New College CESA Events List, May 4 - 25

Left Turn's 5th Year Anniversary Celebration! Stories of Reconstruction and Hope

Thursday, May 4, 7:00 PM
New College Cultural Center
766 Valencia Street, San Francisco

Join cutting-edge poets and activists in a night of celebration of Left Turn Magazine’s fifth anniversary. Featured performers include Headrush (Chicano Spoken Word Troupe), June Jordan's Poetry For the People alumni: Ananda Esteva, Maria Poblet and Jim Saliba


5-Year Anniversary Issue of Left Turn -
Reflections on Resistance: 5 years of grassroots reporting - is out now! http://www.leftturn.org/

About Left Turn:

"Left Turn is a national network of activists engaged in exposing and fighting the consequences of global capitalism and imperialism. Rooted in a variety of social movements, we are anti-capitalists, radical feminists, anti-racists, and anti-imperialists working to build resistance and alternatives to corporate power and empire.

"Through our publication, Left Turn Magazine, our website and other forums, we seek to create spaces for our various movements to reflect and strategize. The magazine serves as a resource to grassroots movements by reporting on and analyzing local and global struggles for justice. It is an all-volunteer publication written by activists for activists."

$8 - $20 - No one turned away for lack of class privilege!

For more information, please call (415) 260-9496.

Co-sponsored by New College Media Studies MA Program.


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David Barsamian on: "Another World Is Possible: People Power in the Age of Empire"

Thursday, May 11, 7:00 pm
New College Cultural Center
766 Valencia Street, SF


"Alternative Radio" director, author and award-winning journalist David Barsamian will speak at New College on May 11, following the recent 20th Anniversary celebration of "Alternative Radio." Barsamian reminds us that people have power that can be exercised most effectively through organization and collective action. When movements form, governments and corporations can be challenged. With few resources citizens in impoverished East Timor, Nicaragua, Haiti and India have risen and resisted oppression and overthrown tyrannies. Latin America today demonstrates the power of people to imagine and create alternatives.

David Barsamian is founder and director of Alternative Radio, the independent award-winning weekly series based in Boulder, Colorado. He is a radio producer, journalist, author and lecturer. He has been working in radio since 1978. His interviews and articles appear regularly in The Progressive and Z Magazine. His latest books are Imperial Ambitions with Noam Chomsky and Speaking of Empire & Resistance with Tariq Ali. His earlier books include Propaganda and the Public Mind: Conversations with Noam Chomsky; Eqbal Ahmad: Confronting Empire and The Decline and Fall of Public Broadcasting. The Institute for Alternative Journalism named him one of its "Top Ten Media Heroes." Barsamian lectures on U.S. foreign policy, the media, propaganda, and corporate power in the U.S., Canada, Brazil, India and Europe. He is the winner of the ACLU's Upton Sinclair Award for independent journalism and of a Democracy Media Award. Barsamian was recently awarded the Rocky Mountain Peace & Justice Center Award for 2006.

$5 at the door

For more information, call 510-208-1700

Sponsored by AK Press, New College Media Studies MA Program, and Media Alliance


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New College Center for Education and Social Action
Presents:

An Evening with Barbara Becnel

Wednesday, May 17 at 7 PM
New College Cultural Center, 766 Valencia Street, San Francisco.

Join Barbara Becnel -- long time friend and advocate of the late Stanley Tookie Williams, anti-death penalty activist and candidate for Governor of California -- for a presentation and dialogue about politics, activism and crucial public issues we face today.

Barbara Becnel: For 13 years she worked with Stanley Tookie Williams, death row prisoner and Nobel Peace Prize nominee, to edit and publish his award-winning series of books for at-risk children. She was Stanley Tookie William's advocate and friend, and organized an international campaign for clemency until he was killed by the State of California on December 13, 2005. She witnessed his execution.
Barbara Becnel is Executive Director of a non-profit social services agency in Richmond, California. Her background includes working as a public policy expert in Washington, D.C. and in Los Angeles. She has written more than 100 newspaper and magazine articles as well as several books about parenting and overcoming drug addiction.

She co-produced the award-winning TV film Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story, based on her partnership with Stanley Tookie Williams. Jamie Foxx starred as Mr. Williams; actress Lynn Whitfield portrayed Ms. Becnel. The movie was honored at the Sundance Film Festival and Cannes Film Festival in France.

The winner of numerous public service awards, including "Woman of the Year 2001" issued by the California State Legislature, Ms Becnel received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 2 1/2 years, summa cum laude, in Economics from Adelphi University; attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in a doctoral program in Quantitative Economics and did post-graduate work at the University of Chicago as a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow.

Free and open to the public.

For more information, contact Jon Garfield, 415-437-3425 or jon [at] newcollege.edu .

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Report on Labor Media from South Africa to Turkey

Thursday, May 18 at 7 PM
New College Theater
777 Valencia St., San Francisco

Join Labor Media Producer Steve Zeltzer as he reports on the struggles in South Africa at an international labormedia conference and on the first Working Class Film and Video Festival in Turkey. Labor videos and media are now being used to build solidarity and education for working people in many countries and the growing use of the communication technology can provide an important vehicle for international labor action. This presentation and video segments will highlight some of these developments.

$3.00 Donation Requested (no one turned away due to lack of funds)
Free to strikers or locked out workers

Sponsored by The Labor Video Project and New College Center for Education & Social Action

For further information call (415)282-1908 or email lvpsf [at] labornet.org

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New College Media Studies MA Program, KPFA, Global Exchange and Media Alliance
Presents:

Aaron Glantz speaking on Iraq and Viet Nam

Thursday, May 25 at 7PM
New College Theater
777 Valencia Street, San Francisco

Pacifica reporter Aaron Glantz will be returning to New College to speak about Iraq and Viet Nam: War and its Legacy, on Thursday, May 25th at 7pm. The award-winning journalist and author visited Iraq three times since the occupation and authored How America Lost Iraq. He recently spent several months on a reporting tip to Viet Nam.

“Aaron Glantz' courageous, unembedded journalism explains the reality of the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq with a clarity and perspective sorely lacking in the mainstream media. He incisively cuts through the fog of war and Pentagon chatter, getting close to the story, as all journalists should. How America Lost Iraq is essential reading as the saber rattling in Washington continues.”
--Amy Goodman, host Democracy Now!

Aaron Glantz is a reporter for Pacifica Radio and other media outlets. He has visited Iraq three times during the U.S. occupation: for a month immediately after the fall of Saddam Hussein; from February to May 2004; and during the elections in January of 2005. His work from Iraq has also been syndicated to newspapers around the world by Inter Press News Service. He recently returned after a four month reporting trip to Hanoi.

Aaron is a founding producer of Pacifica Radio’s national newscast, Free Speech Radio News. In the course of his work he has also reported from Egypt, Turkey, Jordan, South Korea, Indonesia, India, Vietnam, France, and Denmark. Before becoming an international reporter, Aaron served as California State Capitol reporter for Pacifica’s flag-ship station, KPFA in Berkeley, CA, where he won the California Journalism Award for radio in 2000.

Visit: http://www.aaronglantz.com/

The event is free and open to the public.

Sponsored by New College Media Studies MA Program, KPFA, Global Exchange and Media Alliance.

For more information contact Jon Garfield, 415-437-3425 or jon [at] newcollege.edu/


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