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SFGTV2 October 21, 2012

Librariance. New nutritionist. Starving children dont learn well. They give them lunches. This is an art class in San Francisco hospital. Art class for crippled children. The photographers that i find of San Francisco indicate that schools were integrated at the lowest level. You could mitigate the racial problem from the bottom up. There was also Adult Education too. This 1 learned one learned to read as many did. Many of the Community Colleges were a result of the new deal. Sacramento. I gave a talk at santa rosa and the city college in San Francisco was largely a product of the pwa and has wonderful art work all over it by the art in action project at the Treasure Island fair. And then theres these special schools for crippled children. This is in the Mission District and its a Beautiful School with all the features we take for granted because of the americans with disabilities act. It has wonderful tiles. This was not accidental. This is the sunshine school. We made the school as beautiful as possible to take the childrens minds off their problems. It was also crippled children. This might sound familiar to you if you know the history of president roosevelt. He was paralyzed by polio on the threshold of a promising career. He came back and few americans knew how disabled he was. He learned compassion. He learned he could help other people of different races that he never met before. This is what we used his inheritance for. This lead to the polio vaccine. This is one person who reveres him. Suzie. She was born with clubbed feet. Its now for spinal diseases. These were men put to work. You could go to a library and check out toys. These are three themes i identified. Beauty, permanence. This is a minors wife. She doesnt look like a dorothy lang photographer. I am sure she felt better. These are stair cases in new deal buildings. Part of the idea, i think this is really an expression of the old arts and crafts movement, which Elnor Roosevelt was part it. This was a janitor, once he checked me out, he said, come on in, i have to show you something. There was a beautiful wood laid mosaic. This is a marble mosai c. This is at the national zoo. And theres the beautiful rock work. They didnt build porto potties. This is a restroom in yosemite. We discovered these above phoenix. Then theres art work which celebrates people doing ordinary but indispensable stuff. This is up at timber line lodge. They were not used to seeing them or getting classes in journalism. They would get people in trouble. Sometimes the art or the artist got in trouble. Lets look at a few of the structures around california. This is built by the wpa. The noblist motive is the public good. Imagine anybody saying that today. This kind of work is a noble endeavor. County courthouses like this one in alameda. City halls all over california in a variety of styles. This one is at burbank. It hasnt been touched. Fire stations all over the place. And police stations and armories. This is the Police Stables in Golden Gate Park and public libraries. And then one at north berkeley. Public hospitals. Clinics and sanitary. As well as polio people did get tuberculosis. Remember that counties were strapped for funds. So the wpa gave it to them. Children got health care. We were headed for a National Health care system. We treat things differently now. Essentially, what we have of medcal is going to be slashed true. As an environmentist, i am opposed to this. They laid concrete in southern california. Without which, a good deal would be washed into the ocean. The ccc and the wpa workers were trained for disaster relieve. We didnt have to rely on the national guard. These kinds of things wouldnt be as disastrous. We need a new wpa. They are walking over the sidewalks, which is wpa. This was a demonstration outside of Dianne Feinsteins office. And demanding it not be torn down. The new deal moved in and gave rural areas water and electricity. This is one in modock county and we have cheaper electricity. And then, there were sustainable communities, people think they are discovering this at this time. This one was done in georgia. This is one in maryland green belt outside of washington d. C. This is right outside of the coop. And then urban roads like this in the Los Angeles River and this is being built. This is mira loma park. This is lark merced blvd. Its all made of clay. Its going to slump. These are the roads built in the oakland hills. Nate, red woods. Skyline. And enabled them to go up and develop the hills. The rural roads that go through the coast range. This enabled them to get their stuff to market. This is at road built by the ccc. This is a bridge. This is highway one and you wont know, except you look at the bridge and you will see dates, 1938, 1939. The airstrips are ccc. And the one out at Treasure Island. Long beach, burbank. This is oakland and the whole built Line Railroad was redone. 19 is a pwa project and our great amphitheatres are from that time. This is Santa Barbara bowl. This is the forest theater in carmel and these are ccc workers putting huge bolder. Heres 6 thousand people getting ready to enjoy oklahoma in that theater. Big basin is a ccc project and this one, on the east river, new york. A project built where people from the Lower East Side could see performances and still do. Our parks and recreation. Almost all from them. Thats the conservatory garden and i photographed that all the time. This is up at jeweliard park. I thought i would show you San Francisco. I read they improved every park. I didnt believe this at first. This is the fly casting pools. Here was a fly casting champion ship. Here it is today. Its still in use. The stables out there. They are meant so the public would have the opportunity previously only available to the elite, as it so often the case, as is with golf. Like lincoln park built by the wpa. Think of the experiences that people have had and the history which is embodied in them. There is daves tennis stadium. Here it is, this was a tournament for innercity youth. Archery at Golden Gate Park. Our play grounds. Here it is in use today. This is Bernal Heights park. You can still see the