May 2013
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| 05/04/2013 | Theater of the Oppressed Workshop
Saturday, May 4th, 10am-5pm. Niebyl-Proctor Library, 6501 Telegraph Ave., Oakland, CA 94609 Facilitated by Kairos Theater Ensemble Theater is a weapon, and it is the people who should wield it. -Augusto Boal Developed by Augusto Boal from the work of Paulo Freire, Theater of the Oppressed (TO) is a form of popular education that uses art and theater as a vehicle for personal and political transformation. Theater of the Oppressed is dialectics on its feet : a way of using embodied critical thinking and creative collective action to analyze power dynamics, transform oppression, and find community-building solutions to problems of inequality, conflict and injustice. Born out of a revolutionary context in Brazil, and refined for half a century by activists, educators, and artists worldwide, Theater of the Oppressed comprises a large set of tools for dialogue, consciousness-raising, analysis, problem-solving, empowerment, solidarity, and messaging. This is an introductory workshop for anyone wishing to learn more about Theater of the Oppressed, especially students, activists, educators, social workers, scholars, and individuals who are searching for tools to take their passion and energy for justice into more effective, radical, and creative ways to transform our world and our relations with each other. No prior theater experience necessary. Please dress to move. Info & Registration: 510-595-7417 Theater of the Oppressed is a way of building the future, rather than waiting for it. |
| 05/07/2013 | Screening of: Caesar's Messiah: The Roman Conspiracy to Invent Jesus
Tuesday, May 7, 7:00 PM Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists Hall 1924 Cedar (@Bonita), Berkeley www.bfuu.org Through interviews with seven controversial Bible scholars, Caesar's Messiah suggests that Christianity was invented by the Romans as a political tool to control the masses of the day. Dissecting the history and literature of this time, the scholars note that the history officially provided by the Church does not hold up to rigorous scrutiny. Much like the ancient era from which Christianity emerged, we are currently on the brink of an immense paradigm shift. Studying this history can help us understand modern-day politics, and give us the much-needed perspective for coming up with solutions to today's problems, in order to create a better world. Post-film discussion with filmmaker Fritz Heede. Website: http://www.caesarsmessiah.com Contact for more info on film: 805-963-6090 Suggested donation $5-$10. No one turned away. Wheelchair accessible. For occasional email notices of peace/eco/social justice alerts and related events at BFUU, send any email to: bfuusjev-subscribe@lists.riseup.net For weekly notices of BFUU services etc. go to: www.bfuu.org/signup.html |
| 05/09/2013 | "Protecting Children in Times of Crisis"
Susan Bissell, Chief of Child Protection, UNICEF Children in disasters and humanitarian crisesfrom the earthquake in Haiti to the civil war in Syriaare easy targets for child trafficking, recruitment by armed forces and child labor. Working across 170 countries, Bissell will discuss how UNICEF seeks to prevent harm and respond to children affected by conflict and disasters. |
| 05/10/2013 | KPFA Radio 94.1 FM presents
JEREMY SCAHILL Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield Hosted by Sabrina Jacobs Friday, May 10, 7:30 pm First Congregational Church of Oakland 2501 Harrison Street at 27th St., Oakland $12 advance tickets: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/360924 :: 800-838-3006 or independent bookstores ($15 door) Information: www.kpfa.org/events Benefits KPFA wheelchair access In Dirty Wars, Jeremy Scahill takes us inside Americas new covert wars. The foot soldiers in these battles operate daily across the globe and inside the United States with orders from the White House to do whatever is necessary to hunt down, capture, or kill individuals designated by the president as enemies of America. Drawn from the ranks of the Navy SEALs, Delta Force, former Blackwater and other private security contractors, the CIAs Special Activities Division, and the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), these elite soldiers operate across the globe, with thousands of secret commandos working in more than one hundred countries. Funded through black budgets, Special Operations Forces conduct missions in denied areas, engage in targeted assassinations, snatch and grab individuals, and direct drone, AC-130, and cruise missile strikes. While the Bush administration deployed these ghost militias, Scahill explains how President Barack Obama has expanded their operations and given them new scope and legitimacy. Dirty Wars follows the consequences of the declaration that the world is a battlefield as Scahill uncovers the most important foreign policy story of our time. He goes beneath the surface of Americas covert wars, conducted in the shadows, outside the range of the press, without effective Congressional oversight or public awareness. Jeremy Scahill is National Security Correspondent for The Nation magazine and author of the international bestseller Blackwater: The Rise of the Worlds Most Powerful Mercenary Army. |
