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INTELLIGENcE
HIGH AND mIGHTY
Get your head out of the
(Internet) cloud and into
the cloud forest — the San
Francisco Botanical Garden’s
mesoamerican Cloud Forest,
to be specific. This unique
collection of rare, colorful
LURKING plants native to high-elevation
Central American jungles (they
HBO’s gay show Looking divided thrive here thanks to SF’s daily
audiences with its somewhat tepid, fog-fests) is in bloom now
laidback take on homosexual life through the end of December,
in the new millennium. But the with free guided walks and
excitement of the second season’s in-depth tours (for a small fee)
filming in SF is undeniable. (For offered throughout the season.
one thing, it’s allowed a lot of our San Francisco residents get
actor friends to eat on the generous free admission to the gardens
extras’ salaries.) If you’re down with proof of residency, so
to stalk the cute cast and bask in don’t miss your chance to see
some HBO allure, they’ve been all plants like the Giant Groundsel,
over the Castro lately, including dripping with enormous yellow
Wednesday afternoon’s farmers’ flowers, putting on a show in
market at Noe and Market streets. Golden Gate Park.
Go get ’em! www.sfbotanicalgarden.org
WALK OVER THE RAINBOW
By the time your eyeballs read these words, the
Castro will be even more colorful than before.
DAPPER UP
We’re getting rainbows, baby! The city plans to
make the 18th and Castro intersection permanent-
ly and colorfully bedazzled, and paint the cross- SF’s queer and butch communities (and anyone who adores a good
walks the pride flag’s colors. Let’s hope we don’t bespoke suit) are celebrating the opening of kipper Clothiers’ new
see any more snafus like the numerous typos on the brick and mortar store at 78 Gough in San Francisco. If you’re looking
plaques of LGBT heroes. Thankfully, putting bold for supremely tailored traditional men’s clothing for women’s and trans-
SHAKY ELLO! stripes of primary colors next to each other should people’s bodies, this is the hot spot. A free grand opening party Fri/4,
be a lot tougher to screw up. (Although the prospect 6pm-9pm — with delicious cocktails from Two Sisters Bar and Books, no
The 11th commandment is, of rainbow walkways does make some queers, like less — will launch the endeavor, presided over by Kipper founders Erin
“Don’t fuck with drag queens!” Marke B., throw up in their mouths a little.) Berg and Kyle Moshrefi. More info at www.facebook.com/KipperClothiers.
Following a Facebook revolt over GUARDiAn photo by cAbURE bonUGli/Shot in thE city
the giant’s deletion of drag queen
profiles, users flocked to newborn mOUSE-ONIc YES mEANS YES
social media site ello.co (which is
invite-only, so remember to suck If there were any doubts that modest mouse could still fire up a In a landmark win for sanity in
up to your friends!). But Ello is room, the band put them to sweaty rest with an energetic set Sept. California, Governor Jerry Brown
off to a shaky start: It temporarily
26 at The Masonic. Check the Noise blog at www.sfbg.com for more just signed the “yes means yes”
disabled inviting new users due
photos. | photo by Emily SEvin bill into law, the first national law
to the flood of newcomers, and
to define sexual consent. In short:
has already censored one user
“Lack of protest or resistance does
for impersonating a brand name
not mean consent,” the law’s lan-
(corporate evil! hissss). Hopefully
guage states, “nor does silence mean
Ello lives up to our ever-so-lofty
consent. Affirmative consent must be
expectations.
ongoing throughout a sexual activity
and can be revoked at any time.”
WHO OWNS State-funded colleges must also have
TEcH ADOPTS PUBLIc ScHOOLS policies to handle sexual assault,
THE NEW SF?
spurred by a rise in reportage of inci-
Billionaire Ron Conway has teamed up with other tech investors to launch dents in schools like UC Berkeley.
