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We Are Everywhere: Update to SF event | |
Date | Saturday May 22 |
Time | 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM |
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Location Details | |
New College of California Theater 777 Valencia (between 18th and 19th Sts) |
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Event Type | Other |
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UPDATE TO SF EVENT:
The SF We Are Everywhere event will include: Eddie Yuen, New College Teacher and co-editor presenting from the new book Confronting Capitalism: Dispatches From A Global Movement and Author-activist Rebecca Solnit read from her new book Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities ********************* We Are Everywhere: the irresistible rise of global anticapitalism Sat May 22, 6:30pm New College of California Theater 777 Valencia (between. 18th/19th St), SF Benefit for Direct Action to Stop War: $5 donation or what you can—no one turned away. Cosponosred by the New College Activism and Social Change Program We Are Everywhere was described by Canadian writer Naomi Klein as "...the first book to truly capture and embody the exuberant creativity and radical intellect of the protest movements." Jennifer Whitney and Andrew Stern, two of the books producers on a national tour, present a multimedia performance; Stern, just back from Iraq, will present hard-hitting images from the streets of Baghdad; A video of hopeful resistance movements around the world; An exhibition of beautiful photos and illustrative quotations from their book; and a discussion of the current situation in Iraq and the connections between the anti-war movements and the global anticapitalist movements. Together with: David Martinez & Jo Wildings We Are Everywhere is joined by David Martinez and Jo Wildings. David is a journalist and filmmaker who sent dispatches to Bay Guardian and Democracy Now http://vitw.us/weblog/archives/cat_david_martinez.html, Jo Wildings is a British human Rights worker and writer whose writings from Falujah were widely published: http://wilfirejo.blogspot.com/ They just returned from Fallujah, Iraq, where they worked with injured civilians, were fired on by US Marines and captured (and released) by Iraqi resistance. ********************************************* We Are Everywhere Tour and David Martinez will also appear: Friday May 21, 8:30pm Long Haul Infoshop, 3124 Shattuck Ave. at Woolsey Berkeley Saturday May 22, 12 Noon-2pm Resource Center for Nonviolence 515 Broadway (at Ocean) http://www.rcnv.org |
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