Henry George Historical Society
189 Ellsworth Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
ph: 415-970-9306
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Welcome!
Who was Henry George? A 19th Century social philosopher and economist who distinguished Land from Capital, and with that insight stood for the unalienable birthright in gifts of nature for all people.
"What I, therefore, propose, as the simple yet sovereign remedy, which will raise wages, increase the earnings of capital, extirpate pauperism, abolish poverty, give remunerative employment to whoever wishes it, afford free scope to human powers, lessen crime, elevate morals, and taste, and intelligence, purify government and carry civilization to yet nobler heights, is--to appropriate rent by taxation."
George hailed from Philadelphia, came of age in San Francisco, and attained worldwide prominence in New York City. He worked as a sailor, a newspaperman, an author, and an orator.
This site will tell you more about George and his thought. It will also indicate the relevance of George's thought to your life.
Beyond this site, a great introduction to the breadth and shape of Henry George's socio-economic proposal is to be found at http://www.answersanswers.com
What We Do
Based as we are in San Francisco, we focus on George's life here in the city where he was married, fathered most of his children, and wrote his seminal masterpiece, Progress & Poverty (1879).
Come along on our Walking Tour of historic downtown San Francisco.
Invite us to address your club, event or organization about Labor Rights, Housing Issues, Real Estate Matters, Money Questions, Race Topics, Class Warfare, or San Francisco history. All from a georgist perspective.
Join our Bicycle Club or Sailing Team.
Apply for sponsorship of your schtick, gig or writing.
Call Us Today!
Our office is located in the Bernal Heights neighborhood of San Francisco.
189 Ellsworth Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
info@henrygeorgehistoricalsociety.org
telephone: 415-970-9306
Thursday, Sept. 9
program:
Professor Marvin Brown
Civilizing the Economy
http://www.civilizingtheeconomy.com
Thursday, Sept. 9
program:
Professor Marvin Brown
Civilizing the Economy
http://www.civilizingtheeconomy.com
Brown advocates for economic thinking in terms of provision rather than property at
Drinks in Common, the Henry George Historical Society's monthly gathering of landlovers (urban planners, dreamers and environmentalists) and elbow-benders (social drinkers),
Drinks in Common, the Henry George Historical Society's monthly gathering of landlovers (urban planners, dreamers and environmentalists) and elbow-benders (social drinkers),
Thursday, Sept. 9
6:30 pm at
Rancho Parnassus
132 6th St.
6:30 pm at
Rancho Parnassus
132 6th St.
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Thursday, August 12
program:
San Francisco State University students
for Prop 13 property tax reform
California public education funding is imperiled, and higher education tuition fees have sky-rocketed.
Two SFSU graduate students, Omar Ventura and Daniel Villanueva, will speak about their effort to rouse a student movement for connecting commercial real estate land values with proper funding for education.
http://www.amendprop13.com/Home_Page.html
Rancho Parnassus
132 6th St.
in San Francisco
6:30 -8:30 pm
Talk begins at 7 pm
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(Check below for Sat. July 10 program!!)
Friday, July 9
program:
A talk with pictures about
Kate Kennedy
San Francisco's most extraordinary educator
Kennedy came to San Francisco in 1857, secured a teaching position, placed top honors in earning a principal's certificate, then went on to
- win equal pay law for women
- secure civil service tenure law
- run for state office
- stump for premier labor rights
HGHS Director David Giesen will tell Kate Kennedy's story, accompanied by transparency illustrations
RED HILL BOOKS
401 Cortland Avenue
in San Francisco
6:30 -7:30 pm
Friday, July 9
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Saturday, July 10
Program:
A Reader's Theater
production of the original historical fiction story of 1914 displacement in San Francisco
Dogs and Coyotes, Baseballs and Rabbits
What's a 13 year boy and his grandma to do when the mayor of San Francisco wants their house and garden for a friend? Unionize? Burn down the Mission? Or use a famed stone from Bernal Heights' red hill?
