Local Protests, Global Movements: Capital, Community, and State in San Francisco

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Index affordable housing: and redevelopment, 107– 109; in San Francisco, 29–37, 93 Agnos, Art: and homeless problem, 124–125; as mayor, 123–126; and tenant groups, 40–42 Alioto, Joseph, 29, 154; and cooptation of labor, 29 alliances at local level, 114, 144–145, 155–156; need for, 29, 114, 186–188. See also urban alliances Ammiano, Tom, 76, 138; mayoral campaign of, 130–133 Antenore, Dennis, 81–82 Armory building, 69–70 Arriba Juntos, 69, 70 autogestion. See right to the city; state: and civil society Barbagelata, John, 119, 121 Bay Area Life Sciences Alliance (BALSA), 102, 105 Bay Area Organizing Committee (BAOC), 105 Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART), 26 Bay View Bank building eviction, 72 Best Foods plant, conversion of, 65 Bierman, Sue, 67, 76, 121, 122 Britt, Harry, 40, 41, 120 Brown, Willie, 77, 83, 126–129, 155; business connections of, 79–80, 101, 127, 132–133; and firing of Dennis Antenore, 81–82; and labor, 83, 128; and Mission Bay, 101, 103; and promotion of live-work housing, 77–82 Bryant Street Investors, 65 Burton, Phil, 120 CalPERS (California Public Employees’ Retirement System), 100 Care Not Cash (Proposition N), 136–137, 197n5 Casey, Mike, 140 Castells, Manuel, on urban movements, 7, 112–114 Catellus, 98–105; and benefits from Mission Bay agreement, 106–108 Cazenave, Rene, 34 Cell Space, 69 citizen participation as ideology and practice, 169–170 Citizen’s Advisory Committee (CAC), 105–106 Citizens Committee on Community Development (CCCD), 30, 33 Citizens for Better Government, 120 Citizens for Representative Government (CRG), 116–117 citywide rezoning, 24–28 civil society as basis for participatory democracy , 160–162. See also social movements; state; urban movements Clinton, Bill, 141 Coalition on Jobs, Arts, and Housing (CJAH), 65, 67, 78 216 Index Committee on Jobs (JOBS), 59, 133, 137, 154 community as ideology, 165–166 community-based organizations (CBOs) as conduit for political action, 29–37, 160–161; in San Francisco, 29–37 Community Congress (1975), 118, 120 Community Development Block Grant (CDBG), 30–31, 32, 33–34 conditions of production, 49–50, 51–53; as site of social reproduction, 51–52 Council of Community Housing Organizations (CCHO), 29–37, 77; and coordination of local funding, 33, 97, 103 Critchley, Simon, 181–183 Cruz, Emilio, 79, 80 Daly, Chris, 134–135, 138 Davis, Jack, 24, 80 democracy: deliberative, 169–170; local, 57. See also state; urban movements Democratic County Central Committee (DCCC), 133, 143, 197n4 Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), 37 demographics of San Francisco, 151–153 devolution: as federal policy, 5–6, 10–11, 92– 93, 111–112, 168; and local policy, 11, 111– 112; and relation to local democracy, 9, 57, 92–93, 110–112, 168; and urban movements, 5–6, 7–8, 11, 110–112, 157, 167–168 district elections, 84–85, 133–136; as basis for neighborhood activism, 134–135; and defeat of Brown slate, 134–135 Duskin, Alvin (Duskin initiatives), 21–22 dot-com boom in San Francisco, 64–85 Downtown Plan, 23 eastern neighborhoods, rezoning of, 87–88 eco-Marxism, 48–50 electoral coalitions, 118–120, 121, 123, 125, 127, 131, 135–136, 186; limits of, 186; and movement building, 145–148, 157–158, 185–186; as opportunity, 118–120, 157–158 federalism as political practice, 161 federal withdrawal, 11, 92–93, 110–112. See also devolution Feinstein, Dianne, 24, 33, 40, 95, 96, 119; term as mayor, 122–123 “fictitious commodities,” O’Connor on, 48–50 Fillmore District and A-2 redevelopment, 29 first contradiction of capital, 48 Fisher, Don, 76, 133 Francois, Terry, 120 freeway fight, 19–21 gentrification as ameliorating force, 75 globalization: effect of, on urban movements, 6–7, 153–154; and relation to neoliberalism, 5–6; and state capacity, 5–6, 60; theories of, 5–6. See also neoliberalism; urban neoliberalism , origins of Gonzalez, Jim, 76 Gonzalez, Matt, 138; mayoral campaign of, 139–141 Gore, Al, 141 governance: and devolution, 9, 92–93, 110–112, 167–169; and local control, 167–169; as neoliberal ideology, 9; and participatory democracy, 9, 187–188; stakeholder model of, 92–93; and urban movements, 9, 92–93, 110–114, 167–168 Green, Gerald, 2, 71–72 growth machine: and urban movements, 59, 154–155; weakening of, 154–155 Haaland, Robert, 130, 131 Habermas, Jürgen, 169 Haight Ashbury Neighborhood Council (HANC), 19 Hardt, Michael, 175–177 hegemony and social movement theory, 177– 181; critique of Laclau and Mouffe’s theory of, 179–181 Hestor, Sue, 23, 65–66 Hongisto, Richard...