It was so hot at the Farmers Market, where this rally was taking place, that I got a message on my iPhone showing a thermometer and saying that I needed to cool off my iPhone before it could be used again.  Fortunately, Gloria Sanchez, a very thoughtful activist I know from OWL (Older Women's League) had given out frozen water sticks, so I pressed mine against my camera and got it working again!

A camera man/reporter from Channel 5 (KPIX?) was there, and when he asked to interview someone a woman volunteered.  "Why are you against this move if it's just a block away?" he asked.  Maybe she didn't understand English, or maybe she didn't understand the issue, but she replied, "I love this market, and they're closing it down."

Just as I was whispering to Barry Hermanson (a Green Peace activist I last saw this month at the rally against giving Waymo and Cruise driverless cars free reign before the vote by the California Public Utilities Commission) that she shouldn't say they're closing it because that gives less credence to the cause, the guy leading the rally, David Elliot Lewis said, "Let's be clear.  They're not closing it down." Then he went on to say what they were doing that threatened the Farmers Market.  

Among the speakers were David Lewis Elliot, a farmer who showed us a news clipping pertaining to her husband, also a far long ago, Jan H...a founder of the Farmers Marke (back in Mayor Feinstein's time), Steve Pulliem, the Executive Director of the Farmers Market, Supervisor Aaron Peskin, Supervisor Dean Preston, and a woman named ?  I hope this will be reported in the Channel 5 news because I'd like more names! The woman dressed as a grape was particularly articulate.  A woman wearing a Parks and Recreation scarf (on this hot, hot day!) said the equivalent of "Screw them" in reference to Parks and Recreations, whose purview the Farmers Market is not.  Willie Brown was coming out of City Hall during the rally.  I also saw a masked woman I think may have been Izekiel Romano, Betty Traynor, and Carol Jean Wisnieski.  More later...