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INTELLIGENCE
POLITICAL ALERTS
WEDNESDAY 25
Radical archiving and cataloging
as social history 518 Valencia, SF.
518valencia.org. The Shaping San
Francisco public talks series continues
with a discussion defining a “radical
archive,” exploring the role that nontradi-
tional archives play in the interpretation
and preservation of peoples’ history, the
TAI CHI GETS FUNKY role of ordinary people in the preservation
of these archives and more. Joining the
discussion will be Lincoln Cushing of
Seeing elderly folks in Chinatown Docs Populi, as well as Claude Marks and
Nathaniel Moore, both of the Freedom
and Golden Gate Park perform
Archives.
their daily Tai Chi is old hat for most
San Franciscans, but pop-EDM DJ Solar Energy Panel Discussion David
Mat Zo’s new music video for his Brower Center, 2150 Allston, Berk.
https://solarenlightenment.eventbrite.
track “Pyramid Scheme” shows com. 6-9pm, free. Andreas Karelas, the
what we’ve suspected all along — Executive Director of Revolv, and Jackson
Koeppel of Soulardarity will lead a panel
those old folks got some moves,
discussion on the use of solar energy and
PRESERVING BLACK HISTORY
yo. The elderly Tai Chi performers how it works. They will also attempt to clear
pull off positions that would make up a few common misconceptions about
The San Francisco Preservation Commission approved a resolution Sept. 18 to designate Marcus Books, a Fillmore Street institution and the Michael Jackson jealous, and then solar power. Doors open at 5:30pm. Those
who can’t attend can tune in on Ustream.
oldest African American bookstore in the country, as an historic landmark. The bookstore is battling eviction. “Marcus Books has functioned as a they float. Literally. Get funky, Tai
THURSDAY 26
haven for Black intellectualism in San Francisco for over 50 years,” the resolution notes. Prior to that, the building housed Jimbo’s Bop City, a jazz Chi lovers.
club open between the hours of 2am and 6am that “hosted the most renowned musicians of the day, including Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Press up! El Rio, 3158 Mission, SF.
Parker, John Coltrane, Ella Fitzgerald, and Billie Holiday, among many others.” USUAL SUSPECTS 6pm, donations $25 and up. tinyurl.com/
sfpmccontribute. An independent press
is crucial. Join Tim Redmond, former
The ACLU of Northern California editor-publisher of the Bay Guardian, as
has its eye on the Nationwide he launches the nonprofit San Francisco
Progressive Media Center, dedicated to
DUCAL CROWNS Suspicious Activity Reporting
publishing a new online news source and
Initiative, a federal spying program keeping local journalism alive and inde-
The sprawling San Francisco charity drag that records and shares authori- pendent of corporate, non-local interests.
Co-hosts include Tom Ammiano, David
institution known as the Imperial Court ties’ observations of “suspicious” Campos, Alicia Garza, Giuliana Milanese,
system was just in the news with the pass- incidents. Civil liberties advocates and Gabriel Haaland.
LEGAL ‘STACHE
ing of founding gay icon Jose, Empress are pushing back against the over- Syria: Secrets and lies Unitarian
RIDES I. But the Court carries on — Sat/28 broad surveillance, which makes Universalist Center, 1187 Franklin, SF.
sees the coronation of a new Duke and note of everything from artists [email protected]. 7-9pm, free. Dr.
Duchess of San Francisco (elections photographing bridges to “Middle Steven Zunes, a professor of politics and
The California Public Utilities international studies at the University of
Commission voted unanimously were held Sept. 22) at a grand ball. This is Eastern males buying several large San Francisco and Middle Eastern studies
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Uber, Lyft, Sidecar, and all of the bid farewell to outgoing Grand Duchess received an e-mail that describes a Administration is so committed to this
Paloma Volare and Grand Duke Moe scheduled protest by an unknown conflict, and how can we understand the
other companies who are pissing Jo, and witness true — and extensively number of individuals on July 7, actual facts behind the recently document-
off taxi drivers are regulated and ed atrocities in Syria. Sponsored by the
must provide accident insurance. elaborate — San Francisco gay history, 2012. The information indicates Progressive Democrats of American and
at 5pm at Hotel Whitcomb. The theme of the protestors are concerned about Unitarian Universalists for Peace, SF.