This week, former Bay Guardian “One City” — apparently named to counter the “tale of two cities” nar-
editor and publisher Tim Redmond
rative emphasizing a growing income inequality gap fueled by the tech
published an epic investigation on sector. Backed by Conway’s organization, sf.citi, the campaign “uses an FOLLOW US FOR
his 48hills site showing that up to
adopt-a school model,” according to a press release, matching 20 tech mORE INTELLIGENcE
39 percent of new luxury condos in
companies with struggling, under-funded public schools where they’ll
San Francisco are owned as invest-
donate books or mentor youth. The campaign was announced with a @sfbg
ments by out-of-towners, puncturing
splashy video, featuring cameos by the mayor and the police chief, poking
the myth that unfettered market-rate San Francisco
fun at an over-hyped tech gadget called “MyBook.” Tech leaders deserve Bay Guardian
housing development will help with
a round of applause for recognizing that public schools are in dire need.
the city’s affordability crisis. See @sfbayguardian
But we hope this doesn’t mean that the only hope for public education is
www.48hills.org for more. through the intervention of billionaires. www.sfbg.com
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opinion
We could hardly have a clearer choice oF prioriTies. parking loTs or parks?
Prop. L privileges
cars over people
By Fran Taylor Medical costs throughout the
city for pedestrian injuries alone
OPINION Just as climate change most amount to about $15 million a year,
affects people who contributed little while the total annual health-related
or nothing to causing it, pollution costs of traffic, including asthma and
and injury from traffic most affect other conditions, come to $564 mil-
communities least likely to create lion, according to the San Francisco
traffic. Nationally, people of color are Department of Public Health.
four times more likely than whites The national average annual cost
to rely on public transportation. At of owning a car is close to $10,000,
the same time, African Americans likely more in San Francisco. Were
have a pedestrian fatality rate 60 per- families more easily able to reduce
cent higher than that of whites. For that cost by having one car instead
Latinos, that rate is 43 percent higher. of two or living car-free entirely,
Locally, Chinatown and the they would free up needed money
Tenderloin have some of the low- for food, housing, and education.
est rates of car ownership in San And that housing would be cheaper
Francisco. Yet these poor neighbor- without parking requirements. The
hoods suffer some of the highest construction of off-street parking
rates of pedestrian injury and death, can add costs of up to 20 percent per
including a woman killed in a cross- unit. Prop. L demands more garages,
walk at Stockton just last month. so cars can have homes in a city
Instead of acknowledging where so many humans lack them.
these inequities, the proponents of The recent transformation of
Proposition L on the November bal- Cesar Chavez Street, led by the
lot have cast themselves as victims, community group CC Puede, per-
claiming that pedestrian and bicycle sonifies the type of project Prop.
safety improvements create imped- L proponents object to. Changing
iments to their ability to drive fast a six-lane freeway on the ground
and park easily. did indeed slow traffic and remove
But streetscape improvements some parking at intersections to End mass incarceration
don’t make it impossible to drive. accommodate pedestrian bulbouts
They help make it possible to not and improve visibility, both proven
drive. And the ability to get around safety fixes. It also made it easier for
without a car benefits everyone, as a parents to cross the street with their
matter of health and fairness. children to Flynn and St. Anthony’s EDITORIAL We at the Bay Guardian Tom Ammiano, have chaired their world where people’s humanity is
Fewer speeding cars on the road elementary schools. It made it safer wholeheartedly support the Stop respective Public Safety Committees routinely violated because of the
mean fewer injuries and deaths, for seniors and pregnant women Mass Incarceration Network and and been important statewide lead- color of their skin, JOIN US. And
which in San Francisco dispropor- to reach St. Luke’s Hospital. Bicycle its call for the month of October to ers on prison reform. if you are shocked to hear that
tionately affect people walking. Of ridership on the street has increased be “a month of resistance to mass Yet it hasn’t been enough in a this kind of thing happens in this
the 20 traffic deaths so far in 2014, 400 percent. Lately, no cars have incarceration, police terror, repres- state that still has among the world’s so-called homeland of freedom and
14 have been pedestrians. In the crashed into homes, a regular occur- sion, and the criminalization of a highest incarceration rates, and democracy — it does happen, all
wider Bay Area, these pedestrian rence on the old six-lane speedway. generation.” It’s time to rediscover which is still resisting demands by the damned time — you need to
deaths are almost twice as likely to Prop. L proponents decry the our humanity, redirect our resourc- federal judges that we reduce our JOIN US too,” they wrote.
