The Alcatraz Conversion Experience…

Pub date November 30, 2007
WriterSarah Phelan
SectionPolitics Blog

….is one helluva trippy trip, one of those moments that makes me truly thankful to be covering politics in San Francisco.

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It’s not just the bejeweled image of a converted Alcatraz by night, or the the image of a white-domed daytime Alcatraz ‘Peace Center” Island that got me tripping.

No, to get the full impact of the trippy conversion experience, scroll down the Global Peace Foundation’s website to their YouTube video clip. It’s an election prelude quite unlike anything I’ve seen before.