The Oakland Food Policy Council invites you to a celebration of Oakland food justice, Resetting the Table: Putting justice back in delicious. There will be excellent food, great music and discussion and an enticing silent auction! Items to be featured include a behind the scenes Pixar Studios tour by Oakland based artist and Pixar animator, Sanjay Patel; dinner for two at the swank Jack London Square restaurant, Bocanova; kayak excursions on the bay, and more!

A 2-day directing workshop by feature filmmaker Darin Scott. The instructor has won prizes at Sundance, been screened at Cannes, won 6 Spirit Awards and an MTV Best Movie Award. Topics covered include project selection, script development, composition, casting, choosing lenses and cameras, directing on set, pacing, makeup and CGI, audience testing, sound effects, composers and sound mixing, color timing and raising the money.

Panelists this year include Beth Kanter, Amy Sample Ward of NTEN, Michael Silberman of Green Peace International, Tara Hunt, Elisa Camahort Paige, Co-founder of BlogHer, Claire Diaz Ortiz of Twitter, and many more awesome women and men exploring topics such as: *Using Technology and Social Media to Build Social Movements, **Changing the World with Open Source, Failing Fast and Agile Development, etc.* You can participate from anywhere - all you need is access to a phone and the web on May 23rd from 11AM to 5PM ET. *2012 Women Who Tech Panels* *Funding your Own Startup:* Joanne Wilson - Angel Investor, Amanda Steingberg - DailyWorth, Pemo Theodore - Startup Coach, Amy Errett - Maveron. *Changing the World with Open Source:* Jane Wells - Automattic, Liz Henry - BlogHer, Sarah Novotny - OSCON. *Diversifying Your Tech Teams: *Shireen Mitchell - Digital Sistas, Corvida Raven - SheGeeks.net, Adria Richards - SendGrid, Liza Sabater - Culture Kitchen. *Failing Fast and Agile Development:* Sarah Allen - Blazing Cloud, Shaherose Charania - Founders Labs and Women 2.0, Jen Consalvo - Tech Cocktail, Tara Hunt - Buyosphere. - *Using Technology and Social Media to Build Social Justice Movements: *Claire Diaz Ortiz - Twitter, April Pedersen - SalsaLabs, Amy Sample Ward - NTEN, Michael Silberman - Green Peace International. *Women Who Tech Globally:* Beth Kanter - Author and Trainer, Wanjiru Kamau-Rutenberg - Akili Dada, Heather Ramsey - IIE and TechWomen Program. - *Harnessing Your Power: *Elisa Camahort Page - BlogHer, Jill Foster - Live Your Talk, Lynne Johnson - Whispr Group, Inc, Susan Mernit - Oakland Local *Digital Rights and Online Privacy: *Sarah Granger - Center for Technology, Media & Society, Kaliya Hamlin - She’s Geeky, Jon Pincus - Qweries, Laurel Ruma - O'Reilly Media. *Fireside Chats:* Moderated by Cathy Brooks.

Dr. Rohloff began working in Guatemala ten years ago. In 2007, he co-founded the organization Wuqu’ Kawoq (www.wk-guatemala.org (http://www.wk-guatemala.org)) and has since held the position as Medical Director and lead physician. Topics to be discussed: Geography and Language Presence Language Utilization and What it Means for Healthcare and Development Work The Effect of Language on Access to Services Resource Availability Dr. Rohloff holds doctorates in Pathobiology/Parasitology and Medicine from the University of Illinois. He is a Clinical Fellow at the Harvard University School of Medicine and is a resident at Children’s Hospital Boston (pediatrics) and Brigham and Women’s Hospital (internal medicine). His research and clinical interests include health care delivery in Central America, the ethnography of chronic disease, type 2 diabetes management and child malnutrition. He speaks Spanish, Kaqchikel and K’ichee’.

Free Radio Berkeley is pleased to announce the 2011 schedule of the Summer Radio Camp program. In the sixth year of being offered, these Summer Radio Camps present a unique DIY, hands-on learning opportunity and experience. With decreasing emphasis being placed on acquiring actual real world skills at all levels of education, the Summer Radio Camp program provides individuals with the opportunity to learn by doing. Due to the impending opening of the application process by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for 100 watt LPFM licenses later this fall, the Summer Radio Camp program will focus on preparing individuals and their respective organizations for this application process. At this time, it has yet to determined by the FCC how many station licenses will be made available but it will be in the hundreds. Currently, there are about 850 LPFM stations on the air. Knowledgeable sources expect 5,000 to 10,000 applications to be filed. Only nonprofit organizations can file for an LPFM license. For further details on LPFM, please visit the Prometheus Radio web site - http://www.prometheusradio.org/ During the 4 day LPFM Radio Camp, all the aspects of the LPFM process will be covered: legal; technical; equipment required; organizational; and the application form itself. In addition, participants will build a 10 watt FM broadcast transmitter in order to gain experience in learning how to solder and identify electronic components. Finally, participants will be given an overview of basic electronics and broadcast engineering. A workshop fee of $250 is charged. At the end of the radio camp session participants may purchase the 10 watt transmitter for $225 - the cost of the kit, power supply and enclosure. A complete package that includes the 10 watt transmitter, a 5/8 Comet Antenna and 50 feet of coaxial cables costs $400. The Radio Summer Camps have been attended by a diverse number of people from not only the US but from a number of foreign countries as well. Open to anyone 16 years and older, the Summer Radio Camp sessions are held at Free Radio Berkeley's shop in Emeryville, CA. Sessions run from Friday through Monday, 10 A.M. to 6 P.M. Further details are available on the website - www.freeradio.org

This festival teaches hands-on sustainable living skills at the Hayes Valley Farm in SF. 4 live bands, 40 scheduled workshops from solar ovens to cob building, cheese-making, cohousing, wine brewing, mushroom cultivation, chi gong, soap processing and urban livestock.

16 children from the slums of India in a dance drama focusing on the messages of Gandhi and King. Pay as you can.

May 30, 2012 Sacramento, CA Accessible (UCP) shuttle services are available at the Sacramento airport and train station from 8:00AM - 10:00AM and again from 3:30PM to 6:00PM at the corner of 10th and L Street on the west side of the Capitol. 10:00 - 11:00AM - March to the Capitol Allow your message to be heard by the community as we march to the Capitol Building from the corner of 15th and L St. down to 10th and L Street 11:00AM - 12:00PM - Educational Rally OUR VOICES, OUR CHOICES, OUR LIVES, OUR VOTE! 10:00AM - 3:00PM - Resource Fair Dozens of outdoor booths will be set up with information regarding disability rights and accessibility 1:30 - 3:00PM - Legislative Visits All participants are encouraged to make an appointment with your legislators

ASFF takes place in York, UK on November 8-11, 2012. Short films will be showcased throughout the city and there is a small cash prize. Aesthetica Magazine has an online and print audience of 100,000 and engages with the arts in the UK and Europe.

Cubana Books, The Center for the Art of Translation and Litquake present an in-person reading from 2 Cuban women authors, as they celebrate the 1st English translations of their respective works published through Cubanabooks. Mirta Yanez and Nancy Alonso will share readings from Havana is a Really Big City and Disconnect/Desencuentro. Audience q+a follows the reading with music by Azucar Con Ache.

An evening of sound/film performances featuring work by Irwin Smirnoff, Linda Scobie, John Davis, Ben Bracken and Paul Clipson.

This meeting will highlight key findings from a new report on girls issued by the SF Department on the Status of Women and then screen the film Miss Representation.

The Berkeley Federation of Unitarian Universalists will host an opening of the Hal Carlstad Social Justice Center. Speakers will include Cindy Sheehan, Vic Sadot, Cynthia Johnson and Gene Herman.