occur in poor communities. loss of parking, but where are those es, and invest in this country’s prison population to address severe Recently, this movement has
The Prop. L campaign claims spaces going? A parking lot at 17th underclass instead of attacking it. overcrowding and its unconstitution- been joined by a wide variety of
that streetscape improvements Street between Folsom and Shotwell The United States has the high- ally inadequate health care system. activists from the Bay Area, includ-
worsen pollution by forcing drivers in the Mission is about to be ripped est incarceration rate in the world, So we need to join this broad ing Van Jones and Matt Haney,
to idle engines and circle for park- up to make a park designed in part 717 per 100,000 citizens last year, and growing national movement who have co-founded #50Cut, an
ing. Free-flowing car movement is by children living nearby. In a dense or about 2.3 million people behind that seeks to drastically reduce our initiative focused on cutting the
the measure’s goal. If fast traffic is neighborhood with little greenery, bars. Put another way, the US has prison population and redirect US prison population in half in
so much healthier, freeways must half of the parking lot will give fam- about 5 percent of the world’s those resources into social services, the next 10 years (see “Schools not
be the healthiest of neighbors. Yet ilies crammed into crowded housing population but 25 percent of the education, and other more produc- prisons,” 9/3/14).
studies show that not only is asth- a place to walk to. The other half world’s prisoners, costing this tive pursuits. While dissident Chinese artist
ma much more widespread near will eventually be used for afford- country over $60 billion a year. The Stop Mass Incarceration Ai WeiWei laudably uses his new
freeways, but uncontrolled asthma able housing. San Francisco has long been a Network began in 2011 with a proc- exhibit on Alcatraz Island (“Flowers
is twice as prevalent within two We could hardly have a clearer leader in criminal justice reform, lamation by Carl Dix and Cornell on The Rock,” page 28) to focus
miles of that ideal zooming traffic. choice of priorities. Parking lots or pursuing policies based on reha- West, two important thinkers who attention on political prisoners and
Meanwhile, lack of walkable access parks? Parking lots or affordable bilitation and redemption instead have highlighted the dispropor- prisoners of conscience, the injustice
to schools and parks contributes to housing? Prop. L is a vote for park- of the mindless “tough-on-crimes” tionately high arrest and incarcer- of incarceration here in the US is
epidemic levels of obesity and diabe- ing over people. Vote No on L. 2 approach of other jurisdictions. ation rates of Latino and African even broader and deeper, affecting
tes, particularly in low-income pop- Two of our state legislators, Sen. American young men. entire generations of young people
ulations and communities of color. Fran Taylor is cochair of CC Puede. Mark Leno and Assemblymember “If you don’t want to live in a and their families. It must end. 2
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By Joe Fitzgerald rodriguez Project One vulnerable population is the “Information is the currency
[email protected] tiny shelled swimmers known as of democracy,” Ralph Nader, the
the sea butterfly. In only a few short prominent consumer advocate and
NEWS Our oceans are acidifying — decades, the death and deformation many-time presidential candidate,
even if the nightly news hasn’t told Censored of this fragile and translucent spe- wrote in his foreword to this year’s
you yet. cies could endanger predators all Project Censored 2015. But with most
As humanity continues to fill along the oceanic food web, scien- mass media owned by narrow cor-
the atmosphere with harmful gases, tists warn. porate interests, “the general public
the planet is becoming less hospi- This “butterfly effect,” once remains uninformed.”
table to life as we know it. The vast Ocean acidification tops the annual list unleashed, potentially threatens Whereas the mainstream media
oceans absorb much of the carbon fisheries that feed over 1 billion peo- poke and peck at noteworthy events
of important stories ignored by
dioxide we have produced, from ple worldwide. at single points in time, often devoid
the industrial revolution through the mainstream media Since ancient times, humans of historical context or analysis,
the rise of global capitalism. Earth’s fished the oceans for food. Now, we’re Project Censored seeks to clarify
self-sacrifice spared the atmosphere frying ocean life before we even catch understanding of real world issues
nearly 25 percent of humanity’s CO2 it, starving future generations in the and focus on what’s important.
