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In Part 2, we pick up where we left off in Part 1. Allegra was bartending at Second City in Chicago. The day of her graduation ceremony, at Columbia College Chicago, she packed up all her belongings and drove to LA with a friend.   Allegra really wanted to be in California. Not yet totally sure about what she was gonna do, she took the plunge, so to speak. She'd realized that she wasn't going to pursue art. But she figured, correctly, that in addition to the warmer climate, there would be opportunities to seize in Los Angeles. But Allegra soon found that the challenges of a pre-smartphone Southern California were overwhelming.   But she gave it a go. Allegra managed to get what she refers to today as "the worst job she's ever had in her life"—taking school photos of kids. On September 11, 2001, as planes hit the Twin Towers on the other side of the continent, Allegra was at a school in LA taking photos of schoolchildren.   Later that day, she had a job interview that, of course, required driving. The freeways were empty, which is an eerie sight. But she got that job. And that's the story of how Allegra Madsen became an art handler.   Following a couple of years hanging art (Warhol's Mao and Brillo Boxes among the art Allegra handled), she dabbled in freelance work, putting art up on walls in the homes of Los Angeles billionaires among them. Several years into that, Allegra started to feel that energy—this time, pushing her away from LA.   She packed up her red sports car again (a 1988 Porsche, by the way) and headed to The Bay. Going back to the time in her life when she immersed herself in books, Beat writers caught Allegra's imagination. She recounts her first visit to San Francisco and her eventual move north. Like me, she had no idea that she'd still be here all these decades later.   It took Allegra some time to "unpack," so to speak. She moved around The Bay a little, before eventually settling back a block from her first spot in Oakland, where she lives today.   She went to school at CCA (then known as CCAC) and studied curatorial practice. It's where she discovered and got really into social art practices, which she goes into in our talk. "Using art to build community," essentially. Her thesis project took place on Third Street, just as the light rail was being built along that corridor. Her thesis exhibition took place at the Bayview Opera House.   A few years after getting her Master's degree, Allegra opened a cafe in Temescal in Oakland. The neighborhood was rapidly gentrifying at the time, and she wanted to have a space where folks from many different walks of life could visit and have a good experience.   Allegra sold the café after about five years. She pivoted back to art and event planning. Most of her work took the form of events in the Bayview. And part of that event planning involved movie programming. This led to a role at the BVOH, where she did more movie showings.   During her time at the opera house, she began to partner with Frameline. In 2021, she joined the film fest org as programming director. It was the first year since the pandemic started, and Allegra believes part of why she was hired is that she had proven that she could program movies in "weird" places. They hosted a movie as part of Pride that summer at Oracle Park and did some drive-ins (remember those?).   In late 2023, Allegra became interim executive director of Frameline. She assumed the permanent job this February.   Follow Frameline on Instagram and other social media to stay up to date on everything they do.   We end the podcast with Allegra's take on our theme this season: Keep it local.   We recorded this podcast in the Frameline office in South of Market in November 2024.   Photography by Dan Hernandez

Chefs After Service This past week I got to sit down with Andres Giraldo of Snail Bar in Oakland,CA. A natural wine bar and retail shop in the Temescal district known for its excellent food, and incredible hospitality. Julianna Thorpe and Ignacio Zuzulich are both the Chefs of Dawn Ranch in Guerneville,CA. They have a storied history of acclaimed restaurants under their belt, including Meadowood where I worked with Julianna, and Mugaritz where Ignacio was the Chef de Cuisine o el JEFE DE COCINA!! YA TU SABES!! Its always fun to have multiple chefs on to talk shop about the industry that we love. Con mucho Amor!! Peace!! #chefpodcast #chef #cooks #restaurants #resorts #oakland #guerneville #podcast #chefstable #michelin #jbf #eater --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/suciotalk/support

19-year-old Laura Brown started the Oakland Feminist Women's Health Center in 1972. In the early days, Laura would answer the clinic's phone using different voices so it sounded like there were multiple people working there. From its humble beginnings in a tiny Temescal house, this DIY project would eventually grow into an institution that would serve countless patients, help many people from poor and marginalized backgrounds become healthcare professionals, and make a historic impact on the trajectory of reproductive justice in this country. Angela Hume uncovers the history of this clinic, which was later renamed West Coast Feminist Health Project / Women's Choice, in the new book “Deep Care: The radical activists who provided abortions, defied the law, and fought to keep clinics open.” As the title suggests, this story covers topics that range from underground gynecological “self-help” groups to terrifying battles with swarms of anti-choice militants attempting to violently shut down abortion providers. Amidst an ongoing rollback of reproductive rights, where women are being jailed for accessing abortion pills once again, the lessons that dozens of activists share with Hume in this book are crucially relevant, sometimes heartbreaking, and occasionally even hilarious. To see photos related to this episode: https://eastbayyesterday.com/episodes/abortion-poetry-and-stink-bombs/ This episode is supported by UCSF Benioff Children's Hospitals. I highly recommend checking out their new podcast, “Revolutionary Care: An Oakland Story,” a series about the history of treating sickle cell anemia: www.ucsfbenioffchildrens.org/sickle-cell East Bay Yesterday can't survive without your donations. Please make a pledge to keep this show alive: www.patreon.com/eastbayyesterday

In this interview, Daniel Olivella discusses the role of olive oil in Spanish cuisines at his restaurant, Barlata Tapas Bar. Daniel Olivella is the chef-owner of Barlata tapas bar in Austin, TX. A native of Barcelona, he has been cooking in the U.S. for the past 35 years. Daniel started his career in Chicago at family-owned restaurant La Paella in 1979 as an all-around family member. There, under the supervision of his French-raised uncle, he was trained on traditional French and Spanish service and food preparation. In Chicago he went on to work for the Lettuce Entertain You group, before moving to San Francisco in 1987. There, he worked as a line cook at Delfina, Zuni Café, Zazie, and the Maltese Grill before becoming the opening chef of Thirsty Bear Brewing Co. In 1999, Daniel opened his own restaurant, B44 Catalan Bistro, specializing in Catalan cuisine. He was named a “Rising Star Chef of the Year” in 2001 by San Francisco Magazine. Daniel opened his first Barlata concept in March 2009 in the Temescal neighborhood of Oakland. In 2013, he moved the Barlata Tapas Bar to the South Lamar district of Austin, TX. His book Catalan Food, was published by Clarkson Potter in September 2018. This recipe and video were produced by The Culinary Institute of America as an industry service, thanks to the generous support of the International Olive Council. Learn more about olive oil at https://www.plantforwardkitchen.org/olive-oil-and-the-plant-forward-kitchen

Moving To Southern CA Norcal vs Socal Glen Nelson Realty One Group West Based out of Corona CA will talk about living in Southern CA. This will be fun! If you have questions, please be sure to put it in the comments below! Southern CA, Corona CA, Temescal, Orange County, san jose california, san jose real estate, best home improvements to increase value,moving tips and hacks, abitano, how to buy a house while selling your own,top selling real estate agents near me, california real estate commission, Leaving California, willow glen san jose, California Exodus, questions to ask a realtor, questions to ask a real estate agent, cost of living in san jose,Leaving Silicon Valley,moving out of california,zillow san jose, homes for sale san jose, Why is Everyone Leaving California,House Ready to Sell Checklist,List in 30 days or less, Compass Concierge,Bridge Loan, construction loan,Relocating to a new state, Measure E, Prop 19, mistakes to avoid when selling your home --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/siliconvalleyliving/message

Hosts Ben Rice and Phil Webster return with their tails tucked between their legs after going 0/2 in their Finals picks before the Conference Finals even happened. From a failed Robin for Giannis to a disastrous preseason decision for the Suns, we've got blame to share and plenty of beer to go around! Over a split pint of Intrinsic, an Enhanced West Coast IPA, from Temescal, Headlands, and Del Cielo, we discuss our new picks for the winners of the Conference Finals, plus our 2021-2022 NBA Finals champs.Along the way, we wonder what comes next for the losers, discuss one (positive) thing the NBA can take from the NFL, and make our selections for the 2021-2022 Milkshake IPA Player of the Year (you do not want this award and we have eliminated Russell Westbrook and James Harden from the running, in a very reasonable "hey, MJ can't win EVERY MVP" argument).If you want to chime in with your player-to-beer comparisons, your thoughts on who wins the Finals, or get in your nominee for Milkshake IPA Player of the Year, don't forget to follow us on social media #SlideIntoOurGMs on Twitter @PlzDunkPod or on IG @pleasedunkresponsiblyFollow Phil on IG @culinarylando and Twitter @PeterParkourFollow Ben across social media @barleyandmepodSlide into our GM's or email us players, teams, beers, breweries you want us to evaluate, or your own evaluations, at pleasedunkresponsibly@gmail.com!This week's beer is an SF Beer Week collab between Temescal Brewing (@temescalbeer), Headlands Brewing (@headlandsbrew), and Del Cielo Brewing (@delcielobrewing), and is absolutely worth seeking out.Intro Music: “JamRoc” by Breez (@breeztheartist)Logo by Maryam Moosavi

The Italian food many Americans grew up with — often called “red sauce” cuisine — is influenced by Italian traditions, “but it is not Italian food,” writes Ian MacAllen, author of “Red Sauce: How Italian Food Became American.” This distinction between Italian and Italian American food evolved from the story of Italian immigration to America — one where pizza and pasta ended up becoming synonymous with American food itself. The Bay Area's own wine, tomato sauce and cioppino stems from the legacies of the Italian American immigrants who brought their old-world tastes to California's vineyards and tomato fields. We'll talk about the legacy and culture of Italian Americans in the Bay Area today, from North Beach to Temescal's Colombo Club to San Jose's Chiaramonte's Deli.

I have known James for years, his culinary skills are well above my pay grade, opening the restaurant of his dreams Commis in his home city of Oakland. All while driving this passion to make delicious food in a town he loves inspires me everyday. Ok I will just say it James you rock!! Born in Ubonratchathani,Thailand and raised in Oakland, California,James Syhabout is the Chef/Proprietor of Commis, the only Michelin-starred restaurant in Oakland since 2010; Hawker Fare, with both Oakland and San Franciscooutposts; and casual, beer-centric restaurant, The Dock, in West Oakland. Named “Best New Chef” in2010by the eponymousFood &Winemagazine,Syhabouthas been recognized not only for his skill and dedication to the culinary arts, but for reviving the dining scene in his hometown of Oakland.Before opening Commis and Hawker Fare, Syhaboutformally studied at California Culinary Academy inSan Franciscoand developed his craftat numerous Michelin starred restaurants around the globe,beginning asChef de Partie at Manresa(Los Gatos, California). Within a few months, Syhabout advanced toSous Chef,where his close workwith Chef David Kinchinspired hisinterest in different European cuisines and international culinary practices. After two years at Manresa, Syhabout ventured out to continue hisculinary education in Europe, where he worked with Chef Heston Blumenthal atThe Fat Duck(Bray, United Kingdom), followed by Mugaritz in the Basque country, near San Sebastian(Gizpuzkoa, Spain), while experiencing numerous Michelin-starredmeals along the way.Syhabout stayed in Spain as Chef de Partie at Alkimia(Barcelona, Spain) cooking new Catalan cuisine, before spending a season at Ferran Adria's ground breaking restaurantEl Bulli(Roses, Spain). Following his continued culinary travels through France and Italy, Syhabout returned to Manresa as a consultant training, working, sharing and developing new ideas from his experiencesabroad. In 2006,Syhabout worked with Chef Daniel Patterson to open Coi(San Francisco, California), providing him with the invaluable experience of opening a restaurant, from building codes and menu development, to inventory and the hiring and training of staff. Following Coi, Syhabout was scouted by the Plumpjack Group in 2006 to fill the Executive Chef position at their flagship restaurant, Plumpjack Café(San Francisco, California). Within the first year, he earned a ravethree and half star review from Michael Bauer in the San Francisco Chronicleand was recognized as a “Rising Star Chef”by San Francisco Magazine, San Francisco Chronicle and StarChefs.Com. With Syhabout at the helm,Plumpjack Café became one of the top draws for dining out in the San Francisco Bay Area as voted by Food & Wine magazine and was propelled back onto the Top 100 restaurant list compiled by San Francisco Chronicle.After accumulating numerous accolades at Plumpjack Cafe, Syhabout was recruited back to Manresa in the highly coveted role of Chef de Cuisine. His returnto Manresa was largely motivated bythe restaurant's involvement with Love Apple Farms and grower Cynthia Sandberg.The biodynamic farm provides bountiful heirloom varieties of vegetables, fruits, herbs, edibleflowers and seeds grown solely for the restaurant. Syhabout's involvement with the farm was a collaborative effort with Cynthia, focused on finding seeds of rare varietals and selectingwhat to grow for the restaurant through the changing seasons. Hisexperience working with Cynthia shaped his vision when developing menuswith a truefarm-to-plateapproach.In 2010, Syhabout's travels, studies and varied culinary experiences culminated in the launch of his first restaurant, Commis, the first fine-dining restaurant in Oakland, which was promptly awarded with one Michelin star a mere months after opening. In stark contrast to Commis, Syhabout opened Hawker Fare in 2011, in the very Oakland location of his mother's former restaurant, serving the Laotian Thai food he grew up with in a casual setting. Next came Box & Bells Eating House and The Dock(later to becomeOld Kan), both in Oakland, followed by the 2015 openingof a Hawker Fare San Francisco, and new Hawker Fare offshoot, Hawking Bird, in Oakland's Temescal area in December 2017. Syhabout currently operates Commis, Hawker Fare San Francisco, Old Kan and Hawking Bird. His first cookbook, Hawker Fare: Stories & Recipes from a Refugee Chef's Thai Isan & Lao Roots, is released in January 2018 under Anthony Bourdain's Ecco imprint.Additionally, Syhabouthasappeared on The Food Network's “Iron Chef America”twice,asSous Chef forbothMourad Lahlou and David Kinch,aiding them in achievingtriumphant victories.

