The Commons San Francisco

They hang the man and flog the woman,
Who steals the goose from off the common,
Yet let the greater villain loose,
That steals the common from the goose.

                   — 17^th century English protest rhyme

Triumph of the Commons is our get-up-and-create change group. Our goal is to acquire land and put it to use with the land value rent stream dropped right back into community.

How? What? That's for us--you and we--to determine.

If you're ready to dig deep into what the commons is all about, and want to manifest the commons in this lifetime, contact us. click here NOW!

 The $300

Kate Kennedy

Prize

is awarded quarterly for the finest fiction writing illuminating

The Commons as a social construct

Whether your schtick is poetry, prose, script-writing, dance, painting or some other expressive medium, if you’re an artist and interested in the nature of social relationships, and have mastered--even if only once--the union of ideas with entertainment, you’re eligible to submit your work for consideration in earning  The Commons SF’s Kate Kennedy Prize. Educators especially urged to participate!

The theme we’re interested in is “the commons.” What is it that belongs to all the community?  Visit the website noted at the bottom of this flyer to attain a preliminary notion of what The Commons SF believes. And follow up with questions if you remain intrigued.

George Bernard Shaw’s Major Barbara and Widowers’ Houses would win.

Arnold Schwarzenegger’s character in Total Recall would win his scriptwriters the prize.

John Steinbeck’s novella Of Mice and Men would certainly qualify.

Hamlin Garland’s  short story “Under the Lion’s Paw” would take top honors.

The Biblical story of Jacob and Esau has First Prize written all over it.

Robert Frost would be an awardee with his poem “Mending Wall.”

Sculpture, painting, and dance are almost always more abstract than the written word in their thematic clarity, but these expressive media are eligible for consideration.

To apply, leave a message HERE.

*Kate Kennedy led the way in securing the first women’s equal pay with men legislation in 1873. She won civil service tenure law in 1890. She taught in San Francisco schools 1856-1890. She penned a valiant attempt at uniting social advocacy and artful prose in her 1906 short story “The Foolish Pigeons of Dr. Paley”*



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Deal the Real

workshop

Enroll in this 2 hour workshop, and if you don't get everything you want from your landlord or the bank within one month, we'll refund your $25 and give you $25 more.

In two hours we'll teach you the skills necessary to walk into your landlord's or mortgage broker's or real estate agent's or banker's office and cancel foreclosure, nix eviction, or turn back the rent increase.

If you don't get satisfaction within one month, we'll refund the low workshop fee and give you $25 more for your time.

To enroll in the next workshop, click here

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Archived material below

Poetry Feed

feeding the public poetry

&

feeding poets cash

The Commons SF seeks poetry moving the hearts and minds of the public to feel and see the earth as the birthright of all people,

possibly in the way that we of

The Commons SF

see the world.

Poets are encouraged to submit one or two sample poems to the following address:

info@TheCommonsSF.org

by March 6, 2013

We'll pay $40 to five prized poets to read their work on the Telegraph Hill stairs on Saturday, April 6   2013.

Thank you for your submissions. Poets will be selected by March 16.

The format of April 6 is 1-3 pm on the Telegraph Hill stairs. Poets will be stationed at five locations and will read their work (repeating their poems as necessary) as pedestrians ascend and descend. This is performance art extolling the commons through spoken word. Words floating, feelings sifting, patterns of thought arrested, perturbed, disturbed, elevated, enlarged.

The event will be advertised and promoted by us, you, buzz.

Food will be served.

If you wish to know more about TheCommonsSF,

ask HERE!



Triumph of the Commons

offers a succession of monetary prizes for a range of inventive contributions to an understanding of the Commons as you find it illuminated on this website.

Every quarter there's the

Kate Kennedy Prize for Commons fiction-$500

Sunrise Award for non-fiction writing or programming that demonstrates the link between the Commons and public policy- $500

Carl Brannin Award for graduate/undergraduate academic writing on the Commons- $500

Submission for each following quarter should be received by

January 1, April 1, July 1, October 1

and then there's the $1,000 Golden Egg Prize for a topic or genre selected by us. This quarter the prize will go to the winning submission for a three-minute youtube video. Click HERE to learn more about this prize, to be awarded January 27, 2013.

If interested in any of these prizes/awards, simply inquire HERE.

 see Commons Literature page for prize-winning writing.

Yes! It's true. We're offering a $300 prize for creating a musical Youtube clip that transforms that 17th century protest rhyme to your left on this page into a sonic and visual stunner.