gutters they put in there. This is buena vista parks. This is quezar park. This is mount davidson. Look out for the rock. This is on telegraph park. This is stern grove. This is a little known park above candle stick. Heres my friend jake, standing by a wall. This was rosy play ground. They turned it into a park and it was also restored by wpa. I believe they torn down the house, which was unforgivable and the zoo is wpa. And heres the murals inside the mothers building. The marina sea walls and great aquatic park. The palace of fine arts. We wouldnt have and a little further in, lake merit, this pier. Alva rado park and then, some of you my recognize this. The Berkeley Rose garden. Did it have to be this beautiful. Finally, im going to wrap up. San francisco is rich in the various kinds of arts projects. We have a fabulous collection of stuff here. There were four components. There was visual arts, federal theater, federal musics and federal writers. They employed many people. This is excellent to show the work. The visual arts project. It was especially important in San Francisco because of dieggo rivera and radicalizing it. This is the coit towers. This was done under cw a. 1934. The wpa wasnt in existence. This is the very first of the relieve projects. Harry hopkins said, they have to eat too. The artists should dig ditches like everybody else. This is antonio brinko. Millions of americans got to hear live music for the first time. This is the federal theater project. This is maxine albroro. Its been destroyed and one of my favorites done by helen bruten. Its to remind us, while i was looking at these projects, they employed 42 percent women. Its very unusual in the art world. And then of course, in San Francisco, benny lafono. We had the first and the last of the new deal. Coit tower is the first. It is i think, one of the best in the country. It shows San Franciscos history and that of human civilization shown through the eyes of labor. These are things that happened in San Franciscos history. Lynchings. Again, coit tower, shows you the stock market dropping. Something people werent used to seeing. And a business many being held up. And in George Washington high school, the farther of our country pointing the pioneers west as they walk over a dead indian. Most of the art is not controversial. Most of the artists celebrates local produce. This is one of the most extraordinary murals i have seen. At a tuberculosis cemetery. They also painted a mural in San Francisco. Finally, its on the outside of the Berkeley Community theater. All people brought together through the arts. Unfortunately, it was not the last. The war came along. And anton refurgie. There were controversial. There were tried in washington in 1953. He had a panel showing the arts and sciences. There is Luther Burbank and jack london. There was a thing on the side. It says federal art project and has beginning and ending date. That is a wall which becomes a tomb stone. The artists themselves are becoming ghosts. Thats what hes doing there. Joseph danish. Head of the projects, it is it was a wonderful time that he woke up every morning wondering how long it would last. They were being paid to produce public art. Well, what happened of course is the war. The war came along. And roosevelt could see it coming. So, very few people understand the new deal segways into war. They beefed up the military bases like fort mason. My 1943, they are all killed. The war did what the new deal couldnt do, full employment. There were reports, its still with mind numbing statistic. We have to rely on other people to do it. The these projects enriched the lives of millions of people and does so today all the time. I have become aware of it, but very few people are. I have also become aware extraordinary people. Heres a dedication of roosevelt. On the left, who painted the murals in the Social Security building with her husband and steph an kennedy. Its been a privilege to meet these people. Just recently, i found this statue of roosevelt. Is over looks oslow harbor. They revere roosevelt, because of what they learned from the new deal about how to build a civil society. They didnt get rid of it, they expanded it. Just like other scandinavian countries are consistently rated as the happiest in the world. The new deal continues to live on there. Thank you. [applause]. I honor each and every one of you for coming out to the library on saturday afternoon to have a discussion on this important topic. Who used personal Care Products . Shampoo, face cream, deodorant, Contact Solution . The numbers could be staggering. The stories that i tell in the book and stories i talk about today are store reus about all of us. To tell you a little bit about my personal story. I was a 17 magazine makeup reading desperate to read in. With each careful purchase, i was one step closer to that girl i dreamed up. I used lots of them, 20 products a day, makeup, skin creams, an enormous cloud of aqua net hair spray. This is the back in the days of big hair and shoulder pads and bright makeup. I looked up all these products as a teen, 20 products a day, i was surprised to discover, i had been with exposing myself to 200 products a day before i got on the school bus. What is in this stuff that we put on our bodies, put in our hair on a daily basis. That is what we have been working on and looking at for about the passed 5 years. These are the groups involved in the campaign for safe products. Most poplar brands of all kinds of products, deodor rants, makeups, even baby shampoos contain chemicals that are toxic that get into our system. Most of these chemicals, um, come from oil byproducts, petroleum. This is true of the high end brands like cliniq ue. We know they are toxic, Animal Studies show they lead to Certain Health effects. It is okay because there is just a little bit of toxic chemical and you cant prove it causes harm. So of course, as we pointed out, none of us used this product today. Here is a run down of my beauty routine, some of the things i was supposed to, 40 hormone chemicals, 17 carcinogens, 17 penetration chemicals. They draw others more deeply into the property. 16 toxins, less than

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