The Bernal Heights Branch library
500 Cortland Avenue
11 am, out back, FREE
produced in coordination with LaborFest 2010
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Friday, July 2
program:
Alanna Hartzok
on THE COMMONS
Drinks in Common, the Henry George Historical Society's occasional gathering of landlovers (environmentalists) and elbow-benders (social drinkers), is pleased to announce our next get-together, Friday, July 2
6:30 pm at
Rancho Parnassus
132 6th St.
(cross with Minna)
Our featured guest is
Alanna Hartzok
Director of
EARTH RIGHTS INSTITUTE
http://www.earthrights.net
The U.S. government tells us there's a trillion dollars in minerals value in Afghanistan. Alaska pays for all its social programs through a severance tax on petroleum. Tha annual value of extracted natural resources and of the earth under our feet is enough to meet every national budget combined.
Alanna Hartzok will address specific social justice and environmental matters from the perspective of The Commons. What results from socializing the annual value of gifts of nature, and simultaneously liberating labor and business from extra layers of taxation and regulation.
Remarks at 7 pm
Q & A follows, then open discussion
Alanna is Co-Director of Earth Rights Institute, a civil sociaety organiztion working for economic justice and peaceful resolution of conflicts. Her 2001 E.F. Schumacher Lecture was published as Democracy, Earth Rights and the Next Economy. Her articles are referenced in the literature of the Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG), in a recent issue of the Federal Resrve Bank of St. Louis Review, in Dialogues, a publication of the Canada West Foundation, in David Roodman's Worldwatch Institute book, The Natural Wealth of Nations, and in Creating a sustainable World, an anthology edited by Trent Schroyler and Tom Grolodik.
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Friday, June 11 program:
Jon Symes
Drinks in Common, the Henry George Historical Society's occasional gathering of landlovers (environmentalists) and elbow-benders (social drinkers), is pleased to announce our next get-together, Friday, June 11
6:30 pm at
Rancho Parnassus
132 6th St.
(cross with Minna)
Our featured guest is
Jon Symes
Development Director with
the Pachamama Alliance
http://www.pachamama.org
Jon works with an extraordinary non-profit that seeks to awake the dreamer in each of us as we seek to make the world even more right for all. Come hear Jon speak of the Pachamama Alliance and THE COMMONS, then meet other activists to renew your spirit in working for your environmental and social cause.
Remarks at 7 pm
Q & A follows, then open discussion
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Friday, May 28
program:
Sacco Vanzetti Immigrants' Rights Supper
Join us on the street for a "homecoming supper" celebrating nobody being an alien on planet earth.
The Henry George Historical Society closes out May bringing George's message of the individual's perfect fitness for making a success provided her/his natural, equal claim to use of the earth is not impeded by landlordism!
Complimentary supper shared on Mission between 17th and 18th Streets.
From 6:30 pm
You're welcome to bring something to share.
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Thursday, May 13 Program:
Miriam Gordon
Clean Water Action
Drinks in Common, the Henry George Historical Society's occasional gathering of landlovers (environmentalists) and elbow-benders (social drinkers), is pleased to announce our next get-together, Thursday, May 13
6:30 pm at
Notable House
189 Ellsworth Street (Bernal Heights)
Our featured guest is
Miriam Gordon
Director of
Clean Water Action
http://www.cleanwateraction.org/ca
Miriam heads up the regional office of one of the country's most successful environmental organizations. Clean Water Action seeks to restore and maintain the nation's water. Come hear Miriam speak of THE COMMONS, meet other environmentalists, and renew your spirit in working for your environmental and social cause.
Remarks at 7 pm
Q & A follows, then open discussion
Complimentary
Buffet Supper
from 6:30 pm
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Sunday, April 18
Program:
Benefit Walking Tour for Nature in the City
Come along on this walking survey of a land use policy that would relieve sprawl dramatically, fund public transportation, vigorously reduce housing shortfalls and, simultaneously, facilitate the acquisition of urban open space!
