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Previous Issues

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Issue 7 • December 2016
Black as Space: Reflecting on the Bay Bridge Shutdown (Cont’)
For the Love of Privacy:Basic strategies for the world ahead
Home Viewing for Long Nights: We look back for a way forward

Black.seed #reclaimMLK Bay Bridge shutdown, January 18, 2016. (Photo: Brooke Anderson)
Issue 6 • August 2016
Black as Space: Reflecting on the Bay Bridge Shutdown (Parts 1 and 2 of four)
The Movement for Black Lives: Six Point Platform
Society Update: What we’ve been up to

PERSIA featuring Daddie$ Pla$tik Google Google Apps Apps 2013. Courtesy the artist.
Issue 5 • March 2016
Take This Hammer: Art + Media Activism from the Bay Area
On Strike! (At SF State) and More Documentaries at YBCA’s Take This Hammer
Bay Area Art & Activism Timeline: Contributions Welcome!
Become a Member: We are 64% of the way toward out $4,500 goal!

Tony Vaguely, Diet Popstitute, and Alvin at Klubstitute, c. 1991. Photo by Daniel Nicoletta.
Issue 4 • October 2015
Open Engagement comes to Oakland: Mark your calendars! April 29–May 1, 2016
All the World’s Futures: Democracy Now! covers the 2015 Venice Biennale
Ferguson is the Future: Alternative Worlds Through Arts, Activism, & Scholarship
(processing) – Bay Area Artists and the Archive: Collective Memory at UC Berkeley’s Worth Ryder Art Gallery, October 7-23
Issue 3 • July 2015
Happy 40th Birthday Media Burn!: The Bay Area Society for Art & Activism commemorates the legendary 1975 event
We are “Making a Scene!”: The Bay Area Society for Art & Activism documents 50 years of alternative Bay Area spaces
From “Saints and Citizens”: California’s Mission Era Indigenous Artists and Political Resistance
In Case You Missed It: A Dissidents, the Displaced and the Outliers Recap
Media Burn 40th Anniversary Posters: Get’em While They’re Hot!
Issue 2 • March 2015
Who We Be: Superpanel on Art, Protest and Racial Justice
Ruminations on the Dissidents, the Displaced, and the Outliers of the Bay Area
Artists Get Organized!: The Bay Area Artists Report and Arts Advocacy Coalition
THE SKY IS THE LIMIT: Susan O’Malley (1976-2015)

Still image from “The Last Black Man in San Francisco” starring Jimmie Fails (right) and Pretice Sanders (left) and directed by Joe Talbot.
Issue 1 • November 2014
The View from Queens: An Interview with Artist Christine Wong Yap
From 3.9 to the Last: San Francisco’s African American Creative Legacy Now
How We Party “Overnight Strange: A Vaudeville for the Displaced”