Events at New College

The New College Center for Education & Social Action listing of peace and social justice events is emailed about once each week. To subscribe or
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(1) Tuesday May 27, 6:30 pm
BAY AREA PANEL DISCUSSION and MOBILIZATION MEETING:
Resistance is Fertile! Stop Corporate Globalization of our Food System!

(2) Wednesday May 28, 6-9 pm
CONSEQUENCES OF THE WAR IN IRAQ, HERE AND ABROAD
With a Panel of Speakers and Performers

(3) Saturday May 31, 7:30 pm
FUTURE of NEWS JOURNALISM at KPFA and PACIFICA RADIO
With Gus Newport, Eva Georgia & Mitch Jeserich
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(1) BAY AREA PANEL DISCUSSION and MOBILIZATION MEETING:
RESISTANCE IS FERTILE! STOP CORPORATE GLOBALIZATION OF OUR FOOD SYSTEM!

Tuesday May 27, 6:30PM
New College Theater, 777 Valencia St, San Francisco

On June 23-25 a US government sponsored summit is being held in Sacramento
for corporate reps and government ministers from over 100 countries. Their
agenda? Free trade for corporate crooks, genetically engineered food, fish
and trees, food irradiation, and pesticides...

Our response? A festival of diverse resistance to Monsanto and friends. A
five-day convergence with workshops, education, action and more! Come and
learn more about what's going on in Sacramento this summer and how you can
plug into the resistance.

A screening of FED UP, (a film by Bay Area Filmmaker Angelo Sacerdote) an
entertaining and compelling overview of our current food production system
from the Green Revolution to the Biotech Revolution, followed by a panel
discussion.

RESISTANCE IS FERTILE! Stop Corporate Globalization of Our Food System! Come
& Learn What's Going On in Sacramento in June & How You Can Get Involved

Panelists:

Anuradha Mittal, co-director of the Institute for Food and Development
Policy (Food First), Oakland

Ignacio Chapela, assistant professor in the division of ecosystem science,
University of California, Berkeley

Wenonah Hauter, director of the Critical Mass Energy and Environment Program
at Public Citizen Washington, DC

Co-sponsored by: Food First, Greenpeace, International Forum on
Globalization, New College of California Center of Education & Social
Action, Organic Consumers Association, Pesticide Action Network, Public
Citizen, Sacramento Coalition for Sustainable Agriculture. For more
information: organizeforsacramento [at] hotmail.com. 415-981-6205 x383,
http://www.sacmobilization.org

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(2) CONSEQUENCES OF THE WAR IN IRAQ, BOTH HERE AND ABROAD.

Wednesday May 28, 6-9 pm
New College Theater, 777 Valencia Street, San Francisco

What are the consequences of the war for people in Iraq and in our local
communities? How are movements here and abroad struggling to build
solidarity and confront the reality of war and empire? This panel brings
together activists involved in local social struggles in various regional
contexts -- from Pakistani and Kurdish activists facing the crisis in the
Middle East to local and international peace and justice workers addressing
the impact of the war on people of color here and abroad, the assault on the
rights of Arabs and Muslims in the US, Native American views on forced
relocation then and now, and more. Join us for an evening of discussion,
poetry and dance.

Speakers and Performers include

Marley Shebala-journalist for Navajo Times;
Soraya Serajeddini-Kurdish human rights activist;
Lynn McMichaels-Iraqi Peace Team;
Silvia Sweidan-Jordanian activist;
Phil Hutchings-co-founder of Institute for Multi-Racial Justice & member of
Black Radical Congress;
Zulfiqar Ahmad-Senior Program Officer for South Asia at the Nautilus
Institute for Security and Sustainable Development;
Representative from War Tax Resisters;
Poetry by Jasmine Manning - Ojibwe from Ontario;
Poetry by Calligraphy of Thought.

Sponsored by the East Bay Coalition to End Sanction in Iraq and the New
College of California Center for Education and Social Action.
Refreshments. Donation $10-15 sliding scale - no one turned away for lack
of funds. For more information: Yvette: (415) 285-9564
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FUTURE of NEWS JOURNALISM at KPFA and PACIFICA RADIO

Saturday May 31, 7:30 pm
New College Theater, 777 Valencia Street, San Francisco

What can we envision for news journalism at KPFA and Pacifica Radio? Gus
Newport, KPFA's new General Manager, will present his vision for KPFA and
Pacifica. Gus will speak on how a good organization can become great and how
the founding ideas of Pacifica can expand to bridge the distance between
groups and to meet a multiplicity of needs. Eva Georgia, General Manager of
Pacifica's KPFK in Los Angeles, and veteran KPFA news journalist Mitch
Jeserich will discuss new possibilities for journalism at KPFA and other
stations in the listener-supported Pacifica network.

This is the public event of the three-day Rethinking the News Seminar that
takes place at New College. The Seminar brings together news staff from all
five Pacifica stations for dialogues with other journalists, activists and
intellectuals. A report from the Seminar will be presented at the public
event on May 31st.

Speakers:

Gus Newport is the new General Manager of KPFA, Pacifica Station 94.1 FM
Berkeley. He is a former Mayor of Berkeley.

Eva Georgia is the General Manager of KPFK, Pacifica Station 90.7 FM Los
Angeles. She is a South African-born journalist and one of the pioneers of
community radio.

Mitch Jeserich is a veteran KPFA Sacramento news correspondent, representing
the KPFA News Department.

Sponsored by:

Media Studies MA Program, New College of California,
http://www.newcollege.edu/media_studies/index.html
Pacifica Radio, http://www.pacifica.org
Alliance for a People's Pacifica (a project of Global Exchange).

$5 donation. For more information: Don Foster or Jon Garfield, 415-437-3425
or mediastudies [at] newcollege.edu.

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Center for Education & Social Action
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New College Media Studies MA Program
http://www.newcollege.edu/media_studies/index.html
Activism & Social Change MA Program
http://www.newcollege.edu/activismchange/actsocma.html