Counterpoints: A San Francisco Bay Area Atlas of Displacement & Resistance

Cover
Title page
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgments
Prefatory Note
Foreword: An Atlas of the Difficult World
Foreword: Overcoming Imposed Amnesia
Counterpoints: An Introduction
Chapter 1: Evictions & Root Shock
	Counter-Mapping Evictions and Root Shock
	Soaring Rents and Unjust Evictions in California
	San Francisco Ellis Act Evictions, 1994–2017
	San Francisco Owner Move-In Evictions,1997–2017
	Tenant Organizing in Oakland
	Oakland Unlawful Detainers, 2005–2015
	Unlawful Detainer EvictionProcess, Alameda County
	Evictions in Chinatown
	The International Hotel: 848 Kearny Street at Jackson, 1978
	Root Shock: Edwin’s Story
	Evictions and Relocation, San Francisco, 2012
	Evictions in the City of Alameda, 2005–2015
	Evictions in Fremont, 2005–2015
	Coliseum College Prep
	Airbnb and Evictions
	San Jose and San Mateo County Evictions
	Santa Cruz County Key Housing Issues, 2016–2017
	Narratives of Displacement and Resistance Mural
	The Light Atlas
	Eviction Free San Francisco
	Oakland Community Power Map
	Interview with Roberta Ryan
Chapter 2: Indigenous Geographies of Resistance
	Introduction
	Ohlone Geographies
	The Indigenous and the Displaced
	Missionization, Incarceration, and Ohlone Resilience
	Unsettling Domesticity: Native Women and US Indian Policy in the San Francisco Bay Area
	Bay Area American Indian Two-Spirits: A Conversation on the Intersections of Displacement
	Ohlone Protocols
	Reparations: Solidarity with the Ohlone People
	Sogorea Te’ and Planting Justice: A Conversation on Land Rematriation
Chapter 3: Health & Environmental Justice
	Introduction
	Cheryl’s Story
	Bayview Hunters Point Geographies of Toxicity and Narratives of Resistance
	Asian Pacific Environmental Network: Power Building against Environmental Racism in the East Bay
	Housing and Dignity Zine: The Village and Anti-Tuff Shed Encampments
	Gentrification, Evictions, and HIV in San Francisco
	Just Biomedicine on Third Street? Health and Wealth Inequities in San Francisco’s Biotech Hub
	Police Violence Is a Public Health Issue: A Three-Year Struggle within the American Public Health Association
	Better Neighborhoods, Same Neighbors
	Mapping East Bay Food Justice
	Patterns of Green Gentrification
	From the Concrete Grew a Sunflower: A Mini Guide for Community Gardening
Chapter 4: Gentrification & State Violence
	Introduction
	The Gentrification to Prison Pipeline
	The Criminalization of Homelessness
	Mario Woods
	Police Killings in San Francisco and Oakland
	San Francisco Murals of Resistance
	Threading the Life of a Mayan
	Weaponizing Oakland’s Nuisance Ordinances
	St. James Infirmary: Statement of Support for APHA’s “Addressing Law Enforcement Violence as a Public Health Issue”
	Renegade
	Oral History with Charles Oshinuga
	San Francisco Jail Population
	Bay Area Military Contracts
	Abolishing Policing in Oakland
	Policing and Place-Taking in Downtown Oakland Nightlife
	Data-Driven Policing and the Colonial Database
Chapter 5: Transportation, Infrastructure, & Economy
	Introduction
	Transport in History: What Is, Was, and Wasn’t
	Interview with Bonnie Wills
	Interview with Mira Ingram
	Energy, Water, Sewage: The Systems We Take for Granted
	Jobs and Commuting: Where We Work and Live
	Resistance and Envisioning Our Collective Futures
	Redlined: Unsettled in the Mission
	Google Bus Blockades for a Right to the City
	Why Taxi Drivers Protested Uber at the Crunchies
Chapter 6: Migrations/Relocations
	Introduction
	Uneven Development: Suburbanization & Gentrification
	Immigrant Geographies
	Black Exclusion in the City of Alameda
	Mobile Segregation and Resegregation
	Voluntary Migrations, Forced Dislocations
	Expensification
	Family-based Migrations
	Solidarity Becomes a House
	Archaeology of the Albany Bulb
	Political Economy: Contextualizing Migration and Relocation in the Bay
	Resistance: Disrupting a Regional Geography of Inequality
Chapter 7: Speculation & Speculative Futures
	Speculation and Speculative Futures
	Take the Houses Back: Moms 4 Housing
	The Gridline Imaginary: A Brief History of Speculation in the United States
	Redlining and Lending in Oakland
	Redline in the Sand: Post-2008 Stockton
	I Dream of a World
	Wall Street Landlords and Post-Crises Housing Speculation
	Invitation Homes, Sacramento, 2018
	Urban Green Investments
	YIMBYism and Absentee Ownership, San Francisco
	Evict the Evictors
	Treasure Island and Yerba Buena Island Redevelopment
	Becoming Twitterlandia
	Ron Conway
	Pledge Map, Midtown, and Boycotts
	Benito Santiago, June 18, 2014
	Community Land Trusts and Pigeon Palace
	Reimagining Oakland
	San Francisco Kids: Our Wanderland
Epilogue: Imagining Bay Area Futures
Index