SF events 11.15 save tookie

important events: http://globalexchange.org/getInvolved/bayarea.php
fun events: http://laughingsquid.com/squidlist/calendar
more events: http://www.craigslist.org http://www.tribe.net
eco events: http://ecologycenter.org http://acterra.org
http://www.ecologycenter.org/calendar
http://humanisthall.net/Cal-October-Activist.html 390 27th St Oakland
http://www.mpjc.org/ongoing.html Marin Peace and Justice Center
http://peaceandjustice.org Palo Alto Peace and Justice Center


Tuesday November 15th http://indybay.org
6:30pm Berkeley: World Youth Forum Presentation & Film Screening
7:00pm Berkeley: Free Screening of Walmart: The High Cost of Low Price
7:00pm San Francisco: John Ross Speaks About the Zapatistas and Mexico's Presidential Elections

Wednesday November 16th http://indybay.org
6:00pm Los Altos: Screeening- "Haiti: The Other US War"
6:00pm San Francisco: Preview Screening of "Seoul Train" with Filmmaker
7:30pm Santa Rosa: Screening of "The End of Suburbia"



food

Most Offspring Died When Mother Rats Ate GM Soy
http://www.konformist.com


Kimchi Helpful in Fighting Bird Flu

By Bae Keun-min
Staff Reporter
Kimchi, a traditional pickled and fermented vegetable dish, has been found effective in curing viral diseases for fowl, including bird flu and Newcastle disease.
A local research team, led by Kang Sa-ouk, professor of microbiology at Seoul National University, said yesterday that a culture fluid of Leuconostoc Kimchii, a lactic ferment in kimchi, showed clear remedial effects for chickens suffering from bird flu, Newcastle and bronchitis.
At a poultry farm, the team experimented with three groups of 13 chickens infected with the viruses. One group was provided only with water, while the second one was given the culture fluid.
The last group was given a diluted culture fluid of Leuconostoc Kimchii.
After one week, all fowl in the first group died. However, 11 each in the second and third groups were cured from the diseases.
Moreover, chickens in the second group, dosed with the pure culture fluid, returned to their normal condition, gained weight from 750-800 grams to 1.5 kilograms and stopped having diarrhea, Kang said.
``The research has proven that the culture fluid of Leuconostoc Kimchii is effective in treating viral diseases, in addition to its already-proven anti-bacterial power,’’ Kang said.
The team will conduct further studies on the lactic ferment and distribute the fluid to poultry farms across the nation after gaining permission from the National Veterinary Research and Quarantine Service, Kang said.
According to Oxford Economic Forecasting, bird flu is forecast to have caused $130 billion worth of damage to Asian nations since 2003 until the end of this year. South Korea destroyed some 5.3 million fowl worth 150 billion won due to the avian influenza, since the first case in the nation was reported in December 2003. The losses in tourism and trade in 2003 alone are equivalent to 0.6 percent of that year’s gross domestic product.
Last year, Kang and his research team, in cooperation with venture firms, found a way to mass produce antimicrobial peptides by cultivating Pediococcus pentosaceus, lactic ferments from kimchi, as they completed a draft of the genome of pentosaceus separated from kimchi.
The culture fluid of pentosaceus can prevent and eliminate harmful bacilli, including Helicobacter, the cause of gastritis, and Listeria and Shigella sonnei, which cause food poisoning.

kenbae koreatimes co k

http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/tech/200503/kt2005030719211311780.htm



eco

COLLAPSE OF SEA AND BIRD LIFE IN PACIFIC REPORTED
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/1113-04.htm
http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article326752.ece




If Fox News Had Been Around Throughout History
http://mysite.verizon.net/vze1ldyn/id2.html



bird flu

FORCED INOCULATIONS BEGINNING OF BUSH'S BAD BIRD FLU PLAN
http://www.niagarafallsreporter.com/hanchette179.html


VACCINATIONS AND THE RIGHT TO REFUSE: A must read
http://www.newswithviews.com/Tenpenny/sherri1.htm


http://www.vaccinationdebate.com/web2.html 
HISTORICAL FACTS EXPOSING THE DANGERS AND INEFFECTIVENESS OF VACCINES


The Truth About Bird Flu-What Does Hoax Accomplish?
http://www.nomorefakenews.com


Pigs Hold Clues to Man-Made Flu
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/AIDS3.html


To read about forbidden cures, go to http://educate-yourself.org/fc



http://tinyurl.com/d78m7 code name artichoke
http://www.frankolsonproject.org/Articulations/Script-CodeNameArtichoke.html



Baghdad Burning
http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com

http://www.rense.com/general68/cages.htm
 
US Now 'Crating'
Prisoners In Dog-Sized Cages
Flown On C-130s To Prisons In Eastern
Europe Interrogated by US Personnel,
Contractors/Ex-KGB, Ex-Stasi
 
By Wayne Madsen 11-12-5

U.S. "crating" prisoners and flying them around Eastern Europe in C-130 prison planes. Although The Washington Post failed to report on the details of CIA (now Pentagon-run) "black" interrogation sites in eastern Europe, WMR is able to report on the particulars of the covert operation. According to a well-placed intelligence source who served in eastern Europe, prisoners from Iraq and elsewhere have been flown from airport to airport in eastern Europe on board C-130 planes. Placed in what were described as "dog-sized" cages, the covert operation became fully operational after the disclosures of prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib, Baghdad and Camp Bucca, Umm Qasr, Iraq. The "crated" prisoners were either removed from the C-130s for interrogation at Soviet-era detention centers that were in various states of repair or were kept on board the aircraft and subjected to brutal interrogation by U.S. and/or contractor personnel, who, in some cases, were ex-members of the Soviet KGB, Stasi, and other eastern European security services. C-130s are used because of their short take-off and landing capabilities on short air strips located in remote regions.

The source, who spoke on a condition of anonymity, witnessed the ground work being laid for the "black sites" in a number of countries and locations. These include the Taszar airbase in south-central Hungary, near the town of Pecs; Lv'iv, Ukraine; Szczynto-Szymany, Poland; Skopje, Macedonia; Mihail Kogalniceanu airbase in Romania; Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia; Shkoder, Albania; Burgas, Bulgaria; and the Markuleshti air base in Moldova.

Crating prisoners hearkens back to the Vietnam War when the U.S. used "tiger cages" installed by the French on Con Son island off Vietnam to hold political prisoners. The U.S. used the tiger cages to detain and torture suspected Viet Cong sympathizers. Many of the prisoners were merely innocent Buddhists and anti-war activists. The flying of caged prisoners from airport to airport on chartered C-130s is yet another indication of what military judge advocate general (JAG) lawyers have cited as the Bush administration's penchant for placing prisoners in "law free zones."

Crating prisoners for Eastern European "frequent flyer torture" -- The latest outrage from an administration that brought us white phosphorous chemical weapons, sodomizing teen prisoners, and naked human pyramids.

  http://waynemadsenreport.com


American Apology to the World - Pass on to everyone outside the USA
Flying Snail dot com - The Last Days
http://www.flyingsnail.com/apology.html


Bush Administration Breaks Record
Administration Borrows more from Foreign Nations than
Previous 42 Presidents Combined
http://www.dccc.org/stakeholder/archives/003836.html


Chavez, Venezuela and the New Latin America
https://lists.riseup.net/www/arc/pbnberkeley/2005-11/msg00024.html


We're making progress...toward.... choreographed disasters , staged relief efforts and pandemics certain to help this along.  Rose..
 
IBM Calls For
Global Identity System
By Vivian Yeo
ZDNet Asia
11-10-5
 


 
IBM KILLED 6 million JEWS. (Soon IBM will kill you.)

