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On Saturday, July 25, the 2nd annual Bay Area Bike 4 Life will be held in Oakland, starting near Lake Merritt and ending up at DeFremery Park. Bikes for Life (B4L) is a community social enterprise in West Oakland promoting peace and a call for a gun truce. Bike 4 Life will feature a scraper bike video shoot, skateboarding, rock climbing, basketball tournament, baseball game, and Circus Bella all happening simultaneously.
For the 5th year running, the burning of American flags took place on July 3rd at Seabright Beach in Santa Cruz. Organizers say they raise the burning flag up as a sacred symbol representing their highest ideals as Americans, and that the "American Flag is so great a symbol that it represents the right to burn it."

Robert Norse comments, "Burning a flag in solidarity with the Honduran people on July 4th makes more sense to me than burning a flag as a celebration of the First Amendment. Divorcing flag-burning from its visceral ('Yanqui, go home!') content is a way of stripping the action of its force."
On Sunday June 28th, the first-ever Atheist Film Festival will be held at the Roxie Theater in San Francisco's Mission District from 12pm to midnight. Feature-length films will be shown in the 240-seat theater, short films in the small 46-seat screening room. The festival is sponsored by San Francisco Atheists.
On June 19th, Checkpoint 303 performed at the Pork Store in SF. With members from Palestine, Tunisia, and France, Checkpoint 303, is a non-profit activist sound art project launched in 2004 by SC Yosh and SC MoCha. It creates experimental electronic music aimed at raising international awareness about the ongoing injustice and suffering of civilian populations throughout the Middle East. Checkpoint 303's was scheduled to play in SF on Tuesday, June 23rd at the Balazo Gallery and on Wednesday, June 24th at Baobab Village.
Wed Jun 17 2009 (Updated 06/18/09)
Creative Aging Conference Gets a San Francisco Treat
Carrying on a long-standing tradition of civic contribution and combating corporate greed, the Raging Grannies made an unscheduled appearance at a national aging conference on June 15th in San Francisco. The Grannies took up the conference themes of "creative aging" and "civic engagement" in a performance that included parodies the Grannies wrote themselves. Their skit, "Fight the For-Profits" was an urgent appeal to participants to join the movement against powerful special interests in the insurance and pharmaceutical industries and to help pass a single-payer national health care program.
Volunteers transformed a run-down warehouse space and bleak parking lot in downtown Santa Cruz into a cozy community and performance space with a large patio surrounded by a beautiful garden. Inside and outside, people gather around small tables for coffee and conversation, reading, talking, meeting, and enjoying performances and art.
Ten bus shelter billboards advertising the University of California’s “Study in Israel” campaign were remade into “Boycott Israel” ads and placed around Berkeley and San Francisco in May.
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