Meanwhile, in San Francisco...

Update, 4.12: The New York Times has a follow-up on Carter's action. And there was no problem with the video below: NoScript was blocking it in my browsers.

Majora Carter, executive director of Sustainable South Bronx and a 2005 MacArthur Genius Award winner, was one of the torchbearers in yesterday's roundabout torch relay.

But when she took out a Tibetan flag tucked in her sleeve (similar to a move by another torchbearer in London, I read), the People's Armed Police flame attendants and the SFPD just about literally threw her out.

Which was unfortunate (and heavy-handed)... but I don't know that I would've learned more about Carter's work of late otherwise. I first heard of and posted about Majora Carter three years ago, in regard to an article she wrote about recent environmental initiatives in Chicago.

Majora Carter's "Greening the ghetto"
presentation at the TED conference in 2006: