UPDATES! UN WED Social Equity Track events...new calendars printed and available Tuesday

*United Nations World Environment Day
Social Equity Track
Calendar of Events: June 1-5, 2005 in S.F.*


Note: please check website: http://www.ellabakercenter.org for updates

*Wednesday, June 1

*7-9 pm (NOTE: TIME CHANGE)
*GREEN CITIES, BROWN FOLKS: RESPONSIBLE AND JUST URBAN ENVIRONMENTS*
Commonwealth Club, 595 Market Street, San Francisco
Sponsors: Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, Asian Pacific Environmental Network,
Indigenous
Environmental Network Urban Habitat, West Harlem Environmental Action.
Are you ready for a new vision of ecologically responsible urbanism? The vanguard of
our EJ movement
comes together to speak to community members about the footprint created by our
modern urban
environments and visionary hope for our future. Panel moderated by Juliet Ellis,
Executive Director of Urban
Habitat; panelists include Azibuike Akaba, Environmental Scientist,
Scholar-Activist; Vivian Chang, Executive
Director of Asian Pacific Environmental Network; Cecil Corbin-Mark, Director of West
Harlem Environmental Action; Raquel Rivera-Pinderhughes, Professor and Scholar
Activist at SF State and Clayton Thomas of the Indigenous Environmental Network.
Opening Remarks from Dr. Robert D. Bullard, Director of The Environmental Resource
Center at Clark Atlanta University.

*EMANCIPATING IMAGINATION: PRISONER ART EXHIBIT*
In conjunction with the Environmental Justice discussion (above) we will hold a
reception and unveil a rare
exhibit featuring poetry and pieces created by incarcerated artists. The exhibit is
co-curated by Prison
Creative Arts Project and The Ella Baker Center for Human Rights. All of the art
will be on display at the
Commonwealth Club from June 1st through June 5th. Food and Drink will be served at
the exhibit.
Contact: 510.428.3939 x229 . joshua [at] ellabakercenter.org

*Thursday, June 2

*2:30-4:30 pm
*CELEBRATING WATER DEMOCRACY: Promoting The Global Treaty on the Right to Water*
Metreon, 4th floor, 101 4th Street, San Francisco
Sponsored by: Ghana National Coalition Against Privatization of Water,
Public Citizen, International Working Group on the Convention on the
Right to Water, Communities for a Better Environment, African
International Mission, Hisperian Foundation, Women of Africa, Alliance
for Democracy, Environmental Justice Coalition for Water, Alliance for Democracy

From Bolivia to Bayview-Hunter's Point, from Ghana to Alpaugh in
California's Central Valley, water rights issues are paramount. This
event will celebrate successful democratic, participatory and
environmentally sustainable models of water management as well as
highlight innovative community-led public partnerships.
Contact: Mawuli Dake 917-327-5235 · mdake [at] citizen.org

5:00 - 7:00 pm
*GREEN JOBS & URBAN ECONOMIES: An Equitable Business Roundtable*
Fort Mason Festival Pavilion
Discussion to explore the role of ecologically-responsible enterprise in promoting
urban economic
development. Confirmed Speakers: Van Jones, Ella Baker Center; Kevin Danaher, Global
Exchange;
David Mohammed, The Mentoring Center; Elliot Hoffman, Just Dessets and Garden Project;
Omar Friella, Green Workers Cooperative; Ashley Pennington, The Noisette; Pat Brown,
People's Grocery;
and representatives of Delancy Street Foundation. Opening performance with Poet
Laureate, devorah major.
Co-sponsored by: Ella Baker Center, Global Exchange, People's Grocery and Chelsea Green
Contact: 510-428-3939 x 242 . malaika [at] ellabakercenter.org

7:00 - 10:00 pm
*THE GREENHOUSE "JAM" RECEPTION: Cultivating and Celebrating* *Sustainability Solution*
Fort Mason Festival Pavilion
To follow roundtable event, featuring live entertainment, poetry, food and drink
Sponsored by: San Francisco Urban Alliance for Sustainability
Speakers: Van Jones, Ella Baker Center Poets: Youth Speaks
An opportunity for networking and dialogue with break-out groups.
Contact: 415-999-5354 . kevinbayuk [at] yahoo.com

