San Francisco Bay Guardian Issue 46.48

2012·17.5 MB·English

by  San Francisco Bay Guardian

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WHAT THE FUCK,
INTELLIGENCE
CHUCK?
What you It’s always a challenge to figure
out the unfathomable political
positions of the Chron’s C.W.
need to know
Nevius, and this week put us to
the test. Nevius — who general-
ly dismisses as lunacy all efforts
at historic preservation — sud-
WHAT WILL
denly found a place he wants
JERRY DO? to save: Tosca, the venerable
North Beach bar. In a column
Aug. 21., Chuck called the place
It’s end-of-the-season madness in
the state Legislature, where, after THE WONDERS “an institution” despite its dis- FRIDAY 31
tinctly unmodern, out-of-style
months or years of work, bills pass BENEATH owner, Jeanette Etheredge. OCCUPY THE BAY
or fail in an instant — and then the The 25th Street Collective, 477 25th
lucky ones wind up on the desk Huh. We totally agree — St., Oakl; www.occupyoakland.org.
of Gov. Grumpy, who, word has Artists Shannon O’Malley and save Tosca! But isn’t the Haight 6pm, $25. “This week in Oakland,
Keith Wilson are assembling a Asbury Neighborhood Council’s California will go down as a watershed
it, won’t sign anything he thinks moment. People across America were
book of vaginas — drawn by gay recycling center — which Chuck
might interfere with (or create disgusted by what they saw here.
bad press for) his tax measure. men. And they need your help! All has been desperately pushing Average Americans trying to stand
are welcome to their vag drawing the city to evict for a couple up and peacefully assemble, to be
Assemblymember Tom Ammiano brutally savaged and attacked by the
party at Dolores Park’s Gay Beach years now — also an institution,
has the TRUST Act, which would police department that they pay for.”
limit the use of local jails for feder- (Sun/2, 1pm. 20th St. and Church, if a bit unmodern and out of So said Michael Moore to a fired up
SF). Art supplies provided, but you style? What the fuck, Chuck? crowd in the wake of the Oct. 26, 2011
al immigration holds, and a bill to Occupy Oakland eviction that featured
bring the Cookie Monster interpre-
give labor rights to domestic work- tear gas and rubber bullets raining on
ers. Sen. Leland Yee has a mea- tations. ON THE WIND demonstrators. It’s just one of the many
historic events caught on tape by film-
sure to limit life-without-parole makers Jonathan Riley and Kevin Pina,
sentences for juveniles. Sen. Mark whose documentary Occupy the Bay
A recent drop on our palates was
Leno has one to prevent cops using is screening around the Bay Area before
Air, the new canned malt bever- it starts showing in film festivals. On
your cell phone GPS without a war- age that tastes like flavored water. Friday, stick around for special musi-
rant. What will Jerry do? cal performances from Jabari Shaw,
Brave Guardian testers
IItt’’ss aa MMoooonnbbeeaamm Shareef Ali, and Super Natural.
(and we are soooo
ENEMIES OF THE STATE: IN THEIR
mmyysstteerryy..
