Zelda Bronstein

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I’m a Bay Area activist and writer whose work has appeared in Dissent magazine, the Berkeley Daily Planet , BeyondChron , 48 hills , the California Progress Report, Film Quarterly, Le Monde diplomatique , Open Democracy , Dollars & Sense , and The Nation . I’ve also collaborated on two short films, “Made in Berkeley” and “Fix-it Clinic.” From 1997 to 2004 I sat on the Berkeley Planning Commission, serving as commission chair in 2002-4 and helping to draft the city’s first new general plan in twenty-five years. I write about land use, manufacturing, public finance, feminism, theater, film, and the political economy of the Bay Area–varied themes bound by an abiding interest in the prospects of

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