*Friday, June 3, 05*

1:00-4:30 pm
*BRIDGING SOCIAL JUSTICE AND THE ENVIRONMENT: Community Conversations*
Southeast Community Facility, Alex L. Pitcher Community Room, 1800 Oakdale Ave (at
Phelps) in SF
Sponsors: Small Village Enterprises, Circle of Life, Earth Island Institute,
Sustainable World Coalition, Global Exchange, Martin Luther King Jr. Freedom Center
The United Nations gathering offers an opportunity to highlight the struggles and
victories in one of the
Bay Area's most environmentally-impacted regions. Social justice leaders offer
solidarity and join
community members in a public forum followed by interactive conversations. Julia
Butterfly Hill and Van Jones will appear with community
leaders Cedric Jackson Sr., President of the SF Black Leadership Forum and NAACP
chair of Labor
and Industry, Veronica Hunnicutt, Dean of Students at City College of SF, Southeast
Campus, Lena Miller, Founder of Girls 2000 and others.
Contact: Paul Liotsakis at (415) 637-2339 or liotsakis [at] yahoo.com

7:00 pm
*HOMELAND: FOUR PORTRAITS OF NATIVE ACTION: Film Screening*
Castro Theater, Castro and Market, SF
The new, award-winning documentary will be screening as part of the
Green Screen Film Festival. Co-presented by the Mill Valley Film
Festival, HOMELAND will be introduced by noted Native American
activist, Gail Small, and award-winning filmmaker Roberta Grossman. Evon Peter of
Native Movement, represented in the film, will be present. The film
features leaders from four Native American communities passionately
engaged in struggles to preserve sovereignty and save their lands from
environmental degradation. HOMELAND won the Santa Barbara Fund for
Social Justice Award and the Audience Award for Best Documentary at the 2005 Santa
Barbara Int'l Film
Contact: Katahdin Foundation 510-666-0866 · Borshay [at] mindspring.com

*Saturday, June 4, 05

*11 am
*RALLY FOR ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
*Civic Center (Polk side, near Civic Center Bart)
From Bayview Hunters Point to communities around the world the people demand
environmental justice!
Mayors from around the world will be in San Francisco for United Nations World
Environment
Day meetings and celebrations. Unite to call on our government leaders to support
environmental
justice and oppose environmental racism.
GREENACTION For Health Environmental Justice Contact: 415-248-5010 http://www.greenaction.org

2:30-4:30 pm
*SOCIAL EQUITY AND THE ENVIRONMENT: ECO-EQUITY OR ECO-APARTHEID? *
Metreon, 2nd floor, 101 4th Street, San Francisco (SPACE FILLING UP FAST!)
Ella Baker Center unveils its new program Reclaim the Future, including initiatives
featured in the UN
Urban Accords. Keynote/Panel with prominent leaders in the Social and Environmental
Justice arenas
deliver initiatives to international mayors, United Nations officials and local,
community leaders.
Contact: 510-428-3939 x 227 . lora [at] ellabakercenter.org http://www.ellabakercenter.org

4:30 - 7:00 pm
*CELEBRATING SOCIAL EQUITY! A Reception with Community and International Leaders*
Metreon, 4th floor, 101 4th Street, San Francisco
Sponsors: Social Equity Track Community Groups*, Martin Luther King Jr. Freedom
Center, Vanguard Public
Foundation, Chelsea Green Publishing
Local, National and International Environmental and Social Justice leaders,
officials and celebrities
gather to celebrate victories and commit to solidarity. Linda Tillery and the
Cultural Heritage Choir (TBC).
ALL MAYORS AND DELEGATIONS IN ATTENDANCE!
Contact: 510-428-3939 x227 . lora [at] ellabakercenter.org

