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Welch, Calvin: Hearst food distribution
No full textCalvin Welch: Some of us also had had the extraordinary experience of the SLA (Symbionese Liberation Army) food distribution being allied with the Western Addition Project Area Committee (WAPAC), then led by a fellow by the name of Arnold Townsend. When the SLA – after the first kind of abortive food distribution – anointed by name the Western Addition Project Area Committee in I think their second or third [communicate] the world kind of collapsed on WAPAC and they looked for help, and so they turned to us in the Haight who had worked with them on a couple of housing issues and district elections. They were very much involved in district elections as well. And when we all came together around putting together a food distribution program for Hearst we ran into George who had just completed a series – I believe for the Senate – of hearings on nutrition, and had on his staff a nutritionist. One of the problems that vexed William Hearst and the rest of us was you know “What’s a nutritious packet of food look like that would be distributed” and surprisingly, Reagan was governor and took the position that no one should cooperate with this millionaire in putting together food distribution to save his daughter, which we all thought was kinda odd you know, but we began to understand that there were contradictions amongst capitalists. And Alioto would have nothing to do with – would not help in any way, assist. So here was this odd community coalition and three elected officials. They were all state officials. Art Agnos who was the staffer to then Speaker of the Assembly, Leo McCarthy. Willie Brown who was then, I think that was the first time Willie was chair of Ways and Means. And George. All three of course later became mayors. But they were the only elected officials that provided any kind of assistance to Hearst
Welch, Calvin: Moscone\u27s empathy
No full textCalvin Welch: I believe in part it was a certain empathy on the part of George Moscone. Long before Bill Clinton he was a politician who felt your pain, and I think legitimately so. I know that he was bitterly hurt by John Barbagelata in the race. And I remember booing Moscone in the runoff election night that he won. Now, Barbagelata attacked Moscone’s daughter. When John Barbagelata had a daughter who had very similar issues, and George didn’t go there. I don’t believe could go there. I don’t think that’s the kind of guy he was. And he gave on election night – this was the runoff night – he made this unbelievably generous reference to John Barbagelata. I remember standing with some friends of mine in a balcony booing him. I yelled at him “You’re a dumb shit. If you don’t understand this guy, you’re a dumb shit.” So, you know, I believe he had empathy to a fault. Far more Christian than was good for him, you know
Welch, Calvin: Moscone\u27s legacy
No full textCalvin Welch: I think that one of the great and enduring tragedies of the assassination of George Moscone is that they associate his [morality] with the assassination and not with what I think was truly the transient and transitional quality which was I think his great contribution. I work with people who flatter themselves who believe that we’re about empowerment. I’m proud of what we’ve all done and been able to accomplish, but in my most honest moments I fully understand that we could not have done that without George Moscone. That the difference between what happened in this city before 1975 and what happened in this city after 1975 is that brief period. I’ve come to understand it’s not easy. Social and political change is not easy. And another kinda problem with George’s legacy was that he was so effortless that it appeared easy and people didn’t value what it was that he did. He took a city that truly was on the brink of civil war. Some would argue that that’s his greatest failing that he didn’t allow that civil war to happen. I’m not one of those people because I don’t think my side would have prevailed. George Moscone brought in a guy by the name of Jim [Chaket] from HUD [Housing and Urban Development]. Much as Christopher did in M. Justin Herman. Jim, he put in charge of the Mayor’s Office of Community Development, and Jim’s job was to institute the new federalism of Nixon, the Community Development Block Grant Program. And Jim [Chaket] believed in the Community Development Block Grant Program – at almost a religious, I mean he brought the attitude of a Peace Corp volunteer – that he was going to figure out a way to get federal money to create institutions that would empower low-income neighborhoods, and George Moscone backed him all the way. There are multimillion dollar community-based corporations today. Chinese Community Development Corporation, Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation, Tenants and Owners Development Corporation that have a net asset base of literally hundreds of millions of dollars of affordable housing that they have developed that but for Jim [Chaket] and George Moscone, would not even