Professional Experience

Honors & Awards

Public Art

Documentary Video

Media Appearances

Public Appearances
for Shaping San Francisco

Writings
for Processed World

Education

Cloverleaf Productions
Client List

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2005-present
Owner, Cloverleaf Productions, San Francisco
Book, magazine and multimedia design, desktop publishing, graphic design.

1995-Present
Director, Managing Editor, Chief Writer, Primary Designer
SHAPING SAN FRANCISCO: The Interactive Multimedia Excavation of the Lost History of San Francisco CD-ROM, Public Kiosk, Website--Version 5 at FoundSF.org

2011 Spring/Fall
Visiting Faculty, San Francisco Art Institute
Urban Studies, Humanities 201B, "Shaping San Francisco at the Dawn of Industrialization"

2011
Editor, Designer, Contributing Writer
TEN YEARS THAT SHOOK THE CITY: San Francisco 1968-78
City Lights Foundation Books

2011
Designer, Curator, Author of expanded 2nd edition
VANISHED WATERS
Mission Creek Conservancy, San Francisco

2009-present
Contributing Writer, sf.streetsblog.org

2008
Author, Designer, Indexer
NOWTOPIA
AK Press (Oakland, Edinburgh, London)

2007 Autumn
Adjunct Faculty, New College of California
taught "Shaping San Francisco's Future" class

2006
Indexer
The Modern School Movement, by Paul Avrich
AK Press (Oakland, Edinburgh, London)

1983-2005
Owner, Typesetting Etc., San Francisco
Typesetter, graphic designer, web designer. For twenty years, Typesetting Etc. served hundreds of typesetting/graphic design clients.

2004
Author, Designer
AFTER THE DELUGE
Full Enjoyment Books (San Francisco)

2004
Editor, Contributor, Designer, Indexer
THE POLITICAL EDGE
City Lights Foundation (San Francisco)

2004
Indexer
LANGUAGE AND POLITICS, by Noam Chomsky, ed. Carlos Otero
Published by AK Press, Oakland, California.

2002
Editor, Contributor, Designer
CRITICAL MASS: Bicycling's Defiant Celebration
AK Press (Oakland, CA: 2002)
Critical Mass: L'uso sovversivo della bicicletta (Italian translation)
Feltrinelli Editore Milano (Milan, Italy: 2003)

1998
Co-editor, Co-designer, Contributor
RECLAIMING SAN FRANCISCO: History, Politics, Culture
City Lights Books (San Francisco: 1998)

1997-99
Art Director, Editorial Consultant, Web Designer
GREAT BASIN Magazine (Carson City, Nevada)

1990
Co-editor, Co-designer, Contributor
BAD ATTITUDE: The Processed World Anthology Verso Books (London: 1990)

1981-1994, 2001, 2004-5
Co-founder, Co-publisher/editor/art director/etc. Collective member
Processed World magazine Within an ever-fluctuating unpaid collective environment, managed to produce 32 issues over thirteen years. Contributing writer, artist, copy editor, art director, publisher, managing editor, etc. Over a hundred graphics, fake ads, collages, etc. Frequent writer on questions of work, unions, ecology, technology, utopias, etc. See publication list below.

1986-93, 1999-2007
Co-founder, Board President (2003-2008)
CounterPULSE (formerly Bay Area Center for Art & Technology)
A California non-profit corporation which sponsors numerous projects in literary, media, and performance arts.

1981-1983
Secretary/Receptionist
Pacific Software, Berkeley, CA Pacific Software was the for-profit marketing company created by the progressive computer collective project called the Community Memory Project (CM). In the pre-net, post '60s era, Community Memory's theoreticians designed a system of public computer terminals in which anyone could put any message, comment, news, poetry, etc. and anyone could answer it and so on, in public places. CM anticipated the popularity of Internet participation by nearly two decades. Their own system has been installed and maintained in Santa Monica, California, Berkeley, and Halifax, Nova Scotia, to name a few places.

HONORS & AWARDS

March 2011
Joined board of Mission Creek Conservancy

May 2009
Best S.F. Historian, SF Weekly

July 2007
Bicycle History Tours Win "Best Cruise Into the Past" from SF Bay Guardian Best of the Bay!

September 2006
Resident, Blue Mountain Center Writers' Colony, Blue Mountain Lake, NY

October 2001
"GOLDEN WHEEL" Award from the San Francisco Bicycle Coalition

August-September 2001
Resident, Blue Mountain Center Writers' Colony, Blue Mountain Lake, NY

October 1999
Resident, The Mesa Refuge Writers’ Retreat, Pt. Reyes Station, CA

July 1999
"LOCAL HERO" AWARD from the San Francisco Bay Guardian

May 1998
AWARD OF MERIT from the San Francisco Historical Society

October 1991
Winner, Best Documentary, Humboldt State Univ. Film & Video Festival for Brazilian Dreams: Visiting Points of Resistance.

1990
Finalist, Alternative Press Awards, Utne Reader
• Coverage of Cutting-Edge Issues

1989
Finalist, Alternative Press Awards, Utne Reader
• Coverage of Cutting-Edge Issues
• Essays and Criticism
• Humor

PUBLIC ART

DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC ART installations (co-producer)

October 2003
"Waist High (and Higher) in E-Waste" Market and Van Ness, part of the Department of Space and Land Reclamation weekend of events.

June 1999
"Wall Street West is All Tied Up!" Montgomery between California and Pine, SF

November 2007
"Hunting the Now/Cazanda el momento"
with the CounterNarrative Society, a map and treasure hunt of Mission and Valencia Streets in San Francisco

March 2007
Bay Area Direct Action Secret Society (BADASS): Abu Ghraib demo

May/June 1999
Art & Revolution Convergence: "May Day Pageant"

DOCUMENTARY VIDEO

2006
Still We Ride: 37 minute documentary on NY Critical Mass and the crackdown by police during and after the Republican National Convention in 2004. Produced by Elizabeth Press, Andrew Lynn, and Christopher Ryan. A 20 minute "extra" is an extended interview with Chris Carlsson.

