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“Or, the Whale,” by Jos Sances, seen here at its Richmond Art Center debut in May 2019. To belong to a charismatic species is to be a pack animal for human imagination. from Fathoms: The world in the whale by Rebecca Giggs, Simon & Schuster, 2020, p. 129 I’ve been thinking and dreaming about whales […] 
Another long break from blogging… my last post, on the absurdity of rising rents in San Francisco’s “affordable housing,” was written as part of an ongoing organizing effort behind the scenes at various buildings subject to the Mayor’s Office of Housing rules. More to come on that. Meanwhile, since I wrote in December we […] Ever since the much-promoted alliance between “teamsters and turtles” at the WTO protests in Seattle in 1999, there’s been a renewed hope that the decades-long opposition between organized labor and environmentalists might be resolvable. The original Teamsters and turtles weren’t really in much of an alliance in 1999, what with AFL-CIO leaders trying their best […] |
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