[Nov 15] Strategies for Anti-Racist Organizing (Oakland)
Invitation to join Catalyst Project and the Anne Braden Program
Leadership Team and Participants for our upcoming open session:
Strategies for Anti-Racist Organizing
Sunday November 15th, 3-5 pm
Humanist Hall, 390 27th St in Oakland
(The Humanist Hall is Wheelchair accessible)
You are warmly invited to this upcoming Anne Braden Program session.
Leadership Team and Participants for our upcoming open session:
Strategies for Anti-Racist Organizing
Sunday November 15th, 3-5 pm
Humanist Hall, 390 27th St in Oakland
(The Humanist Hall is Wheelchair accessible)
You are warmly invited to this upcoming Anne Braden Program session.
We hope you can join us for a panel discussion on Strategies for Anti-Racist Organizing with Linda Burnham longtime leader for racial, gender, and economic justice, Dawn Phillips of Just Cause Oakland, Alicia Garza of People Organized to Win Employment Rights (POWER),
Carla Wallace of the Fairness Campaign and Kentucky Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression.
Panelist will ground current anti-racist work within a legacy of long-term social movements, share strategies for building working class power in communities of color in Oakland and San Francisco toward systemic change. Panelists will layout what those big picture strategies look like in practice. They will share lessons and strategies for anti-racist organizing with white people and ways white people can be part of efforts to build vibrant multi-racial movements
for justice.
The Anne Braden Program is a four-month intensive anti-racist organizing training for white social justice activists. The program combines workshops, mentorship, and volunteer placements at local racial and economic justice organizations, in an effort to develop white anti-racist leadership to build support for racial justice in white communities and help build powerful multiracial movements for collective liberation.
Open sessions of the Anne Braden Program provide an opportunity for participants to invite friends and family to join them in their learning process. While the Anne Braden Program is designed for white social justice activists, the open sessions welcome guests of all backgrounds. The open sessions are an opportunity for Anne Braden Program mentors, site supervisors, volunteers and allies to participate in the program. These sessions are a space for us to come together and learn as a larger community.
If you would like childcare or ASL please let us know by Tuesday November 10th.
If you plan to attend this open session, please RSVP to Chris Crass at chris@collectiveliberation.org.
Linda Burnham is the co-founder and former executive director of the Women of Color Resource Center (WCRC), a non-profit education, community action and resource center committed to developing a strong, institutional foundation for social change activism by and on behalf of women of color. She has been working on racial justice and peace issues since the 1960s and on women-of-color issues since the early 1970s. Burnham was a leader in the Third World Women’s Alliance, a national organization that was an early advocate for the rights of women of color. In 1990, together with Miriam Ching Louie, she co-founded Women of Color Resource Center. Burnham has published numerous articles on African-American women, African-American politics, and feminist theory in a wide range of periodicals and anthologies. A particular focus of her more recent writing, organizing and advocacy work has been welfare policy and the lives of low- and no-income women and their families. Burnham led delegations of women of color to the
1985 UN World Conference on Women in Nairobi, Kenya and the 1995 UN World Conference on Women in Beijing, China. In 2001 she led a delegation of 25 women of color activists and scholars to the United Nations World Conference Against Racism in Durban, South Africa. In 2004 Burnham was a leader of Count Every Vote, a human rights project that trained citizens to monitor the polls in the southern states. In 2005 Burnham was nominated as one of 1000 Peace Women for the Nobel Peace Prize. Burnham is a frequent featured speaker on college campuses and to community groups, addressing issues of women’s rights, racial justice, human rights and peace. Burnham’s writing and organizing are part of a lifelong inquiry into the dynamic, often perilous intersections of race, class and gender.
Dawn Phillips is the Organizing Director at Just Cause Oakland. Just Cause is a membership-based organization building a powerful voice for Oakland's low-income tenants and workers. Their mission is to create a just and diverse city and region by organizing Oakland residents to advocate for housing and jobs as human rights, and to mobilize for policies that produce social and economic justice in low-income communities of color.
Dawn has over 15 years of community organizing experience. Dawn began his organizing career through the Movement Activist ApprenticeshipProgram at the Center for Third World Organizing. After graduating from MAAP, Dawn spent six years serving as the Director of Community Organizing at BOSS (Building Opportunities for Self-Sufficiency), organizing homeless people in Oakland. He than spent six years serving as the Executive Director of PUEBLO (People United for a Better Oakland). Dawn has served on the boards of the National Organizer’s Alliance (NOA), Asian Communities for Reproductive Justice (ACRJ), and the East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy (EBASE).
Alicia Garza is Co-Executive Director of People Organized to Win Employment Rights (POWER). POWER is an organization that unites working class families, youth and tenants to achieve economic, racial and gender justice through organization and empowerment. POWER's mission is to eliminate poverty and oppression by developing the capacity of working class communities of color to play a powerful role in the political processes that impact their lives and the well being of their communities.
Born and raised in the Bay Area, Alicia has organized with local communities of color for racial and economic justice for the past 7 years. As Co-Executive Director, Alicia supports POWER's staff and members to build the power of working class communities of color by coordinating the growth of a sustainable, dynamic organization that is ready to meet the challenges of this new era. Alicia also serves on the Board of Directors of The School of Unity and Liberation (SOUL) in Oakland, California.
Carla F. Wallace was born in Louisville, Kentucky Carla grew up between on a farm in Oldham County, and in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Since the mid-80’s, she served on the board of the Kentucky Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression and was engaged in anti-KKK work in response to cross burnings and klan on the police force, and in the Southern Organizing Committee’s environmental justice organizing. Carla helped coordinate efforts to pass Louisville’s Hate Crimes Law, motor voter law, mobilize community against police abuse, and organize solidarity delegations to Nicaragua, Palestine, Colombia and Cuba.
In 1991 she was one of the founders of the Fairness Campaign, which has been honored locally and nationally for its work on behalf of lgbt rights and justice for all. In 1999 the campaign’s success in building an inclusive community based struggle for civil rights, passed one of the most inclusive pieces of lgbt legislation in the country, and the only gender identity inclusive law in the South.
In 2005 Carla helped establish the Audre Lorde Chair in Race, Class, Gender and Sexuality at University of Louisville. Carla is a member of the Fairness Campaign Leadership Council, the Strategic Planning Committee of the Anne Braden Institute at University of Louisville, the Carl Braden Memorial Center board, and the Kentucky Health Justice Network.
CATALYST PROJECT: a center for political education and movement building
Chris Crass, coordinator
chris@collectiveliberation.org
www.collectiveliberation.org
522 Valencia St #2
San Francisco, CA 94110
[Sep 30] Documental: "Guerreros del Arcoiris"
"Guerreros del Arcoiris"
Tatiana Rojas
Guerreros del Arcoiris (Grand Festival Award, Berkeley Video and Film Festival, 2009) es un documental sobre el proceso de refundación constituyente que ha emprendido Bolivia y las amenazas secesionistas que se levantan en nombre de las autonomías departamentales. Este documental, grabado durante el mes de diciembre de 2007 en las localidades de la Paz, el Charpe y Santa Cruz de la Sierra, muestra el proceso de cambios profundos que protagoniza el pueblo boliviano y las transformaciones que se han cristalizado en la asamblea constituyente. Por otra parte, ofrece una visión de los poderosos grupos minoritarios de oposición que reaccionan cuidando sus intereses económicos y proponiendo un proyecto separatista. Guerreros del Arcoiris pone en evidencia que en Bolivia no existen dos visiones de país, sino una mayoría que se hace sentir en su lucha revolucionaria, y una minoría que no acepta que la historia ya cambió.
Tatiana Rojas es parte del colectivo de mujeres La Tajuara Fílmica de Caracas. Ha estudiado literatura y trabajado en los medios televisivos y comunitarios por varios años.
Wedneday, September 30
1:30 - 3:00 pm
B-4 Dwinelle Hall, Berkeley Language Center
PLEASE ALSO JOIN US FOR A RECEPTION FOLLOWING THE PRESENTATION IN THE DEPARTMENT OF SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE LIBRARY. EVERYONE WELCOME!