Rebecca Tarlau will discuss the educational initiatives of the Brazilian Landless Workers Movement (MST), the largest agrarian social movement in Latin America. Based on 17 months of field research, Tarlau will go over the origin of the movement and then on its fight for access to education including the right to develop educational pedagogies and curriculum on agrarian reform in the public schools.

The e-clinic includes five hours of training and personal coaching via webinars with Britt Bravo and Kivi Leroux Miller where you will learn how to create a relevant blog that keeps supporters tuned in to your nonprofit. Every session will be recorded in case you can't make a session live, or want to go back over certain sections.

Harris Cohen visits CMCM to talk about his long career in film and video production. Harris will screen an award-winning video made to support St Vincent De Paul in San Rafael. Harris worked for CBS News where he edited Vietnam footage for Walter Cronkite's evening news broadcasts and then moved to KPIX's Evening Magazine. He made the documentary Earth Medicine in 1977 and founded Magnetic Image Video in 1983.

The Sf Pride Board of Directors presents an evening of music and entertainement to kickk off Pride 2012. Tickets available on-line. MA fiscal sponsee Out in the Bay Radio is the beneficiary of this year's SF Pride Run.

This year's Festival premieres 39 short films in 5 screening programs. The Festival Focus, I Do AND I Don't: LGBTQ People of Color & Same-Sex Marriage encompasses a Featured Screening and a Panel Discussion that explores the egregious history and legacy of Prop 8. The festival will also showcase powerful documentaries from Chile and Colombia that examine facets of queer and transgender experiences in Latin America. From the lives of queer Africans in the U.S., to a Mexican mother coming out to her grown children, to magical musical film mash-ups and fairy godmothers, this joyous anniversary rips the veil off societal expectations, elopes with your heart, and solemnly vows undying delight!

We are co-hosting a workshop with the good people from NEW NOISE as part of their rockin VOICEBOX series. Our guest is Jay Ruby, artistic director of San Francisco's Carpetbag Brigade, will be joining us for a two-day, 16-hour intensive in the use of voice and song for theatrical composition. Carpetbag Brigade has collaborated and toured nationally and internationally, with their unique brand of visually-stunning, acrobatic stilt performance. The voice exists as a common everyday medium of expression through the use of words and sounds. It is a tool for the ordinary. In an expressive forum it can be expanded to become a vehicle of action and exploration, a tool of improvisation and discovery. It can excavate personas and altered states. It can and should assist a performer in deepening and broadening their approach to stagecraft and composition. The Voice in Action is a compositional workshop for dedicated theater makers using the deconstruction and elaboration of song as a basis to explore text, excavate character and sculpt atmosphere with the sound of the voice. Activities include breathing exercises, sound resonators, techniques of memorization, imagery, stream of consciousness writing, voice projection and the deconstruction of vocal habits. The relationship between the physicality of the body and the quality of vocal expression is the reference point for the research. Individual and group exercises that awaken vocal capacities and expand vocabularies will be shared as tools for not only training the voice but as a means for creating coherence out of improvisation and into the refinement of formed expression.

2012 marks the 45th anniversary of Loving vs Virginia, the Supreme Court case that legalized interracial marriage in the US. To honor this historic decision, Storycorps will hold a special community rcording day for multiracial, multiethnic and moxed heritage individuals, couples and families.

A selection of readings and images from Fostering Democracy, a creative writing and photography projects by artists from Fostering Art, an arts program for current and former foster youth. The youth will present work that chronicles their journeys in the California foster care system, their role in the democratic process and their hopes for the future.

The Arab Spring is one of the most fascinating episodes in recent history. It led to the unthinkable: the downfall of longstanding autocratic regimes in the region, including the end of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s rule in Libya. Lindsey Hilsum, who has reported extensively on crisis and conflict the world over, offers the first on-the-ground account of the revolt, its aftermath; and explores what’s to come in SANDSTORM: Libya in the Time of Revolution. In February 2011, Hilsum was reporting from Libya within a week of the uprising and remained there to see the defeat of Colonel Gadaffi nine months later. She visited the frontline every day, getting shelled and mortared alongside the rebels. In Tripoli, she found herself pinned down under small arms fire as she tried to enter the city with the rebels. The day after Colonel Gadaffi was killed, Hilsum went to see the men who had captured him, and was able to hold the satellite phone on which the dictator made his last defiant broadcasts, the amulet he had with him for luck, and the engraved golden pistol he carried with him to the end. But, as Hilsum explains, maybe the most remarkable experience was listening to what Libyans shared about their lives. They had been silent for forty-two years and now couldn’t stop talking, and Hilsum was amongst the first to hear their stories. SANDSTORM reveals the stories of Libyans returning home from the Unites States and Europe to risk everything by providing secret intelligence, or to commit daring acts of civil disobedience to help topple the regime, even knowing the punishment if caught would be torture and death. We see the dynamics of the insurrection both from inside the regime and through the astonishing stories of the men and women who found themselves starting a revolution. Woven into Hilsum’s account is a revelatory exposé on the dysfunctional Gaddafi family, the scale of whose excesses almost surpasses belief. In a year replete with extraordinary changes, the fall of Gaddafi is among the most fascinating stories of them all. In Lindsey Hilsum, it has found its definitive chronicler. Lindsey Hilsum is Channel 4 News (UK) International Editor. In addition to reporting from Libya, she also reported the "Arab Spring" from Egypt and Bahrain; from Belgrade in 1999 when NATO bombed Serbia, from Baghdad during the 2003 US invasion, and covered the Fallujah assault in November 2004. Her reports from Africa, the Middle East and Russia have earned her several awards. From 2006-8 she was the Channel 4 News China Correspondent, based in Beijing. In 1994, she was the only English-speaking journalist in Rwanda when the genocide started.

Mission-driven organizations have long known the value of people and their effect on the mission's success or failure. Today's HR professionals in the nonprofit sector are faced with immense challenges: overcoming unprecedented budget shortfalls, devising pay structures to compete for top talent, driving accountability amongst the people you have in place - and all while advancing your organization's mission. No one said it would be easy. HR's role is critical in anticipating and responding to these shifting organizational realities. Gain insight and immediately useful tools crafted specifically for the unique role of HR in a nonprofit.

Derrick Jensen is one of the most forceful voices of the growing deep ecology movement. Winner of numerous awards and honors including the Eric Hoffer Book Award and Press Action’s Person of the Year, he is the author of some fifteen books, including Endgame, A Language Older Than Words, The Culture of Make Believe**, Walking on Water: Reading, Writing, and Revolution,** and the new Derrick Jensen Reader: Writings on Environmental Revolution. ***

Joel Benin and David Lloyd discuss the campaign for boycott, divestment and sanctions both within Israel and Palestine and across Europe and the US.

A program of independent animation including Luke Jaeger, Ben Ridgeway, Joanna Priestly, Sabrina Wanie, Karen Lithgow, Carla Mella, Leonard Cohen, Tony Claar and others.

San Francisco-Director Robert Townsend's In The Hive" opens The San Francisco Black Film Festival, Friday, June 15 Michael Clarke Duncan, Loretta Devine, Vivica A. Fox and newcomer Jonathan McDaniel headline the film that tells the story of how a cook in rural North Carolina changed the hopeless lives of young men discarded by society. SFBFF Films include: Former De Young Museum Fellow Kevin Epps' "FAM BAM" examines the Black family structure and its resilience. Taliaferro's "10-10 Gotta Win" showcases the importance of voting JR Valrey's Block Reportin' 101 gives the 4-1-1- on the Block Report brand of journalism and how it serves people and communities that are often denied outlets elsewhere. Fambul Tok (Family Talk) by Sara Terry chronicles Sierra Leoneans drawing on ancient traditions of addressing issues within the safety of the family circle to make their communities whole again. Elza by Marriette Monpierre is the dramatic tale of a young Parisian woman of Caribbean descent who returns to her native island of Guadeloupe looking for the father she has never known. The San Francisco Black Film Festival was founded with the artistic vision to provide a platform for Black filmmakers, screenwriters, and actors to present their art. As a competitive film festival, SFBFF identifies filmmakers, screenwriters, and actors that are emerging as talents and established artists who are contributing to the cinematic legacy of African Americans. SFBFF conscientiously expands the notions of "Black film-making" to a global perspective. The San Francisco Black Film Festival is the brainchild of the late Ave Montague.

Lucky Express: a full length feature documentary that winds through India’s railways and stations, in the company of destitute children who have made Indian Railways their vast network and home. Confiding their life stories, fears, hopes and dreams, these disowned and abandoned youngsters astonishingly entrust their sobering reality to Lucky – former train station vagrant.

Join us for the first gathering to begin re-imagining the General Assembly on Saturday June 16 at Mosswood Park, starting with music and food at 1:00pm. Please fill out our survey to share you thoughts on the GA: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/8YDSBC2 Help us "re-imagine" the Occupy Oakland General Assembly (GA). Much feedback has been received about the Occupy Oakland General Assembly over the months. Some people find that the General Assembly works well as an effective decision-making process and as a community forum. Others feel that it is not serving the needs of everyone who may want to participate. We acknowledge that some have felt injured by the process; and also that others say it is not well-structured for organizing political action. We would like to bring the community together to see how best to design our GA. These questions reflect feedback the Facilitation Committee has received about the GA over the months. Your answers will help us design the gatherings for further discussion and possible changes to the GA, beginning with the first gathering in mid-June. You don't need to answer all the questions, and you can make additional comments throughout. _

Provocative and prolific, Boots Riley has written lyrics as the frontman of underground favorites The Coup for two decades. An activist, educator, and emcee, Riley's singular lyrical stylings combine hip-hop poetics, radical politics, and the wry humor of the everyman -- all woven-through with Bay Area swag. Boots' book, Lyrics in Context, 1993-2012, is forthcoming and will be available in August from Haymarket Books. Join us for an evening with Boots. We will discuss the crises facing working class people -- from the economic crisis to the racist attacks on people of color by police, immigration authorities, and armed vigilantes. Most importantly, we will talk about resurgent grassroots resistance -- whose opening salvos in this country were marked by the Madison, Wisconsin labor uprising and the birth of the Occupy movement -- and what we can do to build upon these struggles.

The author speaks on science fiction writing at this seminar presented by the California Writers Club.

The “War on Drugs” is fracturing families, stigmatizing people, fueling violence and damaging communities. Join us for a daylong community gathering where together we will develop ways to end the war on our communities and invest in people instead of prisons. Let’s Break the Chains and support drug policies that SAVE LIVES, PROTECT FAMILIES, STRENGTHEN COMMUNITIES! "The 'war on drugs' was a conscious policy designed to destabilize Black communities in the aftermath of the Civil Rights movement -­‐ to disempower and undermine their social and political structures by criminalizing and imprisoning Black men -­‐ forming the basis for their exclusion from the US mainstream…" Michelle Alexander, author The New Jim Crow There is growing consensus that the war on drugs is a failure. It has failed to reduce drug abuse or drug related crime, instead it has fueled explosive growth in the prison industrial complex. The war on drugs has generated a wave of unprecedented violence throughout Mexico and Latin America that has brought death to more than 50,000 Mexicans over the past six years and instability to the entire region as cartels fight for the profits derived from supplying the insatiable demand for illicit drugs. End Prohibition in California (EPIC) is hosting a people’s movement assembly on the war on drugs and its impact on our communities. The power of our collective action depends on the engagement of Bay Area organizations and people of conscience. We are calling on all people to connect, collaborate and JOIN US in envisioning new drug policies grounded in science, health and human rights. SCHEDULE PMA participants will have the opportunity to join one of six (6) Working Groups that will spend the afternoon developing strategies for action in the following areas: : Community Empowerment, Health Care & Human Services, Systems Reform, Legislation & Policy Reform, Mexico and Latin America and Research & Education.

The nationally recognized progressive activist Medea Benjamin, cofounder of CODEPINK and Global Exchange, has been accurately described by *New York Newsday* as “one of America’s most committed – and most effective – fighters for human rights. She was one of 1000 exemplary women from 140 countries nominated to receive the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of millions of women who do the essential work of peace worldwide. In 2010 Medea received the Martin Luther King, Jr Peace Prize from the Fellowship of Reconciliation. In 2000, she was a Green Party candidate for the California Senate. Since the 9/11 tragedy, she has been working to stop the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and to promote a U.S. foreign policy respectful of human rights.

The Gala features private museum access, a wine and hors d’oeuvres reception, and a silent art auction to benefit the IRC in Northern California. The IRC will also screen a sneak preview of “Calling this Home,” an oral history of refugee resettlement in the Bay area, sponsored by a grant from the California Council for the Humanities. The preview features the Tarlessons, a refugee family from Liberia, who were forced to flee Liberia’s devastating civil war and, after several years living in a refugee camp in Ivory Coast, were given sanctuary in the United States. Their story demonstrates the remarkable resilience of refugees and the possibility to rebuild a sense of home and belonging in Northern California.

Acclaimed sociologist Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, MacArthur prize-winning Professor of Education at Harvard University, takes a serious look at the moments both large and small that define how we transition through our lives. EXIT asks whether there is a "new language and way of seeing that would encourage a different approach and attitude toward leave-taking." As Lawrence-Lightfoot notes, there are few examples in our culture to suggest how to approach exits with grace and understanding. We are focused instead on the idea of beginnings, the start of something rather than the acknowledgement of an ending. Questions of exiting are particularly timely as we live in a period when many people are leaving jobs, by choice or through circumstance, as well as a time when technology makes murkier the idea of final farewells. EXIT explores the experiences of various people with stories of transition and exits, including an Iranian teenager who leaves the political strife of his native land to come alone to America; a middle-aged gay man who remembers his long exit from the closet; a nonprofit founder whose stepping down after 25 years makes for a confusing and difficult ending; an anthropologist whose exit from the field raises relational and ethical challenges; a boy who bullied for years until his parents take him out of school; a psychotherapist who discusses how she guides her patients through terminating therapy; the director of a hospital ICU who oversees patients making a recovery or facing death; an ex-priest whose protracted exit from the Catholic church leads to a new life in medicine; an man who exits his job as CEO of a major philanthropy with a big public leave-taking; a woman who reflects on her many vocational endings as she considers her next step in life; and a woman who promises her husband that his death, the final exit, will be both beautiful and triumphant. Woven through all of these stories are ideas of home and voice, freedom and yearning, wounds and graceand the concept that our developing the habit of small goodbyes and everyday transitions helps us "master and mark the larger farewells." In this way, EXIT moves the idea of endings from the shadows to the light, "witnessing the ways in which exits can become moments for listening, storytelling, imagining, and creating choices that were unimaginable before." Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot is the Emily Hargroves Fisher Professor of Education at Harvard University, where she has been on the faculty since 1972. Educator, researcher, author, and public intellectual, Lawrence-Lightfoot is the author of Worlds Apart: Relationships Between Families and Schools, Beyond Bias: Perspectives on Classrooms, The Good High School: Portraits of Character and Culture, Balm In Gilead: Journey of A Healer, I've Known Rivers: Lives of Loss and Liberation, The Art and Science of Portraiture, Respect: An Exploration, The Essential Conversation: What Parents and Teachers Can Learn From Each Other, and most recently The Third Chapter: Risk, Passion, and Adventure in the Twenty-Five Years After 50