This is the one and only IBM. IBM knowingly supplied HITLER with punch card technology to exterminate JEWS.
 
International standards backed up by a UN body are needed to clear up the international identity-verification mess, according to a senior IBM Global Services executive

The growing need for fast, accurate verification of personal identities has prompted a call from an industry observer for a global agency to set international standards.

The realm of identity and access management (IAM) is heating up as nations like the UK and the US increase their use of biometrics and other identifying technology in ID cards, border controls and other areas.

Beyond different governments "trying to create a mosaic for what they want as good identity management", wider international cooperation is needed to establish a common language and standards, said Cal Slemp, vice-president and global leader for security and privacy services at IBM Global Services. The common language for exchanging user access information is also known as federated IAM.

"Governments have a huge part to play in this, because they have ultimate responsibility for their citizens, and depending on the country, they may have ultimate responsibility for the businesses and e-commerce as well," Slemp said.

But, current efforts are piecemeal and much more can be done to exploit the potential of the federated environment, added Slemp. During a medical emergency, for instance, the identities of a foreign doctor and a visiting patient need to be established quickly and accurately, in order for the right healthcare to be administered.

What's missing right now, he noted, is a trusted third party to authenticate trustworthiness. "So we've got inconsistent and incomplete implementation [in individual countries], and also no standard approach to the future nor a target to shoot at."

Slemp believes that now is the right time to establish a global body that will consider the interests of all countries and build up a foundation, which the individual countries can expand upon to fulfil their unique requirements.

"There are organisations that work together on this issue and issues like that across borders all the time, and it can be as grandiose as to say the UN has a process in place to share information like that and create working groups to try and to create standards or expectations and across multiple jurisdictions," said Slemp. "I just don't know what the name would be."



Iron Hand in a Velvet Glove Larry Sakin, 13 November 2005

Sometimes in life, we tend to look too high and too far around to find to understand a difficult situation when the answers are really right in front of us. This is an appropriate paradigm for our current times, especially when our country is faced with the terrible stain of international crimes including the torture of terrorists and other assorted war prisoners.
 
http://www.mytown.ca/sakin



Prensa Latina, Havana http://www.plenglish.com
French Flames Dampen, Flare Up in Other European Countries



News Updates from Citizens for Legitimate Government
05 October 2005
http://www.legitgov.org/
All links to articles as summarized below are available here:
http://www.legitgov.org/index.html#breaking_news

Cars stolen in US cities used in Iraqi suicide attacks 04 Oct 2005 The FBI's counterterrorism unit has launched a broad investigation of US-based theft rings after discovering some vehicles used in deadly car bombings in Iraq, including attacks that killed US troops and Iraqi civilians, were probably stolen in the United States, according to senior US Government officials. The FBI's deputy assistant director for counterterrorism, Inspector John Lewis, said the investigation did not prove the vehicles were stolen specifically for car bombings in the Middle East, but there was evidence they were smuggled out of the US by [Bush's] organised criminal networks that included terrorists and 'insurgents.' [Yeah, Iraqi terrorists and insurgents are trolling impounded vehicle lots (under police watch) in Los Angeles, Seattle, and Houston - able to provide proper paperwork to release stolen vehicles and get them into Iraq for bombing missions. LOL!]
Scientists resurrected 1918 flu, brought virus back to life 05 Oct 2005 Scientists who resurrected the 1918 "Spanish flu" virus that killed as many as 50 million people said on Wednesday they are beginning to understand why it caused such a deadly pandemic and say it could happen again... "We felt we had to recreate the virus and run these experiments to understand the biological properties that made the 1918 virus so exceptionally deadly," said Terrence Tumpey of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta... The experiment, in which the virus was recreated employing a process called reverse genetics using preserved samples of the 1918 virus, allowed the researchers to test it in the laboratory and in several animals. It will help answer important questions, said Dr. Jeffery Taubenberger of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in Rockville, Maryland. Taubenberger's team used pieces of virus taken from preserved samples from 1918 victims, as well as from the corpse of a victim dug up from a frozen grave in Alaska in 1998. They used these pieces to make a replica of the 1918 virus, and brought it back to "life" -- viruses are not truly alive like other microbes -- by combining it with modern influenza virus pieces and growing it in bacteria. [OMFG, how blatant can they get?]

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a.. How patriotic is it to get US kids killed to fulfill some neocon wet-dream of democratizing the Middle East?
b.. How patriotic is it to lie to the US Congress, to the United Nations and the American people to justify that deadly fool's errand?
c.. How patriotic is it to get over 2000 America kids killed just so we can turn Iraq over to convicted embezzler, serial liar and human scum like Ahmed Chalabi?
d.. How patriotic was it to appoint a certifiable imbecile to run America's lead emergency response agency?
e.. How patriotic is it to turn America's once robust middle class into a bunch of underpaid Wal-Mart serfs?
f.. How patriotic is it to allow nearly 50 million Americans, men, women and children, face life without even the most basic health coverage?
g.. How patriotic is it to saddle working families with skyrocketing energy prices while energy companies pocket obscenely large profits? (Might this be why they insist on keeping secret the Vice President's energy task force proceedings?)
h.. How patriotic is it to toss tax-cut crumbs to hard working Americans while giving the already wealthy windfall tax cuts?
i.. How patriotic is it to stand by while your nation runs secret dungeon-prisons offshore and tortures foreign prisoners in America's name?
j.. How patriotic is it to let large drug companies monopolize the market on life-saving drugs and then pass a law prohibiting bankrupt Medicare from negotiating lower prices for such drugs?
k.. How patriotic is it for top administration officials to lie to a federal prosecutor?



-##### Nominated for Supreme Court - Judge ALITO WOULD BE INCONCLUSIVE ON ROE V. WADE, yet for Abortion rights??? And probably follow precedence...and not do anything about it...less he be an activists judge on the bench...

##### - Nominated for Supreme Court - Judge ALITO WOULD BE AGAINST THE DEATH SENTENCE

##### - Nominated for Supreme Court - Judge ALITO WOULD BE INCONCLUSIVE ON RACE-BASED DISCRIMINATION

##### - Nominated for Supreme Court - Judge ALITO WOULD ALLOW DISABILITY-BASED DISCRIMINATION

##### - Nominated for Supreme Court - Judge ALITO WOULD STRIKE DOWN THE FAMILY AND MEDICAL LEAVE ACT

##### - Nominated for Supreme Court - Judge ALITO WOULD SUPPORT UNAUTHORIZED STRIP SEARCHES AT AIRPORTS

##### - Nominated for Supreme Court - Judge ALITO WOULD BE INCONCLUSIVE TOWARD IMMIGRANTS

##### - Nominated for Supreme Court - Judge ALITO WOULD FAVOR BIG BUISNESS OVER ENTREPRENEURS...THUS DELAYING THE ECONOMIC UPTURN




U.S. Trade Deficit Hits $66 Billion, Another Record - by Vikas Bajaj, The New York Times  (read this story)

GOP memo touts new terror attack as way to reverse party's decline - by Doug Thompson, Capitol Hill Blue  (read this story)

Kuwait's biggest field starts to run out of oil - by Peter J. Cooper, AME (Arabian Modern Equipment)  (read this story)

Powerful Government Accountability Office report confirms key 2004 stolen election findings - by Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman
  With comment by Michael C. Ruppert (read this story)

US uneasy as Beijing develops a strategic string of pearls - by The Guardian (read this story)

Equatorial Guineans get poorer despite oil boom - by Bernadino Ndze Biyoa (read this story)

Read these free stories and other articles here:
http://FromTheWilderness.com



Adolf Hitler, Chris Daly, Tom Ammiano, Bevan Dufty. Adolf Hitler is considered to be the patron saint of and the father of modern, sensible gun control. San Francisco Supervisors Chris Daly, Tom Ammiano, Bevan Dufty authored San Francisco Proposition H to outlaw handgun possession. See spirit guides of San Francisco Board of Supervisors, circa 1938, below.

