Zapatista Calendar of Northern CaliforniaCalendario Zapatista de Califas Norte: December 2008

[Jan 3-4] 50th Anniversary of the Cuban Revolution

[Dec 27]Community Vigil for Peace and Healing

Where: 1500 Visalia Avenue , Richmond , CA (near Richmond Bart Station)
When: Saturday, December 27, 2008, 9:30pm-10pm
What: Peaceful vigil in response to hate-motivated gang-rape
Alert: Members of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning, and Intersexed communities will hold a peaceful vigil with support from Hand to Hand Martial Arts Center, at the location where a lesbian woman was raped by four men on Saturday December 13th 2008. LGBTQQI community members and all allies are welcome to come join in peace, healing, and support for the survivor and her courage in speaking out about the violence that was perpetrated against her.

People can bring a candle and are encouraged to carpool or take BART or walk-together. For more information regarding the incident in question please go to:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/12/21/BAV714SBA1.DTL

[Dec 19] SF CopWatch: Creating Sanctuary Together (SF)

[Español abajo]

SF COPWATCH presents:

Creating Sanctuary Together- Cop and Migra/ICE Watching in SF
(‘cuz surveillance and repression worsens & we need to count on each other)

Friday Dec 19th, from 6:30-9pm
Bilingual Spanish-English event
Station 40 Collective Space
3030B, 16th street, SF
(near Mission BART, between grocery and dollar store)

Free Event, donations for food and drinks kindly accepted

Schedule: includes

6:30-6:45pm= Greetings, Serve food, Present Event
6:45= Copwatch training, role play and brief legal info,
7:30= speaker from Rapid Response to Raids Network + Q and A
8= speaker from Migra Watch Network + Q and A,
8:30= Open discussion on direct action tactics to ICE on the streets
9= Announcements, Copwatch meeting info and close

To receive Migra Watch emergency text on your cell phone, send an email to:

SF_COPWATCH@yahoogroups.com

or you can text it to: 415.595.8251. This is also the # to report Migra sightings and is also the Copwatch hotline, so please include that you'd like to be added to the Migra Watch list.

Also, Cafe Le Boheme is at: 3318 24th street, near Mission 24th st BART

SF Copwatch presenta:

Junt@s Creamos Santuario - Vigilamos la Policia y la Migra en SF
(porque la vigilancia y la represion empeoran y tenemos que contar con nosotr@s)

Viernes Dec 19, de 6:30 a 9pm
El evento sera bilingue en Ingles y Español
Station 40, Espacio Colectivo
3030B calle 16, SF
(cerca de el BART de la Mission, entre tiendas de comida y de dólar)

Entrada Gratis, donaciones pa las bebidas y comida son apreciadas

Horario:

6:30-6:45pm= Saludarnos, Servir Comida y Presentar el Evento
6:45= Copwatch entrenamiento, teatro de personajes y breve info legal
7:30= platica de la Red de Ayuda Rapida para personas afectadas en las Redadas y preguntas y respuestas
8= platica de Migra Watch de Watsonville y preguntas y respuestas
8:30= Discussion Abierta sobre tomando accion directa conta la Migra en las Calles
9= Anuncios, info sobre cuando Copwatch se reune y cerrar

Para recibir textos de celular avisando sobre acciones de la Migra, manda un correo a:

SF_COPWATCH@yahoogroups.com

o puedes mandar un texo a: 415.595.8251. Este es tambien el # para reportar a la Migra, casos de brutalidad de la policia y reenes de carros o de personas, asi que por favor incluye que quieres ser agregad@ a la lista de Migra Watch

Café le Boheme está en la 3318 de la calle 24, cerca de la Mission
BART de la Calle 24

[Dec 18] Call to action: International Migrants Day

International Migrants Day

December 18, 2008

Following a historic Presidential election, the National Network for Immigrant & Refugee Rights (NNIRR) invites you to close the year by organizing and supporting events to commemorate December 18^th – International Migrants Day, and by reaffirming our commitment to the rights of all immigrants by joining us to call for an end to immigration raids, detentions, and deportations.