brave) gave high OWN WORDS
scores to the crisp Station 40, 3030B 16th St., SF; sta-
citrus flavor — but tion40events.wordpress.com. 7pm,
free. After a year of Occupy and years
complained of more of struggle by people who are not
feeling gassy after down with the state, there are still a lot
only one can. Air of people in jail and prison. Organizers
at this event will read writing from those
indeed. locked up. Included: Poems and state-
ments from Truth and Kali of Occupy
Oakland and a statement from Jesse
TOM
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(5/8/12). As the event description says,
HHEERREE —— AANNDD GGOONNEE
Melky Cabrera. Bartolo Colon. And now (sadly, no surprise) Lance “Any effort at anti-repression in the
face of lengthy prison terms must be
Armstrong. The real question: Is there anyone at the top ranks of pro
aimed at bringing down separation at all
SSaann FFrraanncciissccoo ffiilllleedd uupp wwiitthh ccoolloorrffuull ffrreeaakkss sports who isn’t on drugs? Did they really think they’d get away with costs.” Come fight the separation and
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nnaattiioonn ooff BBuurrnniinngg MMaann.. quarterly magazine, is throwing a party
It was a tumultuous, transition year for its third year on this planet. It now
lives in the Brooklyn part of the planet,
for burner culture (see “Talk about chaos,” but it all started in San Francisco,
88//2222)) —— aanndd ffoorr oonnccee,, nnoonnee ooff uuss aarree ggooiinngg and the organizers are coming back
—— bbuutt iitt’’ss ssttiillll tthhee wweeiirrddeesstt tteemmppoorraarryy cciittyy here to party. “We feel that there is no
single way to sum up what it means to
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ffoorrwwaarrdd ttoo sseeeeiinngg tthhee pphhoottooss aanndd hheeaarriinngg tthhee different beliefs, life experiences and
ssttoorriieess ffrroomm oouurr dduussttyy rreettuurrnniinngg ccoommrraaddeess.. AAnndd relationships to our own bodies,” say
the organizers, and they started the
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cciittyy’’ss aaccttuuaallllyy kkiinndd ooff nniiccee wwiitthh mmuucchh ooff tthhee hhiippsstteerr experiences. Celebrate with the editors
ppooppuullaattiioonn ggoonnee ffoorr aa ffeeww ddaayyss.. IIff nnootthhiinngg eellssee,, tthhee Amos Mac and Rocco Katastrophe, and
performances by Rocco Katastrophe
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Nicky Click & Jenna Riot. Birthday cup-
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P20 EDItORIal California Pacific
Medical Center wants to build
Music listings 30 / stage listings 32 a fancy new hospital in San
on the cheap 32 / filM listings 34 Francisco without meeting the
city’s demands for housing,
transportation, and health-care
this week at mitigations. And the arrogant
leadership at the private non-
profit thinks it can hold the city
sfbg.coM
hostage: If the mayor and the
supervisors don’t approve the
new medical complex on Van
FOllOw uS On twIttER: Ness Avenue, CPMC has threat-
www.twIttER.cOM/SFBg ened to close St. Luke’s Hospital,
a critical part of the local health
On thE BlOgS
infrastructure.
It’s a dangerous game: CPMC
must rebuild its aging California
politics St. facility to meet state seismic
safety codes, and, given the
Reports and analysis of the chaos
importance of the San Francisco
at the Republican Convention and
market, clearly isn’t going to
Romneyville, the activist community
do a Twitter and threaten to
just outside its gates
move out of town. The city
City College controversies explored agRI-chEM InDuStRy’S SEcREtS can’t afford to lose St. Luke’s
— other than the overburdened
homeless encampment at Fourth
street and king faces cop eviction SF General, it’s the only hospital
on the south side of town and
By Stacy Malkan gies and other adverse health yet been subjected to the wave of
a critical, life-saving facility
noise OPInIOn This November, effects. But the U.S. government deceptive television ads designed for residents of the low-income
requires no safety studies of to convince us that GMO label-
California voters will decide on southeast neighborhoods.
Must-see shows this week are mostly GMOs, no long-term health stud- ing is too scary or too expensive.
sludge metal, grindcore, and blister- a question that affects us all: Do ies have been conducted, and When you see these ads, But CPMC keeps leaving
ing hardcore bands birthed in the we have the right to know what’s no labeling is required to notify consider the source. The larg- itself ways to abandon the
‘90s: eyehategod (above), Dropdead, in the food we’re eating and consumers so we can make our est funders of No on 37 are Mission District facility. And
Bastard Noise feeding our families? even the offer to save the hos-
own choices about whether we Monsanto and DuPont, two
This high-stakes food fight pital is weak: The facility would
interview with DJ Deevice. has become the most expensive want to eat these foods. corporations that hardly have a be cut almost in half, to only 80
Bonus: mixes for your earholes Genetically engineered foods track record of integrity when
issue of the upcoming election. beds.
are also linked to serious envi- it comes to truth in advertising.
soojin Chang reports from decades- Pesticide and junk-food corpora- So it’s time to come up with
ronmental concerns, including These are the same companies
spanning hip-hop carnival Rock the Bells tions have already poured $25 other options, ways to take
an overall increase in pesticide that told us DDT and Agent
million into an effort to defeat that CPMC gun away from San
use, a rise in super weeds that are Orange were safe.