exist. In the subsequent years from the Moscone administration, these faith in community-based non-profit housing developers have developed 25,000 units of permanently affordable housing. Over half of which houses families with dependent children with incomes of below fifty percent of median. It is not putting too fine a point to it to say that those people wouldn’t be in San Francisco but for George Moscone. Community centers, senior centers, the entire neighborhood movement and everything it achieved in a significant way was empowered by the Moscone administration. He presided over the institutionalization. Joe Alioto unmistakably brought people of color into city government. George Moscone empowered those people. Alioto brought them in to serve him. Moscone empowered those organizations, institutions to empower those communities, and that’s a profound difference. It’s hard for me and the people that I work with to conceive what this town would look like but for that – looking back on it – incredibly brief period. I think George Moscone’s mayoralty was the most important, had the most enduring impact of any post World War II mayor administrations in San Francisco as brief as it was. As brief as it was. George had the courage of his convictions to see a city that was in the midst of deep distress and transition, and like the clearheaded fellow that he was he chose to back the transition. He could have been preoccupied with the civil war. He chose to bet on the transition. I think that bet has been paying dividends to the city since, and it’s a goddamn shame that people don’t understand that about George Moscone
Welch, Calvin: Moscone\u27s mayoral campaign
No full textCalvin Welch: George had the uncommon good sense to realize – I came to understand – that the city of his birth had profoundly changed by the time he was running. Because he was a smart guy and because he was well connected with his local Democratic Party knew that Gina and Sue more than Dave Jenkins or Hadley Roth had stayed in touch with neighborhoods and community people. And so he went to them. The reason I know this is because Sue turned around to me and said “George wants to go on a tour. Not a merchant tour or walking down the street. He wants to see everyone I’ve been working with he said in just the last five years. That’s mainly been you, Calvin and the folks in the 409 house. Could you put together a tour for George?” The only dealings I had ever had with George Moscone was the SLA (Symbionese Liberation Army) kidnapping of Miss Hearst in a bizarre turn of events. Folks that I worked with in the Western Addition had become WAPAC, the Western Addition Project Area Committee namely Arnold Townsend, became delegated by [Cinque] the kidnapper in a communique to take over the food distribution. That’s when I met George. When Sue asked me to put something together for George I was more than happy to, and I went to many of the people in the food distribution and other people that I had become involved with around district elections of supervisors. Sue Hestor who was very much involved in the [duskan] growth control measures and the folks around a newly formed urban environmental group then called San Francisco Tomorrow and tenants groups in China Town in the Mission and the south of Market. I organized for Sue a set of meetings and kind of visitations that one of Sue’s great roles in the Democratic Party was that she was the driver. She put George in a car and she drove him around to this little list that we put together and worked out. It wasn’t that I would tag along with them, but I would be at one or two of the venues. Two things became abundantly apparent. One that Sue Bierman loved George Moscone. It was such a pleasure seeing such a good woman so happy in a political candidate. Sue lived politics and had to live through some pretty lean years with some pretty lean candidates, and she was delighted. She loved George. She just simply loved George. And the neat thing I first recognized about George was that he liked Sue, and that spoke, for me, volumes. Most of George’s contemporaries treated Sue with insufferable disdain. Sue Bierman was a very intelligent woman. Sue Bierman was a very perceptive woman. I thought that the way Phil Burton would treat her, the way Agar Jaicks would treat her I thought was… They were guys of their generation, okay? So they treated women that way. I’m a guy of my generation and I try to treat women differently and because mainly I would get smacked in the face if I didn’t, but not from Sue. Sue was a very capable, intelligent, smart, savvy political player, and George recognized that. There was no condescension at all. He understood and he respected Sue. I came to understand that about him, and that was the first thing that commended him to me was that he saw the value of a Gina [Pinestry] and a Sue Bierman. Not simply that they were awestruck kind of groupies, but that they were smart, connected and capable, and he respected that in them
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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