the future of the
American city. www.onedayinsf.org
STRANGE YEE
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APOLOGIA
lIVe 105’s annual festival at the Shoreline is almost of drinking age! NOT GuILTY
In his Easter Sunday column in the San Which is a good thing, because it’s been soaked in cheap beer for
Francisco Chronicle, “Let’s everybody about as long as we can remember (ahem, the Green Day/Blink 182/ PG&E faced a federal judge Monday,
calm down about the Leland Yee Prodigy/Deftones class of ’98). This year’s headliners for the June 1 Apr. 21, as the utility company stared
ruckus,” willie Brown was strangely show include Foster the People, down 12 felony violations of federal
dismissive of the political corruption M.I.A., and Fitz and the safety laws relating to the 2010 San
case against our alleged gun-running Tantrums, with home- Bruno pipeline explosion, which
state senator. “It was allegedly just town faves Waters, killed eight people, injured dozens,
Yee thinking he could hustle some French Cassettes, and destroyed homes. The Associated
money, that he was ripping off some- Everyone Is Dirty, Press reported that families of the sur-
one who was not very smart. Instead it The Hundred Days, vivors were in court watching as PG&E
THE wHEEL DEAL
was an FBI agent,” Brown wrote. Not and others taking entered a not guilty plea.
only does this say a great deal about over the locals’
Brown’s political integrity, his call to go stage — which has Lest it seemed like all of San Francisco was getting baked in Golden Gate
easy on Yee might be about self-pres- historically been Park on Sunday: Potrero Hill was also pretty jumpin’, or, um, rollin’, as it FOLLOw uS FOR
ervation. The political consultant a springboard were. The neighborhood’s annual Bring Your Own Big wheel race once mORE INTELLIGENCE
indicted with Yee, Keith Jackson, was to bigger and again saw a few hundred fully grown, ostensibly rational adults gathering
working for Lennar Urban on its mas- better things. at the slope of 20th and Vermont streets to careen into each other on light- @sfbg
sive Bayview-Hunters Point redevel- Remember, weight plastic tricycles designed for small children (as well as an assortment San Francisco
opment project. Brown has also been kids: of makeshift, homemade go-karts), while onlookers snapped photos and Bay Guardian
intimately involved in that deal — and Sunblock, videos and let out whoops of encouragement. The event has no real purpose, @sfbayguardian
may be worried about what defendants water, repeat. nor corporate affiliations, and organizers don’t advertise because they don’t
under pressure might start saying. want it to get too big. In short: Our kinda springtime ritual. www.sfbg.com
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How mucH of a proBlem is Big soDa’s appetite for fresH water?
Soda tax is also an
environmental issue
By Dr. Jeff ritterman, mD Gitlitz, research director of the non-
profit Container Research Institute.
EDITORIAL Thank you, Eric Mar, John Aluminum can production also
Avalos, and Tom Ammiano, for your requires huge amounts of energy,
insightful guest editorial (“Soda tax amounting to 3 percent of world-
is a social justice issue,” 3/11/14). wide electricity production, one
You remind us that Big Soda’s adver- third of which comes from coal-gen-
tising targets poor and minority erated electricity and half from
communities, where residents suffer hydroelectric generation requiring
high soda consumption and high the damming of rivers.
rates of type 2 diabetes. “These dams have irreversible
The Soda Tax is most clearly a impacts on biodiversity, and displace
health issue. Science has shown that thousands of riverbank dwellers and
sugary drinks kill by causing diabetes indigenous peoples. The aluminum
(amputations, blindness, kidney fail- companies are the principal force
ure), heart attacks, and cancer. We behind the Brazilian government’s
now know that you do not need to plans to dam the major rivers of the
be overweight or obese to be at risk. Amazon,” says the Berkeley-based
But the Soda Tax is more than a International Rivers Network.
health issue and more than a social Aluminum can production is also
justice issue. It is also an environ- a major contributor to global green-
mental issue of vast importance. house gases. The global aluminum
Ironically, the soda industry, industry produced 95 million tons of
which we turn to for quenching our GHGs in 2005. Primary aluminum
thirst and restoring needed fluids, smelting also generates sulfur dioxide
wastes shockingly huge amounts of and nitrogen oxide emissions, which
water. It also produces unnecessary are contributors to smog and acid rain.
