top
San Francisco
San Francisco
Indybay
Indybay
Indybay
Regions
Indybay Regions North Coast Central Valley North Bay East Bay South Bay San Francisco Peninsula Santa Cruz IMC - Independent Media Center for the Monterey Bay Area North Coast Central Valley North Bay East Bay South Bay San Francisco Peninsula Santa Cruz IMC - Independent Media Center for the Monterey Bay Area California United States International Americas Haiti Iraq Palestine Afghanistan
Topics
Newswire
Features
From the Open-Publishing Calendar
From the Open-Publishing Newswire
Indybay Feature

CELEBRATE PEOPLE’S HISTORY

comptons_riot_andre_perez_copy.jpg
Date:
Saturday, November 20, 2010
Time:
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Event Type:
Other
Organizer/Author:
Art Hazelwood
Location Details:
Center for Political Education - 522 Valencia (at 16th St) SF

Poster Exhibit - Book Release Party - Artist Panel
One Day Only - FREE

Initiated by Josh MacPhee in 1998, Celebrate People’s History uses posters to document the hidden history of feminist organizers, civil rights leaders, indigenous uprisings, union struggles, LGBT activism and much more. Bay Area-themed posters include tributes to the Alcatraz occupation, the International Hotel eviction, the transgender riot at Compton’s Cafeteria and Los Siete de la Raza, Mission youth framed for the murder of a cop.

A complete compilation has just been released - Celebrate People's History: the Poster Book of Resistance and Revolution with over 100 full-color posters. Edited by Josh MacPhee with a foreword by Rebecca Solnit, the book includes art from Jesus Barraza, Melanie Cervantes, Eric Drooker, Fernando Marti, Cristy Road, Jos Sances, Nicole Schulman, Swoon and many others.

To kick off the West Coast premiere of the book, a release party will be held with a poster exhibit, artists signing books and a panel featuring historian Lincoln Cushing http://www.docspopuli.org and artist Favianna Rodriguez http://www.favianna.com.

Admission is free, but donations go to MacPhee and his partner who is battling cancer.

For more info, email CelebratePeoplesHistory [at] gmail.com or visit http://www.politicaleducation.org.


Added to the calendar on Thu, Nov 4, 2010 9:17PM
§
by Art Hazelwood
alcatraz_josh_macphee_copy.jpg
§
by Art Hazelwood
international_hotel_claude_moller_copy.jpg

Comments (Hide Comments)
This event is being held exactly on the 100th anniversary of the symbolic starting date of one of the most important events in people's history, at least in North America.

November 20, 1910 is the date customarily regarded as the start of the Mexican Revolution, one of the great revolutionary struggles of the 20th Century, even if it resulted in only a limited, partial, victory for the oppressed masses. Why isn't this even mentioned by most of the left groups having events on this centennial day, especially given that the situation in Mexico now is potentially as explosive as it was in 1910?
We are 100% volunteer and depend on your participation to sustain our efforts!

Donate

$110.00 donated
in the past month

Get Involved

If you'd like to help with maintaining or developing the website, contact us.

Publish

Publish your stories and upcoming events on Indybay.

IMC Network