Welcome to Cannabis Daily - Your daily guide to cannabis news, industry trends and trade ideas in under 5 mins.Big Banks Vs. Cannabis: JPMorgan Reportedly Blocks Trading Of Some U.S. Marijuana StocksEpisode Summary:Cantor Fitzgerald releases notes on several major cannabis companies:This is the dip for the dip buying strategy.Green Thumb Industries(OTCQX:GTBIF)Cresco Labs(OTCQX:CRLBF)Columbia Care(OTCQX:CCHWF)Ayr Wellness(OTCQX:AYRWF)Canopy Growth(NASDAQ:CGC)Other public companies talked about in the podcast:Australis Capital (OTCQB:AUSAF)Red White & Bloom Brands(OTCQX:RWBYF)MariMed(OTCQX:MRMD)Tilray(NASDAQ:TLRY)Lifeist Wellness(OTCQB:NXTTF)Pharmagreen Biotech(OTCPK:PHBI)Q3 Earnings:Greenlane Hldgs (NASDAQ:GNLN)Innovative Industrial(NYSE:IIPR)22nd Century Group(NASDAQ:XXII)Hosted & Produced By:Elliot LaneAaron ThomasContact us at: cannabishour@benzinga.comFollow Benzinga Cannabis On Social MediaInstagramTwitterYouTubeLinkedInSubscribe to all Benzinga Podcasts at https://www.benzinga.com/podcastsSubscribe to the Cannabis Insider Newsletter to get more cannabis news and trending links delivered to your inbox.Tune in weekly to Cannabis Hour at 4 pm ET every Thursday for Cannabis News & Executive Interviews at bzcannabishour.comHit us up at https://www.benzinga.com/cannabis/ for more news today, tomorrow, and everyday.Access All The Cannabis Daily Episodes HereFor Top Gainers & Losers Cannabis stocks of the day check out https://www.benzinga.com/cannabis/stocksNOT FINANCIAL ADVICEThe Information Contained on this Podcast is not intended as, and shall not be understood or construed as, financial adviceUnedited Transcript:Good morning investors. Happy Thursday. I hope you're having a great week in the markets. It's certainly been eventful for me. Uh, but excited to bring you cannabis news and insights, every single weekday. Thanks to Aaron Thomas for always producing and Benzinger for letting us host let's dive right in first up Cantor Fitzgerald releases notes on several major cannabis companies, GTB that's green thumb industries. Uh, they keep overweight, but lower the price target to 38 Cresco labs that C R L B F also overweight and also lowering the price target, uh, this time. Columbia care that CC HWF also overweight and also lowering the price target to $5 and 20 air wellness. That's Ayr, WF. They remain neutral and also lower the price target to 20 to 60 and canopy growth. The CGC on the NASDAQ remain neutral. And also lowers the price target to Canadian $18 and 50 cents. So I don't think the lowering of any price target right now is, um, telling of any of these companies. I think it's more telling of the industry and trends of cannabis stocks, right? And whether you're using this time to trade or using this time to buy the dip, uh, that is your strategy, uh, in your choice. Uh, but if you are a debt buying person, Uh, this is the dip. So make sure to do your research as always, but all five of these, I think are fantastic cannabis stocks to look at, along with companies like Cura leaf and others, audacious brands, a U S a F entered into a strategic partnership with Thailand based food manufacturer and distributor golden triangle. This is the day old, but I thought worth mentioning Geth is an early mover in the CBD space in Thailand sets audacious up for further international expansion. Uh, interesting point to note here is audacious is focused on a capital light expansion strategy, uh, meaning they're not providing capital for construction or other working purposes or, or other items there. I would imagine. And it takes a lot of the risk out of this expansion for them, but a less risk, less risk, less reward. Uh, one could say so, uh, interesting set up there and maybe they go into a capital, heavy expansion strategy from there, but remains to be seen red, white, and blue them RW BYF enters into phase two of Florida expansion. Uh, there they install 30 group. Expecting each to bring an average of $1 million in revenue a year that's 30 million overall pods provide an extra 19, 19,200 square feet of grow space. Uh, there are edibles facility also. We'll be making milk white and dark chocolate with unique flavor profiles. So RWB. Moving their, uh, their, their cultivation and their manufacturing along pretty quickly, uh, in Florida. It wasn't too long when they were looking at phase one mermaid MRMD wins, high times cultivation cup award for its nature's heritage brand and a Metro south award for best dispensary MRMD has a high sentiment in the space right now, in my opinion, at least for the last six months, a lot of, I would say. Uh, experienced investors have, have been bullish on MRMD. So I think what Bob fireman is doing over there has been a massive turnaround over the last year, year and a half. And one definitely keep an eye on till rates. He all T L R Y uh, Tilray Sweetwater brand via collaboration with till res riff cannabis enters into spirits category with new vodka cocktail in a can in us. I am a fan of the Sweetwater IPA. I am a fan of the Sweetwater Oasis. Uh, I will try vodka and a can. I will probably try it once, but a good for them for making cool new products, uh, expansion news here. Um, as far as I know, you know, there's not a lot of mainstream, uh, breweries doing this at the time. I'm probably wrong, but not that I'm aware of as, as an, as an average beer drinker will say, life has wellness. That's Innex TTF on the OTC looking to increase margins as subsidiary can Mart labs begins commercialization of house brand royalty. That's spelled R O I L T Y under the cannabis 2.0 consumer focused direction. So life is to, again, coming out with more news, they have been very, very present. Um, and I love it. I think what they're doing is, is a very visible turnaround. Um, and I think they've done a very good job and I've said it multiple times before, and I'll probably say it again. Uh, halo, collective HC and NF closes share purchase transaction of a conduct Corp. Uh, this is, uh, this establishes a strong self-funded medical cannabis presence in Africa, not a whole lot of companies, uh, at least that we're familiar with. Uh, domestically and in north America have, uh, expanded in a strong way to Africa yet I would imagine that will change, but, um, a lot of market share to be had there right now and halo taking that step pharma green submits application to up list, uh, to OTC QB, and finally. Some Q3 earnings, green lane, that's NASDAQ listed G and L N releases preliminary data. Their net sales will be over 40 million. Uh, that seems encouraging. I PR $53.9 million in revenue. That's a 57% increase year over year. And they paid a quarterly dividend of $1 and 50 cents per share to common stockholders as of September 30th. That is not news that we hear a lot in this space. And I IPR, uh, as per some is the best and, um, performing the best margins of the best multiples cannabis stock out there right now. And of course they are a REIT. So keep that in mind, if you're interested in the ancillary side or in the investments. I PR is a fantastic entrant into that. Uh, in Q3, they had transactions with new tenants, such as calyx peak and gold flora. They expanded existing relationships with forefront holdings. This. Goodness growth. Uh, I believe green peak looks like harvest health, holistic, um, and, um, Temescal wellness of Massachusetts. So overall, very present with a ton of well-known operators. Again, that's IPR 22nd century. That's ex ex. Year-to-date net sales of 23 million up 11% year over year up listed to NASDAQ last quarter. So always big news and we'll start monetizing their hemp and cannabis lines and IP in Q4. This is Elliot lane with cannabis daily, tons of news. We'll have tons, more Q3 earnings as we move into the next week, week and a half. Um, but overall hope this helps you start your day every day. Looking forward to doing it one more time next week with my good buddy, Aaron Thomas, have a great Thursday.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/cannabis-daily/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Howdy Partnas, today we discussing s05e03 "The Glasses" & well wouldn't you know it we are drinking West from Temescal brewing.

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We’re as surprised as anyone to be drinking a bunch of Temescal Brewing beers on the podcast again, but oh what a pleasant surprise it is! In this episode, we drink several Temescal brews and talk about dark beer, the election and the Dodgers being World Champions! In ‘What Made You Wanna Drink’ Misa talks about Japanese companies being terrible at social media and William vents extensively about The Golden State Warriors moving out of The Town and also reminisces about the joy of Jewish Heritage Night at Oracle Arena. Tune in!The Beers (All from Temescal Brewing)Another Go Round (Hazy IPA)Soft Spot (Dry-Hopped Pilsner)People Power (Italian Style Pilsner)Yonder (Black Lager)

Liv talks with Indigenous advocate, singer and songwriter Rhonda “Honey” Duvall. Honey speaks about the missing and murdered indigenous women, children and men. She shares her story and experiences, and why she chooses to express her art and be an advocate in her community. Resources and Ways To Help www.Temescal.site www.Pandos.org www.UICSL.org www.VoiceOfHoney.com

This week we're chatting with our friends Kai & Ryan from Temescal Brewing! Poolside Convo Blond Ale is a collaboration beer we brewed a few months back alongside our Blond beer series inspired by Frank Ocean. August 20th, 2020 is the four year anniversary of Frank Ocean's album Blond and we had to pay tribute with another round of beer releases! Hang out with us while we talk all things Blond beers, our breweries and a whole lotta nonsense! 