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Escucha la entrevista de Radio Zapatista con Tatiana Rojas aquí
Tatiana Rojas
Guerreros del Arcoiris (Grand Festival Award, Berkeley Video and Film Festival, 2009) es un documental sobre el proceso de refundación constituyente que ha emprendido Bolivia y las amenazas secesionistas que se levantan en nombre de las autonomías departamentales. Este documental, grabado durante el mes de diciembre de 2007 en las localidades de la Paz, el Charpe y Santa Cruz de la Sierra, muestra el proceso de cambios profundos que protagoniza el pueblo boliviano y las transformaciones que se han cristalizado en la asamblea constituyente. Por otra parte, ofrece una visión de los poderosos grupos minoritarios de oposición que reaccionan cuidando sus intereses económicos y proponiendo un proyecto separatista. Guerreros del Arcoiris pone en evidencia que en Bolivia no existen dos visiones de país, sino una mayoría que se hace sentir en su lucha revolucionaria, y una minoría que no acepta que la historia ya cambió.
Tatiana Rojas es parte del colectivo de mujeres La Tajuara Fílmica de Caracas. Ha estudiado literatura y trabajado en los medios televisivos y comunitarios por varios años.
Wedneday, September 30
1:30 - 3:00 pm
B-4 Dwinelle Hall, Berkeley Language Center
PLEASE ALSO JOIN US FOR A RECEPTION FOLLOWING THE PRESENTATION IN THE DEPARTMENT OF SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE LIBRARY. EVERYONE WELCOME!
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Escucha la entrevista de Radio Zapatista con Tatiana Rojas aquí
Latin@ LGBTQ Pride 2009
PLEASE come all...and invite others. Hope to see you there
Amor Sin Fronteras: Comunidad Es Poder
Latin@ LGBTQ Pride 2009
Sunday, September 20th
Dolores Park, San Francisco
Hello Amor Sin Fronteras Amig@s, Allies, and Familia,
This is Will Romero with the Amor Sin Fronteras (ASF) Outreach Committee. Hope you are all well. Just want to remind you that THIS Sunday, September 20th will be the 5th Annual LGBTQ Latino Pride Event Amor Sin Fronteras: Comunidad Es Poder. It will be at Dolores Park, in San Francisco from 11AM to 5PM. We will have music, dance, entertainment, food, and mucho mas. We hope you can join us in creating a safe space that celebrates, respects, and politicizes our Latin@ LGBTQ community and also in having fun together as community.
On that note, we are also looking for Volunteers:
We need volunteers the day of the event Sunday, September 20th, We are looking for volunteers for one of two shifts 10AM to 2PM or 2PM-6PM (It is not required that you sign-up for the entire four hours of the shift, if you can do 1 to 2 hours within that shift that would be greatly appreciated). We are looking for people to help out with clean-up, set-up (minimal as vendors will be handling their booths), supervision (in the children's area), breakdown (this will be for the latter part of the program), and other programatic and logisitical matters. If you, or any folks you know, are interested in volunteering please e-mail me at will.asf@gmail.com. Please have in the subject heading VOLUNTEER and include name and contact info (phone/e-mail address). I will be in touch with you later this week.
If you have any questions or need information, please feel free to contact me at will.asf@gmail.com. See you all this Sunday September 20th at Dolores Park. Feliz Pride :) !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Besos y abrazos,
Will Romero
will.asf@gmail.com
ASF Latin@ Pride 2009
Amor Sin Fronteras: Comunidad Es Poder
Orgullo Latin@ LGBTQ 2009
Domingo, 20 de Septiembre
Parque Dolores, San Francisco
(favor de distribuir)
Hola Amig@s, Aliados, y Familia de Amor Sin Fronteras,
Yo soy Will Romero con la sub-comité de alcanze de Amor Sin Fronteras (ASF). Espero que tod@s estén bien. Sólo queremos recordarles que este domingo 20 de septiembre sera la quinta celebracion anual del orgullo Latino LGBTQ Amor Sin Fronteras: Comunidad es Poder. El evento sera en el parque Dolores, San Francisco de las 11 AM a 5 PM. Tendremos música, baile, entretenimiento, comida y mucho mas. Esperamos que Uds puedan unirse con nosotros a medida de avanzar en crear un espacio seguro que celebra, respeta y políticamente apoya nuestra comunidad Latin@ LGBTQ y también para divertirnos juntos como comunidad.
En este sentido, estamos también buscando voluntarios:
Necesitamos a voluntarios el día del evento el domingo, 20 de septiembre. Estamos buscando voluntarios para uno de dos turnos 10 AM-2 PM o 2PM-6PM ( no es necesario que usted se registre para las cuatro horas enteras del turno, si solo puede hacer 1 a 2 horas dentro de ese turno, les agradecieramos mucho). Estamos buscando gente para ayudar con limpieza, la configuración (mínimo como proveedores van ha estar controlando sus cabinas), supervisión (en la area de niños), desglose (esto será para la última parte del programa) y otros asuntos programaticos y logisiticos.Si usted, o cualquier otra persona que conosca, está interesada en ser voluntario envienme un correo electrónico a will.asf@gmail.com.Por favor, en el titulo del correo escriba VOLUNTATIRO y incluya su nombre e información de contacto (teléfono/correo electrónico dirección). Estaré en contacto con usted esta misma semana.
Si tiene alguna pregunta o necesita mas información, por favor comuníquese conmigo al will.asf@gmail.com. Los vemos todos este domingo 20 de Septiembre, 2009 en el parque Dolores. Happy Pride :)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Besos y abrazos,
Will Romero
will.asf@gmail.com
ASF Orgullo Latin@ 2009
Amor Sin Fronteras: Comunidad Es Poder
Latin@ LGBTQ Pride 2009
Sunday, September 20th
Dolores Park, San Francisco
Hello Amor Sin Fronteras Amig@s, Allies, and Familia,
This is Will Romero with the Amor Sin Fronteras (ASF) Outreach Committee. Hope you are all well. Just want to remind you that THIS Sunday, September 20th will be the 5th Annual LGBTQ Latino Pride Event Amor Sin Fronteras: Comunidad Es Poder. It will be at Dolores Park, in San Francisco from 11AM to 5PM. We will have music, dance, entertainment, food, and mucho mas. We hope you can join us in creating a safe space that celebrates, respects, and politicizes our Latin@ LGBTQ community and also in having fun together as community.
On that note, we are also looking for Volunteers:
We need volunteers the day of the event Sunday, September 20th, We are looking for volunteers for one of two shifts 10AM to 2PM or 2PM-6PM (It is not required that you sign-up for the entire four hours of the shift, if you can do 1 to 2 hours within that shift that would be greatly appreciated). We are looking for people to help out with clean-up, set-up (minimal as vendors will be handling their booths), supervision (in the children's area), breakdown (this will be for the latter part of the program), and other programatic and logisitical matters. If you, or any folks you know, are interested in volunteering please e-mail me at will.asf@gmail.com. Please have in the subject heading VOLUNTEER and include name and contact info (phone/e-mail address). I will be in touch with you later this week.
If you have any questions or need information, please feel free to contact me at will.asf@gmail.com. See you all this Sunday September 20th at Dolores Park. Feliz Pride :) !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Besos y abrazos,
Will Romero
will.asf@gmail.com
ASF Latin@ Pride 2009
Amor Sin Fronteras: Comunidad Es Poder
Orgullo Latin@ LGBTQ 2009
Domingo, 20 de Septiembre
Parque Dolores, San Francisco
(favor de distribuir)
Hola Amig@s, Aliados, y Familia de Amor Sin Fronteras,
Yo soy Will Romero con la sub-comité de alcanze de Amor Sin Fronteras (ASF). Espero que tod@s estén bien. Sólo queremos recordarles que este domingo 20 de septiembre sera la quinta celebracion anual del orgullo Latino LGBTQ Amor Sin Fronteras: Comunidad es Poder. El evento sera en el parque Dolores, San Francisco de las 11 AM a 5 PM. Tendremos música, baile, entretenimiento, comida y mucho mas. Esperamos que Uds puedan unirse con nosotros a medida de avanzar en crear un espacio seguro que celebra, respeta y políticamente apoya nuestra comunidad Latin@ LGBTQ y también para divertirnos juntos como comunidad.