emissions, slowing the onslaught of process. Largely left out of national Context is key, and many of its “top
many severe weather consequences. news coverage, this dire report was censored” stories highlight deeply
Although the news media have brought to light by a handful of entrenched policy issues that require
increasingly covered the climate independent-minded journalists: more explanation than a simple
weirding of global warming — hur- Craig Welch from the Seattle Times, sound bite can provide.
ricane superstorms, fierce tornado Julia Whitty of Mother Jones, and Eli Campus and faculty from over
clusters, overwhelming snowstorms, Kintisch of ScienceNOW. two dozen colleges and univer-
and record-setting global high tem- It is also the top story of Project sities join in this ongoing effort,
peratures — our ocean’s peril has Censored, an annual book and report- headquartered at Sonoma State
largely stayed submerged below the ing project that features the year’s University. Some 260 students and
biggest news stories. most underreported news stories, striv- 49 faculty vet thousands of news
The rising carbon dioxide in our ing to unmask censorship, self-cen- stories on select criteria: importance,
oceans burns up and deforms the sorship, and propaganda in corpo- timeliness, quality of sources, and
smallest, most abundant food at the rate-controlled media outlets. The the level of corporate news coverage.
bottom of the deep blue food chain. book is set for release in late October. The top 25 finalists are sent to
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Project Censored’s panel of judges, work predicts significant declines in ting metaphor for humanity, as our But the changes caused by ocean we have Project Censored and its
who then rank the entries, with ocean sharks, skates and rays, some types outsized consumption propels us acidification are gradual. Sea butter- annual list:
acidification topping this year’s list. of flounder and sole, and Pacific towards an equally dangerous fate. flies are among the most abundant
“There are outlets, regular whiting, the most frequently caught “It’s not as dramatic as say, an creatures in our oceans, and are 2. Top 10 US aid recipienTS
daily papers, who are independent commercial fish off the coast of asteroid is hitting us from outer increasingly born with shells that pracTice TorTUre
and they’re out there,” Andy Lee Washington, Oregon, and California. space,” Roth said of this slowly look like cauliflower or sandpaper, Sexual abuse, children kept in cages,
Roth, associate director of Project Acidification may also harm unfolding disaster, which is likely making this and similar species extra-judicial murder. While these
Censored, told us. Too many news fisheries in the farthest corners of why such a looming threat to our more susceptible to infection and sound like horrors the United States
outlets are beholden to corporate the earth: A study by the Arctic food chain escapes much main- predators. would stand against,, the reverse is
interests, but Welch of the Seattle Monitoring and Assessment stream news coverage. “Ocean acidification is changing true: This country is funding these
Times bucked the trend, Roth said, Programme outlines acidification’s Journalism tends to be more the chemistry of the world’s water practices.
by writing some of the deepest cov- threat to the arctic food chain. “action focused,” Roth said, looking faster than ever before, and faster The US is a signatory of the
erage yet on ocean acidification. “Decreases in seawater pH of to define conflict in everything it than the world’s leading scientists United Nations’ Convention
“There are reporters doing the about 0.02 per decade have been sees. A recently top-featured story predicted,” Welch said, but it’s not against Torture and Other Cruel,
highest quality of work, as evi- observed since the late 1960s in the on CNN focused on President getting the attention is deserves. Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or
denced by being included in our Iceland and Barents Seas,” the study’s Barack Obama’s “awkward coffee “Combined nationwide spending Punishment, but the top 10 interna-
list,” Roth said. “But the challenge is authors wrote in the executive sum- cup salute” to a Marine, which ranks on acidification research for eight tional recipients of US foreign assis-
reaching as big an audience as [the mary. And destroying fisheries means only slightly below around-the-clock federal agencies, including grants to tance in 2014 all practice torture,
story] should.” wiping out the livelihoods of the coverage of the president’s ugly tan university scientists by the National according to human rights groups,
Indeed, though Welch’s story was native peoples of the Antarctic. suit as a low point in mainstream Science Foundation, totals about $30 as reported by Daniel Wickham of
reported in the Seattle Times, a mid- Acidification can even rewire media’s focus on the trivial. million a year — less than the annu- online outlet Left Foot Forward.