0:08 – Mitch Jeserich, host of Letters & Politics weekdays at 10AM, joins us for “Mondays with Mitch” to discuss what is and isn't included in the House Democrats' proposed policing reform — the Justice in Policing Act. We take a look at the history of qualified immunity and how this legislation would impact the process of suing police officers for civil rights violations. 0:37 – In Oakland on June 6th, three unnamed California Highway Patrol officers shot dozens of rounds at a vehicle driven by 23-year old Erik Salgado, killing him and injuring his pregnant girlfriend. KPFA's Lucy Kang (@ThisIsLucyKang) and Chris Lee (@chrislee_xyz) spoke to Erik's step-father Farid Majail, his step-sister Amanda Majail Blanco, and his younger sister Vanessa Majail on the street where Erik was killed. 0:43 – What would a world without prisons and police actually look like? We explore this question with Rosa Clemente (@rosaclemente), a grassroots organizer, lecturer, independent journalist, and scholar, and a former vice presidential candidate with the Green Party.  1:08 – Today is the last day Oakland City Council members can submit amendments to the city's budget revision. Across the city this morning, activists and Oakland residents are organizing actions to demand Oakland City Council defund Oakland Police Department by 50 percent, a campaign started by the Anti Police-Terror Project five years ago. KPFA's Chris Lee (@chrislee_xyz) joins us for a live report from one of these actions, where about 100 protesters gathered in the Temescal neighborhood. 1:13 – The Supreme Court has ruled that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act — which prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex — applies to the LGBTQ community. We discuss the implications of this landmark decision with Marjorie Cohn (@marjoriecohn), professor emerita at Thomas Jefferson School of Law and former president of the National Lawyers Guild. 1:34 – Should police associations exist, and if so, what standards should they be held to? We host a discussion with Clarence Thomas, former member of the ILWU. Photo by Ted Eytan. The post Rosa Clemente is imagining a world without prisons and police — plus, SCOTUS rules to protect LGBTQ workers from discrimination appeared first on KPFA.

Yeah yeah. We know that some of your favorite film podcasts are covering the likes of "Frozen II" or "A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood." Go listen to them for that coverage. We decided we wanted to give "Ford v Ferrari" the attention it deserves (or maybe doesn't depending on who you are." We also dive into the telling of the story of Rudy Ray Moore, the man behind the Blaxploitation icon Dolemite with the Netflix-released "Dolemite is My Name." Our first beer is from Temescal Brewing (Oakland, CA) that Jonny picked up at a bottle shop/taproom in Roseville called Final Gravity. The beer? "Spooky Puppy: Mangoe." It's a fruity hazy IPA that's 6.2% abv. Our second is a potentially contaminated aged old ale from Founder's Brewing (Grand Rapids, MI) called "Curmudgeon's Better Half." Episode Timeline: 0:00 Intro & "Spooky Puppy" 11:39 Flick Picks; "Dolemite Is My Name" 16:49 Flick Picks; "Planes, Trains, & Automobiles" 20:24 "Ford V Ferrari" (SPOILER FREE) 39:16 "Curmudgeon's Better Half" 47:31 Hot & Bothered 56:42 "Ford V Ferrari" (DANGER ZONE) Please rate & review us wherever you listen to podcasts and, if you're so inclined, consider donating to the show via our Patreon page. Find our entire collection of episodes as well as written reviews of movies and beers at our virtual podcast mansion www.freshhopcinema.com. Thanks to all our patrons, and the Handlebar Chico for their constant support and to Bailey Minardi, without whom, this show wouldn't be what it is.

Welcome to the Good Beer Hunting Podcast. I’m Ashley Rodriguez.  I remember the very first time I went to Temescal Brewing in Oakland, California. I had been watching the buildout for months, waiting in anticipation. You could step outside of my apartment building and see it from the corner. So when they finally opened, I was excited—and pleasantly surprised by the number of crushable, low-ABV beers they offered from the get-go. I was immediately on board.  My relationship with Temescal Brewing is a mirror of my time in Oakland, initially because of proximity—I could throw a load of clothes in the washing machine and have a beer as I waited to transfer them to the dryer. Eventually, however, it evolved into a closer connection with the folks who ran the brewery. I was used to talking with the bartenders—at that time there were maybe six or seven regular folks I’d see—and eventually I ended up joining the bar staff, and being forever changed not just by the way they brew beer, but by the way they hire, the way they advocate for the rights of others, and the way they became a guiding light for businesses seeking to operate ethically and responsibly.  A lot of what I love about Temescal comes from owner Sam Gilbert, who we interviewed on this podcast a couple of weeks ago, but also from then-taproom manager Theresa Bale. Theresa hired me back in the day, and is also the founder of Queer First Friday, the Bay’s only craft-beer-focused queer dance party. Every first Friday of the month, Temescal holds one of the most exciting and inclusive queer events in the area. From queer families who bring their children in at the beginning of the night to folks hopping on the dance floor to new performers, DJs, and singers showcasing their talents for the very first time, Queer First Friday is one of the loveliest celebrations of diversity and inclusion that I’ve encountered. And it’s all because of Theresa.  In this episode, we talk a lot about Queer First Friday—I was at the very first one, slinging beers from the outside bar, slightly overwhelmed by the number of people who showed up, clamoring to get in, and we also talk about how Theresa thinks about hiring for diversity. Theresa isn’t shy about this—she’s intentional, she’s open, and she makes a point to seek out bartenders who maybe don’t have a ton of experience or know that much about beer. Because, for Theresa, to build a truly inclusive staff, you have to look outside the corners and social networks you know.  I could talk about Temescal and what it means to me forever. But I’ll let Theresa, who recently transitioned from taproom manager to head of operations, a job she created for herself, tell the story. This is Theresa Bale, head of operations for Temescal Brewing in Oakland, California. Listen in.

