SF events 12.5 Free Josh Wolf

12/5 all day FREE admission to de Young Museum in Golden Gate Park

12/5 11:00 am FREE admission to Asian Art Museum & Celebrate Pasko-the Filipino Christmas
Asian Art Museum sometimes has a line and you cannot get in.
That is the site where the SF Public Library destroyed tens? of thousands of books.
SF public library: "we hate books"

Sexological Bodywork lecture tonight! Tuesday, December 5, 7:45 PM

Stop Video Surveillance! - Police Commission Meeting Wed, 12/6 5:30pm SF City Hall

Free Chocolate by April Banks & Holiday Party Wed Dec 6, 6PM 446 Valencia St

Tue Dec 5 7pm Lecture & Book Signing for "Bird Flu: A Virus of Our Own Hatching" Oakland

12/7 5:30 -7:30pm FREE first thursdays - art galleries open 49 Geary

Thu, Dec 7, 2006 6:30 pm - 9:30 pm
All Women's Art Show Hotel Des Arts 447 Bush @ Grant / Kearny St SF

FREE JOSH WOLF EVENT Thu Dec 7 7:30 Balazo Gallery, 2183 Mission St

very kinky Thu/ Fri / Sat / Sun http://sfcitadel.org/calendar.php

Embodied Community Day Saturday Oakland, 1 Block from BART

SAT DEC. 9th @1pm SF: SUPPORT GI RESISTANCE & GI RIGHTS!
401 Van Ness Ave at McAllister St (Civic Center BART)

SF Holiday Potluck, Sat Dec 9 6pm 3600 Geary http://sfvs.org SF Veg. Soc.

The Hotties of Harm Reduction and Kink.com present:
***Drugs******Sex******Furious Dancing*** MOXY
Sat Dec 8p.m.-2a.m. @ Kink.com's Fabulous P O R N PALACE
415 Jesse (parallel to Mission b/w 5th and 6th)

KPFA Crafts & Music Fair Sat Dec 9 - Sunday, Dec 10 10am-6pm
Concourse at SF Design Center 8th at Brannan

INTERNATIONAL ANIMAL RIGHTS DAY - DEC. 10TH - 11:30 AM - UCSF

Dec. 10 Reproductive Rights Movie Benefit at the Parkway Theatre
Featuring the documentary: "The Last Abortion Clinic"
Sunday, December 10, 2:00PM Parkway Speakeasy Theatre
1834 Park Boulevard, Oakland

Sunday Dec. 10- Scott Ritter and Jeff Cohen to Speak on U. S. Targeting Iran and Media Disinformation
Scott Ritter & Jeff Cohen on U. S. Targeting Iran and Media Disinformation
Olney Hall, the College of Marin, Sunday, December 10 at 2-4 pm

Int'l Human Rights Day...100 Teach-Ins...Volunteer!
WORLD CAN'T WAIT! - DRIVE OUT THE BUSH REGIME!
Sunday, December 10, 12 noon – and throughout the day!
Place: United Nations Plaza San Francisco, CA (by the fountain)
http://www.worldcantwait.org Questions? Call 415-864-5153

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Tuesday Dec 5 http://indybay.org
6PM SF: WorldChanging book release/networking event
6PM SF: Nobody Passes BOOK LAUNCH
7PM Call To Action:Dec.5--Oakland Condo-Conversion...
7PM Free Forum - "United States v. Bush et al"
7PM "Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace" by Maxine...
7PM Call To Action:Dec.5--Oakland Condo-Conversion...
7PM This is the Public Domain
Wednesday Dec 6
6:30PM Another Media is Possible: The Independent Press...
More Events... http://indybay.org

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The new Friends of the Urban Forest Events Calendar for December and January is now available.
http://www.fuf.net/calendar_news/index.html

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ACTION: Support Plan B
http://prochoiceaction.org


Toxic trade-off -- intra-body toxins
http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/16155377.htm


Nanoparticles: Health Effects Pros and Cons
http://www.ehponline.org/members/2006/8871/8871.pdf


No-stick chemicals can mimic estrogen.
http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20061202/note16.asp


PFOA PFOS: Chemicals in everyday products can be found in humans; effect on health not definitively known
http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/living/health/16146816.htm


Chemical roulette: What price would you put on your prostate, liver or fertility?
http://www.insidebayarea.com/oaklandtribune/ci_4765520


Raw chicken dirtier than ever, report says
http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/printedition/2006/12/05/meshchicken1205a.html


Old forest sucks up greenhouse gas, study says
http://www.theworldlink.com/articles/2006/12/01/news/news09120106.txt


Europe's warmest autumn in 500 years
Results hint that Europe may be in for a warm winter.
http://www.nature.com/news/2006/061204/full/061204-2.html


Alps experiencing warmest time in 1,300 years
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16052360


Southern Ocean could slow global warming
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-12/uoa-soc120406.php


After a Fire, Mercury Rises in a Lake’s Food Chain
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/05/science/05observ.html?_r=1&oref=slogin




the fourth world war
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6059274620628081943&pr=goog-sl&hl=en


UBD Jege #1 -- Military Commissions Act 2006 DEFINITIONS:
http://usconstitution.net/const.html


As The NSA Is My Witness #1 -- No Brains No Headaches - JFK - inside job
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/12/04/18335083.php


The Return of M3
http://bigpicture.typepad.com/comments/2006/11/the_return_of_m.html


Media: Olbermann Proves Dissent Has An Audience
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/45007


Gates Wanted to Bomb Nicaragua in 1984!
http://www.nicanet.org


Newt World Order
Bush and co paving the way for power mad freaks like Gingrich
http://www.infowars.net/articles/november2006/301106Newt.htm
Keith Olbermann devoted a section of his Countdown program to Gingrich's abomination
http://www.infowars.net/articles/november2006/301106Newt.htm


Masonic Noise and the Greatest Who-Dunnit in History
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/12/01/18334511.php

America's Secret Desitny - Ralph Epperson
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-606893796448400152


THE THIRDWORLDIZATION OF EVERYWHERE
http://www.snowshoefilms.com/resistingwar.html


JFK, RFK, 9-11 & Waco: The ultimate bodice-ripper!
By Jane Stillwater http://jpstillwater.blogspot.com


Another 9/11 Documentary: 'Improbable Collapse', 20061202
http://www.improbablecollapse.com


A much better 9/11 Documentary list
http://www.oilempire.us/movies.html
also
http://www.oilempire.us/pentagon.html
http://www.oilempire.us/no-plane-timeline.html
http://www.oilempire.us/state.html


JustClick
http://st12.startlogic.com/~xenonpup/Flashes/squibview.mpg

A picture is worth a thousand words a Video is worth a million words

Fast loading MPEG shows moving closeup of the Squibs (small explosive
blasts) coming out the side of building #7 just before and as it falls.
Proving it was brought down with pre-installed explosives 8 hours after
the WTCs #1 & #2 fell.
Not by a fire or by an earthquake caused by the other WTCs falling
like some 9/11 cover up artists claim.
Why isn't Silverstein in jail considdering that he was seen and heard
telling the firemen to pull it on a PBS video ? Oh I forgo, He is filthy
rich and connected and the laws do not apply to His Kind !

