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"I am a Renegade, an Outlaw, a Pagan" - Author, Poet and Activist Alice Walker in Her Own February is African-American History Month. To honor it, we bring you a conversation with the renowned author, poet and activist Alice Walker. She is perhaps best known for her book "The Color Purple" for which she won the Pulitzer Prize in 1983, becoming the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer for fiction. The novel was adapted into an Oscar-nominated feature length film and has been recently made into a Broadway musical. Alice Walker's latest novel is "Now is the...
Posted: Mon, Feb 13, 2006 7:47am PST
IS INDIA THE NEW CREATIVE HOTSPOT? 
Eco-Space interview with Yahel Chirinian in Goa by Noor Cipriani for Nova...
Posted: Sat, Feb 11, 2006 4:11pm PST
Tuesday Night: Aya de Leon's Love Fest 2006 -- at La Pena (Berkeley) 
Buy tickets now! Save $$ & guarantee your seat!
La Pena will add a 10pm show if the first show sells out this week....
Posted: Fri, Feb 10, 2006 10:41pm PST
In Falun Gong Flap, San Francisco Plays Safe With China A city with a strong human rights tradition struggles to keep its edge as the sentimental favorite for Chinese investors. Eugenia Chien is a writer and editor for New America Media....
Posted: Fri, Feb 10, 2006 8:04pm PST
Question 9-11 - A Call to Activism 
The Northern California 9-11 Truth Alliance will be holding a Benefit at the Grand Lake Theater on February 23. This should be an inspiring evening with powerful new documentaries, tools for budding activists, and stories from people whose lives were touched and transformed by 9-11 and have devoted themselves to challenging the official story, bringing the truth to light, and abolishing terrorism and war....
Posted: Thu, Feb 9, 2006 10:54am PST
AN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH YAHEL CHIRINIAN 
Fashion Gurus names her "the most creative woman in design" and one trendsetter journalist ranks her as "the only female designer that can virtually guarantee originality and vision to a project "....
Posted: Wed, Feb 8, 2006 6:32pm PST
Tom Ammiano and Marga Gomez perform at QComedy Tom Ammiano and Marga Gomez are the featured performer at this installment of SF's twice-monthly queer comedy showcase....
Posted: Wed, Feb 8, 2006 10:53am PST
CITY OF LOST CHILDREN at Santa Cruz Guerilla Drive-In (2/10) 
A lyrical, strange, and hypnotic sci-fi fairy tale. With a mad scientist who kidnaps children to steal their dreams, only a brave young girl and a kindhearted circus strongman can save them....
Posted: Tue, Feb 7, 2006 9:08pm PST
Mindwalk 30: A Motherless Land We start out with some sound from a small anti-immigrant rally in Vista, Ca. if less than 20 people constitutes a rally. A poem called True Lies performed by Taalam Acey, Jody Paluson with Bush() v.s. Nixon and Gore Vidal's take on the State of the Union 2006 with a Raymond Lafferty music bed....
Posted: Tue, Feb 7, 2006 5:13pm PST
Radical Folksingers Ryan Harvey and Mark Gunnery at 7pm before El Enemigo Común (2/16) 
Ryan Harvey and Mark Gunnery are coming to town! They will be playing at the RCNV on February 16th at 7:00pm before El Enemigo Común, which will start at 8pm.
Ryan and Mark, from Riot-Folk! Records, will be doin' what they do best: playing hard-hitting anarchist folk music.
It's Not Just Bush (It's the System!)
http://www.indybay.org/uploads/itsnotjustbush.mp3...
Posted: Tue, Feb 7, 2006 4:52pm PST
COUNTRY WESTERN NIGHT CLUBS EMBRACE NEW GAY CLIENTELE COUNTRY WESTERN NIGHT CLUBS EMBRACE NEW GAY CLIENTELE...
Posted: Tue, Feb 7, 2006 12:48am PST
San Francisco Opening of the Exhibition of Master Wan Ko Yee's Achievements 
February 5, 2006: Hundreds of people crowded into the renovated historic structure at 1822 Eddy Street today to see the exhibition of "Master Wan Ko Yee's Achievements in the Form of World-Class Treasures. This free exhibition of the works of Dharma King Yangwo Yisinubu Wan Ko for the people of the San Francisco area will continue daily through February 27. Hours are Monday-Thursday 10-6 and Friday-Sunday 10-8. Phone 415-673-2311 for more information....
Posted: Mon, Feb 6, 2006 8:45am PST
EL ENEMIGO COMUN premiers in the Bay Area "el enemigo común" scratches beneath the surface of neoliberalism, at some of the its most hidden atrocities in recent North American history. The film documents instances of paramilitary activity against indigenous communities in Oaxaca, Mexico from 2002 through 2005 while including scenes from an international human rights movement in 2003, in Miami against the Free Trade Area of the America's, and in Cancun against the World Trade Organization. The three locations in isolation expose the d...
Posted: Sat, Feb 4, 2006 7:58pm PST
Ken Knabb's masperized translations For decades, the only translation of the Situationist International's text about Jean Maitron -- an "anarchist" historian who'd falsified one of the SI's texts, got called on it and, when he didn't do anything, was roughed-up by two young situs -- was Ken Knabb's masperized version, which failed to translate well over half of this relatively short text. We happy to announce that NOT BORED! has translated the text, from scratch and in its entirety, as it once did with Knabb's masperi...
Posted: Sat, Feb 4, 2006 7:57pm PST
The Super Bowl in Detroit: the manufacturing of a “national event” Detroit is the host city of this year’s Super Bowl, the championship game of American professional football. The annual contest, which will be played this Sunday between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Seattle Seahawks, has in recent years become something of a national phenomenon, almost a national rite. Proper obeisance must be paid to it. The mass media, as it does every year, has been informing the population for weeks that it can hardly wait until “Super Sunday,” when “Super Parties” wil...
Posted: Sat, Feb 4, 2006 9:52am PST
Green Bloggers Meet P0st on recent Commonwealth Club meeting of environmental blogger hosted by Gil Friend on 1/31/06. Event to be possibly broadcast on KQED-FM...
Posted: Fri, Feb 3, 2006 9:29pm PST
Exhibition of Master Wan Ko Yee’s Amazing Achievements in the Form of World-Class Treasure On February 5-27, 2006, M-Th 10-6, F-Sun 10-8, the Master Wan Ko Yee International Cultural Institute will hold an exhibition of the World-Class Treasures created by Master Wan Ko Yee (Dharma King Yangwo Yisinubu Wan Ko) at 1822 Eddy Street. Regarded by all as enchanting and precious treasures from another dimension, this art appears in the world for the first time. This exhibit displays superb, extraordinary art, profound knowledge, holy virtue, and more from another realm. Free admission....
Posted: Fri, Feb 3, 2006 8:00pm PST
Turkish movie depicts Americans as savages - In the most expensive Turkish movie ever made, American soldiers in Iraq crash a wedding and pump a little boy full of lead in front of his mother....
Posted: Thu, Feb 2, 2006 7:32pm PST
Kansas City: 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-capitalists activists, radical
street art has been vital to political discourse in this country....
Posted: Thu, Feb 2, 2006 12:54pm PST
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