1999
We Aren’t Blocking Traffic, We ARE Traffic!: an hour long documentary on Critical Mass, its origins, philosophy, expansion around the world, the 1997 police riot, and more. Featured subject of video, as well as consultant, contributor of footage and still photography. (Produced and directed by Ted White). Youtube version here.

PUBLIC APPEARANCES

November, 2011
"Rank and File Research," City Lights bookstore

November, 2011
360 Collective Intelligence salon

October, 2011
World Savvy Sustainability Conference

September, 2011
"Towards Car-Free Cities" Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico

June, 2011
Cries of San Francisco: Manifestoes and Songs, SoEx Gallery

April, 2011
Studio for Urban Projects, Bicycling Politics

March, 2011
NextUs Public Talk, San Francisco

March, 2011
Cicloaxion, Lima, Peru

March, 2011
Charla Solidaria, Programa Democracia y Transformación Global, Lima, Peru

February, 2011
Charla Bicicletero, Quito, Ecuador

February, 2011
Free Soil No. 1: Farming 2050 at Studio for Urban Projects

December, 2010
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, "The Lost World" history of SOMA, part of the Infnite City Atlas series.

November, 2010
TEDx Amazonia, Manaus, Brazil

October, 2010
Good Bike Festival, Zagarolo, Italy

September 2010
Ciclomundi, Siena, Italy

June 2010
U.S. Social Forum, Detroit MI

June 16-20, 2010
Car-Free Vancouver Day, Vancouver, Canada

March 2010
Cat's Pajamas, MakeOut Room

November 2009
Ancestor's Wisdom, Messages for These Times

September 2009
2o. Congreso Nacional de Ciclismo Urbano (Guadalajara, Mexico)
"Critical Mass and other Revolutions on Bicycle"

June 2009
Studio for Urban Projects, Nowtopia and FoundSF

June 2009
SPUR Symposium: The Private City: The founding oligarchy of San Francisco

April 2009
Left Forum, NYC: Counter Culture Industries: Capitalist, Anti-capitalist, Non-capitalist

March 2009
Eat-In, Yerba Buena Gardens

March 2009
"An Amnesiac City Sleepwalking Towards the Abyss", EVOLVE 2009, SF Main Library, "San Francisco: Past, Present, and Future"

November 2008
"Community Conversation: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, BAN 5, Groundings"

September 2008
Public unveiling of Noe Valley Farmers' Market Murals by Mona Caron

September 2008
The Great Rehearsal, Bay Area panel

September 2008
Conflux Festival, New York City, Keynote speaker

August 2008
The Abundance League, presenting Nowtopia

August 2008
San Francisco Writing For Change Conference

June 2008
The Battle for San Francisco at Portland's "Towards Car-Free Cities Conference" (mp3)

June 2008
"Take Back the Commons"
Design Action Forum, San Francisco

April 2008
Nowtopia Opening Party at CounterPULSE
podcast here

March 2008
InsideStoryTime, Catastrophe Fiction, Edinburgh Castle, San Francisco

Fall-Winter 2007-08
producer/host, Fall-Winter Talks series, CounterPULSE

October 2007
4th biannual "Slow Food Feast of Fools and Friends" at CounterPULSE.

May 2007
"Backtracking 1994-85," Rigo23, a Forum on local history at the Luggage Store Gallery

April 2007
"Crisis of the California Commons" conference: The Right to the City: Urban Space as Commons

April 2007
"Writing the Bicycle: Rhetoric and Reseach on Two Wheels" creative writing class at Stanford University.

April 2007
3rd biannual "Slow Food Feast of Fools and Friends" at CounterPULSE.

April 2007
American Association of Geographers Conference: "Revanchist San Francisco II"

March 2007
Anarchist Bookfair, "Nowtopia"

Spring 2007
producer/host, Spring Talks series, CounterPULSE

February, 2007
"Whatever Happened to the 8-Hour Day?" talk and multimedia presentation given for the San Francisco Museum and Historical Society

February, 2007
Remodeling Design Activism conference, UC Berkeley, speaking on Critical Mass

Fall-Winter 2006-07
producer/host, Fall-Winter Talks series, CounterPULSE

September 2006
"This Is Forever" series at Bluestockings Bookstore, NYC. Speaking on "Seeds of the New", forthcoming book.

July 2006
"The City That Might Have Been," panel discussion on the 1906 Burnham Plan for San Francisco, held at SPUR in San Francisco.

April 2006
The RADAR reading series: underground & emerging authors, SF Public Library

April, 2006
"Ruin, Rubble and Race: The San Francisco Earthquake and post-Katrina America, 1906 to 2006, One Hundred Years Later", Chinatown, SF

Spring 2006
producer/host, Spring Talks series, CounterPULSE

November 2005
Bay Area Coalition for our Reproductive Rights rally, San Francisco

August 2005
"Writers With Drinks" Make-out Room, San Francisco

March 2005
ATA/Other Cinema: "The New Revolt"

October 2003
Walk/Bike California 2003, "Whose Roads? Our Roads", Oakland CA

July 2003
"YLEM Forum: Art and Technology Bring History Alive"

October 2002
Break The Gridlock Conference, Chicago, Illinois "Dissolving Political Gridlock"

May 2002
Tentacle Session #33 Chris Carlsson "Riot to Bad Attitude, Revolutionary Tourism, Critical Mass, Dept. of Public Art and Hissstory"

April 2002
Computers, Freedom and Privacy Conference 2002, San Francisco, panelist, "Grassroots Goes Global: Activism Online"

October 2001
Processed World's 20th Anniversary party, ATA "Other Cinema" San Francisco

January 2000
Economic Roundtable of San Francisco: "Class Politics in the Wake of Seattle"

April 1996
"Information, Expression, Institution: The Work of Art in the Age of Digital Reproduction" panel discussion with Perry Hoberman, Marina McDougal and James Brook at Small Press Distribution, Berkeley, CA

February 1995
S. F. Exploratorium Multimedia Playground: "Luddism Revisited"

October 1991
California Institute for the Arts, Valencia, CA: "Attitude Adjustment Seminar"
Komotion International, San Francisco "Attitude Adjustment Seminar"