All proceeds of this special edition tour go to
Nature in the City http://www.natureinthecity.org
Sunday, April 18
1-4 pm
Departs from the ticket booth at the Powell at Market Cable Car turnaround
$15/person
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Tuesday, March 16
Program:
Drinks in Common, the Henry George Historical Society's occasional gathering of landlovers (environmentalists) and elbow-benders (social drinkers), is pleased to announce our next get-together, Tuesday, March 16,
6:30 pm at
Schroeder's restaurant
240 Front Street (near California St.)
Our featured guest is
Peter Brastow
Director of
NATURE IN THE CITY
http://www.natureinthecity.org
Peter heads up one of San Francisco's most engaging environmental organizations. NATURE IN THE CITY seeks to maintain and restore the natural flora, fauna and geography of our city.
Come hear Peter speak of THE COMMONS, meet other environmentalists, and renew your spirit in working for your environmental and social cause.
Remarks at 7 pm
Someone will win a $10 drink certificate for our next gathering!
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Thursday, February 25 San Francisco Program:
Land Mass:
Religion, Priesthood and the Protestant Work Ethic as frames for worldwide social injustice
In the run-up to the April 20-21 National Interfaith Conference on Global Poverty, to be held in
San Francisco,
the Henry George Historical Society is hosting a roundtable discussion on faith-based notions regarding the relationship between humanity and Creation.
Join this two hour symposium at Notable House
in San Francisco
(189 Ellsworth St.)
7-9 pm
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Thursday, August 12
program:
San Francisco State University students
for Prop 13 property tax reform
California public education funding is imperiled, and higher education tuition fees have sky-rocketed.
Two SFSU graduate students, Omar Ventura and Daniel Villanueva, will speak about their effort to rouse a student movement for connecting commercial real estate land values with proper funding for education.
http://www.amendprop13.com/Home_Page.html
Rancho Parnassus
132 6th St.
in San Francisco
6:30 -8:30 pm
Talk begins at 7 pm
_______________________
(Check below for Sat. July 10 program!!)
Friday, July 9
program:
A talk with pictures about
Kate Kennedy
San Francisco's most extraordinary educator
Kennedy came to San Francisco in 1857, secured a teaching position, placed top honors in earning a principal's certificate, then went on to
- win equal pay law for women
- secure civil service tenure law
- run for state office
- stump for premier labor rights
HGHS Director David Giesen will tell Kate Kennedy's story, accompanied by transparency illustrations
RED HILL BOOKS
401 Cortland Avenue
in San Francisco
6:30 -7:30 pm
Friday, July 9
_______________________
Saturday, July 10
Program:
A Reader's Theater
production of the original historical fiction story of 1914 displacement in San Francisco
Dogs and Coyotes, Baseballs and Rabbits
What's a 13 year boy and his grandma to do when the mayor of San Francisco wants their house and garden for a friend? Unionize? Burn down the Mission? Or use a famed stone from Bernal Heights' red hill?
The Bernal Heights Branch library
500 Cortland Avenue
11 am, out back, FREE
produced in coordination with LaborFest 2010
______________
Friday, July 2
program:
Alanna Hartzok
on THE COMMONS
Drinks in Common, the Henry George Historical Society's occasional gathering of landlovers (environmentalists) and elbow-benders (social drinkers), is pleased to announce our next get-together, Friday, July 2
6:30 pm at
Rancho Parnassus
132 6th St.
(cross with Minna)
Our featured guest is
Alanna Hartzok
Director of
EARTH RIGHTS INSTITUTE
http://www.earthrights.net
The U.S. government tells us there's a trillion dollars in minerals value in Afghanistan. Alaska pays for all its social programs through a severance tax on petroleum. Tha annual value of extracted natural resources and of the earth under our feet is enough to meet every national budget combined.
Alanna Hartzok will address specific social justice and environmental matters from the perspective of The Commons. What results from socializing the annual value of gifts of nature, and simultaneously liberating labor and business from extra layers of taxation and regulation.