The Nazi Weapons Law of 1938 stands as a shining example of Hitler's genius and efficiency.
http://vikingphoenix.com/politics/nwl_1573_1938.htm

Nazi guidance on gun confiscation
http://vikingphoenix.com/politics/Nazi_Weapons_Law_1938.htm
and to the credit of Tom Ammiano, Chris Daly and Gavan Dufty, they are making it fair... it's not just Jews and Gypsies anymore.



November 2005


Tue Nov 15

# Save the Peacemaker Rally with Snoop Dogg at San Quentin

CARPOOL! The San Rafael Police HATE civil rights, so they make you park a mile away.
They actually hire 20 extra officers to BAN parking on roadways that are othertimes parkable.
So figure on carpooling and getting dropped near the gate/ last exit before San Rafael / Richmond Bridge.

This rally is very important. Those of us working to end the
death penalty are really trying to save this important man's life. The
campaign to get clemency from that creepy insidious corrupt governor will only happen
if a massive people's campaign demanding clemency happens BEFORE the execution date of
December 13th. So please come and bring people you know. Please forward to other lists. In struggle Tory

Don't Kill Tookie!
Save The Peacemaker Rally

*Co-founder of the Crips
*Author of "The Tookie Protocol for Peace"
*5 Time Nobel Peace Prize Nominee
*Execution set for December 13th, 2005

Join Snoop Dogg for the youth rally to save Stan Tookie Williams, the peacemaker, on death row.

Saturday, November 19th
10 am - 12 noon
San Quentin State Prison

The Save the Peacemaker Rally is part of the Tookie Teach-In Week,(November 14th-21st)

For more information: http://www.savetookie.org tookie tookie com or 510-253-5418


# Tue Nov 15 6pm “Peak Oil: How It Will Change Your Life”
in Grass Valley: Renowned Authority Richard Heinberg Presents
 
Nevada City, CA – October 31, 2005 – Cheap, abundant oil is now a thing of the past. How can ordinary households and local government and businesses respond to this unprecedented challenge and soften its impact on our lives? Alliance for Post Petroleum Local Economy (APPLE of Nevada County) is sponsoring Richard Heinberg’s timely presentation on the repercussions of the rising oil costs, what “Peak Oil” means, and how local communities can prepare. Come Tuesday, November 15, 2005, to Center for the Arts in Grass Valley. Doors open at 6pm, the presentation begins at 7pm. Admission is $15 and tickets are available online at Center for the Arts website
http://www.thecenterforthearts.org and at Briarpatch, Bookseller, Yabobo, The Love Shack Records, and in Auburn at Cherry Records, as well as at the door.
 
Richard Heinberg, widely regarded as America’s foremost peak oil educator, will discuss the most recent evidence regarding the timing of the global oil production peak, its likely consequences, and what can be done at both the international and local levels. He is the author of The Party's Over: Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies (2003), and Powerdown: Options and Actions for a Postcarbon World (2005). 
 
In the wake of hurricanes Katrina and Rita, communities across America are taking a long, hard look at how to prepare for crises of any kind. Peak Oil presents a very long emergency with far-reaching domino effects, and Heinberg is a world-renowned authority on this topic. The author will be signing books immediately following the presentation.
 
Alliance for Post Petroleum Local Economy (APPLE of Nevada County) is an outgrowth of The Town Hall Conference last spring and will have information tables on how to get involved. The APPLE Workgroups are focused on energy, transportation, food and water, health and preparedness, and outreach/education.
 
For more information, contact:
Alliance for Post Petroleum Local Economy (APPLE of Nevada County)
Info Voicemail: 265-3014


# The National Park Service (NPS) is planning to shoot 1,150 White
Fallow and Spotted Axis deer at the Point Reyes National
Seashore simply because they are not native to the area.
However, the NPS's Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS)
does not present any scientific evidence that the exotic deer
are negatively impacting the environment or other species in the
park. Their management plan also does not include a non-lethal
alternative such as managing or reducing the number of deer
using contraception alone.

If you would like to work with others toward a humane and
sustainable solution to managing the deer, please attend one of
the two community meetings in Marin co-sponsored by In Defense of Animals (IDA) and the
Marin Humane Society and supported by the Jane Goodall
Institute. The purpose of the meetings is to recruit volunteers
for the effort to stop the NPS from exterminating the exotic
deer. Professor Susan Shideler from UC Davis, an expert in
immunocontraception who has experience with Fallow deer, will
attend the November 17th meeting.

East Marin
What: Community meeting to stop extermination of Point Reyes
deer
When: Tuesday, November 15th, 6:00 p.m.
Where: Marin Humane Society, 171 Bel Marin Keys Blvd., Novato
(click http://www.marinhumanesociety.org/main_contacts.html#anchormap
for directions)

West Marin
What: Community meeting to stop extermination of Point Reyes
deer
When: Thursday, November 17th, 7:30 p.m.
Where: Dance Palace Community Center, 503 B Street, Point Reyes
Station (click http://tinyurl.com/bqsqm for directions)

If you plan to attend one of these meetings, please contact
IDA's Bay Area Coordinator, Karen Steele, at (415) 388 9641,
ext. 217 or karen [at] idusa.org to RSVP.


# Tue Nov 15 7pm
Michael Crichton is on the lecture circuit promoting his new novel, "A State of Fear," and he's buddying up with junk science front groups to spread their propaganda denying the existence of global warming. Tomorrow, Crichton and his ExxonMobil-funded cronies will be holding an event at Hotel Nikko in San Francisco and we need your help to make some noise!

On Tuesday, November 15, Independent Institute and the Manhattan Institute (two oil industry front groups that have each received thousands of dollars in funding from ExxonMobil to deny the existence of global warming) are bringing their junk science act to San Francisco. These groups are sponsoring "An Evening with Michael Crichton States of Fear: Science or Politics?" at Hotel Nikko in San Francisco beginning at 7 PM.

The event will feature fiction writer turned anti-global warming activists Michael Crichton as well as Sallie Baliunas and George Taylor, two scientists well known for their anti-climate change rhetoric.

Will you join you fellow Bay Area Exxpose Exxon activists in protesting this event tomorrow night? Click here to read more about this event and how you can get involved.

Local oil awareness organizer Mike Carrick is coordinating tomorrow night's protest, so if you can join us, please contact Mike at one of the following phone numbers immediately to RSVP and get more details.

Home: 415-587-5747
Work: 415-221-4810 X2991
Cell: 415-559-9121

The ExxposeExxon.com campaign is really gaining steam after last week’s demonstration at the Senate hearing when ExxonMobil CEO Lee Raymond and the heads of the other major oil companies were asked to provide an explanation for their enormous windfall profits. But we need your help to keep the momentum going. We hope we can count on you to attend tomorrow’s demonstration at Hotel Nikko in San Francisco!

Thanks so much for your support.

Katelyn Sabochik
Online Campaign Manager
info [at] saveourenvironment.org


# Women's Full Moon Gather Tue Nov 15 7:00 PM
Change Makers 6536 Telegraph @ 66th Oakland Ca 94609 5106552405
http://www.changemakersforwomen.com
Full Moon Gathering Celebrate the Moon in Taurus

All women & girls are invited to share an evening of nourishment and sisterhood. Join us for Fun & Surprises like: Music, Poetry, Dance, Storytelling & Tarot always something different. You are invited to make an offering of your special gifts, please RSVP and let us know if you'd like to contribute a song, poem or group exercise.