( Pass It On to everyone + Media and government types !)

squibview.mpg
http://st12.startlogic.com/~xenonpup/Flashes/squibview.mpg

Nails In The Coffin of Trade Seven - WTC-7 Collapse Footage Shows
Unmistakable Demolition Charges

More here
http://www.libertyforum.org/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=consp_911&Number=293140235


911 - inside job. Demand investigation!
http://www.wtc7.net
http://www.physics911.org
http://www.911-strike.com
http://www.oilempire.us
http://www.dieoff.org
http://www.peakoil.net
http://bombsinsidewtc.dk
http://www.911review.com
http://911research.wtc7.net/talks/towers/index.html
http://www.globalresearch.ca
http://www.cooperativeresearch.org
http://www.911review.com/index.html
http://www.911truth.org
http://www.911review.com/911review/index.html
http://www.scholarsfor911truth.org

http://www.deceptiondollar.com
http://www.UnansweredQuestions.org
http://www.communitycurrency.org/9-11.html
http://www.cooperativeresearch.org
http://www.osamaskidneys.com

http://www.falloutshelternews.com
http://www.topica.com/lists/politicaldiary


911 - inside job. Demand investigation!
http://www.serendipity.li/wot/finn/military.htm
http://cui.unige.ch/isi/sscr/phys/anti-BPP-3.html
http://www.wtc7.net - http://www.physics911.org
http://www.911truth.org - http://www.911-strike.com
http://www.oilempire.us - http://www.dieoff.org
http://www.peakoil.net - http://www.deceptiondollar.com
http://bombsinsidewtc.dk - http://www.911review.com
http://www.globalresearch.ca - http://www.cooperativeresearch.org
http://www.911review.com/index.html
http://www.scholarsfor911truth.org
http://www.UnansweredQuestions.org
http://www.communitycurrency.org/9-11.html
http://www.cooperativeresearch.org
http://www.falloutshelternews.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YP-Uh7w-mw8
http://www.bvalphaserver.com/content-21.html
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/09/13/18309235.php
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2044465,00.html

beware of 911 disinfo: http://www.oilempire.us/bogus.html



December 2006

Tue Dec 5

12/5 FREE admission de Young Museum in Golden Gate Park 1st Tues of Month

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12/5 FREE admission to Asian Art Museum & Celebrate Pasko-the Filipino Christmas

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Tue, Dec 5, 2006 - Tue, Dec 19, 2006 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Weekly Teach-In and Vigil Against American Torture and the Dictatorial Presidency
in front of Boalt Hall Law School
Bancroft Avenue (at the fountain at the end of College Ave) Berkeley
http://globalexchange.org/getInvolved/bayarea.php

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WorldChanging Tour: SF Tue Dec 5 6:00 PM
111 Minna Gallery 111 Minna St SF, CA 94105

Please join the WorldChanging Team to celebrate not only the book, but also the local community of people and organizations who are engaged in worldchanging work. We will feature brief introductory remarks from people we respect and admire. The point is to create an avenue for spotlighting and connecting worldchangers and worldchanging things...and most importantly, to meet one another and have a great time.
http://www.worldchanging.com

Hosted by: Brad DeGraf, Gil Friend, Patrick Reinsborough, Cameron Sinclair

RSVP: WorldchangingSF[at]gmail.com
http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/005027.html

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Tue Dec 5 7pm Lecture & Book Signing for "Bird Flu: A Virus of Our Own Hatching"
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/10/12/18319893.php

East Bay Animal Advocates, Compassionate Cooks & San Francisco Vegetarian Society invite you:

A Special Lecture & Book Signing by Michael Greger, M.D.

Tuesday, December 5th at 7 p.m. Free Admission
Humanist Hall, 390 27th Street, Oakland
between Broadway and Telegraph, Just North of Grand Ave.

Topic: "Surviving the Next Pandemic: Bird Flu and Other Emerging Infectious Diseases"

Leading public health authorities now predict as inevitable a pandemic of influenza, triggered by bird flu and expected to lead to millions of deaths around the globe. The influenza virus has existed for millions of years as an innocuous intestinal virus of wild ducks. What turned a harmless waterborne duck virus into a killer? In an engaging multimedia presentation, Dr. Michael Greger traces the human role in the evolution of this virus. In the face of the coming pandemic, Dr. Greger reveals what we can do to protect our families and what human society to can do to reduce the likelihood of such potential catastrophes in the future.

Michael Greger, M.D., is a physician, author, and internationally recognized professional speaker on a number of important public health issues. Dr. Greger has been invited to lecture at countless universities, medical schools and conferences around the world, including the Conference on World Affairs, the Bird Flu Summit, and the National Institutes of Health. Learn more at
http://www.drgreger.org mirrored at http://veganmd.org

Questions and RSVP's: Info @ EastBayAnimalAdvocates.org

Sign up for Dr. Greger's free quarterly email newsletter.
drgregersnewsletter-subscribe [at] lists.riseup.net
http://www.drgreger.org http://veganmd.org
BEST NUTRITION LETTER I HAVE SEEN! ( I am open to others/ please send them to me...)
http://www.drgreger.org/newsletters.html (Please see the archive here to save your life.)

http://rawfamily.com Enjoy an organic green smoothie!
(second best newsletter) Send me others if you'd like to share.

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Free Forum - "United States v. Bush et al" Tuesday December 05 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Community Media Center 900 San Antonio Rd., Palo Alto FREE
http://indybay.org/newsitems/2006/11/29/18334098.php

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Pet Noir Release Party Tuesday, December 5, 7-9PM
Cartoon Art Museum 655 Mission St @ 3rd / 4th St. SF, CA 94105

The Cartoon Art Museum and Manic D Press are pleased to celebrate the release of "Pet Noir: An Anthology of Strange But True Pet Crime Stories."

This special event is free and open to the public.

Approximately 124 million dogs and cats live in U..S. households‹nearly one pet for every two Americans. It's official -- we love our pets -- but like every love affair, our relationship with our four-legged friends has a dark side.

Pet Noir: An Anthology of Strange but True Pet Crime Stories
Edited by Shannon O'Leary, published by Manic D Press

The notorious San Francisco deadly dog mauling. The infamous Petaluma cat lady. The heartbreaking saga of Leo the Bichon-Frisé's untimely demise at the hands of a savage road-raging lunatic.

Yes, these stories all made headlines around the world, and now Pet Noir: An Anthology of Strange but True Pet Crime Stories explores what happens when our affairs with animals become dangerous liaisons.

Conceived and edited by Shannon O'Leary, and drawn by today¹s finest comic book artists, this innovative, compassionate illustrated anthology sheds fur on some of the most peculiar animal offenses in recent headlines and examines our individual relationships with animals in true stories of oddly humorous and heartbreaking personal pet crimes.

This entertaining, informative comics collection grabs traditional noir storytelling by the tail to take the reader on a vivid ride that exposes America's obsession with true crime (note the popularity of TV shows like Animal Cop: San Francisco) in a darkly comedic approach while raising awareness about critical animal welfare issues. Pet Noir will grab the attention of true-crime fans, pet lovers, animal advocates, vegans, and graphic-novel aficionados.

A portion of the profits from the sales of Pet Noir will be donated to the Animal Legal Defense Fund (http://www.aldf.org), which protects and advances the interests of animals through the legal system.

Featured Pet Noir artists include Andy Ristaino (The Babysitter), Lev Yilmaz (Tales of Mere Existence), Trevor Alixopolous (Mine Tonight), Eric Saxby, John Isaacson (DIY Silkscreening), August Bournique, Ben Claassen III, Bitter Pie, Fly (PEOPs), Fred Einaudi, Lark Pien (Orchid), Eric Koepfle (Fortune's Bitch), Melanie Lewis (PS Comics), Mary Fleener (Life of the Party), Damien Jay, Jen Feinberg (Little Scrowlie), Joan Reilly (Hi-Horse), MariNaomi (Estrus), N8 Van Dyke (Heavy Metal), Paul Musso, Peter Conrad (Attempted Not Known, Lou¹s Garage), and Ric Carrasquillo.

