Join The Night Writer Society on MAY 17, from 7:30 to 9:00 PM for a workshop all about writing for young adults. In this evening for writers and would-be writers of YA, we'll look at the extraordinary breadth of young adult fiction and what goes into writing an exceptional novel for teens, including startling beginnings and satisfying endings, big ideas and small ones, and why Looking for Alaska has nothing to do with geography.

AAJA is proud to announce the 2013 Council for International Cooperation/Anna Chennault Scholarship and encourages rising college sophomores to apply. The winner will receive a $3,900 scholarship and an opportunity to be a Voices student news project participant at the 2013 AAJA convention in New York with all travel, lodging and registration costs covered. Applications must be received by May 17, 2013.

Currently Seeking Short Films to Screen in the Illustrious, Amazing and Awesome BCM studios! This Local Event is for Creative People Just Like YOU! First Come, First Screened All Subjects, No Pornography 18 and over only 10 minute maximum length per film Submit 1 paragraph synopsis Submit media on DVD only $10.00 submission fee per film

Julia Flynn Siler, award-winning author and journalist (The House of Mondavi, Wall St. Jrnl., Business Week): "Land Grab in Paradise"-- about The Lost Kingdom: Hawaiii's Last Queen, the Sugar Kings, and America's First Imperial Adventure

How immigration 'reform' plans by Congress and the President benefit big business while penalizing immigrants is the featured report at the monthly meeting of Radical Women and the Freedom Socialist Party. Sunday, May 19, 1:00pm. Home-cooked brunch served for an $8 donation at 12:15pm.

Support local community radio at this monthly mixer con mojitos.

he fellowship will support ethnic media and community media journalists based in Northern California to research and write at least one in-depth, reported story on energy or energy policy issues (e.g. the state's resource challenge; the role of energy efficiency and renewable energy; the water and energy nexus; the household economics of energy use). The story, or series, will be published or broadcast in the fellows' respective media outlets, and selected stories will be published on NAM's and SoundVision Productions' websites. Fellows will receive a $2000 stipend at the completion of the fellowship program. In addition, Fellows will participate in a mandatory two-day tour of renewable energy sites in California from June 13-14, 2013, where they will get rare access to large-scale solar, wind and hydroelectric facilities to see how they operate and how they fit into California's energy landscape.

Eduardo Galeano is the world-renowned Uruguayan author of the Memory of Fire Trilogy, The Book of Embraces, and many other masterworks. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez gave his Open Veins of Latin America to President Obama when they first met, sending the book overnight to #2 on Amazon's bestseller list.

aron Lanier is the bestselling author of You Are Not a Gadget, the father of virtual reality, and one of the most influential thinkers of our time. For decades, Lanier has drawn on his expertise and experience as a computer scientist, musician, and digital media pioneer to predict the revolutionary ways in which technology has transformed our culture. Who Owns the Future? is a visionary reckoning with the effects network technologies have had on our economy. Lanier asserts that the rise of digital networks led our economy into recession and decimated the middle class. Now, as technology flattens more and more industries—from media to medicine to manufacturing—we are facing even greater challenges to employment and personal wealth. But there is an alternative to allowing technology to own our future. In this ambitious and deeply humane book, Lanier charts the path toward a new information economy that will stabilize the middle class and allow it to grow. It is time for ordinary people to be rewarded for what they do and share on the web. Insightful, original, and provocative, Who Owns the Future? is necessary reading for everyone who lives a part of their lives online.

On Tuesday, May 21, 7–9pm, Feast of Words: A Literary Potluck features a reading and writing exercise led by Andrew Lam, who shares from a collection of newly published short stories. With San Francisco as a backdrop, “Birds of Paradise Lost” (Red Hen Press, 2013) deals with the struggles and triumphs of Vietnamese newcomers to California and with issues of trauma and recovery.

Amlan Ganguly empowers children to become activists and educators, with powerful results. Using street theater, puppetry, and dance as their weapons, the children in Calcutta's slums have cut their neighborhoods' malaria and diarrhea rates in half, and turned former garbage dumps into playing fields. Now, pushing at the limits of optimism, Amlan is attempting to take his work into the brickfields outside Calcutta, where spend their days making and carrying bricks using methods unchanged by centuries. THE REVOLUTIONARY OPTIMISTS proposes a workable solution to intractable problems associated with poverty, including preventable diseases and ineffectual governance. Ganguly's story suggests that education and child empowerment are crucial keys to lifting entire societies out of hopelessness.

Join us for the NCRA Jobs in Recycling Workshop 9, this one on Environmental Education jobs. Our engaging and passionate panel for the evening will be Roberta Miller of StopWaste.Org, Jose-Luis Martinez of Earth Team, and Eric Havel of Chabot Space and Science Center. A light pizza/soda dinner will be served so please arrive a bit early. There is no need to print a ticket, a sign-in sheet will be present instead. If you are unable to afford this event and would still like to attend, please email Jordan at NCRAJobsinRecycling@gmail.com. No one shall be turned away for lack of funds.