En este sentido, estamos también buscando voluntarios:
Necesitamos a voluntarios el día del evento el domingo, 20 de septiembre. Estamos buscando voluntarios para uno de dos turnos 10 AM-2 PM o 2PM-6PM ( no es necesario que usted se registre para las cuatro horas enteras del turno, si solo puede hacer 1 a 2 horas dentro de ese turno, les agradecieramos mucho). Estamos buscando gente para ayudar con limpieza, la configuración (mínimo como proveedores van ha estar controlando sus cabinas), supervisión (en la area de niños), desglose (esto será para la última parte del programa) y otros asuntos programaticos y logisiticos.Si usted, o cualquier otra persona que conosca, está interesada en ser voluntario envienme un correo electrónico a will.asf@gmail.com.Por favor, en el titulo del correo escriba VOLUNTATIRO y incluya su nombre e información de contacto (teléfono/correo electrónico dirección). Estaré en contacto con usted esta misma semana.
Si tiene alguna pregunta o necesita mas información, por favor comuníquese conmigo al will.asf@gmail.com. Los vemos todos este domingo 20 de Septiembre, 2009 en el parque Dolores. Happy Pride :)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Besos y abrazos,
Will Romero
will.asf@gmail.com
ASF Orgullo Latin@ 2009
[Aug 20] Ships in the NIght: Queer Dance Party/Barcos en la noche: baile de mariposas
Barcos en la noche: Baile de mariposas
Ships in the Night: Queer Dance Party
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Fecha/Date: 08/20/09
Tiempo/Time: 10pm - 2am
Entrada/Entrance: $5
DJ’s Durt, Black, & Jean Jamz
@ SF Underground: 242 Haight Street
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Recaudación de fondos para la delegación indígena del área de la bahía a Chiapas
A fundraiser to benefit the bay area Indigenous delegation to Chiapas
[Jul 16, 29 & Aug 12]Encuentro de Organizadores Transnacionales
(click on flyer for more details/ haga clic en la imagen para mas detalles)
[Aug 10] Help Rebuild DQ-University Talking Circle
(haga clic en la imagen para mas detalles/click on image for more details)
[Aug 3] Stop Repression in Honduras Press Conference/Rally
[español abajo]
Press Conference/Rally
Contact: 415 368 8481
Monday August 3rd 2009, 4:00 p.m.
San Francisco Federal Building, 450 Golden Gate Avenue.
Civic Center BART Station
Military Coup in Honduras
Stand in Solidarity with the People of Honduras
The Latin America Solidarity Coalition (BALASC) condemns the military coup against the democratically elected Honduran President Zelaya. The Honduran social movements, who are courageously resisting the military take-over through protests, occupations and strikes, are calling on the international community to speak up in defense of real and direct democracy, for life, justice, liberty, dignity and peace.
Call the State Department and the White House and ask for actions, not merely words, including:
1. A cut off of all US aid (as required by US law) until Zelaya is safely returned to office.
2. Financial sanctions against the coup plotters
3. An investigation into what signals U.S. Ambassador to Honduras Hugo Llorens gave to coup plotters before the coup.
State Department: 202-647-4000 or 1-800-877-8339
White House: Comments: 202-456-1111
Background: A military coup took place in Honduras on Sunday, June 28, led by SOA graduate Romeo Vasquez. In the early hours of the day, members of the Honduran military surrounded the presidential palace and forced the democratically elected president, Manuel Zelaya, into custody. He was immediately flown to Costa Rica.
A national referenfum had been scheduled to take place on Sunday in Honduras to consult the electorate on a proposal of holding a Constitutional Assembly in November. General Vasquez had refused to comply with this vote and was deposed by the president, only to later be reinstated by the Congress and Supreme Court.
The Honduran state television was taken off the air. The electricity supply to the capital Tegucigalpa, as well telephone and cellphone lines were cut. Government institutions were taken over by the military. While the traditional political parties, Catholic church and military have not issued any statements, the people of Honduras are going into the streets, in spite of the fact that the streets are militarized. From Costa Rica, President Zelaya has called for a non-violent response from the people of Honduras, and for international solidarity for the Honduran democracy.
Fuera Golpistas! Alto a la represion en Honduras! Protesta Urgente!
Conferencia de prensa.
Contacto: 415 368 8481
Lunes 3 de agosto de 2009, 4:00 p.m.
Edificio Federal de San Francisco, Ave. Golden Gate 450,
esq. Larkin, BART Civic Center
Golpe de Estado en Honduras
Nuestra solidaridad con el pueblo de Honduras
La Coalicion de Solidaridad con Latinoamerica del Area de la Bahia, BALASC. Condena el Golpe de estado militar en contra del presidente Manuel Mel Zelaya, quien fue electo democraticamente. Los movimientos socials de Honduras que estan heroicamente reistiendo la imposicion military con protestas, plantones y huelgas, solicitan a la comunidad internacional a manifestarse en defensa de la democracia, la vida, la justicia, la libertad la dignidad y la paz del pueblo Hondureño. Solicitamos a las fuerzas democraticas y progresistas de los estados unidos a llamar a la Casa Blanca y exijir que cumplan las siguientes demandas, no solo palabras:
Departmento de Estado: 202-647-4000 or 1-800-877-8339
Casa Blanca: Comentarios: 202-456-1111
1. Cortar todo tipo de ayuda (como lo requieren las leyes de los Estados Unidos que debe hacerse cuando un regimen golpista es impuesto en un pais) hasta que zelaya sea reincorporado a la presidencia.
2. Sancionar financieramente a quienes planearon el golpe de estado.
3. Una investigacion acerca de cual fue el papel que jugo el embajador Hugo Llorens antes del golpe de estado en Honduras.
Antecedentes: Un golpe de estado tuvo lugar en Honduras el domingo 28 de junio, lidereado por Romeo Vasquez militares entrenado con financiamiento de los Estados Unidos en La Escuela de las Americas (SOA). A temrana hora miembros del ejercito hondureño rodearon el palacio presidencial y secuestraron al presidente Manuel Mel Zelaya, inmediatamente lo trasladaron a Costa Rica.
Un referendum nacional debia ser realizado el mismo domingo en Honduras pra consultar al electorado sobre una propuesta pendiente para lanzar una asamblea constituyente en noviembre. El general Vasquez se habia rehusado a apoyar esta votacion y fue depuesto por el presidente, solo para despues ser reinstalado por la Suprema Corte de Justicia.
El sistema de television estatal de Honduras fue sacado del aire, asimismo se corto el suministro electrico a Tegucigalpa, la capital del pais y las lineas de telefonia fueron cortados. Las instituciones gobernamentales fueron ocupadas por los militares. Mientras los partidos politicos tradicionale, la iglesia catolica y los militares no hicieron ningun pronunciamiento ublico, el pueblo Hondureño salio a las calles, aun cuando las calles estan patrulladas las 24 por militares y el presidente Zelaya ha llamado por respuestas no violentas de parte de los Hondureños y por la solidaridad y el apoyo
internacional.
[Jul 28] Sunrise Prayer Vigil & Rally for Leonard Peltier
===>AIM-West action alert...please share...please come<===
SUNRISE PRAYER VIGIL & RALLY
calling for the freedom of LEONARD PELTIER
Tuesday, 28 July 2009
6:00 am to 3:00 pm
old Federal Building
450 Golden Gate Ave (bet. Polk & Larkin), SF
On Tuesday, July 28th the US Parole Commission in Lewisburg, PA, will review the case of Leonard Peltier, held in prison for over three decades. Everyone is invited to stand together, hand-in-hand , being of one mind in peace, calling upon the U.S. Parole Commission to finally release Leonard Peltier from over three decades of unjust incarceration.
