Land, Land, Land! Here, there, everywhere; it's what's needed and wanted: a walking tour

Join a long-time-running FREE walking tour of San Francisco social movement history. From the American Indian Movement occupation of Alcatraz to the Mormon hegira to Californio-era Yerba Buena to Black Panther revolutionary communalism in the Fillmore to Cecil Williams and Glide Memorial's housing programs . . . and 7 more stories . . . you'll get the point: people need land to exist, and that's what, at last, all social movements are about, namely the right to belong with dignity somewhere on the surface of planet Earth. Whether it's San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood or the sleepy cove near today's Portsmouth Square in 1846 or any of the roughly 49 square miles of the city today, those who are "othered" because they don't "belong" are the subject of this fast-paced, survey of TROUBLE at last meeting its match. It's all about access to land, and San Francisco answered the call in 1879 with its Big Idea to socialize the entire nation's land value . . . without giving up private land ownership!

Housing activists, wage champions, climate change trumpeteers, immigration-issue activists will find this walk supremely challenging: can anything really be done without treating the Earth as community property?