Proposition 37, a simple label- Francisco’s head and ensure
pixel Vision threatening farm land, and the Major funders of the No
ing measure that would inform the future of health care in the
unintentional contamination of campaign also include junk-food
a special Guardian report from the California consumers about organic crops. companies that have a long his- southeast. And city officials
first all-female street art fesival in whether our food has been genet- ought to be willing to try unusu-
These concerns have led 50 tory of opposing common-sense
atlanta ically engineered. al ideas. Here’s one:
other countries to require GMO labels to give consumers informa-
What is it that these corpora- Why not seize St. Luke’s
Fashion shots from last weekend’s labeling. But here in the US, the tion about their food. Look for
tions don’t want us to know? under eminent domain and ask
kawaii-crazy J-Pop Festival agri-chemical companies have these companies to spend tens
Right now, many foods on the University of California, San
deployed their massive lobby of millions trying to convince
Missed the america’s Cup prelims? supermarket shelves, from baby Francisco to help run it?
power to stop the federal govern- voters that adding a few words
watch our footage and decided if formula to corn chips, contain It’s not as crazy as it sounds.
ment and at least 19 U.S. states to food labels will force them to
you’re bummed genetically engineered ingre- CPMC insists the facility is old,
from passing simple labeling raise the cost of groceries “hun-
dients that are hidden from needs its own seismic rebuild
bills. dreds of dollars a year.”
consumers. Also called GMOs, and loses money. So it’s not as
sex sf Now it’s up to the voters of Over on the Yes on 37 side is
these are crops that have been if the health-care giant could
California — and the heavy-artil- a true people’s movement made
Local sexpert airial Clark on the power artificially altered in a lab with demand some huge compensa-
lery corporate lobbying cam- up of millions of moms, dads,
of sex-positive parenting the DNA of other species in ways tion. The city could probably get
paign is heading our way. and consumers in California, and
that cannot occur in nature. it for next to nothing.
who buys the most porn in the states? The Yes on 37 Campaign is the many farmers and California
Numerous studies link geneti- St. Luke’s isn’t profitable —
a helpful infographic explains currently tracking far ahead in businesses that are part of the
cally engineered foods to aller-
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By John Upton Local Power Inc., which is helping
[email protected] pARtInG GIFt the SFPUC prepare to call for bids
from companies interested in build-
Retirement is knocking at Ed ing the facilities, said they could
Harrington’s door. But the include everything from solar panel
San Francisco Public Utilities arrays to customers’ energy efficien-
Harrington finally brings CleanPowerSF to City Hall, hoping his SFPUC legacy
Commission general manager is cy gains to a wave energy plant.
hesitating, not quite able to mus- will be a city that produces its own renewable energy The first CleanPowerSF com-
ter the will needed to walk out the mittee hearing is scheduled Sept.
door. He has something that he 12, followed by a board vote that
wants to finish first. will almost certainly prove conten-
The sage city veteran has tious, likely pitting the board’s pro-
labored for years to launch an gressive members who have long
historic program so transformative supported public power against
that it would finally allow city some of its fiscal conservatives.
residents and businesses to reject Much of the debate will focus
a homicidal utility monopoly and on an initial $19.5 million invest-
the dirty electricity that it sells. ment by the city. Of that money,
Success could be mere weeks away; about one-third would be used as
failure would be a bitter blow. collateral — a pool of cash held in
Twice in the past 27 months, escrow and available to reimburse
Harrington and his staff have fum- Shell if the program flops. SFPUC
bled efforts to launch the city’s spokesperson Charles Sheehan
long-promised community choice said the $7 million in collateral
aggregation (CCA) program. The would gradually be recouped
program, CleanPowerSF, would by San Francisco if the program
give Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) moves forward successfully.
customers the option of switching Another $2 million would
over to a publicly backed electric- fund CleanPowerSF customers’
ity provider selling green, climate- Bay Guardian. Over the coming years, ists threw their support behind energy efficiency programs; $2
friendly power. Harrington declined to discuss the SFPUC could gradu- Harrington and the program. million would help customers
The energy would continue to the latest version of CleanPowerSF, ally add enough clean electric- Brooks said that the build-out install solar panels; and $2 mil-
be ferried into homes and other the real and perceived financial ity at competitive rates into the of city-owned renewable energy lion would be spent on the study
buildings over PG&E’s electrical risks of which will be hashed CleanPowerSF mix, generated by facilities could create thousands of to determine how best to build out
grid, and customers who switch out by the Budget and Finance its own facilities and purchased jobs. It could also lead to energy the portfolio of renewable energy
would continue to receive their Committee, referring questions to off the open energy market, to independence in a city where plants owned by San Francisco.
