San Francisco Bay Guardian Issue 48.08

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fREEIng tHE pOLItICAL ALERtS
RAUL RAMIREZ, 1946-2013
ARCtIC 30
WEDnESDAy 20
Raul Ramirez, executive director of news and public affairs at KQED
Public Radio and an investigative journalist, died Nov. 15 after The Rainbow Warrior, the famous PhOTOgRaPhiC jOuRNey
losing his battle with cancer. Born in Havana, he began writing for Greenpeace vessel, hosted 6,500 ThROugh MODeRN-Day SlaveRy
CLAWS fOR newspapers in the 1960s. In 1976 he and Lowell Bergman, then a visitors since coming into port at The Commonwealth Club, 595 Market,
freelance journalist, wrote a San Francisco Examiner article about San Francisco’s Pier 15 on Nov. SKFri.s 5ti:n3e0 w-7ilpl msh,a $re2 0ph. Pothoogtroagprhasp hfreorm L isa
CELEBRAtIOn a Chinatown gang murder and exposed law enforcement officers 8. Just before setting sail for San her travels to over a hundred countries
who’d pressured witnesses into lying. Diego, the ship’s crew marched on six different continents. The photo-
Dungeness crab season got When the police and district attor- to the Russian Consulate Nov. 18 gorf athpeh sm diollicounms eonf tp tehoep dlea wilyh loiv leivse o ifn s solamve-
underway for commercial boats Nov. neys sued for libel, the Hearst- to deliver a petition bearing thou- ery around the world today. Kristine’s
15, and despite some rough seas owned Examiner refused to sands of signatures calling for the DARk AnD DARkER presentation will be preceded by a
over the weekend, the first crab- represent Bergman because he release of the arctic 30. Facing rweicthe potnioen a nwohtehreer .a Tttheen dreeceesp ctaionn c wonilln beec t
filled boats started arriving Nov. 18. was a freelancer. On principle, charges of piracy and hooliganism, Those who want a little wake-up followed by a book signing.
Reports from recreational crabbers, Ramirez declined represen- the 30 include the Greenpeace with their beer buzz might want to tHURSDAy 21
who started their season Nov. 2, tation by the Examiner’s Arctic Sunrise Captain, its crew, try the new Payback Porter from
indicate this year’s crabs look big lawyer, standing with Bergman activists and two independent Speakeasy Ales and Lagers, which FORuM ON aMeRiCa’S WORkeRS
and the haul is plentiful. Our rec- instead. Supporters raised journalists who were detained at is brewed with the Sugar Skull fall First Unitarian Universalist Society
ommendations? Get ‘em live at the enough money for outside coun- gunpoint by the Russian Federal espresso coffee beans from local otifn Syuanrl .Fcroamnc/Wiscoork, e1r1s8F7ig Fhrtainngk4liDn,ig SnFi.t y.
classic Alioto Lazio Fish Company sel and after a decade of court Security Service. They’ve been in favorite Ritual Coffee Roasters. 7-9pm, free. Californian domestic
at Fisherman’s Wharf, or fixed five battles, the journalists finally custody since Sept. 19. It’s got an interesting flavor, with workers recently won a landmark
ways with a side of garlic noodles at prevailed. a smoky, hoppy taste and choc- Dtroyimnge ssttircu Bggillle o.f T Rhiigsh rtess aufltte, rc ao ulopnlegd a nd
PPQ Dungeness Island in the Outer olatey finish. And best of all, it with the nationwide fast-food strike
Richmond. Mmmm....crab. combines two of our favorite local in August, has launched the fight for
vice-purveyors. livable wages into the realm of public
debate. Join activists Katie Joaquin and
EVEn BAtkID CAn’t HAIL, BAtkID Andrew Dadko as they discuss what’s
next for some of our nation’s most
SAVE OBAMACARE BAng IS DOWn exploited, lowest-paid workers. For
As if you didn’t know, more information, please email Dolores
Priem at [email protected].