Too little, too late for people like
the coronation ball? “Dancing with the the use of excessive force by law SATURDAY 28
Claire Fahrbach, who as we cov-
Czars at the Ice Castle.” www.sfducal.org enforcement officers.” Read more
ered previously, was hit by a flying 14th Annual World Veg Festival San
at tinyurl.com/acluNSAR.
fire hydrant from an Uber accident Francisco County Fair Building, Lincoln
& Ninth, Golden Gate Park, SF. http://
and hasn’t been compensated a
worldvegfestival.com. 10am-6:30pm,
dime. GET RIPPED $10 suggested donation. This festival will
feature cooking demonstrations, speak-
ers and live entertainment, including an
CCSF IMPACT The name of the Thrillpeddlers’ latest Grand eco-fashion show. Visitors will have the
Guignol-inspired show, Shocktoberfest 14: Jack opportunity to sample and purchase veg-
etarian cuisine. The event is presented by
A new report issued at the request the Ripper, sounds pretty classically chilling, the SF Vegetarian Society and sponsored
until you get to the subtitle, which is classically by Varnashram, In Defense of Animals
of Supervisor Eric Mar answers and Friends of Animals. An organic vegan
Thrillpeddlers: “An Evening of Horror, Madness,
the question “How much would dinner will be available each night for $26;
San Francisco lose if City College Spanking, and Song.” If you like a little (or a lot) of sign up online.
actually closed?” The answer: a good-natured bawdiness with your Halloween SUNDAY 29
scares, look no further than the Hypnodrome
lot. But now, we have numbers! from Sept. 26-Nov. 23, when the veteran Grito De Lares Celebration Mission
CCSF students who transfer early Cultural Center for Latino Arts, 2868
to the CSU system would spend troupe will mark the 125th anniversary of Mission, SF. tinyurl.com/larescelebration.
the Whitechapel murders with a multicourse 4:30-7 p.m., free. Celebrate Grito De
$10,000 more for their education,
evening that kicks off with André de Lorde Lares, a holiday commemorating the birth
tchoell eegigehst a sruer trooou nfudliln tgo ctaokmem evuennit ay and Pierre Chaine’s Jack the Ripper. Other AWWWS oofn P Suuenrdtoa yR.i 1c4o 5as y ae anrast aiogno, t ahti sth pea MstC SCeLpAt.
plays on the bill include The Wrong Ripper 23, Puerto Rican revolutionaries entered
small portion of City College’s stu-
(a world premiere); A Visit to Mrs. Birch Grouplove’s sold-out Independent show included high energy, band the town of Lares to proclaim the birth of
doveenrt s2,, 0lo0c0al s ekmillpeldo yeemrsp wlooyueleds l poeser and the Young Ladies of the Academy (this revelry, and a surprise onstage proposal. For more Grouplove live tehvee nPtu tehretroe R wicilal bne n aa tcioomn.m Ate tmhoe rbaitliionng uoaf lt he
one has the spanking in it); a musical take shots, plus show reviews from last week including the Julie Ruin, the revolution, a discussion panel and a poetry
year, and the city of San Francisco
on Salome; and an ever-popular “lights-out Moondoggies, and Rock the Bells, see Bay Guardian music blog, reading in addition to Puerto Rican food
would suffer an economic impact and music.
spook-show finale.” www.thrillpeddlers.com SFBG.com/Noise.
upwards of $300 million. Ouch.
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opinion Enough! WE nEEd that monEy morE than Wall StrEEt doES.
LAFco should launch
cleanPowersF
By Eric Brooks sion, the mayor) over the coals
for not initiating CleanPowerSF.
oPiNioN Last month, the Mayor’s The vote was in favor of Sup.
Office and San Francisco Public London Breed’s resolution
Utilities Commission (SFPUC) demanding that the SFPUC obey
— largely at the mayor’s behest — the will of the board and launch
refused to launch CleanPowerSF, CleanPowerSF immediately.
a program which is absolutely That’s a great first step,
crucial to leading the country but the board now needs to go
and the world to reverse the cli- beyond resolutions and take deci-
mate crisis (see “Power struggle,” sive action through LAFCo, its
Sept. 18). most powerful tool for moving
The Board of Supervisors must CleanPowerSF. LAFCo is inde-
now use its state-granted authority pendent of city government, is
to activate San Francisco’s Local funded and tasked to oversee
Agency Formation Commission new enterprise programs like
(LAFCo) to launch CleanPowerSF, CleanPowerSF, and four of its five
regardless of SFPUC. members are elected supervisors.
