A happy hour event featuring a talk by Zhao Zhong, a TIME Hero of the Environment, who will share stories of successful grassroots strategies that force polluters to clean up their act.

Our panel discussion will take place from 7:00-8:00 pm. This evening will include a discussion exploring shape, shifting processes, and exploring the cultural and social impact of these arts on individuals, and the greater community.

Candidates vying for seats on the seven-member CCSF Board of Trustees will gather at New America Media on Friday, Oct. 12 to discuss their plans to preserve one of the city's most vital institutions. The event offers a valuable opportunity for attendees to pose questions to potential decision makers that may determine the fate of City College.

Rise to the Occasion: BAYMN is a youth media festival. Film topics include: gang violence, drug abuse, bullying, college access, unemployment, affordable housing, medical care, teen pregnancy, racism, sexism, financial inequity, with particular attention to the presidential election and high school dropout crisis.

While immigration is one of America's most fiercely controversial issues, little is understood about the growing Latino presence in the U.S. This excellent new documentary reveals the direct correlation between centuries of U.S. armed intervention in Latin America and the Caribbean and today's immigration crisis. Adapted from the popular new book written by award-winning journalist Juan González of radio and television's Democracy Now!, the film by Wendy Thompson-Marquez and Eduardo López in conjunction with director Peter Getzels and editor Catherine Shields vigorously details the social conditions and U.S. government actions (overt and covert) that led inexorably to millions of Latino families to flee their homelands, triggering an unprecedented migration that is transforming America's cultural and economic landscape.

Please join us for the Producers Institute for New Media Technologies Public Conference Day, featuring panel discussions and presentations on emerging tools and platforms that are changing the face of filmmaking and empowering social change movements around the world.

This Saturday, October 13, thousands of real, non-corporate people will gather at Ocean Beach in San Francisco to spell it out: "DUMP CITIZENS UNITED!" The Dump Citizens United human banner is a collaboration between local artist/organizer Brad Newsham and The Other 98%, a netroots community with 300,000+ members, plus a coalition of other progressive groups that includes CREDO, Common Cause, Code Pink, Courage Campaign and an ever-growing list of others.

Music, art, food, speakers

In association with the Green Party of Alameda County's "Green Sunday" programs, the East Bay Social Forum presents a People's Movement Assembly this coming Sunday, October 14th, featuring a a 4-person panel on the November 6 general election. The discussion will focus primarily on the state propositions -- a listing of these eleven propositions is at: http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/ballot-measures/qualified-ballot-measures.htm

In this meeting of the Townsend Center New Media Working Group, Visual Artist Henry Witecki will present his recent body of composite images, animations, and projection works. An expanded photographic practice, Witecki is working with the iPhone, and processing the images in Adobe Photoshop to generate works of New Media that blur certitude. The conditions for the production of this art work are: the proliferation of the digital photograph, how that proliferation relates to the construction of memory and imaginary, and the networks with which these images can be exchanged, processed and otherwise intra-acted with. Topics touched on in the talk will include the photographers' relationship to image, recognition technology and digital image archives, information flows and thought capital, and the theories of Agential Realism and Situated Knowledge as they relate to artistic production.

America's middle class is dwindling, and the debate over how to save it is nowhere fiercer than in the normally tranquil state of Wisconsin. In Janesville, as jobs disappear and families are stretched to their breaking point, citizens and politicians are embroiled in an ideological battle about how to turn things around.

A Techbridge Role Model Training on Wednesday evening, October 17. We will share more about our programs and volunteer opportunities to engage girls in science, engineering, and technology. By the end of the evening, you will walk away with proven strategies for interacting with girls, as well as hands-on activities which you can use in Techbridge programs or other outreach efforts. Techbridge staff will also be on hand to connect you with one of our programs that you can visit this fall as a Role Model, and other ways you can support Techbridge.

One of the best parts of CCC is learning from each other, and that's what October is all about! Please come prepared to share a communications success and/or failure in 5 minutes or less that you think the group will benefit from hearing about and have good insights for the whole group to learn from.

A community discussion on the statewide ballot propositions and how they will impact you, your family and your community.

Measuring the Networked Nonprofit, co-authored by Beth Kanter and KD Paine, is an entertaining and useful book about two processes that nonprofits need for success in a networked age: To become networked and measurement. This book provides valuable, how-to insights on using data to change the world - insights all nonprofits can use to fulfill their missions missions. The book relates stories, outlines measurement frameworks and offers up a host of resources. Come hear well-known blogger and trainer Beth Kanter share ideas from her new book and learn about how measurement can truly help your nonprofit change the world.