The company that developed our fair city, a.k.a. Local hookup app Bang With
President Obama’s aching and Gotham (which we always Friends certainly doesn’t suf- SAtURDAy 23
ailing healthcare website, Cgi thought was actually fer from any lack of attention. hiSTORy OF MaRkeT STReeT
Federal, had over 20 project Chicago?), came under Nevertheless, it might just be WalkiNg TOuR
failures under their belts, a pre-ex- attack from all manner growing up a wee bit. The horny Plaza across from Ferry Building near
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News revealed. Amidst the bad to save the day — and world of actual dating, according to San Francisco’s most prominent boule-
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Francisco Batkid Miles Scott. “Way flooded the streets to not growing up that much). The and more. Uncover the hidden histories
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to save his website too. tMhialne slo Scaclo ctrti,m 5e-yfiegahrt-eorl d banodyf wriaenntde odr t goi relxfrpierensds mthaatte,r viaelr sus FilM SCReeNiNg:
leukemia sufferer and jumping to the hookup,” Hodge The hOuSe i live iN
nO BAtkID heart-meltingly cute told us. Jumpers shouldn’t fear any Russian Center of San Francisco, 2450
At SfpD BRAWL Make-A-Wish Foundation loss of action however. “Banging is Sisu stctreer,e SniFn. g7 t-h9e:3 S0upnmda, nfrceee a. wCiatryd H-woipne-
wish recipient. | photo very much still in fashion and hope- ning documentary on the War on Drugs.
by amanda rhoades fully always will be. The film examines the forty-year war
In other tangentially Batkid related that our country has waged against nar-
news, one cyclist on his way home cotics and the results it has produced:
45 million arrests, making the U.S. the
from seeing Batkid thanked by the pAIntIng jfk pULSE BEAtS AnEW
world’s largest jailer, and damaging
SFPD for foiling the Riddler was poor, minority communities at home
himself taken down by cops near This Friday marks the 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s assassination, Props to busy venue CounterPulSe for scoring a and abroad. Meanwhile, drugs have
his front door. D’Paris Williams, so in between your annual viewing of Oliver Stone’s JFK (1991) and putting new space as part of the brand-new Community Arts oenaslyie bre tcoo ombtea cinh.e Bapy edre, mstoronnsgtreart,i anng dh ow
21, was injured by the plainclothes the final touches on your grassy-knoll diorama, stop by Tyrone McCloskey’s Stabilization Trust, which aims to bring arts and cultur- this war has been fueled by political and
undercover officers as they art exhibit, now up at Kezar Bar and Restaurant (900 Cole, SF). It features al organizations into the burgeoning Central Market economic corruption and showcasing
the individual lives that it affects, from
attempted to detain him, who said over 100 acrylic and ink works inspired by home-movie and newsreel stills neighborhood. The 22-year-old CounterPULSE the street dealer to the narcotics officer
he was in violation of California chronicling the tragic events of November 22, 1963. Jackie’s pink suit, will be relocating from its current digs at 1310 to the prison inmate, the film makes the
Vehicle Code, in an SFPD state- Dealey Plaza, Oswald’s Mission to a to-be-refurbished former porn case for the total failure of the War on
Drugs. Refreshments will accompany
ment. Accounts from one man mug shots: all there and joint at 80 Turk. According to the venue’s the screening.
at the scene, Travis Jensen, via recreated in astounding press release trumpeting the arrangement, SubveRSive FilM SCReeNiNg
Instagram, say three neighbors detail. As Kevin Costner the move will take place in January 2015; prior ON DRONeS
came to Williams’ aide, only to be says at the end of JFK, to that, it will be encouraging “public input at a series outside the San Francisco Jazz
detained themselves. Video from what really happened of open discussions and visioning meetings scheduled CCOenDtEerP, I2N0K1, FWraonrlkdl iCna, nS’Ft. W 6apimt a,n frde oet.h ers
the incident shows a huge crowd that day is “up to you” to take place in December 2013 and January 2014.” plan to host a film screening on drone
of neighbors around the arrests as — and a close look at Visit www.counterpulse.org for up-to-date details — strikes, projecting one or two films about
well as punches thrown. Felony and McCloskey’s paintings and why not take in an edgy, innovative show at the dItr’os npeasr to ouft asi pdreo tthees tS aFg Jaainzszt C Pernetseidr.e nt
misdemeanor charges have been just might help you Mission Street digs while you’re at it? This weekend’s Barack Obama, who is scheduled to visit
filed against those at the brawl, the form an opinion, featured act is the Brontez Purnell Dance Company, the city and attend a luncheon at the
SFPD said, though it was unclear at lone-gunman or performing The Episodes. | photo of brontez Jtoa zmza Crecnht teor tohne N Jaozvz. 2C5e.n Pterro atet s1t1e:r3s 0palamn
press time what they are. otherwise. purnell by Caleb mCloud on Mon/25 to protest drone strikes.
