Vanishing Detroit

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 16:40:06 -0400

Start: 10/07/2008 - 19:00

End: 10/07/2008 - 20:00

In the 1950’s Detroit was an economic powerhouse, the Silicon Valley of its day. It was one of the 10 wealthiest cities in the world with a population approaching 2 million. Today, having lost over one million people since its peak, many of the city’s monumental buildings, mighty industrial complexes and grand residential neighborhoods have been abandoned and are falling into ruin. There is more farmland within the city limits today than in 1900. While Detroit is not on many top tourist destination lists, its ruins make for a unique sort of modern deindustrialized and depopulated landscape. Join architect Robin Levitt, a former Detroiter, on a fascinating and disturbing tour of the City’s great architecture and fabulous ruins. He’ll show images of its glorious past and continuing demise.

Event location:

Get Lost Travel Books
1825 Market St. (at Guerrero)
San Francisco, CA 94103
415-437-0529

Media and Social Movements

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 21:11:36 -0400

Start: 10/10/2008 - 19:00

End: 10/10/2008 - 22:00

From Dont Rhine:

Media and Social Movements

Join Jen Angel, Bob Ostertag, and Jeremy Adam Smith in a discussion on the role of media in U.S. social movements, and celebrate the opening of a new SF bookstore!

Friday, October 10, 2008 at 7 p.m. - Free!
The Green Arcade - 1680 Market Street at Gough
http://www.thegreenarcade.com/

This informal panel will address several critical questions:

- What is the role of media in U.S. social movements?
- How does media work to sustain and support struggles?
- How can media be used more effectively to make change?
- What is the impact of the Internet on social justice media?

Please join three people who have worked long within independent media and have worked and written on social movement media:

Jen Angel is a media activist and former publisher of Clamor Magazine. She is the author of "Media and Activism: Creating and Maintaining Effective Movement Media"
http://inthemiddleofthewhirlwind.wordpress.com/media-and-activism/
and "Become the Media, a Critical History of Clamor Magazine"
http://www.akpress.org/2008/items/becomingthemedia

Historian, journalist, composer, Bob Ostertag's work cannot easily be summarized or pigeon-holed. He has published 21 CDs of music, two movies, two DVDs, and two books. His writings on contemporary politics have been published on every continent and in many languages. He is currently Professor of Technocultural Studies and Music at the University of California at Davis. He is author of "People's Movements, People's Press: The Journalism of Social Justice Movements"
http://www.beacon.org/productdetails.cfm?PC=1790

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Vanishing Detroit

Media and Social Movements