{"id":424,"date":"2005-04-03T19:02:09","date_gmt":"2005-04-04T00:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=424"},"modified":"2005-04-03T19:21:30","modified_gmt":"2005-04-04T00:21:30","slug":"glory-of-labor-notes-of-the-cw-heroes-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/glory-of-labor-notes-of-the-cw-heroes-ceremony\/","title":{"rendered":"Glory of Labor: Notes of the CW Heroes ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pictures included at the links on this post. First I decided to walk to City Hall. It&#8217;s not far from the Drake a little over a mile all told. I left the Drake and t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/sfo05\/doorman.jpg\">he well-dressed doorman.<\/a> Then I walked past <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/sfo05\/dragon2.jpg\">Macy&#8217;s smoke-breathing dragon<\/a>.<br \/>\nA nice walk really, but the folks at the hotel said a block or two were &#8220;bad&#8221; meaning a couple of blocks of homeless folks nodding out in front of closed strip clubs. &#8220;Like New York&#8221; the guy at the hotel told me. I was reminded by myself that I had spent part of <a href=\"http:\/\/greenespace.blogspot.com\/2005\/04\/outdoors.html\">Friday night listening to Chris Moran and Sally and several folks from Campus Y and Intervarsity talk about homelessness in the Pit back in Chapel Hill. <\/a>Easy to make the decision to walk after that.<br \/>\nThere was a wonderful green market going on at the UN Plaza on the way to City Hall. It was almost entirely Asian run and Asian patronized.<br \/>\nThere was a little park nearby <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/sfo05\/noadults.jpg\">with an interesting restriction to access<\/a>.<br \/>\nThe park in front of City Hall was filling up for a festival (more of which later). The festival appeared to be almost all Latino based on the food and music and t-shirts.<br \/>\nI had some time to kill since the walk was much shorter than advertized so I went to the Asian Art Museum. Great ancient art of which no pictures may be taken, but some interesting contemporary Asian art too, including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/sfo05\/reddino.jpg\">this Chinese dino outside the entrance (echoing Macy&#8217;s).<\/a><br \/>\nThe City Hall is magnificent. The Awards ceremony took place in the rotunda. The crowd of awardees were as different from the crowd at, say, the O&#8217;Reilly Emerging Tech Conference, as Computerworld is from Wired. That is to say that hair there, to mention one thing was business friendly as was the dress. It was a serious occassion and folks were awarded for project with names like &#8220;Centralization and Optimization of Performance Metrics, Data Sources, and Analysis Activities&#8221; and &#8220;Bridging the Communications Gap Between Business and IT&#8221; or the least modest title &#8220;University of Pittsburgh Maximizes Its Information.&#8221; That is to say that this is working IT in the old sense and that the awards with all their formality are really about recognizing labor and creativity in labor. I&#8217;m not sure the folks at the awards would recognize the occassion as such, but folks were awarded for things that improved their businesses sometimes for making new products. &#8220;Innovative integration of multi-party applications to provide services to security and wellness industry&#8221; read one. U of Pittsburgh immodestly nominated no less than 7 projects by far the most of any organization.<br \/>\nDan Morrow begin the ceremony and Don Tennant, editor-in-chief of Computerworld, gave a talk in which he described his father&#8217;s battle with ALS touchingly and then begin quoting at length from &#8216;Abdull-Baha, son of the founder of Bahi World Faith. Great quotes about work and service and faith confirming that these awards are a labor celebration.<br \/>\nWe were announced and walked forward and were duely recorded &#8212; this recording being a major part of the project, to record the labor for future research in the form of our case studies and to record the event. I will have a medal picture later along with my penguin suit. We were medaled and recorded and then <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/sfo05\/halfdone.jpg\">took our places on the impressive stone stairway.<\/a><br \/>\nThere was more photography, videography and general congratulations. Then we left to relax and then slip into less comfortable clothes for the evening.<br \/>\nOutside <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/sfo05\/limos.jpg\">several limos awaited Laureates<\/a>, but I went into the festival to walk home. There another kind of labor celebration was underway.<br \/>\nAt the far end of the park, a parade appeared with banners announcing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/sfo05\/viva.jpg\">&#8220;The Ceasar Chavez Holiday Parade.&#8221;<\/a> Dignitaries appeared <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/sfo05\/lowrider.jpg\">in quite different cars<\/a> from the limos. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/sfo05\/chevy.jpg\">With drivers wearing very different uniforms.<\/a><br \/>\nAt this event, there were <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/sfo05\/feathers.jpg\">marching Aztecs in extravagant costumes dancing<\/a> to compelling drums. Many local union and syndicates were represented. The crowd was addressed by the Police Chief Ms Fong, the Fire Chief (didn&#8217;t catch her name) and others. Here the talk about labor was very direct. The crowd was dressed in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/sfo05\/revolution.jpg\">a more relaxed and more confrontational manner<\/a>.<br \/>\nThe music at the Laureate ceremony was provided by an Air Force Band which played a patriotic program for the most part.<br \/>\nAcross the street at the Chavez celebration, a rap\/hip-hop station blasted songs at the booth of a new Spanish station which was equal to the challenge. The drums of the Aztecs were unavoidably in the mix.<br \/>\nLabor having been so widely celebrated and honored on the day of rest, I walked back to the Drake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pictures included at the links on this post. First I decided to walk to City Hall. It&#8217;s not far from the Drake a little over a mile all told. I left the Drake and the well-dressed doorman. Then I walked past Macy&#8217;s smoke-breathing dragon. 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