Ten Years That Shook the City

Ten Years That Shook the City PDF

Author: Chris Carlsson

Publisher: City Lights Books

Published: 2011-06

Total Pages: 346

ISBN-13: 1931404127

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The alliances, programs, and goals of a historic decade that continues to shape SF and the world.

Ten Years That Shook the City

Ten Years That Shook the City PDF

Author: Chris Carlsson

Publisher: City Lights Publishers

Published: 2011-06-01

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781931404129

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The alliances, programs, and goals of a historic decade that continues to shape SF and the world.

Hidden San Francisco

Hidden San Francisco PDF

Author: Chris Carlsson

Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780745340944

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San Francisco is an iconic and symbolic city. But only when you look beyond the picture-postcards of the Golden Gate Bridge and the quaint cable cars do you realise that the city's most interesting stories are not the Summer of Love, the Beats or even the latest gold rush in Silicon Valley. Hidden San Francisco is a guidebook like no other. Structured around the four major themes of ecology, labour, transit and dissent, Chris Carlsson peels back the layers of San Francisco's history to reveal a storied past: behind old walls and gleaming glass facades lurk former industries, secret music and poetry venues, forgotten terrorist bombings, and much more. Carlsson delves into the Bay Area's long prehistory as well, examining the region's geography and the lives of its inhabitants before the 1849 Gold Rush changed everything, setting in motion the clash between capital and labour that shaped the modern city. From the perspective of the students and secretaries, longshoremen and waitresses, Hidden San Francisco uncovers dozens of overlooked, forgotten and buried histories that pulse through the streets and hills even today, inviting the reader to see themselves in the middle of the ongoing, everyday process of making history together.

Ten Years Later

Ten Years Later PDF

Author: Hoda Kotb

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2014-02-04

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 1451656041

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"New York Times"-bestselling author and beloved "Today" show co-anchor tells the incredible stories of people who, when faced with impossibly challenging or tragic life situations, persevere--and even thrive.

Critical Mass

Critical Mass PDF

Author: Chris Carlsson

Publisher: AK Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9781902593593

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Documenting 10 years of fun, radical, spontaneous bicycle demonstrations that challenge the autocentric world.

Shift Happens!

Shift Happens! PDF

Author: Chris Carlsson

Publisher:

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 9780926664081

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A new anthology celebrating the accomplishments of the Critical Mass movement over the past twenty years. From both theoretical and practical perspectives, the book explores how Critical Mass has gone around the world, how it has evolved along the way, and the impacts it has had on local politics, transportation, and cultures. Includes contributions from San Francisco, Paris, Chicago, Los Angeles, Puerto Elegre, Manchester, Madrid, Buenos Aires, Rome, São Paulo, A Coruña, Guadalajara, Nuevo León, Budapest, Prague, Helsinki, Ponce, Mexico City, Bilbao, Baton Rouge, Capetown, Vigo, Naples, New York City, Portland, London, Berkeley, Florianopolis, Calais, Dubai, and Palestine!

Nowtopia

Nowtopia PDF

Author: Chris Carlsson

Publisher:

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13:

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Working people are taking back their time and technological know-how from the deadening jobs in small, under-the-radar ways, making life better right now. They reclaim the streets at Critical Mass cycle rides; they reclaim the urban landscape with guerrilla gardening and make common cause in virtual worlds with networks, freeware and hacking. This is a discourse on work, on what we do to make it bearable and the creativity of all those people who subvert the normal order of things. The DIY future is now.

Bad Attitude

Bad Attitude PDF

Author: Chris Carlsson

Publisher: Verso

Published: 1990-07-17

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 0860919463

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Bad Attitude is a collection of writings and graphics from the extraordinary Processed Word magazine. Dedicated it giving voice to the benumbed foot-soldiers of the information age it contains blistering first-hand accounts of life at the bottom of the ladder in big banks, defense contractors, computer manufacturers and food processing factories. In these pages the service economy and the new high tech jobs often touted in glowing terms by the mainstream media are exposed for their quotidian banality, their essential uselessness, and the catch-22 absurdity that permeates all corporate life under late capitalism. Moving at bike messenger speed between offices, Bad Attitude describes the hazards of the office computer and how to sabotage it, mutant culture in Silicon Valley, the new transiency undercutting links at work, the connections between time and money, bosses and secretaries, resistance and resignation. It provides a unique basis for new theoretical developments in the struggle for human liberation, and, above all, it assures the thousands of isolated rebels mired in dead-end and deadening jobs that they are not alone. The spark of revolt can and must be nurtured until the next wave comes along.