bills from PG&E. Those gas and a spokesperson. meet the needs of all the city’s environmentalism is a badge of The rest of the money would cover
electricity bills could initially But environmentalists and residents and businesses. honor, but where PG&E continues operating and startup expenses,
swell by an average of one quarter, local “green jobs” advocates who The build-out of solar power to sell nuclear and polluting fos- and it could be recouped later
but the mix of power that they just 12 months ago were panning plants and other renewable sil fuel energy without facing any through power sales.
pay for would jump from 20 per- CleanPowerSF, ready to block its energy facilities has always been competition. In a town where PG&E wields
cent renewable up to 100 percent passage through the board, are now imagined as an integral element “This is the perfect solution tremendous political and financial
renewable. lauding it. They say the change of CleanPowerSF. But until last to the climate crisis and the eco- influence, proposing to gamble
Harrington’s previous came about after Harrington met October, critics say SFPUC offi- nomic crisis,” Brooks said. “We public funds establishing a com-
CleanPowerSF launch schemes directly with them and seemingly cials were treating the build-out need to create a green New Deal. petitor to the company is sure to be
collapsed in mid-2010 and again changed his own mind about how as an afterthought, making little That’s the depth of crisis that opposed and criticized. Supporters
early last year without getting off the program should be run. effort to lock in plans to move we’re in, economically and envi- of the program, however, say the
of the ground, largely because The program would initially forward with the construction as a ronmentally.” gamble is a safe and necessary one
nobody — neither the city nor see Shell Corp. sell 20 to 30 mega- structured part of a CCA program. Such a build-out is also that could have sweeping workforce
private industry — would shoulder watts of renewable electricity gen- “The SFPUC staff decided expected to build support for and economic benefits.
the large financial risks. Unlike erated in far-flung places to fewer they wanted to do this the easy the program at the Board of “I don’t think that we can
those failed efforts, which would than 100,000 residential custom- way and just buy energy,” said Supervisors. Without it, the City afford not to do CCA,” said Sup.
have offered a private company ers. Instead of fostering new sup- Eric Brooks, a regular at City Controller’s Office calculated that David Campos, the program’s most
virtual carte blanche to sell power plies of renewable energy, San Hall hearings who chairs the San the city’s economy could take a active supporter on the Board of
to as many PG&E customers as Francisco residents may initially Francisco Green Party’s sustain- hit to the tune of $8 million over Supervisors. “So long as something
possible, the latest CCA proposal buy power at premium prices from ability committee and has spent five years after CleanPowerSF like CCA is not in place, PG&E
resembles a successful program existing wind, solar, and other years working with the SFPUC on launches in the spring in addi- will continue to be the only game
operating in Marin County. The green facilities. CleanPowerSF. “They wanted to tional electricity expenses, poten- in town. I think it’s important
Marin program started small in The activists agree that it’s a do that because it was easy — you tially jeopardizing about 100 jobs. for us to give consumers in San
early 2010 and is already growing crying shame to get into bed with can just declare victory.” But that analysis failed to consider Francisco an alternative to PG&E.”
at a rapid clip as it pursues true an evil multinational oil com- Once the general manager the thousands of jobs that could If Harrington can clinch law-
energy independence. pany. But they say it’s an accept- started to meet directly with local be created laying panels, install- maker approval for CleanPowerSF
For the next few weeks, despite able start, as long as the program activists, Brooks says, “Harrington ing turbines, and performing before he retires, he will have pro-
having previously planned to evolves into something far more started hearing what we had been other tasks if the city develops its vided city residents with a lasting
retire in August, Harrington will meaningful. Like in Marin, the saying to the staff for all these own renewable energy supplies. choice in what kind of electricity
oversee a last-ditch effort to drive activists want San Francisco to years about how important the It’s impossible right now to say they buy.