TranscriptLisa Kiefer: [00:00:01] You're listening to Method to the Madness. A biweekly public affairs show on K-A-L-X Berkeley celebrating Bay Area innovators.Lisa Kiefer: [00:00:12] I'm your host, Lisa Kiefer. And today, I'm speaking with Mohamed Shehk, co-director and media and communications director of Critical Resources. Welcome to Method to the Madness.Mohamed Shehk: [00:00:28] Thank you for having me.Lisa Kiefer: [00:00:29] I've been hearing a whole lot with the upcoming presidential election and all the debates, about prison reform. I find it kind of interesting that for the past over 20 years, your organization has said "forget reform, we need to abolish prisons."Mohamed Shehk: [00:00:43] Yes. Critical Resistance was founded in 1998. It was founded in Berkeley. There was a conference called Critical Resistance Beyond the Prison Industrial Complex.Lisa Kiefer: [00:00:53] Yes. And you had a lot of heavy hitters, Angela Davis.Mohamed Shehk: [00:00:55] Angela Davis was one of our co-founders,.Lisa Kiefer: [00:00:57] And, Ruth Wilson Gilmore!Mohamed Shehk: [00:00:59] And we're actually doing an event with Ruthie down in L.A.. Yeah. So we began using a term that was actually coined by Mike Davis, the prison industrial complex. And it was a way to begin thinking about the interrelated systems of imprisonment, policing, surveillance and other forms of state violence and control. Really looking at this system as being built intentionally to control, repress and inflict harm and violence in communities. So if we understand that its purpose is to control communities, then we don't want to fix it. Right. We want to chip away at its power. We want to abolish it. So we really popularized the notion of prison industrial complex abolition. And for the past 20 years, we've been working on various projects and campaigns toward eliminating the prison industrial complex in our society.Lisa Kiefer: [00:01:51] So of all the candidates, who do you think is most onboard or at least understanding of what your strategy is toward prisons?Mohamed Shehk: [00:02:00] It's really interesting with the current presidential candidates that have approached criminal justice reform in a variety of ways. I mean, you just had Bernie Sanders release a platform that actually picks up a lot of some of the concepts and community based approaches rather than continuing to invest and waste millions and millions and millions of dollars into the system of policing, into imprisonment. What are the reforms that appear to be liberal or progressive but are actually entrenching the system?Lisa Kiefer: [00:02:36] Right. They're kind of co-opting.Mohamed Shehk: [00:02:37] Yeah. After the death of Mike Brown and Eric Garner back in 2014 with the, you know, upsurge of Black Lives Matter and the enormous amount of attention being focused on policing, and you had an array of reforms being discussed, such as body cameras, such as, more training for police officers. And we see that these kinds of reforms are actually pouring money into the system of policing. They're expanding the role of policing. We're giving surveillance technology to policing. Right. So these reforms aren't actually chipping away at the power, but actually legitimizing and entrenching the system of policing itself. So these are the kinds of reforms that we want to be cautious of and use this framework of thinking about abolitionist reforms vs. reformist reforms. What are the reforms that are actually cutting away resources from the systems that we're fighting rather than continuing to waste investments into these systems.Lisa Kiefer: [00:03:36] And so what are some of the strategies that you are using in your organization? And you're located in four cities. You're headquartered in Oakland in the Temescal. You're in New York City, L.A. and Portland.Mohamed Shehk: [00:03:48] Yes. Our national office is based in Oakland. We are a nonprofit organization and we function primarily through our chapters and our chapters, the ones that you named, our volunteer members really make up the bulk of the organization and we work with them and they decide what local projects and campaigns are most relevant to the political geography that they're operating in, to attack the prison industrial complex. So, for instance, in Portland, we started a campaign called Care Not Cops. Initially, that campaign was really focused on cutting policing away from mental health crisis response. We want to divest resources away from policing, take money away from the police budget and put that into community based and user determined mental health resources. One strategy is to really focus on the city budget and to use that as a method to organize communities and to say these are actually where we want our resources going, not continuing to go into the Police Bureau's budget. We use a variety of different strategies and tactics, so we do a lot of media and communications work to kind of shift how we understand safety, how we understand what strong and healthy communities actually look like. We do a lot of work around the legislative realm. We work with decision makers and also put pressure on decision makers to put forth policies that are actually in line with what we're advocating for.Lisa Kiefer: [00:05:28] So let's talk about what you're doing in the Bay Area... Urban Shield, for one thing. Can you talk about that a little bit and some of the other successes you've had locally?Mohamed Shehk: [00:05:36] Yeah. Thank you for raising that. Critical Re sistance along with a number of other organizations, including the Arab Resource and Organizing Center, Chicano Moratorium Coalition, the American Friends Service Committee. We're part of a coalition called the Stop Urban Shield Coalition. And we came together to put an end to Urban Shield, which was the world's largest SWAT training, and also included a weapons expo. That organizing happened for five plus years. We built a grassroots campaign to essentially pressure and empower the Board of supervisors in Alameda County to say to the sheriff, no, we do not want this kind of program anymore. Urban Shield was justified under the guise of emergency preparedness. Right. And so the sheriff would say, well, we need this kind of program because of all these different kinds of emergencies. But obviously, just as with many programs that came after 9/11, it was funded through and bolstered by the logic of militarization and counter-terrorism and was effectively a program that endorsed war on black and brown communities. So last year, the Board of Supervisors made a decision to end Urban Shield. They said after this year, Urban Shield is no longer. Then this year, a gain, after some kind of foul play by the sheriff to attempt to kind of reverse their decision and even just ignore that it actually happened. Earlier this year, they reaffirmed their decision and Urban Shield was effectively defunded.Lisa Kiefer: [00:07:08] Does that money then go to the programs that you are backing?Mohamed Shehk: [00:07:12] Yes. So we have been working alongside various city and county agencies to really put in place what emergency preparedness and disaster response looks like. So one of the things that we did with the Alameda County Board of Supervisors is part of their decision to end Urban Shield was to put together a task force to say, okay, let's actually look at how this money could be funded. And they adopted a number of recommendations, which was about 60 recommendations that called for things like no more SWAT centered scenarios. You know, we want inclusive programs and transparency that include community members in the planning and the implementation. And so these recommendations were adopted. We also took them to San Francisco because San Francisco is the fiscal agent of this money that's coming from the federal government. And they also looked and adopted many of the recommendations. And so for what comes next, we are hopeful that it really embodies the kind of program, the kind of framing that we were after.Lisa Kiefer: [00:08:23] Can you tell me also about the project called Oakland Power Projects?Mohamed Shehk: [00:08:27] So there was a coalition, the Stop the Injunctions Coalition, that put an end to gang injunctions in Oakland. It was the first instance of a city in the United States ending gang injunctions as a result of grassroots mobilization and pressure. And so after that, we said, OK, we ended gang injunctions. This is tremendous. What do we want to do next? So we started surveying and interviewing Oakland community members around things like what does safety look like to you? Do you have instances where you feel like you need to call the cops? What kind of investments do you want to see in your community? And so we compiled all of these interviews. We started picking through them and found a common theme which was around health related emergencies and people saying, when these emergencies happen, I don't want to call the cops, but they're the only options that I have.Lisa Kiefer: [00:09:19] Give me an example of something like that.Mohamed Shehk: [00:09:21] So it could be someone gets in a car accident. Someone is having a or experience as someone else, having a mental health crisis or someone just badly cuts themselves or injured themselves. They have to call 9 1 1. And in many instances, the police show up and either don't really help in what's often the case or exacerbate the situation.Lisa Kiefer: [00:09:45] By criminalizing it.Lisa Kiefer: [00:09:46] Exactly. What we did is we got together a number of health workers from counselors to kind of traditional like EMT as doctors, nurses, acupuncturists, the whole range, right? Street medics and we said, okay, now we want you to come up with different resources and come up with a number of different workshops that you can provide to communities on knowing your options when situations occur. They did exactly that and it was really powerful. They came up with three different tracks. One was acute emergencies. Another was mental health and behavioral crises. And another one was chronic illnesses and also tied in opiate overdoses. And so we began to offer these workshops to different community organizations, to places of business, to community groups, neighborhoods. And the workshops are really geared toward ending our reliance on policing by building up our know how and our capacity to be able to respond to situations in our communities.Lisa Kiefer: [00:10:54] You must've gotten a lot of resistance because it sounds very radical when you say abolish prison.Mohamed Shehk: [00:10:59] We really want to understand the root causes of harm and violence. Right. Because oftentimes what the status quo has been is that when something happens, we're reactive and we respond. And oftentimes what that looks like is targeting black and brown people and putting them in cages. So if we really are to want to address harm and violence in our communities, social injustices, we have to understand the root causes. And we have to begin to see how we can transform the underlying conditions that gave rise to harm and violence in the first place. When we say prison industrial complex and when we say prison industrial complex abolition, we know full well that just taking the prisons away from society is not going to be the end of the game. Right. We have to understand that prisons don't exist in a vacuum. Policing does not exist in a vacuum. That we're gonna have to also look at the ways that different dynamics in society are integral to the prison industrial complex. And so changing social conditions and transforming the ways that we relate to each other is fundamental to understanding and achieving abolition.Lisa Kiefer: [00:12:21] If you're just tuning in, you're listening to Method to the Madness, a bi-weekly public affairs show on K A L X Berkeley, celebrating Bay Area innovators. Today, I'm speaking with Mohammed Scheck, the media and communications director of Critical Resistance.Lisa Kiefer: [00:12:43] And you've been successful. You're stopping a prison from being built locally here in San Francisco, is that correct?Mohamed Shehk: [00:12:49] Yeah. So one of our one of our campaigns here in the Bay Area is the No New S.F. Jail Coalition. What that essentially is, is the sheriff back in 2013 or so or even a little bit before, but that's when the coalition really came together. The sheriff wanted to build a replacement jail to one that already exists at 850 Bryant Street, which is known as the Hall of Justice in San Francisco. The interesting thing about the Hall of Justice is that nearly all of San Francisco, it's it's unanimous that that building needs to be torn down because it's seismically unsafe, it's decrepit, it's falling apart. And the sheriff wanted to build a replacement saying that that was his only option. What we did was we formed a coalition with a number of other organizations and effectively put a halt to that plan. So in 2015, we got the supervisors to vote unanimously and say we don't want to build a new jail. We actually want to look at alternatives. We want to look at ways to reduce the jail population while building up resources and looking at investments that actually support people coming back home and can support communities in need where we don't have to respond by criminalizing.Lisa Kiefer: [00:14:08] So you guys are active participants in this new solution?Mohamed Shehk: [00:14:12] Yes, absolutely. And so right now, our effort is to actually close the jail at 850 Bryant Street. That's that's kind of the main thrust that we're working on right now. We do have one supervisor who has stepped up and is willing to put forward legislation toward shutting the jail this year. What we're looking at is opposing different kinds of reforms and different proposals that would actually legitimize other forms of punishment as a response. So like they'll say, OK, we're going to close this jail, let's put everyone on electronic monitoring and we're like, no, we don't want to expand surveillance. We don't want to expand the jail beyond its reach, which is essentially what electronic monitor shackles are. We don't want to move people to Alameda County, to Santa Rita jail. We want people to remain close to their families, close to their communities. And we don't want to reopen new jails or reopen old jails and refurbish them. So it really is about looking at what are the resources that we can build, what already exists, and then what do we need to build up around. Housing is a big one. I mean, you have nearly 30 percent of the jail population that was house less before they were arrested and booked. You have enormous racial disparities in the jail population in San Francisco,.Lisa Kiefer: [00:15:34] And in the nation.