The 2012 Summer Leadership Institute of the Saint Mary’s College Kalmanovitz School of Education focuses on the need for aspiring education leaders to acquire culturally competent leadership skills to address challenging issues of bias in K-12 learning environments in California and across the nation. The third annual institute “Equity and Inclusion through a Leadership Lens,” will prepare participants to address issues such as gay and lesbian bigotry, structural inequities and racism in both public and private schools. Featuring nationally known education leaders, organizational consultants and art-educators who have utilized cultural genres such as hip hop to foster academic excellence in student performance, the institute offers workshops and informational sessions to instruct and guide participants in the important process of leading organizational change in the diverse landscape of 21st century K-12 education. The institute’s distinguished speakers and presenters include: * The New Wilderness Project’s Wade Colwell-Sandoval, Benjie Howard, and Maketa Wilborn The trio of art-educators will present selections from “Borderless” a multimedia performance that uses folk, hip-hop, rock and jazz to engage audiences in a critical, creative conversation about community transformation. * Juan Carlos Arauz, Ph.D., E3: Education, Excellence & Equity The Real Test’: A New Way to Assess 21st Century Skills for Students in the 21st Century * Tarah Fleming, Start Dialog New Challenges in Cultural Competency: Examining the Culture of Power and Privilege * Kathy Moore, Ph.D, and Carol Loftin Working with a Diverse Community: The Shaping of Culturally Proficient Leaders The institute includes a panel discussion on equity and inclusion featuring Juan Carlos Arauz, Ph.D., E3:; Orpheus Crutchfield, Strategenius; Lizette Ortega Dolan, Athenian School; Tarah Fleming, Start Dialog and Alison Park of Blink Consulting. Gloria Sosa, Ph.D, an adjunct professor in Saint Mary's Graduate Counseling Program will moderate the discussion, which includes a question and answer session.

Attorneys will present on various legal topics that commonly confront entrepreneurs such as: Choosing a Business Structure, Intellectual Property, Employment Law, Taxation, and much more! At the workshop, attendees will have an opportunity to apply for a FREE follow-up legal clinic in July (dates and times to be disclosed at the workshop!). If accepted to the clinic, participants will have the opportunity to sit down with a lawyer for a 30 minute session to discuss specific legal issues and questions they have about their business ideas.

Panel discussion follows: Jennifer Douglas - Writer & Co-Producer SAVE KLSD; Tracy Rosenberg, Executive Director, Media Alliance; Helen Grieco, Northern CA Organizer Common Cause; Karen Lipney - Communications Director AFTRA. With opening comments by Bob Edgar, President Common Cause

A lively discussion and Q&A with leaders of local civil rights organizations (Vincent Pan - CAA, Ling Woo Liu - Korematsu Institute, Zahra Billoo - CAIR SFBA, Angela Chan - Asian Law Caucus) moderated by R.J. Lozada from APEX Express. In 1982, Vincent Chin was the victim of a hate crime murder in Detroit. Thirty years later, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders continue to face discrimination and bullying. In light of recent tragedies like the extreme hazing and subsequent death of Pvt. Danny Chen and the continuing effects of 9/11, what can Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders do to stand up against racism and discrimination? SCHEDULE 10:45am - DOORS OPEN 11:15am - BROADCAST of Vincent Chin 30, National Google Hangout with Zahra Billoo speaking on location: http://www.apaforprogress.org/vc30 12:00pm - 1:00pm: FILM SCREENING: "Vincent Who?". Food and light refreshments available in the lobby. 1:00pm - 3:00pm: LIVE DISCUSSION and Q&A with Bay Area Civil Rights Leaders: Hate Crimes and Bullying

Write On!—the successful short-story writing contest of the Berkeley Branch of the California Writers Club—has grown up to be a full-blown novel- writing competition, with a payoff—a Publishing Contract. In this year’s contest, the judges, using a points-based system, will place initial focus upon the query letter and the novel’s crucial first page, since these remain the pivotal factors in the industry for grabbing initial attention that leads to a publishing contract. ALL entries will receive written feedback from our judges, all of whom are successfully published novelists who have sold over 5000 copies of their books. GRAND PRIZE: A PUBLISHING CONTRACT SECOND PRIZE: Full Manuscript Copyedit THIRD PRIZE: One Hundred Dollars ELIGIBILITY: All Genres (except erotica) 70,000-90,000 words

You've heard about Michigan State Rep Lisa Brown who was banned from the floor for saying the word "vagina" in an emotional debate about women's access to abortions? Last night, Eve Ensler was in Lansing, Michigan at a massive rally of nearly 3,000 women and men where she performed Vagina Monologues. We can't wait to welcome her back to our own Bay Area act of resistance.

Join them for happy hour snacks and a round of press-inspired cocktails at this swanky 1950s and '60s homage to newspapers in the basement of the Hearst Building where the San Francisco Examiner was once printed. Mingle with our intrepid news crew and pick up a copy of the new summer edition — Issue No. 7!

Celebrate the life and poetry of the late Marilyn Buck, featuring Graciela Trevisan, Nellie Wong and Maria Poblet.

The San Francisco Department on the Status of Women is excited to announce the release of a new report, An Update on Girls in San Francisco: A Decade of Success and Challenges. The report follows up on the 2003 Report on Girls in San Francisco: Benchmarks for the Future and looks at trends in the lives of San Francisco girls over the past decade. Focusing on health, safety, education, and self-image, the report makes an important contribution to our understanding of where policy and practices have made girls' lives better—and where we still need to focus our work. A few highlights from the report: Births to teen mothers decreased by over 50%, fewer girls are getting arrested, and more girls are taking upper level high school math and science classes than 10 years ago. However, twice as many girls still think they are overweight than actually are, and many fewer girls are taking computer science classes.

The Postal Service has threatened to eliminate 220,000 living-wage jobs – and close 3,700 post offices including four in S.F. Why? – because these post offices are “not generating enough revenue.” You can see they’re targeting poor and rural communities – those who need their neighborhood post office the most! A nationwide movement is growing – from cities like New York, Baltimore, Chicago, S.F. and Portland to little towns in the countryside – to get into the streets and Save the People’s Post Office.

Presenters: Blair Bowie, U.S. PIRG Craig Holman, Public Citizen We may also have one additional presenter. Facilitator: Anne Pernick, Business Ethics Network Description: Amidst the torrent of corporate money in this year's election, there is some good news. Post Citizens United, many corporations have spent their political ad dollars through outside spending groups, like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, so their spending would stay secret. But work to require disclosure of the donors behind political ads is gaining critical ground. So much so that the U.S. Chamber decided to change how it spends its corporate members' money to keep them hidden, but coming developments may give these donors no place to hide. What are some of the recent wins on disclosure? What are the impacts for this election and future elections? What's coming next in the fight for disclosure, and how can people participate in this work to save and strengthen our democracy? This is a free, public webinar, which will be recorded, posted, and shared.

Four workshops along with one on one consultations with career counselors and HR professionals. A full day of training to help you analyze your resume and job search strategies, assess your skills, understand the landscape, and determine your path.

A Banquet of Poems by Asian American Feminist Nellie Wong. Radical Women celebrates the publication of Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner, the fourth book of poetry by this Bay Area writer whose life fuses art and revolution, and whose works have been presented in China, Cuba and throughout the U.S. Thursday, June 28, 7:00pm at New Valencia Hall, 747 Polk Street (at Ellis), San Francisco. Dinner is served at 6:15pm for a $7.50 donation. Wheelchair accessible.

Community Technology Network will unite nonprofit staff and volunteers from the leading technology companies at our Nonprofit Tech Teach-In to help organizations better utilize their products to achieve their missions. Nonprofits will have the opportunity to attend interactive workshops on: · Google Apps (Email, Docs and Calendar) with Priya Mathew, Senior Product Specialist Google Apps offers communication, collaboration and publishing tools, including email accounts on your organization's domain (like jdoe@example.org). · Google Grants with Erin Griffin, Account Associate Google Grants empowers nonprofits to achieve their mission by helping promote their websites via advertising on Google. · Salesforce Nonprofit Starter Pack with Todd Reasinger, Senior Member of Technical Staff, Software Engineering Salesforce for Nonprofits CRM platform allows organizations to better manage fundraising, programs and volunteers. Organizations will also be able to work 1-on-1 with Google and Salesforce staffers on product walkthroughs, implementation strategies and pro bono resources. Nonprofits are encouraged to bring specific questions about product implementation, customization and troubleshooting. The Tech Teach-In is designed for small organizations with prior exposure to these products and yearly budgets under one million dollars, without strong religious or political affiliations.