CONTACT:
Antonio Gonzales
Director, AIM-West
(415)577-1492
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SAVE-THE-DATE!
Sunday, 9 August 2009
International Indigenous People's Day
AIM=W will once again host a celebration marking this U.N. recognition of the Indigenous Peoples of the world. Stay tuned for details at http://www.aimwest.info.
We know the call
So should y'all
Free 'em all
FISTS UP!!!!!
[Jul 23] The Garden: Documentary on South Central Farm
*A film by Scott Hamilton Kennedy*
Thursday July 23rd 6:30pm-9:30pm
Pueblo Nuevo is proud to present a screening of the Academy Award nominated documentary,THE GARDEN. This powerful film traces the birth and demolition of the South Central Farm in Los Angeles, the largest urban farm in the United States. Click on the following link to view the trailer: http://www.blackvalleyfilms.com/trailer/
After the film, we will host a forum on urban farming efforts in the Bay Area with special guests from INDIGENOUS PERMACULTURE. The Indigenous Permaculture Project works for self-sustainabilty in an urban environment. They commit to food , medicine and a sustainable ecosystem for all life, through education, consistent work with the land and community and most importantly prayer. Indigenous Permaculture is currently working on community projects on the Hoopa Reservation and the Intertribal Friendship House of Oakland. For more info visit www.indigenous-permaculture.com .
Pueblo Nuevo Gallery
1828 San Pablo Ave #1
(between Hearst and Delaware)
Berkeley Ca 94702
**limited seating, get there early**
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Pueblo Nuevo tiene el gusto de presentar The Garden, un documental nominado para un Academy Award que traza el nacimiento y la demolición del South Central Farm en Los Angeles, el jardín urbano más grande que se ha visto en los Estados Unidos.
Siguiendo la película, habrá una discusión sobre algunos esfuerzos de agricultura urbana que se están llevando acabo en el Área de la Bahía de San Francisco con nuestros invitados especiales de Indigenous Permaculture. El proyecto de Indigenous Permaculture trabaja hacia la autosuficiencia alimentaria en el medio ambiente urbano. Se comprometen a fomentar la comida, medicina, y un ecosistema sustentable para todas las formas de vida a través de la educación y el trabajo consistente con la tierra y la comunidad. En la actualidad, Indigenous Permaculture está trabajando proyectos comunitarios en la reserva indígena Hoopa y el Intertribal Friendship House de Oakland. Para más información visite www.indigenous-permaculture.com
Pueblo Nuevo Gallery
1828 San Pablo Ave #1
(entre Hearst y Delaware)
Berkeley Ca 94702
**asientos limitados, llegen temprano**
[Jul 23] Benefit Show for Leonard Peltier
(click on image for more info/haga clic en la imagen para mas info)
[Jul 18] Hip-Hop/Punk Benefit Party for DF Anarchists
***PLEASE HELP FORWARD, AVOIDING FLIERS MEANS WE NEED YR HELP ;)
ARCO, Collective Action and Resistance presents:
BENEFIT PARTY for ANARCHISTS IN MEXICO
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THIS SATURDAY!!! July 18th, from 5pm-10pm
@ Station 40, 3030 B, 16th street,
(near Mission st, next to the dollar store)
(sliding scale donation, no one turned away for lack of funds, but
every $ goes a long way)
5-7pm: Home Made Vegan Dinner & Drinks!
7-8: Screening documentary videos from Anarchist Youth Collective JAR (Juventud Anarquista Revolucionaria)
*Report back on the anarchist co-op movement in Mexico and local
autonomous Cop & Migra Watch & POC Street Theater collectives and open
to anyone who has announcements concerning autonomous collectives,
co-ops, demos, etc..
8-10ish: DANCE! (or at least mingle?) Local DJs spinin' Punk and
Political Hip Hop from the South and everywhere! ^o^
This is a benefit for the Anarchist Collective in Mexico, "La Furia de las Calles" (Fury in the Streets), to build up their Cyber Cafe & Media Center, which will provide cheap internet access and an alternative form of self employment in a community that is striving for resources.
All Donations received will be sent to "La Furia de las Calles" http://espora.org/furia/
[Jul 16] Sisters, Oceania, Rise: Poetry & Music
<<<<"SISTERS, OCEANIA, RISE">>>>
Thursday, July 16th, 2009
La Peña Cultural Center
3105 Shattuck Ave, Berkeley, CA
**An evening of poetry, music, and art from Oceanic feministas of the diaspora**
*Vaimoana Niumeitou
*Loa Niumeitolu
*Fuifuilupe Niumeitolu
*Erica Benton
*Dallas Teo
*Teresa Siagatonu
*Ryan Fuimaono
*Tatiana Kaneholahi
*Penina Taesali
*Ose Hosea
*Jean Melesaine
$5 for students and $7 for general admission
For more info: www.lapena.org or 415-290-7591
PLEASE JOIN US!!!
[Jul 11] Task Force on the Americas' Open House & Film Festival
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[Jul 11] Enemy Alien (film screening)
You are cordially invited to a free film screening of
"Enemy Alien"
Saturday July 11th, at 7:30 p.m.
Buena Vista United Methodist Church
2311 Buena Vista Ave, Alameda
(510) 522-2688
a documentary-in-progress (completed running time: 56:40)
See the trailer <www.lifeorliberty.org>
A crossroad where Japanese American Internment experience meets Post 9/11 Homeland Security craze.
A Japanese American filmmaker, Konrad Aderer confronts startling echoes of his own family's World War II internment as he joins the fight to free a Homeland Security detainee, Palestinian peace activist Farouk Abdel-Muhti who was detained in a post-9/11 roundup of Muslim immigrants. This intimate, revelatory film takes on profound personal and historical implications as Farouk, his son and the filmmaker each pay a personal price for resisting wartime policies.
Director/Producer: Konrad Aderer will do Q&A after the screening.
* Snacks and refreshment will be served.
Co-sponsors:
Sansei Legacy Project, Alameda Multicultural Center, Asian American for Peace and Justice, Alameda Middle East Study Group,
For more information, please contact;
▪ Jose Arcellana, Chair of Church & Society Committee
(510) 654-3349, <arcellana@gmail.com>
▪ Kaz Takahashi, Community Developer
(510) 522- 2041, <oaksidea@sbcglobal.net>
[Jul 1, 8, 10] Visual Poetry and Performance Festival
Exhibition Dates: June 19 - July 10 2009
Performance Dates: June 24, July 1 and July 8.
MCCLA Galleries
Performance Dates: June 24, July 1 and July 8.
MCCLA Galleries
Wednesday, July 1, 7pm $5
MAIZ and NK603: Action(Z)
Performance by: Violeta Luna & Guillermo Galindo
A hybrid collaborative performance between post_Mexican musician and performer gal*in_dog aka Guillermo Galindo, and Mexican post-performance artist Violeta Luna.
In search of a hybrid 21st-century post-Mexican art form that reconciles contradictory concepts such as primal instincts, animism, and mythology with contemporary science and technology, gal*in_dog decided to create an integrated cyber totemic sonic device that works as a conduit between visual and sound that truthfully reflects his hybrid reality.
Violeta Luna's performance work NK 603: Action(Z) has been conceived as a reflection on American genetically modified corn, and its devastating consequences on native corn varieties. These hybrid, engineered seeds, contaminate not only ancient bio-processes in nature, but also ways of life and health of millions in Mexico, other Latin American countries, and around the world.
Exhibition
Visual Poetry is a form of experimental poetry in which the image and the plastic element are predominant. Visual Poetry uses any technique and support that helps it develop as non verbal poetry and constitutes a whole new discipline in the field of experimentation.
