[Mar 5] "Oaxaca, the APPO, and the Alternative Media" (Gustavo Esteva and Sergio Beltran)

The UC Berkeley Department of Spanish and Portuguese and the Center for Latin American Studies present:

Gustavo Esteva and Sergio Beltrán
(Universidad de la Tierra, Oaxaca)

"Oaxaca, the APPO, and the Alternative Media"

The Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca (APPO in Spanish) coalesced in response to police repression against a strike by the Oaxacan teachers' union, and occupied the city of Oaxaca from July to November 2006. Gustavo Esteva and Sergio Beltrán will discuss the conflict as well as the strategic use of the alternative media by this grassroots social movement and the Mexican government.


Monday, March 5
4-6pm
Spanish & Portuguese Library (5125 Dwinelle Hall)

[Mar 8] Thirteen Years of Zapatismo (UC Davis)

acción
ZAPATISTA
davis

thirteen years of zapatismo

THURSDAY MARCH 8TH
international women’s day
7PM
105 OLSON HALL
UC DAVIS

videos & music
fotos & dialogue
about
transnational rebellion
& collective visions

for more info: laotracalifas@yahoo.com

[Feb 18] Campamento Rebelde meeting

Colectivo Campamento Rebelde is a collective effort to plan for the upcoming California Resistance Camp in the Cucapa community of El Mayor, in Baja California.

This week's Colectivo Campamento Rebelde meeting will take place this Sun. Feb 18th, from 3pm to 5pm, at Librería Coyoacan, 1435 Fruitvale Ave, Oakland CA 94601, near the Fruitvale BART Station.

This is an open meeting. We invite all people interested in participating in the Baja California Resistance Camp. We will be discussing the planned fundraisers for the camp and community projects in El Mayor, efforts to spread the word locally, organizing delegations to attend the camp (end of Feb to mid-May), and any new ideas that come up.

[Feb 21] La Otra en la Mission

(spanish below)

Wednesday, February 21st, 2007, 6:00-7:30PM
At Dolores Street Community Services-938 Valencia St.

(Between 21st and 20th Street)

We invite Mission residents and those who work in the Mission to create a space for those "below and to the left" and also those inspired by Zapatismo and the Other Campaign in Mexico.

Our intention is to create a consistent space for adherents and sympathizers to the 6th Declaration to support each other's political projects and build trusting relationships with one another. We want to support local struggles, network, share resources and spread Zapatismo in
the Mission.

We have no desire to build an organization or an "umbrella group," so we ask that those attending come as individuals-not as representatives of their organizations.

We are a loose group of San Franciscans who are involved with the Other Campaign in various capacities. We are involved locally in education, media, housing, the arts, intimate relationship violence, immigration, labor, and poverty struggles. Some of us attended the late November Northern California Encuentro last year held in Oakland and are inspired to continue the conversations that came from that gathering in a more local context.

We hope that those interested in attending will give thought to the following themes:

• What are you working on/interested in working on in the Mission?
• How do you see the ideas around Zapatismo being created in Mission?
• What are your struggles in the Mission?
• What motivates you to work/struggle in the Mission?
• What do you want support on?

We believe that through creating a consistent space in San Francisco to reflect and support one another, we can help build vibrant movements against all forms of oppression. Join us on Wednesday February 21st at 6:00 PM and bring your ideas and energy for this group. This gathering will be interpreted consecutively in English and Spanish.

We also suggest familiarizing yourselves with the 6th Declaration if you haven't already: http://www.ezln.org/documentos/2005/sexta1.en.htm

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Miercoles 21 de Febrero del 2007 a las 6:00 PM
En Dolores Street Community Services-938 Valencia St.
(Entre la calle 21 y la 20)

Invitamos a l@s residentes el barrio de La Mission y crear un espacio para aquell@s de "abajo y a la izquierda" y tambien para tod@s l@s que han sido inspirad@s por el zapatismo y la otra campaña en Mexico.

