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HEAR THIS!
A Spoken Word Event
SLIMS, 333 11th St. @ Folsom
Friday, January 20, 2005
8:00 p.m., tickets $12.00...
Posted: Wed, Jan 11, 2006 7:31pm PST
There are many home-bound, or otherwise disabled, American citizens and veterans that have been unable to participate in past marches supporting the peace message....
Posted: Thu, Jan 5, 2006 4:53pm PST
Overview of an an international, intercultural group based in Berlin Germany producing: annual film festival, cinema distribution, publications, weekly television program & dance theatre....
Posted: Thu, Jan 5, 2006 12:31pm PST
Poem written by Steve Champion upon the occasion of his friend's execution at San Quentin....
Posted: Tue, Jan 3, 2006 5:17pm PST
Pacifism alone appears obsolete in the face of tyranny. Yet what if pacifism is but only one form of nonviolence in a spectrum limited only by our imagination? The author looks at one scenario sure to rock your world (with art)...
Posted: Tue, Jan 3, 2006 12:03pm PST
The Twentieth Annual Western Workers Labor Heritage Festival, honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s contribution to the civil rights and labor movements, will be held January 13-15, 2006.
The weekend of solidarity in an era of war, racism, and hard times features music, drama, visual arts, spoken word, poetry, photography and more....
Posted: Mon, Jan 2, 2006 8:41pm PST
Overview of an international, intercultural group producing: annual film festival, cinema distribution, weekly television program, publications & dance theatre....
Posted: Mon, Jan 2, 2006 5:54pm PST
In public domain; reprint and revise freely.
Please FORWARD, repost, etc....
Posted: Mon, Jan 2, 2006 12:02pm PST
SAN JOSE — “Intersections: Reflections of Home and Migration,” is the artistic expression of a local neighborhood of mostly Latino and Vietnamese immigrants. Hector Dio Mendoza, pictured with glasses, who came to the United States from Mexico 15 years ago, portrays the idea of memory and a new life in a vibrant mix of artifacts, photography and interactive media....
Posted: Mon, Jan 2, 2006 9:28am PST
Music event at collective space in SOMA disrupted by police and fire marshals: 2 arrests, one beaten...
Posted: Sun, Jan 1, 2006 1:20am PST
New Orleans neo-griot Kalamu ya Salaam announces Listen to the People radical history project & blows the roof off NYC Bowery Poetry Club Katrina benefit with a "poem" perhaps described as "Superdome Systems of Thought - Death to the System!"
25 minute, 37 MG quicktime.mov video....
Posted: Sat, Dec 31, 2005 10:50pm PST
Feb. 4 thru Oct. 26 becomes
INTERNATIONAL DADAISM "MONTH"
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[ Tortuga's letter can be reprinted freely.
But the news story is copyright by Lawrence Journal-World. ]
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Posted: Sat, Dec 31, 2005 9:23am PST
For fans of rebel music and conscious hip hop, Emcee Lynx is pleased to announce the release of “Living in the Shadow”, his fifth independent release in five years featuring 16 tracks of all-original material. As always, the album is available for free download from his website, http://emceelynx.circlealpha.com.
(Making the music free is a statement against the commodification of music and culture by corporations, and is the best way to make sure it is available to people all over the wor...
Posted: Thu, Dec 29, 2005 8:07pm PST
King Wawa & The Oneness Kingdom Band
at La Peña this Friday
La Pena Cultural Center!
3105 Shattuck Ave.
Berkeley, CA...
Posted: Wed, Dec 28, 2005 6:57pm PST
I both enjoyed, and was moved deeply, by the movie Brokeback Mountain. I am sure that I will see it again. Upon reflection, however, there are a few things that bothered me...
Posted: Wed, Dec 28, 2005 6:50pm PST
New 2005 Retrospective “I Miss You” run time 3:05...
Posted: Wed, Dec 28, 2005 1:18pm PST
...But this begs the question: why is Munich more famous than the savage bombardment of Palestinian refugee camps back in February prior to Munich? And why did the letter bombs to three Palestinian writers not get any world attention? Why did American liberals and PEN not notice it back then? ...The movie did not tell you that by the time the Israeli terrorists finished with their “mission,” some 100 Palestinians and Lebanese were murdered on that day in April 1973....
Posted: Wed, Dec 28, 2005 7:35am PST
A California human rights activist, writer and education critic has renewed his Ghandian nonviolent tactic of fasting on major holidays this Hanukah/Christman/Kwanza. Occasionally critical of UCSC for free speech abridgements, Arjuna has drwan the wrath of Santa Barbara Community College official who issued an edict banning him from campus on "utterly trumped up charges that read like they are straight from the Keystone Cops."...
Posted: Mon, Dec 26, 2005 5:50pm PST