Through food based oral histories, this workshop will explore our lived experiences with food and colonization in order to deepen our understanding of Ancestral Healing Food Vs Industrialized Commodified Foods. Participants will build a deeper understanding of how the conquest of the Americas altered our relationship to food and what we can do to create a healthier, more equitable food system by returning to our cultural and ancestral food ways

Gaze is a film series dedicated to screening independent film and video made by women. Gaze promotes womens artistic expression and creates dialogue related to the influence of this powerful medium. All lengths and formats are accepted and there is no submission fee.

Soliciting a broad range of films that have documented the protests and encampments and address larger artistic and social, economic and political questions. Mainstream media bias and blackouts means this movement has been poorly documented and poorly understood. Help to amplify the real stories the 1% doesn't want us to see. Submission deadline is June 30, 2012. OTFF is being organized by a coalition of NYC radical media organizers and artists and will feature a full weekend of festivities at Anthology Film Archives on September 15th and 16th in NYC.

The EAP Fellowship program provides an alternative model for professional development that balances traditional structure with increased creativity, collaboration, and experimentation. Leading in today’s arts sector requires new competencies, skills and sensitivities that are adaptive, engaging and relevant. It is in this spirit that the Emerging Arts Professionals – San Francisco Bay Area (EAP for short) is pleased to continue its Fellowship Program for a third year. Over the course of nine months, the Fellowship is designed to enrich and expand the capacities of emerging and mid-level arts and culture workers in the Bay Area. Approximately 15 Fellows will bring together their diverse insights, energy, and expertise to build their ability to realize their career and life aspirations in arts and culture.

Renowned Iranian director Panahi shares his day-to-day life in this documentary, shot clandestinely in his Tehran apartment by his close friend Mirtahmasb after he was banned from filmmaking for supporting the opposition party in Iran’s 2009 presidential election. “A masterpiece in a form that does not yet exist” (NY Times). (75 mins)

Five rare films by Ai Weiwei, perhaps China's most famous artist and loudest critic. He calls these films "social documentaries." While two of them document large-scale art projects, the others are more akin to investigative journalism, with a deep commitment to shining light on acts of injustice.

We will discuss upcoming PMA's (please see the list below), possibilities for an actual EBSF, and more! Currently scheduled Peoples Movement Assemblies: July 27-29 -- End Corporate Personhood: David Cobb and East Bay-Oakland MTA July 31 -- Civil Liberties and National Defense Authorization Act

On Tuesday July 10th, form 6:30-8:00pm at the Chinatown Branch of the San Francisco Public Library, join EMERGENCY USA - Life Support for Civilian Victims of War and Poverty - to experience the beautiful, high-quality EMERGENCY medical facility in Goderich, Sierra Leone. This presentation will take you through the artistically-designed buildings, and give you a chance to “meet” some of the patients, doctors and other hard-working local staff. Hear about 6-year-old Ibrahim who developed Elephantitis in his foot, and who is receiving treatment at EMERGENCY, and learn about lye poisoning, so unfortunately common in this country, for which special treatment can only be found at the EMERGENCY facility. Eric Talbert, Executive Director of EMERGENCY USA, has recently returned from Sierra Leone and will guide you through a patient’s experience of attending this free-of-charge, high-quality facility, which you will find is not much different in care and standards than the hospitals we have here in the USA.

Jason Benlevi will discuss his book Too Much Magic with KGO radio host Peter B. Collins and Sarah Houghton, Director of the San Rafael Public Library. The speakers will field questions from a studio audience and will also take questions submitted online by cable and web viewers. Too Much Magic examines the various aspects of our emerging digital lifestyle to determine how it is changing us and whom it is really benefiting. Prescriptive as well as critical, Benlevi advises on ways we can choose to disengage from technology and exactly what we each can do to preserve our humanity, independence and creativity -- all of which are threatened by our current digital lifestyles. Please RSVP to zoe@cmcm.tv if you would like to be a part of the studio audience. Seating is limited and the audience must arrive by 6:30 PM.

Speakers: * Laura Rivas, National Network for Immigrant & Refugee Rights * Francisco & María Cristina Herrera, Trabajo Cultural Caminante * Daniel Robelo, Drug Policy Alliance * Chiapas Support Committee Members * Music By Francisco Herrera

In this soul-stirring memoir, grounded in tribal myth and ancestry, music and poetry, Joy Harjo, one of our leading Native American voices, details her journey to becoming a poet. Born in Oklahoma, the end place of the Trail of Tears, Harjo grew up learning to dodge an abusive stepfather by finding shelter in her imagination, a deep spiritual life, and connection with the natural world. She attended an Indian arts boarding school, where she nourished an appreciation for painting, music, and poetry; gave birth while still a teenager; and struggled on her own as a single mother, eventually finding her poetic voice. Narrating the complexities of betrayal and love, CRAZY BRAVE is a memoir about family and the breaking apart necessary in finding her spirit-charged voice. Harjo’s tale of a hardscrabble youth, young adulthood, and transformation into an award-winning poet and musician is haunting, unique, and visionary.

Radical Women's monthly meeting reviews summer plans: a Sisters United Front for Survival forum on saving CalWORKS; campaigning for RW-endorsed socialist feminist candidates, Durham and López ; and Women's Rights Day activities.

This year’s protest against the gathering of the world’s political and economic elite is called “Occupy Bohemian Grove, Expose the 1%. Occupy groups across America, and increasingly the world, are working to expose the one percent in control of global resources who are bringing human rights repression, environmental destruction, and war to humankind. The Fukushima Mothers and Cindy Sheehan are joining the twenty-four co-sponsors for a Creation of Care ceremony, speakers, and music, Saturday, July 14, at the Monte Rio Amphitheater, just outside the gates of the Bohemian Grove. Kris Welsh will MC the day, and Dennis Bernstein, host of Flashpoints on KPFA/Pacifica radio will broadcast live from the event. Russia Today-TV with Abby Martin will film and John Rees with No-Lies Radio will video-cast the day on the Internet. The protest will feature Occupy groups as well as other organizations including Code Pink, Peace and Justice Center, ANSWER Coalition, Project Censored, Bohemian Grove Action Network, Veterans for Peace, National Lawyers Guild, Round Valley Indians for Justice, and various others groups focused on key issues, such as climate change, human rights, Palestine, Cuban Five, and a living wage. Representatives from these organizations and more will speak joining in coalition to create a vast cornucopia of care as a counter to the one-percent elites less than a mile away. In addition to the speakers, the program at the amphitheater will include musical performances by Dave Lippman, Teresa Tudury, Jim Ocean, Scott Gerber, Attila Nagy, Keith Blackstone and the Hubbub Club.

The Durham-López 2012 unmillionaire campaign analyses labor's defeat in Wisconsin and presents a massive plan for public jobs with strong unions and worker's rights. Freedom Socialist Party monthly meeting,

The Durham-López 2012 unmillionaire campaign analyzes labor's failure to unseat Wisconsin Gov. Walker and calls for unions to divorce the Democratic Party. The campaign has also developed a plan for a massive jobs program with strong union and workers rights. Discuss these issues and how the campaign can invigorate the working class to fight austerity measures and other attacks. Learn about plans to participate in the upcoming Peace and Freedom Party convention and other campaign news.

Whoever said truth is stranger than fiction has never read Chuck Palahniuk. Having carved out a cult following with surreal stunners like Fight Club and Choke, Palahniuk is a modern master when it comes to blurring the lines between fantasy and reality. Now, like that dream you just can’t shake, Palahniuk’s 1999 novel Invisible Monsters is back with a vengeance. Remixed with new material and design, it reads like a road memoir of pills, betrayal, dreams and plastic surgery. Join us as Palahniuk dives into a world where self transcends appearance and everyone discovers inner monsters.

After Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was shot in Tucson, pundits spent extensive time wringing their hands over the lack of civility in American political discourse. While some American elected officials have left political life because of its nastiness, historians say that American dialogue has long been uncivil, even during periods of great cohesion. And some studies suggest that hyper-partisanship is linked to greater participation in civic life. So exactly how important is civility to citizen engagement and effective democracy? Dean of the Goldman School of Public Policy at UC Berkeley Henry Brady, the Institute for Civility in Government's Cassandra Dahnke, Arizona State University communications and performance scholar Jennifer Linde, and economist and anthropologist Meenakshi Chakraverti, who leads the Public Conversations Project in San Diego, visit Zócalo to discuss whether it’s better for democracy if Americans are cordial or fighting like cats and dogs.

Organizations that excel in performance management and evaluation are better informed, make better decisions and reap additional positive benefits. Foundation panelists will share their insights and perspectives about how evaluation can drive learning and deliver better results for organizations and the communities we serve. The discussion will be moderated by Jamie Allison-Hope from the S.H. Cowell Foundation. Panelists: Jamie Austin, Manager, Evaluation + Impact, Tipping Point Jim Keddy, Vice President and Chief Learning Officer, The California Endowment Kevin Rafter, Manager, Research and Evaluation, The James Irvine Foundation Guest Speaker: John Kania John Kania is a managing director at FSG, a global nonprofit strategy consulting firm that helps organizations achieve social impact by applying research, strategy, and evaluation to better solve social problems. John has twenty years' experience advising senior management on issues of strategy, organization, and change management. He co-author of the seminal article on Collective Impact in the Stanford Social Innovation Review.

A powerfully diverse and intergenerational collection of poetry and art in the bold spirit of the Occupy movement, with readings by Virginia Barrett, Bobby Coleman, Francisco Alarcon, Mahnaz Badihian, Angelina Llongueras, William Torphy, Carol Denney, Christopher Benard, Dotti Payne and Jonathan Siegel.

Join us as we meet to create a forum for community leaders to engage in dialogue regarding regional health issues; form partnerships with others interested in Latino health; reflect on current and upcoming health policy issues; develop a regional Latino health agenda; and mobilize to support priority health issues impacting the Latino community.

We are holding our Second Annual San during the month-long Labor Fest that commemorates the 1934 General Strike. At 6:30 p.m., there will be a welcome and introductory performances, at 7 p.m. a dinner and program, and at 9 p.m. dancing. Parking is available and it is wheel-chair accessible. There will be cultural and musical performances. We will be presenting the Labor Woman of the Year Award to Giuliana Milanese, Jobs with Justice, Coleman Advocates for Children and Youth, and retired organizer for the California Nurses Association, and the Labor Man of the Year Award to Howard Wallace, Vice President for Community Activities of the San Francisco Labor Council, Pride at Work and retired organizer for Healthcare Workers Local 250.

Guests will enjoy a delicious three-course dinner with wine pairings while bidding on beautiful works of art in metal, glass, wood and more. After dinner, Soirée guests will enjoy an electrifying performance by Omega Recoil, and members of both Gamelan X and Gamelan Sekar Jaya that combines the refinement of traditional gamelan music with the excitement of solid-state Tesla Coil technology. All proceeds from this event directly support The Crucible's educational programs. Top artists working in metal, glass, fire, wood and mixed media have donated fine art for the live auction. Be sure to have your paddle ready!

The California Writers Club annual picnic in Oakland's Joaquin Miller Park. (The CWC formed in this Park in 1909 when Jack London and other literary legends met for outdoor salons.)

As gas prices climb, a local nonprofit is teaming up with home owners to show how to beat the fossil fuel blues. Common Ground Garden Supply and Education is presenting the “Edible Landscaping Tour” featuring organic food grown in our neighborhoods as a means to inspire our community to strengthen the local food system. Join this self-guided tour! * ten beautiful suburban gardens * meet the creative and innovative gardeners * get great ideas for your garden

Celebrating the 75th Anniversary of the bridge Tour led by Mike Daly (Ironworkers Local 377) Few bridges are as well known as this iconic structure, and today’s retrofit and maintenance crews are constantly preserving and updating its operational performance. Hear about the challenges of the original construction and learn about the current projects. Meet the trade members who maintain the bridge today. Walk out onto the Bridge with some of its own ironworkers and painters, and hear from them the creative ways they meet every challenge. Learn also how the new Doyle Drive rebuild will impact the way the Bridge is operating. Hear how the ongoing seismic upgrades will protect the Bridge into the future.

The Labor Fest book fair and poetry reading features a wide range of speakers, discussions and authors.

At this event, we will honor Michael Eisenscher, National Coordinator of USLAW. Michael has spent a half century fighting for workers, for peace and for social justice. He has worked tirelessly for USLAW since its inception without recognition and with scant compensation. Without his dedication, USLAW would not exist. Guest Speaker: Tom Ammiano, the strongest progressive voice for labor in the CA State Assembly. Suggested minimum donation is $25. RSVP: U.S. Labor Against the War (USLAW) is a national network of unions, labor councils, state labor federations, allied organizations, worker centers and labor antiwar committees founded in January 2003 to oppose the invasion of Iraq. It is a co-founder of the New Priorities Network, which seeks to end the wars, cut military spending and invest in our communities to create jobs and meet other urgent social needs. USLAW has close to 200 affiliates that together represent millions of members.

An interdisciplinary documentary combining speculative travelogue and investigative journalism in order to trace possible links between survivalism, spirituality, art, radical politics, outlaw culture, alternative media and fringe philosophy. The film investigates physical and psychological survival strategies practiced by groups and individuals in the modern world. Maverick writer and filmmaker M.A. Littler hits the outlaw highway in search of visions that challenge the status quo.

A week long intensive training in economics for activists, educators, media makers and anyone what wants a better understanding of how the economy works.

Oakland Digital's one day, five-hour event that serves as a neutral educational and learning platform for local small business owners and aspiring entrepreneurs. Social Media for Small Business breaks social media down into easy-to-understand pieces, so attendees can make sense of and utilize digital tools and technology as a platform to grow their business. Tech experts from Google, Yelp, Constant Contact, Wix.com, Jimdo, GoPago and Oakland Digital (ODALC) will be there to host educational sessions on digital tools for small businesses. MC Hammer and Oakland Mayor Jean Quan will be present and speaking to the 250 +/- community members.

Social media maven Beth Kanter, Meg Garlinghouse of Linkedin and Fundly CEO Dave Boyce. New to the lineup will be Deborah Alvarex-Rodriguez, CEO, Goodwill Industries; Lee Fox, CEO, Koodooz; Libby Leffler, Facebook; Dawn Andreas, Eventbrite; Amy Gahran, CNN Mobile Contributor and Sarah Dines, Change.org. Tickets are $95, $125, and $175, and you can use the discount code "SM4NPSF" to save $20 off $125 or $175 registrations, which includes the full-day conference, lunch, and access to the networking reception that follows.

Rather than raise taxes on corporations, Democratic Governor Brown has laid waste to California's social services. Especially hard hit is CalWORKs, a welfare program for poor parents, most of whom are women of color. Help strategize a feminist fight-back to rescind these cuts! Panel: · Tiny, Co-editor of Poor Magazine and revolutionary journalist & poet · Christina López, Sisters Organize for Survival & socialist feminist vice-presidential candidate · LaTania Williams, mother denied CalWORKS due to resolved drug misdemeanor · Amy Gray, Sisters United Front for Survival and queer mom & public worker

Move to Amend is holding seven regional gatherings across the United States in 2012. These events will bring you together with Move to Amend activists and supporters from throughout your region of the country. Let’s amplify and multiply the power of all that great local organizing by building deeper organizational connections.

