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DESCRIPTION:"I sleep well at night when I send people to state prison because you have 
 multiple opportunities to turn yourself around in San 
 Francisco."\nAssistant District Attorney Sharon Woo\nSeptember 4th, 
 2007\n\nYou may have heard otherwise, but it's never really ever been cool 
 to be poor in San Francisco. Though things have been getting pretty out of 
 hand lately. Under capitalism it's hard to find time for both paying rent 
 and a zesty diet of direct action. With the city closing public services in 
 the name of an alleged budget crisis while fattening salaries in the 
 Mayor's Office, Gavin Newsom going forward with a Community Justice Center 
 to help process the costly volume of tickets police together with social 
 workers have been giving out for sleeping on the street, and 
 diversity-washed ads proclaiming SF a "Sanctuary City" while continuing ICE 
 raids and gang injunctions, Gay Shame has decided to turn in an unexpected 
 direction: SPIRITUALITY!!!\n\nBecause the gentrification of the Polk Street 
 area in the Tenderloin is an intersection of so many different wars City 
 Hall is waging-- against people of color, sex workers, homeless people, 
 immigrants, drug addicts, youth, and marginalized queer/trans people-- it's 
 the perfect place to channel voices of resistance! At the intersection of 
 Polk and Hemlock Street (between Geary and Post) Gay Shame will be 
 conducting a seance to summon the ghosts of Polk Street's past! Bring your 
 otherworldly tales of resisting the murderous status quo! Bring sound 
 implements to raise the dead! Dress to receive messages from beyond!\n\nAct 
 now! With our bargain seance package you also get an optional exorcism at 
 no extra charge. Show those pesky gentrification ghouls who's boss at their 
 haven of secular morality: The First Congregational Church! Newly 
 constructed over the remains of a gay hustler bar called the Rendezvous 
 (which was forced out of the neighborhood by the cops, jealous merchants 
 and concerned citizens), the brave new church pays host to the monthly 
 Lower Polk Neighbors meetings. Lower Polk Neighbors has been the driving 
 force behind squeezing the spirit out of Polk Street by annexing their 
 bland unimaginative business improvement district. Maybe it's in the stars, 
 but the First Congregational Church just so happens to be a healthy 2 block 
 jog away from our meeting spot! Om!\n\nJoin us for a night of supernatural 
 shenanigans in defense of street culture!\n\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/05/13/18498774.php
SUMMARY:POLK STREET SEANCE
LOCATION:summon the ghosts of polk street's past!
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/05/13/18498774.php
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