greenhouse gases and requires exten- Glass bottles produce twice as
sive use of resources for packaging. many GHGs as the aluminum cans
If we include the water used in the in their production, and only 25
production of the ingredients, such percent of them are recycled. Plastic Hold BART accountable for deaths
as sugar or high fructose corn syrup, is not much better. Thirty percent of
the amount of water actually used plastic bottles are recycled national-
to produce a half-liter of soda varies ly, and millions of barrels of oil are
from 150 to 300 liters of water. That’s needed daily to produce the new EDITORIAL Bay Area Rapid Transit their own safety even though they none of whom has challenged
a ratio of 300-600:1. A typical bathtub ones. For every 100 two-liter plastic made a deadly miscalculation last couldn’t see or hear a train coming the decisions by General Manager
holds about 90 liters of water. So each bottles produced, approximately year — one that built on years of with enough time to safely get out Grace Crunican and Assistant
time you drink a 16-ounce soda, you 10-50 pounds of GHGs are produced. reckless decisions to value efficien- of the way. Manager of Operations Paul
have wasted two or three bathtubs full Given that we live in a time cy over safety — and nobody was California’s Division of Oversier in any serious public way.
of fresh water in the process. when climate change threatens the ever held accountable. That’s not Occupational Safety and Health This arrogant agency has abused
How much of a problem is Big very future of civilization, it seems acceptable for a public agency, and has been battling with BART for the public trust and been hostile to
Soda’s appetite for fresh water? prudent to find ways to significantly it’s time for the people who made years to change this dangerous reasonable public oversight, whether
Consider this: Coca-Cola uses reduce any unnecessary use of alu- these decisions and the elected procedure that had killed workers that involves its trigger-happy Police
enough fresh water every day to minum, glass, and plastic. officials who enabled them to before, but BART chose to aggres- Department or its callous disregard
meet the world’s drinking water Predictions on how much a Soda come clean and make amends. sively litigate the mandate at every for the safety of workers and riders,
requirement for 10 days. Tax will decrease consumption vary Last year’s contentious contract turn instead doing the right thing, something its unions have been
Then there’s the problem of from 6 to 22 percent, depending in negotiations between BART man- finally acceding after these latest calling out for many years.
packaging. Let’s consider the alumi- part on the size of the tax. agement and employees was marked avoidable deaths. The California Assembly
num can. Touted by the beverage A 10 percent decrease in con- by an ugly union-bashing media DOSH last week concluded its Committee on Labor and
and aluminum industries as the most sumption, coupled with half of that strategy and dangerous brinksman- investigation of the October deaths, Employment unveiled damning
recyclable package in America, only decrease being replaced by tap water, ship that forced two strikes. During finding BART guilty of “willful/seri- evidence of BART’s lax safe-
about half of aluminum cans are would result in over 60 million gallons the second strike in October, two ous” safety violations and leveling ty culture during a hearing in
recycled. The other half end up in of water saved annually. Similar calcu- BART workers were killed by a train the maximum fine allowed by law, November, and it’s time for the
our landfills. Worse yet, the trashed lations could be made for GHGs saved. operated by someone management a mere $210,000. Civil wrongful Legislature to follow up and give
cans are replaced with new ones A simple policy change like was training to run replacement ser- death settlements are likely to reach DOSH the authority and funding it
made from virgin materials. the Soda Tax can help us waste less vice to break the unions. into the millions of dollars, and the needs to hold BART and other seri-
“Each ton of aluminum cans water, lower our GHG production, Whether that driver’s inexpe- NTSB could soon bring more pun- al safety violators accountable.
requires 5 tons of bauxite ore to be and lessen the pollution of our air, rience directly caused the deaths ishment down on BART. Voters should also consider
strip-mined, crushed, washed, and water and soil. 2 is still being investigated by the But real accountability begins replacing current elected directors
refined into alumina before it is National Transportation Safety at home. This reckless manage- this fall (we’ll offer our endorsements
smelted. The process creates about Dr. Jeff Ritterman is a retired cardi- Board, but we do know that this ment strategy should be an issue in then), giving special consideration to
5 tons of caustic red mud residues ologist and a former Richmond City tragedy was a direct result of the every one of this year’s reelection those who want to clean house and
which can seep into surface and Council member who led the 2012 “simple approval process” that races for BART’s Board of Directors, change a management culture that is
ground water,” explains Jenny Richmond Soda Tax campaign (Yes on N). made these workers responsible for each of whom are culpable and hostile to safety and its workers. 2
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What Does the Settlement Provide? If the settlement receives final approval, Class
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marijuana enthuSiaStS enjoy 4/20
at hippie hill in Golden Gate park.
Guardian photos by amanda rhoades
Where there’s smoke
By Guardian Staff the next step and legalizing even
[email protected] recreational uses of marijuana.