"Pet Noir is fantastic! The writing is clever, the artwork original, and the stories proving the old adage that the truth is way stranger than fiction. I loved it!" -- Jane Wiedlin, the Go-Go's

³Shannon O'Leary and the artists behind Pet Noir bring gentle life to the often-strange intersections of animal cruelty, our criminal justice system, and the roles played by the media and our own cultural conditioning in responding to crimes involving animals." -- Lisa Franzetta, ALDF

About the Publisher: Manic D Press is an award-winning publishing company based in San Francisco, specializing in literature, art, and popular culture. With more than 80 titles in print, Manic D Press books are distributed throughout the US by Consortium.

128 pages, 7 x 9 trade paperback, ISBN 1-933149-11-6, $13.95
MEDIA CONTACT: Jennifer Joseph, 415-648-8288
info [at] manicdpress.com
Homepage
http://www.amazon.com/Pet-Noir-Anthology-Strange-Stories
event listing: http://upcoming.org/event/127782

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Sexological Bodywork lecture tonight! Tuesday, December 5, 7:45 PM
Tonight at One Taste Urban Retreat Center! Joseph Kramer, founder of the Body Electric school, and Chrys Fawley, Editor of Squirm, are presenting
Sexological Bodywork for Embodied Erotic Trance
Have all of your questions about male and female genital massage answered by the experts.
7:45-9:45 pm $10 suggested donation, no one turned away
1074 Folsom St, cross st 7th (415) 503-1100
sponsored by the Urban Monk sensual immersion program
http://www.onetastesf.com/urbanmonk/ump/lecture.html

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Beginner Hoopdance Intensive San Francisco Dec 5-7 events » sports / rec
SERIES: A super energizing series designed for the beginner -- no ... event starts Tuesday, December 5, 2006 - 7:30 PM
http://hoopgirl.com http://sanfrancisco.tribe.net

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Wed Dec 6

Stop Video Surveillance! - Police Commission Meeting Wed, 12/6
Wednesday, December 6, 2006 5:30 PM
San Francisco City Hall 1 Dr. Carlton B. Goodlett Place
San Francisco, California 94102

The SF Police Commission is voting next Wednesday, December 6, about whether to approve surveillance cameras at 16th and Mission Streets.

The City says the cameras are going up because people who live, work, and walk in San Francisco , want them.
If you don ' t want cameras, please come to the following meeting:

Police Commission Meeting
Wednesday, December 6 at 5:30 p.m.
at San Francisco City Hall,
Room 400, San Francisco, California.

We all want safe communities, but video cameras are just not the solution.

The expanded video surveillance program should be rejected because:

It is ineffective in reducing crime. Study after study demonstrates that video surveillance cameras do not reduce crime or the fear of crime in the long-run. Crime just moves from one corner to another.
It threatens privacy and free speech rights, allowing the government to track what you are doing and where you are going.
It is expensive. The funds proposed for the surveillance cameras could be better spent on more effective crime-reduction measures such as increased foot patrols, community policing, or better lighting.
Please forward this information to others about the meetings and also send an email to the Police Commission at sfpd.commission [at] sfgov.org and let them know you don ' t want cameras.

For more information, please log onto
http://www.aclunc.org/issues/technology/say_no_to_video_surveillance.shtml

event listing:
http://upcoming.org/event/130612/

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Neighborhood Parks Council Holiday Party
Location: Neighborhood Parks Council (office)
451 Hayes Street, 2nd Floor, San Francisco, CA View Map
Wednesday, December 6, 5:30pm (415) 621-3260
Please join us for our annual Holiday Party. Share some cheer among kindred
souls, imbibe Isabel Wade's "famous punch," and play the "park trivia" game.
We will provide some delicious vittles, but please consider bringing your
own favorite dish to share. Please RSVP and let us know whether you can join
us. If you are interested in bringing a dish, please let us know that too.
Contact Leni or Helen at (415) 621-3260 if you have any questions.
Bus Lines: 21 Hayes, 22 Fillmore, 49 or 47 Van Ness

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Free Chocolate by April Banks & Holiday Party 446 Valencia St

The Gallery At Intersection

Free Chocolate by April Banks

December 6, 2006 - February 17, 2007

Gallery Hours: Tues by appt, Wed - Sat, 12 - 5PM
Opening Reception & Holiday Party: Wed Dec 6, 6PM

In her first solo exhibition, Bay Area conceptual
artist April Banks
<http://www.mezostudio.com> examines the intricate
global economy that is
driven by the constantly growing demand for cocoa.
Control of cocoa/cacao
farming has spawned civil wars and caused major
shifts in kinship and
regional economies. Based on years of research and
travel to cacao farms in
Ghana and Cuba and to the New York Board of Trade,
Banks explores cocoa's
global journey from farmer, to trader, to chocolate
lover. In addition to
the new exhibition featuring photography, sculptural
installation, and
graphic design, Banks is collaborating with Bay Area
artists and artisans to
create a "micro chocolate shop" that will offer
products inspired by and
based on chocolate. This ambitious project grapples
with issues of
colonization and slavery, fair trade and
sustainability, and the complex
relationship between the guilt and desire of eating
chocolate.

Intersection for the Arts has an upcoming show and
series of events....

http://theintersection.org/calendar/program_gallery.php

Free Chocolate by April Banks
December 6, 2006 - February 17, 2007

Gallery Hours: Tues by appt, Wed - Sat, 12 - 5pm,
FREE

Wednesday December 6, 6 - 9pm
Opening Celebration & Intersection's Holiday Party,
FREE

Thursday January 25, 7pm
Chocolate Tasting with Frederick Schilling, founder
of DAGOBA Organic
Chocolate, $5-$20

Saturday January 27, 1pm
Conversaton with April Banks, FREE

Wednesday February 7, 7pm
The Chocolate Trade: Discussion about fair trade &
chocolate with Tex
Dworkin (Global Exchange), Ella Silverman (TransFair
USA) & Tom Neuhause
(Project Hope & Fairness, Sweet Earth Organic
Chocolates), FREE

Thursday February 8, 7pm
Heart Shaped Box: Truffle Making Workshop, $5-$20

In her first solo exhibition, Bay Area conceptual
artist April Banks
examines the intricate global economy that is driven
by the constantly
growing demand for cocoa. Control of cocoa/cacao
farming has spawned civil
wars and caused major shifts in kinship and regional
economies. Based on
years of research and travel to cacao farms in Ghana
and Cuba and to the New
York Board of Trade, Banks explores cocoa's global
journey from farmer, to
trader, to chocolate lover. In addition to the new
exhibition featuring
photography, sculptural installation, and graphic
design, Banks is
collaborating with Bay Area artists and artisans to
create a "micro
chocolate shop"
that will offer products inspired by and based on
chocolate. This ambitious
project grapples with issues of colonization and
slavery, fair trade and
sustainability, and the complex relationship between
the guilt and desire of
eating chocolate.

April Banks strives to create work that is
simultaneously beautiful and
uncomfortable. Drawing from her background in
architecture, she began
experimenting with combinations of space,
photography, sound, video and
performance. Through this experience, she found her
voice in installation
art, creating pieces that are visually beautiful yet
ideologically
challenging. Her recent work confronts the
complexity and irony of desire
and guilt and explores our human tendencies and
contradictions for our need
for beauty. Motivated by travel and observation and
immersion into other
cultures, she chooses travel experiences to force a
change of perspective.
Banks has a Master of Science in Environmental
Design from Art Center
College of Design and a Bachelor of Architecture
from Hampton University.
She has exhibited her work in Los Angeles, San
Francisco Bay Area (Yerba
Buena Center for the Arts, Pro Arts Gallery, African
American Museum &
Library of Oakland), Chicago, Minneapolis, and
Cleveland. This exhibition,
Free Chocolate, is her first solo exhibition.

