The San Francisco Solidarity Protest March yesterday was huge. Crowd estimates are in the 10,000 range. It felt like many more than that. It was urgent yet peaceful, and had a feeling of great importance. Though everybody was wearing masks and were being respectful of one another, we have all decided to get tested for Covid before returning to our Popcorn Pop-Ups. We are cancelling this Saturday’s sale, and providing all test come back negative, will be resuming on Saturday June 13.

Our Stay-At-Home Movie Night this week will be THE BLACK POWER MIXTAPE 1967-1975 which is available for FREE through the Internet Archive. Please join us on Saturday night at 7:30.

We will be moderating a CHAT ROOM during the movie. It is always of the utmost importance that we be respectful during these chat room sessions, but this week it is even more so. Let’s all use this movie as an opportunity to learn and observe.

For three decades, the film canisters sat undisturbed in a cellar beneath the Swedish National Broadcasting Company. Inside was roll after roll of startlingly fresh and candid 16mm footage shot in the 1960s and 1970s in the United States, all of it focused on the anti-war and Black Power movements. When filmmaker Goran Hugo Olsson discovered the footage, he decided he had a responsibility to shepherd this glimpse of history into the world.