sized daily newspaper, this warning the brains of fish, Welch’s story As Nader noted, “ ‘important al budget for the coastal Washington Israel received over $3 billion
is relevant to the entire world. To demonstrated. Studies found rising stories’ are often viewed as dull by city of Hoquiam, population 10,000.” in US aid for fiscal year 2013-14,
understand the impact of ocean CO2 levels cause clown fish to gain reporters and therefore unworthy of Our oceans may slowly cook according to a Congressional
acidification, Welch asks readers athleticism, but have their sense of coverage.” But mainstream media our food chain into new forms with Research Service report. Israel was
to “imagine every person on earth smell redirected. This transforms do cover some serious topics with potentially catastrophic consequenc- criticized by the country’s own
tossing a hunk of CO2 as heavy as a them into “dumb jocks,” scientists weight, as it did in the wake of the es. Certainly 20 years from now, Public Defender’s Office for torturing
bowling ball into the sea. That’s what said, swimming faster and more vig- police officer shooting of Michael when communities around the world children suspected of minor crimes.
we do to the oceans every day.” orously straight into the mouths of Brown in Ferguson, Mo. So what’s lose their main source of sustenance, “During our visit, held during a
Computer modeler Isaac their predators. the deciding factor? the news will catch on. But will the fierce storm that hit the state, attor-
Kaplan, at the National Oceanic and These Frankenstein fish were As Roth tells it, corporate news problem make the front page tomor- neys met detainees who described to
Atmospheric Administration office found to be five times more likely to focuses on “drama, and the most dra- row, while there’s still time to act? them a shocking picture: in the mid-
in Seattle, told Welch that his early die in the natural world. What a fit- matic action is of course violence.” Probably not, and that’s why CONTINUES ON PAGE 10 >>
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2012 to 2013, Human Rights Watch Times and Forbes “tend to highlight they are not.
found. The Kenyan government the business aspects of the case, skim- From defense contractors to mul-
received $564 million from the ming over vital particulars affecting tinational corporations, a wealthy
United States in 2013-14. the public and the Internet’s future.” elite using an estimated $32 trillion
When the US funds a highway Yet this is a case where corporate in tax-exempt offshore havens are
or other project that it’s proud of, media were circumvented by power the masters of our publicly elected
it plants a huge sign proclaiming of the viral web. John Oliver, come- officials. In an essay written for
“your tax dollars at work.” When dian and host of Last Week Tonight Moyer and Company by Mike Lofgren,
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North American Scum is moving on to other bands. Luckily, they’re report it at all. tance of stopping the FCC’s new cabal of wealthy interests comprise
having one last dance party with all the songs they’ve played through rules, resulting in a flood of com- our nation’s “Deep State.”
the years and a few surprises. They’ll be joined with DJs Treefitty, Dust 3. Trans-Pacific ments to the FCC defending a more As Lofgren writes for Moyers,
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To helP corPoraTions neutrality have since been thorough- our time. It is the red thread that
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to entertainment companies. Dominick Carollo, Steven of the government,” Lofgren wrote,
Meanwhile, more than 150 Goldberg, and Peter Grimm were of a group that together would
House Democrats signed a letter dubbed a part of the “modern “occupy the floor space of almost
urging President Obama to halt his American mafia,” by the magazine’s three Pentagons — about 17 million
efforts to fast-track negotiations, Matt Taibbi, one of the few jour- square feet.”
and to allow Congress the ability to nalists to consistently cover their
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“PEtE DoLIttLE” world consequences may be grave. as if cheating vulnerable Americans in the background to monitor and
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