Nuestra intención es de crear un espacio consistente para l@s adherentes y simpatizantes a la Zezta Declaracion para apoyarnos en nuestro trabajo
político y construir relaciones entre nosotr@s. Queremos apoyar las luchas locales, formar redes, compartir recursos y extender el Zapatismo en la Mission.

No tenemos intencion de crear una organizacion o una coalicion entonces pedimos l@s que van a estar que vengan como individuos y no como representantes de organizaciones.

Somos un grupo de personas en San Francisco que están involucrad@s con la otra campaña en varias capacidades. Pero tambien estamos involucrados localmente en asuntos de educación, medios de comunicación, vivienda, artes, violencia intima entre relaciones, inmigración, trabajo y luchas en contra la pobreza. Algunos de nosotr@s atendimos el encuentro del Norte de California que se dio acabo a finales de Noviembre del año pasado en Oakland. Esto nos inspiro a continuar conversaciones que salieron de esa reunión en un contexto mas local.

Esperamos que l@s que estan interesad@s en venir piensen en los siguientes temas:

• En que estas trabajando o interesad@ en trabanar en la Mission?
• Como ves las ideas del Zapatismo practicadas en la Mission?
• Cuales son tus luchas en la Mission?
• Que es lo que te motiva en trabajar/luchar en la Mission?
• En que necesitas apoyo?

Nosotr@s creemos que si creamos un espacio consistente en San Francisco para reflejar y apoyarnos entre nosotr@s, podemos ayudarnos a construir un movimiento vibrante en contra toda forma de opresión. Acompáñenos el Miercoles 21 de febrero y tráenos tus ideas y energía para este grupo.

Sugerimos que se familiaricen con la Zezta Declaracion si todavía no lo han hecho: http://www.ezln.org/documentos/2005/sexta.es.htm

[Feb 26 - Mar 2] Week of Action Against ICE raids

February 26 – March 2
Everyday 11:00 – 1:00 PM
in front of the ICE building
(Sansome & Washington), San Francisco

Local actions everyday 4:00 -7:00 PM

Hope you and your organization can come to to stand up AGAINST ICE RAIDS in all our communities during the week of Feb 26 - Mar 2. (ICE Raids have been picking up Mexicans, Salvadorans, Guatamalans, Hondurans, Sudanese, Ethiopians, Trinidadians, Jamaicans

In addition, we hope you will be able to take part in local actions throughout the Bay or organize one yourself! The main goal of these is to publicize "know your rights" info in our communities as well as publicize the 11 am - 1 pm events throughout the week.

To find out how your organizations, congregation, school, youth group can get involved and support the week of actions, call 510 839 7598 or email evelyn@immigrantrights.org and to download flyers go here: http://www.immigrantrights.org/.

[Feb 22] US Social Forum Bay Area Information Session

Another World is Possible!
United States Social Forum Bay Area Information Session

Thursday, February 22nd, 2007 - 6:30-9:00 PM
SEIU UHCW Hall
560-20th St. (Thomas Berkeley Way) b/t Telegraph & San Pablo, Oakland

The US Social Forum (USSF), scheduled for June 27-July 1, 2007 in Atlanta, Georgia, will bring together progressive groups, left organizations, grassroots organizations and social movements from across the US and the world. The USSF aims to create a space to share analysis and lessons, to build relationships, to develop leadership and consciousness, and to clarify vision and strategy.

This year's forum is the first to take place in the United States, following seven years of the World Social Forum (WSF) and many regional and local forums. The USSF is the result of years of exchange and relationship building with social movements in the global south. These movements have called on organizers and activists in the US to step up our work confronting neo-liberalism and the impacts of US policies at home and around the world. In the last couple years we have seen significant movements take the stage in the US fighting against the war in Iraq, against racist immigration policy, and the abandonment of the people of the Gulf South. This is a moment where we can put our heads and our hearts together and take the work to another level.

Join us at this information session to learn about Bay Area efforts to build towards the US Social Forum as well as how you can support members and leaders of Bay Area grassroots organizations getting to and participating in the US Social Forum.

$5-$10 donation requested, no one turned away for lack of funds.
This event is wheelchair accessible.

