[Nov 21] Zapatista Community Celebration

[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.

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

[Oct 9] "Study-in" @ UC Berkeley

[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

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

[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

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[Aug 3] Stop Repression in Honduras Press Conference/Rally

[español abajo]

Stop Represion in Honduras!
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

eltonyg@earthlink.net

http://www.aimwest.info

http://wwwaimovement.org

(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

THE GARDEN

*A film by Scott Hamilton Kennedy*

Pueblo Nuevo Summer Film Series

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

www.pueblonuevogallery.com

**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

www.pueblonuevogallery.com

**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

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

More Info

(415) 821-1155

www.missionculturalcenter.org

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

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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?