| 05/10/2013 | Program: A Little Taste of Ecuador When: Friday, May 10, 2013, 6pm to 10pm Where: Niebly Proctor Library, 6501 Telegraph Ave., Oakland Contact: Jonathan Nack, 510-465-9915, jnack@igc.org On line calendar link: http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/04/23/18735713.php A sampling of the stunning natural beauty, music, culture, food, as well as a taste of revolutionary politics in Ecuador. The evening will include a multimedia presentation featuring Ecuadoran music and photos and videos taken during a recent visit by Jonathan Nack and Hannah Karpilow; tasting some typical Ecuadoran recipes; a bit of travel log; a political report on the social and economic changes under the government of President Rafael Correa and on the political process Correa calls the Citizen's Revolution; and more, including ample time for audience participation and discussion. Roger Burbach, noted author, and Director of the Center for the Study of the Americas, will be the guest speaker. He has written extensively on Latin America and U.S. foreign policy for over four decades and is a co-author of the newly released book, Latin America's Turbulent Transitions: The Future of Twenty-First Century Socialism. (2013, Fernwood Publishing/Zed Books, 2013) He will comment on political developments in Ecuador under Rafael Correa, and how Ecuador fits into the emerging picture of leftist led governments, and socialist oriented social movements that has been sweeping Latin America. He will also talk on the impact of the passing of President Hugo Chavez. Roger will be available to sign books. For more information on the book, see: www.futuresocialism.org Free admission - food and refreshments will be limited first come, first served. This event is wheelchair accessible. |
| 05/16/2013 | Screening of: 41st & Central: The Untold Story of the L.A. Black Panthers
Thursday, May 16, 7:00 PM Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists Hall 1924 Cedar (@Bonita), Berkeley www.bfuu.org The film 41st & Central details the attempt of J. Edgar Hoover and the Los Angeles Police Department to eradicate the Black Panther Party. Discussion afterwards with Elder Freeman. Sponsored by the BFUU Social Justice Ctee as part of our Conscientious Projector Series for the 99% Suggested donation $5-$10. No one turned away. Wheelchair accessible. Ph:510-275-4272 For occasional email notices of peace/eco/social justice alerts and related events at BFUU, send any email to: bfuusjev-subscribe@lists.riseup.net For weekly notices of BFUU services etc. go to: www.bfuu.org/signup.html |
| 05/18/2013 | 8th Biennial San Francisco Sex Worker Film and Arts Festival
Dates: May 18th-26th 2013 Location: Multiple venues: Roxie Cinema; Center for Sex & Culture; CAL PEP, St. James Infirmary; Faithful Fools Website: http://www.sexworkerfest.com Telephone: 415-857-5425 http://www.sexworkerfest.com/swfest2013/schedule2013.html Contacts: Co-Producers- Carol Leigh AKA Scarlot Harlot and Erica Fabulous email: swfest@bayswan.org, sexworkerfest@gmail.com Schedule: http://www.sexworkerfest.com/swfest2013/schedule2013.html Tickets: http://www.sexworkerfest.com/swfest2013/tickets.html Cost: Festival Passes $75-$150, Individual Events $5-$50, NTALF Join us for a week of sex worker art, parties and politics including four day workshop series, Privilege, Oppression and InterseXionality, Mariko Passions Whorrific Popcorn Theatre Bus and Cabaret. Get a whores-eye view from Amber Dawn, Emi Koyama, Brontez Purnell, Juba Kalamka, Ckiara Rose, The Incredible Edible Akynos, Tom Orr and more. Sex worker sinema at the Roxie includes Lot Lizard, Whore Logic, Stripper Damage Emi Koyama comes to the Bay Area with research on "Anti-Trafficking and The Carceral State." Since 1999 the San Francisco Sex Worker Film and Arts Festival has provided a forum for sex worker film and video makers to screen works about sex workers and sex work, businesses, industries and trades around the world. The Festival has expanded to become a vibrant venue for performances, workshops, visual arts, political organizing, skills sharing and ever expanding events. The Sex Worker Festival recognizes and honors prostitutes, dancers, porn performers and other sex workers from diverse communities, who have been dynamic and integral members of arts communities since time immemorial. |
| 05/20/2013 | KPFA Radio + Pegasus Books presents