Sponsored by:

Grassroots for Global Justice, Just Cause Oakland, Movement Generation, National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, People Organized to Demand Environmental and Economic Rights (PODER), People Organized to Win Employment Rights (POWER), St. Peter's Housing Committee, The Center for Political Education & SOUL

For more information about the US Social Forum see the website www.ussf2007.org

For more information about this event, or to request translation or childcare, please contact: ussfbay@earthlink.net or 415-431-1918 by February 15th.

[Feb 17-18] Third World Book Fair

EastSide Cultural Center
2277 International Blvd @ 23rd Avenue, Oakland

Sat & Sun, Feb 17-18, 2007
Book Sales 12 noon to 5pm
Book vending to be followed by special evening events

Saturday, February 17 @ 7pm
A Dialogue with Amiri Baraka & Ngugi wa Thiong'o

Sunday, February 18 @ 7pm
Holla Back Presents: A Night of Third World Poetry

As part of the Bandung Spirit series, EastSide Cultural Center presents the first annual Third World Book Fair, a two-day event that presents the publications, politics and visions of enlightened Third World writers. The book fair features a Saturday evening dialogue between the internationally acclaimed authors Amiri Baraka and Ngugi wa Thiong'o. They will discuss the role of dissident art and literature under an increasingly repressive climate within the U.S. and throughout the western-dominated Third World. It is a special meeting of two visionary and revolutionary minds who have both risked their well-being as the price for truth-telling, and subsequently have had their works either banned or made scarce in the mainstream literary market.

Baraka will first read excerpts from his recently released collection of short stories, Tales of the Out & the Gone, and Ngugi, the masterful Kenyan writer-in-exile, from his latest novel, Wizard of the Crow. Both books have drawn rave press reviews across the nation and beyond.

Sunday evening will present an array of local Third World poets, including surprise literary guests with new publications. Book vending will primarily take place between 12 noon and 5pm on both Saturday and Sunday, with both evening events beginning at 7pm. Saturday night's door charge is $10, and Sunday's is $5. The Book Fair is free to the public during the day hours, and some vendors will be selling during evening events.

For more information, contact Maisha Quint or Greg Morozumi
510/ 533-6629 or eastsidearts@yahoo.com

[Feb 13] La Tercera Raiz : Africa's Legacy in Latin America

Photographs by Tony Gleaton

Exhibition Dates:

February 6 - April 5, 2007

Reception:
Tuesday, February 13, 2007, 6-8pm
Artist Lecture: 7pm

RayKo Photo Center
428 Third Street
San Francisco, CA 94107

Phone: 415-495-3773 Fax: 415-495-3738

[Feb 14] Conferencia de prensa: ALTO A LAS DEPORTACIONES

La Alianza Latinoamericana por los Derechos de los Inmigrantes, invita a todas las organizaciones e individuos preocupados por los derechos humanos de los trabajadores inmigrantes, a la conferencia de prensa en la cual se denunciara publicamente, el clima de hostigamiento que han despertado en la comunidad latina, las redadas recientes por parte de personal del ICE en el distrito de la Mission de la ciudad de San Francisco, y se solicitara una declaracion del señor Gavin Newsom, alcalde de la ciudad, en la cual reafirme la ordenanza que declara esta ciudad santuario para los trabajadores inmigrantes.

Lugar: Entrada principal del City Hall de San Francisco (Civic Center)

Fecha: 14 de febrero a las 12 del mediodia.

Favor de traer carteles con consignas

Recuerden que si no los detenemos ahora, nos arrepentiremos siempre.

[Feb 15] Love Your Way to Abolition

Party with Saint Valentine, the patron saint of people in prison!

LIVE PERFORMANCES BYFUGA! www.fuguista.com

3PC www.myspace.com/pfccrew

MC TRU BLOO www.myspace.com/trubloo

and more...