approval of CleanPowerSF by the use CleanPowerSF revenues to build-out is.” Harrington began precisely what type of renewable “I think that any effort to
Board of Supervisors. “I’ve offered help build its own solar, wind, to understand the importance of energy facilities would be built by compete with PG&E is seen as
to stay into September so that we and other renewable energy and a renewable energy build-out that San Francisco: A $2 million study public power,” Campos said. “But
can have the CCA discussions at energy efficiency projects, many begins as soon as the new pro- that would paint that picture is this is really about providing a
the board,” Harrington told the of them right here in city limits. gram launches. In turn, the activ- planned. But Paul Fenn, president of choice.” 2
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By yael Chanoff “We had our sign such that
[email protected] when you walked in at the corner
of Haight you would see the words
Keith McHenry was in Tampa, feed- Food Not Bombs for a block and
ing fed-up (and hungry) Republican a half,” McHenry recalls. “What
National Convention protesters, was good about that was you had
when we spoke by phone. Next he’ll tourists, and local business people,
head to Charlotte to do the same for and local workers, and you had the
those protesting the Democrats, and people in the Golden Gate Park, all
then to New York for Occupy Wall coming together to eat at that place.
Street’s anniversary on Sept. 17. It was really perfect.”
Everywhere he goes, he’ll feed FNB still serves there on
the masses home-cooked vegetarian Saturdays, but that perfection was
meals. But unlike the other protest- disrupted by a high profile series
ers, McHenry helped invent the sys- of arrests in 1988, then again a
tem that gets them fed. He helped to few weeks ago, when Parkwide, the
found Food Not Bombs, the organi- Recreation and Parks Department’s
zation that salvages food that would new bike rental program, set up in
otherwise be thrown out, cooks it their old spot.
up, and serves free, tasty meals in Food Not Bombs still runs into
public squares throughout the world. conflicts with police and courts. Last
McHenry served the first meal year, McHenry was one of 24 arrest-
in Boston Common in 1980, then ed in Orlando, Florida, spending 19
moved to San Francisco a few years days in jail after protesting an ordi-
later, bringing the movement with nance making it a crime to feed the
feeDInG a movement
him. Now, there are 500 chapters homeless in the city’s downtown.
in the United States and hundreds Last week, FNB held its world
more throughout the world. gathering at Occupy Tampa’s tent
“We provided food for 100 days Keith McHenry on the history of Food Not Bombs and how it’s recently been occupied city, serving daily breakfast and din-
at the Orange Revolution in the ner while planning the future of the
Ukraine,” McHenry recalls. “We fed a tribute food that would otherwise states, “For over 30 years the move- ian or vegan meal, maybe some pro- movement. Occupy Tampa has only
two-year occupation in Sarajevo. We be thrown out. San Francisco FNB ment has worked to end hunger and duce, and anti-war and other leftist grown in recent weeks as it hosts
provided food at Camp Casey,” Cindy gets donations of extra, unsold food has supported actions to stop the literature and banners. In 1988, this people in town to protest the RNC.
Sheehan’s anti-war stakeout at then- from places like Rainbow Grocery globalization of the economy, restric- is what was on the table when the Sharing food and shelter, making
President George W. Bush’s ranch. and Other Avenues food co-op. tions to the movements of people, San Francisco Police Department art, and protesting politicians doing
The FNB approach to hunger is It was started by anti-nuclear end exploitation and the destruction cracked down on Food Not Bombs, the bidding of greedy corporations
pretty simple: There’s enough food activists, thus the “Not Bombs” part. of the earth and its beings.” arresting dozens for serving food at is McHenry’s vision made reality
to go around, it’s just not distributed But there’s more to their analysis A typical Food Not Bombs oper- the entrance to Golden Gate Park at — and one he got to see bloom last
right. So activists find ways to dis- than a cry for peace. As the group ation features a table with a vegetar- Haight and Stanyan. CONTINUES ON PAGE 12 >>
“For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty JeSUS-fRee fooD: ChURCheS aRen’t the only optIon foR fRee mealS Occupy-related people, carrying on from the giant
and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you wel- Food Bank of America action on Jan. 20, when the
comed me,” Jesus supposedly said way back when. “The solution to the problem of hunger is to serves vegetarian food, mostly Nepali and mostly Bank of America at the Embarcadero locked its
In San Francisco, there are a multitude of churches share the abundance that’s out there and to encour- with five courses, in San Francisco every week. It doors after activists set up a food table and hung
that offer free food to the hungry (find a handy list at age people to grow food and share some with those does the same at its other branch in Kathmandu. two interactive banners where passers-by could
www.freeprintshop.org). in need.” said a Free Farm Stand organizer. “We Shrawan Nepali once owned a restaurant, Taste of write what fit under the category “person” and what
But what follows is a list of secular organizations can set up neighborhood networks of people grow- the Himalayas, but used the proceeds to start Curry fit under the category “corporation.” They hung a
that share food — for the planet, for self-determina- ing food and sharing their surplus.” The Free Farm Without Worry and eventually sold it when “I real- third banner saying Food Bank of America, hun-
tion and providing for community outside of the sys- Stand is a step towards that vision. ized I was not a businessmen.” Instead, he’s a man dreds ate a hot meal, and the concept caught on.
