Real Estate and most every social question: a walking tour

This FREE weekly walking tour (being led since 1998!) interprets San Francisco social movement history as nothing less than the struggle over who will dominate real estate. The power to exclude others, whether politically, economically, socially, and environmentally is a 3-dimensional affair. The landlord's ability to legally or otherwise demand payment for the use of place underlies every caste and racial question. On this walk we'll explore 10 social movements, from AIM's occupation of Alcatraz to the Black Panther liberation movement, from #Black Lives Matter to Occupy Wall Street, always looking at the question of power from the perspective of "Who owns the land?"

The hypothesis is that socializing the entire rent of the footprint of the Americas is fundamental to liberating a genuine free-market in the movement and exercise of Labor and Capital, while at the same time eliminating the unearned income and political power that comes from merely holding title to the planet against others' use of it by which to get a livelihood.