...he Farm|The Farm]] in the early 1980s when it became a storied [[PUNK ROCK|punk rock]] venue, he spent time in the far north of California at the infamous
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...of friends who participate in direct actions together) of people from the punk scene who were participating in the anti-nuclear direct action movement.
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...The Beatles, a house, a mural, an artsy kid, domestic terrorists, classic punk rock, and a lost moment of San Francisco subculture…
In high school, Jane was the drummer/songwriter for a punk band called The Maggots. The band had a local underground hit with their so
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'''In the early 1990s punk bands began holding shows on the sidewalk at 22nd and Mission in front of t
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...her well distributed free newspaper, the ''Music Calendar'' (which covered punk music ignored by the ''Bay Guardian)'' carried a lengthy article by a WCT o
...Rocker Protest--84 Arrests." The logic of marginalization was such that ''punk rocker'' was all the explanation needed by most media observers to explain
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...ectricity gas and water (1987: p. 231). The HOLC certainly was part of the punk scene in San Francisco. The ground floor was fixed up to serve as a skatebo
...ut HOLC through political/ squatter networks, see Hudson, 1984). While the punk and counter-cultural squatters existed in the same locales as the larger "s
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...f Club|Deaf Club]], site of some of the most exciting and eardrum blasting punk shows.
...ist bookstore and Babylon Burning, a t-shirt store with one ear toward the punk scene. The last outpost of the counter culture at 23rd Street is the women-
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...ith friends (Portland, 1996), and an audio travelogue of the San Francisco punk scene. Greta Snider's more recent work includes, in collaboration with Johu
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...Hamms Brewery, for a brief time rehearsal space and crash pad to the local punk scene when it was known as "The Vats."'''
...ces, The Vats was also a forum for political discussion and protest in the punk scene. By conspicuously living outside the commodity system—often not pay
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...alyst to release the furies of fear, paranoia and vengefulness in a ironic/punk ritual of death, an outpouring of human energy , ending in a celebration of
...e celebratory, utopian side of the Fair. Special outreach was aimed at the punk scene, to local artists, to the "straight " Central America groups, and to
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The Epicenter Zone was a "punk project" on the east side of Valencia just north of 16th Street in the 1990
...or the anarchy set. The space was run entirely by volunteers from the S.F. punk scene, and in an odd, San Francisco-style inversion of things, they provide
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...pitable to bands who had an affinity, sonic or otherwise, with the British punk explosion.
...) expressed his thoughts: “Basically, what the media tried to do to us, to punk rock which is to try to co-opt us, make us seem stupid, and neutralize any
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...ain problem was neighborhood chicanos who resented what they considered a "punk invasion" of their territory — like one night 3 young machos gangbusted u
...The Profound, Progressive, and Occasionally Pointless History of Bay Area Punk from Dead Kennedys to Green Day],'' by Jack Boulware & Silke Tudor
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...o form a fake Rolling Stones band, and actually got a date at the glorious punk venue, The [[Negative Trend Erupts at Mabuhay Gardens|Mabuhay Gardens]].
...Well, THAT would be a new experience! Shit like that was the essence of punk to me back then. Daring ourselves to do crazy fun creative dangerous shit.
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...animals, gardens, a theater, a school, an art gallery, communal kitchen, a punk rock club, and a challenge to the prevailing values in the city. Their effo
The [[Oral History: Andrew Pollack|punk era came to The Farm]] [go to 5th clip in Pollack interview to hear more]
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...at "a small group of people from ... the Revolutionary Communist Party and punk rockers associated with the Livermore Action Group ... are responsible for
...staff and affinity groups to join with an overlapping assemblage of peace punk organizers, squatters, Abalone Alliance people, a Solidarity/ Workers Power
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...of the collective that planned the Warchest Tours, and active in both the punk scene and the anti-nuclear direct-action movement.
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The French Punk Gardener Eric Lenoir presents a discussion on territorial food resilience,
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...back inside...and discovered they would not be closing America's largest punk event. With no gear to plug into, everyone had to settle for providing a ba
...ic machine; it wouldn't be too long, though, before suburban kids embraced punk, or whatever they thought it was. KSAN-FM's broadcast of the Pistols' Winte
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...for reasons of political sentiment (it certainly was a skillful meshing of punk sensibility and political satire) but also for the dreams of glory it evoke
...uote>While attending a gathering at Target [Video, which produced tapes of punk shows aired on a local cable station as well as hosting numerous parties wi
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...WWII Demise | Seals' Stadium]]. For a brief time it was home to a thriving punk rock scene and known as [[M.D.C. AND THE VATS|"The Vats."]]'''
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...“site-specific” events into galleries, circuses, bars, homes, drag shows, punk shows, storefronts, advertisements, music shows, trolley cars, popular & un
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.... Some individuals were placed under arrest and a defense fund was formed. Punk bands like the Offs and the Blowdriers played benefits. Later a photo of th
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...city itself a central and necessary agent in differentiating San Francisco punk from that of other parts of the country.'''
...ng political certainties. But the story also begins with my revulsion from punk, which was part of the fascination; a numbness, disgust or feeling of conte
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...d personality -- thankfully. The 16th street/Valencia axis was the hub of "punk" activity and the hyperactive Jello Biafra could be seen hustling around ,
...ne been able to score it, there is no way they would or could have had the punk energy and nave belief in the intrinsic value of the music it needed to go
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...railroad flats house minority families and collectives of young people and punk musicians.