EVE ENSLER IN THE BODY OF THE WORLD A Memoir Hosted by Erica Bridgeman Monday, May 20, 7:30 pm First Congregational Church 2501 Harrison @ 27th Street, Oakland tickets: $35 advance (Includes signed book), $38 door: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/364746 :: 800-838-3006 or Pegasus Books (3 locations: 1855 Solano/Berkeley, 2349 Shattuck/ Berkeley, 5560 College Ave/Oakland), or other independent bookstores Info:www.kpfa.org/events KPFA benefit Co-sponsored by: CodePink Even though Eve Ensler has devoted her life to the female bodyhow to talk about it, how to protect and value itshe has spent much of her life disassociated from her own body. This disconnection was brought on by her fathers sexual abuse and her mothers remoteness. Because I did not, could not inhabit my body or the Earth, she writes, I could not feel or know their pain. But Eve is shocked out of her distance. While working in the Congo, she is shattered by her encounter with the horrific rape and violence inflicted on the women there. Soon after, she is diagnosed with uterine cancer, and through months of harrowing treatment she is forced to become first and foremost a body pricked, punctured, cut, scanned. It is then that all the distance is erased. As she connects her own illness to the devastation of the Earth, her life force to the resilience of humanity, she is finally, fully and gratefully joined to the body of the world. Unflinching, generous, sometimes humorous, always inspiring, IN THE BODY OF THE WORLD is a transformative work that calls on us all to embody our connection to and responsibility for the world. Internationally renowned playwright, activist and author (The Vagina Monologues and I Am an Emotional Creature, among other works) Ensler is the founder of V-Day, the global movement to end violence against women and girls, which has raised over $90 million for local groups and activists. |
| 05/20/2013 | Privilege, Oppression and InterseXionality: A workshop for sex workers and allies
Date: May 20th-May 23rd, Monday-Thursday (4 days) Times and Dates: Monday, May 20th 5-9 PM (Dinner included)-Hospitality House, 290 Turk Street, SF Tuesday, May 21st, 12-4 PM; Wednesday, May 22nd 12-4PM (snacks provided) CAL-PEP- 2811 Adeline st. Oakland Ca. 94608 Thursday, May 23rd Noon -4 PM (Snacks provided) Center for Sex & Culture 1349 Mission, SF 94103 Cost: No charge, donations accepted Location: (see above) Please call 415-857-5425 to register. http://www.sexworkerfest.com/swfest2013/interseXionality.htm In 2013 the Festival launches a four day series of workshops, "Privilege, Oppression, and InterseXionality," for sex workers and allies in conjunction with Rhizome Consulting Project, a collaboration of social justice consultants working with grassroots and movement building organizations in the Bay Area. Current and former sex workers as well as individuals who engage in sex trade and their allies and families will be coming together to join this much needed and greatly missing lens on working towards the safety, health, and dignity of all people involved in sex work. Rhizome "is committed to transformational processes and social justice movement building to uproot the systems of oppression that perpetuate state and interpersonal violence and generational poverty. We work to instead replace them with liberatory and beautiful structures and practices." "Poor people, young people, immigrants, people of color and others in our communities are under attack with increasingly oppressive laws and policies being enacted and enforced to further criminalize acts of survival," explains Lisa Marie Alatorre of Rhizome. "As a larger movement and community of sex workers, we want to challenge those systems of oppression collectively. Rather than allow them to fracture our work, we aim to heal and build together." Registration: Although we will have some onsite registration, we ask you to register by emailing sexworkerfest@gmail.com or calling call 415-857-5425 to register. |
| 05/21/2013 | KPFA Radio 94.1 FM presents
An Evening with EDUARDO GALEANO Children of the Days: A Calendar of Human History Hosted by Miguel Guerrero Tuesday, May 21, 7:30 pm First Congregational Church of Oakland 2501 Harrison Street at 27th St., Oakland $15 advance tickets: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/371186 :: 800-838-3006 or independent bookstores ($18 door) Information: www.kpfa.org/events Benefits KPFA wheelchair access Co-Sponsored by: Global Exchange, KPOO Pájaro Latinoamericano, La Peña Cultural Center, Mission Cultural Center, Radio Bilingüe Eduardo Galeano is the world-renowned Uruguayan author of the Memory of Fire Trilogy, The Book of Embraces, and many other masterworks. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez gave his Open Veins of Latin America to President Obama when they first met, sending the book overnight to #2 on Amazon's bestseller list. One of Latin Americas most distinguished writers, journalists and historians, Eduardo Galeano is the author of the Memory of Fire Trilogy, Open Veins of Latin America, Days and Nights of Love and War, Walking Words, Soccer in Sun and Shadow, The Book of Embraces, Mirrors, and many other works. He was the recipient of the first Lannan Prize for Cultural Freedom, the Casa de las Americas Prize, and the First Distinguished Citizen of the region by the countries of Mercosur. His admirers include Isabel Allende, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Subcomandante Marcos, Howard Zinn, Naomi Klein, and of course Hugo Chavez. Galeanos new work unfurls like a medieval book of days. Each page has an illuminating story that takes inspiration from that day of the calendar year. Each entry resurrects the heroes and heroines who have fallen off the historical map. Beautifully translated by Galeanos longtime collaborator, Mark Fried, Children of the Days is a great humanist treasure that shows us how to live and how to remember. |
