A Beautiful Day of Sun Shine and Shaking It.

Looking out across the diverse group of people that milled around the police barricade at Treat and 24th street I was reminded  of our complacency.  Rather then everyone dancing, making music, and otherwise getting wild in the street, we instead stared on at these performers as though we were waiting for something.  What that something was I’m not sure?  When editing this film a couple of important ideas formed in my brain.  One was the presence of the Haiti float that reminded me that the earthquake damages demands our support (here is a good organization for such a thing http://www.pih.org/).   The second was that the Bolivian dancers amazing colors reemphasized our necessity for our local communities to join  with World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth so that we can create and support the positive changes for ecological justice we want to see in the world on a global scale.

May Day Parade 2010

People gathering in the streets to speak there minds and share their ideas is one of San Francisco’s cultural roots. May it continue to grow and prosper.

Blackstar at Mezzanine June 21 2008

We are so blessed to have chill music halls to catch great shows like this one with Mos Def and Talib Kweli.

Lightning in a Bottle Ana Sia Set

We love our local artists. For more about Ana Sia click here.

Footage of San Francisco in 1905

Cruising down Market Street

Music composed by Air

Events After Mehserle Verdict

What does this image portray to you?

When I first saw this image in the July 14th-20th edition of the Bay Guardian I thought to myself isn’t it rather odd that after a trial based on police violence and brutality that when you open the paper the first thing you see is more violence taking place to other unarmed civilians. Isn’t there something wrong with the fact that our tax money is used to pay for promoting violence and oppression through the increase spending of police activities rather then building schools, health clinics, and affordable housing? Some might say that the police in this image are just doing there jobs, its not there fault that people are marching to speak there minds. This is true. Therefore it innately brings into question there jobs and whether it serves the public interest. For let us not forget these individuals are public servants, here to serve our needs not the other way around. Or are they? An interesting link for the root of the word police. Note “The earliest use in this sense occurs in Marine Police, the name given to the force instituted c1798 (originally by private enterprise) to protect merchant shipping on the River Thames in the Port of London.” So who do they really serve?

End USA Imperialism

When we speak of the end of USA Imperialism we are addressing all the direct and indirect acts of aggression that the USA is engaged in. When we were at the US Social Forum in Detroit one of the things that the IVAW kept saying was that they felt that the end of ‘the wars,’ being that of Iraq and Afghanistan, were fundamental to dealing with USA imperialism, which they are, but the greater question is where do the lines of ‘the wars’ begin and end in the world domination model? Since being beaten back from the Chinese boarder in the Korean War the USA’s policy has been to regain that ground. Not because they are communist. Not because they pose a threat to the world/USA as they claim. But because there independence does not allow for open boarders of exploitation and slavery. So while there are no bullets flying at the moment, images and articles like this remind us that the sickness of greed extends deep into our society and species and to be free of it we must call it out into the light and take action to alter it no matter where it exists.

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For more information about our global world click here.

Oscar Grant Rally Oakland CA Jan 2009

After finding out through CAPE on Facebook that the end meeting point of the rally for Oscar Grant was lacking its sound system in downtown Oakland there was only one thing to be done.  We jumped in the van, zoomed across the bay, and BOOM we brought the sound.

For more about the mobile sound system click here.

Sunday Streets on 24th and Treat

Throughout the summer, Sunday Streets closes different roads to cars.  We were out in the sunshine with big smiles at 24th & Treat.  For more about the mobile sound system click here.

This image grabbed me and the article informed me………….. I hope it affects you as well.

Street Sheet is organized by Coalition on Homelessness

United States Social Forum In Detroit

The air was a buzz of excitement on the first day of workshops.  On Wednesday people  from all over the world converged on Detroit ready to discuss the hard questions that the rest of the political arenas of our country seem reluctant to even acknowledge as existing, let alone strive to find an answer to.  Luckily both questions and answers ran rampant through the streets of Detroit from Tuesday through Saturday with an endless list of workshops and people’s movement assemblies to keep all busy.  I want to give a big thank you for the coordinators and organizations that put on the forum and for the wonderful people of Detroit that treated us with great kindness.  For more video’s, photos, and links click here.