A hundred years ago, any soapbox orator who called for womens suffrage, a federal minimum wage, or laws protecting the environment would have been considered a utopian dreamer or a dangerous socialist. Now we take these ideas for granted. The radical ideas of one generation often become common sense for the next. We stand on the shoulders of earlier generations of organizers, activists, writers, artists and progressive politicianns who challenged the status quo of their day. The Social Justice Hall of Fame is an informed, colorful and witty history of the 20th century progressive leaders and movements that changed history. It also explores the new generation of the 1st century who are shaping our future to promote a more humane, democratic and just society.

RECONNECT: A Film on Cell Phones and the Health Effects RECONNECT traces the rise of an unregulated industry and uncovers the detrimental relationships which have debased corporate responsibility. The documentary includes interviews with experts from the World Health Organization, the International Agency for Research on Cancer, Apple Inc., Virgin Mobile, California’s Environmental Protection Agency, the Cellular Telecommunications Internet Association, and researchers from Yale, Harvard, Stanford, USC, UCLA, and UCSF. Directed by Kevin Kunze (in person), 90 minutes – HD Color – English.

A panel discussion on the erosion of civil liberties and what to do with Shahid Buttar, Executive Director of the Bill of Rights Defense Committee. Under the 2012 NDAA, the government can arrest you without charges, hold you indefinitely without trial, deny you a lawyer and send you abroad to be imprisoned or tortured, based only on suspicion of association with terrorist groups.

An ongoing union-busting drive is being waged against the ILWU, one of the most militant unions in the United States, from Bush's invoking of Taft-Hartley during the 2002 lockout by PMA to Obama's sending an armed Coast Guard vessel to escort a scab ship to the EGT dock in Longview, Washington. The Occupy Wall Street movement was instrumental in building solidarity for port truckers and longshore workers during the Longview struggle. Shackled with a concessionary EGT grain contract, the ILWU now faces negotiations for a master grain agreement. The Northwest Grainhandler's Association has notified the union that it is terminating its agreement. Will employers demand the EGT contract? How will that impact the major container ports in Los Angeles, Oakland, Seattle and Tacoma? What are the lessons of the recent ILWU struggles as well as the Boron miners Rio Tinto struggle? How will this effect the organized labor movement in this country in the midst of the worst capitalist economic crisis in decades? Come hear ILWU union activists discuss the class struggle today. SPEAKERS: Mike Fuqua, ILWU Local 21 Longview* Clarence Thomas, ILWU Local 10* Howard Keylor, ILWU Local 10 retired Jack Mulcahy, ILWU Local 8 Portland* invited Jack Heyman, ILWU Local 10 retired

Why it Matters NOW! A Forum on NDAA, National Defense Resources Preparedness,Joint Terrorism Task Forces,Surveillance, Trespass Law

2012 marks the 25th anniversary of CompassPoint’s Nonprofit Day and the 15th anniversary of the Young Nonprofit Professionals Network (YNPN). To celebrate, we’ve put together a powerful program focused on strengthening the management and leadership capacity of ALL nonprofit professionals. Featuring: * Chip Heath, author of the best-selling books Made to Stick and Switch, headlines an amazing line-up of speakers and panelists * Dolores Huerta, legendary labor activist and president of the Dolores Huerta Foundation * Jan Masaoka, founder and editor of BlueAvocado.org, author of the Best of the Board Café, and executive director of CalNonprofits * Annie Leonard, Co-Director of the Story of Stuff Project * Trista Harris, co-author of How to Become a Nonprofit Rockstar and executive director of the Headwaters Foundation * Erica Williams, political activist recently named a Young Global Shaper by the World Economic Forum Plus: * Leading experts on nonprofit leadership and management presenting focused breakout sessions for both new and seasoned nonprofit professionals * Opportunities to build your professional network * Exhibitors with resources and services to support your nonprofit organization

AKUFF will be presenting several free screenings of feature films by local filmmakers as part of the Art and Soul Festival in Oakland, August 4-5, 2012. When: This Saturday and Sunday August 4 - 5, 2012 Where: Oakland City Hall Main Council Chambers, 1 Frank Ogawa Plaza, Second Floor Cost: All screenings are free with paid Art and Soul admission (per day: $15 adults, $8 seniors & kids aged 13-17, kids 12 and under free) OAKUFF Art and Soul Film Series Schedule SATURDAY August 4th: 2:30 BLOCK REPORTING 101 4:30 EVERYDAY BLACK MAN 6:30 BASKETBALL 3:16 SUNDAY August 5th: 12:30 Short Documentary Brunch: AMERICA'S MOST UNWANTED LIFE IS A BEAUTIFUL STRUGGLE NOT ONE MORE 2:30 EVERYTHING STRANGE AND NEW 4:30 BASKETBALL 3:16 OAKUFF Art and Soul Film Series: Program Notes BLOCK REPORTING 101 - Produced and Directed by S. C-ya Samura. (120 mins) block Block Reporting 101 introduces audiences to controversial Bay Area journalist Jr Valrey, and The Block Report. JR's informative alternative media network pulls no punches, informing their audiences to the unfiltered truth in current and world events. Through an honest and open conversation, JR and others explore injustice in our society and explain the Block Report brand of journalism and how it serves people and communities that are often denied outlets elsewhere. Preceded by Short: OAKLAND RAIN REDUX - Directed by John Coyne (3 mins) EVERYDAY BLACK MAN - Directed by Carmen Madden (105 mins) everyday Since closing the door to a violent past, quiet and thoughtful Moses Stanton everyday existence is running a small neighborhood store, and watching over his daughter who doesn't know he exists. When a young man, Malik, comes in claiming to be a black Muslim that is doing good for the neighborhood, Moses takes him on as a partner but soon realizes that Malik is nothing but a drug dealer seeking to destroy the neighborhood and Moses's daughter. Therefore, Moses must become the man he used to be in order to save his beloved neighborhood and his daughter. Preceded by Short: OAKLAND RAIN REDUX - Directed by John Coyne (3 mins) BASKETBALL 3:16 - Directed by Ramasses Head (71 mins) basketball The Lord can be found in many places; A Church, A Book or even a Basketball Court. Growing up is not about an age, it turns out it’s about a mindset. When you’re a child, you speak as a child, think as a child and reason as a child… when you become a man you put away childish things.Sometimes there comes a point in your life where you need to grow up, but only you know when that time comes. That time always comes in one shot and sometimes it’s your last shot.The question of the day is… “How many shots does a man need to get it right, or does he ever get it right?” Preceded by Short: FAITH BECOMES HER - Directed by Sandra Smith (6 mins) EVERYTHING STRANGE AND NEW - Directed by Frazer Bradshaw (84 mins)* everything Already bent by the demands of his home life - fatherhood, a faltering marriage, and a submerged mortgage - a tradesman struggles to balance his own appetites and expectations with those of a friend in need. "Everything Strange and New" is an intimate portrait of ordinary people and their longing for certainty in uncertain times.Wayne is a carpenter, no longer young but uneasy with the emotional complexities of adulthood. Aimless hours spent with Leo, his newly-divorced drinking buddy, offer some relief to the heavy gravity at home, where his kids run roughshod over his increasingly unstable wife. Living between these worlds leaves Wayne feeling like a character in someone else's story. Ultimately, a violent spasm rouses him from this fevered American dream. Preceded by Short: THE SEALED LETTER - Directed by Sandra Smith (8 mins) Short Documentary Brunch: AMERICA'S MOST UNWANTED - Directed by Shani Heckman (21 mins) americas America’s Most Unwanted is a candid short film about 3 queer youth who recently emancipated from foster care and their stories of homophobia in care, resiliency and survival. With ‘1/2 of foster youth homeless, 1/3 on welfare and 1/3 in prison within 2 years of leaving foster care’, America’s Most Unwanted is a call to action to the LGBQTI community who struggles to make a family. Thousands of foster youth await your call. NOT ONE MORE - Directed by Angela Aguayo (17 mins) not-one For over a decade, women throughout the State of Chihuahua, Mexico have been disappearing; their unidentified bodies violated and systematically dumped near maquiladoras (border town factories) and other deserted locations. Over 430 young women who have been found raped, tortured, and murdered were predominantly discovered in the US/Mexico border of El Paso/Ciudad Juarez and the State’s capital, Chihuahua City. LIFE IS A BEAUTIFUL STRUGGLE - Directed by Sandra Smith (17 mins) Life is a beautiful struggle, is about five amazing students on different journeys attending Laney College in pursuit of their educational dreams. But there is suffering in life and defeats, no one can avoid them. Shorts before the features: THE SEALED LETTER - Directed by Sandra Smith (8 mins) Despite the odds, a young man rises above his given circumstances to make something of his life. FAITH BECOMES HER - Directed by Sandra Smith (6 mins) A young women who grew up in a strong Christian background has gone off to Hollywood to pursue her dreams of being an actor. While in Los Angeles she changes from an innocent Christian girl into a Hollywood party girl. Pam, Lisa’s mother has noticed this change, and tries to convince her that, she does not have to change who she is to make it in Hollywood. However, Lisa does not feel the same. OAKLAND RAIN REDUX - Directed by John Coyne (3 mins) A visually stunning, cinematic analysis of the character, sights and sounds of Oakland California.

