Rally and Direct Action, Noon, Aug. 6th
South Park, (btw 2nd/3rd, Bryant/Brannan) San Francisco
Help Stop the Army’s Child Recruitment Program “America’s Army” Videogame Targets Children as Young as 13 South Park Game Companies Profit from Illegal Recruitment Program
Tell the companies “Break contract with the Army, No more child recruitment”
map can be found here
The US Army is recruiting soldiers with a videogame called “America’s Army.” The “game” incorporates real world weapons training systems into gameplay, and it records player data in a huge database called Andromeda for potential recruitment opportunities. Worst of all it is targeted at children as young as 13, which according to the ACLU violates the UN Optional Protocol on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict. Several bay area game companies work on “America’s Army” including Ubisoft the exclusive publisher, Gameloft in SF, and DCS in Emeryville. These companies profit from a recruitment program that sends young people off to kill and die in the illegal wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Join us at South Park, the heart of San Francisco’s tech industry, on Aug. 6th to demand these companies break contract with the Army, and the military end its recruitment program.
For more information visit actagainstwar.net or http://www.truthout.org/article/us-military-recruits-children
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Changing the Terms of Struggle: Lessons from 10 years of Critical Resistance
A Study and Struggle Event
Please join us for a discussion on lessons from the vision, strategy, and practice of Critical Resistance with longtime organizers Rose Braz and Rachel Herzing.
Wednesday August 13th 6:30-9:30
SF Friends (Quakers) Meetinghouse
65 Ninth St. SF (between Market and Mission)
Block and a half from Civic Center BART/MUNI
Wheelchair Accessible
This Study and Struggle event is focused on drawing key lessons from the experiences of Critical Resistance as a multiracial, membership based, non-hierarchical organization utilizing cutting edge strategies that work for immediate reforms and long term systemic change. CR works to create/support alternative practices to address violence and safety with the goal of developing healthy and safe self-governing communities. This is an opportunity to step back and reflect on CR so as to help all of us be more effective, dynamic, strategic and visionary in our work for liberation.
Study and Struggle is a Catalyst Project political education series designed to bring together left activists, organizers and intellectuals in a non-sectarian, movement building space to help develop political theory, vision and strategy. We’d love to have you there. Please bring friends and comrades.
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RNC/DNC mobilizing info @ www.indybay.org/conventions2008
UA in the Bay: FINAL ORGANIZING MEETING against the RNC/DNC:
Sunday, August 10th, 3-7pm
Long Haul Infoshop, 3124 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley
UA in the Bay: BENEFIT SHOWS:
#1: Thursday, August 14th, 8pm
The Eagle Tavern, 398 12th St., SF
#2: Saturday, August 16th, 4pm
Albany Bulb, Albany
(more info about the shows will be hosted here: www.indybay.org/conventions2008)
Disrupt The DNC: MONDAY, August 24th-28th
Denver, CO
Blockade The RNC: MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 1st
St. Paul, MN
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CRITICAL MASS!!!
Bicycle! Bicycle! Get on your bikes and ride!
Date: Friday August 29th (and the last Friday of every month!)
Time: Gather at 5:30pm, leave at 6:00pm
Location: Justin Herman Plaza, San Francisco, CA