*HOW DID WE GET HERE? A PEOPLES HISTORY OF THE BAY AREA:
Art Opening in Conjunction with Reception (above)*
Forty years after the Civil Rights Movement, why do housing patterns in
many parts of the Bay Area remain segregated? Why are good jobs and
good schools still out of reach of neighborhoods where a majority of people
of color live? The answers are found in a beautifully illustrated
28-page comic book, "How Did We Get Here? A regional history of the Bay
Area," just published by the Oakland-based non-profit organization
Urban Habitat. The enlarged, full-color series, illustrated by Christine Wong
will be premiered. Leaders from the organization will be available to
dialogue with the public. Samples of the art exhibit in comic book form will also be
available.
Contact: 510-839-9510 x7 · Mateo [at] urbanhabitat.org · http://www.urbanhabitat.org

7:30 pm-late night! *JUST ADDED: GOAPELE and RADIO ACTIVE !!*
*VOICES RISING! AN EVENING of MUSIC, ART, DANCE AND POETRY
FOR SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE*
The Blue Cube, 34 Mason Street @ Market, San Francisco
(Just 3 blocks from the Metreon and 1 block West from Powell St. BART)

Sponsors: KPFA and Hard Knock Radio, Art in Action Youth Leadership Program, Youth
Speaks, People's Grocery, and Urban Mentor: US Partnership Youth Team
After the World Environment Day mayoral reception at the Metreon, get ready to be
enlivened by an
evening of acclaimed, socially-conscious performing artists and musicians. Featuring
poet laureate of
San Francisco, devorah major; slam-winning poets, Aya de Leon and Shailja Patel;
Brava Center for the
Arts hip-hop theater troupe Colored Ink; Oakland's premiere urban dance companies,
Destiny Arts and
DREAM; poet Rashidi Omari from Company of Prophets; Aimee Suzara of Kreatibo, and
young poets
from Youth Speaks; live music by Dialectic and Soulography; SF's favorite emcee:
Nafis; DJ Treat U Nice and DJ Naomi,
and surprise guests! Speakers from local organizations will share information.
Special performance with Beat Box Poet,
Radio Active. Other artists TBD: Loco Bloco.

The Blue Cube is the hottest, new, environmentally-conscious club in S.F. Two floors
of music and art. Organic Food will be available. All ages are welcome.
$10-25 Sliding Scale to Benefit Local Youth Projects (activist/youth discounts
available! NO ONE TURNED AWAY!)
Contact: 510-428-3939 x227 . allistarr [at] ellabakercenter.org
To Volunteer: volunteerworldevent [at] yahoo.com

7pm
A Night of Culture and Celebration Of Struggles & Victoriesfor Environmental Justice

St. Boniface Church 133 Golden Gate Avenue, San Francisco
Between Leavenworth and Jones Streets
Near Civic Center (or Powell St.) Bart/Muni - take public transportation or carpool
Mohave Bird Singers from Colorado River Indian Tribes
Malcolm X Polynesian Dancers Aztec Dancers
Hunters View Childrens Choir
Community Environmental Justice Leaders
Raffle, food, beverage, action video
$5-$100 or more, sliding scale--no one turned away for lack of funds
Greenaction for Health and Environmental Justice
(415) 248-5010 http://www.greenaction.org

*Sunday, June 5, 05

*2 pm
*PEOPLE'S SPOTLIGHT ON OIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE: From the Cradle to the Grave*
Civic Center Plaza, Polk Street between McAllister and Grove
Sponsors: Communities for a Better Environment, Amazon Watch, The Ella Baker Center
for Human Rights,
Asian Pacific Environmental Network, The Environmental Justice Climate Change
Initiative, Rainforest Action
Network, Redefining Progress, Urban Habitat, West County Toxics Coalition, Native
Movement
Organizations come together to hold a lively press conference on the local and
global impact of oil exploration and refineries. Speakers from Alaska's ANWR region,
Ecuador, Nigeria and Richmond share their stories about Chevron's destructive
impacts on the lives of their communities. Organizations will feature a photo
exhibit documenting Chevron's human rights and public health violations.
Contact: 510.428.3939 x229, joshua [at] ellabakercenter.org

**Stay tuned for calendar updates: http://www.ellabakercenter.org/WED**

(the official UN WED printed schedule has a ton of errors for many
events...please direct people to the website instead...for ex: they have
the wrong club printed for Voices Rising, etc.)
http://www.WED2005.org


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