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PBS Criticized for Excluding Latino, Native Voices from Documentary on Second World War A coalition of Latino organizations have been criticizing PBS over a forthcoming documentary by Ken Burns on World War II because it ignores the role played by Latino soldiers in the war. The 14-hour film, “The War,” includes no interviews with any Latino veterans even though over 500,000 Latinos served in the war. The documentary also includes no interviews with any Native American veterans. We speak with Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez, a University of Texas professor who has led the protests agains...
Posted: Fri, Apr 13, 2007 7:51am PDT
Who Killed the Electric Car? New Documentary Looks at the Mysterious Disappearance of the EV-1 General Motors has been at the center of one of the nation's largest controversies over clean emissions-cars. In 1996 the company introduced the EV-1 electric car in California and Arizona. Hundreds of the electric cars were soon on the road. Then they all disappeared. The mystery behind their disappearance is the subject of the documentary “Who Killed the Electric Car?” We’re joined by the film’s director Chris Paine, and Chelsea Sexton, a former GM employee who worked on the EV-1 electric c...
Posted: Fri, Apr 13, 2007 7:48am PDT
New Film On UK Skinheads: As an Asian teenager, Sarfraz Manzoor lived in fear of skinheads As an Asian teenager, Sarfraz Manzoor lived in fear of skinheads. Shane Meadows' tough new film shows what they fought so viciously to protect...
Posted: Fri, Apr 13, 2007 6:29am PDT
Vonnegut made this ridiculous life bearable Using mischief, structural anarchy writer tackled conundrums of human life...
Posted: Thu, Apr 12, 2007 5:26pm PDT
"MAY DAY" An evening of HIP HOP for social change and political Awareness La Peña Cultural Center
3105 Shattuck Ave.
Berkeley, CA....
Event Date: Sat, May 5, 2007 9:00pm PDT
Posted: Thu, Apr 12, 2007 5:00pm PDT
The San Francisco World's Fair of 2007 Meeting at Pier 40 and to stretch down Third St to the Bayview Opera House...
Event Date: Sat, Apr 21, 2007 1:00pm PDT
Posted: Thu, Apr 12, 2007 3:20pm PDT
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.: Sitting Up Mud Lies Down “”God made mud. God got lonesome. So God said to some of the mud, "Sit up!"...And I was some of the mud that got to sit up and look around. Lucky me, lucky mud...I got so much, and most mud got so little. Thank you for the honor! Now mud lies down again and goes to sleep. What memories for mud to have! What interesting other kinds of sitting-up mud I met! I loved everything I saw! Good night.” - The Last Rites of the Bokononist faith (Written by Kurt Vonnegut, jr. - RIP)...
Posted: Thu, Apr 12, 2007 8:44am PDT
Novelist Kurt Vonnegut Dies at 84 The author Kurt Vonnegut has died. He was eighty-four years old. Vonnegut authored at least nineteen novels including “Slaughterhouse-Five” and “Cat’s Cradle.” In recent years, Vonnegut was a fierce critic of the Bush administration and a columnist for the magazine In These Times....
Posted: Thu, Apr 12, 2007 7:29am PDT
Why I Ride: From Low to Show Brava Theater
2781 24th Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
415-641-7657
Parking at 23rd and San Bruno (SF General Hospital)...
Event Date: Thu, Apr 19, 2007 6:30pm PDT
Posted: Thu, Apr 12, 2007 12:35am PDT
DISMANTLING MONOCULTURE Beehive Design Collective The Bike Church, 703 Pacific Ave, Downtown Santa Cruz...
Event Date: Sun, Apr 15, 2007 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Wed, Apr 11, 2007 11:10pm PDT
Beehive Design Collectiveʻs Dismantling Monoculture The Bike Church, 703 Pacific Ave, Downtown Santa Cruz...
Event Date: Sun, Apr 15, 2007 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Wed, Apr 11, 2007 11:06pm PDT
Kurt Vonnegut Dies at 84 
Within the next 24 hours somebody will write "Kurt Vonnegut died yesterday. So it goes." It won't be me. Vonnegut hated the trite and obvious, and he hated sentimentality....
Posted: Wed, Apr 11, 2007 10:45pm PDT
The Beehive Design Collective Swarms the Bay Area 
The Beehive Design Collective brings its larger-than-life collaboratively produced, Anti-Copyright visuals through the Bay Area to facilitate visual comprehension of globalization, colonialism, militarism, resource extraction and much more! - It's a picture-lecture to be understood by *anyone* - not just the experts and political analysts JOIN IN as we de-construct the complex and overwhelming issues that are shaping our world, using bio-regionally accurate depictions of animals and insects ...
Posted: Wed, Apr 11, 2007 7:01pm PDT
Rutgers Women's Basketball Team Condemn Don Imus' Remarks MSNBC and CBS Radio are coming under increasing pressure to fire Don Imus over his recent remarks about the Rutgers women's basketball team calling them "nappy-headed hos." Imus has suspended for two weeks beginning on Monday but he remains on the air this week. On Tuesday members of the Rutgers women's basketball team spoke out for the first time. We play excerpts....
Posted: Wed, Apr 11, 2007 7:38am PDT
MORTIFIED THE MAKEOUT ROOM
3225 22nd ST
SF, CA 94110...
Event Date: Mon, Apr 16, 2007 8:00pm PDT
Posted: Wed, Apr 11, 2007 1:25am PDT
MORTIFIED THE MAKEOUT ROOM
3225 22nd ST
SF, CA 94110...
Event Date: Fri, Apr 13, 2007 8:00pm PDT
Posted: Wed, Apr 11, 2007 1:24am PDT
Grassroots Film Project Seeks Footage We are the Think Peace Documentary Project, a non-profit film project based in Vancouver, BC, Canada and we are looking for video footage....
Posted: Tue, Apr 10, 2007 3:21pm PDT
Violence or nonviolence? Two documentaries reviewed When she hijacked two planes over thirty years ago, refugee Leila Khaled helped put the Palestinian struggle on the international radar. A generation later, however, the realization of Palestinians' rights is elusive as ever and the tactics of their resistance are increasingly scrutinized. The limits of resistance are examined in Ronit Avni and Julia Bacha's documentary Encounter Point as well as Lina Makboul's Leila Khaled, Hijacker....
Posted: Tue, Apr 10, 2007 9:23am PDT
No free speech for “Voices in Conflict”: High school play about Iraq war cancelled A high school play about the Iraq war, “Voices in Conflict,” was abruptly cancelled by the school administration in Wilton, Connecticut last month when a student whose brother was serving in Iraq circulated drafts of the play to parents and others in the community in order to get it shut down. After having supported the project of the advanced drama class for almost two months, the school’s principal, Timothy Canty, deemed the play “unbalanced” and potentially inflammatory for its presentatio...
Posted: Mon, Apr 9, 2007 9:25pm PDT
“Celluloid Scopophilia: "Sensual Dimensions of the Human Body" Screens Oddball Films
275 Capp Street
San Francisco...
Event Date: Thu, Aug 30, 2007 8:30pm PDT
Posted: Mon, Apr 9, 2007 7:09pm PDT
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