[00:15:36] Yeah, but I was going to say even more so than the rates that we see across the country where the city of San Francisco has about a 4 percent black population that is on the decline and black people make up 80 percent of the jail population. So you look at that enormous disparity and say what's really going on wrong? Right? What is, what's wrong? You have a significant number of people that face mental health issues and substance abuse. Just looking at these numbers, we can easily begin to say a new jail is not necessary. We do not need to be locking these people up. We can easily be thinking about other kinds of investments that would actually strengthen communities and make new jails obsolete.Lisa Kiefer: [00:16:16] Tell me how you're getting funding for these programs, because they sound like they might be pretty expensive.Mohamed Shehk: [00:16:22] We do fund raising. We are actually fortunate to be majority grassroots funded. So about 65 percent of our of our funding comes from people, you know, donating monthly, giving us onetime gifts. We hold events, you know, fundraising benefits. In terms of the funding for the programs, were advocating for those to be taken away from the police, sheriffs, other agencies that are about criminalization. And we want to divert funding away from them into the resources that we want and need.Lisa Kiefer: [00:16:57] Have you seen an upsurge in interest over the 20 years that you guys have been working hard at this? It seems like there's more of an opening now.Mohamed Shehk: [00:17:05] We definitely have seen a tremendous upsurge in the popularity and interest in just in the concept of abolition. Right. What we've done and other community members, other organizations have done is to really make this concept common sense. Because you mentioned earlier that, you know, this can be kind of a scary radical concept for people. One of the things that we really do is to show how practical it is. We show the the way that abolition can be worked on, can be practiced on a day to day level.Lisa Kiefer: [00:17:38] How did you personally get involved with Critical Resistance. How long have you been there?Mohamed Shehk: [00:17:44] I've been involved in Critical Resistance for just over five years now. The way that I came to Critical Resistance was really beginning to recognize the role of policing and imprisonment in this country. My background as a Palestinian, as someone who has long been involved in organizing and in different activism around Palestine, solidarity, began to really look at what are the intersections between what's happening there and what we're experiencing here. When you see that the state of Israel imprisons such a significant portion of the Palestinian population, the aid that they get from the U.S. government in order to do so, that helps them and and allows them to do so. And then the ways that Israel really practices its tools of repression on the Palestinian population. So for many that follow this issue closely, you might know that Gaza is essentially a laboratory experiment for the state of Israel to test different tools, tactics, technologies, and then they export those technologies to governments all around the world by billing them as battlefield tested.Lisa Kiefer: [00:19:03] And I assume we are one of the recipients?Mohamed Shehk: [00:19:05] Absolutely.Mohamed Shehk: [00:19:06] And that's kind of what we get back for our military aid that we provide. When you look at this, the interconnections between policing and imprisonment there and in other places with the systems here, you begin to see that they're playing a fundamental role in whatever issue that you work on, whether that be environmental justice, whether that be public education, climate change, women's rights, LGBTQ rights and liberation, the prison industrial complex is tied to all of those issues. The prison industrial complex is fundamentally patriarchal. It's fundamentally toxic to the environment. It's fundamentally why we have such a disinvestment from public education. Right. Because of how many how much resources are being squandered on this enormous system. That for me, became very central in the kind of activism and organizing that I wanted to do.Lisa Kiefer: [00:20:02] Are you also working inside prisons?Mohamed Shehk: [00:20:05] Yes. So our Oakland chapter has a inside, outside working group. Their primary drive is to communicate with people on the inside and to share resources on how to support organizing that's happening. We also do a lot of work in communicating with people on the inside to help inform the work that we're doing out here. We have a reading group that we do where we read articles from a newspaper that we published with people on the inside and then share and give reflections and circulate those. We publish a newspaper called the Abolitionists that goes to now over 7500 people in prisons, jails and detention centers across the country. Much of that content is actually composed and written by people that are currently or formerly imprisoned.Lisa Kiefer: [00:20:55] How about education programs inside?Mohamed Shehk: [00:20:58] We don't do education programs like formally, although we do share a lot of educational resources and organizing resources with folks on the inside. One of the main campaigns that we supported is the California Prisoner Hunger Strikes that happened. And so this was an effort that was organized by and led by people that were in prison in solitary confinement at Pelican Bay State Prison. They had a list of demands and they initiated a hunger strike effectively aimed at ending solitary confinement, improving conditions, getting rights, ending discriminatory and criminalization policies. That hunger strike in 2013 reached over 30000 people in California prisons that joined in solidarity.Lisa Kiefer: [00:21:45] And what was the outcome?Mohamed Shehk: [00:21:46] That had a huge impact. It gained national and international attention and drew widespread condemnation on the practice of solitary, of locking someone up in a windowless cell for 23 hours a day. Because of that attention, the United Nations rapporteur on torture said that solitary confinement is a form of torture. The California legislature held a number of hearings on the use of solitary confinement. Mow in the midst of this happening, there was also a lawsuit that was initially brought by the prisoners themselves and then was taken up against the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, CDCR. That was then taken up by a number of lawyers and legal organizations, including the Center for Constitutional Rights and that lawsuit in 2015 ended in a settlement by which the prisoners achieved a tremendous victory and effectively ended indefinite solitary sentences, which a lot of the prisoners were being held for five, 10, 15, 20 years in solitary confinement and were were put in indefinitely. It also greatly reduced and restricted the rationale by which someone could be placed in solitary confinement. Yeah, so we supported that as part of a coalition, the prisoner hunger strike solidarity coalition and Critical Resistance specifically kind of played the media house for the campaign.Lisa Kiefer: [00:23:25] I recently read about your new headquarters location in the Temescal, which used to be Baby World, and it's such an interesting story. Would you mind sharing that?Mohamed Shehk: [00:23:35] Yeah, we had already been talking about needing to find a new location because the place that we're currently at, which is in downtown Oakland, the rents have been rising exponentially. And so we said to ourselves, we really have to start looking. This is just unsustainable. During the same time, some of us, you know, just through kind of personal and political connections, were having conversations with with other folks and the family that owned the building, the Cabello family, we had conversations with their daughter, Danya Cabello, and realized that this building was for sale. When we found that out, we jumped onto the opportunity and reached out to a loyal donor, Rachel Gilman, who is part of an organization called Resource Generation, which is essentially an organization that seeks to bring in people with wealth in order to redistribute their wealth to social justice causes. In talking with Rachel, we kind of put that on the table and just had kind of a frank conversation. This is what we're thinking. What do you think? And she loved the idea.Lisa Kiefer: [00:24:43] She's only twenty nine.Mohamed Shehk: [00:24:44] Yeah.Lisa Kiefer: [00:24:45] She said herself that she thinks of giving as a "way to help up end the forces of capitalism, patriarchy, and white supremacy that underlie her very own inheritance." And she said, "I believe ending this economic system that creates such drastic wealth inequality is necessary for all people's humanity and dignity, including my own and that of my family." I think this is revolutionary.Mohamed Shehk: [00:25:10] Yeah. Absolutely. And it's a beautiful space. We're in the process now of renovating the building to serve community organizations that are operating in the Bay Area. We want it to be a hub for social and racial justice organizing of all stripes. We want it to be a place where organizations and communities that are fighting to resist gentrification can have a place to hold their meetings, to have events, fundraisers. So we really want it to serve the community and to really pay homage to the legacy of organizing in Oakland.Lisa Kiefer: [00:25:46] And it's kind of interesting because the owners, the Cabello's, their family had suffered under Pinochet in Chile. So they there was just all this serendipity that happened between you and them.Mohamed Shehk: [00:25:57] Yeah. No, absolutely. They come from a very kind of rough political history and also are very much tied to resistance movements. Right? So they were part of the first suit against basically the horrors of the Pinochet regime, the School of the Americas, and the role that the U.S. played in supporting the horrors of Pinochet.Lisa Kiefer: [00:26:21] I did want to ask you what your greatest challenge has been in the time that you've been in this organization.Mohamed Shehk: [00:26:28] One of the greatest challenges that we face today is the way that the prison industrial complex is shifting, how much technological innovation is going on, the ways that technological innovation is being integrated into the prison industrial complex to expand its reach. Now, this can be like the physical tools and technologies that are developed or something that isn't so tangible, but it's just as dangerous, such as predictive policing or risk assessment algorithms. These are, in a way kind of taking away the the human element, so to speak, and putting in place algorithms and technologies that are actually serving to criminalize people in an automated fashion. It's a very scary concept to think about. We really need to resist attempts to say that we're going to make the prison industrial complex better by removing the bias of humans, by introducing technology. The society that we live in is built on racial oppression, gender oppression, oppression against sex. And so technologies are not going to solve that. We have to actually begin to transform those dynamics, eradicate systems of oppression if we want to achieve liberation.Lisa Kiefer: [00:27:50] What's coming up for your organization?Mohamed Shehk: [00:27:52] As I mentioned, we are working on the NO NEW SF Jail effort to close 850 Bryant Street. Be on the lookout. Join our mailing list, visit our web site, sign up, because we'll be putting out information on how folks can can really plug into that fight and and close the jail. For folks in Los Angeles, we're gonna have an amazing event. Ruth Wilson Gilmore, who's an amazing, inspiring, brilliant scholar, is going to be speaking. This comes after a huge victory where we, along with the Justice L.A. Coalition, stopped L.A. County from building a, quote unquote, mental health jail. That was an enormous victory. You've been fighting jails in Los Angeles for 10 years. And we wanted to celebrate and bring our communities together. We really just encourage folks to check us out.Lisa Kiefer: [00:28:40] What is your web site?Mohamed Shehk: [00:28:41] criticalresistance.orgLisa Kiefer: [00:28:43] And can people volunteer in your organization?Mohamed Shehk: [00:28:45] Absolutely. Our Oakland chapter holds volunteer nights every Tuesday from 6 to 9 p.m. And that's in our current office. Not the not the new building, 1904 Franklin Street, Suite 5 0 4. And so come through, volunteer. We find ourselves in a very trying political moment. You know, the current presidential administration is unrelentless and attacks that it's waging on our communities, blatant racism and sexism and xenophobia that has come from this administration. We also have seen the ways that communities are resilient and resistant.Mohamed Shehk: [00:29:24] You saw the massive energy into opposition to shut down airports in response to the Muslim ban. We see opposition from ICE raids. We also want to resist the tendency or maybe even the appeal to want to go back to how things were, because there were a lot of things wrong and violent and racist in the policies in former administrations. Rather than shy away in this political moment, actually to raise up radical ideas like abolition as the tools, as the strategies that are actually going to get us to where we want to be, to a society where we truly have equity, self-determination and freedom.Lisa Kiefer: [00:30:10] That's a nice, positive way to end this. Thank you, Mohamed, for coming in.Mohamed Shehk: [00:30:15] Thank you.Lisa Kiefer: [00:30:16] You've been listening to Method to the Madness, a bi weekly public affairs show on K A L X Berkeley celebrating Bay Area innovators. We'll be back again in two weeks. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