About December 18, International Migrants Day

On December 18, 1990, the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families was approved by the United Nations General Assembly, after almost a decade of governmental negotiations and pressure from migrant rights advocates around the world. Following lobbying efforts by advocates and migrant groups, in December 2000 the United Nations proclaimed December 18 as International Migrants Day.

Since 2001, in solidarity with other migrant rights organizations around the world, NNIRR has commemorated this day with members and allies. Each year we assist growing numbers of local events and initiatives with widely-endorsed call-to-actions, educational and organizing materials, and commemorative posters and t-shirts. (For more details, visit www.nnirr.org/december18; for international events, visit www.migrantwatch.org and www.december18.net.)

International Migrants Day 2008

2008 has been a challenging year in the struggle for immigrant rights, with immigration raids, detentions and deportations taking place during the course of the build up to the recent election.

During the last eight years of the Bush Administration we have witnessed and experienced the assault on the human rights of immigrants: families, workers and entire communities subjected to intense policing, hundreds of thousands detained, and due process rights blatantly violated and ignored.

Using new forms of illegal racial, ethnic/nationality and religious profiling, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) heightened policing of immigrant workers, violating their labor rights, implemented special policies, including secret programs targeting Arabs, Muslims, South Asians and Sikhs, and illegally rounded up and deported hundreds of thousands.

In recognition of the challenges ahead of us, NNIRR calls on organizations and individuals around the country to commemorate this year’s International Migrants Day with a local event or action highlighting the following demands:

Ø The immediate cessation of all immigration policing and raids;

Ø A moratorium on all immigration detentions and deportations, while hearings -- that must include the testimony of those affected -- are held to determine the changes needed to restore due process rights and humanitarian policies and to hold DHS accountable.

By ending raids and placing detentions and deportations on hold, President-elect Obama and the new Congress can create a respite to consider humanitarian policy alternatives that reinstate due process and the rule of law to immigration services and enforcement.

We encourage these activities and messages as a launch pad to press the new Administration and Congress to implement humanitarian policies and practices -- to decriminalize immigration status and protect the rights of all workers. We must continue to demand a fair and just immigration policy that is “de-linked” from national security, and which includes the demilitarization of our borders.

Especially on International Migrants Day, when we recognize and honor migrants throughout the world, we need to raise awareness about the need for policies that ameliorate involuntary displacement and forced migration, including fair trade and sustainable community development, and fulfilling the need and access to healthcare, education, housing, and safe, healthy environments.

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To spotlight these urgent petitions, NNIRR encourages you and your community to organize a local event on or around December 18, 2008. Your event can take place at any number of places, and in various forms -- an afternoon action at a Federal Building, an evening gathering at a place of worship, even a potluck dinner at a local community center.

We encourage you to publicize your activity in the media to call attention to the significance of the day as well as to highlight our collective efforts to end immigration raids. We also encourage groups to coordinate their efforts with others locally, and to reach out to allies through this event.

NNIRR will collect information on all these activities to publicize them nationally and internationally, to raise the collective power of grassroots community action. We will also circulate a national press release on December 16, 2008, highlighting your events, and post this information on our website.

If you plan to organize an activity for International Migrants Day, please complete this online form (https://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=FyTSqSOQ38Jez_2bF7JB5jaw_3d_3d) or the attached response form and email to crajah@nnirr.org, or fax to 510-465-1885. For more information, contact:

Colin Rajah, NNIRR

510-465-1984 x306

crajah@nnirr.org

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International Migrants Day Actions 2008

Registration Form

Yes! Please register our activity as part of the International Migrants Day Actions 2008.

Name of Organization:

Contact Person:

Contact Phone:

Contact Email:

Date & Time of Event/Action:

Brief Description of Event/Action:

Please email or fax (by December 14^th, 2008) to:

Colin Rajah; crajah@nnirr.org; Fax: 510-465-1885

Colin Rajah

International Migrant Rights & Global Justice Program Director

National Network for Immigrant & Refugee Rights (NNIRR)

310 8^th Street, Suite 303

Oakland, CA 94607 U.S.A.

tel: +01-510-465-1984 [ext. 306] fax: +01-510-465-1885

www.nnirr.org

[Dec 12] Poetry, music and dance (Berkeley, Oakland)

Sit down first for great poetry and performance and then head to La Estrellita afterwards for great music & revolutionary politics to dance with FUGA! and La Colectiva guest performers!