Remarks at 7 pm
Q & A follows, then open discussion
Alanna is Co-Director of Earth Rights Institute, a civil sociaety organiztion working for economic justice and peaceful resolution of conflicts. Her 2001 E.F. Schumacher Lecture was published as Democracy, Earth Rights and the Next Economy. Her articles are referenced in the literature of the Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG), in a recent issue of the Federal Resrve Bank of St. Louis Review, in Dialogues, a publication of the Canada West Foundation, in David Roodman's Worldwatch Institute book, The Natural Wealth of Nations, and in Creating a sustainable World, an anthology edited by Trent Schroyler and Tom Grolodik.
__________________
Friday, June 11 program:
Jon Symes
Drinks in Common, the Henry George Historical Society's occasional gathering of landlovers (environmentalists) and elbow-benders (social drinkers), is pleased to announce our next get-together, Friday, June 11
6:30 pm at
Rancho Parnassus
132 6th St.
(cross with Minna)
Our featured guest is
Jon Symes
Development Director with
the Pachamama Alliance
http://www.pachamama.org
Jon works with an extraordinary non-profit that seeks to awake the dreamer in each of us as we seek to make the world even more right for all. Come hear Jon speak of the Pachamama Alliance and THE COMMONS, then meet other activists to renew your spirit in working for your environmental and social cause.
Remarks at 7 pm
Q & A follows, then open discussion
_____________________________
Friday, May 28
program:
Sacco Vanzetti Immigrants' Rights Supper
Join us on the street for a "homecoming supper" celebrating nobody being an alien on planet earth.
The Henry George Historical Society closes out May bringing George's message of the individual's perfect fitness for making a success provided her/his natural, equal claim to use of the earth is not impeded by landlordism!
Complimentary supper shared on Mission between 17th and 18th Streets.
From 6:30 pm
You're welcome to bring something to share.
_____________________________
Thursday, May 13 Program:
Miriam Gordon
Clean Water Action
Drinks in Common, the Henry George Historical Society's occasional gathering of landlovers (environmentalists) and elbow-benders (social drinkers), is pleased to announce our next get-together, Thursday, May 13
6:30 pm at
Notable House
189 Ellsworth Street (Bernal Heights)
Our featured guest is
Miriam Gordon
Director of
Clean Water Action
http://www.cleanwateraction.org/ca
Miriam heads up the regional office of one of the country's most successful environmental organizations. Clean Water Action seeks to restore and maintain the nation's water. Come hear Miriam speak of THE COMMONS, meet other environmentalists, and renew your spirit in working for your environmental and social cause.
Remarks at 7 pm
Q & A follows, then open discussion
Complimentary
Buffet Supper
from 6:30 pm
_______________________________
Sunday, April 18
Program:
Benefit Walking Tour for Nature in the City
Come along on this walking survey of a land use policy that would relieve sprawl dramatically, fund public transportation, vigorously reduce housing shortfalls and, simultaneously, facilitate the acquisition of urban open space!
All proceeds of this special edition tour go to
Nature in the City http://www.natureinthecity.org
Sunday, April 18
1-4 pm
Departs from the ticket booth at the Powell at Market Cable Car turnaround
$15/person
San Francisco Program:
Land Mass:
Religion, Priesthood and the Protestant Work Ethic as frames for worldwide social injustice
In the run-up to the April 20-21 National Interfaith Conference on Global Poverty, to be held in
San Francisco,
the Henry George Historical Society is hosting a roundtable discussion on faith-based notions regarding the relationship between humanity and Creation.
Join this two hour symposium at Notable House
in San Francisco
(189 Ellsworth St.)
7-9 pm
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Thursday, January 28 Program:
Join the discussion after the show!
The Shotgun Players' performance of Bertolt Brecht's
The 3 Penny Opera
at the Ashby Stage in Berkeley
on Thursday, January 28,
will be followed by a discussion of the social questions raised by Brecht, from a Georgist perspective.
CALL for PARTICULARS.