When the Cabellos listed their Oakland property for sale, they got offers from developers and corporate businesses. The property sits in the gentrified Temescal neighborhood, which is part of the reason they closed their business Baby World in 2017. The family was holding out for a buyer who understood the plight and the struggle that many people – like the Cabellos, who came to Oakland as political refugees - are going through in a rapidly gentrifying city. Then they found the perfect buyer. Guest: Sam Lefebvre, KQED Arts reporter Subscribe to The Bay to hear more local, Bay Area stories like this one. New episodes are released Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 3 a.m. Find The Bay on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, NPR One, or via Alexa.

There are easy topics brewery owners love to talk about to promote themselves: interesting beer releases, charity work, GABF awards, or cheeky packaging.  And then there are other, much stickier issues most avoid addressing: gentrification, racism and sexism in the industry; labor; and a brewery’s moral responsibility to its community and the people within it.  Sam Gilbert, who co-founded Oakland’s Temescal Brewing about three years ago in the neighborhood with which it shares a name, doesn’t shy away from such difficult conversations. Oakland’s changing, and it’s well past time to talk about it.  Temescal Brewing came into existence in great part because of the community it now counts as patrons. A successful crowdfunding campaign helped the brewery get off the ground, and Gilbert hasn’t forgotten the significance of that. Since then, Temescal has prioritized hiring hyperlocal residents, hosting regular LGBT-focused bashes, and proactively reaching out to communities less frequently seen in your standard brewery taproom. But the vibes aren’t always positive. Sometimes, being a good neighbor can be much less fun, as when AB InBev announced an intention to open a Golden Road taproom not far from Temescal’s brewhouse. Gilbert, like others in the Oakland craft beer scene, was outspoken against the idea. Ultimately, the plan was quashed, and some believe it was in large part due to vocal critics like Gilbert, and to Oakland’s anti-corporate ideologies. All of this is to say nothing of the beer. Temescal is frequently cited as one of Bay Area drinkers’ favorite breweries, and its focus on soft, nuanced, and low-ABV styles (and in particular Pilsners) has made fans out of the pickiest consumers. It’s becoming increasingly common to see the brewery’s brightly colored cans in fridges around the Bay. There’s a reason Temescal’s reputation is as colorful as its approachable, pastel-splashed taproom. It aims for inclusion. And it lives by the motto: “No jerks.” This is Sam Gilbert of Temescal Brewing. Listen in.

This week we do lightning round hot-takes with a panel of our in-house experts on Facebook's push to invest in local journalism, Gillette's new anti-toxic masculinity ad, and how much more expensive it is to eat out than it used to be. PLUS, Cayenne travels to Pittsfield for the launch of recreational marijuana dispensary Temescal Wellness (https://temescalwellness.com/) to talk to their CEO Ted Rebholz about the grand opening and Temescal's philosophy. Finally, community relations expert Chris Tracy fills in for Tom and talks about Mayor Marty Walsh's recent 'State of the City' address.

