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SF supports the Electrical Workers Union in Mexico (video/quicktime 31.9MB) The Sindicato Mexicano de Electricistas continues its two-year old struggle against the anti-labor Calderon regime in Mexico. The government of Felipe Calderon locked out 44,000 members of the SME in a move to privatize the public power company Luz y Fuerza. Our protest in San Francisco was to demonstrate our solidarity with SME's megamarcha from the Angel de la Independencia to the Zocalo on Wednesday, November 23. The demands are: Work, Liberty for Political Prisioners and Full Compliance ...
Posted: Sat, Nov 26, 2011 10:46am PST
Free showing of documentary film Writ Writer 
Driscoll Auditorium
Frank Havens School
325 Highland Ave.
Piedmont, CA 94611...
Event Date: Thu, Dec 1, 2011 6:30pm PST
Posted: Mon, Nov 21, 2011 9:02pm PST
Nomlaki Tribal Leader Everett Freeman Honored 
Everett Freeman, Chairman of the Paskenta Band of Nomlaki Indians in
Northern California from 1994 until his death in 2010, has posthumously been
selected to receive the prestigious 2011 Eagle Spirit Award from the
American Indian Film Institute (AIFI)....
Posted: Tue, Nov 15, 2011 10:56am PST
Relatos Zapatistas Radio Show: Occupy Oakland and Community Safety: Nov, 6 2011 (audio/mpeg 255.4MB) On today's show we will argue that the concept of “community safety”has to be the focal point of any autonomous/anti-capitalist movement. We want to distinguish the fact that Community safety does not come from a place of “security” or actions based off of the fear or danger of something. Rather it is based in the acts of caring for and respecting the dignity (desires, dreams, histories, struggles, and needs) of all peoples “below and to the left”....
Posted: Sun, Nov 13, 2011 9:21pm PST
A Presentation and Discussion of Ecosocialism and the Transformations in Cuba Today Niebyl-Proctor Library
6501 Telegraph Ave.
Oakland, CA
(In north Oakland, just 1 block north of the intersection of Telegraph & Alcatraz, at Telegraph & 65th St.; a few blocks from Asby BART; or on the AC Transit # 40 bus line; or a few blocks from the #51 bus line down College Avenue, stopping at Alcatraz; or from Hwy 24, east-/west-bound, take the Telegraph Ave exit; plenty of nearby street parking available.)...
Event Date: Sat, Nov 5, 2011 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Mon, Oct 31, 2011 2:50pm PDT
Salvadoran Youth Organizing in the New era of Struggle At Mission Campus, City College; 1175 Valencia Street (corner 22nd Street) room 107...
Event Date: Mon, Oct 31, 2011 12:00pm PDT
Posted: Mon, Oct 31, 2011 12:02am PDT
A Discourse of Divisiveness: Al Giordano and Mexico’s Social Movements Giordano’s attacks on committed activists, and the bandying about of the “imperialist” label that lay bare the vapidity of Giordano’s analysis and the the fundamental lack of self-reflection that has gone into it....
Posted: Sun, Oct 16, 2011 1:46am PDT
Hope for Coralito-Benefit for a Village in El Salvador Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists’ Hall
1924 Cedar (@Bonita), Berkeley www.bfuu.org...
Event Date: Sat, Nov 5, 2011 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Fri, Oct 14, 2011 1:16pm PDT
Urgent News Bulletin: Pedro Leyva killed in Xayakalan, Ostula This is the first person from Santa María Ostula who has been killed in the community of Xayakalan, recovered on June 29, 2009...
Posted: Fri, Oct 7, 2011 7:55am PDT
Boletín Urgente: Asesinan al compañero Pedro Leyva en Xayakalan, Ostula Ëste es el primer asesinato de un comunero de Ostula dentro del poblado de Xayakalan, recuperado el 29 de junio de 2009....
Posted: Fri, Oct 7, 2011 7:47am PDT
Consulate of Honduras scene of protest against human rights violations! (video/quicktime 13.0MB) Demonstrators held a vigil for democracy and human rights September 29, 2011, at the Honduran Consulate in San Francisco. They tried unsuccessfully to deliver a letter to consular officials expressing their concerns .
School of the Americas Watch-SF and the Bay Area Latin America Solidarity Coalition sponsored the vigil....
Posted: Mon, Oct 3, 2011 4:30pm PDT
Violence in Honduras since the Coup & why the SOA must be closed 
The Women’s Building
3543 18th Street, San Francisco
BART: 16th & Mission Streets...
Event Date: Thu, Sep 29, 2011 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Sun, Sep 18, 2011 6:06pm PDT
Vigil for Democracy and Human Rights in Honduras 
In front of Honduran Consulate
Flood Building, 870 Market Street, San Francisco
MUNI/BART: Powell Street...
Event Date: Thu, Sep 29, 2011 4:00pm PDT
Posted: Sun, Sep 18, 2011 5:55pm PDT
The National Children's Theater of Cuba-San Francisco Performance 
Fort Mason Center, Cowell Theater
99 Marina Blvd., San Francisco...
Event Date: Sat, Oct 29, 2011 2:00pm PDT
Posted: Mon, Sep 12, 2011 9:27am PDT
The National Children's Theater of Cuba San Francisco Performance 
Fort Mason Center, Cowell Theater
99 Marina Blvd., San Francisco...
Event Date: Fri, Oct 28, 2011 7:30pm PDT
Posted: Mon, Sep 12, 2011 9:07am PDT
The National Children's Theater of Cuba- East Bay Performance 
Richmond Center for the Performing Arts
339 11th St., Richmond...
Event Date: Wed, Oct 26, 2011 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Mon, Sep 12, 2011 8:54am PDT
Blood Nation women arrested in fracking blockade 
Three Blood Nation women were arrested Friday night, Sept. 9, during a blockade of oil and gas fracking on their lands, in southern Alberta, Canada, near the Montana border....
Posted: Sat, Sep 10, 2011 11:31am PDT
Hidden in Plain Sight: Media Workers for Social Change, Chapter 11 
Maureen Gosling is a documentary filmmaker who worked for many years with Les Blank of Flower Films. On her own she made an award-winning film that deals with a community in the Mexican Isthmus were women play a special role. Among other projects, she is now working on a film about fabric that is hand-dyed by women in Mali and becoming a cultural phenomenon. She edits other people’s films, working out of her office in Berkeley’s Fantasy Records Building, where she is seen in the photo belo...
Posted: Thu, Sep 8, 2011 8:54pm PDT
Speak Out Now presents: To Die in Mexico with author John Gibler South Berkeley Senior Center
2939 Ellis St. (Ashby)
Berkley, Ca 94703
Doors open @ 6:30
~Donations Requested~...
Event Date: Fri, Sep 16, 2011 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Wed, Sep 7, 2011 1:42am PDT
Rally at Mexican Consulate in SF supporting Sindicato Mexicano de Electricistas! (video/quicktime 11.2MB) Frank Martín del Campo spoke at the rally.
Three-minute QT movie. 12MB....
Posted: Mon, Sep 5, 2011 1:55pm PDT
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