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DESCRIPTION:Dick Gregory, life-long social justice activist/author passed this year. To 
 my chagrin I hadn't read any of his writings until this past month, and 
 what a sensation of being cast out of the belly of the whale with a renewed 
 sense of mission-to-Nineveh his THE SHADOW THAT SCARES ME delivered 
 me.\n\nMy walking tour of San Francisco social movements history has, for 
 19 years, surveyed a slew of efforts to, in Gregory's turn of phrase, "get 
 the oppressor off the oppressed person's back." A short list of these 
 efforts would include Black Liberation, LGBTQ Liberation, Women's 
 Liberation, housing rights. My walk has explored these and several other 
 social movements, positing a unifying principle with all of them, namely a 
 struggle for "security in geography," which might more elaborately be typed 
 as the desire to no longer be considered the outsider or "the 
 other."\n\nGregory identifies racism (as have others of course) as 
 exclusionary behavior by those who create through rhetoric fatuous 
 divisions within humanity. Confronting this rhetoric and commensurate 
 behavior is the deep down objective of social justice work.\n\nCome along 
 on a walking tour which explores this rhetoric, explodes its slander and 
 libel, and puts forward a gritty social policy adjustment originally 
 articulated in 19th century San Francisco which comprehensively 
 extinguishes the bite of racism.\n\nFREE. \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2017/12/28/18805550.php
SUMMARY:Dick Gregory memorial walking tour
LOCATION:American Youth Hostel\n312 Mason St.\nSan Francisco\n(meet in the lobby)
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2017/12/28/18805550.php
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