Fafi Comics

A snipette of the upcoming comic, via TBA

TrashBagAesthetics caught up with Fafi to talk about her upcoming project.  She’s droppin a comic featuring the Fafinettes in 2010!

San Francisco Back in the Day

Just found this amazing website holding old news paper articles from San Francisco in its earliest days.  Enjoy!

http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist1/index0.html

Van Jonesin’

Van Jones

The Green Collar Economy

The SF Chronicle is reporting today that the U.S. is indeed in a recession.  At the same time, the Big 3 Auto Makers are asking for a bailout only a month or so after the banking bailout.  It seems that throwing money at the problem will only keep the system afloat until the next big solution is found.

Luckily, it is.  Van Jones is the author of The Green Collar Economy.  He is a co-founder of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights in Oakland, CA; and he has a clear understanding of turning our failing economy into a comprehensive green economy that also offers opportunities for the disadvantaged.

The dude is genius.

Lately the EcoStudents at SF State have been talking about diversifying the club and doing some outreach projects to do some collaborations with other groups on campus.  A week before break we went next door to the Students of Color and met with their director.  This is where the idea of doing a book-signing came up.  And Van Jones is just the person we would both like to have to represent us.

Last night in San Francisco

We left campus headed for the El Rio to watch the election results.  Somewhere along the way, Winona and I got separated from everyone and were cruising down San Jose when cars broke into wild horn chaos.  People inside their homes were cheering, every window we looked into there was a television on with eyes glued.  We assumed it was the pure joy of the coming success of ‘Obama as president,’ but we didn’t want to get our hopes up.  As we approached Mission St., the cheering and festivities grew louder and much more certain.  We too began yelling — we couldn’t help it.  Every car on Mission had people cheering and smiling “Obama!  Obama!”  We approached El Rio and I turned to someone and asked, “Did Obama win?”  Before getting my answer, I turned and saw Winona in the street with her bicycle in front of 2 cars stopped jumping and smiling!  Obama won.

As we sat in the bar, we watched Obama give his speech and it was truly emotional for everyone around me.  Look at us — eight, nine, who knows how many — students just out of class watching what what our future was going to be on a fuzzy 15″ screen at The Knockout.  I’d look back at our little circle and see eyes filled with relief, hope, admiration, worry, success, and uncertainty.  Every now and then, I’d make eye contact with someone and we’d immediately just start hugging.  Wow.

We left the bar and made our way down Valencia.  There was celebration in the streets.  19th and Valencia had practically shut down.  Bicycles blocked off the intersection and people were just dancing, smiling, and yelling in the streets.  The same over at 16th and Dolores.  We felt it here in the city last night; that our country and lives had changed.  It was…I’ll let one of my received text messages describe it:

“Amazing! Its going to be hard, but we will move to a better future. Yes!”  from Ian Thomas