November 2008:
Terrorizing Dissent: The Election Cut
Monday November 3rd
Doors 7pm, Show 8pm
@ the AK Press Wherehouse
674-A 23rd Street
Oakland, CA
$5-10 sliding scale
Independent media activists have released a new film which chronicles the events at the 2008 Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota. The documentary shows exclusive footage of the criminalization of dissent in St. Paul, interviews organizers now charged as terrorists under the Minnesota PATRIOT Act, and uncovers who ordered the violence against demonstrators.
http://www.terrorizingdissent.org
Dare to Struggle, Dare to Win
Friday November 7th, 7pm
Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library
6501 Telegraph Avenue (at 65th Street), Oakland
This film covers the worker occupation of the Flins Renault plant and the struggles around it in May and June of 1968. The strikers had to fight not only the bosses but also against their union and the French Communist Party to maintain it. Also depicted in the film are the heroic attempts of as many as 5,000 students and workers from other workplaces and other regions to reach the factory in its rural location to support the occupation and their confrontations with police who try and prevent their solidarity effort. This is a powerfully moving film; discussion will follow. Presented by Red & Black and Mouvement Communiste.
Uprooted
Sunday November 9th, 12pm at the Brava Theater Center, 24th St & Harrison San Francisco, CA
and Wednesday November 12th at MACLA, 510 South First Street San Jose, CA
This powerful documentary explores the forced displacement of Black communities from the Pacific Coast of Colombia, and why and how over a million Black Colombians have been forced from their lands.
http://www.uprootedthemovie.org
Whoever They Vote For, Are We Ungovernable?
Wednesday November 12th, 7pm
Station 40
Free!
The Friendly Fire Collective presents a post-election open discussion on what the anti-authoritarian Left should make of the results from November 4th. How do we respond to the new president, whether it be McCain continuing the draconian policies of the Republican Party or Obama platform of “change”? What implications does this have on our organizing? And what do we want to be doing during the next four years regardless of who’s in the White House?
Amy Goodman: Standing Up to the Madness
Saturday November 15, 7pn
First Unitarian Universalist Church
1187 Franklin Street, San Francisco
Amy Goodman is the host and executive producer of Democracy Now!, a national, daily, independent, award-winning news program airing on 650 radio and television stations in North America.
http://www.democracynow.org/
Immortal Technique- A Benefit for Omeid International
Thursday November 20th, 8:30pm
DNA Lounge
375 11th St San Francisco, CA
$20 advance, $25 at the door
Omeid International is a human rights organization operating in the East Bay and in Kabul, Afghanistan. All the money raised at the door is earmarked to build an orphanage for Afghan children displaced by war. (Plus Immortal Tecnique will be playing a free show at UC Berkeley’s Lower Sproul Plaza on November 21st from 5-7pm.)
http://www.omeid.org/
Dahr Jamail: Using Independent Media as a Weapon for Justice
Thursday November 20th, 7pm
CIIS Main Campus
1453 Mission Street , San Francisco
This lecture and workshop will focus on how it is relatively easy to work as an independent journalist in this climate where the mainstream media is in a self-described “crisis.” Dahr Jamail is an independent journalist who has been covering the Middle East for five years. He reported for 8 months from occupied Iraq, and is the author of “Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq.”
http://dahrjamailiraq.com/
Critical Mass!!!!
Bicycle! Bicycle! Get on your bikes and ride!
Date: Friday November 28th (and the last Friday of every month!)
Time: Gather at 5:30pm, leave at 6:00pm
Location: Justin Herman Plaza, San Francisco, CA