August 1986
Split Shift: New Work Writing Conf./ Vancouver, Canada "Attitude Adjustment Seminar"

BOOKSTORE APPEARANCES

Ten Years That Shook the City: San Francisco 1968-78

10/29/2011 UC Berkeley, Multicultural Ctr, EastWind Books
08/17/2011 Koret Auditorium, SF Main Public Library
07/28/2011 Modern Times Books, San Francisco
07/13/2011 Red Hill Books, San Francisco
07/10/2011 Bird & Beckett, San Francisco
07/07/2011 Books Inc., 4th Street, Berkeley
07/06/2011 Books Inc., Opera Plaza, San Francisco
06/21/2011 Books Inc., Market Street, San Francisco
06/16/2011 Pegasus Books, Berkeley
06/08/2011 Shaping SF Talks: Ecology
06/07/2011 Green Arcade Books, San Francisco
06/02/2011 City Lights Books, Opening Release Party
05/25/2011 Shaping SF Talks: Murals, Comix, Posters
05/18/2011 Shaping SF Talks: Mission Politics

Vanished Waters:
A History of San Francisco's Mission Bay

07/21/2011 Randall Museum Natural History Series
03/26/2011 Green Arcade
02/16/2011 Shaping SF Talks: Mission Bay

Nowtopia

10/03/10 Il Molino CSOA, Lugano, Switzerland
09/30/10 SHAKE Edizioni, Milan, Italy
09/29/10 Utopia Bookstore, Milan, Italy
09/27/10 Il Modo Infoshop, Bologna, Italy
04/15/09 Word Press Bookstore, Edinburgh, Scotland
04/10/09 1 in 12, Bradford, England
04/05/09 56a Infoshop, London, England
02/07/09 BookSoup, West Hollywood, CA
09/15/08 Sanctuary for Independent Media, Troy, NY
09/07/08 This Ain't the Rosedale Library, Toronto, Canada
09/04/08 Pages/Cinecycle, Toronto, Canada
08/23/08 Red Hill Books, San Francisco
06/28/08 Camas Books, Victoria, Canada
06/26/08 Spartacus Books, Vancouver, Canada
06/23/08 Left Bank Books, Seattle, WA
06/22/08 Elliott Bay Books, Seattle, WA
06/20/08 Last Word Books, Olympia, WA
06/16/08 Powells Books, Portland, OR
06/14/08 Tsunami Books, Eugene, OR
06/12/08 City Lights Books, San Francisco
06/05/08 AK Press Warehouse, Oakland, CA
05/29/08 Flexi Libreria, Rome, Italy
05/24/08 Torchiera Social Center, Milan, Italy
05/17/08 Lucy Parsons Center, Boston, MA
05/16/08 Symposium Books, Boston, MA
05/15/08 Food For Thought, Amherst, MA
05/14/08 Bluestockings Bookstore, NYC
05/12/08 VoxPop Bookstore, Brooklyn, NY
05/09/08 Brecht Forum, NYC
05/07/08 Columbia University, Teachers College Symposium
05/04/08 Wooden Shoe Books, Philadelphia, PA
05/03/08 A-Space, Philadephia, PA
05/02/08 Red Emma's, Baltimore, MD
05/01/08 Brian McKenzie Infoshop, Wash. DC
04/30/08 Mudd Puddle Cafe, Frederick, MD
04/24/08 Modern Times Bookstore, SF

The Political Edge

10/28/04 City Lights Bookstore, SF
11/08/04 Black Oak Books, Berkeley
11/16/04 Modern Times Bookstore, SF
11/19/04 AK Press, Oakland
11/30/04 Bird & Beckett, SF
12/02/04 Books Inc., SF

After The Deluge

11/05/04 AK Press, Oakland
12/07/04 Modern Times Bookstore, SF
12/15/04 City Lights Bookstore, SF
03/23/05 SPUR Lunch Forum, SF
03/26/05 Anarchist Book Fair, SF
05/11/05 Thoreau Center, Presidio, SF
06/01/05 Potrero Branch Library, SF

Critical Mass: Bicycling's Defiant Celebration

05/18/05 Grizzly Peak Cyclist Club, Berkeley
07/24/03 Bluestockings Women's Bookstore, NYC
07/26/03 Clovis Press Books and Zines, Brooklyn NY
07/27/03 Wooden Shoe Bookstore, Philadelphia, PA
07/28/03 Black Planet Bookstore, Baltimore, MD
07/29/03 Vertigo Books, College Park, MD
Brian McKenzie social center, Washington DC
??? social center, Richmond, VA
10/08/02 Arise Bookstore, Minneapolis, MN
10/09/02 Rainbow Bookstore Co-op, Madison, WI
10/10/02 The Garage, Milwaukee, WI
10/11/02 Quimby's Books, Chicago, IL
10/14/02 Boxcar Books, Bloomington, IN
10/15/02 Little Art Theater, Yellow Springs, OH

NOWTOPIA appearances beyond bookstores

2010

11/15/10 World Savvy Conference, San Francisco
11/06/10 TEDx Amazonia, Brazil
10/26/10 Cal State University, Monterey Bay
10/10/10 Good Bike Festival, Zagarolo, Italy
10/02/10 Carroponte Festival, Sesto Sta Giovanni, Italy
10/01/10 University of Milan, Political Science Dept.
06/23/10 US Social Forum, Detroit MI
05/25/10 UC Santa Cruz, Politics and Community classes