Meet the nation’s most honored investigative reporting team. Barlett and Steele discusss the American Dream – the lure to gifted immigrants and the birthright opportunity for every American citizen – and how, they say, over a few decades, a small number of people in power have deliberately put in place policies that have enriched themselves while cutting the ground out from underneath America’s greatest asset – its middle class. Barlett and Steele are the only reporting team ever to have received two Pulitzer Prizes for newspaper reporting and two National Magazine Awards for magazine work. They have worked together for more than 40 years, first at the Philadelphia Inquirer (1971–1997), then at Time magazine (1997–2006), and now at Vanity Fair since 2006. They have also written seven books, including the previous best seller America: What Went Wrong?

Prof. Moore, a leading scholar on the subject, will be discussing her latest book "Invisible Families" and facilitating an interactive dialog about culture, race and lesbian/queer families

Haiti Action Committee was founded in 1992 in opposition to the first coup against President Jean-Bertrand Aristide and in solidarity with Fanmi Lavalas, Haiti's popular democratic movement.

The 4th Annual Petaluma International Film Festival will present over 40 films from: USA, Luxembourg, France, Germany, UK, Russia, Canada, India, Tajikistan, Iran, Afghanistan, Portugal, China, Italy, Poland, Greece, Armenia, Estonia, Argentina, Cuba, Spain, Slovenia, Macedonia, Belgium, Switzerland, Azerbaijan, Viet Nam, Uruguay. The festival once again brings the best of the international films in fiction, documentary, short, animation, music video...for a greater understanding of the world and its many cultures, arts and independent film.

The Idealist Grad Fair can help you make a difference in your career! At the fair, you can: Learn about a range of graduate programs offered by local, national and international universities Engage with admissions advisors about specific programs, admissions requirements and application deadlines Attend a panel discussion about admissions and financial aid The fair is free and open to anyone thinking about attending graduate school!

Whether you are just starting out in the workforce or ready to make a change, recruiters and hiring managers will be on hand to help you find the career you want to build.

This panel will discuss prisoner's call for an end to hostilities, inside and in the communities, a critique of power's criminality as revealed in the existence of prisons and real alternatives to the criminality of punishment

The workshop will: provide resources for community members to learn about the complex legal regulations governing food businesses. Includes presentations from law students and attorneys on topics like Financing, Health & Safety, and Zoning. Includes breakout sessions where local organizations can share resources with participants.

Live Entertainment* *Deep Waters Dance Theater A performance by the *Oakland Youth Chorus Oakland’s own *Aqueila M. Lewis *Cooking Demonstration* by *Chef Robert Dorsey *Easy Jam Making Workshop* Cook- Off *Critically acclaimed documentary film screenings*Farm Animal Petting Zoo*Kids Games & Obstacle Course*Gardening Demos/ Planting Party*

Amy Goodman is the host and executive producer of Democracy Now!, public broadcastings fastest growing, most progressive news hour. She is an award-winning investigative journalist, a four-time New York Times bestselling author, and a syndicated columnist.

The Berkeley Branch of the California Writers Club will meet this Sunday, October 21, featuring novelist Judith Marshall. She will bring exciting news about CWC’s new program, Publishing Pathways, for writers with publishing and marketing in their current or future vision. She will also talk about publishing her first novel Husbands May Come and Go but Friends are Forever. The book was optioned and is now being adopted into a screenplay.

CreaTV San Jose is proud to announce the Call for Entries for The 2012 CreaTiVe Awards, presented by Xilinx. Videomakers of all ages in nine Bay Area counties are invited to enter videos and TV shows for competition, now through October 22nd, at creatvsj.org.

Amy Goodman joins Marinites for the final presidential debate that will be televised live from Boca Raton, FL in the Hoytt Theater at the Osher Marin JCC. The debate will be followed by a meet and greet book signing with Goodman and Free Speech TV's Denis Moynihahn.

A showcase of local youth-produced digital media work, and the chance to find a place in your neighborhood where you can create these wonderful projects. Through these neighborhood programs youth are able to realize their artistic vision digitally by learning graphic design, how to publish a blog, make a music video, or how to direct a documentary.

Meet candidates in three key Oakland races that could shape the housing landscape in the East Bay's largest city. Candidates for City Attorney, City Council District 5, and the at-large City Council seat will answer residents' questions about affordable housing, foreclosures and displacement issues. Co-sponsored by EBHO, Causa Justa :: Just Cause (CJJC), Oakland Tenants Union, and the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE). The event is hosted at an Eden Housing community and will be translated in Chinese and Spanish.

