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DESCRIPTION:Come along on a free walking tour surveying SF social movement history, led 
 by a middle and high school history teacher. We'll tackle housing, race, 
 and wage issues through the lenses of dominance-resistant groups such as 
 the Black Panthers, the Diggers, the Mormons (!), the American Indian 
 Movement, and many others.\n\nSeptember 2's the birthday of San Francisco's 
 boldest social thinker to date, Henry George, who argued for socializing 
 all land values so that no one would have to pay any private party for use 
 of the Earth. In short, the ultimate psychic and economic "belonging" 
 public policy.\n\nIn that mind we add a timely poem below.\n\nIn the heat 
 o’ the sun in San Francisco, on a neighborhood village street, after the 
 first day teaching US History\n\n\nOn a day like this the Samoyed and mixed 
 Husky crave shade,\nCertainly water, and even, perhaps, a popsicle;\nOn a 
 day like today all the men, including St. Kevin’s priest, wish they’d 
 worn shorts;\nOn a day like today the toddler speaks her first word, 
 “Hat”—in an urgent tone;\nOn a day like this, you knew the moon must 
 come up full;\nOn a day like this only the plants stay put with heads 
 uncovered. \n\n\nAnd just like that, driven by the sun,\nThomas Jefferson, 
 in 1785 full of the future, wrote Madison\n—as though Paine coursed his 
 venous system—, \n“The earth is given as a common stock for man to 
 labor and live on,” \nThen found shade in the cool for 41 years a 
 scoundrel slaver. \n\nOn a day like this, unpleasant, blinding, reminiscent 
 of Confederate lands in near swelter,\nSan Francisco steels itself, bound 
 for cool shade or, might it be, a world turned upside down.\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2023/08/31/18858645.php
SUMMARY:A US History teacher's walking tour trek through San Francisco's past and present
LOCATION:we meet in the lobby of the\nAmerican Youth Hostel\n312 Mason Street
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2023/08/31/18858645.php
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