Chris Carlsson
Chris Carlsson presents the 2025 2nd edition of his unique historical guidebook to San Francisco's overlooked and forgotten histories. He will read from the new preface to the 2nd edition, "In the Wake of the Pandemic," which puts the recent pandemic in the context of a long history of public health politics in the city. He also analyzes the long history of tech booms in the city, and how likely the much-touted "doom loop" will reach a climax. In addition, a new chapter featuring unusual ecological hikes through San Francisco on unknown back trails through neighborhoods well off the tourist path will also be revealed.
Wilder Zeiser, Amari Owens, Delphine Brody, Dan Kabella
This panel will spotlight the campaign to remove the private prison operator GEO Group from 111 Taylor Street in San Francisco’s Tenderloin, site of the 1966 Compton’s Cafeteria Riot, and to transform it into a community-owned space. Organizers from the Compton’s x Coalition will share how they’re confronting authoritarianism through zoning appeals, direct action, and just transition organizing rooted in trans, abolitionist, and decolonial frameworks. The conversation will explore how land use, privatized incarceration, and state violence intersect, and how targeted communities are building power to steward urban space for collective liberation.
Eddie Yuen
Presentation of some recently rediscovered posters, photos and handbills of social movements from the 1960s - 1990s. Prior to the “elite capture” of so-called identity politics, many social movements offered a genuine intersection of solidarity-based struggles.
Gerard Kosovich, Vero Majano, Erin McElroy, Fernando Marti
Left in the Bay has been working to complete a radical history map of San Francisco’s Mission district for Bolerium Books. Join them and other panelists unpacking the history of one of the City’s most storied neighborhoods.
Tehmina Khan, Leslie Simon, Ladan Khoddam-Khorasani, Brianna Smith, Paul Buckley
Poetry for the People began in 1975 and continues to create the beloved community at City College of San Francisco and beyond. This multi-generational panel will celebrate this legacy, will share poems and stories, and will make space for participants to create and share poems in community. With founder Leslie Simon, students of the late Lauren Muller, and current instructor Tehmina Khan, we will discuss the history of this revolutionary movement and our calling to carry it forward into our current struggles.