2009

12/05/09 Kafe 44, Stockholm, Sweden
11/28/09 Humla, Oslo, Norway
11/24/09 Ungdomhuset, Copenhagen, Denmark
11/19/09 UC Davis Technocultural Studies class
10/06/09 Holistic Health Learning Center, SFSU, "Smart Living vs. Dumb Jobs--Inventing the Future with Creative Work"
05/26/09 UC Santa Cruz, Bicycling class
05/21/09 Stanford University, Writing the Bicycle class
04/28/09 UC Santa Cruz, 12 noon, Introduction to Community Studies; 4:30 pm, Center for Cultural Studies
04/22/09 Global Social Movements, Univ. of San Francisco class
04/15/09 Forest Cafe, Edinburgh, Scotland
04/13/09 Mono Cafe, Glasgow Scotland
04/11/09 The Dukes Cinema, Bike Film Festival, Lancaster, England
04/09/09 I Bike MCR, MR1 Manchester University Students Union building
04/07/09 MA Activism and Social Change seminar, Leeds, Geography Lecture Theatre, East Building
04/06/09 Pogo Cafe, London, England
03/21/09 ATA, San Francisco
03/15/09 Anarchist Bookfair, San Francisco
02/09/09 "Lead, Follow or Get out of the Way! Art, Activism and Dissent" California Institute for the Arts, Valencia, CA
01/12/09 7 pm, St. Mary's College, Moraga, CA
01/30/09 3:30-5:30 pm, World Social Forum, Belem, Brazil
02/05/09 1 pm, Google Lunch Klatsch, Los Angeles
02/06/09 12:30 pm-3, FarmLab, Los Angeles
02/06/09 7:30 pm, LA Ecovillage
02/09/09 "Lead, Follow or Get out of the Way! Art, Activism and Dissent" California Institute for the Arts, Valencia, CA

2008

04/16/08, SmackDab, Magnet, 18th & Collingwood, 8 pm
04/29/08, Penn State University, FreezeThaw group
04/30/08 Mudd Puddle Coffee Shop, Frederick, MD, 7 pm
05/07/08 Columbia Univ. Teachers Coll. Symposium, 12-2 pm
05/09/08 Brecht Forum, New York City
06/09/08 Take Back the Commons Talk 6 pm
06/18/08 Towards Carfree Cities Conference, Portland, OR
08/16/08 San Francisco Writing For Change Conference
08/21/08 6 pm The Abundance League
09/05/08 Guest Reader at Dufferin Grove Park, Toronto, Canada. Hosted by Friends of Dufferin Grove Park
09/08/08 Bread and Roses Cafe in Skydragon Community Development Center, Hamilton, Ontario.
09/11/08 Conflux Festival, New York City
09/13/08 Highland Park, NJ
09/15/08 "Engineering Ethics" and "Intro to Media Studies" classes at Rensallaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
10/01/08 MFA Seminar  "Public Strategies", California College of the Arts.
11/05/08 Geography Dept. Symposium, San Francisco State University
11/11/08 "Frameworks of Art and Urbanism" San Francisco Art Institute
12/03/08 "The Contested City" San Francisco Art Institute