| 05/22/2013 | "Anti-Trafficking and The Carceral State" Emi Koyama LIVE! Videos and Discussion
Time: 7:30 PM Location: Faithful Fools, 234 Hyde Street, San Francisco 94102 Cost: $5-$20, sliding scale, NTALF Tickets: http://www.sexworkerfest.com/swfest2013/tickets.html Event Website: http://www.sexworkerfest.com/swfest2013/thecarceralstate.htm Organization Website: http://www.sexworkerfest.com/ Contact: Carol Leigh swfest@bayswan.org Tel: 415-857-5425 The SF Sex Worker Festival is proud to welcome activist and artist Emi Koyama, focusing on dynamics of the carceral state. Koyama introduces her recent zine, "State Violence, Sex Trade, and the Failure of Anti-Trafficking Policies," developed from her extensive research about anti-trafficking frameworks, organizing and policies. Koyama's recent work focuses on "a call for a special emphasis on the context of pervasive surveillance and criminalization of communities of color, immigrants, street youth, as well as people in the sex trade...calling for a new multiracial coalition against state violence and criminalization, instead of narrowly focusing on sex workers' rights or on sex trafficking." Her 2011 zine, "War on Terror & War on Trafficking: A Sex Worker Activist Confronts the Anti-Trafficking Movement" was a product of her extensive research into the anti-trafficking movement, as she exposed "false premises of the U.S. domestic anti-sex trafficking movement, and challenged how the movement is increasingly aligning itself with the fundamentalist Christian right and contributing to the militarization of our society." The evening also includes a selection of video clips from "Collateral Damage: Sex Workers and the Anti-Trafficking Campaigns," "Normal- Real Stories from The Sex Industry," " Last Rescue in Siam" by Empower and other work. |
| 05/24/2013 | Institute of Sex Workology-All Day WorKshops at CSC
Time: 11-12:30 (sex workers only); 12:45-5 (everyone welcome) Location: Center for Sex & Culture, 1349 Mission St., San Francisco 94103 Contact and Info Tel: 415-857-5425 Cost: $10-$25, NTALF http://www.sexworkerfest.com/swfest2013/tickets.html Event website http://www.sexworkerfest.com/swfest2013/WorkshopsatCSC.htm Festival website:http://www.sexworkerfest.com/ The Institute of Sex Workology offers a day of classes for sex workers and our friends. Brush up on your sex work survival skills with a workshop in Memoir writing with Amber Dawn. Learn how to empower AND market yourself from Alice in Bondage Land. Understand yourself and your sex worker friends better by studying "Whore Logic" with The Incredible Edible Akynos and bring your woes down to the Mission SRO Collaborative's workshop on Housing Justice and Sex Worker Rights. 11:00 am: "Tough Language and Tender Wisdoms" Memoir Writing Workshop for Sex Workers by Amber Dawn (sex workers only) 12:45 PM: Empowerment & Marketing w/ Media by Alice in Bondage Land 2:00 PM Whore Logic: Stripping, Burlesque & Sex Work Politics by The Incredible Edible Akynos Don't miss this workshop which includes a live performance! 3:00 PM Housing Justice Framework and Sex Worker Rights Mission SRO Collaborative (Find out about your rights as tenants and your work! Bring your questions.) |
| 05/30/2013 | Californians Against Fracking Rally
When & Where: May 30, 2013 at 12:00pm Governor Jerry Brown's Office: State of California Bldg, 455 Golden Gate Avenue, San Francisco, CA Details: If you live in California, you can help make history with the Center when we join in launching Californians Against Fracking, a statewide coalition working to ban fracking in California. Fracking poses a direct and immediate threat to California's drinking water, air, food, health, wildlife, climate and economy. While the state prides itself on being a leader in the fight against climate change, oil companies are gearing up to frack the estimated 15 billion barrels of oil in the Monterey Shale. This area is home to some of the state's most productive farmland, critical water sources, important wildlife habitat and communities from the Salinas Valley to the Los Angeles Basin. In both Los Angeles and San Francisco, more than 60 labor groups, farmers, public health professionals, environmental and environmental justice organizations and local residents will come together to call for a ban in California on the dirty and dangerous practice of fracking. Join hundreds of Californians as we take our message directly to Governor Brown and deliver tens of thousands of signatures on petitions to ban fracking at rallies in front of the his offices in Los Angeles and San Francisco. For more info, please visit https://www.facebook.com/events/114059105431184/?ref=22. |
