Radical History of San Francisco Ride

"Learn about the radical history of San Francisco from the 1800s through the more recent past, visiting sites of protest and dissent."

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A Safer Polk Street vs. Preserving a Sliver of Parking

By Aaron Bialick |
A new entity that calls itself the “Save Polk Street Coalition” has come out against the developing plan to improve safety for people walking and biking on Polk Street because it would entail removing some parking spaces. The group’s website, which doesn’t identify any of the businesses or residents it claims to represent, decrees: “STOP the radical agenda […]

Radical Cartography and Urban Racial Maps

By Matthew Roth |
When is a map worth a thousand words? Bill Rankin, who maintains a website called Radical Cartography, has generated buzz with his racial and income maps of Chicago, which can test stereotypes Chicagoans have about the boundaries of their neighborhoods. Rankin notes, for instance, that the boundaries of neighborhoods are always drawn as stark lines […]

Labor History Bike Tour

By Michael Rhodes |
From the pre-urban history of Indian Slavery to the earliest 8-hour day movement in the US, the ebb and flow of class war is traced. SF’s radical working class organizations are shaped in part by racist complicity in genocide and slavery, but from the 1870s to the 1940s there are dozens of epic battles between […]

Labor History Bike Tour

By Abigail Shull |
"From the pre-urban history of Indian Slavery to the earliest 8-hour day movement in the U.S., the ebb and flow of class war is traced. SF’s radical working class organizations are shaped in part by racist complicity in genocide and slavery, but from the 1870s to the 1940s there are dozens of epic battles between […]