Please bring Drums, Rattles & Potluck dish to share Festive Moon Attire encouraged but not required. We can manifest our dreams together! Blessed Be!
(and of course, shopping before & after is always encouraged to support the store)

Date: Tue Nov 15, 2005
Title: Full Moon Gathering
Time: 7-9:30pm
Cost: Potluck dish is your admission
RSVP: 510-655-2405


# Tue, Nov 15 7:00 pm La Pena Cultural Center
Film Screening - Walmart: The High Cost of a Low Price
3501 Shattuck Ave. (close to Ashby BART) Berkeley
http://globalexchange.org/getInvolved/bayarea.php


# Tue, Nov 15 7:00 pm New College Theater 777 Valencia St
The "Sexta" - The Zapatistas and Mexico's Presidential Election
New College Theater 777 Valencia St
http://globalexchange.org/getInvolved/bayarea.php
http://www.craigslist.org/eve/110661793.html


# SPANKSGIVING! at Stormy Leather Tue Nov 15 7:00 PM
Stormy Leather 1158 Howard Street (btwn 7th & 8th St)
SoMa neighborhood, SF (415) 626-1672
http://www.mistressmorgana.com SPANKSGIVING!

Check out this inaugural event at Stormy Leather's slick new downstairs gallery and workshop space!

Join veteran BDSM educator Mistress Morgana for a bottom-burning evening dedicated to the fine art of sensual spanking. Unlock your secret spanking fantasies, learn how to share them with your partner, and get tips on hand spanking, paddling, strapping, and caning, all with an emphasis on emotional and physical safety. Mistress Morgana's swift hand and gentle wit (and her demonstration model's lovely bottom) will help you learn all you need to know to turn your sweetie's tushy the color of cranberry sauce in no time!

Call (415) 626-1672 to register. $25, everyone welcome.


# Oak Park ~ Nov. 15
Medea Benjamin, co-founder of CodePINK, will be
speaking about Stop the Next War Now: Effective
Responses to Violence and Terrorism, a collection of
essays she co-edited with Jodie Evans.

•       Tuesday, Nov. 15, 7:30pm, at Unity Temple, 875 W.
Lake Street, Oak Park
•       Free and open to the public
•       Co-sponsored by Chicago Area CodePINK and the Social
Mission Committee of Unity Temple UU Congregation
•       Building is wheelchair accessible
•       CTA Green Line Oak Park Ave. stop (1 block North, 2
blocks West)
•       For directions and parking,
http://www.unitytemple.org/contact/directions.htm
Loyola University ~ Nov. 16
In addition to speaking about her work in the anti-war
and fair-trade movements, Medea Benjamin will be
speaking about the School of the Americas on the 16th
anniversary of the Jesuit Martyrs in El Salvador at
Chicago's Jesuit university.

•       Wednesday, Nov. 16, 7:30pm, Loyola University (Lake
Shore Campus)
•       Finnegan Auditorium in Damen Hall
•       Free and open to the public
•       Sponsored by Loyola Anti-War Network; co-sponsored
by Women's Studies, University Ministry, Campus
Greens, and Loyola Students Against Sweatshops
•       For driving directions, public transportation, and
parking:
http://www.luc.edu/about/visitor/visitlsc.shtml#directions



Wed Nov 16

# {{Please forward widely}}

!! P R O T E S T D A N I E L P I P E S !!

Wed., Nov. 16 ~ 6 PM 595 Market St.
(at 2nd St; near Montgomery BART) San Francisco

Daniel Pipes, Director of the "Middle East Forum," will be giving a speech at the Commonwealth Club on the Palestine/Israel Conflict.

Pipes is well-known for his virulent anti-Arab and anti-Muslim rhetoric, his staunch support of Israel and it's occupation and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, and a primary advocate for the war on Iraq.

Join us to demonstrate our opposition to giving any platform to racist, Islamophobic war-mongerers!

Bring bullhorns, pots and pans, and other noisemakers! Drown out Pipes' talk!

The talk will be in the Commonwealth Club office, on the 2nd Floor of 595 Market St. It is free for Club members and $18 for non-members. The 6pm talk is preceded by a reception at 5:30pm.

Choice quotes from Daniel Pipes:

"Western European societies are unprepared for the massive immigration of brown-skinned peoples cooking strange foods and maintaining different standards of hygiene...All immigrants bring exotic customs and attitudes, but Muslim customs are more troublesome than most." (National Review)

"Palestinians are a miserable people...and they deserve to be." (Washington Report on Middle East Affairs)

Call-out initiated by the NorCal International Solidarity Movement Support Group

For more information, email info [at] norcalism.org or call (510) 236-4250
http://norcalism.org


# How to Survive a Robot Uprising
Wed Nov 16 7:00 PM Booksmith 1644 Haight Street
415-863-8688 http://www.booksmith.com
robotics expert DANIEL H. WILSON
reading & book signing for How to Survive a Robot Uprising
Wednesday, November 16, 2005 at 7 pm
--- The robots are coming. Are you ready? In his dryly hilarious survival guide, How to Survive a Robot Uprising, roboticist Daniel H. Wilson offers timely tips on defending yourself against the coming rebellion. Don't wait until
it is too late. The time to fight back is now.

Daniel H. Wilson is a Ph.D. candidate at the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University. He has worked at top research institutes. This is the first book we know of which teaches humans the secrets to quashing a robot mutiny.

Booksmith author events are free and located at our San Francisco store (1644 Haight Street in San Francisco, between Clayton & Cole), unless otherwise noted. For further information, call 415-863-8688 or visit http://www.booksmith.com /// If you can't attend an event and would like to purchase an autographed book, please telephone or email the Booksmith.


# Wal*Mart = EViL movie screening Wed Nov 16 07:30 PM
5 start 7:30 PM film till 12am free donations accepted

Screeninng of Walmart: the high cost of low price. Afterwards
discusion and q&a with former Walmart wage slaves & activists against
incroachment of huge
conglomerates on every aspect of american life. Repesentives from
CounterCurrentColition will speak about their ongoing efforts in the
katrina
devasted gulf region. Since a HomeDepot is in the works right around
thecorner that subject will come up as well. djs plus live bands
FiLTHMiLK, the deleteist, mtba before and after film and discussion.

5lowershop Colletiv 992 peralta & tompkins San Francisco

http://5lowershop.org

101 south to alamany exit right past the mission,
straight through almany farmers market to the large graffitied
warehouse in the

back under the huge lotto sign.
By MUNI take the number 9 bus to bayshore and cortland. once off bus
walk south

to industrial and bayshore take a left there under the bridge the cut
thru the

gaping hole in fence around the white building go right into the big

computerboard covered door.Your Screenings
Home PageProfileEventsLogout

http://www.walmartmovie.com filthmilk priest com 415 240 6173


# http://www.seaturtles.org/spotila

*/YOU ARE INVITED!/ Sea Turtle Conservation
Lecture & Reception
with renowned sea turtle biologist and award-winning author
/Dr. James Spotila/
/President of the International Sea Turtle Society
Betz Chair of Environmental Science at Drexel University/*

*Wed Nov 16th - San Francisco Zoo
Fri Nov 18th - Bay Model, Sausalito*

photo: © Doug Perrine, SeaPics

Please join the /Sea Turtle Restoration Project
<http://www.seaturtles.org/> /in welcoming Dr. James Spotila to the San
Francisco Bay Area . Dr. Spotila has spent much of his life unraveling
the mysteries of these graceful creatures and working to ensure their
survival. He made headlines at a sea turtle conference in February 2004
when he stated that without dramatic conservation measures, the Pacific
leatherback could disappear within ten years.

Come meet Dr. Spotila, */STRP/* staff, and other sea turtle advocates
and learn more about the biology, behavior, and conservation of these
amazing, gentle creatures.