Todd Greenberg Proactive Capital Management LLC
415-276-2727 Direct 415-276-2700 Main
415-271-2727 Mobile toddg @ proactivecap.com

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Wed, Dec 6, 2006 7:00 pm Bolivia Report with Photos
The Redwoods Presbyterian Church 110 Magnolia Avenue Larkspur
http://globalexchange.org/getInvolved/bayarea.php

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Wednesday, Dec 6th 8PM; Oaxaca: A Portrait of Rebellion
Oaxaca: A Portrait of Rebellion
Wednesday, December 6th, 8PM

Station 40
3030b 16th Street (@ Mission)
San Francisco

Barucha Calamity Peller, who has participated in anti-authoritarian collectives in Mexico for the past 4 years, has just returned from Oaxaca where there has been a widely defended popular uprising and where dozens have people have died an disappeared alone in this past week. She will give a presentation on the Popular Assembly of the People of Oaxaca (APPO), the life at the barricades, international solidarity and the brutal repression and assassinations at the hands of paramilitaries and police throughout last month and specifically on November 25th. Her presentation and first hand accounts will also include a slideshow and recent videos from Oaxaca.

Barucha's articles from Oaxaca published on counterpunch.org can be found here:
http://www.counterpunch.org/peller11182006.html
http://www.counterpunch.org/peller11112006.html

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Juggle... or Spin... or jump around like a monkey... Oakland, Wed the 6th 8:30 PM
Come join us for a night of play. Object manipulation at its finest in our new high-ceiling location.
4401 San Leandro, Oakland 8:30-midnight. Contact me for info on parking and getting in. http://tribe.net

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Thu Dec 7

Dec 7th Resist the Green Scare Potluck

Station40, Dec. 7th - 7pm

Resist the Green Scare! In solidarity with Green Scare awareness day,
Station40 is hosting a potlock dinner, letter writing and film screening
against the Green Scare and in support of political prisoners, free speech
and dissent.

Screening of Refusing to be Silent, a video interview with Josh Harper of
the SHAC7 (20 min.) and 22/8: The Jeff Luers Story (40 min). Screenings
will start around 8:00pm. Lots of information and materials supplied.
There will definitely be space to talk about prisoner support/grand jury
resistance planning.

Sliding scale donations for prisoner legal support $3 - $100.

Station40 is located at 3030b 16th, between Mission and Valencia. website:
http://www.3030b.org

"The 'Green Scare' refers to the federal government's expanding
prosecution efforts against animal liberation and ecological activists,
which is strikingly similar to the 'Red Scare' of the 1950s. The 'Green
Scare' includes the cases from the 'Operation Backfire' indictments, and
the cases of the SHAC7 (shac7.com), Eric McDavid (supporteric.org), Rod
Coronado (supportrod.org), Jeff Hogg, Josh Wolf and several recent federal
grand jury subpoenas."

For More Information on the Green Scare: http://www.greenscare.org
http://www.fbiwitchhunt.com http://www.cldc.org

3030b 16th St @ Mission San Francisco, CA 94103 (503)539-9264

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12/7 5:30 -7:30pm FREE first thursdays - art galleries open 49 Geary
30 art galleries in a 5 story building. Also 14 Geary, 77 Geary.
Plus sometimes galleries North on Grant, and West on Sutter.

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Thu, Dec 7, 2006 6:30 pm - 9:30 pm
All Women's Art Show Hotel Des Arts 447 Bush @ Grant / Kearny St SF
http://globalexchange.org/getInvolved/bayarea.php

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12/7: Torture Taxi: On the Trail of the CIA's Rendition Flights
http://sfbay.craigslist.org/nby/eve/228800929.html
Trevor Paglen & A.C. Thompson
Torture Taxi: On the Trail of the CIA's Rendition Flights
http://www.bookpassage.com/event_detailed.php?id=252
Thursday, December 7, 2006, 7:00 PM
Book Passage, 51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera, CA 94925 (415) 927-0960 West on Tamalpais Dr. From 101, North (Right) on Madera Blvd which becomes Tamal Vista.
http://maps.google.com
Trevor Paglen and AC Thompson talk about Torture Taxi: On the Trail of the CIA’s Rendition Flights ($23.00). This important book, which is the combined effort of an award-winning investigative journalist and a military geographer, exposes the CIA program of extraordinary rendition. Thompson is a staff writer at the S.F. Weekly. Paglen is the author of the two volume study Secret Bases, Secret Wars.

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FREE JOSH WOLF EVENT Thursday, December 7th 2006, 7:30

Balazo Gallery, 2183 Mission Street @18th, 415-255-7227 ALL AGES

On December 7th join journalists, activists, and local leaders in calling upon the United States Government to free Josh Wolf from coercive custody. Josh is a San Francisco free-lance journalist being held for his refusal, based on journalistic principles, to turn over to a federal grand jury his news footage from a July 2005 protest. Free press advocates from around the world have called his incarceration unjust and a grave violation of the freedom of the press.

Speakers at this event will include Assemblyman Mark Leno, SF Bay Guardian Publisher Bruce Bruggman and many more. Kevin Epps (Straight Outta Hunters Point) will screen his new short film about Josh and music will be provided by a special guest DJ.

Josh Wolf is well on his way to becoming the longest incarcerated journalist in US history. His case has prompted the Reporters Without Borders to lower the United States' ranking for press freedom nine points to 53rd in the world.

For his commitment to journalistic freedom Josh Wolf has just received the 2006 Journalist of the Year Award from the Society of Professional Journalists. On this occasion he was praised by Assemblyman Mark Leno who commended his "courageous dedication to protecting freedom of the press in our country."

Please join the San Francisco community in supporting Josh Wolf and demanding that Congress pass a Federal Shield Law protecting journalists and freedom of the press. For more information about Josh Wolf go to http://www.joshwolf.net or contact Andy Blue at andy.blue(at)yahoo.com

Speakers to Include:
Mark Leno, California State Assemblyman
Bruce Bruggman, Editor/Publisher San Francisco Bay Guardian
David Greene, Executive Director, The First Amendment Project
Chris Daly, SF Supervisor
Ross Mirkarimi, SF Supervisor
Jane Kim, SF School Board Commissioner Elect
Sarah Olson, radio producer and independent journalist
Kevin Epps, Filmmaker

Event Sponsors: SF Bay Guardian The Free Josh Wolf Coalition
League of Young Voters Reporters Without Borders Youth Radio
$10 suggested donation. No one turned away for lack of funds. All proceeds go to Josh's legal fund.
http://indybay.org

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Fri Dec 8 5lowershop presents! 7pm free
Don't miss this event!
A Multimedia Exhibition featuring local Bay Area Artsits
Video, music and art installations by:
Bitter Pie, Donna Wood, Fidgetron, Morgan Reed, Jehn Blum, Heartworm,
Lucy Stoner, Jamie Bond, 666 Ganstaz, Soltingr, aviatrix, Skwerley
Sofie Suylsteke, Filthmilk, plus many more!
December 8, 2006 08:00 PM - 09:00 PM
5lowershop warehouse 992 Peralta San Francisco, CA 94124
http://www.5lowershop.org
http://laughingsquid.com/squidlist/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=8789&year=2006&month=12

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Fri, Dec 8, 2006 - Sun, Dec 10, 2006
Blood Diamond Postcards in theatres across the country
http://globalexchange.org/getInvolved/bayarea.php

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very kinky Thu/ Fri / Sat / Sun

This Week SF Citadel... Mens Party , Womens Party. PLUS Flea and Fandango

Thursday, December 7th, 2006 7:30 PM

100 Ways to Play: a Catalog of Kink
with Angela and Iain
at SF Citadel, in SOMA district of San Francisco
1277 Mission St at Ninth St

doors 7:00, program 7:30 - 10:30 ish PM
$10 - $20, sliding scale, notaflof
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EduKink
http://edukink.tribe.net
http://EduKink.org
http://sfcitadel.org

At a good party, you?ll see dozens of different techniques in action. Which ones are easier? What are they called? How do you learn them? Which players are safe and competent, versus merely flamboyant, or even dangerous?