For example, Titus wants to
NEWS It was April 20 in Golden Gate make sure marijuana business-
Park, the fabled 4/20 in the parlance es have full access to banking
San Francisco takes its pot smoking very seriously
of pot smokers, and we found Nick services, something that the US
and Chris standing under the shade Department of Justice has occa-
of a tree with a cluster of friends, ted, with no official organizers, cies plagued by leftover trash and community (see “Marijuana goes sionally interfered with. As Titus
including Geoff, the proud owner of yet thousands of festivalgoers traffic jams, serious year-round mainstream,” 1/27/10). told us, “The federal government
a five-foot bong. nevertheless flock to it year after marijuana advocacy efforts con- Some have even begun to shouldn’t be wasting time and
Nick had done several hits year. It’s a quintessentially San tinue to mark the Bay Area as a regard the Bay Area as a model going after people who are abid-
through the supersized smoking Francisco experience: Young and hotbed for drug policy reform for how to implement a sensible ing their state laws.”
device that day. Beside him, Chris old congregate for a collective day- and thriving, legitimate pot-based approach to regulating marijuana.
took hits from his own handheld long smoke-out, bringing drums, entrepreneurship. On April 16, US Rep. Dina Titus bliSS aNd bouNdariES
bong. “I’m feeling good,” Nick dogs, grills, shade structures, (D-Las Vegas) traveled to San Back at 420 on Hippie Hill, Amber
reported. “But I’m also kinda hun- handblown glass, tie-dyed tapes- GrEEN bEacoN Francisco on a fact-finding mis- and Charlie lounged on a blanket
gry. I could go for some Chinese tries, Hacky Sacks, sound systems, The movement to legalize mari- sion after Clark County, Nevada, with Gizmo, an affectionate pooch
food. Ohh, and some Sapporo!” and other picnic paraphernalia juana for medical purposes started legalized medical marijuana, with they’d adopted from “this guy
Administering a hit of mar- along with them. in San Francisco, the lovechild Las Vegas and other Nevada cities who lives in a tree house” in Santa
ijuana through such unwieldy The area around Hippie Hill of the city’s hippie movement expected to follow shortly. Cruz. The young couple, ages 18
paraphernalia is quite the oper- — at the eastern end of the park, and its caregiving response to “I want the state to learn and 20 respectively, had hitchhiked
ation, requiring one person to near Kezar Stadium — was a jumble the AIDS epidemic. It was Dennis from someone who’s done it to California from Washington.
stand and hold one end, another of humanity crammed elbow to Peron and other activists here right,” Titus told the Guardian Yes, “we may have done some
to light the marijuana once it’s elbow, reeking of pot smoke. The who wrote Proposition 215, the as she toured The Apothecarium weed,” Charlie said before letting
packed into the bowl, and a third crowd reflected a wide range of statewide legalization measure that on Market Street, an elegant dis- out a peal of laughter.
to inhale the five-foot column of ethnicities and brought out many California voters approved in 1996. pensary reputed to be one of San “It’s been pretty awesome,”
milky smoke that rises through displaying an outlandish sense A decade ago, the San Francisco’s finest. Amber said. “Literally, there was
the chamber. The smokers on of fashion, sporting shiny plastic Francisco Board of Supervisors In addition to helping guide smoke coming from everywhere,”
the receiving end contorted their marijuana-leaf necklaces, sleeve tat- approved a comprehensive set of Nevada’s implementation of med- the moment 4:20pm arrived. As
faces as they inhaled, inevitably toos, piercings, face paint, and piles regulations for its two dozen or ical marijuana legalization, Titus far as the eye could see, she said,
coughing and laughing as they upon piles of dreadlocked hair. so medical marijuana dispensa- said she’s working on federal leg- the scene was nothing but “people
breathed out, seemingly amazed San Francisco maintains an ries, guidelines that have proven islation that would better protect smoking weed. It was crazy.”
by the experience. The college-age iconic status as a weed-friendly to work well and be a model for small businesses involved with a Lilian was at the park with a
friends were in 420-induced bliss. city. While 420 in Golden Gate other jurisdictions to follow, marijuana industry that is grow- friend, wearing a crown of daisies
The annual 420 celebration Park is a lighthearted scene that’s elevating pot purveyors into ing rapidly in the US, thanks to she’d woven with flowers plucked
in Golden Gate Park is unpermit- also proved irksome for city agen- accepted members of the business Colorado and Washington taking from nearby the park entrance. “All
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