June 2013
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| 06/01/2013 | ROBERT BISSELL - One Man Show
June 1st, 2013 Saturday - 4pm to 7pm New Originals, Fine Art Editions & Sculptures Immerse yourself in the beauty of Robert Bissells Dream World (www.robertbissell.com) Roberts work is highly collected Internationally and we are thrilled to have him back to the gallery for our clients. You will love the originals that will be unveiled at the show, the new releases of his fine art editions and sculptures as well. Just released is his new book Hero, the paintings of robert bissell which he will be signing. Robert is available to tell you his inspiration on your favorite painting. He is available for special dedications as well. Catered by Award-winning chef Jose Luis Ugalde and wines from around the world. We cant wait to see you June 1st, 2013 Saturday - 4pm to 7pm! RSVP to dborsini@borsini-burr.com or call Dianne at 650 302 2049. Borsini-Burr Gallery 1401 Main Street Montara, CA (7 miles North of Half Moon Bay and 20 Miles South of San Francisco) 650.302.2049 www.borsini-burr.com Contact Dianne Borsini-Burr Direct Line 650 302 2049 |
| 06/04/2013 | DR. TEMPLE GRANDIN
- Professor of Animal Science at Colorado State University - Co-Author of The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum The number of children and people diagnosed with autism has skyrocketed over the past 10 years with a recent CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) report estimating that 1 out of 88 American children will now be affected. Noted expert, Grandin will share her own experiences and discuss how we can better understand and diagnose autism. From advances in neuroimaging to cutting edge genetic research find out what unique and revolutionary treatments might soon be available. Date: Tuesday, June 4, 2013 Time: 6:30 p.m. Check-In; 7:00 p.m. Program; 8:00 p.m. Book Signing Location: Oshman Family JCC, 3921 Fabian Way, Palo Alto Price: General: $12 Members; $20 Non-Members Premium: $40 Members and Non-Members (includes copy of book and reserved seating) SPECIAL DISCOUNT CODE: (Enter the code BRAIN at check out to receive $5 off general tickets) For tickets call 1-800-847-7730 or register online at http://www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2013-06-04/temple-grandin |
| 06/14/2013 | Exploring Class for Nonprofit Employees:
Classism impacts the work we do for the communities we serve. What is the class culture in your organization and how does it impact the work you do? How do assumptions about the people you serve reflect mainstream class values? As nonprofit employees how do we build alliances for justice with those we serve? Join Class Action for a discussion about classism at CompassPoint Nonprofit Services 500 12th Street, Suite 320, Oakland, CA 94607. $30-0 sliding scale. To register, visit: www.classism.org\BayArea. Questions? Email info@classism.org.
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| 06/14/2013 | Exploring Class for Social Change Activists We are living with the most extreme wealth disparity since the great depression. Systems of privilege and inequality cause the wealth gap to grow even more extreme, and come between us when we try to get together to make change. How do our own class backgrounds affect our work for social change? How can we build stronger alliances for justice? Join Class Action for an opportunity to explore our own class journeys, their intersections with race and gender, and their implications for our activism. Saturday, June 15, 1-4pm at the Holdout 2313 San Pablo Ave, Oakland. $30-0 sliding scale. To register, visit: www.classism.org\BayArea. Questions? Email info@classism.org. |
| 06/17/2013 | Join Campaigns & Elections for the 30th annual Art of Political Campaigning training seminar to learn the ins and outs of political campaigning from the people who know it best - expert consultants in the field. The Art of Political Campaigning offer political professionals a forum to share experiences, explore business development opportunities and learn from some of the nation's most respected political consultants, public affairs and government relations experts and technology innovators. Register now at http://www.campaignconference.com/ |
December 2013
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| 12/01/2013 | What: Don't Frack Our Public Wildlands
When: Friday, Feb. 1, from 12N to 1:30 pm Where: Federal Building, 450 Golden Gate Ave, San Francisco (near Civic Center) Fracking is a dangerous drilling technique that could poison our water and air. The Bureau of Land Management is auctioning off rights to drill and frack our California wildlands. Join us to show the federal BLM that we are against fracking. The Center is organizing a creative protest to tell the federal government "Don't Frack Our Public Wildlands," and we need your support. We'll have hazmat suits with props representing fracking fluids. RSVP to Rose Braz, rbraz@biologicaldiversity.org |