We cover all the techniques you?re likely to see in a dungeon or be asked to try. For each we include what it looks like, what it feels like for the top and bottom, what it?s really about, safety, equipment, difficulty, and how to learn it.

Coverage includes techniques in ten groups: Bondage, Dominance/submission, Electrical, Fetish, Impact, Medical, Psychological, Role-play, Sensation, and Sex play. Because of limited time, we cannot fully teach every technique, but this program prepares you to select and attend specialized classes in the individual techniques that interest you.
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Angela and Iain are officers in the Society of Janus, Dungeon Monitors for SF Citadel and elsewhere, and teach BDSM classes at all levels, at many venues. Their teaching style combines humor and approachability with clarity and thorough research.

Reservations not required. Membership not required. You don't need to bring or wear anything special. If time is tight, you can bring dinner to eat during the class. The class is open to anyone 18 years and older with a sincere, positive, personal interest in BDSM / leather / kink. All roles, genders, and orientations welcome. If you have questions you may write to edukink AT yahoo DOT com
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More information at http://EduKink.org
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Monthly All-Male Dungeon Party
Friday Dec 8th Start Time: 8:00 PM

Join us for hot male-on-male action in San Francisco's premier dungeon space! We provide slings and crosses and cages and bondage tables and lockers and lounge chairs and safer sex supplies - plus some other surprises! Check it out!

Volunteers play for free. Here's the volunteer lineup:
- Set-up (2 guys, 7pm)
- Clean-up (3 guys, 1am)
- Dungeon Monitors (must be trained and certified)
- Desk (1 per hour)
- Locker attendant/runner (1 per hour)

Note that with the layout at the new place, we don't need a lonely door person, but we do need someone to manage the locker keys, keep chip bowls full, put out safer sex supplies as needed, and keep the place tidy during the party so that the final cleanup goes a little bit quicker.

To volunteer, contact sfomaster @ yahoo.com

Admission: $20 per person
RSVPs are not required
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Red, Black, and Blue All Over- Women's Play Party at SF Citadel
Saturday, December 9th
Start Time: 8:00 PM

Red, Black, and Blue All Over
Women's Play Party at SF Citadel
8:00 PM - 1:00 AM
SF Citadel
1277 Mission St. (between 8th and 9th)

Are YOU ready to paint the town red? How about spanking a pretty girl's bottom 'til it turns that color? Or leaving black and blue marks on a naughty boi's skin? Punching, pinching, paddling, and piercing are all okay at this pervy palace on this night where the women run wild.

Vivi the Brat and SF Citadel invite all women of the leather, BDSM, and kink communities to a women-only play party! Come to the Citadel, San Francisco's premier dungeon space, for a juicy event for women and woman-identified transfolk.

We provide a safe space to play, music, dungeon equipment, water, snacks, and safer sex supplies. Your provide yourselves (hot kinky women!!) your energy, and whatever toys make you tingle. Come alone, come partnered, or bring a group of friends!

Admission: $20 per person or 1 hour work-exchange
You must be a Citadel member to attend. Memberships can always be obtained at the door on the night of the party. They cost $10 per year.

Questions? Want to VOLUNTEER and waive the admission fee?
Contact Vivi at womensparty [at] sfcitadel.org
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Lady Thorn's SM Community Exchange
Sunday Dec 10th
Start Time: 2:00 PM
Lady Thorn's Flea
Start Time: 2:00 PM

Join us for an afternoon at the Bizarre Flea (2 - 5pm), topped off with the Fandango play party at the SF Citadel (6:30 - midnight).
The Flea is at 942 Mission, between 5th and 6th Streets.
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FANDANGO PLAY PARTY!
Open PLay Party
Start Time: 6:30 PM
Fandango

Special things are happening at Fandango this December. We have Jeff and Michelle cooking for us again. They do amazing things with food and we are proud to have them back. They are cooking a special menu of wonderful food for both meat eaters and vegetarians.

To top off the night, we have Mystic Moods spinning sounds and Cuir Bleu performing live.
What a great night which shouldn’t be missed.
Get your tickets at the Fandango booth or at the door.
Fandango starts at 6:30 PM and goes to Midnight.
SF Citadel, 1277 Mission St. (between 8th and 9th)
$20.00 at the SM Community Exchange or $25.00 at the door.
SF Citadel membership is required and available at both the Exchange or at the SF Citadel
August and I are celebrating our tenth year of marriage that night too.
Come and enjoy the special tradition of the Bizarre Flea and Fandango.

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Sat Dec 9

Sat Dec 9 9am Sat Dec 9Lake Chabot Regional Park Hike- Dec. 9 (Saturday)

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12.9 Eureka Valley Tree Care Saturday, December 9 9:00am – 12:30pm
Ellyn Shea, x.102 Meeting location: TBA. RAIN CANCELS
The new Friends of the Urban Forest Events Calendar for October and November is now available.
http://www.fuf.net/calendar_news/index.html

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Sat, Dec 9, 2006 - Sat, Dec 16, 2006 10:00 am - 3:00 pm
Berkeley Farmers' Market 15th Annual Holiday Crafts Fair
next to the Saturday Berkeley Farmers' Market
Center St. at Martin Luther King, Jr. Way Berkeley
http://globalexchange.org/getInvolved/bayarea.php

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Embodied Community Day that is happening on
Saturday, December 9 In Oakland, 1 Block from BART
12:15-2:30pm: Enliven Your Body playshop
3:15-9pm: Empowered Intimacy workshop
9:30pm-3am: Sultry Dance Celebration and Sacred Chilling
http://www.wholebodywisdom.com/Community/ECD

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SAT DEC. 9th @1pm SF: SUPPORT GI RESISTANCE & GI RIGHTS!
401 Van Ness Ave at McAllister St (Civic Center BART)

Featuring: Iraq War Resisters:
Darrell Anderson, Iraq War Veteran and War Resister
Kyle Snyder, AWOL Iraq Veteran and War Resister
Anita Dennis, mother of Darrell Anderson
Bob Watada & Rosa Sakanishi, father and stepmother of Lt. Ehren Watada
Jeff Paterson, Gulf War 1 Marine resister
Also joining us will be members of IVAW and their cross-country bus!
more TBA

Plus: Performance and word by:
Local High School Student activists with AWE Youth Action Team

Also join us earlier for a PUBLIC FORUM 11am:
GI Rights, GI Resistance and Ending the War
War Memorial Veterans Building
401 Van Ness Ave at McAllister St (Civic Center BART)

In-depth stories and discussion with:
Maxine Hong Kingston, author,poet and co-author of
the new book, “Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace”
Darrell Anderson, Iraq War Veteran and War Resister
Anita Dennis, mother of Darrell Anderson
Kyle Snyder, AWOL Iraq Veteran and War Resister
Bob Watada & Rosa Sakanishi, father and stepmother of Lt. Ehren Watada
more TBA!

