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On 8/17 & 8/18 Counter Productive Industries will present "Collective Pranks, Protest Graphics, and Space Reclamation" which includes a west coast tour of Retooling Dissent, the video documenting creative resistance projects from protests against the World Economic Forum. Accompanying the video is a series of presentations drawing on a network of critical art projects and activism from Chicago. One of the projects presented is the Department of Space and Land Reclamation (DSLR), an ambitious three-day campaign which sought to reclaim all the space, land, and visual culture of Chicago back to its public citizens. DSLR is organizing a three-day campaign in San Francisco October 2-5th. Learn how to get involved with DSLR. | Details about video screening.

Thirty years ago a group of American radicals announced their intention to overthrow the U.S. government. In "The Weather Underground", former members, including Bernardine Dohrn, Bill Ayers, Mark Rudd, David Gilbert and Brian Flanagan, speak publicly about the idealistic passion that drove them to "bring the war home." Outraged over racism and the Vietnam War, the Weather Underground bombed targets across the country that they considered emblematic. The group's carefully organized clandestine network managed to successfully evade one of the largest manhunts in FBI history.

On Friday, 7/25, "The Weather Underground", a new documentary by independent filmmakers Sam Green (SF-based) and Bill Siegel opens at The Castro Theatre in San Francisco. The Tuesday 7/29 7pm show will be a benefit screening for the Video Activist Network and SF-IMC. There will also be a benefit screening for the Jericho Movement and the Friends of Marilyn Buck on Wednesday 7/30 7pm at the Shattuck Cinema in Berkeley. Please come out to support these projects and see a great film!
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What happens when a trigger-happy cowboy with a pocket full of loot aims his guns on an oil-rich, people-poor nation?

"We Interrupt This Empire..." is a collaborative work by Bay Area independent video activists which documents the direct actions that shut down the financial district of San Francisco in the weeks following the United States' invasion of Iraq. With the audio backdrop including live broadcasts of Enemy Combatant Radio from the SF-IMC, the documentary takes a look at the diverse show of resistance from the streets of San Francisco as well as providing a critique of the corporate media coverage of the war and exploring such issues as the Military Industrial Complex, attack on civil liberties, and the United States' current imperialist drive. The Video Activist Network | WE INTERRUPT THIS EMPIRE... screens Tuesday 6/10 at 7:15 p.m. and 9:15 p.m. and Wednesday 6/11 at 2 p.m., 7:15 p.m. and 9:15 p.m.The Red Vic Moviehouse

The latest target of Mayor Jerry Brown's gentrification efforts is the the Alice Arts Center. Brown plans to displace the 50 residents and the 22 arts organizatioins that call the Alice Arts Center home to expand his charter school. The Alice Arts Center has been home to the multicultural arts community of Oakland for more than 20 years. On May 27th there was a demonstartion to save the Alice Arts Center. More Info

San Francisco, 5/20: Mind Freedom-Support Coalition International's weekend of resistance to the mental health orthodoxy in San Francisco culminated in a protest at the annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association. Where 19,000 shrinks gathered inside the Moscone Center, some 40 psychiatric survivors (some of whom endured forced "treatment" and labels affixed to them) picketed the APA in a peaceful display of dissidence (as well as dissonance). Freedom of choice, self-determination and the end of the drug industry's tyranny were the major themes that afternoon. More Info

Oakland 5/21: About 100 people, including many young people from the community, packed the Oakland City Council District 2 Town Hall to protest the evictions of elderly Chinatown residents from the Rennaissance Park Plaza housing complex and to convince City Councilmember Danny Wan to put pressure on the owner to stop the evictions. Fifty residents of Renaissance Plaza were served eviction notices that said they had to be out by 7/31. Many of the residents have nowhere to go, and are mainly Cantonese speaking elderly people that depend on the services in Chinatown to survive.

For more than one year, Indymedia Argentina has been more than a simple site on the internet. It is a network, a place to meet, a tool for thousands of people from around the world to inform themselves about what is happening in Argentina - to talk and to get together. Organizing out of a beautiful home, a building that at one time was simply a bank, whose owners had abandoned it, this Indymedia center is now under threat of eviction. "It is question of hours that will define our situation - we could lose one of our most important spaces, where not only do we keep our few computers, and archives - but where dozens of people go to visit us and bring their news. To our friends in all parts of the world - we are looking for the solidarity in whatever form it is best expressed." - Indymedia Argentina. Read more about the situation | Stay informed