Diverse Communities Team UP to Clean UP in San Francisco

On a uniquely beautiful August day in San Francisco, a handful of community , government, job training groups and neighborhood volunteers joined to tackle the grit on the urban face of the 5th district.

Festooned with rakes, brooms, shovels and garbage bags, over 300 people fanned across the widely dispersed neighborhoods of the most socially and economically diverse District 5. Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi was on hand to celebrate and put some muscle in. A number of interviews help show the varying community threads that make up the fabric of San Francisco.

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Technical notes:
I shot this with a FLIP HD and aspired to do as much in camera editing as possible in order to expedite outputting a product. At some point between record and codexing, the audio file distorts, particularly with booming voices during an interview. It is imperfect, (so I cannot fully recommend it, though it has its applications. Final edit of the product was to be a single layer with graphics video, no special audio editing.

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• urban life
• housing
• neighborhood
• community
• San Francisco
• Clean UP
• HUD
• DPW
• Ross Mirkarimi
• politics
• government
• renewal
• Western Addition
• NOPA
• Clean City

[fr8ARTruleZ]

Clean up garbage clean up all that other litter but leave graffiti alone. Don`t hate on ART.

Pce.

[fr8ARTruleZ]

Graffiti is ART. Just to let ya know.

[Dutchoven08]

Great to see people getting involved in determining their own fates and the future of their own neighborhoods..

Well done!