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Presidio Houses: Lanadmarks of Controversy

Last week we reported on a controversy at the former military base in San Francisco called the Presidio which recently became a national park that is attempting to be financially self-sufficient. Now, there’s an intriguing sub-plot to the story that concerns a cluster of abandoned military quarters at the Presidio. A plan to tear down […]

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Presidio Houses: LANDMARKS OF CONTROVERSY

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Forty years after the occupation of Alcatraz

Conflict & Justice

Forty years ago this month, a group of Native Americans staged an occupation of the Island of Alcatraz. The occupation lasted nineteen months. We talk to Andrea Carmen, executive director of the International Indian Treaty Council. From The Takeaway.

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