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DESCRIPTION:You're most welcome to join a FREE walking tour that surveys 200 years of 
 social movements in San Francisco on the way to arguing that the land 
 itself--or more public policy-wise, the annual rent of land--is the lever 
 of power that injures or blesses marginalized demographics.\n\nWhether it 
 was the Native American excluded from historic lands, the Queer community 
 despised and reviled in the presence of self-described Normals, the Black 
 Panthers targeted for seeking security in the self-same geography as 
 Euro-Americans, anti-war protesters questioning US imperialism in Viet Nam 
 and Iraq, or housing rights advocates challenging market-rate construction, 
 the underlying (literally!) issue was (and is!) who asks for the location 
 rent for use of the territory of the United States? \n\nThe walk summits at 
 St. Mary's Square where San Francisco's BIG IDEA --dating back to 1879--is 
 presented. That's when the City by the Bay bayed the unwholesome notion 
 that private parties rightfully demand to be paid location rent for use of 
 America. Rather, a short, doughty San Francisco journalist argued, society 
 should only recognize private title to the Earth if the annual economic 
 value of land, determined parcel by parcel, is paid to society.\n\nThe 
 economic consequence would be that those who would exclude others by 
 attitude would nevertheless have to materially compensate all humanity--in 
 the Biblical turn of phrase "whether bond or free, Jew or Gentile, male or 
 female"--for their forgone use of that portion of planet Earth.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/10/24/18880915.php
SUMMARY:What social movements need: the walking tour
LOCATION:meet in the lobby of the American Youth Hostel\n312 Mason Street\nSan 
 Francisco, CA
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/10/24/18880915.php
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