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In the mid seventies, Punk Rock hit S.F., and messengering allowed people with mohawks to earn a livin
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...n the police account of what happened and blanketly labelled the crowd as “punk rockers.” These conspiracy charges, which carried a stiff $2,500 bail, we
..., the police, press, and politicians labelled the arrestees as “a bunch of punk rockers,” in an attempt to marginalize those who dared to show that the e
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...nfully obvious that the blockade had attracted very few "people of color," punk/New Wave elements or working class suburban types. The projected style of t
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...tracted bohemians, beatniks, motorcycle enthusiasts, artists, hippies, and punk rockers who filed into the cubbyhole rooms of this building from the 1950s
After appearing in the film Sid and Nancy a pudgy, brunette, wannabe punk-rock star named Courtney Love spent time here with a boyfriend who later ro
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''Originally published in [http://www.boomcalifornia.com/2015/09/when-
punk-mattered-at-the-birth-of-the-neoliberal-city/ "Boom: The Journal of Califor
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Punk rock, hip-hop, reggae/dub and world music burst forth simultaneously and ma
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...the peasants on horseback) were showing revolutionary films in some of the punk rock clubs, underground galleries and on alleyway walls! We saw that projec
'''42 minutes of sound from a live punk concert in the Gartland Pit, Sept. 26, 1987, featuring Tom Jennings and Shr
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...of both spandex and beer—it seems to me that do-gooder cyclists and drunk punk bikers and messengers were like the peaceable kingdom (that painting where
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...s Carlsson, [[When Punk Mattered: At the Dawn of the Neoliberal City|“When Punk Mattered: At the Dawn of the Neoliberal City”]]</blockquote>
.... Radical politics were percolating in many forms and places alongside the punk music scene. Copying machines were newly accessible at work, at school, and
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...SF State grad students of Painting, miscellaneous artists, songwriters and punk rockers.
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...extravaganzas involving theater, film, dance and music and straight-ahead punk rock shows. The organizers were a loose grouping of individuals from numero
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...ng their checks when they tagged it, way back when? Were they the first SF punk rockers on welfare? Or was the welfare office even AT 8th and Mission when
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...alism and the dissident cultural movement whose most public expression was punk and new wave music.
...es more or less intact and rage intensified, found themselves drawn to the punk/new wave milieu. Incoherent and often crude as it was, it looked like the o
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...th a handshake and a smile and the contrast is blinding. A columnist for a punk rock magazine reads one too many Beat novels and writes a pretentious intro
..., but at first glance I would have thought that this was one of the oldest punk clubs in the city. I would book a Johnny Thunders show here in a minute if
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...cisco Opera adapts Aimé Césaire's ''Caliban'' and the Fillmore has an Afro-punk retrospective. Afro-Surreal adaptations of Reed's ''Mumbo Jumbo'' (1972), H
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...is attackers then tried to pull off his leather clothes. He was saved by a punk couple who got him to the hospital just in time. He had lost almost all the
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...sometimes both. Conner was in the late seventies deeply involved with the punk scene that flourished in North Beach and made many photographs of the perfo
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...ade and opened the bar for a kid who was later murdered there. (During the punk era, this became a nightclub showcasing local bands.)
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...tly pleaded, “Don’t sell it here,” as if the donut shop was an underground punk venue that could only stay open if we all did our part to keep the cops awa
Lance Hahn, leader of the long-running Mission punk band, J Church, too, has seen things at Hunt’s that could only have logic
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...ts to three-piece suits and thigh-slit skirts and plunging necklines; from punk haircuts (but not colors—no blue or green hair here) to crewcuts and shag
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...ge that in the later 1970s would connect easily with the local [[PUNK ROCK|Punk music scene]].)
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...ainter who'd graduated from the Art Institute, noted my poster of Michigan Punk rocker Niagara, and I said nonchalantly "Oh yeah, I know her", he wanted to
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...temps I encountered four years ago. They were more likely to be struggling punk rock musicians, ne'er-do-wells or students. Now temping seems to be more of
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...egory:1990s]] [[category:Performing Arts]] [[category:Mission]] [[category:punk]]
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...cultural types (Cancer the Crab as a bottle-clutching wino, Aquarius as a punk rocker with water pouring from his guitar). At the Josephine Randall Junior
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...y'' and in the publications of Re/Search, which covered—in addition to the punk scene—reggae, situationism, surrealism, marginalized artists, and the par
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...l my journey comes to an end amidst some stage divers in a sweaty basement punk show.
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...lection: someone who lives with roommates, rides a bike to work, has dusty punk and jazz albums in his record collection, reads poetry, goes to gallery ope
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...her sad people on route to Gonzalez HQ climbed aboard. Kat and Cookie, two punk girls with dyed black hair, who play in bands and do burlesque and write, s
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...se practices evolved out of a spirit of D.I.Y. (do-it-yourself) ethics and punk attitudes about taking over space, making a place for oneself, and making s
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Sam: One of the things you can say about disco music or even punk rock is that they are the exact opposites in every detail of the ’60s. In
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...49 Market would host ongoing tours of the murals, all night dance parties, punk shows, film festivals, and even the production of a queer porno movie. We s
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