tem, for healthy food untainted by hormones, pes- BetteR DayS to Come who feeds people a vegan five-course meal, which Now, people who have been gathering food dona-
ticides and GMOs, for food not grown by exploited includes a sauce made from timur, herbs that grow in tions for Occupy and otherwise give away fresh pro-
Where: Tuesday, 16th and Mission, Thursday, Turk
workers, and for many other reasons, these groups his Himalayan hometown but are rare in the US. “Our duce and hand out information about credit unions
and Taylor. When: 6pm. Some of the folks at Better
bring food straight to the people. mantra is healthy food for hungry souls,” says Nepali. weekly in front of the bank.
Days to Come have God in mind, but the organiza-
fRee faRm StanD tion’s founder, Leonard Fulgham, came from not the fooD not BomBS CommUnIty feeD
Where: Parque Niños Unidos, 23rd St. and Treat. churches but the prisons. As its mission statement Where and when: Monday, UN Plaza at 6:30pm and Where: Mendell Plaza, at 3rd and Oakdale. When:
When: Sundays, 1-3pm. Numbers given out at says, “Mr. Fulgham began mentoring many of the 16th and Mission at 7pm. Wednesday, UN Plaza at Every third Sunday, 10-2. A few organizations,
around noon. The Free Farm Stand gives out food and younger inmates, while having the unique oppor- 6pm. Thursday: 16th and Mission at 7pm. Saturday: including the Black Star Riders Coalition and the
flowers grown at the Free Farm on Eddy and Gough, tunity to hear their stories. Many of their stories Haight and Stanyan at 5pm. After 30 years, Food Kenneth Harding Jr. Foundation, work together to
where local volunteers grow and harvest produce. outlined how they landed in the prison community Not Bombs still serves almost daily in San Francisco put on this food giveaway every other week. It takes
They also share local organic surplus produce left over and why they continued to return. Being homeless at a few locations throughout the city. Volunteers place in Mendell Plaza, the square that some have
from several farmer’s markets and produce brought upon release back into society is a commonly known cook meals then bring them out to the people, bring- renamed Kenny’s Plaza after Harding, who was killed
in from neighbors and from locally gleaned fruit trees. contributing factor to these ex-offenders being hun- ing home the message that there’s enough to go in the plaza at 19 years old after a dispute with SFPD
The philosophy of the Free Farm is food sover- gry while being starved by the lack of job training and around and you shouldn’t need money to feed your- officers over bus fare. “First, we definitely want to
eignty. Why should anyone go hungry, or go broke, vocational skills.” Fulgham passed away March 24, self. The Saturday team still shares food at Haight honor Kenny, that’s why we got there,” said Tracey
feeding themselves and their kids? Instead, they 2012, and in his memory, the organization began and Stanyan, where Food Not Bombs first parked Bell-Borden, one of the organizers of the Community
figure, they should get for free what the earth gives. serving two hot meals a week. three decades ago. Feed. “But there’s been a lot of activity in that area
They facilitate this by offering the farm’s harvest CURRy wIthoUt woRRy fooD Bank of ameRICa for a long time. So it’s really about healing the com-
— as well free sprouts and plants, that people can munity,” she said. “We have to take care of our com-
Where: Civic Center Plaza at Hyde and Market. Where: In front of the Bank of America at 2701
use to grow food themselves. munity.” (Yael Chanoff) 2
When: Tuesdays 5:45-7pm. Curry Without Worry Mission. When: Thursday, 5pm until food runs out.
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