Support /*STRP*/ by entering our raffle to win great prizes! Open to the
general public.

*San Francisco:
**WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16TH *
*WHEN:* *6 PM* Reception, *7 PM* Lecture.
*WHERE:** *San Francisco Zoo
Lurie Education Center, Great Hall
47th Ave & Sloat Blvd Entrance.
*Directions:* http://www..sfzoo.org/visit/visitor.htm
*For directions, call:* (415) 753-7080
      *Save the dates!!*

*Marin County:
**FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18TH*
*WHEN:* *6:30 PM* Reception, *7 PM* Lecture.
*WHERE:* The Bay Model
Visitor Center, Multi-Purpose Room
2100 Bridgeway, Sausalito
*Directions:* http://www.baymodel.org/contact/directions.html
*For directions, call:* (415) 332-3871

*Cost (both nights):
$10* STRP Members
*$15 General Admission

*Support STRP! Enter Our Raffle to Win!**
*~ Dinner for Two on the Monterey Coast! ~
~ Sea Kayak Adventure! ~
~ Other Fabulous Prizes! ~
Winner will be announced on November 16th
(Need not be present to win!)
*Don't delay, buy your tickets today!*
*Only $5 per ticket*.
To purchase, call Jenn at (415) 488-0370 x108.
     
*Help us spread the word about these important events by sending this
notice to your friends, neighbors, and community calendars. The
invitation can be viewed on the web at:
http://www.seaturtles.org/spotila
Flyers for the events can be downloaded at:
http://www.seaturtles.org/pdf/spotilasf.pdf
http://www.seaturtles.org/pdf/spotilamarin.pdf

more info Jenn Shulzitski (415) 488-0370 x108
jenn tirn net


# Box Dog Bikes presents Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price
Nov 17 7:30pm FREE community viewing of WAL-
MART: The High Cost of Low Price. The film takes you into the real
lives of workers and their families, business owners and their
communities, in an extraordinary journey that will challenge the way
you think, feel... and shop. Box Dog Bikes 494 14th St sf 431-96274
http://boxdogbikes.com boxdogbikes gmail com 415-431-9627


# Wal-Mart Movie Screening 11/16 (do not leave valuables in car)
Wednesday, November 16 7:30 PM RSVP here:
http://action.bravenewfilms.org/event/wm_screening.jsp?event_KEY=7587

http://www.walmartmovie.com More about the movie

DETAILS: Wal-Mart recently opened a store in Oakland, near the Dutch Boy. Potentially damaging to the culture and economy of the area, amazingly 11,000 people applied for the 400 available jobs there. A telling message about the state of our local economy and how behemoths like Wal-Mart can easily and cheaply employ people without union or health benefits.

4701 San Leandro Street #28 Oakland, CA 94601
DIRECTIONS: address: 4701 San Leandro Street, #28 Oaktownbootyville please park on san leandro street or 47th, and for the love of god don't leave anything in your car! #28 is in the rear of the complex, walk up the concrete ramp to your left
Please RSVP! BYOWhatever


# 11/16: Showing of The End of Suburbia (walnut creek)
On Nov 16, the Diablo Valley Democratic Club is showing The End of Suburbia. With brutal honesty and a touch of irony, The End of Suburbia is a documentary that explores the American Way of Life and its prospects as global demand for fossil fuels begins to outstrip supply. Jerry McNerney, candidate for Congress, will discuss alternative energy sources.
7-9:30pm Mt Diablo Unitarian Universalist Church
55 Eckley Ln, Walnut Creek RSVP Sally Sweetser at 925/336-2647
http://www.diablovalleydemocrats.org
http://www.craigslist.org/eve/107250011.html


# 11/16: Film: The End of Suburbia (santa rosa)
Wednesday, November 16, 7:30 pm. Film: The End of Suburbia. Suburbia, and all it promises, has become the American Dream. But as we enter the 21st century, serious questions are beginning to emerge about the stainability of this way of life. With brutal honesty and a touch of irony, The End of Suburbia explores the American Way of Life and its prospects as global demand for fossil fuels begins to outstrip supply. Free 568-2605 for info
New College 99 6th St. (at Wilson) in Rail Road Square Santa Rosa


# 11/16: FrEE MOVIE NIGHTS EVERY WED @ STATION 40 (mission district)
Bring your friends! 9PM (the movie starts *at* 9) station40 3030 16th St.
at Mission / Valencia
here's the upcoming schedule for movie nights:

(november)
- walmart - http://www.walmartmovie.com/ - 16th
- aristide and the endless revolution & Q&A w/ben terrall - http://www.unaff.org/2005/f_aristide.html - 22nd
- wattstax - http://tinyurl.com/dukmk- 30th

(december)
- dark days - http://tinyurl.com/bdutm - 7th
- the take - http://tinyurl.com/cbuvl - 14th
- this revolution will not be televised - http://tinyurl.com/9cu9d - 21st (tentative)
- baraka - http://tinyurl.com/d3ycn - 28th (tentative)

(january)
- mary poppins - http://tinyurl.com/5xqyf - 4th (by demand)

http://www.craigslist.org/eve/111313982.html



Thu Nov 17

# UCSC Students Unite Against UC Regents Nov 17 a...
Wednesday, November 16, 2005 - Thursday, November 17, 2005
9:00 AM
PLEASE DISTRIBUTE WIDELY
Call to Action!!!
Make Yourself Seen and Heard!
The UC Regents will be meeting at UC Berkeley Wednesday Nov 16th and Thursday Nov 17th
Wednesday the Regents will be voting to raise students fee another 8% ($492) for the 4th year in a row. Thursday they will be voting to cut financial aid.

The regents meeting agenda is here:
http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/regents/regmeet/nov05.html
There will be two carpools from Santa Cruz up to Berkeley:

-Wed Nov 16th:

A student led carpool will meet 6am at the Farmer’s Market parking lot and leave at 6:30am. The carpool will arrive in time for the 9am comment period. Bring a bandana.

-Thurs Nov 17th:
The Student Union Assembly (SUA) is sponsoring a vanpool/carpool. There is room for 30 in the van. Gas cards will be available to comp students who are carpooling. The van/carpool will leave at 7am (returning to Santa Cruz from Berkeley around 2:30pm) to attend a rally and march organized by University of California Student’s Association:
http://www.ucsa.org/
There will be a reportback rally around 3pm in the Baytree Plaza.
Why this matters:
San Francisco Chronicle: tinyurl.com/7aq3b
http://www.fucktheregents.com
2005 Disorientation Guide:
http://democratize.ucsc.edu/0506_ucsc_disguide_small.pdf

-Sunday Nov 20th:
There will be a “UCSC Student Inter-Org Coalition” meeting at 4pm-5pm in the Redwood Building near Baytree Plaza. There will be a reportback and feedback session on the Regents Meeting. In addition to the reportback, the purpose of this meeting will a continuation of a discussion that orginated at the Ethic Student of Color (ESOC) meeting on Sunday Nov 14. Those present expressed an interest in the creating an ongoing space at UCSC to foster dialouge and build a diverse and unified student coaltion to address issues that effect all UC students. Please attend and bring ideas of how this best can be accomplished.


# Thu Nov 17 4:30pm Flock sculpture at SF Civic Ctr. Plaza,
As seen at Burningman 2001 http://burningman.com


# Flock's Migration: Dedication Thurs, Nov 17 @ 4:30
Please join all of us at the Black Rock Arts Foundation for the
dedication of Michael Christian's 'Flock' as it takes up temporary
residence in front of City Hall, and for the opening festivities
thereafter! Mayor Gavin Newsom will be welcoming our lovely creature this Thursday,
November 17th at 4:30 PM.