A celebration of the inaugural book in the new City Lights/Sister Spit Series — Sister Spit: Writings, Rants and Reminiscence from the Road! With Michelle Tea * Cassie Sneider * Ali Liebegott * Ben McCoy * Sara Seinberg * MariNaomi * Rhiannon Argo * Tamara Llosa-Sandor * Kat Marie Yoas!

Lost and Found: Family Photos Swept by 3.11 East Japan Tsunami, a massive display of personal photographs recovered in the city of Yamomoto during post-tsunami clean-up in 2011, collectively displayed in an overwhelming testament to loss and perseverance. In homage and reference to this exhibition Cinematheque tonight screens Ute Aurand’s 2011 film Young Pines (Junge Kiefern), an engaged, stately and patient observance of the urban landscape, a quiet consideration on harmonious overlap between nature and culture. Filmed throughout Japan before the disasters of the tsunami and Fukushima, but edited after, Young Pines’ carries an uncanny and inspiring grace. Also screening are three recent films by Japanese filmmakers which consider similar themes, including Tomonari Nishikawa’s Tokyo—Ebisu a fragmented collage of that vibrant city’s life and motion; Makino Takashi’s Generator (with a soundtrack by Jim O’Rourke), a study in accumulation and dissolution, which, created as a response to the disaster in Fukushima, visualizes Tokyo in a toxic state of decay; and Rei Hayama’s Emblem, a quiet meditation on the fragility of landscape and life.

This night is part of an ongoing community celebration and empowerment movement that has coalesced here in the Oakland area over the last year. October 26th is also a day that evokes an anniversary of helicopters and tear gas, and riot robot squads, and also the coming together again of a community that is always preparing to love, and struggle, and which has risen to the occasion and grown closer in this last year. Since then our community has sprung back into action as only Oakland can.

Armed with a camera, Lee Hirsch put faces, names and stories behind the 13 million kids who are reportedly bullied each year. His documentary BULLY received international acclaim and has influenced national discussion and debate on the issue of bullying. Confronting bullying’s most tragic outcome, the film follows five kids and their families as they are faced with this painful issue. It also gives an intimate glimpse into schools, offering insight into the often-cruel world of children, as teachers, administrators and parents struggle to find answers. Lee will share the journey of BULLY and his Bully Project, a social action campaign to end bullying and the San Mateo County efforts involved.

Are you ready for the new future of government? Is your organization? This one-day workshop session will prepare you for the rapidly evolving, technology-fueled world of open government.

One of the best ways to try out new ideas and build an audience for your writing is to start a blog,” says instructor Britt Bravo. “The first thing a publisher is going to ask you is, ‘Do you have a platform?’ A blog, combined with tools like Twitter and Facebook, is a great way to build it.”

The Farm Bill is a national piece of legislation that has everything to do with how you eat. Our Representatives allowed the farm bill to expire on September 30th, along with funding for many critical programs, including the Farmers’ Market Promotion Program, that supports alternatives to the corporate food system. Additionally, the House has called for $16 bill in cuts to food stamps (SNAP), and have "updated" the eligibility requirements to make it more difficult for deserving individuals to receive food stamps. We call for no cuts to SNAP (see video on SNAP here). This workshop makes the direct link between national policy and what it means for our food. Come discuss what to expect if our Congress continues to create policy that does not consider our communities.

Panelists are Dr. Ruchama Marton, founder and president of Physicians for Human Rights-Israel; Manuel La Fontaine, organizer for All of Us or None; Dr. Allam Jarrar, a leader of the Palestinian Medical Relief Society; and Dr. Terry Kupers, psychiatrist and an expert witness on U.S. prison conditions.

This is the second of two historic poll of voters conducted in six languages and dialects: English, Spanish, Cantonese, Mandarin, Korean and Vietnamese, and was funded in part by The Institute of Governmental Studies of UCBerkeley, and New America Media with a grant from the Blue Shield of California Foundation.

Join Project Censored and contributors to the 2013 edition of Censored: Dispatches from the Media Revolution in celebrating the new book’s publication. The event is free and open to the public.

Our featured speaker for our upcoming mixer is Marcia McLean, a digital media producer who works with youth in the community. She has worked with the Marin Women's Commission and the Marin Teen Girl Conference to help teen women become leaders and build self-esteem by learning and using media. We will see videos about the Marin Teen Girl Conferences that were produced by Marcia's students at the San Rafael Intel Computer Club House. This is a great opportunity to learn about some of these inspiring young leaders and see how we can all use media to give back to the community.

