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BENEFIT SHOW for the BAY AREA COALITION TO FIGHT THE MINUTEMEN!
FRIDAY, APRIL 14th BALAZO 18 GALLERY 6pm
(2183 Mission st, near 18th)
6pm-8pm: Chican@ dinner, short documentary:"New World Border", talk w/ film-maker and educator Jose Palafox about current border militarization and anti-immigrant repression, (also a veterano punkero and member of newly formed hard-core punk band- Baader Brains).
EARLY SHOW!!!
Bands start 8pm sharrrp! ends at Midnight! DJ's, dancing + drinking + cotoreando/flirting ;} continues till late...
Firme (headl...
Posted: Thu, Apr 13, 2006 2:45am PDT
Youth and Power Audio PSA's (audio/mpeg 4.2MB)
A couple of Audio PSAs for the April 17th Youth and Power event in Watsonville, Califatzlan. The long one is 4:32 minutes and the shorter one is 2:37....
Posted: Wed, Apr 12, 2006 11:06pm PDT
Shaping SF Spring talks: Black Exodus / Black Evictions
Every 2nd and last Wednesday until June 28th, CounterPULSE and City Lights Foundation present
SHAPING San Francisco's SPRING TALKS 2006 THIS WEDNESDAY : Black Exodus/ Black Evictions with Kevin Epps, Alicia Schwartz and Willie Ratcliff !!!!...
Posted: Tue, Apr 11, 2006 9:13pm PDT
Extended deadline: Contemporary American Radical Political Poster Art
Radical political posters have long been a feature of American culture and politics. From handbills posted during the Revolutionary War to wheatpasted posters put up by anti-capitalist activists, radical street art has been vital to political discourse in this country. Radical art in public spaces has made a comeback in the past 15 years....
Posted: Tue, Apr 11, 2006 10:32am PDT
Announcing the First Annual Flim Flam Film Fest (4/13)
An evening of good, informative, entertaining, indignant, funny, and inspiring short films dealing with repressive laws locally and elsewhere, as well as resistance to oppressive laws...
Posted: Tue, Apr 11, 2006 8:35am PDT
Jane joins Peace Garden boys at CSUFresno
Jane joins Peace Garden boys at CSUFresno. 1.5 minute video...
Posted: Sat, Apr 8, 2006 5:33pm PDT
The Bizarro Baloney Show tours SF Bay Area & West Coast (audio/mpeg 7.9MB)
Cartoonist Dan Piraro tours a multitude of cities to benefit PETA and Physicians Committee For Responsible Medicine....
Posted: Thu, Apr 6, 2006 7:35pm PDT
Judas: this is what really happened
After being reviled for more than 2,000 years as the embodiment of treachery, Judas Iscariot's side of the story was finally published yesterday. Thanks to a newly discovered gospel in Judas's name, we now know what his excuse was: Jesus made me do it.
The Gospel of Judas, a fragile clutch of a leather-bound papyrus thought to have been inscribed in about AD300, was unveiled yesterday in Washington by the National Geographic Society, and it represents a radical makeover for one of the wors...
Posted: Thu, Apr 6, 2006 5:06pm PDT
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest at Santa Cruz GDI (4/7)
Implacable rabble-rouser Randle Patrick McMurphy is committed to an asylum and inspires his fellow patients to rebel against the authoritarian rule of head nurse Mildred Ratched. A blistering attack on American society, that is at once exceptionally emotional and eternally uplifting....
Posted: Wed, Apr 5, 2006 7:57am PDT
BROWN BERETS PRESENT YOUTH & POWER 2006: w/ IMMORTAL TECHNIQUE
Revolutionary hip-hop and activism!...
Posted: Mon, Apr 3, 2006 5:40pm PDT
Fatwa against statues triggers uproar in Egypt
Art- the innocent victim of religious fundementalism...
Posted: Mon, Apr 3, 2006 10:11am PDT
Paris What would you do? (audio/mpeg 11.1MB)
This is a clip from Paris' Sonic Jihad about the Police arising from 9/11. This will be linked to an article entitle "Hollywood Strikes Back" regarding media artists responses to the not-so-creeping fascism at weazlsrevenge.blogspot.com...
Posted: Sun, Apr 2, 2006 9:27am PDT
Australian Film Presents Unique View from Iraq
On the third anniversary of the invasion of Iraq this week, this astonishing Australian/Iraqi documentary, In The Shadow Of The Palms, the latest work by acclaimed independent Australian documentary filmmaker, Wayne Coles-Janess, won the Golden Reel for Best Documentary at its US premiere at the Tiburon Film Festival.
This is the only documentary filmed on the streets of Baghdad before, during and immediately after ‘liberation’ and it tells a fascinating tale of the lives of ordinary Iraqis...
Posted: Wed, Mar 29, 2006 3:35pm PST
Battle for a wholesome generation?
Here is another take on what happened in San Francisco two weekends ago. As a parent and activist, I found myself agreeing with much of what this author had to say....
Posted: Wed, Mar 29, 2006 2:29pm PST
Forced Injections Allowed by In Bush Regime Era, Beware...Fedeeral and State Injections
The USA governments have been allowing forcible injections in large numbers since 2001 against innocent people, per a change in the laws protecting us. Chapter 36 laws in the Arizona, Nevada, and New Mexico allow forced injections since 2001. The federal government forcibly injected me in 2001 in Los Angeles. We must strike against them in force and mass with no mercy. We should remove those who pass those laws and put films of them being removed on the web. Nuremberg NOW>...
Posted: Wed, Mar 29, 2006 7:44am PST
Download Song Commemorating Rachel Corrie
British folk singer Billy Bragg has released a FREE mp3 song dedicated to American hero/peace activist, Rachel Corrie... here's what Bragg said about his song: "Rachel Corrie went to Gaza to draw attention to the plight of the Palestinians, whose voice is seldom heard in her country, the US. That she herself should be silenced - first by an Israeli bulldozer, next by a New York theatre canceling a play created from her words - is a testimony to the power of her message. This song was wri...
Posted: Tue, Mar 28, 2006 9:43am PST
New: Hear Billy Bragg sing of the lonesome death of Rachel Corrie; plus Bushrat flees
Take out the handkerchief....
Posted: Tue, Mar 28, 2006 7:31am PST
just sad
it appears that victims of hate crimes and violent home invasions and families coping with the loss of a child killed by a drunk driver make for good television....
Posted: Tue, Mar 28, 2006 2:06am PST
Spain: Bomb threats and funding cuts follow theatre show
Responses to a theatre show by comedian Leo Bassi indicate the escalation of right-wing clerical reaction in Spanish politics. The cutting of government subsidies to a theatre festival that staged the show is the latest in a sequence of attacks that has seen theatres picketed and attempts made to bomb auditoriums....
Posted: Mon, Mar 27, 2006 9:34pm PST
Nader -- Bush's Divorce from Reality
author: Ralph Nader
CounterPunch
March 25 / 26, 2006
Impeachment or Resignation: Pick Your Poison...
Posted: Sun, Mar 26, 2006 10:01pm PST