SF Beer Week is at the top of today's Brew Ha Ha agenda. Gail Williams and Steve Shapiro are in from San Francisco. They were writers for Celebrator Beer magazine and Gail is now working on PR for SF Beer Week. Sam Gilbert from Temescal Brewing in Oakland is also in and has brought beer from Temescal, a Pilsner and a single-hop Citra Ale. Mark remembers SF Beer Week used to do events at Anchor Brewery. The first was in 2009. SF Beer Week is happening all around the region now. The opening gala is Friday, February 1. Feb. 2 through 10 there are events all over the Bay Area. Temescal Brewing also has some events. They are in North Oakland in the Temescal neighborhood. They do a live canning tour called “Fresh Cans” where you can drink a beer just plucked off the canning line. Also they do a “Low and Slow” cookout in their patio space. They try to schedule SF Beer Week events near public transportation. "It goes through the 10th so it's a long week," says Gail. Sam says that Temescal makes beer for everyone, including anyone who lives in Oakland that they want to welcome into craft beer. It is in its third year, after he did He worked for a thing called Brewlab San Francisco, where he met other home brewers who shared their beer and feedback about them. When the SF Chronicle wrote about it, there followed months of chaos as the idea grew. Eventually Brewlab became a community of younger brewers with a homebrew shared space in the Mission district. Then they decided to throw the parties with 500 gallons instead of 5. His sweatshirt says, "Fresh beer, no jerks." That has become their official motto. They are tasting the Citra Ale from Temescal. Gail says it's the nicest example of a hazy IPA that she has had. It has a beautiful orangey finish, at 6.2% alcohol. It has passion fruit and guava flavor. Citra is an example of hops that were developed for their flavor. Some hops are patented strains. Citra was developed here and is grown primarily in the Pacific Northwest. Mark says they used to go to Yakima, Washington, every year to choose hops. California used to be a huge hop grower but today the Sonoma County production is close enough to the breweries so that they can be used fresh, within a day or two of harvest. There is a big calendar on the SF Beer Week website listing their numerous events. Sam Gilbert talks about his background, with San Francisco Brewlab. When he started the brewery it was getting expensive to stay in San Francisco and they found a place in Oakland which was affordable but where there was an opportunity to start a beer community. Steve Shapiro also talks about a site he started called BeerbyBART.com as a way to help people to organize beer adventures and use public transit.

We've got a brand new ep recorded live on location at Original Gravity in downtown San Jose where we review episode ( s05e02 ) of curb & it's chock full of Gate, Music & Lightrail ambiance. We drink Solana Haze from Pizza Port and Business & Pleasure from Temescal

Its our new episode where we review the first episode of season 5 of curb ( s05e01 ). We drink Woods Yerba Mate & Big Naturals... I mean Big Feeling from Temescal.

It's an atmosphere rich on location episode at South Winchester BBQ again as we review episode 6 of curb. We drink Post Cost IPA from Temescal, Fortunate Sons from Modern Times colab w/ Great Notion & Alvarado St Yeast of Burden again.

Glen & Robert are hanging out at South Winchester BBQ for this discussion of the final Curb episode of season 2 ( s02e10 ) with an audience of 1. We talk about our favorite curberism "The Stop & Chat" while drinking Hong Kong Garden a collaboration from Drakes & Alvarado St as well as something from Temescal. We tackle Rape & the ethics of a handjob while a car accident happens in the background. Curves

Prior to graduating with Harvard’s class of 2016, Espinosa helped co-found the Cannabis Cultural Association (CCA), an organization which strives to involve underrepresented communities in the legal cannabis/hemp industry in New York. Currently, Sonia is focused on the Massachusetts Recreational Consumer Council, MRCC, who’s efforts seek to bridge the gap between communities and local legislators. A result of MRCC is #WeedTalk, an educational visual series that chronicles the science, culture, technology, and economics of the legalization of marijuana. Aside from MRCC and #WeedTalk, Sonia runs EatMe.Land, a cannabis art collective. Sonia’s past work experiences include Vice Magazine’s editorial department and NH dispensary Temescal’s, edible department. Sonia has previously also worked with Women Grow to help with administrative assistance and software payment transactions.

Prior to graduating with Harvard’s class of 2016, Espinosa helped co-found the Cannabis Cultural Association (CCA), an organization which strives to involve underrepresented communities in the legal cannabis/hemp industry in New York. Currently, Sonia is focused on the Massachusetts Recreational Consumer Council, MRCC, who’s efforts seek to bridge the gap between communities and local legislators. A result of MRCC is #WeedTalk, an educational visual series that chronicles the science, culture, technology, and economics of the legalization of marijuana. Aside from MRCC and #WeedTalk, Sonia runs EatMe.Land, a cannabis art collective. Sonia’s past work experiences include Vice Magazine’s editorial department and NH dispensary Temescal’s, edible department. Sonia has previously also worked with Women Grow to help with administrative assistance and software payment transactions.

Living in shipping containers, a co-housing compound in Temescal, tiny homes, and local musician Kenny Washington.

At the top of the reduce, reuse, recycle chain is reducing.  In this segment, Terra Verde explores a new movement to reduce the use of single use disposable food containers at casual dining restaurants, and replace them with reusable containers, even for takeout.  Guests:  Samantha Meyer, Zero Waste Program Manager with Clean Water Action's California office, Jena Davidson, owner of the Sacred Wheel Cheese Shop in the Temescal neighborhood of Oakland, and Laura Weiss, owner and founder of GoBox. The post Terra Verde – Less SUDs, More Washing: The New Movement to Replace Single Use Disposable Food Containers appeared first on KPFA.

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This week: The first in our series of interviews from the Open Engagement conference that took place in Portland this past May. We start off with an excellent discussion that Randall Szott, Duncan, Brian and the occasional Incubate person had with artist, writer, lemon tormentor Ted Purves. Topics include; Ted's work, the past present and future of Social Practice and what it means to be an artist today.This series of interviews (thusfar, I've only gone through the first two) are some of my favorite discussions that (the royal) we have had in the 5 years of the show. Great stuff!Ted Purves is a writer and artist based in Oakland. His public projects and curatorial works are centered on investigating the practice of art in the world, particularly as it addresses issues of localism, democratic participation, and innovative shifts in the position of the audience. His two-year project, Temescal Amity Works, created in collaboration with Susanne Cockrell and based in the Temescal neighborhood of Oakland, facilitated and documented the exchange of backyard produce and finished its public phase in winter 2007. His collaborative project Momentary Academy, a free school taught by artists over a period of 10 weeks, was featured in Bay Area Now 4 in 2005 at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. Ted recently received a visual arts grant from the Creative Capital Foundation and a Creative Work Fund grant from the Elise and Walter Haas Foundation. His book, What We Want Is Free: Generosity and Exchange in Recent Art, was published by State University of New York Press in 2005.The Open Engagement conference is an initiative of Portland State University’s Art and Social Practice MFA concentration and co-sponsored by Portland Community College and the MFA in Visual Studies program at Pacific Northwest College of Art and supported by the Cyan PDX Cultural Residency Program. Directed by Jen Delos Reyes and planned in conjunction with Harrell Fletcher and the Portland State University MFA Monday Night Lecture Series, this conference features three nationally and internationally renowned artists: Mark Dion, Amy Franceschini, and Nils Norman. The conference will showcase work by Temporary Services, InCUBATE, and a new project by Mark Dion created in collaboration with students from the PSU Art and Social Practice concentration. The artists involved in Open Engagement: Making Things, Making Things Better, Making Things Worse, challenge our traditional ideas of what art is and does. These artist’s projects mediate the contemporary frameworks of art as service, as social space, as activism, as interactions, and as relationships, and tackle subject matter ranging from urban planning, alternative pedagogy, play, fiction, sustainability, political conflict and the social role of the artist. Can socially engaged art do more harm than good? Are there ethical responsibilities for social art? Does socially engaged art have a responsibility to create public good? Can there be transdisciplinary approaches to contemporary art making that would contribute to issues such as urban planning and sustainability? Open Engagement is a free conference May 14-17, 2010, in Portland, Oregon. This annual conference will be a focal point of a new low residency Art and Social Practice MFA that PSU hopes to launch in Fall of 2010. This years conference will host over 100 artists, activists, curators, scholars, writers, farmers, community organizers, film makers and collectives including: Nato Thompson, The Watts House Project, Linda Weintraub, Ted Purves, Henry Jenkins, Wealth Underground Farms, Brian Collier, Anne E. Moore, David Horvitz, Chen Tamir, and Parfyme.

Check out Robert Parks new video commercial for recruiting new students into his great manufacturing and engineering CTE program. Post a comment if you like it!

Check out Robert Parks new video commercial for recruiting new students into his great manufacturing and engineering CTE program. Post a comment if you like it!