415-970-9306
Thursday, January 14
Program:
Drinks in Common, the Henry George Historical Society's occasional gathering of landlovers and elbow-benders, is pleased to announce our next get-together, Thursday, January 14,
6:30 pm at
Soluna Cafe and Lounge
272 McAllister @ Larkin (Civic Center Plaza)
Our featured guest is
John Dennis
candidate for
the 8th Congressional District
(Nancy Pelosi's seat)
John is a libertarian-Republican, which makes him anathema to most San Franciscans; but wait! didn't Nancy Pelosi give the people's money away to bankers? Be honest now, is that neighborly?
Come pose hard questions about hard-earned income vs. windfall profits of a man who won't dodge questions.
Remarks at 7 pm
Someone will win a $10 drink certificate for our next gathering!
Friday,
January 15 Program:
Fishing Mission Creek
performance art
detailing how to replenish
Laguna Dolores with community
16th at Dolores Streets
7 pm
Tuesday,
Dec. 22 Program
HELD OVER!!!
Join
the film's Assistant to the Executive Producer
for a post show discussion of the film at
4 Star Theatre in San Francisco
http://www.lntsf.com/4-star_theatre
(2200 Clement Street)
TIME: 12:15, 8:15
Q & A time after 8:15 screening
This film is the perfect vehicle for starting discussions about property rights and the commons
for film info:
http://www.theendofpoverty.com
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Thursday, Nov. 12
Program
Drinks in Common, the Henry George Historical Society's occasional gathering of landlovers and elbow-benders, is pleased to announce our second get-together, Thursday, November 12, 6:30 pm at
Soluna Cafe and Lounge
272 McAllister @ Larkin (Civic Center Plaza)
Our featured guest is
Antonia Juhasz
Antonia is the author of "The Bu$h Agenda" and "The Tyranny of Oil." She is also a widely published journalist. Currently she heads up Global Exchange's Chevron project.
Remarks at 7 pm
Someone will win a $10 drink certificate for our next gathering!
For recent programs. scroll down:
Saturday, Oct. 10
Walking tour benefit for KPFA
Come along on this special edition of our mind-altering survey of many of the social-change movements which have come
(and gone) in
San Francisco.
Meets at the Cable Car ticket booth at Market and Powell
1 PM
$15/person $$$$$$ All proceeds to KPFA
Check out the walk by clicking the
Walking Tour button to the left
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a recent program:
Saturday, Sept. 26
Program
Come along on our splendid walking tour of downtown San Francisco
Social movments gone wild, gone amok, gone to seed!
312 Mason Street
9 to Noon
(for more info click on the Walking Tour button)
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Recent program:
Friday, Sept. 18
in San Francisco
and we'll have a "Commons" space on Mission Street
between 23rd & 24th Streets!
5:30 till dark.
Beer, talk, and
puppet theater
(why not fund health care with
land values?)
for PARK(ing) Day info:
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Recent Programs:
Drinks in Common, the Henry George Historical Society's occasional gathering of landlovers and elbow-benders is thrilled to announce our first get-together, Thursday, September 10, 6:30 pm at
Soluna Cafe and Lounge
272 McAllister @ Larkin (Civic Center Plaza)
Our featured guest is Examiner columnist Melissa Griffin
Her remarks at 7 pm
Someone will win a $10 drink certificate for our next gathering!
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Recent programs:
Join the
Henry George Bicycle Club
as it swarms with
San Francisco's Critical Mass
Justin Herman Plaza
Market Street @ The Embaracadero
6 pm
"You wouldn't ride on a flat tire, the rims grating on the asphalt; why wouldn't you use the cushion of land rent for community needs?"
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Free edition of our walking tour
Nineteen folk attended our Monday, August 10 rendition of Land, Villains, and Revolutionaries. And applauded at the end!
The Commons, the Community
Our August 4 program in the law offices of Matt Gonzalez played host to over fifty people! Sixteen signed up to participate in future HGHS activities.
.
August 4 Program
Matt Gonzalez Willie Ratcliff Phil Ting
spoke about spoke about
land use at Hunters Point reform of Proposition 13
Senator Leland Yee
spoke about funding
education through public land
and Karl Fitzgerald tied it all together!
189 Ellsworth Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
ph: 415-970-9306
info
