[Jul 28] Sunrise Prayer Vigil & Rally for Leonard Peltier

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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

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[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

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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

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?

[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!!!!