Oakland Rising's sister organization, Oakland Rising Action, is throwing an election night party and we are all invited! Please join us on Tuesday, Nov. 6th at 8pm to celebrate our hard work with staff, daily team and volunteers. This event is FREE and open to the public.

he Durham-López Bay Area Campaign Headquarters opens its doors for a gathering to celebrate the unmillionaire write-in campaign and thank volunteers

Garden in the Sea is the story of an exceptional project. Several years ago, a group of enthusiastic people started to work for the protection of the Islands in the Sea of Cortez in Baja California Sur, Mexico. Thanks to this effort all the Islands became an Unesco world heritage side but the story of the Island Espíritu Santo is especially remarkable. It was bought back from different owners and donated to the people of Mexico. To celebrate the success of all the efforts and to remind people of our close relation to the ocean renowned Spanish Artist Cristina Iglesias was asked to make a piece of art for the Island.

John Morrison has been in the film business for 40 years. He has also been a professional potter, a city councilor, taught film at the University of Massachusetts, and is still the Director of Film Programming at Real Arts Ways, a cinema he helped found at the prestigious Media Art Center in Hartford CT.

In celebration of World Usability Day, the User Experience experts at Salesforce and Community Technology Network have united to provide free website consultations to nonprofits from 5:30pm to 8pm on November 8th in downtown San Francisco. The goal of this consultation is to help nonprofits streamline website design and functionality. This event is only open to nonprofits with a 501c3.

An award-winning documentary about an epic civil rights battle in Tucson high schools that shows committed students, parents and teachers mobilizing to save Mexican American Studies from a legislative ban on "ethnically divisive" classes. Of particular relevance given the attempt to consolidate Diversity Studies at CCSF.

Bill McKibben, “the planet’s best green journalist” (Time Magazine) and “probably the country’s most important environmentalist” (Boston Globe) is the author of a dozen books about the environment and the founder of the dynamic grassroots climate campaign 350.org, which has coordinated more than 15,000 rallies in nearly 200 countries since 2009. He holds honorary degrees from a dozen colleges, including the Universities of Massachusetts and Maine, the State University of New York, and Whittier and Colgate Colleges. In 2011 he was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has written for The New York Times, The Atlantic Monthly, Harper’s, Mother Jones, The New York Review of Books, Granta, Rolling Stone, and Outside. He has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Lannan Prize.

Join Kristian Williams for a discussion of police, abuses of power, and the "justice" system in the United States. Earlier this year, Williams released "Hurt: Notes on Torture in a Modern Democracy," collection of articles and interviews on the history, psychology, and current state of torture in democratic societies and is the author of "Our Enemies in Blue: Police and Power in America" and "American Methods: Torture and the Logic of Domination."

This Fall, Bill McKibben and 350.org are going on tour across America to build the movement we need to face the crisis of climate change. On Nov. 10th, Bill will be in Palo Alto to lay out the terrifying new math of climate change, explaining the incredible odds we face, and the difficult path we must walk in the coming years to create a livable future for our planet. Bill will be joined by friends from across the climate movement and beyond to explain how together we can confront the fossil fuel industry, using lessons from the most successful movements of the past century and the past year of dramatic new actions against the industry across the country.

David Swanson talks on the military industrial complex at 50.

On the traditional Armistice Day, the War and Law League (WALL), http://warandlaw.org, presents a forum on the theme, "U.S. Wars -- Are They Lawful?"

Meet filmmaker Kristina Leigh Copeland, who began digging into Wall Street irregularities years before the 2008 financial collapse. What she uncovered —manipulation of the market through "naked short selling" of stocks — has became the focus of her first documentary, The Wall Street Conspiracy. While manipulation and fraud are not new to Wall Street, Copeland found that the shift to electronic transactions have made billion-dollar deals based on inflated share counts and manipulated price drops easier to commit and harder to uncover. Copeland's documentary reminds us of the Savings and Loan Fraud, the Libor scandle, and the continuing possibility of financial insider manipulations by huge banks, venture capital funds and organized crime in a globalized electronic market.

While immigration is one of America's most fiercely controversial issues, little is understood about the growing Latino presence in the U.S. This excellent new documentary reveals the direct correlation between centuries of U.S. armed intervention in Latin America and the Caribbean and today's immigration crisis. Adapted from the popular new book written by award-winning journalist Juan González of radio and television's Democracy Now!, the film by Wendy Thompson-Marquez and Eduardo López in conjunction with director Peter Getzels and editor Catherine Shields vigorously details the social conditions and U.S. government actions (overt and covert) that led inexorably to millions of Latino families to flee their homelands, triggering an unprecedented migration that is transforming America's cultural and economic landscape.