11/19/11 Dissent bike tour
11/06/11 Labor history bike tour
10/30/11 Cemeteries Halloween bike tour
10/16/11 Ecological history (south) bike tour
10/11/11 Urban Studies guest lecture SF Art Institute
10/08/11 Food History bike tour
10/07/11 USF Transit history bike tour
10/01/11 Market Street Walking Tour: SPUR/Studio for Urban Projects
09/28/11 USF Bicycle politics class
09/23/11 USF Sociology class
09/18/11 Ecological History (north) bike tour
07/09/11 Labor History bike tour
06/25/11 Food History bike tour
06/17/11 Cemetery bike tour
06/10/11 Ecological History (south) bicycle tour
05/01/11 Labor Archives 25th anniversary celebration
04/23/11 Ecological History (north) bicycle tour
04/06/11 City College of SF: English Class
04/03/11 Transit History bike tour
02/12/11 History Expo, Old Mint
01/16/11 Shaping San Francisco's Transit History Talk
12/12/10 Ecological History (south) bicycle tour
12/09/10 SF Art Institute, walking tour of Dogpatch/shipyards
11/20/10 Labor History bicycle tour
11/16/10 City College of SF: Art History in San Francisco class
11/16/10 Mission High School faculty meeting
11/14/10 Ecological History (north) bicycle tour
10/23/10 Transit History bicycle tour
09/18/10 Dissent history bicycle tour
09/07/10 Eureka Valley Branch Public Library
09/04/10 Food History bicycle tour
08/22/10 Cemetery bicycle history tour
08/06/10 US Workers Coop Convention tour
07/10/10 Labor history bicycle tour
06/23/10 US Social Forum workshop
05/09/10 Ecological history bicycle tour (north)
04/24/10 Transit history bicycle tour
04/11/10 Ecological history bicycle tour (south)
03/20/10 Dissent bicycle tour
11/19/09 SF Community Land Trust
10/29/09 Alexander Berkman Social Club
10/17/09 Ecological History bicycle tour (south)
10/09/09 SF Public Library In-Service Staff meeting
09/10/09 SPUR: Archiving San Francisco
09/07/09 California Nurses Assn tour
09/06/09 Labor History bicycle tour
07/25/09 Ocean View Branch Library
07/05/09 Labor History bicycle tour
06/09/09 SF Museum & Historical Society
06/06/09 Ingleside Branch Library
05/16/09 Ecological History bicycle tour (north)
04/27/09 Telegraph Hill Dwellers FoundSF demo
04/26/09 Transit history bicycle tour
03/28/09 Dissent bicycle tour
03/24/09 Potrero Hill Archives FoundSF demo
03/13/09 Ecological History bicycle tour (south)
01/21/09 Wiki Rollout workshop
12/20/08 Ecological History bicycle tour (south)
11/22/08 Transit history bicycle tour
11/08/08 Labor history bicycle tour
11/06/08 SF Arts Institute bicycle history tour
10/19/08 Slow Food Feast wiki sneak preview
10/11/08 Dissent bicycle tour
09/28/08 BikeBike! bicycle tour
09/25/08 California Nurses Assoc. cablecar tour
09/21/08 Ecological History north, bicycle tour
07/05/08 Labor History bicycle tour
04/19/08 Transit history bicycle tour
03/22/08 Dissent history bicycle tour
03/01/08 Ecological History bicycle tour
12/02/07 Labor History bicycle tour
11/03/07 Dissent history bicycle tour
10/13/07 Ecological History bicycle tour
09/23/07 Transit history bicycle tour
07/07/07 Labor History bicycle tour
04/15/07 Transit history bicycle tour
03/24/07 Ecological History bicycle tour
03/22/07 Studying the Contested City, San Francisco Art Institute
02/26/07 Media Art and Hidden Noise, San Francisco Art Institute
02/18/07 Dissent history bicycle tour
02/14/07 "Land Grabs" CounterPULSE Talk
02/13/07 San Francisco Museum & Historical Society: Labor talk
11/12/06 Dissent history bicycle tour
10/26/06 SPUR: Past and Future Ecology
07/20/06 Comm. Housing Organizing Project, Senator Hotel, S.F.
07/01/06 Labor history bicycle tour
05/21/06 Dissent history bicycle tour
04/23/06 Ecological History bicycle tour
04/07/06 "Teaching History" special interest group, American Educational Research Association
03/25/06 Transit history tour on bicycle
02/02/06 USF/John O'Connell Public Mural class
11/11/05 University High School assembly, San Francisco
07/30/05 Labor History tour on bicycle
07/28/05 Ecological history talk/Nature in the City Lunch Forum
06/04/05 Ecological History tour on bicycle
03/19/05 CCA: The Edited Landscape class
02/15/05 New College Media Studies class
02/14/05 UC Berkeley Graduate Journalism class
04/21/04 SF State Univ., Geography Class
02/15/04 New College: Activism and Social Change Seminar
10/18/03 Potrero Hill History Night
09/19/03 "The Edited Landscape" class CCAC, Potrero Hill tour
09/14/03 California Nurses Assn. labor history tour
07/12/03 Labor History Tour on bicycle, LaborFest
07/09/03 YLEM Forum: History Matters!
05/03/03 Labor History Tour on bicycle, SF Bike Coalition
02/13/03 Crissy Field Visitors Center
11/25/02 Community College Humanities Assn., SF
10/04/02 Autonomous Media Conference, Tucson, AZ
05/22/02 OECD Study Tour "Social Innovation & New Economy"
05/07/02 ILWU Shop Stewards Meeting, Local 10
04/27/02 Transit/Labor history tour on bicycle
03/15/02 Crissy Field Visitors Center
03/06/02 Kioskcom 2002, workshop, Orlando, Florida
12/08/01 LaborTech 2001, USF, panelist
11/13/00 San Francisco State University graduate seminar
11/10/00 San Francisco Art Institute class
10/21/00 Hotel W, San Francisco, Station RAI (Italy)
10/20/00 California College of Arts & Crafts class
10/15/00 Pacific Film Archive
08/06/00 Centro Sociale Leoncavallo, Milan, Italy
05/25/00 Randall Junior Museum
05/18/00 City College Labor Studies class
05/17/00 PlayTV.com
05/09/00 City College Multimedia Studies class
04/27/00 Bernal Heights Neighborhood Center
02/24/00 SPUR (SF Planning and Urban Research)
01/21/00 California Conservation Corps
12/07/99 Modern Times Bookstore, San Francisco
09/15/99 Books, Inc., 2251 Chestnut Street
08/10/99 San Francisco Bicycle Coalition membership meeting
08/07/99 Transit/Labor history tour on bicycle for BikeSummer ‘99
07/12/99 Telegraph Hill Dwellers Assn. monthly membership mtng
06/24/99 Modern Times Bookstore, San Francisco
06/24/99 California Historical Society, San Francisco
05/25/99 Books Inc., 2275 Market Street, San Francisco
04/30/99 Southwest Labor Studies Conference, Ramada Hotel, SF
03/27/99 Anarchist Book Fair
03/01/99 Washington High School, science classes
02/26/99 "Which Way America? Visions, Voices, Viewpoints" Calif. Council for the Social Studies annual conference, Sunnyvale
02/25/99 San Francisco State University, Art History
02/25/99 Trinity College History Class, San Francisco
02/15/99 121 Railton Road Community Center, London England
02/11/99 Lancaster University, Lancaster England, Centre for Study of Environmental Change
02/4-10/99 Liverpool, England
--John Moores University Learning Methods Unit
--Initiative Factory
--Northwest Labor Studies Association
--North Liverpool Computer Center

01/27/99 James Lick Middle School, 7th grade social studies
01/26/99 Potrero Hill Merchants and Boosters Association
11/7-8/98 SF Book Festival
10/29/98 Mills College, History and Fine Arts Depts. classes
10/22/98 City College of SF, Multimedia Class
10/04/98 Mill Valley Film Festival
09/23/98 Exploratorium, SF
09/17/98 Bay Area Video Coalition
09/12/98 Exploratorium, SF
08/27/98 Sociology Dept., "Mass Media" UCSC, Santa Cruz
08/06/98 GGNRA Staff Meeting, Presidio
08/05/98 Printer's Inc Bookstore, Palo Alto
7/30-8/2/98 Green & Gold: "Calif. Environments--
Memories and Visions" Conference, UC Santa Cruz
07/25/98 SF Bike Coalition Membership meeting
07/22/98 Golden Gate Nurses' Foundation
07/21/98 Japan-U.S. Community Education and Exchange
07/18/98 Meiklejohn Institute Conference "Building Democracy in the post Cold War era"
06/27/98 Presidio Visitors' Center
06/24/98 SF Main Library, Public Workshop
06/08/98 Women's Building History Committee
05/14/98 San Francisco Historical Society Awards Dinner (rec'd Award of Merit)
05/06/98 San Francisco State University: "Alternative Documentary" class
04/28/98 Cody's Books, Berkeley CA
04/18/98 Pacific Sociology Association Conference, Cathedral Hill Hotel, SF
04/14/98 San Francisco Bicycle Coalition membership meeting
4/01/98 San Francisco State University: "Teacher Credential in Elementary Education" class
03/29/98 Anarchist Book Fair
03/18/98 San Francisco State University: Social Work Department
03/17/98 City College of SF: Labor Studies Class
01/23/98 Modern Times Bookstore Book Party
01/22/98 Grand Rollout, San Francisco Public Library
12/07/97 Bay Area Labor Archives
11/27/97 Other Cinema, Artists Television Access
11/21/97 San Francisco State University: Multimedia Design
09/09/97 San Francisco Historical Society
07/11/97 Labor & Technology Conference, SF State University
04/06/97 "Building a Community of Resistance" Conference, SF
04/02/97 Anarchist Book Fair
03/13/97 Open Forum seminar
03/07/97 UC Berkeley, Information Sciences class
02/19/97 City College of San Francisco: Labor Studies class
02/15/97 Fillmore Multimedia Conference, African-American Historical and Cultural Society
01/16/97 Cybersalon, Berkeley, CA
10/23/96 San Francisco State University: Multimedia Design
10/05/96 Ecological Bicycle Tour of San Francisco waterfront
09/25/96 UC Berkeley: Geography Department "Tea"
03/31/96 National Alliance of Media Arts Centers conference, Berkeley
03/30/96 Anarchist Book Fair
03/17/96 Bay Area Labor Archives
02/13/96 UC Berkeley: San Francisco History class
06/95 W.R.I.T.E. ’95 (Writers Retreat on Interactive Technology and Equipment) Emily Carr Institute of Design, Granville Island, Vancouver, B.C.

