Robert Gumpert
ragumpert.bsky.social
Robert Gumpert
@ragumpert.bsky.social
Documentary audio and photography. robertgumpert.com. Author of "Division Street" photos of living unhoused on the streets of San Francisco with words and stories. Published by Dewi Lewis. Co-Editor the Stansbury Forum (https://stansburyforum.com)
Today on Maybe This Week, Maybe Next Week, a new installment in the "From the Hiring Hall" series. robertgumpert.com

And it's been 50 years since the Edmund Fitzgerald shipwreck www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
November 11, 2025 at 4:18 PM
"Those counting on the 2026 elections to provide a course correction should think again. Trump is faced with a classic “Dictator’s Dilemma.” If he relinquished power, …"

From This Is Not a Drill: Bravery As Strategy in the Face of American Tragedy By: Ben Manski

Today at stansburyforum.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Labor: A panel discussion building collective power with experienced labor organizers. Wednesday November 19th 6-7:30. Great discussion and food provided. Check it out.

SODA Center - Saint Mary's College of California - De La Salle Dr, Moraga, CA
November 8, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Now up on Maybe This Week, Maybe Next

Read what Jacob Gross has to say about sailing, carry a gun, oil delivery contracts, and sailor stories robertgumpert.com
November 4, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Today Steve Early and Suzanne Gordon discuss 5 working-class vets running as Democrat “paycheck populists” for the US Senate in 5 red and purple states

Today on the Stansbury Forum - stansburyforum.com
November 1, 2025 at 6:21 PM
This morning, the day after Halloween, bar and friend hang out on the stoop. robertgumpert.com
November 1, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Neil Caldwell, 33. Chief Mate.
“[I’ve been] sailing since 2014, so 11, going on 12 years, professionally”
10 October 2025 - MM&P hiring hall - Oakland, California
Read what he has to say about the sea and ….
At Maybe This Week, Maybe Next Week
robertgumpert.com
October 27, 2025 at 2:25 PM
RAMBLING THOUGHTS ON COURAGE

Mike Miller has been thinking of his time in the Mississippi Delta, 1963, and the time we live in now.

He has been reflecting on courage, what it is, when it is.

Read what Mike Miller has to say about that on today’s Stansbury Forum stansburyforum.com
October 26, 2025 at 3:48 PM
So True
October 23, 2025 at 6:04 PM
22 October 2025: A couple of images and links to interesting stuff - at least to me - on Maybe This Week, Maybe Next Week. robertgumpert.com
October 22, 2025 at 9:04 PM
October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
On the Stansbury Forum today Warren Mar honors his friend and fellow activist Kent Wong, the long time labor leader, and educator who died earlier this month. stansburyforum.com
October 16, 2025 at 3:49 PM
New "From the MMP Hiring Hall", plus shipping news and a few reads on Maybe This Week, Maybe Next Week at robertgumpert.com
October 15, 2025 at 11:36 PM
New "From the MMP Hiring Hall", plus shipping news and a few reads on Maybe This Week, Maybe Next Week @robertgumpert robertgumpert.com
October 15, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Today on the Stansbury Forum, Kurt Stand says, "If past is prologue, then understanding history is key to understanding the present, charting a course for the future.”, and you need to read this book.

Checkout his review on the Stansbury Forum, today. stansburyforum.com
October 12, 2025 at 3:22 PM
"When Thatcher abandoned industry & introduced draconian anti-union legislation in the 1980s, she broke the main routes to political activism for most working-class communities. Many of the problems with Britain today can be …"

From today’s piece on “Your Party” in the UK, by Marc Davenant
October 5, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Today on Maybe this Week, Maybe Next week a couple of interesting podcasts, a piece on contact sheets and sometimes democracy does work @robertgumpert robertgumpert.com
September 28, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Today a new ‘zine on “Maybe This Week, Maybe Next Week”, photos from a wander about Paris and London, September 2025. @robertgumpert #Paris #London robertgumpert.com
September 23, 2025 at 8:01 PM
the conversation always turns to: how did all this chaos and destruction happen?  Where did the violence come from? And the desire to dominate and control others? Today on the Stansbury Forum stansburyforum.com
September 22, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Roosevelt wasn’t a fan of fawning. He said, “Patriotism means to stand by the country. It is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else.” From Len Shindel’s new piece on the Stansbury Forum stansburyforum.com/2025/09/01/l...
September 1, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Today on “Maybe This Week, Maybe Next Week
A few scenes from:

Not yet fully gentrified San Francisco
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And a new section on the site: “Say Their Name”
Remembrances of a few people from the jails and streets who have died.
robertgumpert.com/say-their-name
August 30, 2025 at 8:10 PM
Marc Davenant was kind enough to include one of my San Francisco unhoused portraits in his Outsider touring exhibit. Now up at the Cromer Artspace in North Norfolk. Wes, who died early this year in SF, would have loved the view. Check the times. cromer-artspace.uk/events/event...
August 28, 2025 at 11:35 PM
No wonder Johnny Nick and his folks could turn out four or five hundred people.

Bernie really wanted to listen to folks, so it was town hall.

From "Between the Rivers: A Bernie Sanders Mountain State Tour" By Stewart Acuff, photo: Andrew Spellman/The Spirit of Jefferson stansburyforum.com
August 28, 2025 at 3:05 PM
August 21, 2025 at 10:32 AM
At one minute to midnight on the 5th of July 2025, Jensina Hardy was pronounced dead in her room at an SRO hotel inSF’s Tenderloin District. She was 47.

Her daughter had not seen her for 15 years - The oldest has some thoughts.

Read her post on “Maybe This Week, Maybe Next Week” robertgumpert.com
August 19, 2025 at 6:43 PM