Take a break from your week with Oasis For Girls. The Hotel Utah Saloon is hosting us for a special evening featuring a $6 drink menu, munchies and more.

Free drinks, inter-nerd networking opportunities and a chance to rub elbows with employers

Join Caroline Blair’s Motion Picture Directing class for a screening of the 2013 final film projects. The showcase features a variety of narrative scenes starring Bay Area actors. Directing Students: Elektra Johnson, Orlando Mendoza, Maya Annotti, Danil Auger, Samati Boonchitsitsak, Colton Coate, giovanni Garde, Ginger Godines, Alx King, James Niles, Angel Onchanthorn, Paul Tardo, Thayer Walker, Tomoya Yamashita.

Taking place in rural Honduras, For the Health of Our People tells the inspiring story of a Garifuna community who worked together to bring healthcare to their people by building the first free hospital in the country. Told from the heart of members of the community and accompanied by stunning visuals, the film discusses healthcare as a human right and gives recognition to a long forgotten and neglected people who are proud of their rich culture.

The Pen:” The Last War Crime Movie is about indicting Cheney for torture. And isn’t that something billions of people want to see? They say sometimes life can imitate art. But first we felt it was important that we retrace our country’s steps as to how torture was used to get the false intelligence to sell us on a war with Iraq. The real story of how this happened has been buried under an avalanche of pseudo history. They want people to forget the Downing Street minutes and the foreknowledge that the British had that Cheney and Bush were determined to invade Iraq, even if they had to “fix the facts around the policy” to do so. They want to obliterate the memory of the flimsy legal arguments in the torture memos. So we dig out all the true facts, and put them on the big screen, together with an entertaining narrative story about what it would have been like if justice had already prevailed.

If you live in California, you can help make history with the Center when we join in launching Californians Against Fracking, a statewide coalition working to ban fracking in California. Fracking poses a direct and immediate threat to California's drinking water, air, food, health, wildlife, climate and economy. While the state prides itself on being a leader in the fight against climate change, oil companies are gearing up to frack the estimated 15 billion barrels of oil in the Monterey Shale. This area is home to some of the state's most productive farmland, critical water sources, important wildlife habitat and communities from the Salinas Valley to the Los Angeles Basin. In both Los Angeles and San Francisco, more than 60 labor groups, farmers, public health professionals, environmental and environmental justice organizations and local residents will come together to call for a ban in California on the dirty and dangerous practice of fracking. Join hundreds of Californians as we take our message directly to Governor Brown and deliver tens of thousands of signatures on petitions to ban fracking at rallies in front of the his offices in Los Angeles and San Francisco.

Musicians/DJs in the Boston/San Francisco area who want to explore technology and music through the use of our brand new lab facility and studio. This is one of the only cheap and affordable electronic/DJ music workshops in San Francisco. Beatshop is sponsored by Propellerheads Software which helps to keep the costs low. The class at the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts in the Mission District is open to all ages and experience levels (beginner and advanced workshops available). Come out to support this program, and make it happen for the youth to take it to the next level in music. Mix'd Ingrdnts Dance Company site: www.mixdi.com

BENNY Award--awarded annually for new victories in corporate campaigning, where a victory is defined as the realization of a significant commitment or actual change in policy by a targeted corporation or industry. This may also include a significant legislative or policy change prompted by corporate campaigning that improves the social, environmental, financial or political practices of corporations. This award contains two sub-categories: community-based campaigns (where the campaign is staffed and run mainly by local activists) and other campaigns (where the campaign is staffed and run mainly by national or other larger groups). If there are fewer than five nominations in either sub-category, the nominations will be reviewed as one category. Path To Victory Award--awarded annually for new achievements in corporate campaigning, where an achievement is defined as the realization of a critical step on the path to a campaign victory, where that step could be any aspect of a corporate campaign, including but not limited to research, strategy, negotiation, outreach, grassroots activism, media and communications, implementation, etc., and especially where the achievement shows impressive innovation, creativity, scope and/or impact. Recognizing that victories are often achieved only after long struggles over many years, we created this award to celebrate significant progress and innovation in campaigning, because each successful day of action, each exposing report, and each new tactic used is a step toward success in corporate transformation.

Democracy Now!, a New York City-based independent daily news hour, is seeking applicants for three fellowships with monthly stipends beginning July 1. Applicants must have camera and editing skills, work well under deadline pressure and have some editorial experience. Duties include shooting news events, editing news packages, working on the live broadcast, research, booking guests and writing. The ability to work well in a team and maintain a professional demeanor in all situations is required. The fellowships require a minimum commitment of 20-hours per week for six months and authorization to work in the US. To apply, send a cover letter, resume and portfolio to fellowship (at) democracynow (dot) org with "Production Fellowship" as the subject by June 1, 2013. For each work referenced in your portfolio, please identify the role you played in the production. No phone calls.

