The ways in which media has abstracted the violence in Gaza brought back to mind an experience I had with an editor in 2014, when I tried writing about the Oakland-Palestine Solidarity Mural.
Christian L. Frock
Christian L. Frock is an independent writer and public scholar. Her work focuses on art, politics, and public life, and takes the form of scholarship, cultural criticism, exhibitions, teaching, public speaking, and consulting. Frock has taught at California College of the Arts, California Institute of Integral Studies, and San Francisco Art Institute; and has guest lectured at UC Berkeley, University of San Francisco, and Stanford University, among other schools. Her writing has been published in KQED Arts, The Guardian US, and the San Francisco Chronicle, among many other publications. For more information, please visit www.christianlfrock.com
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Doing Battle with the Remains of Industrial America
SAN FRANCISCO — On a blustery, sunny Sunday afternoon, some 40 or 50 people gathered on a quiet road in nowheresville, 45 miles south of San Francisco in a quasi-industrial area of Fremont, to “celebrate the essence of NUMMI.”
