Handout: "Flood"
From: Shaping San Francisco
read the following short online
articles:
Affordable
Housing in the Tenderloin
The
Tenderloin in the 20th Century
Rezoning
the Tenderloin Derails Grassroots Activism
From
Southeast Asia to the Tenderloin
Additional/Optional Readings:
Another picture of the 'Loin: (optional)
SF
Neighborhood Guide The Tenderloin by Beth Lisick
Scan for projects currently in the
works in the Tenderloin:
The
City and County of San Francisco's Program Year 2000
Consolidated Annual Performance &
Evaluation Report (CAPER) 9/01
Feb 15. Michael Swaine: sewing at 509 Cultural Center
(coming..;
food, water, resources, biological realities and social equity)
Calendar Event
Nature in the City's Peter Brastow and Ruth
Gravanis will present a comprehensive overview of San Francisco's natural
environment, discussing the less-than-obvious meanings of the concept of
"nature." http://www.counterpulse.org/springtalks.shtml
Artists
Statements and Proposal for Groundworks
This is from an art show in Pittsburgh
last year. Please investigate the site as much as you can and take notes of
what kind of research the artists did for a couple of projects.
Joseph Beuys (to be Added soon)
All events are at 8 p.m. at CounterPULSE, 1310 Mission (at 9th) in
San Francisco
March 29 What's Natural about
Natural Disasters?
Featuring Tom Athanasiou of Eco-Equity
(author, Divided Planet), Sherlina Nager (Literacy for Environmental Justice),
and Peter Davidson, UCSF director of the Tenderloin's UFO project. We'll be
looking at earthquakes, tsunamis, floods, epidemic flu, chronic disease, etc.
and framing the elements of a community response based on mutual aid,
cooperation, and a renewed commitment to a public health infrastructure.