My Changing Neighborhood(s): politics

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Thursday, September 13, 2018

SIGN OF THE TIMES

Seen on the sidewalk on Bush Street between Polk and Larkin.

Thursday, June 7, 2018

CONTEMPORARY SIGNS OF DISCONTENT (#33 in a series)

Tuesday, May 8, 2018

REST IN POWER BUBBLES

Painting of Bubbles, aka Anthony Torres, transgender Tenderloin activist who was killed in September 2017, on the metal awning of Tender, 854 Geary.

Wednesday, February 21, 2018

ONLY IN SF

Now here's an only-in-SF mash-up:

Kahn & Keville, 500 Turk Street

Where else but here can you talk economic theory while getting your brakes fixed or tires changed?

Friday, February 9, 2018

CAMPAIGN LAUNCH EVENT

Happening today at 7 p.m. at 2969 Mission Street near 26th.

Copyright © by Chris Enquist 2/9/18

Wednesday, December 13, 2017

UPCOMING LOCAL EVENTS – MAYES PROTEST

About a dozen of these postcards were left in the lobby of my building earlier this week.

This blog has no opinion about this matter one way or the other.

That being said, the hearing is scheduled for Thursday, December 14 at 1:00 p.m. City Hall, 1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlet Place, Room 400.

Saturday, August 19, 2017

CONTEMPORARY SIGNS OF DISCONTENT – ARRESTED LIBERTY (#31 in a series)

Corner of Howard and 10^thstreets.

Monday, March 20, 2017

CITY MURALS – NO HUMAN BEING IS ILLEGAL

This mural is located on the side of Grandma's Deli & Cafe at 1551 Mission Street. It was completed by Pancho Pescadero and 67 Suenos Collective in 2014.

It's s a smaller version of a once-visible larger mural on the side of the San Francisco Friends (Quakers) Building at 65 9th Street.

Wednesday, March 8, 2017

CONTEMPORARY SIGNS OF DISCONTENT – THEY DON'T GIVE A FU.... (#30 in a series)

Wednesday, February 1, 2017

NEIGHBORHOOD MURALS 2017 (#1 in a series) – MAKING A STATEMENT

Wall on Larkin Street between Turk and Eddy outside the Phoenix Hotel.

Friday, January 27, 2017

CONTEMPORARY SIGNS OF DISCONTENT – HE, THE AMBULANT ID... (#29 in a series)

Sign outside Kahn & Keville, 500 Turk Street

Tuesday, January 24, 2017

UPCOMING LOCAL EVENTS – PROGRESSIVES AND TAKING OVER THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY

Happening Thursday, January 26 at 7:00 p.m., in the Fireside Room at the Unitarian Universalist Center, 1187 Franklin Street at Geary Blvd.

Snacks and beverages will be provided.

Friday, November 25, 2016

Saturday, November 12, 2016

CONTEMPORARY SIGNS OF DISCONTENT 2016 – POST-ELECTION PROTESTS (#28 in a series)

Photographed the Wednesday morning after Donald Trump's election victory (since erased)

Protest of the election by hundreds of San Francisco high school students and others marching south down Van Ness Boulevard around noon on Thursday, November 10.

Monday, November 7, 2016

ELECTION DAY 2016 – BAD MOON RISING

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUQiUFZ5RDw

I see the bad moon arising

I see trouble on the way

I see earthquakes and lightnin'

I see those bad times today

Don't go around tonight

Well it's bound to take your life

There's a bad moon on the rise

I hear hurricanes a blowing

I know the end is coming soon

I fear rivers over flowing

I hear the voice of rage and ruin

Well don't go around tonight

Well it's bound to take your life

There's a bad moon on the rise, oh right

Hope you got your things together

Hope you are quite prepared to die

Looks like we're in for nasty weather

One eye is taken for an eye

Well don't go around tonight

Well it's bound to take your life

There's a bad moon on the rise

Don't come around tonight

Well it's bound to take your life

There's a bad moon on the rise

Songwriters: John Cameron Fogerty

Note: I apologize for the spacing of the lyrics. No matter how hard I tried, I couldn't get them to line up nicely.

Copyright © by Chris Enquist 11/8/16

Tuesday, August 16, 2016

CONTEMPORARY SIGNS OF DISCONTENT (#26 in a series)

Sign outside SF Pizza, 1270 Mission Street.

Monday, August 15, 2016

UPCOMING LOCAL EVENT – MIDDLE POLK NEIGHBORHOOD MEETING AUGUST 15, 2016

The Middle Polk Neighborhood Association is meeting this Monday, August 16, at St. Paulus Lutheran Church at 1541 Polk, beginning at 7:00 p.m. The scheduled speaker is longtime San Francisco advocate Calvin Welch,

Photo from Tim Redmond's blog 48 Hills on Google Images

one of the organizers of the 1976 campaign for district elections in San Francisco. He will talk about that campaign and events since.

Friday, June 24, 2016

CONTEMPORARY SIGNS OF DISCONTENT 2016 (#24 in a series) – HOMELAND SEC. GOV POLICE

The above graffiti recently appeared on the wall of Fox Plaza, which is currently being remodeled.

I have to admire whoever did this. They had to scale a 10-foot fence topped with barbed wire, erect ladders to block-paint the letters, take down the ladders and get back over the fence, all under the cover of darkness.

Well done.

Thursday, June 2, 2016

UPCOMING LOCAL EVENT – SF PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING, JUNE 2nd

The SF Planning Commission will decide today the fate of the Lombardi Sports building at Jackson and Polk when it votes on whether or not to ban chain stores along Polk Street (click here for an SFGate article on the issue: http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Whole-Foods-365-Polk-San-Francisco-Street-7956935.php

The meeting starts at noon and is open to the public. It takes place in City Hall, Room 400. The issue is formula retail, and is #9 on the agenda.

Sunday, May 15, 2016

UPCOMING LOCAL EVENT

The Middle Polk Neighborhood Association

(MPNA Facebook Page Photo; uncredited)

is having a meeting on Monday, May 16, at Saint Paulus Lutheran Church at 1541 Polk. It lasts from 7:00 – 8:15 p.m.

Agenda topics include Supervisor Mark Farrell speaking on parks funding and a presentation and Q&A on homelessness by Sam Dodge and the Homeless OutreachTeam.

For a complete description of the agenda, click here: http://middlepolk.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/MPNA-Agenda-16-May-2016.pdf