Artists: Adriana Diaz, Agneta Falk, Alberto Roblest, Alejandra Rotondi, Alfonso Jaramillo, Anne Carol, Augusto Carrasco, Camilla Newhagen, Camille Holvoet, Cecile Brillet, Charlyn Montiel-Trent, Christians Luna, Claudia Chapline, Diego Lazarte, Eve Luckring, Giovanni Singleton, Gloria Arteaga, Guillermo Valdizán Guerrero, Gustavo Reátegui Oliva, Ingrid Keir, John Patrick Mc Kenzie, Jorge Polar, José Antonio Galloso, Kreit Vargas Gómez, Laron Biekerstaff, Lucía Fernández, Luis Alvarado, Ole Scovill, Reina Prado, Renato Pita Zilbert, Sabina Nieto, Shelley Cook-Contreras, Todd Brown, Yu-Hang Huang.
Special guests: Caterina Davinio from Italy and a selection from the International Visual Poetry Festival "Un Par de Vueltas por la Realidad", curated by Giancarlo Huapaya in Lima, Perú.
Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts
2868 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94110
MCCLA is 1/2 block from the 24th Street BART Station
Muni: 14, 14L, 48, 49 & 67 and is wheelchair accessible
2868 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94110
MCCLA is 1/2 block from the 24th Street BART Station
Muni: 14, 14L, 48, 49 & 67 and is wheelchair accessible
More Info
Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts (MCCLA) was established in 1977 by artists and community activists with a shared vision to promote, preserve and develop the Latino cultural arts that reflect the living tradition and experiences of the Chicano, Mexican, Central and South American, and the Caribbean people.
[Jul 9] Desarrollando un Análisis Queer alrededor de los Derechos Migratorios en el Area de la Bahía
-- sigue en español --
Queer Community Conversation around Migrant Rights Work in the Bay Area: Join queers, immigrants, and queer-immigrants for a Community Conversation Hosted by HAVOQ (formerly known as the Queer Youth Organizing Project)
Thursday, July 9th
7-9pm
at el Centro del Pueblo
(474 Valencia St @ 16th)
Brief panel followed by group conversation with: Heba Nimr • Cecilia Chung (TGLC) • Monica Enriquez-Enriquez • Carolina Morales (CUAV) • Ming Wong (BorderOUT) • and Maria Poblet (St. Peter's Housing Committee).
How can we think about borders as part of larger cycles of violence? How do we create safety and accountability within our own communities outside of the traditional “justice” and prison systems?
How can a queer concept of families be used as a strategy for organizing outside of traditional coalition politics?
How do we build solidarity while addressing the racism & homophobia within our communities and our organizing work?
How is our worth to the communities we live in broader than our economic contributions (as “good workers”) or our place in nuclear families? How can we talk about ourselves without reinforcing heteronormative or racist ideas about our relationship to family, work, capitalism, and the state?
What does it mean to live in San Francisco, a “Sanctuary City”? How does the criminalization of mutual aid – such as harboring provisions that punish those who assist undocumented immigrants – affect queers and queer family structures?
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Desarrollando un Análisis Queer alrededor de los Derechos Migratorios en el Area de la Bahía: Una a la communidad LGBTQ y Inmigrante para una Conversación Comunitaria Acogida por HAVOQ (anteriormente conocido como el Proyecto Juventud Queer Organizando)
Jueves 9 de Julio
7-9pm
en El Centro del Pueblo
(474 Valencia St. @ 16th)
con Heba Nimr • Cecilia Chung (TGLC) • Monica Enriquez-Enriquez • Carolina Morales (CUAV) • Ming Wong (BorderOUT) • and Maria Poblet (St. Peter's Housing Committee).
¿Cómo puede ser utilizado un concepto de familias LGBTQ, como una estrategia para organizar fuera de la política tradicional de coaliciónes?
¿Cómo construimos nosotros la solidaridad al dirigir atención el racismo & homofobia dentro de nuestras comunidades y nuestro trabajo en organizando?
¿Cómo va nuestro valor en las comunidades en que vivimos, más alla que nuestras contribuciones económicas (como "trabajadores buenos") o nuestro lugar en familias nucleares? ¿Cómo podemos hablar de nosotros mismos sin reforzar ideas heteronormativas o racistas, acerca de nuestra relación a la familia, al trabajo, al capitalismo, y al estado?
¿Cómo podemos pensar de las fronteras como parte de ciclos más grande de violencia? ¿Cómo creamos nosotros seguridad y responsabilidad dentro de nuestras propias comunidades fuera de los sistemas de "justicia" y penitenciarios tradicionales?
¿Qué significa vivir en San Francisco, una "Ciudad de Santuario"? ¿Cómo afecta la criminalización de ayuda mutua – como abrigar provisiones que castigan a los que ayudan a inmigrantes indocumentados – a estructuras queer y de familias LGBTQ?
[Jul 7] AIM to hold SF Community Forum on Current Status of Peru and Indigenous Peoples
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AIM to hold SF Community Forum on Current Status of Peru and Indigenous Peoples
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
5 to 9 pm (Forum begins at 6 pm)
Veteran’s War Memorial Building, Rm 207
401 Van Ness Street (@ McAlister)
The Public Forum will be moderated by Professor Dr. Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz, special guests and invited support group representatives of Mexico's EZLN, Nicaragua's FSLN, El Salvador's FMLN, and with American Indian Movement and a statement on the status of Honduras.
(community potluck from 5 - 6pm; bring dish or beverages ro share, please no alcohol or deugs)
for more info: http://www.aimwest.info or call Tony, (415)577-1492
[Jul 3] Vigil para Honduras
Friends,
Please join the VIGIL FOR HONDURAS Today (Wed., July 1), 6:00 pm at 24th
and Mission in the heart of San Francisco's Mission District.
Get off at BART 24th St. Station and you're there!
STOP THE MILITARY COUP IN HONDURAS!!!!
DEFEND THE DEMOCRATICALLY ELECTED PRESIDENT MANUEL ZELAYA!!!!
DEMAND THAT THAT OBAMA NOT RECOGNIZE THE COUP PLOTTERS!!!!
SUPPORT THE PEOPLE OF HONDURAS!!!!
NO TO US INTERVENTION IN LATIN AMERICA!!!!
[May 21] Shutdown Prison Control Units - Event and Movie
Bay Area STOPMAX presents:
"UNLOCK THE BOX"
Event and Movie Documenting the Struggle to Shutdown Prison Control Units
Thursday, May 21st, 2009 | $5
Mission Cultural Center for the Latino Arts
2868 Mission Street
San Francisco CA 94110
6pm food, performance and Speakers; 7pm movie screening
Contact: bayarea.stopmax@gmail.com
For more information Download PDF flyer
MABEL NEGRETE : Community and Projects
www.mabelnegrete.com
www.thecounternarrativesociety.org
"UNLOCK THE BOX"
Event and Movie Documenting the Struggle to Shutdown Prison Control Units
Thursday, May 21st, 2009 | $5
Mission Cultural Center for the Latino Arts
2868 Mission Street
San Francisco CA 94110
6pm food, performance and Speakers; 7pm movie screening
Contact: bayarea.stopmax@gmail.com
For more information Download PDF flyer
MABEL NEGRETE : Community and Projects
www.mabelnegrete.com
www.thecounternarrativesociety.org
[May 19] Radical Graphics Workshop: Intro to Photoshop
Tuesday May 19
6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Galería de la Raza
Studio 24 2857 24th St. @ Bryant
San Francisco,CA 94110
Open to the public / Donations appreciated
6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Galería de la Raza
Studio 24 2857 24th St. @ Bryant
San Francisco,CA 94110
Open to the public / Donations appreciated
This very introductory workshop is aimed at those who have little to no experience with Photoshop, with hopes of giving radicals some tools to begin making their own print and web flyers, posters, announcements, etc.
[May 15] Dinner to Celebrate Elections in El Salvador (San Rafael)
Friday, May 15
6 - 9 PM
First United Methodist Church
9 Ross Valley Drive (at Fourth Street)
San Rafael
Victory party to celebrate the outcome of the recent elections in El Salvador and the upcoming inauguration of a progressive president
Special guests will include Bay Area members of the FMLN (Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front) and CISPES (the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador), as well as Marin election observers.