IN BERKELEY

La Peña Immigration Series Presents

Nicolas Valdez & Maria Ibarra: "Mi bandera es la tierra"

Friday December 12, 2008

$10 adv. $12 dr. - 8pm

A poetic journey through a seasonal landscape of vivid dreams & nightmares. Written and performed by Nicolas Valdez and Maria Ibarra. Mi Bandera es la Tierra is a project born out of La Pena's Hecho en Califas Festival of 2006. Originally a 20 minute collaboration between long-time friends and creative partners, Maria Ibarra and Nicolas Valdez, Mi Bandera has taken on a life all it's own. As a multi-disciplinary work its themes cover a wide range of political, cultural, and social issues that ebb and flow with the natural rhythms of the four elements (Earth, Air, Fire, Water) that bind it together. An experiment in "organic creative process," Mi Bandera pushes the boundaries of contemporary "Latino" Theater by skillfully weaving together contemporary issues with universal themes of balance and wellbeing. Rooted in the age-old traditions of storytelling, Mi Bandera follows the journey of two characters as they attempt to connect with the Great Spirit and bridge the gap of the historical disconnect between the masculine and feminine while simultaneously addressing current issues of globalization, environmental racism, immigration, and health. Told through poetic dialogue, indigenous chanting, live instrumentation, choreographed movement, and projected imagery, Mi Bandera resonates with an intoxicating compassion creating a shared emotional frequency that will surely move your heart and inspire you to proclaim Mi Bandera es la Tierra!

IN OAKLAND

Benefit Show for Fuga!

On Jan. 30 2009 El Paso/Oakland band FUGA! will release it's second album "Relatos Rebeldes/Rebel Stories" and embark on 3 Month US/Mexico tour.

The tour will take their music throughout the US southwest along the border then cross into Mexico to play Mexico City, Veracruz, Chiapas, and Oaxaca among others. Fuga! is independently run and owned by the musicians themselves and are hosting an end of the year benefit for their tour next year. We invite you to come sing and dance with FUGA! and special guests son/cumbia/salsa band La Colectiva this FRIDAY, DEC. 12 in Oakland. For more information check out website and flier below. See you there!

FUGA!

w/

La Colectiva

Friday, Dec. 12th, 2009

At LA ESTRELLITA Restaurant

446 E. 12th ST.

OAKLAND,CA

myspace.com/fuguista

La Estrelliita is a few blocks east of Lake Merritt BART Station.

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I'll be doing a poetry set at La Peña to open before the "Mi bandera es la tierra" performance.

arnoldo garcia

música humana blues y poesia

www.lacarpadelfeo.blogspot.com

www.myspace.com/arnoldogarcia

www.nnirr.org

[Dec 7] Manos de Resistencia: Women Peacemakers in Colombia (SF)

Manos de Resistencia: Women Peacemakers in Colombia
Sunday, December 7, 7 pm.
Women's Building
3543 18th St. San Francisco

A Benefit Featuring:

Amanda Romero is a leading Colombian human rights activist, co-author of the collection of Colombian women's testimonies, "We Will Never Be Silenced." She will speak about Colombian women, human rights and the need for international presence.

Aluna is a Bay Area multicultural ethnic and Colombian folkloric band that features traditional Colombian music styles such as Cumbia, Puya, Bullerengue, Currul?o and Mapal?, as well as original music.

Food, Poetry by Maria Mercedes Carranza, raffle drawing, and honoring Bay Peace.

$12-20 donation. No one turned away.

This event is raising funds for the human rights accompaniment work of the Fellowship of Reconciliation in Colombia. FOR?s teams live with the Peace Community of San José de Apartad? and other grassroots initiatives, in order to dissuade political violence and ensure their rights to stay on their lands and continue their nonviolent work. See http://www.forcolombia.org for more information.

Co-sponsors: Global Fund for Women, American Friends Service Committee Pacific
Mountain Region, Fund for Nonviolence, Fellowship of Reconciliation, Women?s
International League for Peace and Freedom San Francisco Chapter, Peacemakers.
Information: 720-296-6429