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DESCRIPTION:Independence Day. When the idea is that not only the nation, but the 
 individual is free "to do their thing," to use that 60's refrain.\n\nBut 
 independence, whether national or individual, is always in the context of 
 the social, by which we mean sharing space with others on the 
 planet.\n\nCome along on a walking tour exploring San Francisco social 
 movement history from the perspective that all "othering" is, at base, 
 excluding from equality of access to specific geography, whether a 
 neighborhood, a city, a nation, or the planet altogether.\n\nYour host has 
 been leading this tour since 1998, analyzing the intersection of justice 
 with real estate. Along the way you'll encounter 11 stories of displacement 
 or exclusion that might have been remedied with the Big Fix, proposed here 
 in San Francisco in 1879, to oblige those who want to call a piece of the 
 planet theirs to pay everyone else to stay off.\n\nThe Big Fix is no slouch 
 in confronting today's housing, wages, and wealth divide issues, either. 
 Come along and get a load of Independence Day intellectual and spiritual 
 grist.\n\nAnd here's a bit of Independence slam apropos the wave of bogus 
 biblical political bilge:\n\nINDEPENDENCE DAY, 2024, PHRASED FOR THE 
 BIBLICALLY CONFUSED\n\nGet that poppycock out of your mind.\nThe 
 exceptionalism of America is staggering, \nBorn as it was of gobs of land 
 available \nFor the hewing, and the slaughter of natives. \nThe hewing and 
 slaughtering are done. \nFor 250 years—plus or minus a native—\nIt’s 
 been about enclosure, and that,\nGod being done with Creating, is that. 
 \nCreation is enclosed, and exceptionalism\nNow means exclusion of 
 God-given wherewithal \nExcept upon payment by Earth’s migrant 
 legions,\nForeign and domestic, of Creation rent, due on the 
 1st.\n\nDon’t blather hard work and family values:\nThat’s the 
 poppycock you were nursed on,\nThe pride in identity of AMERICA,\nLand of 
 land for the hewing and the inconvenient truth\nOf natives needing 
 displacement or euphemistic good riddance. \n\nBut wait, I’m no nut-case 
 Jeremiah\n(Look that up, you vapid Bible-thumpers);\nCall me 
 Jerry-who-never-meanders\nFrom the Biblical truth that God  created,\nAnd 
 rent-taking land-lordism is usurpation of the divine. \nIndependence Day, 
 in short, is nothing less\nThan the right to hew Creation, provided I 
 \nLeave as much and as good for you.\n\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2024/07/03/18867773.php
SUMMARY:Independence Day walking tour
LOCATION:meet in the lobby of the American Youth Hostel\n312 Mason Street\nSan 
 Francisco
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2024/07/03/18867773.php
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