tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30897652.post2592232189422147549..comments2024-03-27T15:44:43.564-08:00Comments on What Do I Know?: Stand Up And Say No - Monument In San FranciscoStevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10498066938213558757noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30897652.post-13514184126570464682014-08-26T11:13:33.393-08:002014-08-26T11:13:33.393-08:00Nah, we were semi-functional nihilists who called ...Nah, we were semi-functional nihilists who called ourselves Commie-pinko-fags (before someone else did). When I think how miserable I was in HS, the five of us and a couple of great teachers sheltered the bit of sanity I held on to. Statues are for heroes; we were anti-heroes.<br />Jacob Dugan-Brausehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06287631724339961459noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30897652.post-17908609546125873232014-08-26T07:10:54.441-08:002014-08-26T07:10:54.441-08:00So, we should make a small monument for your group...So, we should make a small monument for your group to keep that memory alive. In front of East High maybe.Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10498066938213558757noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30897652.post-55481927273454136042014-08-25T22:47:01.918-08:002014-08-25T22:47:01.918-08:00This post brings me back to one of my first organi...This post brings me back to one of my first organising efforts on a public policy issue at East Anchorage HS back in the 1970s.<br /><br />A small group of us 'bad kid', not-doing-well-in-subjects students were able to get a school-wide debate set up on AMATS (Dan Sullivan, the mayor, will know this well since his father was behind it). We were teenagers who were questioning Anchroage building a massive freeway system that would have put in a crazy-quilt network of freeways. One that was to border the military lands out in Muldoon connecting south Anchorage and get this -- a tidewater freeway exactly where the coastal trail is today (and it was elevated -- there must have been some tick list for road engineers those days).<br /><br />I still remember the amazed news crews who covered the event as they replied to our on-air comments against the plan. That students had stood up and said they wouldn't drive at all if it came to this. It was something like "you're teenage boys and you're against roads?"<br /><br />Yes, we were. But we did have one member who was a girl who used to ride her horse to school. The rest of us walked, thumbed rides and rode bikes.<br /><br />And I like to think we were a small part of what slowed down the adoption of that truly mad plan (and it's perhaps why I raised my observation with planning). Planning isn't always a cure, but an illness when laid on the wrong set of circumstances.Jacob Dugan-Brausehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06287631724339961459noreply@blogger.com