They will share their impressions and expectations for the future.
Celebrants are asked to bring a main dish or salad for 10-20 people or donate $10-20.
This event is sponsored by the Task Force on the Americas.
The venue is wheelchair accessible.
For more information, contact 415/924-3227, mitf@igc.org, or www.mitfamericas.org.
6 - 9 PM
First United Methodist Church
9 Ross Valley Drive (at Fourth Street)
San Rafael
Victory party to celebrate the outcome of the recent elections in El Salvador and the upcoming inauguration of a progressive president
Special guests will include Bay Area members of the FMLN (Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front) and CISPES (the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador), as well as Marin election observers.
They will share their impressions and expectations for the future.
Celebrants are asked to bring a main dish or salad for 10-20 people or donate $10-20.
This event is sponsored by the Task Force on the Americas.
The venue is wheelchair accessible.
For more information, contact 415/924-3227, mitf@igc.org, or www.mitfamericas.org.
[May 12] SF School Board to vote on restoring JROTC
San Francisco School Board to VOTE
on restoring JROTC at its next meeting.
Come to the meeting and show your support for the school board members who are standing up against the Pentagon's onslaught.
Tuesday, May 12, 2009 - 6:00 pm
555 Franklin Street at McAllister
It is time for JROTC to go.
The San Francisco Board of Education voted over two years ago to phase out the Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps. JROTC is run by the Pentagon and their hand-picked military instructors. The program is scheduled to end this June.on restoring JROTC at its next meeting.
Come to the meeting and show your support for the school board members who are standing up against the Pentagon's onslaught.
Tuesday, May 12, 2009 - 6:00 pm
555 Franklin Street at McAllister
It is time for JROTC to go.
The Pentagon and their allies are trying to overturn the school board decision. The board is expected to vote at its next meeting on a resolution to restore the program, introduced by the Pentagon's two most shameless supporters, Jill Wynns and Rachel Norton.
The school board voted to phase out JROTC because San Franciscans do not want the military in our schools. JROTC targets children as young as 14 and 15, particularly working class youth from communities of color. Nor do San Franciscans support a program that won't hire openly LGBT instructors, in line with the Pentagon's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy. JROTC costs school district taxpayers one million dollars per year.
The struggle to get the military out of our schools goes back to 1994, when the public and the school board learned that "for at least the last five years, ranks... a ritual punishment in which JROTC cadets are punched repeatedly... as they walk between a gauntlet of drill team members" was common in at least one high school. Since then, those opposed to the military presence in our schools have been subject to repeated threats and intimidation, including at least one death threat against a school board member.
In 2005, nearly 60% of San Francisco voters declared that we want military recruiters out of our schools. In 2006, the school board finally voted to phase out JROTC.
Last November, downtown and military money funded the "Yes on V" campaign, a purely advisory measure supposedly aimed at supporting JROTC, but really aimed at creating a "wedge issue" to defeat progressive candidates for the Board of Supervisors. Downtown poured $200,000 into this campaign, gained a small victory with Prop V, but lost every Supervisor campaign. Despite being out-spent 15 to 1, opponents of JROTC got nearly 150,000 votes.
The school board vote on May 12 should be the final chapter of this long campaign. If we win this vote, JROTC will be gone in June. Come to the meeting and show your support for the school board members who are standing up against the Pentagon's onslaught.
We can and will win.
http://www.
NoJROTC@yahoo.com
510-326-1961
510-326-1961
[May 9] Teach-in: Bail out working people, not the banks!
TEACH-IN & MASS MOBILIZATION PLANNING MEETING
SATURDAY, MAY 9, 2009 - 1 to 5 p.m.
(registration begins at 12:30 p.m.)
Plumbers Hall,
1621 Market St. @ Franklin St.
(3 blocks from Civic Station BART stop; @ Van Ness MUNI stop)
San Francisco
(registration begins at 12:30 p.m.)
Plumbers Hall,
1621 Market St. @ Franklin St.
(3 blocks from Civic Station BART stop; @ Van Ness MUNI stop)
San Francisco
Without joining together for our common interests, we don't have the strength to change our government's priorities. We must begin to build a massive movement that will have the power to impact government policy and give people genuine hope for a better future.
Help organize a mass mobilization and ongoing action campaign around the following demands:
- No layoffs. Massive job-creation program.
- Tax the rich -- don't bail out the banks.
- Pass the Employee Free Choice Act.
- Single-payer healthcare for all.
- Affordable housing for all. Tenants' rights. Moratorium on foreclosures & evictions.
- Funding for jobs and for social services & infrastructure, not for war.
- Stop the ICE raids and deportations. Legalization for all!
Speakers:
- Art Pulaski, Secretary-Treasurer, California Federation of Labor;
- N'tanya Lee, Executive Director, Coleman Advocates for Children and Youth;
- Mark Dudzic, National Organizer, Labor for Single Payer Healthcare Campaign (Washington, D.C.);
- Rosie Martinez, SEIU Local 721 (Los Angeles);
- Steve Williams, Executive Director, POWER (People Organized to Win Employment Rights);
- Conny Ford, Vice President, San Francisco Labor Council;
- Clarence Thomas, ILWU Local 10;
- Jack Rasmus, Professor of economics St. Mary's College and Santa Clara Univ.;
- Alan Benjamin, Executive Committee, San Francisco Labor Council and Workers Emergency Recovery Campaign;
- Student representative, City College of San Francisco, Mission Campus.
ALSO:
Extended remarks from Bay Area labor and community leaders -- and ample time for dialogue among teach-in participants.
AND:
Spoken Word performance by YOUNG PLAYAZ
Initiated by the San Francisco Labor Council, South Bay Labor Council, and Workers Emergency Recovery Campaign
Donations will be requested at door to defray cost of renting the hall, printing leaflets and posters, and copying teach-in packets for all participants.
No one will be turned away for lack of funds.
No one will be turned away for lack of funds.
[May 3] Justice for Atenco! / Justicia por Atenco (Oakland)
Sunday, May 3
Justice for Atenco!
A Community Report on San Salvador Atenco in Oakland
Niebyl-Proctor Library
6501 Telegraph Ave
Oakland, CA 94609
6:30 - 9:00 PM
We will show two videos on San Salvador Atenco and give some background on the community’s successful 2001 & 2002 resistance to government plans to build an airport on their land.
The second video will show police terrorizing the community on May 3 and 4, 2006, several days after the Zapatista Other Campaign visited Atenco.
We will have information on the new campaign to free the 12 remaining political prisoners.
This video commemoration is part of a coordinated national campaign in Mexico and an international support campaign to free the Atenco political prisoners.
Free admission.
Justice for Atenco!
A Community Report on San Salvador Atenco in Oakland
Niebyl-Proctor Library
6501 Telegraph Ave
Oakland, CA 94609
6:30 - 9:00 PM
We will show two videos on San Salvador Atenco and give some background on the community’s successful 2001 & 2002 resistance to government plans to build an airport on their land.
The second video will show police terrorizing the community on May 3 and 4, 2006, several days after the Zapatista Other Campaign visited Atenco.
We will have information on the new campaign to free the 12 remaining political prisoners.
This video commemoration is part of a coordinated national campaign in Mexico and an international support campaign to free the Atenco political prisoners.
Free admission.
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¡JUSTICIA PARA SAN SALVADOR ATENCO!
el 3 de Mayo de 2009 - 6:30 PM
Biblioteca Marxista de Niebyl Proctor
Avenida Telegraph # 6501
Oakland, California 94609
Informe comunitario sobre San Salvador Atenco. Presentación de dos videos. Uno, sobre el triunfo de la resistencia en San Salvador Atenco durante 2001 y 2002 ante los planes gubernamentales de construir un aeropuerto en sus terrenos. El segundo, muestra la violencia policiaca aterrorizando a la comunidad el 3 y 4 de Mayo de 2006, días después que la caravana de la Otra Campaña Zapatista visitara Atenco. La presentación de estos videos conmemorativos son parte de una campaña nacional en México e Internacional para no olvidar lo sucedido y para liberar a los presos políticos de Atenco. Habrá más Información sobre esta campaña para liberar a los 12 compañeros Atequenses aún presos. Todos son bienvenidos. La entrada es gratis.
