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Wayward on Market Street
Pen and ink on Bristol paper, 9 x 12 in. There is usually a group of homeless and hotel-housed individuals who congregate in front of a family-run convenience store on Market Street near Van Ness...
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The Beast
David Duckworth, Weapons. Acrylic, 2012. Stencil executed by Philippe Barnoud on bridge near Paris University 8, Saint-Denis, for exhibition, Écritures en migration[s]. Reading about Smedley Butler...
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Home
David Duckworth, Your Loan Is Secure With Us. Pen and ink on paper, 12 x 9 in.; cropped and digitally painted. Recently I had the opportunity to listen to CJ Holmes, broker, realtor, and real estate...
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Moment
Cover of Moment: Un Revue de Photo, Year 5 No. 7 (Spring 2013) As a consultant, I am pleased to announce the latest edition of Moment. With a truly international team, including editorial staff in...
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The Urban Backyard
Lori Eanes. Untitled photograph. When I saw this photograph I just had to ask for its inclusion here at the blog. The photograph was taken in a San Francisco backyard where the owner raises goats and...
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Brothers in the Rain
I am honored to host a short story by William Torphy. William and I first meet as I was organizing an exhibition for LaborFest at SOMArts Cultural Center, San Francisco, in 2009. William Torphy’s...
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Waterboarding: Last Gasp for Habeas Corpus and the Geneva Conventions
Timothy Feresten. Untitled photograph. Martha and Stas wheatpasting during performance of Waterboarding: Last Gasp for Habeas Corpus and the Geneva Conventions. At the time Julia Sher’s video of this...
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LaborFest Kicks Off With Incredible Events
Author standing in front of image of Jess Robbins, cameraman, Essanay Film Manufacturing Company, Niles. Mural by Laura Ramie. Photograph by Melinda Gould. I thank Melinda for the impromptu photo...
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Solidarity Across Borders
Hiroko M. Kurihara. Preliminary digital design for quilt, Take a Number. LaborFest 2013 Art Show, “Solidarity Across Borders” This year’s LaborFest art exhibition covers the struggles of workers not...
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Upon Leaving
Mark Blackwood, Untitled. Digital photograph, 2013. Mountains graced the abode of a certain fellow. For decades, this retreat in the heart of San Francisco provided space to a slow accumulation of...
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Welcome to the Hungry Neighborhood
Upon arriving at an SRO in North Beach on July 1st, I assumed I was leaving behind the interior noise of a hotel housing miscreant behavior. As with the drug addict whose name I’ve blocked from my...
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Extraction
Call for Work for an Exhibition on the Theme of Extraction Next year LaborFest will participate in the 100th year commemoration of the Ludlow mining strike in Colorado, better known as the Ludlow...
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WildCare
David Duckworth, The Escape Artist, 2013. Pen-and-ink on paper, 9 x 12 in. I began volunteer duties at WildCare’s San Rafael hospital in April of this year following four training sessions. This is...
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