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Sat Dec. 9: WholeBodied Community Day & Intentional Dance Celebration
http://www.wholebodywisdom.com/events

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Sat, 12/9 Salt Pond Tour Tags: nature hiking environment Bayfront Park Menlo Park, CA
http://upcoming.org/search/?q=san+francisco&metro=nearme&type=Events

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SF Holiday Potluck, Saturday, December 9: Socializing & Appetizers 6:00 p.m.; Dining 7:30 p.m.; Entertainment 8:30 p.m.
IOA, 3600 Geary Boulevard. (See November 17 meeting for transit details.)
$1 for members & their guests with food; $2 for non-members with food; add $8 to each category if without food. Attire: Dressy. Special Holiday Treats will be featured at the dinner.
Come and celebrate all of the holiday festivals including the Winter Solstice, Hanukkah, Christmas, and Kwanza. If you have decorations for any of these holidays, bring them to add to the festivities. Bonnie Knight, pianist, will provide wonderful holiday music as she has done the past two years.
http://sfvs.org

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The Hotties of Harm Reduction and Kink.com present:
***Drugs******Sex******Furious Dancing*** MOXY
Saturday, December 9, 2005 8p.m.-2a.m.
A Benefit for Bay Area Syringe Exchange
@ Kink.com's Fabulous P O R N PALACE
415 Jesse (parallel to Mission b/w 5th and 6th)
Featuring:
Music! Burlesque! Hotties! Raffle! Cheap Beer! Silent
Auction! Cute Tee-Shirts! Bondage Models!
& more fun than you can shake a stick at!
$10-25 door
No one turned away for lack of funds.
BONUS: People who give $25 at the door receive a
calendar!
(Tomkat’s gonna play some “good music” at this.
Expect minimal, microhouse +++. He’ll likely be on
sometime between 11 and 1:30, we think. DJs are in a
side room, bands in the big room, or something like
that. Also DJing: Morse Kode and Gonzo. Woo hoo!)

VOLUNTEERS: We need event volunteers for the day of
And the day after the party! Volunteers receive free
admission and our undying gratitude! Contact:
HOHRevents [at] yahoo.com for more info or to
volunteer!

Haven’t got your calendar yet??
Try: http://www.hottiesofharmreduction.org

What”s the Deal?

Moxy is the premier event for the Hotties of Harm
Reduction (HOHR) 2007 calendar. The calendar features
pictures of folks who work in, and activists who
support, harm reduction. Harm reduction is a set of
proven public health strategies that attempt to reduce
the harms associated with risky behaviors, including
drug use. The proceeds from the calendar and our event
benefit three SF Bay Area syringe exchanges. For more
information, or to get involved please see our
website: http://www.hottiesofharmreduction.org or e-mail
hohrevents @ yahoo.com

We hope to see you December 9th. In Solidarity,
The Hotties of Harm Reduction 2007
P.S. PLEASE HELP US SPREAD THE WORD BY FORWARDING THIS
POST TO PEOPLE YOU KNOW :).htm

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alter : state : LIVE ART PERFORMANCE EVENT : painting : sewing : silkscreen : fashion : music : dance : you! : DEC 9 from 8pm at CELLSPACE Saturday, December 9, 8:00 PM
cellspace 2050 bryant street % 18th + 19th san francsico ca
$5 before 10pm $10 after http://www.remadeinamerica.org/alterstate

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December 9, 2006 Christabel Performs at Ruby Skye!
Come on out for another hoops-a-go-go performance by hoop rockette Christabel! 420 Mason Street. Sets around 11:50, 1am and 2am.
http://www.rubyskye.com http://hoopgirl.com

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KPFA Crafts & Music Fair Sat Dec 9 - Sunday, Dec 10 10am-6pm

Concourse at SF Design Center 8th at Brannan
San Francisco, California

The 36th Annual KPFA Crafts & Music Fair, the largest weekend holiday craft fair of its kind in Northern California, returns to the Concourse Exhibition Center in San Francisco. Every year, more than 10,000 collectors, craft enthusiasts and holiday shoppers attend this signature event that features high-quality, original work created by 220 craftsmakers and artists from throughout the United States and live performances by some of the Bay Area’s leading musicians. Proceeds from the Fair benefit KPFA 94.1 fm, the country's first nonprofit listener-sponsored, free speech public radio station.

The Fair offers non-stop, live appearances by local musicians. Highlights include a live tribute to the late Phil Elwood headed up by Richard Hadlock, KCSM’s respected host of The Annals of Jazz, legendary Jazz pianist Larry Vuckovitch, a Singer/Songwriter Bash with acclaimed artists like Berkeley rocker Etienne de Rocher and several young, up and coming artists from Berkeley’s Jazzschool, hailed as one of the most innovative and comprehensive schools of Jazz in the country. KPFA 94.1 fm will broadcast live from the event both day.

For public info call (510) 848-6767 ext. 611 or visit
http://kpfa.org/craftsfair

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Sun Dec 10

INTERNATIONAL ANIMAL RIGHTS DAY - DEC. 10TH - 11:30 AM - UCSF
Hope you can make it to Vigil/Demonstration on December 10 (Sunday) - INTERNATIONAL ANIMAL RIGHTS DAY - to recognize/publicize UCSF's continued (ab)use of animals in laboratory experiments.
Time: 11:30 AM till (approximately) 1 PM
Place: UCSF's Parnassus Campus, 513 Parnassus Avenue, San Francisco

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Dec. 10 Reproductive Rights Movie Benefit at the Parkway Theatre
Featuring the documentary: "The Last Abortion Clinic"
Sunday, December 10, 2:00PM Parkway Speakeasy Theatre
1834 Park Boulevard, Oakland (directions below)
http://bacorr.org/ or e-mail us at bacorrinfo @ riseup.net

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Sunday Dec. 10- Scott Ritter and Jeff Cohen to Speak on U. S. Targeting Iran and Media Disinformation

Scott Ritter & Jeff Cohen on U. S. Targeting Iran and
Media Disinformation

Olney Hall, the College of Marin, Sunday, December 10 at 2-4 pm

Scott Ritter will talk about Bush’s plans for regime change in Iran as part of the White House strategy to overpower the Middle East. Jeff Cohen will describe the media’s disinformation about Iran and Iraq, including the suppression of Ritter’s appearance on the Donahue show.

Scott Ritter recently authored "Target Iran" and visited the country this fall. He was a senior UN weapons inspector in Iraq from 1991-‘98, which he wrote about in Iraq Confidential published last year. Previously he was a Marine intelligence officer for eight years and conducted arms inspections in the former Soviet Union before providing analysis of Iraq’s missile capacity to Gen. Schawrzkopf during the Gulf War of 1991. “The important thing to know about Scott Ritter is that he was right.” - Seymour Hersh

Jeff Cohen, founder of Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR), is the author of the recently published "Cable News Confidential: My Misadventures in Corporate Media." He previously worked for MSNBC as on-air commentator and senior producer of Donahue until the show was terminated on the eve of the Iraq war. "Jeff Cohen's dissection of cable TV news is both irresistibly funny and civically painful. It goes from uproarious anecdotes to those that make you wince." - Molly Ivins

After the main presentations, there will be a public forum on how to stop an attack on Iran. The program will begin with live Persian music, and conclude with book signings by both Ritter and Cohen.

The College of Marin is located in Kentfield, two miles west of Highway 101. Olney Hall is on College Ave. just off of Sir Francis Drake Blvd.

Doors open at 1:30. The requested donation will be $10 with COM students admitted free and no one turned away.

The event is sponsored by the Marin Peace & Justice Coalition, Students for Social Responsibility, COM, and U.S. Tour of Duty. It is part of a Bay Area tour of Ritter and Cohen in association with the Don’t Attack Iran Coalition, which includes the American Friends Service Committee, Global Exchange and World Can’t Wait.

