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Those of us who put effort in working for peace, justice and harmony, may find ourselves exhibiting the very opposite of these values. Within volunteer groups, there is sometimes hostility, infighting, and even threats and violence. We are often so sure that we're right, that we become authoritarian. We feel that our quiet and peaceful voice simply isn't being heard, and we need to switch to a louder hostile one. Often, we abandon the work of organizing as our groups become consumed with in...
Posted: Thu, Dec 1, 2005 3:08pm PST
California’s arts community has long been in the national vanguard of producing socially and politically conscious art. What is it about our state that has made it such a hotbed for political art? The answer can found in the text, paintings, and photographs of a wonderful new book by legendary art critic, Peter Selz. Selz, a Professor Emeritus of Art History at UC Berkeley, makes a persuasive case for California’s leadership in the “art of engagement,” by which he means art that consciously a...
Posted: Thu, Dec 1, 2005 8:30am PST
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Posted: Wed, Nov 30, 2005 7:02am PST
San Jose November Bike Party coincides with Buy Nothing Day, makes for a great ride....
Posted: Tue, Nov 29, 2005 12:07am PST
This is an amazing film, and it's picking up a lot of awards. You have to see it....
Posted: Sun, Nov 27, 2005 10:05am PST
I beg to dream and differ from the hollow liesI beg to dream and differ from the hollow lies. This is the dawning of the rest of our lif
General strike has the generalized One stops all and one could be an affirmation communisatrice. But that would want to say One stops all and one . Not more to be than name any, of the without identities...
Posted: Wed, Nov 23, 2005 2:15pm PST
We are a collective of 8 radical activists and folk musicians who write, perform, and distribute radical folk music at no-to-low costs. We are anti-profit and exist to further the struggle against capitalism and oppression. All our shows are FREE or donation-optional benefits....
Posted: Thu, Nov 17, 2005 4:21pm PST
Announcing "WORK . COMMUNITY . POLITICS . WAR" a new coloring book for the angry wage-worker....
Posted: Mon, Nov 14, 2005 12:29pm PST
We speak with Octavia Butler, one of the few well-known African-American women science fiction writers. For the past thirty years, her work has tackled subjects not normally seen in that genre such as race, the environment and religion....
Posted: Fri, Nov 11, 2005 7:34am PST
At the request of Rob 'Los Ricos' Thaxton, a prisoner who has spent nearly 7 years incarcerated as a result of a Reclaim the Streets protest against capitalist globalization in Eugene, OR, in June of 1999, we have answered the call for a new holiday in honor of the Haymarket Martyrs....
Posted: Tue, Nov 8, 2005 12:06pm PST
We are a collective of 8 radical activists and folk musicians who write, perform, and distribute radical folk music at no-to-low costs. We are anti-profit and exist to further the struggle against capitalism and oppression. All our shows are FREE or donation-optional benefits....
Posted: Mon, Nov 7, 2005 1:55pm PST
Street beat free jazz jam to Get out the Vote!...
Posted: Sun, Nov 6, 2005 12:04pm PST
An Evening of Hip Hop Poetry, Gospel and Soul Music
Calling for Racial Justice from Oakland to New Orleans
Thursday, December 15, 2005...
Posted: Sat, Nov 5, 2005 9:36pm PST
"The children began tocreate their own worlds. the imaginationis like a muscle that has to be constantly trained. The imagination atrophies through media saturation..Every dollar cut from my budget spurs my creativity. My imagination would end without limitations."...
Posted: Fri, Nov 4, 2005 5:36am PST
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International Capoeira Angola Foundation - Oakland Presents:
REVIVE! REVEL with a CAUSE!
For the survivors of Hurricane Katrina...
A dance party benefit for New Orleans based
Families and Friends of Louisiana's Incarcerated Children....
Posted: Fri, Oct 28, 2005 9:29am PDT
... if anything is essential to anarchism, it is the idea that social decisions are to be taken by everyone affected, and that this inclusion must involve substantive participation of each in deliberation and decsion-making....
Posted: Tue, Oct 25, 2005 2:39pm PDT
On the fourth anniversary of the Listening Project, bells will ring, and people will have the opportunity to scream, to speak in Lytton Plaza- for the victims of the War on terror, the War on Iraq, the earthquake in Pakistan...
Posted: Tue, Oct 25, 2005 11:58am PDT
Shannon Murray, Crayon, and Mark Gunnery and Ryan Harvey of Riot Folk will be playing a free concert at the Long Haul this Saturday, October 22, at around seven or eight. Acoustic punk! Radical folk! Electric shit! Yay!...
Posted: Fri, Oct 21, 2005 6:26pm PDT