February 15, 2007

6-9 pm

El Rio
3158 Mission Street
@ Cesar Chavez
San Francisco, CA

A benefit for Justice Now

Sliding scale $10 - $50

No one turned away for lack of funds

Justice Now is a human rights organization that works with women in prison and local communities to build a safe, compassionate world without prisons.www.justicenow.org

[Feb 22] Resistencia Visual / Visual Resistance

Art from the Popular Movement in Oaxaca

Arte del movimiento popular en Oaxaca

Thursday, February 22, 7pm

Station 40

3030 B 16th Street, San Francisco

(near 16th Street BART)

FREE (donations welcome, art for sale)

• EXHIBIT & ART SALE - original prints & stencils from the ASAR-O artists' collective in Oaxaca
• VIDEO testimonials from recently released political prisoners and victims of repression
• Report-back, music, food y algo más...

ASAR-O is a collective of artists dedicated to making accessible popular art that reflects the demands & vision of the popular struggle. Using art as a tool of resistance, the artists face serious repression. As recently as January 22, one member of the collective was arrested for drawing in public, beaten and jailed; he has since been released, but threats of repression and violence continue.

CASA (Colectivos de Apoyo, Solidaridad y Acción) is an international solidarity organization supporting local autonomous struggles in Oaxaca, Chiapas and the US.

All funds raised will go to the ASAR-O artists' collective - to support their work, maintain a new multi-use studio space and establish a new youth training program - and the Oaxaca Emergency Relief Fund - to directly supports political prisoners, victims of repression and their families.

CASA & ASAR-O willl also present RESISTENCIA VISUAL at these upcoming events:

Feb 17 - Los Angeles, CA - 1 PM
Cultural Barricade (APPO-LA)
Park View & 6th Street (in front of the Mexican Consulate)

Feb 23 - San Francisco, CA - 12-2 PM
s(3) Open House
Ram Plaza, SF City College (near Balboa Park BART, K line)

And future dates in Chicago, New York and Louisville, IL...

For more information on upcoming events & art: http://web.mac.com/dfteitel/iWeb/ASAR-O/Home.html

For more information on Oaxaca: http://colectivocasa.org/oaxacaresiste


Arte del movimiento popular en Oaxaca
Jueves, 22 de febrero, 7pm
Station 40
3030 B 16th Street, San Francisco (cerca del 16th Street BART)

GRATIS (donaciones bienvenidos, arte de venta)

• EXPOSICION y VENTA DE ARTE - grabados y stenciles originales del colectivo de artistas ASAR-O en Oaxaca


• VIDEO testimonios de presos politicos recién liberados y víctimas de represión


• Plática, música, comida y algo más...

ASAR-O es un colectivo de artistas que se dedican al arte popular que refleja las demandas y la visión de la lucha popular en Oaxaca. Por usar el arte como arma de lucha, se enfrentan con una represión muy fuerte. El 22 de enero detuvieron y golpearon a un compañero del colectivo por estar dibujando en público; ya salió liberado pero siguen las amenazas, la represión y la violencia.

CASA (Colectivos de apoyo, solidaridad y acción) es una organización internacional que apoya a luchas locales para la autonomía en Oaxaca, Chiapas y los EU.

Todos los fondos se destinan al colectivo ASAR-O para seguir con su trabajo, mantener un nuevo taller multi-uso y establecer un taller para jovenes de las colonias, y al Fondo de emergencia apoyo a Oaxaca para apoyar directamente a l@s pres@s, a l@s víctimas de represión y a sus familias.

CASA & ASAR-O willl also present RESISTENCIA VISUAL at these upcoming events:

17 feb - Los Angeles, CA - 1 PM
Barricada cultural (APPO-LA)
Park View & 6th Street
(in front of the Mexican Consulate)
1pm

23 feb - San Francisco, CA - 12 -2 PM
s(3) Open House
Plaza Ram, City College (cerca de Balboa Park BART, K line)

Y más fechas en Chicago, New York y Louisville, IL...

Para mas información sobre los eventos, los artistas y las obras: http://web.mac.com/dfteitel/iWeb/ASAR-O/Home.html

Para más información sobre Oaxaca: http://colectivocasa.org/oaxacaresiste