Geoff Manaugh starts off a 2012-3 History and Theory of New Media Lecture Series with a discussion on burglary, tunneling and urban perforation. Ultimately asking if spatial crimes such as breaking and entering and burglary have anything to offer urban theory, Manaugh explores an alternative, even illicit view of how the city can be used and operated. From Gordon Matta-Clark to the tunneling crew of the Bank Job, from the Mole Man of Hackney to LA's notorious "hole in the Ground Gang", how does applied topology - the forced introduction of unplanned connections, perforations, holes, tunnels and cuts - transform the relationship with architectural space?

Geoff Manaugh starts off a 2012-3 History and Theory of New Media Lecture Series with a discussion on burglary, tunneling and urban perforation. Ultimately asking if spatial crimes such as breaking and entering and burglary have anything to offer urban theory, Manaugh explores an alternative, even illicit view of how the city can be used and operated. From Gordon Matta-Clark to the tunneling crew of the Bank Job, from the Mole Man of Hackney to LA's notorious "hole in the Ground Gang", how does applied topology - the forced introduction of unplanned connections, perforations, holes, tunnels and cuts - transform the relationship with architectural space?

Movie nights on the farm are back for a second season. This summer Pursue is teaming up again with Urban Adamah to present screenings of two outstanding documentaries on environmental and agricultural subjects close to our hearts. Film showings are followed by short discussions which include an examination of relevant Jewish ethics. Join us under the big tent for the screening, enjoy wood-fired pizza from Urban Adamah’s own cob-oven, popcorn, and drinks, and meet your neighbors! An uplifting testament to the perseverance and pluckiness of the small but growing army of young farmers committed to growing food in sustainable, sensible ways. Come see the film that serves as a grassroots rallying cry to encourage and recruit beginning farmers across the country.

Zurkhaneh – The House of Strength is a feature documentary about the traditional gymnasia where a unique form of Iranian sport is practiced to the accompaniment of drumming, sung poetry and expressions of Shi’a devotion. Based on extensive ethnographic research, the film journeys from the Iranian diaspora in Canada, across urban Iran, to the first international Zurkhaneh Olympic tournament in South Korea. Music and martial arts performances are woven into encounters with vivid human experiences as athletes, musicians and experts reveal a variety of subjectivities, perceptions and struggles within the religious, ethical and social world of Zurkhaneh. What emerges is the integration, but also the tensions, between the ethical and competitive aspects of Iranian martial arts, between Sufi-inspired mysticism and the religiously-inflected nationalism of post-revolutionary Iran, between grassroots community engagement and Olympic aspirations.

Rough cut screening of a documentary film about the Occupy movement in the SF Bay Area. This film documents the local incarnation of the Occupy movement from the port shutdowns, to the controversial decision to embrace a diversity of tactics to police brutality that has attracted attention nationally and worldwide.

UC Berkeley economist Dr. Sylvia Allegretto has been researching the impact of reduced investment in California's public schools and other public resources. She will give us a perspective on how changes in wealth distribution, wages and our tax structure have: Impacted jobs and our workforce Put greater burdens on middle and lower income families Benefited corporations and millionaires

How would you improve communities if there were an Internet without limits? What difference would you be capable of making that you can’t today, if you had access to super high Internet networking speeds? These are the questions Mozilla and the National Science Foundation have teamed up to ask through the Mozilla Ignite Apps Challenge. Mozilla will distribute $500,000 for apps that can harness the potential of next generation (gigabit) networks to benefit the public. Visionaries of all types – developers, researchers, and nonprofit professionals, alike – are invited to submit their ideas through the Ignite Apps Challenge. Priority topics for app ideas include: * Clean energy and transportation * Education * Emergency preparedness and public safety * Health information technology * Workforce technologies * Advanced manufacturing Get Ignited Join the first phase of the program by submitting your proposed app in a public brainstorming session. You can take part in a live brainstorming session by attending a local Mozilla Ignite Idea Jam. The Ignite Idea Jam is your chance to share your expertise with like-minded visionaries and begin developing revolutionary app solutions. Top ideas will be eligible to win prizes ranging from $1,000 to $5,000.

Are you fundraising for an organization, campaign, or personal cause? Want to learn how to raise more money for it? We bet you do, which is why Fundly is hosting a Fund-a-thon – a social fundraising strategy + hands-on help session for anyone (nonprofits, schools, political campaigns, advocacy organizations, volunteer groups, consultants, individuals) who wants to raise more money by leveraging social media, social networks and the latest tech tools. Leading the Fund-a-thon is Tom Kramer, VP of Marketing for Fundly, the world’s largest, most widely-adopted and easiest-to-use social fundraising platform that has already enabled its more than 25,000 customers to collectively raise more than $250 million for their organizations, campaigns, and causes.

What would it mean to bring "stop and frisk" procedures to the Bay Area? Why are police departments increasingly adopting military tactics? Who benefits from such practices? How are police being used to suppress dissent? What has been the impact on vulnerable communities? What is your vision for a safe community? Join together to discuss community well being and the role of public servants in protecting it.

The Institute for the Future invites you to a provocative lunch-time talk about Gen Y facilitated by Neal Gorenflo and Milicent Johnson, contributors to Share or Die: Voices of the Get Lost Generation in the Age of Crisis, a new anthology about Gen Y published by their nonprofit, Shareable Magazine, and New Society Publishers. Today’s young adults face the worst of times and the best of times. The convergence of multiple crises has placed an unprecedented burden on this generation. Simultaneously, new tools and ways of organizing life outside of the Fordist grid have emerged giving young adults the chance to remake everyday life and society dramatically for the better. However, most young adults only see the end of the dominant story about what constitutes the good life and not the beginnings of a new and potentially better story. Share or Die is a call to action to close the gap between what is and what can be. The authors will engage you in a lively discussion about the state of Gen Y, how they might reshape society in the future, and how the young voices in Share or Die express their situation. If you’re a young adult or want to understand more about how Gen Y will shape the future, this is a must attend discussion. The Institute for the Future is hosting the talk at their downtown Palo Alto headquarters and will provide lunch. There will be a book signing after the talk.

The Living Wage Coalition is building a grassroots movement of low-wage workers and their allies to win economic justice. Anyone who works full-time should be able to survive on what they earn and support themselves and their children. We are engaged in a transformative rethinking of the economy. Come be a part of next steps in discussing an economic justice agenda.