Harvest of Empire: The Untold Story of Latinos in America. A new full-length documentary by “Democracy Now!” co-host Juan González, this film examines connections between U.S. economic and military intervention in Latin America and the migration of people seeking work. Donations benefit the 2013 Freedom Socialist newspaper fund drive.

Democracy Now!, a New York City-based independent daily news hour, is seeking applicants for three fellowships with monthly stipends beginning July 1. Applicants must have camera and editing skills, work well under deadline pressure and have some editorial experience. Duties include shooting news events, editing news packages, working on the live broadcast, research, booking guests and writing. The ability to work well in a team and maintain a professional demeanor in all situations is required. The fellowships require a minimum commitment of 20-hours per week for six months and authorization to work in the US. To apply, send a cover letter, resume and portfolio to fellowship (at) democracynow (dot) org with "Production Fellowship" as the subject by June 1, 2013. For each work referenced in your portfolio, please identify the role you played in the production. No phone calls.

Adventurer Helge Hjelland decides to cross South Africa by canoe. Along the way he picks up Joseph, an illegal refugee from South Sudan without any identity papers. Joseph becomes Hjelland's assistant, and they become partners in a journey through a South Africa still struggling to get out of the shadow of apartheid. The Impossible River Journey is a film which portrays the best and worst of humanity, in a country whose murky past still shapes the daily life of its citizens.

AMP is a unique three-day training and networking event for community-based leaders, staff, and volunteers of groups organizing for justice in the West. Workshops run all day to provide an intensive experience in the subject you’ve chosen. Workshops are designed to be highly interactive and to provide hands on tools for your organization to use after you leave AMP. AMP participants represent a spectrum of experiences and backgrounds. They are diverse with respect to race, geography, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, and skill level. Trainers, drawn from around the region and beyond, are among the most knowledgeable in their areas.

As traditional sources of nonprofit funding crumble, innovative platforms for attracting donors are rising to replace them. Join us for the next re:think, where Bartlomiej Jan Skorupa of Groundwork Opportunities, Katherine Woo of Kiva and Pamela Hawley of UniversalGiving will discuss: Using the art of storytelling to build a movement Creating funding platforms that allow nonprofits to be self-reliant Turning the shopping cart into an instrument of change by integrating crowdfunding and e-commerce models

JOIN US FOR A FREE INFORMATIONAL WEBINAR on Thursday, June 6, 2013, 10:30 am - 12:00pm PDT. Meet with Cal Humanities staff, learn more about the application process, and get advice on how to improve your proposal. Space is limited. Click HERE to reserve your seat. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email with important details about joining the webinar.

Opening night of DocFest 2013 features Spark, a Burning Man story.

This year we are proud to launch our new intensive 3-week multimedia journalism training program. The goal of the program is to engage youth in projects that foster leadership development, skills development, creativity and an exploration of cultural identity. Our workshop will help participants use multimedia platforms to explore social issues in San Francisco's Mission District. The program targets youth who have an interest in understanding what it takes to become a multimedia reporter. The training focuses on developing story ideas, conducting research, and interviewing key sources. Participants will learn photography, audio recording, videography and editing and produce news reporting projects using these mediums. Students will have access to news reporting equipment and software for the production of these stories. A stipend will be awarded once projects are published on Acción Latina's and El Tecolote's websites. Students will receive school credit for their participation in the program.

Each year, the Institute for Social Ecology hosts intensive seminars for students, activists, and community leaders to come together to explore sets of dynamic and urgent social and ecological issues. This year, the Institute for Social Ecology is thrilled to offer, for the first time, a seminar right in the heart of San Francisco. We will be partnering with the California Institute for Integral Studies based in the SOMA district and on major transit lines. Classes will include the politics and philosophy of Social Ecology, international social movements for direct democracy, alternatives to capitalism, climate justice with a focus and emphasis on urban housing and land struggles. We have designed this intensive to be a bit longer than previous programs so as to secure time for local field trips that will allow us to get to know the community and history in which we are studying.

We are living with the most extreme wealth disparity since the great depression. Systems of privilege and inequality cause the wealth gap to grow even more extreme, and come between us when we try to get together to make change. How do our own class backgrounds affect our work for social change? How can we build stronger alliances for justice? Join us for an opportunity to explore our own class journeys, their intersections with race and gender, and their implications for our activism

T Lab seeks 9 problem-solvers eager to engage in 6 months of designing, building and testing new solutions in the fight against poverty. Selected participants will work in teams of three and receive a $25,000 stipend.

