San Francisco: Somewhere between five and ten thousand people poured out of Crissy Field along the San Francisco Bay to walk the 4.5 mile roundtrip across the Golden Gate Bridge. This march was largely organized by the Service Employees International Union to coordinate with the SEIU quadrennial convention being held at the same time. The weather …
Month: June 2004
Summer School for Social Change
Montreal: In June it is hard not to love this city where old and new, French and English, all come together in a different mix every day. What made Montreal especially interesting to me though was the opportunity to spend a couple of days going from class to class in a very unusual summer school – …
Lucas – Star Wars – the Presidio
San Francisco: George Lucas has a place up the coast from San Francisco in the northern part of Marin County – one of the richest counties in the United States – where he does his highly successful film thing. One reads that it is all state of the art this and highly computerized that, because that …