CleanPowerSF plans currently This independent supermajor-
waiting to be implemented would ity can check mayoral overreach,
create 1,500 jobs a year for the and the LAFCo’s current board
next 10 years, and install over commissioners are John Avalos,
400 megawatts of local clean David Campos, Eric Mar, and
electricity projects. By 2024, 50 London Breed, all advocates of
percent of our electricity would CleanPowerSF.
be generated by such local clean LAFCo was specifically given
installations. the budget and authority to act
The newest proposed rates on CleanPowerSF when SFPUC
for CleanPowerSF are now fully fails to do so, and has already
competitive with PG&E, and the done this successfully in the past.
SFPUC’s staff (before the mayor When CleanPowerSF was first cre-
intervened) was making unprec- ated in 2004 the SFPUC refused city Hall must address rising rents
edented progress on the local to draft an implementation plan.
clean energy installation plans. In response, LAFCo stepped in
So at the SFPUC’s Aug. 13 hearing with its own implementation
on CleanPowerSF rate-setting, plan and SFPUC, not wanting to EDiToriAL Another flurry of public Affordable Housing Trust Fund. more than Wall Street does.
community and environmental lose influence, got back to work. concern over rising rents in San San Francisco’s landlords are - Hold developers account-
advocates stood unanimously In 2011, SFPUC tried to side- Francisco — driven by one-bed- doing great — despite the sob sto- able. Lennar Urban has been
to urge that the program be track CleanPowerSF into only room apartments listed for almost ries published recently by tone-deaf sitting on public land in southeast
launched. purchasing (but not building) $4,000, a well-attended forum on local media outlets such as San San Francisco for a decade while
For the mayor and SFPUC of clean power, refusing to fund gentrification in the Mission, fresh Francisco Magazine — and they’ve housing officials just let it slide.
what is supposed to be one of planning work to establish a local residential and commercial evic- actually been emboldened to start Lennar should front-load affordable
the most environmental cities installation and green jobs pro- tions, and a poll showing 63 per- attacking rent control as somehow housing or lose its land. Threaten
on Earth to completely ignore gram. LAFCO stepped in to fund cent think the city is building too hurting renters, threatening the a citywide moratorium on all mar-
those community advocates, and that work itself, and again SFPUC much luxury housing — has been last lifeline of diversity in the city. ket-rate housing permits until more
throw a monkey wrench into the came back to the fold and hired ignited. And once again, it’s falling The whole debate has gotten low-income units come online and
launching of CleanPowerSF, is Community Choice experts Local on deaf ears at City Hall. so surreal that it would be funny watch what happens. And protect
simply beyond the pale. Power to do the work. Working class residents, small if it weren’t so serious. The future existing rent control apartments
Thankfully, in its wisdom, Now, yet again, SFPUC is businesses, and nonprofits are of San Francisco is at stake, yet from illegal subletting.
when the 2002 California refusing to do its job. Six months being driven out of San Francisco, nobody at City Hall with any clout - Stand with people, not capi-
Legislature passed the ago, it abruptly halted work on unable to keep up in a city that seems to be taking it seriously. So tal. Put the clout of San Francisco
Community Choice law that the local buildout and green jobs increasingly caters to chain stores, here are a few places where our behind Richmond’s threat to buy
made CleanPowerSF possible, plan, and last month SFPUC put wealthy residents, and tourists policymakers could start: underwater mortgages, using emi-
it put city councils and county the whole program on hold by (both vacationers and convention- - End corporate welfare. nent domain if necessary, as Sup.