# Free Drink For Tribe Members on 11/17/05 @ Le Duplex
Thu Nov 17 5:00 PM Le Duplex 1525 Mission Street (@11th Street)
415.355.1525 http://www.duplexsf.com/#
Print your TRIBE user profile and show it at the door when you arrive at Le Duplex and receive a FREE well vodka or tap beer drink ticket.
Local Artist, Melissa Wagner's Art Opening At Le Duplex on Thursday, 11/17 from 5-9 p.m.*
http://www.wagnerpaintings.com
Happy Hour Specials 5-9 p.m. *$2 tap beers & $3 well drinks*
DJ Rachel will be spinning for your listening pleasure. (http://www.deephouseproject.com)


# Art Happy Hour at Duplex Thu Nov 17 5-9pm FREE!
Sponsored by Tribe.net, SPARKIE BROWN Productions and our hosts at
Duplex Join us in kicking off a new happy hour party on Thursdays and
Fridays at Duplex, SOMA's newest hotspot. This Thursday will be the
first in many more happy hours to come, featuring new artwork by
local artist, Melissa Wagner, and the smooth sounds of DJ's Rachel
and Pwang. And with the holidays around the corner, this is a perfect
place to find an original, affordable piece of artwork.
Tribe.net members get a free drink with printed member profile!
Please stop by to check out a great new venue while supporting the arts!
For more info please visit: http://www.wagnerpaintings.com/shows.html
Duplex 1525 Mission Street @ 11th San Francisco 415-355-1525
http://www.duplexsf.com across the street from goodwill
melissa wagnerpaintings com http://www.wagnerpaintings.com


# Love and other Natural Disasters Thu Nov 17 6PM FREE
rx Gallery 132 Eddy @ Mason http://www.rxgallery.com
Love and other Natural Disasters Recent Paintings by Michael Thrush
Post-pop artist Michael Thrush has his second one-person show at Rx after last year's acclaimed exhibition when all but 2 of the 15 large-scale works made their way into important collections around the world. Thrush embraces and perverts Pop art sensibilities to absurdist leaps of logic and hyper-surrealistic extremes. In over a dozen recent works, comics and icons of advertising culture lose their identity when freed from their duties to spread mass-consumption. As they become intertwined with other imagery and culture-jammed into obedient roles cast by the artist, a diabolic narrative resonates in the background which claims the death of these highly charged cultural forms while revealing their banal entropy and ambivalence at the same time.


# 11/17 6:30pm SIGGRAPH - Electronic Theater Screening UC Berkeley $7
http://www.craigslist.org/eve/109323322.html


# Thu Nov 17 Northern California 9-11 Truth Organizing
Meeting, Oakland (Grand Lake Neighborhood Center, 7-10pm)
911 - inside job. Demand investigation!
http://www.wtc7.net - http://www.physics911.org - http://www.911-strike.com
http://www.oilempire.us - http://www.dieoff.org - http://www.peakoil.net
http://bombsinsidewtc.dk - http://www.911review.com
http://911research.wtc7.net/talks/towers/index.html
http://www.globalresearch.ca - http://www.cooperativeresearch.org
http://www.911review.com/index.html
http://www.911review.com/911review/index.html


# Thu Nov 17 SPIN JAM is back @ a new location!
Infinite Kaos is no longer able to host public events at it's HQ.
The call went out for a new venue, so I hooked up the Gingerbread Warehouse aka Danzhaus Studios.
Spin Jam starts at the new location THIS Thursday, November 10th!
When: Every Thursday from 9pm-12:01am
Where: 1275 Connecticut St. @ Ceasar Chavez
(between the 280 and 101 freeways)
For directions and bus routes go to: http://www.danzhaus.com
Cost: $5 donation requested - no one turned away!
Time to getcha Spin on... Hope to see ya there!



Fri Nov 18

# http://www.protocolsofzionmovie.com

11/18/2005 Marin, CA Cine Arts at Sausalito Century
 
11/18/2005 Palo Alto Mtn View 16 Century

911 - inside job. Demand investigation!
http://www.wtc7.net - http://www.physics911.org - http://www.911-strike.com
http://www.oilempire.us - http://www.dieoff.org - http://www.peakoil.net
http://bombsinsidewtc.dk - http://www.911review.com
http://911research.wtc7.net/talks/towers/index.html
http://www.globalresearch.ca - http://www.cooperativeresearch.org
http://www.911review.com/index.html
http://www.911review.com/911review/index.html


# National Stand Down Day - Nov. 18, 2005
End The Iraq War - Demonstrations and Nonviolent Resistance at Recruiting Stations Across the Country
http://www.iraqpledge.org/nov18.htm


# Mirkarimi Art Opening (Date Correction) Fri Nov. 18 5-7:30pm free
Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi Hosts Art Opening of Ian Johnson'sWork
City Hal 1 Dr. Carlton B Goodlett Place Polk @ Grove


# Friday November 18, 7-9pm
Gale Hart Artist Talk with special guests.
Admission: Free VarnishFineArt.com 77 Natoma


# Babes in Sugarland - The Scorpio Ball - 10 PM - till after hours
Fri Nov 18 At the DNA Lounge 375 11th St @ Harrison
http://www.bonsterproductions.com breaks.
10pm - after hours. $20 door w/costume; $25 without costume.
Main Room:
Lorin (Bass Nectar) http://bassnectar.net
Janaka Selekta (Dhamaal)
Random Rab (Xalex)
Laird (Boombox)
Shissla (House of Lotus)
Dragonfly (Groove Garden)
Lounge:
Brother (Spaceship Gaia)
CB (Yoga Tai Chi)
Smoove (Space Cowboys)
Shanta (Soundboutique)
El Papachango (El Circo)
Whistler (Love Tribe)
Neel N. Kizmiaz (Lush)
With special guest striptease superstar Catherine D'Lish
Visuals by Caroluna http://vjluna.com
(and a special cabaret performance during the night)



# Close the SOA! Nov.18-20, 2005 - Converge on Fort Benning, Georgia
http://www.soaw.org School of the Americas Watch
Shut Down the School of the Americas Watch
http://www.ENOUGHisENOUGH.de.vu


# Nov 18-20: Close the SOA! Converge on Ft Benning

Dear Friends in the Struggle for Justice,

Tens of thousands of people raised their voices for justice in the streets
of Argentina last week as President Bush met with Latin American leaders.
Bush's visit to Central and South America was marked by strong opposition
to his administration's policies of militarization in Iraq and around the
world, by another stumbling block in his free-trade plans for the
hemisphere and by persistent questions of the U.S.'s use of torture.

In our own country, in Latin America and around the world, there is a
growing cry for an end to failed attempts at solving social and political
problems through military violence. NEXT WEEKEND, OUR URGENT CALL TO CLOSE
THE SCHOOL OF THE AMERICAS MUST BE AS CLEAR AND STRONG AS EVER. On
November 18-20, we will raise our voices with people throughout the
Americas to declare that a better world is possible, a world free of
repression, racism and torture.

In case you have not already made plans to be there, WE WANT TO ENOURAGE
YOU TO JOIN US AT THE GATES OF FORT BENNING, GEORGIA THE WEEKEND OF
NOVEMBER 18-20. You do not want to miss this crucial event. With a vote in
Congress on closing the SOA coming up next summer, we know that this
year's Vigil is critical. For that reason, Rep. Jim McGovern,
Congressional author of HR 1217, will join us in Georgia next weekend to
call for justice.