Habrá a la venta artesanía de las cooperativas Zapatistas: Playeras, blusas y huipiles, bolsas, pasamontañas, paliacates y más!
Se habla español. Traducción disponible.
Auspiciado por: Comité de Apoyo a Chiapas
Para más información: (510) 654-9587
correo electrónico: cezmat@igc.org
[May 2] U.S. Trade Policy & Its Impacts on Food, Land, and Immigration in the Americas (UC Berkeley)
Not Just Change but Justice!
Saturday, May 2, 1 PM - 6 PM
A joint LASC/NACLA Conference
U.S. Trade Policy & its Impacts on Food, Land, and Immigration
Saturday, May 2, 1 PM - 6 PM
110 Barrows Hall (near Telegraph & Bancroft)
UC Berkeley Campus
UC Berkeley Campus
LASC: Latin america Solidarity Coalition (www.lasolidarity.org)
NACLA Report on the Americas: North American Congress on Latin America
U.S. Trade Policy & its Impacts on Food, Land, and Immigration
As we approach the end of Obama's first 100 days, grassroots groups working
in solidarity with Latin America and the Caribbean will come together to
assess the recent history of U.S. trade policy toward the region, and to
construct an agenda for the future that places the rights of people above
profit. This half-day program will examine how U.S. trade policy has
impacted issues of food, land, and immigration throughout the region, from
questions of food security in Haiti and Cuba, to biofuels and GMOs in
Brazil; from NAFTA and migration, to indigenous land rights in Bolivia.
Experts and movement leaders from throughout the country will participate in
this day of learning and action, and work together to create not just
change, but justice in the Americas.
1pm – 3pm: Panel discussion: each speaker is 10-12min
- Introduction: Christy Thornton, NACLA
- CAFTA: Kathy Hoyt, Nicaragua Network
- NAFTA: David Bacon, photojournalist, author of Illegal People
-US Trade Policy and Immigration: Colin Raja, National Network on Immigrant and Refugee Rights
- Agrarian and Land Reform: Angus Wright
- Biofuels and agrobusiness: Eric Holt Giménez, Food First
- Indigenous issues/mega projects: Maria Ramos, NISGUA
- U.S. trade and relations with Venezuela: Martin Sanchez, Consulate of Venezuela
3:30 – 5: Workshops
Constructing alternatives in food, land, and trade: Bolivia, Venezuela, and Ecuador
• Roger Burbach, Center for the Study of the Americas (CENSA)
• Martin Sanchez, Consulate of Venezuela
- Militarization & Counterinsurgency: How Plan Colombia and "Plan Mexico" support the neoliberal agenda
• Mary Ann Tenuto, Chiapas Support Committee
• John Lindsay Poland, Fellowship of Reconciliation
Immigration, food security, and US relations: a comparison of Cuba and Haiti
• Delvis Fernandez, Cuban American Alliance Education Fund
• Pierre Laboissiere, Co-Founder, Haiti Action Committee
Big soy and ethanol agribusiness in the Southern Cone: /Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay
• Eric Holt Giménez, Food First
• EricaOmena Erickson, Friends of the MST
• Theresa Cameranesi, SOA Watch San Francisco
5 - 6: Wrap up and moving forward
WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBLE
CONTACT 510-525-5497
[May 1] Marcha 1 de mayo / May 1 march (San Francisco)
[English below]
El gobierno sigue gastando billones en la guerra mientras que las condiciones para los trabajadores empeoran por la perdida de sus trabajos, los recortes en servicios e incremento a la represión. Este día internacional del trabajador, tomeremos las calles para exigir respeto a nuestra ciudad santuario, derechos iguales para los inmigrantes, ¡no! al recorte de ningún servicio, y paz con justicia en Irak, Afganistán, Palestina y más alla.
The government continues to spend billions on the war while conditions for workers worsen due to job loss, service cuts and increased repression. this international worker’s day let’s take the streets to demand respect for our sanctuary city, equal rights for immigrants, no cuts to any services, and peace with justice in Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine and beyond.
Únete a la marcha pro-migrante y trabajadores
Día internacional del trabajador
¡Trabajo sí! ¡Guerra no! ¡Legalización ahora!
1 de mayo - 1:30pm
Parque Dolores [Calle 19 y Dolores]
Día internacional del trabajador
¡Trabajo sí! ¡Guerra no! ¡Legalización ahora!
1 de mayo - 1:30pm
Parque Dolores [Calle 19 y Dolores]
El gobierno sigue gastando billones en la guerra mientras que las condiciones para los trabajadores empeoran por la perdida de sus trabajos, los recortes en servicios e incremento a la represión. Este día internacional del trabajador, tomeremos las calles para exigir respeto a nuestra ciudad santuario, derechos iguales para los inmigrantes, ¡no! al recorte de ningún servicio, y paz con justicia en Irak, Afganistán, Palestina y más alla.
coalición deporten a la migra . alianza 1ero de mayo . sf immigrant rights defense committee
Para más información: 415.487.9203
Join the immigrant & worker rights march
Work not war! Legalization now!
May 1st - International worker's day
1:30pm - Dolores Park [19th & Dolores]
Work not war! Legalization now!
May 1st - International worker's day
1:30pm - Dolores Park [19th & Dolores]
The government continues to spend billions on the war while conditions for workers worsen due to job loss, service cuts and increased repression. this international worker’s day let’s take the streets to demand respect for our sanctuary city, equal rights for immigrants, no cuts to any services, and peace with justice in Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine and beyond.
deporten a la migra coalition . may 1st alliance . sf immigrant rights defense committee
for more information: 415.487.9203
[May 1] Marcha 1 de mayo / May 1 march (Oakland)
DIA INTERNACIONAL DE LOS TRABAJADORES
VIERNES, 1ro de Mayo 2009 en Oakland
"DERECHOS HUMANOS PARA TODOS: Legalizacion, Si Podemos!"
3:30 - 4:30pm Programa en Fruitvale BART Plaza
4:30 - 6:00pm Marcha al Municipal
Alto a los ataques contra Inmigrantes!
Deporten a los bancos, NO a los Inmigrantes!
Alojamiento, Salud Medica y Educacion para TODOS!
INTERNATIONAL WORKERS DAY 2009
FRIDAY, MAY 1 in Oakland
"HUMAN RIGHTS FOR ALL: Legalization, Yes We Can!"
3:30 - 4:30pm Program at Fruitvale BART Plaza
4:30 - 6:00pm March to City Hall
Moratorium on ICE Raids, Detentions & Deportations!
No more Corporate Bailouts!
Housing, Healthcare & Education for ALL!
SPONSORING ORGANIZATIONS
Oakland Sin Fronteras Coalition (Mujeres Unidas y Activas, La Clinica de la Raza, Huaxtec, Filipinos for Affirmative Action, Anakbayan East Bay, East Side Arts Alliance, Black Alliance for Just Immigration, East Bay Sanctuary/Santuario), Lucha Unida al Jornalero, EBASE, Interfaith Worker Committee, Critical Resistance, JustCause Oakland, Alameda Labor Council, Priority African Network, Bay Area Immigration Task Force, TIGRA, Association fo Raza Educators, Centro Legal, Revolutionary Workers Group, Labor Committee for Peace & Justice, American Friends Service Committee, Solidarity, Oakland Education Association, Social Justice Committee of the Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian-Universalists.
VIERNES, 1ro de Mayo 2009 en Oakland
"DERECHOS HUMANOS PARA TODOS: Legalizacion, Si Podemos!"
3:30 - 4:30pm Programa en Fruitvale BART Plaza
4:30 - 6:00pm Marcha al Municipal
Alto a los ataques contra Inmigrantes!
