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DOCUMENTARY. From Teidi Productions YouTube on December 10th, 2024, video with transcript (125 minutes). Follow the California Coastal Commission.
“Dr. Todd Holmes, an oral historian with the Bankroft Library’s Oral History Center at UC Berkeley, has just completed a documentary on the campaign to pass Proposition 20, the ballot initiative that created the Coastal Commission in 1972. He’s been collecting oral histories of some of California’s greatest environmental leaders for much of his career, and in 2022, agreed to take on a project to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Prop 20. Between interviews, historic video footage, and archived documents, he’s put together a feature-length film that captures the campaign’s spirit and the moment’s zeitgeist. We are thrilled to preview the project at the December hearing and will provide information to the Commission and the public about how they can view the full documentary.”
~ From the California Coastal Commission meeting on Wednesay, December 11th, 2024; The CCC Executive Director’s Report (Kate Hucklebridge).
From Teidi Production’s YouTube. The 1970s is often referred to as the environmental decade, and perhaps no action better exemplifies the aims and achievements of this period more than California’s Proposition 20. Passed by voters in 1972, Prop. 20 established the regulatory body that became known as the California Coastal Commission – an agency widely recognized as the international flagship of coastal regulation. This documentary tells the story of that grassroots campaign through the voices of those who waged it, showing how a diverse group of underdogs took on the state’s most powerful corporations to save the California coast for the people.
A Teidi Productions film in association with The Oral History Center of UC Berkeley and the California Coastal Commission.
Credits: Todd Holmes – Creator, Producer,
Editor Heidi Holmes – Editor, Graphic Designer
Plus, California Coastal Commission history “Prop 20 Turns 50!”.
Many people’s stories have been collected about the history of Prop. 20, the early years of the California Coastal Commission, and some especially significant public access and coastal preservation successes. Members of the public interested in learning more are invited to explore the following resources:
- “Heroes of the Coast” is an extensive oral history project compiled by Earth Alert that includes video interviews (and transcripts of those interviews) with key players in the passage of Prop. 20 and the creation of the Coastal Commission. Excerpts from different interviews were also compiled into a 52-minute documentary.
- The Oral History Center at UC Berkeley’s Bancroft Library is releasing podcasts about different sites along California’s coastline where proposed major development projects were successfully challenged. Background interviews related to the Coastal Commission are also posted on the website.
- KRCB Radio and Coastwalk California produced a podcast series (also with transcripts) featuring three high-profile success stories of the Coastal Commission and the Coastal Act: a right-of-way owned by Southern Pacific Railroad became the Monterey Bay Coastal Recreation Trail; the Jonathan Club in Santa Monica was forced to end racial and gender discrimination within its membership; and affordable historic cottages at Crystal Cove State Park were saved instead of becoming a luxury resort.
- With funding from the WHALE TAIL® Grant Program, Rigler Creative produced a series of five short videos about the California coast, including one on the first 40 Years of the California Coastal Act, and an Emmy Award-winning PBS special about coastal access in California, titled The California Coast: Within Sight, Sound, and Smell of the Ocean.
ARTICLE.
From SF Gate. How the S.F. Bay was Saved / Development Threatened to Fill It In; By Harold Gilliam, April 22, 2007
Their success was not limited to its effect on the bay. In retrospect, the save-the-bay campaign, beginning in 1961, marked the origin of the environmental movement. Although it had roots in the conservation movement, which had also started here when John Muir founded the Sierra Club in 1892, conservationists were focused on wild lands and national parks.
The first person I heard use the word environment, in the sense we now know it, was Kerr. John W. Gardner, a former Cabinet officer and later founder of the reform group Common Cause, had made a speech in UC Berkeley’s Wheeler Hall on the problems confronting the nation. Kerr, who had known him socially through her husband, the UC president, charged up to him afterward and said: “Why didn’t you talk about the environment?” He was obviously taken by surprise and could only mumble.
That new usage came to be part of the American vocabulary and a symbol of radical new cultural values. The save-the-bay effort was the first major revolt against the dominant postwar mind-set of unrestricted development, the mandate of “progress,” the tyranny of bulldozers. It demonstrated the power of grassroots action in a democracy and provided a model for emulation elsewhere.
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Author: Coastside Buzz
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