The International Hotel, 848 Kearny Street at Jackson Street in San Francisco, California 1977 after the August forced eviction of tenants. Photo by Nancy Wong.

Demonstrators in front of the International Hotel, 848 Kearny Street at Jackson show their support for the tenants who are under eviction orders, August 1977. Photo by Nancy Wong.

International Hotel, 848 Kearny Street in San Francisco August, 1977. San Francisco Sheriffs' deputies and police confront demonstrators trying to prevent forced eviction of the hotel's elderly tenants. Photo by Nancy Wong

Siena College brought Karen Tei Yamashita to campus for a reading from her latest novel, I-Hotel. The International Hotel in the 1960s San Francisco was one of the largest grassroots struggles for affordable housing in the country. Yamashita captured…

The Booksmith hosted readings from contributors to xo Orpheus on Monday, September 30th.

• The Booksmith: http://booksmith.com
• xo Orpheus: http://www.us.penguingroup.com/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780143122425,00.html
• Karen Tei Yamashita:…

{Golden Gate and Beyond} As part of Litquake's Off the Richter Scale, this program was the second of a series at the Variety Preview Room on Sun Oct 8 11, the second day of Litquake XII. Fiction authors were Frank Bergon, Barnaby Conrad III, Seth…

On the night of February 27, 1973, fifty-four cars rolled, horns blaring, into a small hamlet on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Within hours, some 200 Oglala Lakota and American Indian Movement (AIM) activists had seized the few major buildings…

February 2009 marks the 30th anniversary of Ayatollah Khomeini's return to Tehran and the overthrowing of the Shah. Throughout the month, BBC World News will have news and documentary coverage assessing the impact of the revolution on modern day Iran…

PTVFilms Presents a Peralta TV Production
'MERRITT COLLEGE: Home of the Black Panthers'
Directed by Jeffrey Heyman
Written & Produced by James Calhoun & Paul Gordon
Producers Taylor Wansley & Josh Kahn
Associate Producer Sheila Wells
Executive…

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