Public Branch Libraries, San Francisco

11/18/98 Glen Park, 653 Chenery St
11/21/98 Potrero Hill, 1616 20th St
12/02/98 Presidio, 3150 Sacramento St
12/09/98 Bernal Heights, 500 Cortland Ave
12/15/98 North Beach, 2000 Mason St
01/09/99 Park, 1833 Page St
01/23/99 Ingleside, 387 Ashton Ave
04/03/99 Western Addition, 1550 Scott Street
05/15/99 Anza, 550 37th Ave.
06/10/99 Marina, 1890 Chestnut
11/02/99 Sunset, 1305 18th Avenue
12/01/99 Main Library, 2nd Edition Rollout II

for Ten Years That Shook the City: San Francisco 1968-78

11/02/11 Against the Grain, KPFA, live from Oakland General Strike

08/16/11 Letters and Politics, KPFA

08/14/11 New Day Jazz, KDVS

06/29/11 Against the Grain, KPFA

06/26/11 Greater Media Detroit

for Nowtopia

10/05/10 Radiopopolare, Milan, Italy

06/18/10 Car-Free Vancouver Day (You Tube)
part 1, part 2

02/07/09 Killradio.org

01/31/09 World Social Forum (Brazil) (YouTube)

01/22/09 DecrescitaFeliz (Italy) (YouTube)

06/22/08 Mind Over Matters (YouTube), KEXP-FM, Seattle, WA

10/10/08 CBC Radio "The Current" with David Suzuki

09/09/08 ThatRadio.com, Toronto

09/05/08 CFRB-AM, John Moore Show, Toronto

09/05/08 PROUD-FM, Shaun Proulx Show, Toronto

09/05/08 CIUT-FM The Green Majority, University of Toronto

09/05/08 CFRU-FM Wake Up!, University of Guelph, Ontario Canada

09/04/08 Steppin' Out of Babylon, Eugene Oregon

08/05-12/08 Pedal Driven, CKDU-FM, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada Part 1 (mp3), Part 2 (mp3)

07/17/08 MTV Italia

07/10/08 Speakers Forum, KUOW-FM, Seattle WA

06/22/08 Mind Over Matters, KEXP-FM, Seattle, WA

06/20/08 No Boundaries on WBNW, Money Matters Network

06/13/08 KDVS-FM, Davis CA

06/04/08 Moorish Orthodox Radio Crusade, WBAI-FM, NYC

04/23/08 Against the Grain, KPFA-FM

04/18/08 PirateCatRadio.com with Diamond Dave Whittaker

03/28/08 KBOO-FM, Portland OR
"Positively Revolting" Radio

miscellaneous:

Aug-Oct 2009 Carbusters #39, interview.

05/08/09 Freedom (UK) interview.

03/31/08 KALW-FM, City Visions, "Planning for Future Bicycling in San Francisco"

02/17/07 ChangeSurfer Radio
(Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies)

04/17/06 KPFA, "Ruin, Rubble and Race"

August 2005 podcast interview on Bikescape

May 2005 interview in San Francisco Bay Guardian

for The Political Edge and After The Deluge

02/17/07 ChangeSurfer Radio
01/24/05 KPOO
02/20/05 KPFA Sunday Salon
02/21/05 KVMR morning show
06/07/05 KFAI-FM (Minneapolis)

for Processed World/Bad Attitude

03/24/86 KUSF
07/15/90 WPFW-FM Washington D.C.
07/13/90 CBS News Nightwatch, Washington D.C.
09/02/90 WBCN Boston
09/03/90 WBOS Boston
10/08/90 KNBR
12/12/90 KPFA
06/92 Paper Tiger TV: "Finally Got the News: Let Them Eat Laptops"

05/10/90 Radio Prague, Czechoslovakia
05/28/91 "Social Thought" KALW radio "Most of the Work We Do is Wasteful, Trivial & Irrelevant"

06/2010 "Good Bike" audio CD by Têtes de Bois
10/02/05 KALW-FM Public Transit Show
09/06/05 Bikescape Podcast
07/24/03 WBAI-FM "Between The Lines" w/ Doug Henwood
07/2003 CJSR FM "Rise Up: Radio Free Edmonton," Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
10/15/02 WYSO-FM, Yellow Springs, Ohio
09/26/02 KUSF-FM, Radio Segueway
09/23/02 WORT-FM, Madison, Wisconsin
08/11/2002 Il Manifesto, Milan, Italy
08/04/2002 RadioPopolare, Italy
06/2001 National Geographic, "Pulse of the Planet"
09/18/93 KALW
09/23/93 KUSF
08/93 CNN, KTVU-TV, KGO-TV

for Shaping San Francisco/Reclaiming San Francisco

01/15/98 KUSF-FM radio interview
04/09/98 KALW radio "Book Talk"
04/27/98 KPFA radio "Morning Show"
05/09/98 KQED Forum
06/18/98 KPFA Radio: Living Room, host Larry Bensky
10/08/98 KALW radio "Towards Useful Consciousness"
08/26/99 Play.com webTV with Alex Bennett
05/17/00 PlayTV.com web television
12/21/00 KPOO "Diamond Dave" on San Francisco

2006-2010 Talks at CounterPULSE, archived at the Internet Archive.

