“I’ve got a real sense of positive commonality with members of that punk skate community,” says Jenkins. The video’s star is up-and-coming Oakland trans skater and punk rock musician, Cher Strauberry. When it came time to shoot his “Ways” video about a day in the life of a skater, it was important to him to film it around the Ferry Building, a historic hub for the skating community, and to help the local economy by hiring Bay Area crew and talent. Like Thunberg, Jenkins is thinking globally, banning single-use plastic bottles from his tour and making climate pledges to offset his band’s carbon footprint, but the longtime Mission resident is also acting locally. He spurs listeners to similarly push back against the world’s autocrats with incendiary songs like “Light It Up,” “2X Tigers” and “Take a Side.” Jenkins applauds the arrival of socially conscious teens and tweens like Parkland shooting survivors turned outspoken gun-control proponents Emma Gonzalez and David Hogg as well as international climate change activist Greta Thunberg on “The Kids Are Coming.” On the overtly political album, actions, not words, are what count. “So I’m letting out my fiercest, bravest inner screamer and asserting myself in a time of lies and oppression.”
“We are in a climate crisis and living under an autocracy now,” says Jenkins, slated to play with Third Eye Blind at Oakland’s Fox Theater on Friday (as of the press time, the concert remained scheduled). Phone Girl” - is getting even more outspoken on his band’s latest album, “Screamer.” With the world in imminent danger from novel coronavirus, climate change and mass shootings - the rock vocalist, who denounced homophobia in 1995’s single “Jumper,” corporate greed in 2011’s “If There Ever Was a Time” anthem and police brutality in 2016’s “Cop vs. Third Eye Blind frontman and longtime San Francisco resident Stephan Jenkins has never been reticent about sharing his political opinions. Note: This show has been rescheduled to July 26 at the Fox.
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