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3/17 Women of Color Film Festival: Queering the Image
9 pm: Program two: Queering the Image
Game by JJ Goldberger, Rated F by Donna Lee, Girl Cleans Sink by Sook-Yin Lee, Before Nine by Hana Abdule, Make a Move by Hanifah Walidah, and much more.
When: Saturday, March 17 at 7pm and 9pm
What: Women of Color Film Festival
Where: California College of the Arts
1111 Eighth Street
Contact: www.sfcinematheque.org, http://wocff.berkeley.edu 415.552.1990
Admission: $10 General / $8 Members, Seniors, Students w/ID...
Posted: Mon, Mar 5, 2007 12:24pm PST
Asian Week Not Off the Hook for Firing Kenneth Eng
On February 28th, Asian Week apologized for publishing Kenneth Eng’s column “Why I Hate Blacks,” and announced that Eng would no longer write for them. Editor Ted Fang apologized in a March 1st press conference, and on March 2nd held a community forum about race relations. But Fang has yet to explain how the column was ever published, or why they did not take action earlier when Eng wrote similar columns for the newspaper. When first confronted about the column, Editor-in-Chief Samson Wong re...
Posted: Mon, Mar 5, 2007 6:32am PST
*MICHAEL ERIC DYSON!!* - SPEAKING IN OAKLAND CHURCH - 40TH & Telegraph
East Bay Church of Religious Science
4130 Telegraph Avenue
(near 40th St. & Telegraph Ave,
on the east side of Telegraph Ave.)...
Event Date: Mon, Mar 5, 2007 6:30pm PST
Posted: Mon, Mar 5, 2007 12:08am PST
International Women's History Month Film Series
Uhuru Solidarity Center, 1601 2nd Avenue, Oakland (near Lake Merritt)...
Event Date: Fri, Mar 23, 2007 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Sun, Mar 4, 2007 9:22pm PST
International Women's History Month Film Series
Uhuru Solidarity Center, 1601 2nd Avenue, Oakland (near Lake Merritt)...
Event Date: Fri, Mar 9, 2007 7:00pm PST
Posted: Sun, Mar 4, 2007 9:19pm PST
Black Mesa Benefit- music show, 5 bands
418 Front St....
Event Date: Wed, Mar 14, 2007 9:00pm PDT
Posted: Sun, Mar 4, 2007 5:58am PST
March for Justice
The 1st annual Social Justice March in Fresno. This event took place on Saturday, March 3, 2007 and went from Justice Corner (Fresno & C Street) to the Free A.M.E. Church. In addition to the march, activities included: food, poetry, singing, community speakers, concession booths, and the launching of a new civil and human rights organization " National Network In Action " (NNIA)!...
Posted: Sat, Mar 3, 2007 9:38pm PST
AsianWeek: A Lesson in Racism
Kenneth Eng’s “Why I Hate Blacks” column in AsianWeek stirred an uproar that reached a national stage. AsianWeek terminated his columns and apologized profusely, but NAM Editor, Sandip Roy, wonders if ethnic media can report about the realities of race relations without fanning the flames, and what standard should it take? Roy is the host for UpFront on KALW, 91.7 FM....
Posted: Sat, Mar 3, 2007 9:19am PST
The International Criminal Court Is a Racist!
Holy pigmentation, the president of Sudan is black guy! I thought the western media said he was an Arab. Oh, he's a Muslim with a Muslim name like millions of black people in Africa.
Lt. Gen. Omar Ahmad al-Bashir, President of Sudan...
Posted: Sat, Mar 3, 2007 8:34am PST
Pimpernels at San Francisco City Hall - what?
It has been some years now and not all is well at City Hall. Public comment used to be 3 minutes but now you may get one or two - and they turn down the volume. The SF Mayor, has made headlines with his extra curricula activities - there is one Supervisor chasing his tail like a dog, and another takes a dip in the Bay early in the morning and continues acting like Caligula through out the day at City. City Hall these days is in a flux....
Posted: Fri, Mar 2, 2007 6:13am PST
Katrina Survivor Documentary "Down but not Out"
2940 16th Street #207 San Francisco...
Event Date: Sat, Mar 24, 2007 5:00pm PDT
Posted: Thu, Mar 1, 2007 6:13pm PST
Grassy Narrows Travel to Seattle to Protest Weyerhauser
Indigenous Activists from Grassy Narrows Kick off 3,000 Mile Journey to Evict Weyerhaeuser from Their Land...
Posted: Thu, Mar 1, 2007 2:20pm PST
Bob Herbert on Al Sharpton's Ancestral Link to Strom Thurmond, Sean Bell, and the Clinton-Obama Race
New York Times columnist Bob Herbert joins us in our firehouse studio. He is the author of “Promises Betrayed: Waking Up from the American Dream,” a collection of his columns from 1995 to 2004....
Posted: Thu, Mar 1, 2007 9:33am PST
Free Opening Reception for NOT GIVEN at SF Camerawork
657 Mission Street, 2nd floor
San Francisco, CA 94105...
Event Date: Thu, Mar 1, 2007 5:00pm PST
Posted: Wed, Feb 28, 2007 3:52pm PST
Homeland: Screening in Oakland
Humanist Hall
390 27th Street
midtown Oakland, between Telegraph and Broadway, below Pill Hill
so far the only solar-powered movie house in the Bay Area
http://www.HumanistHall.net...
Event Date: Fri, Mar 23, 2007 7:30pm PDT
Posted: Wed, Feb 28, 2007 2:47pm PST
TUPAC MOVIE/ la pena noche cultural
Watsonville Brown Beret Office
406 Main Street
(behind Ritmo Latino...on the plaza)
Watsonville...
Event Date: Fri, Mar 2, 2007 6:00pm PST
Posted: Wed, Feb 28, 2007 10:26am PST
San Francisco Redevelopment Agency (SFRA) in the Bayview Hunters Point
San Francisco Redevelopment Agency (SFRA) keeps messing around in the Bayview Hunters Point (BVHP) using ploys that are detrimental to the constituents of San Francisco in general and BVHP in particular. Over 33,200 signatures were collected to stall SFRA and the matter is before a Judge. SFRA still does not get it - they are using SF Planning through Sophie Maxwell, to rezone areas in the BVHP, are messing with Public Housing and in general adversely impacting thousands....
Posted: Wed, Feb 28, 2007 1:45am PST
Free Chip Fitzgerald!
Check out our website! Get information!!! Write a letter of support to free the longest help BPP Political Prisoner in captivity....
Posted: Tue, Feb 27, 2007 1:54pm PST
police car feels street justice during hockey games
A marked police car was vandalized at the Scotts Valley Sports Center on Friday night, according to the Scotts Valley Police Department....
Posted: Mon, Feb 26, 2007 10:47pm PST