Thousands of you are preparing to join us at Fort Benning, home of the
School of the Americas. But don't come alone. THIS NEXT WEEK IS THE TIME
WHEN MANY PEOPLE WILL MAKE A LAST-MINUTE DECISION TO ATTEND THE VIGIL.
Take time today to contact someone you know who is considering attending,
and urge them to stand for justice next weekend. FORWARD THIS EMAIL to
your friends, co-workers, neighbors and family.

Visit the SOA Watch website at http://www.SOAW.org for details about the
weekend's schedule of events, and for information about accessibility and
interpretation, housing, travel and more.

THERE IS ONE MORE WAY THAT YOUR HELP IS NEEDED. For this Vigil to reach
the potential of what can be a history-making event, SOA Watch needs your
financial support. Please take a moment right now to make the largest
donation you can. Every dollar is needed and helps us to cover Vigil
expenses. Visit http://www.soaw.org/new/article.php?id=546 for more info.
Thank you!

Throughout the country, people continue to learn the truth about the
School of the Americas every day thanks to you. Building together, we will
continue to spread the word. Working together, we will close the School of
the Americas, once and for all, and we will put an end to racist systems
of military violence and domination.

See you in Georgia,
The SOA Watch Staff

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http://www.SOAW.org
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Accessibility and interpretation:
http://www.soaw.org/new/article.php?id=1167
Schedule of events: http://www.soaw.org/new/article.php?id=1059
Travel info: http://www.soaw.org/new/article.php?id=1000
Housing info: http://www.soaw.org/new/article.php?id=1001



# Spell...13 Invocations for Regime Change
Friday, November 18, Saturday, November 19 and Sunday, November 20
Friday & Saturday at 8:00 pm and Sunday at 2:00 pm and 6:00 pm
$20 reserved in advance, $22 at the door
Dance Mission Theater 3316 24th St @ Mission
http://www.dancemission.com



# *RIOT-FOLK* Convergence!
http://www.riotfolk.org

It's been one year since we formed the Riot-Folk Collective and we are
celebrating it in the bay-area! We are a collective of 8 radical
activists and folk musicians (Brenna Sahatjian, Ethan Miller, Kate
Boverman, Ryan Harvey, Anna Roland, Evan Greer, Mark Gunnery, and Tom
Frampton) who write, perform, and distribute radical folk music at
no-to-low costs. We are anti-profit and exist to further the struggle
against capitalism and oppression.

***All of our shows are donation-optional benefits or they are free, no
one is ever turned away for not having money or not wanting to pay.***

That being said, here are a bunch of shows we are playing from November
18-25. Please come out and check the music out, help raise some cash for
relief efforts in New Orleans, jailed anti-facists in Toledo, OH, and
post-FTAA summit legal efforts in Argentina!

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18th
Benefit for post-FTAA summit legal fund in Argentina (if needed),
otherwise New Orleans Relief benefit.
@ Nabolom Bakery (2708 Russell St. @ College, in Berkeley)
7:00 PM

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 19th
All day show, benefit for Common Grounds Relief in New Orleans!
@ Coffee to the People, Haight and Masonic, (Upper Haight, SF)
wThe Slow Motion, Justin Clifford Rhody, Bookends, David Jaberi, This
One's On Me, Trainwreck Riders, Lava Lava (with Spoonboy)

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 20th
Feature on Free Folk Radio Show, 104.1 FM (Berkeley)
8:00-10:00 PM

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 23rd
1-year Anniversary Show and Celebration of NY Shirtwaste Strike!
Benefit for legal fund of recently arrested anti-fascists in Toledo, Ohio
@ Station 40 (3030 16th St. @ Mission, SF)
6:30-11:00 PM

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 24th
Food Not Bombs - Give Thanks Vegetarian Potluck Feast!
Benefit for the Doe Family Legal Fund
@ Ashkenaz (San Pablo, one block S. of Gilman, Berkeley)
6:00-9:00 PM, music from 7:00-9:00 PM

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25th
Buy Nothing Day actions in SF *@ Powell and Market St*
Poets, performers, musicians welcome! Flood the Market with FREE Exchange!
11:30-1:00 pm

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 26th
@ Downtown Berkeley Farmers Market (@ Center and MLK)
12:30 PM
Thanks yall. See you there! In solidarity, Ryan aaaarrrrgggghhhhh!!



# Nov. 19: Sat., 10 am - 4 pm Freedom of Expression in Times of War Clinton Fein

Along with my friend Hanna Regev who, among other things, co-ordinated the program for my Numb & Number exhibition, I will be presenting this one-day seminar through University of California: Berkeley Extension.

Why is political art expressing so little dissent under the current Bush Administration? How does implementation of the Patriot Act impact the arts and artists? When does one's right to remain silent become an order from the government? And what is the cost of free speech?

This all-day symposium explores how creativity, media and the arts are attacked during times of war -- attacks that are frequently hidden under the guise of "national security." A diverse interdisciplinary panel of artists, museum curators and free-speech organizers discuss the limits of freedom of expression in an electronic age and the inevitable erosion of civil liberties in wartime.

San Francisco: Room 204, South of Market Center, 95 Third St. No fee


# EAST BAY LIVING FOODS RAW FOODS POTLUCK NOVEMBER 2005
Saturday, November 19th from 6.30 to 10:00PM
PLEASE TRY TO BE ON TIME! East Bay Living Foods' Home:
The Upaya Center for Wellbeing, 478 Santa Clara
Avenue, Oakland, CA 94610 (Across from the Grand Lake Theater)


# New College of California’s Women’s Spirituality Program Presents
A Celebration Of The Birthday Of Enheduanna
With Betty Meador, who will share her new work
on Enheduanna’s Forty-Two Temple Hymns !

The First Writer of Record
Enheduanna’s poetry and hymns were written in ancient Sumerian, circa 2300 B.C.E., on clay tablets and were only discovered by archeologists in Iraq in the past century. Enheduanna held the most important religious office in the land, high priestess to the moon god and goddess, Nanna and Ningal, in their temple in Ur.
 
Betty De Shong Meador is a Jungian analyst, member of the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco, now retired.  Her beautiful and powerful translations of the poetry of Enheduanna appear in her book, Inanna - Lady of Largest Heart and in the forthcoming On Your Radiant Site - The Sumerian Temple Hymns of Enheduanna.
 
Saturday, November 19th, 2005 - 7PM
Cultural Center - New College of California
766 Valencia Street between 18th and 19th Streets
Donations Accepted
 
Contact:  Deborah Grenn at 650-483-1179 or dgrenn [at] newcollege.edu
 or call Dianne Jenett at 650-468-8818
  Founder & Director, The Lilith Institute
 
Core Faculty, Women's Spirituality MA Program
New College of California San Francisco, CA
http://www.newcollege.edu/womenspirituality/
650-483-1179 / 415-437-3422


# Sat Nov 19 9pm to 7am http://hookahdome.com


# Solaris Sat Nov 19 9:00pm-12:00am $12 door.
Fusing Persian, Sufi and traditional music with sensuous ambient
electronica members of SOM'MA will offer up the mystical for a night
of sublime nocturnal ether at Cobalt Sun, Saturday, November 19th at
9:00 p.m.
Visuals will be provided by Lynn Augstein of Cobalt Sun, to enhance
the musical experience and live dance by Leila.
Opening will be the live debut of the ambient music artist Craneman
(Dwight Loop) with special guests Scott Railsback, didjeridoo,
percussion and voice and Hari Das, tablas.
Don't miss this special night of music and light at Cobalt Sun.
Tickets are $12 at the door. Doors open at 8:30 p.m. show at 9:00 p.m.
SOM'MA
Shirzad Sharif - Live Persian Strings and Percussion
Jeff Stott - Live Middle Eastern Strings and Electronics
Pourya Khademi - Live Persian Violin and Percussion
John Connell - Live Persian Ney Flute and Percussion
Take 101 to Marin City/Sausalito Exit, Get off exit. This will loop
around and take you right onto Bridgeway, the first stop light. Stay
on Bridgeway two more lights, until Coloma St. Turn Left on Coloma
St. at light. Go down, looking on right side for warehouse building,
last one on right before road T's into Gate Five Road. Look for sign
on door for Cobalt Sun http://www.sommamusic.com
Cobalt Sun Gallery 411-A Coloma St. Sausalito 415-443-0340
http://www.CobaltSun.net



Sun Nov 20


# World Can't Wait organizing meeting Nov 20th San Francisco
We plan on having regular general meetings, open to
all, all the way between now and the next national
action day in January (the State of the Union
protests, date not yet announced, with the new WCW
demand: BUSH STEP DOWN AND TAKE YOUR WHOLE PROGRAM
WITH YOU). After this Sunday's meeting (see below)
we'll have another big meeting the week after
Thanksgiving. Meanwhile, working committees are
meeting separately (outreach, fundraising, press and
publicity, as well as the students and youth group) so
if you'd like to join any of these committees, sign up
at a meeting or by email or phone to our office.