WRITINGS

"Critical Mass" in BikeArt: Bicycles in Art Around the World, 2011

"Technology and Utopia", California Northern Magazine #4, Fall 2011

"King of the Road", Boom, A Journal of California, #3, Fall 2011

"Trial & Error: Memories of Learning to Ride" in Boneshaker magazine #6, Fall 2011

"Back to a (New) Future in Milan," preface to Roberto Peia's "Tutta Mia La Citta: Diario di un Bike Messenger" Ediciclo Editore (March 2011)

"The Light and Dark Vision of the Future of Food" in Free Soil No. 1: Farming 2050 (2011)

"The Smell of Ten Thousand Gallons of Mayonnaise and a Hundred Tons of Coffee" in Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas, edited by Rebecca Solnit (UC Press, 2010)

"Nowtopia: Strategic Exodus?" with Francesca Manning, in Antipode, long standing radical journal of Geography, special symposium: 'Autonomy: The struggle for survival, self-management and the common' (Vol 42:4) August 2010

Foreword for Lights! Camera! Cuisine! Cooking Fabulous Food from the Films You Love by Holly Erickson

"One of my favorite walks" in City of Stairways: A Poet's Field Guide to San Francisco, Writers' Corp, July 2010

"Radical Patience: Feeling Effective Over the Long Haul" in Uses of a Whirlwind, AK Press, June 2010

"Parallel Universes: The Tortoise and the Gangster" in San Francisco Art & Politics, June 2010

"How Much is that Black Swan in the Window?" Turbulence #5, December 2009

"The Time-Travelling Wall" in Street Art San Francisco:
Mission Muralismo, edited by Annice Jacoby, Abrams: 2009

Critical Mass and the Anarchist Circle-A in A-Cerchiata: Storia Veridica ed esiti imprevisti di un simbolo, Eleuthera editrice, Milan, Italy 2008

Introduction to Stencil Nation: Graffiti, Community and Art by Russell Howze, June 2008

Acting Historically: Feeling Effective Over the Long Haul in "In The Middle of a Whirlwind", June 2008

"In Bicicletta Sull'Arcobaleno: Riprogettare Le Cittá" in Bici Batte Auto, Shake Edizioni, 2008

"Effective Politics or Feeling Effective" on MetaMute.org, June 2007

"Outlaw Bicycling" in Affinities: A Journal of Radical Theory, Culture, and Action, January 2007

"City Living" S.F. Bay Guardian, July 26, 2006

"Of Buried Creeks and Thwarted Plans," SPUR newsletter, July 2006

The Nowtopian: My Blog, October 2004 to the present. (Renamed from "The Attitude Adjustor" in Dec. 2007)

"Building a Future in the Here and Now" Journal of Aesthetics & Protest #4, November 2005

"Beyond Organics: An interview with Traditional Medicinals' Josef Brinckman" in LiP magazine's online site.

"Jobs Don't Work!" in The Political Edge (2004: City Lights Foundation, San Francisco)

"Statement to NY Court on Critical Mass" October 2004

"Radical Politics: Assuming We Refuse, Let's Refuse to Assume" in
Globalize Liberation: How to Uproot the System and Build a Better World, edited by David Solnit (2004: City Lights Books, San Francisco)

"Cycling Under the Radar: Assertive Desertion" pdf
Critical Mass: Bicycling's Defiant Celebration (2002: AK Press, Oakland)
Critical Mass: L'uso sovversivo della bicicletta (2003: Feltrinelli, Italy)

"Private Wealth or the Department of Common Wealth -- A Real Response to the Real Estate Crisis" (sfbg.com San Francisco Bay Guardian on-line edition, December 20, 2000.)

"Dancing in D.C.: A16 and Beyond"
Go Guerrilla magazine, Buffalo NY, Vol. 2, Winter 2000-2001

"Seeing the Elephant in Seattle"
Seattle in Perspective, Red & Black Notes pamphlet, Toronto, Canada March 2000; RealBattleinSeattle.org wiki.

"The Progress Club: 1934 and Class Memory" (pdf)
Reclaiming San Francisco: History, Politics, Culture (1998: City Lights Books, SF)

"Radical Invasion of New Media" in Bad Subjects #26, May 1996

"The Shape of Truth To Come: New Media and Knowledge" Resisting the Virtual Life (1995: City Lights Books, SF)

"Warrior Girls" (poem)
Carbuncle 4 (1994: Thumbscrew Press, San Francisco)

"San Bruno Mountain; HCPs and Beyond" interview with Pete Holloran and David Schooley Terrain, October 1994

"Information Clerk"
Sabotage in the American Workplace (1992: Pressure Drop Press, SF)

"Mission Bay"
Stadtreisebuch: San Francisco (1992: VSA Verlag, Hamburg, Germany)

"Just the Facts, M'am"
Technoculture (1991: University of Minnesota Press)

"The Making of a Bad Attitude"
Writing magazine, Vancouver, Canada, August 1986, Issue 15: Work

Critical Mass publications (over two dozen flyers, newspaper articles, selected titles listed below)

2008
"Three I's: Infrastructure, Impediments, and Imagination" (August) pdf

2006
"Why We Ride" and "Do's and Don't's" (February)

2005
"Critical Mass is Thirteen, The Culture War is Older (and far from over!)" in Faultlines, October 2005

1999
"Bicycling: A Serious Pleasure, a Partial Revolt" in Bikesummer ‘99

Photography

With "King of the Road" in Boom, A Journal of California, #3, Fall 2011

Cover and a half dozen others in Vanished Waters: A History of San Francisco's Misson Bay (March 2011)

Hundreds of photos at nowtopians.com

Anti-G8 protests in Rostock Germany on Indybay.org
June 2: Another World is Possible
June 3: Anti-G8 solidarity sit-in
June 3: Resistance is Fruitful!
June 4: The Right to Movement

and in the Brooklyn Rail

cover, The Political Edge (City Lights Foundation, San Francisco: 2004)

Critical Mass photography appearing in

Critical Mass: L'uso sovversivo della bicicletta
(Feltrinelli Editore Milano, Italy: 2003)

Critical Mass: Bicycling's Defiant Celebration
(AK Press 2002)

City For Sale
(Berkeley: UC Press, 2001)

2000 Peace Calendar and postcards

Orion Afield (Vol. 4, No. 1, Autumn 2000)

Natural Health magazine (Jan./Feb. 2000)

Reclaiming San Francisco: History, Politics, Culture
(San Francisco: City Lights Publishers, 1998)
Sierra magazine (Sept./Oct. 1998)

The entirety of Processed World has been scanned and is available for free as pdf, text files, or browsable electronic book at the Internet Archive!

