Monthly Archives: November 2007

14 Nov, 2007

Public Commons vs. Corporate Privatization

2007-11-14T20:00:22-08:00By |Categories: Free Events (donations welcomed), Podcast, Talks|

November 14 With Mayor Newsom trying to give away the city’s wi-fi space to a corporate consortium, efforts by Bechtel and other private contractors to take over our public water system, the ongoing scandal of PG&E selling us our own “public” power and their current efforts to take over alternative power, incessant pressure to privatize the public schools, a national culture that blindly accepts corporate interests as preferable to public interests, we’ll talk about how the San Francisco Bay Area

28 Nov, 2007

Food Security & Urban Agriculture

2007-11-28T20:00:02-08:00By |Categories: Free Events (donations welcomed), Podcast, Talks|

November 28 Our food system is being refashioned by new urban farmers, farmers markets and community-supported agriculture, and importantly, by savvy shoppers who demand local, organic and safe food. Still, food security is tenuous for too many of our neighbors. Amy Franceschini (Victory Gardens, past and present), Willow Rosenthal (City Slicker Farms), Jason Mark (Alemany Farm, and editor of Earth Island Journal) podcast: http://diva.sfsu.edu/users/Chris.Carlsson/ssf_talks?podcast=16

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