boards legally in charge of such not setting rates. eers). Twitter is valued at $1 billion as David Campos proposed. Mayor
programs (not mayors). LAFCo must now use its When Mayor Ed Lee and kin- it prepares its initial public stock Lee’s Housing Authority “reforms”
So is not up to the authority and leverage to both dred politicians, who have fueled offering, so it doesn’t need a $22 should cater to residents rather
Mayor’s Office whether or not remove the rate-setting road the rising rents with tax breaks million multi-year tax break from than developers. Push for state-lev-
CleanPowerSF is launched. It block, and get the CleanPowerSF and pro-landlord policies, are asked city taxpayers. In 2012, city tax el reforms like pro-tenant changes
is instead the job of the San local buildout planning back on about the problem, they mouth breaks nearly quadrupled, reaching to the Ellis Act, a Prop. 13 split role,
Francisco Board of Supervisors. track. 2 stale rhetoric about job creation, $14.2 million (and that’s not even and the right to control commer-
And in a resounding 9-2 vote on change the subject (gee, we now counting the $2 million annually cial rents and vacancies.
Sept. 17, the Board of Supervisors Eric Brooks is the sustainability have bike share!), or cite far-off that Airbnb is simply refusing to It’s time to change the conver-
raked the SFPUC (and by exten- chair of the San Francisco Green Party. and insufficient solutions like the pay). Enough! We need that money sation.
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can’t get Tasers doesn’t mean all the cops in San waTered down
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The San Francisco State University Police
h@#pened
Department will soon arm its officers with conducted Sup. John Avalos’ Due Process
electrical weapons, known by the brand name Taser, for All ordinance, legislation
following a statewide push from the California State barring San Francisco law
9.25-10.1.2013 University Chancellor’s Office to arm all of its campus enforcement agencies from
police statewide with the weapons. honoring detainer requests
The university police started training with their issued by U.S. Immigrations
new weapons Sept. 12, according to university spokes- and Customs Enforcement
person Ellen Griffin, but haven’t armed its 28 officers (ICE) under
Breed drops with them just yet. The department still has to set AN ACtIvISt/SqUAtteR IS ARReSteD BY SFSU the feder-
rules for their use and the cabinet of SF State President pOlICe IN mAY. From video by Nick morris al Secure
TwiTTer afTer
Leslie Wong will soon meet to advise him on Taser Communities
policy. Details on what shape that policy will take are people and people of color, as we’ve seen around the (S-Comm)
clash wiTh
still hazy, the university told us. country, including on college campuses.” program,
“What I can say is that Dr. Wong is deeply com- She has reason to be concerned about the safety of faced obsta-
cyclisTs
mitted to protecting the safety and welfare of our the campus community. When activist squatters were cles at the
campus community,” said Shawn Whalen, a member arrested in May by the SF State’s university police, alle- Sept. 17
Sup. London Breed abruptly delet- of the president’s cabinet. gations of excessive force streamed in. Board of
ed her Twitter account on Sept. 19 For the past decade the SFPD has tried at various The activists printed a zine documenting their Supervisors
after engaging in a clash of tweets times to have their officers armed with Tasers but experience. Melissa Nahlen, 25, reportedly wound meeting.
with some local activists online. have met loud opposition and are without them to up with “cuts near her eyes, a bruised and swollen But an amended version
Breed had tweeted comments that this day. One of the most vocal opponents of the lip, a swollen left hand ... and cannot bend her neck returned to the board on
were derogatory toward bicyclists weapons, Police Commissioner downward due to being stomped on by the Sept. 24, where it was expect-
and others, after earlier attempting Angela Chan, is concerned that the police.” ed to be approved (after
to distinguish between her “private” Tasers can be fatal. A campus police officer also sus- Guardian press time for this
comments and public role, but now “Tasers can cause serious tained injuries, according to news issue, so check out the SFBG.
she’s given up entirely. injury or death and have cost law reports. com Politics blog to see what
Patrick Traughber sent Breed a enforcement that use them mil- Tasers are used to avoid just that kind happened).