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we need to start tHe difficult work of transitioning to a socialized Medicine systeM.
Single-payer is the cure
EDITORIAL We’re sorry to see all the cates have been right all along,
problems surrounding President noting among other things that
Obama’s Affordable Care Act, the government runs Medicare
which has made some important well and with far lower overhead
improvements to the country’s than insurance companies.
healthcare system, such as helping The problems with Obamacare
those with preexisting conditions are similar to the problems it
get coverage and preventing those sought to address, and they stem
who do have coverage from being from the fact that an insur-
arbitrarily dropped. Given a break ance-based model is a terrible way
from being exploited by the insur- to run a healthcare system. It’s too
ance industry, there’s no way this expensive and does too little to
country’s citizens will want to go hold down medical costs, it’s con-
back to how things were. fusing and stressful to people who
But the convoluted Obamacare are already wrestling with disease
system was a foreseeable mess, one or injury, and it unjustly creates
that is now causing unnecessary different standards of care for the
anxiety across the country and rich and poor.
bringing right-wing extremists Socialized medicine — or a
back from the political dead as single-payer system, adminis-
the mid-term elections approach. tered by either government or a
Republicans may not be correct private contractor, but paid for
when they trumpet the old sys- automatically through our taxes
tem as the best on the world, but — works well in just about every
their criticisms of Obamacare other industrialized country, most
are already finding increasing of which are far less expensive
resonance, and we haven’t even and yet have better healthcare
gotten to the point yet where it outcomes. A single-payer system
will be illegal not to have health could utilize the existing health-
insurance. care infrastructure, it would sim-
It doesn’t make sense to leave ply change how we pay for it and
something as important as our bring much-needed price controls
healthcare system in the hands of and regulatory oversight.
for-profit corporations with the Think about it: Healthcare
incentive to drive up costs. The coverage is something that every
New York Times has done some citizen needs in equal measure. After Prop 30, what’s next? Reform Prop 13
excellent work this year showing We all need the right to see a
how US residents pay astronom- doctor when we’re sick or injured.
ically more for every procedure None of us should have to gamble By Matt Haney education went down, poverty 13 to ensure more regular value
and drug than citizens of other with our health by weighing the went up. reassessment of commercial prop-
countries. We should have all cost of various monthly insurance OPINION Proposition 30 was a big California voters originally erty. Demographic change, voter
been suspicious when the insur- premiums against our likelihood deal: It raised over $6 billion a passed Prop 13 mainly to protect education and registration, and the
ance industry cooperated with of ending up in the hospital. year by increasing taxes on the homeowners. But due to loopholes victory of Prop 30 have shifted the
enacting Obamacare and helped And it really shouldn’t be up to wealthy, balanced the state budget, in the law that prevent regular political landscape.
preclude a public option, leaving struggling small businesses to pay and allowed our K-12 and higher reassessment of commercial proper- The San Francisco School
us with the insurance exchanges expensive health insurance pre- education systems to put an end to ty, large commercial property own- Board recently joined dozens of
that have been so problematic. miums for their employees, even mass layoffs, exploding class sizes, ers are getting a multi-billion dollar school boards, city councils, and
There’s really only one reme- though that’s really the only way and ballooning tuition. public subsidy. Many commercial board of supervisors across the
dy to this country’s ailing health- to make the fatally flawed insur- But one year later, it’s about property owners are paying taxes state in calling for the reform of
care system, which we said at the ance model work. time we ask ourselves: What’s next? at rates that are nearly unchanged Prop 13 through a statewide ballot
time that Obamacare was being There’s infighting among Even after Prop 30, the under- from decades ago. Chevron alone is initiative in 2016 or sooner. The
passed and we’ll repeat again now congressional Democrats now funding of education and essential under-taxed by a billion dollars! strategy, led by organizations like
that there’s even more evidence about whether to roll back parts of services remains, with California Reforming the commercial Evolve California and California
supporting our position: We Obamacare, such as hospital sub- still near the bottom nationally in property tax loophole in Prop Calls, is to ramp up the pres-
need socialized medicine in this sidies and whether to let people K-12 per pupil funding. Prop 30 13 could bring in over $7 billion sure from the ground up. Cities,
country. remain on minimal catastrophic was a step forward, but we all knew annually, most of which would go schools, and communities are the
Conservatives who read that coverage plans, and all that will that we ultimately would have to directly to education. Despite new canaries in the mine. We have
assertion are probably shaking do is upset the careful balance the take on the “Godzilla” of California funding from Prop 30, our schools experienced Prop 13’s carnage
their heads in disbelief right now, plan tried to achieve to hold down tax policy: Proposition 13. desperately need greater invest- firsthand, and we cannot be silent.