(415) 721-2844, or access http://mpjc.org

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Sunday, 12/10, 5-9 pm -- NUDE AID: Erotica Art Making and Give Away Event
at 111 Minna btw. 2nd St. and New Montgomery http://www.111minna.org
$20--40 sliding scale admission gets you into this art happening where you can watch erotic artists at work, many drawing nude or fetish-clad models from life! Take an artwork for free, buy more for $20-40, and bid on even more art in our silent auction! Free whores d'ouevres, cash bar. Just in time for XXXmas and other holidays when you might want to surprise your sweetheart or treat yourself to a unique work of art. Hosted by the one and only Annie Sprinkle and produced by Lady Monster and Carol Queen, this will be a sexy, arty extravaganza, and help us retire all our move-related debt! Spread the word, especially if you know any artists who'd like to participate or donate their work. LOTS of great artists are signed up already! We're also gratefully accepting donations of erotic art that people are ready to part with.

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Cuir Bleu at the Citadel - THIS Sunday!
We've been asked to play at the Citadel's Fandango open BDSM Play Party this Sunday evening. I believe doors open at 6:30, and the band goes on at 8:30. Fandango will follow the SM Flea Market - tickets will be available at the Fandango booth or at the door. More info on the Citadel Tribe at:
http://sfthecitadel.tribe.net/thread/549fe845-128e-4f80-987d-9a8d0762ddfb

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PsyBooty Records Presents
PsyBooty's new monthly event continues Sunday, December 10th!
This event starts early and is "happy hour" for almost the entire night,
which means drinks are cheap and you can still get home nice and early for monday's impending doom!
Sunday, December 10th
~ PsyBooty Records Presents ~
an evening dedicated to new sounds bubbling up from the digital underground
blending elements of downtempo, progressive, psy, house, trance, breaks & dubstep
::: featuring resident DJ's David Justin, Dean Manning, and Afut
::: with special guests :::
::: JZ (Red Melon)
Our friend Jay Zimmerman from Red Melon Records
across the bay will join us to deliver some deep-progressive
chuggers and electro-house-funk rockers. We know talk is cheap,
so just have a listen to JZ live in the Nevada desert at this years
Burningman!
http://www.zimstudio.com/priv/sets/jz_burningman_set.mp3
::: DJ Dobber (Eggbeats, Tahoe)
A founding member of Thump Radio and EggBeats, Bryan Dobson has played regularly at downtempo, house, and trance nights all over the Bay Area and beyond. Now permanently based in Tahoe, Dob will come down the mountain to drop some of the latest progressive sounds.
::: Join us for **HAPPY HOUR** from 6pm til 10pm!! There will also be tasty drink specials concocted just for this event.
:: 6pm to 12am - 21+ - $5 Cover - Free B4 7pm - No dress code
@ Shine every month 1337 Mission at 9th St San Francisco, CA 94103 415-255-1337
http://www.shinesf.com
For special guest info and details check out
http://www.psybooty.com or http://www.myspace.com/psybooty

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Int'l Human Rights Day...100 Teach-Ins...Volunteer!

WORLD CAN'T WAIT! - DRIVE OUT THE BUSH REGIME!
San Francisco Bay Area Chapter

December 10 & 11: Wear Orange! International Human Rights Day ... 100 Teach-Ins ... Volunteer Now!

The next scheduled action of the World Can’t Wait, Drive Out the Bush Regime! (SF Bay Area chapter)

Date: Sunday, December 10, 2006
Time: 12 noon – and throughout the day!
Place: United Nations Plaza San Francisco, CA (by the fountain)
http://www.worldcantwait.org Questions? Call 415-864-5153

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Mon Dec 11

12/11-Annual MARIN LIFE DINNER & DESSERT SOCIAL (415-457-2487x119)

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Tue Dec 12

Tue, 12/12 Net Tuesday: Open Access Libraries
Tags: net2 nptech library science Citizen Space SF, CA 425 Second St
http://upcoming.org/search/?q=san+francisco&metro=nearme&type=Events

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Want to Improve Oakland's Food System?

HELP CREATE AN OAKLAND FOOD POLICY COUNCIL

This December 12th and 19th, we can help Oakland become a model green
city by supporting the passage of city-legislation to create a Food
Policy Council.

* Take Action - Tell your Oakland City Council Member that you are in
favor of the creation of a Food Policy Council.
City Council Member contact details are here:
http://www.oaklandnet.com/government/council/city-officials.html

FIND OUT MORE, GET INVOLVED
Come to a meeting to learn more about this Food Policy Council proposal
and how to get involved. Monday, December 4th, 5.30pm to 7.00pm.
Laney Community College, Building A (105). 900 Fallon Street, Oakland.
The room is a block away from Lake Merritt Bart Station. Contact Jess
Bell to RSVP or to find out more: 415 425 8837 or
jessicabel l@ riseup.net

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Wed Dec 6

Haight Ashbury Street Fair will be having a couple of short films and public meeting.

Wednsday 6 pm at the Haight Ashbury Library, 1833 Page Street @ Cole, San Francisco, 94117

Please come along, you don't have to speak or anything but your presence will give much support. There will be a couple of 10 minute short films by our good freind Louis about the fair and an introduction of the new Haight Ashbury Street Fair board. It's a lovely excuse to come to the Haight and catch up with each other as well as support a great event and cause. As many of you know Haight Ashbury Street Fair raises much needed money for local charities and community services. Maybe we all can have a few drinkies together after. http://www.haightstreetfair.org

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Thu Dec 14

Thu, 12/14 Circus Center’s 2006 Holiday Show features ‘7Fingers’ circu...
Palace Of Fine Arts Theatre San Francisco, CA Lombard @ Lyon from:
http://upcoming.org/search/?q=san+francisco&metro=nearme&type=Events
http://upcoming.org/event/127221 This Event.

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December 14th | Free Intro to Personal Evolution
Give yourself a priceless gift this Holiday Season.
The gift of Personal Evolution. **RSVP REQUIRED**
http://evolutionaryawareness.com/events/intros/intro.php
What: Introduction to Personal Evolution
When: THURSDAY December 14th 7:00pm to 9:30pm
Where:The Arete Center for Excellence in SF
Is there something stopping you from reaching your full potential?
Something elusive you can’t quite identify? Do you experience
something in the way of you having the kind of life you want and
deserve? Does fear, anger, sadness, shame, guilt or for some, even
grief, weigh you down unnecessarily? Do you often take things
personally? Do you find yourself acting in reaction against, or in
continuation of the patterns your parents demonstrated?

You would like to be free from significantly negative emotional
events from your past? Truly free—to such a degree you are even
grateful for them? Would you like to have a greater understanding of
the power of your mind and the minds of those around you?

Have you attended personal development events and found them useful,
but ultimately unfulfilling? Have you experienced “transformation”,
but found it ultimately unpredictable or unsustainable without a
rigorous community?

Would you be interested in freeing up so much of your essence that
you were able live your life’s purpose—and prosper from it?

If you answered yes to any of that, join me for this free event.

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Friday, December 15, FREE (6:30 pm - 9:00 pm) Palo Alto
Acterra's Family Movie Night • An Acterra Event
Grab your kids and their pillow and join Acterra for free screenings of three short, heart-warming, animated
holiday films: “A Charlie Brown Christmas”, “Rugrats’ Babies in Toyland” and “Rugrats: Chanukah”. Small snack will be provided. Free to the public. Donations welcome.
Location: Acterra's offices at 3921 East Bayshore Rd., Palo Alto 94303 (map)
Contact: Ellen Wilkinson, 650-962-9876 x306, library @ acterra.org
http://www.acterra.org

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Womens Yule Gathering on Friday, December 15 @ 7pm in SF

Welcome beautiful goddesses!
On Friday night, December 15, you are invited to a beautiful home in
San Francisco to celebrate Yule, the welcoming of the sun's rebirth.
This night, we celebrate Winter Solstice, the longest night of the
year. Tonight, the breath of nature is suspended: all waits while
darkness is transformed into the infant light. We watch for the coming
of dawn, when the Great Mother gives birth to the Child Sun, who is the
bringer of hope and the promise of summer. After tonight, the sun
climbs just a little higher and stays longer in the sky each day. Much
celebration is to be had as the ancestors await the rebirth of the Sun
Child that warms the frozen Earth and made her birth seeds from her
womb.