**** Sunday's WORLD CAN'T WAIT meeting: Nov. 20th,
2005 ******
First Unitarian Church
1187 Franklin St, San Francisco 94109
handicapped accessible
2:30-5:30 pm
closest Bart station: Civic Center, about 15 minute
walk from there

Come hear reports from the outreach and student/youth
committees. There is a big post-November 2nd struggle
to support and defend the students, especially in the
high schools but also some colleges, against reprisals
and punishment for their courageous political actions
on November 2nd. We will also discuss the World Can't
Wait focus on "your government is openly torturing
people, and justifying it" (including ongoing protests
exposing the torture legal architect Professor John
Yoo - more people both young and older are needed for
more such protest activities coming up soon). And we
have huge plans to make together, from all over the
Bay Area, for further organizing and action that
builds up to the State of the Union address.

If you are coming from further away (Santa Cruz, North
Bay, Fremont, Sacramento??) our office can try to help
people connect up to carpool or ride together -- call
us to get in touch with others in your area.

Major outreach planned for Nov 25th the day after
Thanksgiving. Call or e-mail if you want to
participate. We will be going out with dramatic
outreach and fundraising teams on "the biggest
shopping day of the year" to reach many many new
people with the message: "The World Can't Wait! Drive
Out the Bush Regime!"

Zara and Stephanie, WCW office 415-410-5455


# Dana Lyons Concert and Silent Auction
to benefit the Bay Area Coalition for Headwaters
Gourmet refreshments, live music with Dana Lyons, Seattle singer-songwriter whose song "Cows With Guns" hit the international charts.

Auction items include camping gear, books, dinners, hot springs retreats, massage, yoga classes, hemp clothing, original art, movies and pizza and much more. 

Great deals! Benefits the trees!

Sun., Nov. 20, 6 - 10 pm Unitarian Fellowship Hall
1924 Cedar at Bonita, north Berkeley (nr BART & wheelchair accessible)

Info: 510-548-3113 Auction items and bidding at http://www.HeadwatersPreserve.org

Bay Area Coalition for Headwaters (BACH)

2530 San Pablo Ave.
Berkeley, CA  94702
phone: 510 548 3113
email: bach headwaterspreserve org
http://www.HeadwatersPreserve.org


# 11-20 7:00 PM Birthing Bliss Baby Universe Presents: Fantuzzi Benefit, Fairfax
Greetings Tribal Family!
On Sunday, November 20th, beginning at 7pm, we will be holding a live healing musical evening benefit for our dear brother, Fantuzzi, to show our support, with our loving presence, music & financial contributions - to expediate his recovery & help soften some of the financial burden he has incurred from his accident. Many of our favorite live local musicians will be performing . . . I'll update this post as soon as I get word on who all has confirmed to play, but so far we have SHIMSHAI, LAKSHMI MA & RAHMAN D'AMATO! Looking at their calenders, we have JAH LEVI, MANAKA & SHAKINA, MATTHEW OF DOUBLE DOSE & BLANE LYON. We hope to see you! $10/door - %50 goes to Fantuzzi, %50 goes to space, clean-up & promotion. We will have an extra Money Box at door, 100% of those donations will go directly to Fantuzzi. Bliss~Bless! Laughing Mama: 12E School Street Plaza, Fairfax.


# Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi Hosts Art Opening Nov. 21 5pm-8pm free
On Friday, November 21, 2005, Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi hosts the
monthly Third Friday's Art Reception in his City Hall office, Room
282. This month's featured artist is Ian Johnson.
Ian Johnson is a native New Yorker and a San Franciscan artist. His
portraits, predominantly of 1950s and 1960s jazz musicians,
investigate the space between the musician and his music. Energetic
pen and ink marks are evocative of the spontaneous nature of jazz
music and the physical structure of the human form. Ian Johnson's
position as the art director of San Francisco's Western Edition
website has led him to investigate the fundamental nature of his
artwork as both cultural and commercial products.
San Francisco City Hall, 1 Carlton B Goodlett Place, Room 282
San Francisco 1-415-554-7630 mirkarimistaff sfgov org



# Venezuela from Below Wed Nov 23 7pm
film is FREE but $5 donation is accepted
This documentary reflects the voice of the rank and file of the
Bolivarian Revolution. It shows everyday Venezuelans talking about
what is happening, how they feel, and how they live within the
Bolivarian Revolution. The Film is made by Dario Azzellini and
Oliver Ressler and runs just over an hour. Spanish and German with
English Subtitles. everyone's invited to indulge in our Humanist Coffee House
Humanist Hall 390 27th St midtown Oakland at Telegraph / Broadway
http://www.HumanistHall.net


# Raw and/or Vegan Thanksgiving Potluck | http://RawVeg.info
Thu Nov 24 2:00 PM Thanksgiving Day, in El Sobrante (near El Cerrito Del Norte BART).
No charge. No RSVP necessary. Co-sponsored by our friends
http://www.BayAreaVeg.info/
http://RawVeg.info/potlucks.html for full info.


# Buy Nothing Day -- help with sheep herding Hey all,

I'm trying to put together the sheep herd to flock through Union Square on Buy Nothing Day (the day after Thanksgiving -- see http://www.adbusters.org/metas/eco/bnd/ for more info).

I'll need someone to split the labor and cost of a bunch of sheep masks, mainstream retailer shopping bags, fake money, etc., to make the sheep a reality this year.

Someone out there wanna help make this happen? Folks out there NEED to experience the SHEEP this year!!!
Baaaaa, - Sheep FX 415-614-9300
http://www.craigslist.org/sfc/com/111051957.html


# how much is that nothing in the window?
The latest from the front:

It's that time of the year again: BUY NOTHING DAY

In less than a month, millions of people around the world will ask for
the ultimate refund -- by opting out of consumer culture. For 24 hours on
Buy Nothing Day, November 25, we remember that no one was born to shop,
we pause, make a small choice to participate by not participating, and
we regain some calm. What will you do to tell Nike, McDonald's, Walmart
and the rest that enough is enough? Why not run with some ideas dreamt
up by the more than 3,500 jammers who took part in last year's biggest
ever Buy Nothing Day? Set up credit card cut ups, don white coats and
vaccinate against affluenza, give out free samples of nothing - anything
to show that the best things in life are free. You can find more ideas
and tools in the Action Pyramid at:
http://www.adbusters.org/bnd

If you haven't done so already, join your local jammergroup to
coordinate with like-minded individuals:
http://www.adbusters.org/bndjammergroups

As your plans come together,let us know at:
bnd adbusters org

The catalyst for change: TRUE COST ECONOMICS

Before economics can