#2004-5, 11/04
"Burning Man: A D-I-Y Working Class World's Fair"

#2.001, 9/01
• "Radical Politics: Assuming We Refuse, Let's Refuse to Assume"
• Reviews: The Critical Study of Work (2001, Temple Univ. Press, Philadelphia), Youth At Work (2001, Temple Univ. Press); Fast Food Nation (2001, Houghton Mifflin, NY)

#33 1/3, web only (1995, 2000):
• "The Faceless Face of the New Mexican Revolution"

# 32, 1/94:
• "The Shape of Truth To Come: New Media and Knowledge"
• Fiction: "Virtual Hell"

# 31, 8/93:
• "Public Education: Remaking a Public"
• Reviews: Midnight Oil (Autonomedia: New York, 1992) and The London Hanged (Cambridge University Press: New York, 1992)

#30, 11/92:
• Interview: "A Shit Raiser Speaks: Interview with Judi Bari"
• "What Work Matters?"
• Review: American Dream video documentary

#29, 8/92:
• Interview: "Get the Message: Interview with Mercury Rising bike messengers"
• Review: Strange Weather (Verso: London 1991) and Questioning Technology (New Society Publishers: Philadelphia, 1991)

#28, 11/91:
• Interview: "Genetic Engineering Pioneer: Interview with Marco Schwarzstein"
• Review: The City, Not Long After (Bantam: New York, 1990)

#26/27 6/91:
• Interview: "Art and Chaos in Brazil: Interview with graffiti artist Ze Carratu"
• Fiction: "Aaah HIP Capitalists!"
• Reviews: City of Quartz (Verso: London/New York 1990), Gulf War pamphlets: When Crusaders and Assassins Unite, Let the People Beware (Boston: 1990) and All Quiet on the Eastern Front (Berkeley: 1990)

#25, 7/90:
• "The First-Hand Look and other Perceptual Problems"

#22, 7/88:
• "Dollars & Ecology: Different Shades of Green?"
• "Bicyclists! Support City of Panhandles Bike Plan"

#20, 9/87:
• "The Health Epidemic"
• "Stress: A Social Dis-ease"

#19, 4/87:
• Interview: "Kaiser Don't Care! SEIU Neither!!: Interview w/2 rank-and-filers"

#17, 8/86:
• "Making of a Bad Attitude: An Abridged History of My Wage-Slavery"
• Interview: "Flexing Muscles at Flax: Anatomy of Service Sector Organizing"
• Review: "Pursuit of Happiness" stage production

#16, 4/86:
• "Dagwood & Blondie in Space"

#14, 7/85:
• "Future? What Future?!?"

#13, 4/85:
• Reviews: Scenes from Corporate Life (Penguin: New York 1981); International Labor Reports, Across Frontiers, Index on Censorship

#12, 11/84:
• "We're No. 1!"

#11, 8/84:
• "Drugs: A Corrosive Social Cement"

#9, 11/83:
• "The Line You Have Reached Disconnect It!"
• "Against Fairness and Fares"

#8, 6/83:
• "Workers' Participation: New Carrot/Old Stick"

#6, 11/82:
• "Roots of Disillusionment"

#5, 7/82:
• "Not Just Words: Disinformation!"

#4, 4/82:
• "No Paid Officials"
• "SF Supes Bolster Sagging City Worker Unions"

#3, 12/81:
• Fiction: "Jack and the Beanstalk"

#2, 7/81:
• "Rise of the 6-Month Worker"
• "Raises, Rights, Respect Alienation"
• "Post-mortem on Blue Shield Strike

#1, 4/81:
• "Office Workers on Strike—San Francisco 1981"
• Fiction: "San Francisco 1987—Would You Believe It?"

1975-76 Sonoma State University, Philosophy
1978-79 San Francisco State University, Spanish/Political Science
1993-94 San Francisco State University Downtown Extension

The Dispatcher (1998-2008)

California Current

Great Basin Publishing

Great Basin magazine
website: http://www.greatbasinweb.com

Inside the Glitter: Lives of Casino Workers

I Was Born a Black Woman
website for film documentary on Benedita da Silva

Ord Street Press

Watch Out Ivy!

Rancho San Miguel: A San Francisco Neighborhood History

The Sixth Star: Images and Memorabilia of California Women's Political History 1868-1915

Lucky 130

Telegraph Hill Dwellers Association

The Semaphore

Haight Ashbury Literary Journal

• Ten Years That Shook the City (City Lights Foundation)
• Vanished Waters: The History of San Francisco's Mission Bay (Mission Creek Conservancy)
• With Green Day in China (Cometbus #54)
• Watch Out Ivy! (Ord Street Press)
• An American Anarchist's Tale (Gimbel Press)
• Chinatown Squad (Noir Publications)
• Nowtopia (AK Press)
• The Toughest Gang in Town (Noir Publications)
• After The Deluge (Full Enjoyment Books)
• The Political Edge (City Lights Foundation)
• Critical Mass: Bicycling's Defiant Celebration (AK Press)
• Rancho San Miguel: A San Francisco Neighborhood History (Ord Street Press)
• The Sixth Star: Images and Memorabilia of California Women's Political History 1868-1915 (Ord Street Press)
• Inside the Glitter: Lives of Casino Workers (Great Basin Publishing)
• Bike Traffic (Bicycle Community Project)
• Lucky 130 (Ord Street Press)
• A Pioneer Community of Faith (Old First Presbyterian, publisher)
• Reclaiming San Francisco (City Lights Books)
• Bad Attitude (Verso Books)
• Tamsen’s Notebooks Vol. I, II, III (Julie Cairol, publisher)