Aspiring radio producers, journalists and storytellers without journalism degrees can apply for a US$20,000 fellowship. Chicago Public Media presents the Pritzker Fellowships, a ten-month program that offers rigorous training in public radio journalism and the opportunity to work alongside some of the nation’s most respected reporters, producers and editors. Fellows will receive training in basic story production, editing, ethics, audio and video production, writing for the radio and Web, on-air skills and Web production. Fellows will also a receive a mentor, a senior level journalist or producer who will provide rigorous coaching, critique, hands-on opportunities and special assignments. Minority candidates are encouraged to apply. The program is open to applicants worldwide, but international applicants must obtain their own visas.

In just one two week session, you will learn the basics of professional video production, from scriptwriting to editing, in the field or the TV studio, from the experts. Invite your friends and family to watch your video at a special premiere screening in August at a local movie theatre and on Classrooms Channel 28 on Comcast.

Voice of Witness is delighted to announce dates for 'Amplifying Unheard Voices,' our third annual oral history training for educators and community cultural workers. Join us from June 24th through June 27th in San Francisco for a four-day professional development workshop that highlights the power of personal narrative and provides participants with the tools to conduct oral history projects in their classrooms and communities. Workshop participants will engage in a hands-on process that introduces the skills, ethics, and social significance of oral history storytelling. This training is a fantastic opportunity for teachers, nonprofit professionals, community storytellers and activists to explore innovative approaches to storytelling for social change.

The Gerontological Society of America (GSA) and New America Media (NAM) are welcoming applications — from journalists who cover issues in aging and/or who work for ethnic media outlets serving U.S. communities — for the fourth year of a joint fellowship program underwritten by the MetLife Foundation. Stories resulting from the last three years are available on GSA's website. Once again, the John A. Hartford Foundation also is supporting one John A. Hartford/MetLife Foundation Journalism in Aging & Health Fellow, who will report on topics specifically related to the health and health care of older Americans. By 2030, people age 65 and over will make up a full one-fifth of America's population, with a growing percentage of them representing ethnic minorities. The health and social consequences permeate every aspect of life in this country. For example, the first members of the huge baby boomer generation have already begun receiving full Social Security benefits. While America’s mainstream media have largely ignored this emerging story, most communities are poorly informed about the significant challenges — and opportunities — of the longevity revolution.

Responsible for such landmark publications as Lady Chatterley's Lover, Tropic of Cancer, Naked Lunch, Waiting for Godot,The Wretched of the Earth , and The Autobiography of Malcolm X, Grove Press was the most innovative publisher of the postwar era. Counterculture Colophon tells the story of how the press and its house journal, The Evergreen Review, revolutionized the publishing industry and radicalized the reading habits of the "paperback generation." In the process, it offers a new window onto the 1960s, from 1951, when Barney Rosset purchased the fledgling press for $3,000, to 1970, when the multimedia corporation into which he had built the company was crippled by a strike and feminist takeover. Grove Press was not only responsible for ending censorship of the printed word in the United States but also for bringing avant-garde literature, especially drama, into the cultural mainstream as part of the quality paperback revolution. Much of this happened thanks to Rosset, whose charismatic leadership was crucial to Grove's success. With chapters covering world literature and the Latin American boom, including Grove's close association with UNESCO and the rise of cultural diplomacy; experimental drama such as the theater of the absurd, the Living Theater, and the political epics of Bertolt Brecht; pornography and obscenity, including the landmark publication of the complete work of the Marquis de Sade; revolutionary writing, featuring Rosset's daring pursuit of the Bolivian journals of Che Guevara; and underground film, including the innovative development of the pocket filmscript, Loren Glass covers the full spectrum of Grove's remarkable achievement as a communications center of the counterculture.

CPE’s Summer Institute is a week-long intensive training in economics for activists, educators, media makers, and anyone who wants a better understanding of how the economy works. Our trainings are highly participatory and build on the knowledge and experience of our participants. No background in economics is necessary.

The Portland Oregon Women’s Film Festival (POWFest) is now accepting entries for its seventh annual festival scheduled to take place March 6 - 9, 2014. The regular deadline for entries is Friday, August 16, 2013. POWFest places a spotlight on women directors by showcasing their work and empowering the community of women in film. POWFest encourages women to find their voice and to share their stories through innovative and quality filmmaking. We feature the work of today’s top women directors, honoring the true pioneers while providing support and recognition for the next generation of leading women filmmakers. Past Guests of Honor include: Allison Anders, Kathryn Bigelow, Gillian Armstrong, Amy Heckerling, Barbara Kopple and Penelope Spheeris.

In 2011, the Society of Professional Journalists and the Radio Television Digital News Association partnered to host an annual conference that provides journalists with the industry’s best training and networking opportunities.