believing that Obamacare’s short- long-term costs. Since its passage in 1978, Prop ments if we are going to provide Just as we did with Prop 30,
comings prove that government For now, we need to apply 13 has decimated public education a 21st century education for all of Californians deserve a choice:
can’t run a healthcare system. whatever bandages needed to stop and essential services in our state. our children. fully fund education and essential
And the inexcusable technical the bleeding and limp the flawed Per pupil support in California Prop 13 has long been viewed services, or maintain a broken and
problems with the federal health- Obamacare along for a little while. plummeted from top 10 in the as the “third rail” of California inequitable tax system. We can’t
care.gov website and its related But we also need to immediately nation to bottom 10, and the tax politics. Talk about reforming it, have both. Next time the stakes
state exchanges unfortunately start the difficult work of transi- burden shifted away from busi- and risk your political career. Yet will be even higher, so it’s critical
reinforce that view. But they’re tioning to a socialized medicine nesses and onto individuals. As recent polls show an openness that we start preparing for this
wrong, and the single-payer advo- system. 2 state investments in services and from Californians to reform Prop fight now. Let’s get to work. 2
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heNe Kelly of seNior aNd disability actioN leads supporters
iN a chaNt calliNg for aN eNd to evictioNs.
GUARDIAN PHOTO BY REBECCA BOWE
New hope for
pareNts
arts NoNprofits
uNder pressure
A few months ago, arts nonprofits
CounterPULSE and The Luggage In recent weeks, the San
Store faced an uncertain future. New Francisco Unified School
tech neighbors drove their rents sky District held a series of com-
high, and the groups that for years munity forums to ask parents
were venues for struggling artists what they think kids need in
found themselves struggling. order to thrive in school. The
“Twitter moved in literally meetings were held as part of a
behind our building,” said Jessica policymaking process leading
Robinson Love, executive director of up to next year’s renewal of
CounterPULSE. Faced with higher two important funds — the
rents, the nonprofits started prepar- Children’s Fund and the
ing for a move to Oakland. evictioN epidemic spurs legislative solutioNs Public Education Enrichment
But now a nonprofit with Fund, which account for some
resources to match tech is on a mis- $100 million combined.
sion to help displaced arts organiza- Tenants, organizers and residents impacted by Ellis Act Act eviction,” he said. “When you consider them in There were huge turnouts
tions find permanent homes. evictions packed the Board of Supervisors Chambers combination with Ellis, the numbers are very dramatic.” — a Chinatown forum, where
In a packed press conference at San Francisco City Hall Nov. 14 for a hearing on Throughout the afternoon, tenants shared their Mayor Ed Lee was reportedly
just outside The Luggage Store on eviction and displacement in San Francisco. As more stories and fears about getting frozen out of San in attendance, attracted more
Market Street, the foundation-fund- and more residents face ousters only to be priced out, Francisco by eviction. “I’m looking at shopping carts, than 180 participants, while
ed Community Arts Stabilization lawmakers and advocates are floating legislative fixes and I’m terrified,” one woman told supervisors during a Nov. 14 meeting at Cesar
Trust announced Wednesday that it to try and reverse the trend before it reaches the soar- public comment. “You have to do something. It might Chavez Elementary in the
ing levels of the displacement epidemic that impacted not be enough for me right now, but you can’t do this Mission District drew a crowd
the city during the first dot-com boom. to any more people.” of between 80 and 90.
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“It seems to me that we have a tale of two cities,” Campos is working with Assembly member Tom The parents weren’t exactly
Sup. David Campos, who requested the hearing, Ammiano on a proposal to grant San Francisco the asking for more museum field
said at the start of the discussion, held at the Board authority to place a moratorium on Ellis Act evictions. trips for their kids. During
of Supervisors’ Neighborhood Services and Safety He’s also pursuing legislation that would create a breakout sessions where facil-
Committee. “We must act urgently to address this mechanism at the San Francisco Rent Board to allow itators wrote group members’
crisis, which I believe is a crisis,” he added. “We are tenants to register formal complaints about landlord concerns on flip pads, a few
fighting, I think, for the soul of San Francisco.” harassment and other kinds of pressure. recurring themes emerged. “Job
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Fred Brousseau of the San Francisco Budget and “I am eager to introduce a bill in January,” security for parents,” one read.