Please arrive to the gathering at 7pm with a prepared meal for the
potluck(salad and dessert will be taken care of), a towel for the hot
tub, your own plate, cup, and eating utensils, and red, green and white
attire for the holiday season. Also we ask that you bring an article of
clothing wrapped for the gift exchange. And of course, your amazing,
tranformative self. Call Sherry at 510-410-8876 to RSVP and for
directions. We are awake in the night. We turn the wheel to bring in
the light. We call from the sun the womb of night. Blessed Be!

Love and light, Sherry and Molly huggima @ yahoo.com

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Sat Dec 16

Sat Dec 16 6-9pm Bay Area Premiere of "Behind the Mask" Humanist Hall, 390 27th St Oakland $10
subscribe to Bay Area Animal Rights Network send blank email to: baarn-subscribe [at] yahoogroups.com

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Bay Area Premiere of Controversial Film to Benefit Animal Protection Groups on Dec. 16th

Oakland, CA - "Behind the Mask", a new documentary focused on individuals who take direct action to protect animals, will premiere in the San Francisco Bay Area on December 16th. The film exposes never-before-seen footage that reveals the extent to which these individuals will go to save the lives of animals. Director Shannon Keith will be on-site to present the director's cut of the documentary.

What: Film Screening of "Behind the Mask
Saturday, December 16, 2006 6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Place: Humanist Hall, 390 27th St , Oakland @ Telegraph/ Broadway $10

"Behind the Mask" explores the history of the animal liberation movement, from its inception to present day. This controversial documentary weaves together the lives of people who face jail, devastation, and even death for their ideals.

All proceeds from the film screening will support the work of Animal Rescue, Media & Education (http://www.arme.tv) and East Bay Animal Advocates
http://www.eastbayanimaladvocates.org

For more information: http://www.uncagedfilms.com

To subscribe to Bay Area Animal Rights Network please send blank email
to:
baarn-subscribe [at] yahoogroups.com

For events:
Please see yahoogroups message archives and calendar at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/baarn

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Sun Dec 17

KFC Leafleting, Co-Sponsored with the Veggie Jews Tsedakah Brigade
Sunday, December 17: 12 noon http://sfvs.org
1900 Irving & 20th Avenue, San Francisco
Informational literature from PETA will be given to everyone to pass out. At 1:15 p.m. everyone will adjourn to the Vegetarian Chinese Restaurant, Shangri-La, 2026 Irving Street, at 22nd Avenue for lunch and letter writing. Contact veggiejews [at] cyberonic.com or 415-665-1583.

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Dec 17, 5-9pm NCSF Fundraiser at The SF Citadel 1127 Mission St. @ 9th SF
National Coalition for Sexual Freedom Fundraiser Dinner & Cabaret $25 http://www.Frantix.net
http://sanfrancisco.tribe.net/event/5d4a0249-d992-4025-95e9-d290a4e68272

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Fri Dec 22

world peace through synchronized consciousness of ...
http://www.globalorgasm.org join us! December 22

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Dec 22 2006 December solstice --- htttp://GlobalOrgasm.org
THE 1ST ANNUAL SYNCHRONIZED GLOBALORGASM FOR PEACE
http://noosphere.princeton.edu http://www.BaringWitness.org

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Come for a Cause http://www.globalorgasm.org/demo.html greg

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East Bay Christmas Potluck, Co-sponsored with East Bay Veg*ns.
Monday, December 25: Socializing & Appetizers 5:00 p.m.; Dining at 6:00 p.m.; Dancing at 7:00 p.m. Very Raw Friendly. Attire: Dressy.
At the home of Elizabeth Bechtold, 633 Glenwood Isle, Alameda (See November 19 Alameda Potluck for directions and door donation details.)
$1 donation with food; $10 without food.
Directions: From 880, take High Street Alameda Exit. At stoplight, turn west onto High Street and proceed over bridge 1.5 miles. Turn right onto Otis Drive and right onto Glenwood. From Fruitvale BART Station, take Bus #50 to White Hall & Willow, then walk 2 blocks to Otis and 1 block to Glenwood. Call 510-864-1111 for last minute directions or to volunteer beforehand. No door fee for those arriving two hours early to volunteer setting up and prepping raw appetizers.
Celebrate Christmas and the Holiday Season in the most festive atmosphere. Holiday menus encouraged.
http://sfvs.org

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NYE Sea of Dreams - 7 Heavens Saturday, December 30, 2006 - Sunday, December 31, 2006
Indoor Music & Arts Masquerade December 30 & 31, 2006 Concourse Exhibition Center
8th St @ Brannnan St. San Francisco, CA Ages 18+ Early Bird Tickets On Sale October 5, 2006

After a hugely successful inaugural event last year, SCI is happy to collaborate with Madison House, Anon Salon, and Peak Experience Productions, for the Seventh Annual Sea of Dreams New Year’s Eve event.

Like last year, cultural forces will unite for two freaky nights at the San Francisco’s Concourse Exhibition Center for the biggest New Years weekend gathering on the west coast. Expect three stages hosting an incredible roster of live bands, cabaret and circus acts, DJ's and dance collectives, performance troupes, and more. All set within multiple thematic environments, Sea of Dreams promises something for people of every tribe.

Musical acts performing on the three stages include the The String Cheese Incident (playing two full sets each night), British nu-school breaks producer Tipper, revolutionary underground artist Bassnectar, modern day traveling minstrel DJ Mark Farina, the down-tempo trip-hop dance music of Lotus, live electronic hipsters Pnuma Trio and plenty of others still to be announced.

Performance troupe and dance collective participants include The Indigo Belly Dance, The Mystic FamilyCircus, Circus Contraption, Black and Blue Burlesque Anon Salon’s Circularious, and others. In addition to the stage performances, expect art encampments, novelty zones, installations, midnight spectacles, supergames, and everything.

Early Bird Tickets on Sale beginning October 5th at:
http://www.stringcheeseincident.com
http://www.seaofdreamsnye.com

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ANON SALON & MADISON HOUSE
in association with PEAK EXPERIENCE PRODUCTIONS
present The Seventh Annual SEA OF DREAMS SEVEN HEAVENS
Saturday, December 30 & Sunday, December 31, 2006
An Epic Costumed Celebration of Music, Art & Community!
@ SF Concourse Exhibition Center
635 8th Street (@ Brannan) San Francisco, CA 94103
Ages 18 and over welcome!
SOD WEBSITE: http://WWW.SEAOFDREAMSNYE.COM
LATEST PR BLAST: CLICK HERE! (DIFFERENT INFO & PICS!)
ON THE GALAXSEA & LUNASEA STAGES
- THE STRING CHEESE INCIDENT(30 & 31) (Two SCI Sets Each Night!)
- ZAP MAMA (30 & 31)
- CIRCUS CONTRAPTION (30 & 31)
- ALO (31)
- MARK FARINA (30)
- TIPPER (Tipper Records) (31)
- BASSNECTAR (Bassnectar) (31)
- LOTUS (30)
- PNEUMA TRIO (31)
- GAMELAN X (31)
AND TWIN MIDNIGHT SPECTACLES including...
- ANON SALON'S "CIRQULARIOUS!" - An Interplanetary Circus Opera!
(Featuring a dazzling array of Bay Area talent!)
IN THE "New" CIRQULARIUM!
- THE INDIGO BELLY DANCE (31)
- BLACK & BLUE BU