Deporten a los bancos, NO a los Inmigrantes!
Alojamiento, Salud Medica y Educacion para TODOS!
INTERNATIONAL WORKERS DAY 2009
FRIDAY, MAY 1 in Oakland
"HUMAN RIGHTS FOR ALL: Legalization, Yes We Can!"
3:30 - 4:30pm Program at Fruitvale BART Plaza
4:30 - 6:00pm March to City Hall
Moratorium on ICE Raids, Detentions & Deportations!
No more Corporate Bailouts!
Housing, Healthcare & Education for ALL!
SPONSORING ORGANIZATIONS
Oakland Sin Fronteras Coalition (Mujeres Unidas y Activas, La Clinica de la Raza, Huaxtec, Filipinos for Affirmative Action, Anakbayan East Bay, East Side Arts Alliance, Black Alliance for Just Immigration, East Bay Sanctuary/Santuario), Lucha Unida al Jornalero, EBASE, Interfaith Worker Committee, Critical Resistance, JustCause Oakland, Alameda Labor Council, Priority African Network, Bay Area Immigration Task Force, TIGRA, Association fo Raza Educators, Centro Legal, Revolutionary Workers Group, Labor Committee for Peace & Justice, American Friends Service Committee, Solidarity, Oakland Education Association, Social Justice Committee of the Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian-Universalists.
[May 1] Marcha 1 de mayo / May 1 march (San Jose)
Inmigrantes Unidos Marchando por una Reforma Justa y Humana
Alianza por Reforma Migratoria del Valle del Silicio (SVAIR) urge a todas las comunidades a participar en las Marchas Nacionales:
1 de mayo - 4:00 PM
Story & King Rd
San Jose
¡Si no puede marchar, dénos la bienvenida en el City Hall de San Jose, pero no deje de participar!
Immigrants United Marching for Just and Humane Immigration Reform
Silicon Valley Alliance for Immigration Reform (SVAIR) urges all communities to participate in National Marches:
May 1st at 4:00pm.
Story & King Rd
San Jose, CA
[Apr 28] Workers Memorial Day speak-out to protect health and safety on the job (SF)
April 28, 2009 Workers Memorial Day
Speak-Out To Protect
Health And Safety On The Job
3:00 PM - Press Conference
At front of Pfizer Research Facility
455 Mission Bay Boulevard South at 3rd St.
San Francisco
(Next to the New UCSF Biotech China Basin building)
7:00 PM Speak-Out
At ILWU Local 34
2nd St/Embarcadero on the left side of AT&T Park
Free Parking at ILUW Local 34
Speakers including: Shiela Davis, Executive Director Silicon Valley Toxic Coalition, Daniel Berman, author of Death on The Job, Becky McClain, injured Pfizer molecular biologist, Dina Padilla injured Kaiser worker, Carl Bryant, NALC Local 214, Mike Daley, Iron Workers Local 377 on 9/11 NYC First Responders, also representatives from the ILWU and other unions, injured workers and their families.
California Coalition For Workers Memorial Day (CCWMD)
P.O. Box 720027, San Francisco, CA 94172
www.workersmemorialday.org
(415) 867-0628
Workers Memorial Day was established to commemorate and defend workers injured and killed
Speak-Out To Protect
Health And Safety On The Job
3:00 PM - Press Conference
At front of Pfizer Research Facility
455 Mission Bay Boulevard South at 3rd St.
San Francisco
(Next to the New UCSF Biotech China Basin building)
7:00 PM Speak-Out
At ILWU Local 34
2nd St/Embarcadero on the left side of AT&T Park
Free Parking at ILUW Local 34
Speakers including: Shiela Davis, Executive Director Silicon Valley Toxic Coalition, Daniel Berman, author of Death on The Job, Becky McClain, injured Pfizer molecular biologist, Dina Padilla injured Kaiser worker, Carl Bryant, NALC Local 214, Mike Daley, Iron Workers Local 377 on 9/11 NYC First Responders, also representatives from the ILWU and other unions, injured workers and their families.
California Coalition For Workers Memorial Day (CCWMD)
P.O. Box 720027, San Francisco, CA 94172
www.workersmemorialday.org
(415) 867-0628
Workers Memorial Day was established to commemorate and defend workers injured and killed
on the job. This year, the California Coalition For Workers Memorial Day (CCWMD) will also focus on the need for health and safety protection, regulation and standards for new industries such as biotechnology and nanotechnology. These industries are not properly regulated with strong health and safety standards. The CCWMD is calling for national Congressional hearings on these issues and also for the defense of injured workers who face a deregulated workers comp system in which seriously injured workers are not able to get proper healthcare and compensation. We need to get the insurance industry out of healthcare, so all workers can get healthcare.
The elimination of all doctors at Ca-Osha is another dangerous threat that threatens the health and safety of 17 million workers of California particularly those facing the use of new technology in the workplace. Many dangerous toxic sites in Northern California and around the country have been privatized and labeled “Brownfield” sites. Workers, veterans and community people have also been sickened by the failure to clean these sites.
The elimination of all doctors at Ca-Osha is another dangerous threat that threatens the health and safety of 17 million workers of California particularly those facing the use of new technology in the workplace. Many dangerous toxic sites in Northern California and around the country have been privatized and labeled “Brownfield” sites. Workers, veterans and community people have also been sickened by the failure to clean these sites.
[Apr 25] “Love Yo’ Mama” Environmental Justice Earth Day Celebration
Join Communities for a Better Environment for our
First Annual “Love Yo’ Mama” Environmental Justice Earth Day Celebration
in East Oakland
April 25, 2009
First Annual “Love Yo’ Mama” Environmental Justice Earth Day Celebration
in East Oakland
April 25, 2009
There will be local talent, entertainment, live music, speakers, poets, food, vendors, free health screenings and more. The parade stars at Tassafaronga Recreation Center (975 - 85th Avenue) at noon, and ends at ACORN Woodland Elementary (1025 81st Ave), where the festivities go on from 1PM until 6 PM. To get involved, contact our Community Organizer, Nehanda Imara, nimara@cbecal.org, 510-302-0430 x21
For more info: http://www.urbanhabitat.org/node/3604
[Apr 25] Ama a tu Mamá: evento para el Día de la Tierra
Sábado, 25 de abril
Comunidades para un Medio Ambiente Mejor
en colaboración con ACORN Woodland escuela primaria
y Tassafaronga centro de recreación
presenta
“Ama a Tú Mamá”
el primer evento anual del Día de la Tierra
con el tema de justicia medioambiental
Habrá talento de grupos locales, entretenimiento, música en vivo, oradores, poetas, comida, vendedores, pruebas de salud gratis y más! El desfile empieza en el Centro de Recreación “Tassafaraonga” (975 – avenida 85) a las 12 PM y termina a la Escuela Primaria “ACORN Woodland” (1025 avenida 81) donde las festividades siguen desde la 1 PM hasta las 6 PM.
Para patrocinar este evento, o ser vendedor, o para participar, favor de llamar a Ana Orozco, Organizadora Comunitaria
(510) 302-0430 x12, aorozco@cbecal.org.
Comunidades para un Medio Ambiente Mejor
en colaboración con ACORN Woodland escuela primaria
y Tassafaronga centro de recreación
presenta
“Ama a Tú Mamá”
el primer evento anual del Día de la Tierra
con el tema de justicia medioambiental
Habrá talento de grupos locales, entretenimiento, música en vivo, oradores, poetas, comida, vendedores, pruebas de salud gratis y más! El desfile empieza en el Centro de Recreación “Tassafaraonga” (975 – avenida 85) a las 12 PM y termina a la Escuela Primaria “ACORN Woodland” (1025 avenida 81) donde las festividades siguen desde la 1 PM hasta las 6 PM.
Para patrocinar este evento, o ser vendedor, o para participar, favor de llamar a Ana Orozco, Organizadora Comunitaria
(510) 302-0430 x12, aorozco@cbecal.org.
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