Legislative Analyst’s office shared his recent analysis Ammiano noted. “One option might be a law that “Affordable housing,” another
on eviction and displacement trends across the city. will allow the local jurisdictions, like San Francisco, stated. “It’s a shame to have to
11.13-11.19.2013 Overall evictions in San Francisco rose from 1,242 to suspend the Ellis Act or establish a moratorium, talk about lack of funds given
to 1,716 over the past three years, he said, reflecting because of the emergency housing situation. Another wealth and corporations in SF,”
an increase of 38.2 percent. Ellis Act evictions rose by possibility is working to make sure that landlords are more parent feedback stated.
169.8 percent in that same time frame. not skirting Ellis eviction requirements by improperly Maria Su, director of the
would purchase two proper- Almost 42 percent of individuals impacted by pressuring tenants to leave. We must do something, San Francisco Department
ties for the longstanding Mid-Market eviction had some form of disability, Brousseau noted, but we have to work together to make it successful.” of Children, Youth and their
nonprofits. Risky renters no longer, while 49 percent had incomes at or below the federal Meanwhile, Mayor Ed Lee recently announced that Families, thanked parents for
both nonprofits will soon own their poverty level. On the whole, a total of nearly 43 percent he is working with Sen. Mark Leno on legislation to curb coming and told them, “We
own buildings, shielded from the of San Francisco households are “rent-burdened,” a Ellis Act evictions by requiring additional permits or know how hard it is and how
ebbs and flows of rent surges. term that officially means devoting more than 30 per- hearings before they proceed. They’re also contemplating challenging it is to survive in
Flanked by Mayor Ed Lee and cent of household income toward rent, the study found. floating more stringent regulations on the sale and resale the city. But that doesn’t mean
Sup. Jane Kim, CAST said The Ted Gullicksen of the San Francisco Tenants Union of properties where tenants have been evicted under Ellis. we should give up.”
Luggage Store will stay on Market and emphasized that tenant buyouts, frequently offered At the end of the day, it’s clear that housing advo- The event illustrated chal-
Sixth streets, while CounterPULSE in lieu of an eviction, are also driving displacement, cates are gaining momentum as the spike in tenant lenges facing families in a city
will move five blocks away into an although those transactions aren’t reflected in city ousters continues in pricey San Francisco, where rents where a hefty cost of living
old porn theater on Turk Street. The records. “There are about three of them for every Ellis are the highest in the nation. (Rebecca Bowe) amounts to serious pressure.
two arts nonprofits have been in San “The sacrifices they make is,
Francisco since the early 1990s. their children will have access to
“Yes, rents are rising because “The bottom line is, nonprofits The long wait before moving is could stay for the duration of their resources you can’t get anywhere
of our success,” Lee said to the can’t compete on a commercial real due to the need for renovation at the exhibits. “It’s magic,” she said. else,” said Mario Paz with the
crowd. “But this will be a city for estate market,” Love said. While the Turk Street site. Formerly the Gayety CounterPULSE already has Good Samaritan Family Resource
the 100 percent.” move bought them some breathing theater and Dollhouse, the site was agreements with SROs to perform for Center, who works with a lot of
The city contributed just over room, the reprieve is temporary. littered with broken glass and piles tenants, and street art is a part of the Latino immigrant families.
$300,000 toward helping the non- CounterPULSE must raise mil- of trash and remains in disrepair. package, too. They’re a progressive “Many participants comment-
profits find a new home, a small lions of dollars to pay CAST for The Guardian took a tour of the arts group, she said, “from food jus- ed on ... the extraordinarily high
fraction compared to the $5 million the property, which it hopes to do site with Love, and she saw through tice to prison reform, from housing cost of living in San Francisco,” a
committed by the Kenneth Rainin before moving into the space in the crumbling plaster to what could advocacy to rental rights.” She views report noted, which “contributes
Foundation. The new nonprofit then 2015, Love told us. The amount isn’t be. Leading us downstairs, she the arts as a way to bring together to both financial and emotional
bought the properties, a new strat- exact yet because it’s still applying showed us where performers would community, by giving them a safe strain on the part of our many
egy of pooling funds to save arts for a number of grants that could practice. On the top floor, she envi- place to be at night, and a reason to working class and lower income
organizations. mitigate the costs. sioned a space where visiting artists celebrate. (Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez) residents.” (Rebecca Bowe)
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