tweet reading, “@LondonBreed In lions of dollars in lawsuits,” she told the of situation, Training Lieutenant Randall The legislation initially
your opinion, what is the biggest Guardian. About 500 people having been Gregson of the BART Police Department had enough support for a
obstacle to creating safer streets for killed by Tasers in the US since 2001 according to a told us. Though policies differ from depart- veto-proof supermajority, but
bicycling?” To which Breed respond- report Amnesty International released last year. ment to department, Gregson ran the Guardian opposition has surfaced to
ed, “bad behavior of some bicyclist Of those killed, Amnesty International said, 90 through BART’s tactics in using Tasers to provide a prevent the legislation from
[sic].” Sources say caustic exchanges percent of the victims were unarmed. Despite the sta- glimpse in the things SFSU will need to consider. winning approval as written,
with other followers then ensued tistics, Tasers are in widespread use around the coun- BART police carry their Tasers on the “support” most notably from Police
before Breed apparently deleted her try and in the California State University system. side of the belt, meaning the non-dominant side, he Chief Greg Suhr and Mayor
feed. Mike Uhlenkamp, spokesperson for the CSU chan- said. They also have a choice of carrying it in their Ed Lee, who threatened to
“I suspended my account cellor’s office, said that 17 campus police forces were duty belt on a thigh holster. “It’s an officer’s individu- veto the legislation.
because I realized Twitter can be armed with Tasers, and now all 23 will have them, al preference,” he said. At issue was whether
extremely time consuming and it’s including SF State. That preference is important, and sometimes to amend the legislation
too hard to have nuanced policy dis- The arguments Taser advocates make for having could mean the difference between life and death. by including “carve-outs”
cussions in 140 characters. I want to the weapons is that they can be used in lieu of a gun. When BART officer Johannes Mehserle reached for — exceptions requiring
take some time to think about how Steve Tuttle, spokesperson for Taser, said that was the his Taser but mistakenly drew his gun and shot and law enforcement to honor
I use this medium in the future,” reason 17,000 law enforcement agencies use Tasers killed Oscar Grant back in 2009, issues about where to ICE requests in cases where
Breed told the Guardian. worldwide. holster weapons came to the fore. offenders are suspected of
Breed’s flip answer about cyclists “I think it’s a loud minority that’s gotten their “How could a trained officer mistakenly pull and serious violent crimes, child
comes at a time when the Board of way in San Francisco,” Tuttle said. The idea that SFPD fire his gun if, as he claims, he intended to deploy his molestation or human traf-
Supervisors plans to hold hearings is the lone holdout had him saying that the “vocal Taser?” Mehserle’s lawyer wrote in a rhetorical ques- ficking. Sup. Jane Kim offered
about how the San Francisco Police minority” got their way. tion in a court brief, arguing that BART’s Taser policy amendments giving the
Department handles bicyclist fatal- But Chan said that’s a myth. Tasers are often used was a factor in the shooting. Sheriff’s Department discre-
ities, which were recently triggered as a compliance weapon when an individual is pas- That’s the exact kind of incident President Wong’s tion in such cases, which she
by the Guardian’s exposure of blame- sively resisting arrest or not responding to an officer’s policy will address for his officers, and the lives of the characterized as “thoughtful
the-victim police bias after a truck commands, she said. “Unfortunately, this can lead students of San Francisco State University may depend and limited,” but which were
driver ran over a cyclist (see “Anti- to overuse and unnecessary use, especially on young on it. (Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez) opposed by Avalos and Sup.
cyclist bias must stop,” Aug. 27). David Campos.
Breed told us that she has been In San Francisco, ICE
a strong advocate for bike projects, point was bicyclists’ behavior is the told us. Apparently, that strategy wasn’t a detainer requests issued
including helping to fight through complaint I hear most often from Her latest Twitter kerfuffle fol- good fit for the sassy supervisor from under S-Comm have resulted
opposition to bike lanes on Oak those who oppose the projects. So lows another tweeted clash with District 5, who also ended this latest in at least 784 deportations
and Fell streets and along Masonic as a practical matter, those behav- progressive activists in June, which snafu with an apology, telling us, “It since 2010. Avalos’ legislation
Boulevard, an ongoing project for ioral concerns — whether you think concluded with Breed tweeting, is my fault for being unclear about a seeks to extend due process
which “I’ve faced a lot of fire.” they’re accurate or inaccurate, right “Apologies to those I have offended complicated topic on an inappropri- to all San Franciscans by
“My point was not that I think or wrong — make it harder to get I was just having fun. Although bor- ate medium. That is why I am taking making it illegal for local law
bicyclists’ behavior should be an new projects moving, harder to win ing I will stay politically correct. I a break from that medium.” (Steven enforcement to comply with
impediment to new projects. My public and political support,” Breed have serious work to do.” t. Jones) such requests. (Reed Nelson)
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