Established in 2004 by Academy Award winning actor and advocate Geena Davis, the Institute a community of global entertainment and media leaders biannually to present its ground breaking research findings and to engage in discussions to create solutions to address these gender inequality challenges. The Symposium brings together over 300 leading entertainment and media CEOs, directors, writers, producers, corporations and organizations.

Amir Baradaran will discuss his past and current artistic works involving Augmented Reality (AR) and pose critical questions for the future of AR and art practice. AR as a form of new media offers a live view of a physical, real-world environment whose elements are augmented by computer-generated sensory input such as sound, video, graphics or GPS data. Under the title FutARism, Baradaran suggests that AR presupposes significant conceptual shifts, as it expands our definitions of ownership and trespassing while triggering dialogue about a new medium for interactive installations. The experiential, conceptual, and legal shifts presupposed by the advent of AR connect to Baradaran's interest in radical subjectivities, failed utopias, and mysticism. His AR installations have included the commissioned work WeARinMoMA in the NY MoMA and a guerilla installation in the Louvre, Frenchising Mona Lisa.

Please join us for a screening of Miss Representation, an award-winning documentary film that exposes how mainstream media contributes to the underrepresentation of women in positions of power and influence. Following the film, an action-invoking post-show discussion featuring prominent local experts will explore how we can challenge media culture to transform the experience of women and girls. Proceeds will benefit the Life Skills, Arts Education and College & Career programs that Oasis For Girls provides for young women in San Francisco.

A victory celebration for the recently passed bill that banned the shackling of incarcerated women during labor and delivery.

SF Online Community MeetUp is the free monthly gathering of online community managers, enthusiasts, and innovators to meet and discuss tools and strategies for building and managing effective communities.

Celebrate the best and brightest in Bay Area journalism at our annual Fall Honors on November 14 at the super-swanky former speakeasy Cafe du Nord. Honorees are Diane Anderson-Minshall, former editor in chief of Curve magazine and now executive editor of The Advocate, and Eric Jansen and Marilyn Pittman, who are the hosts and producers of radio show Out in the Bay. We will also raise a glass to the next generation of media pros — J.D. Morris, editor of Berkeley's Daily Cal, will receive the $2,500 Bob Ross scholarship. All this, plus entertainment, drinks and appetizers at one of San Francisco's favorite nightspots. Don't miss NorCal's biggest event of the year!

The author of Destiny Disrupted delivers an enlightening, accessible history of modern Afghanistan from the Afghan point of view, showing how Great Power conflicts have interrupted its ongoing, internal struggle to take form as a nation

Filmmaker Kidlat Tahimik and author Christopher Pavsek in conversation Kidlat Tahimik (Philippines, 1980–94). Tahimik's virtually unknown masterpiece chronicles Tahimik and his young son's lives as they traverse the tumultuous 1980s and early 1990s in the Philippines—a great democratic revolution deposes a dictator; a massive volcanic eruption covers the world in ash—and asks how one might build a new and better future out of the disasters.

Once upon a time, there was a documentary called Bananas, about conditions at a Dole-owned banana plantation in Nicaragua. But this is not that movie. This movie is about what happened after Dole decided it was going to squash Bananas –by any means necessary. What follows is a story that’s both incredibly thrilling and deeply inspiring, as filmmaker Gertten makes the decision to fight the Dole company… and document the whole thing, of course.

Join author Frank Bardacke and Modern Times as we celebrate the paperback release of "Trampling Out the Vintage: Cesar Chavez and the Two Souls of the United Farm Workers," a dramatic new history of Cesar Chavez and the rise and fall of the United Farm Workers.

he Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles (IFFLA) seeks narratives, documentaries, shorts, music videos, experimental, children's and animated films of any length and format for its 11th edition, taking place April 9-14 2013 at ArcLight Hollywood, a state-of-the-art facility in the heart of Los Angeles. Jury and Audience Choice prizes will be awarded for best feature, documentary and short film. In addition to providing a premier showcase for their films, IFFLA also fosters access for filmmakers to distributors, agents, producers and other entertainment professionals based in Hollywood through a series of industry events including the Industry Leadership Awards, seminars and the popular One-on-One program for participating filmmakers.

Celebrate the best and brightest in Bay Area journalism at our annual Fall Honors on November 14 at the super-swanky former speakeasy Cafe du Nord. Honorees are Diane Anderson-Minshall, former editor in chief of Curve magazine and now executive editor of The Advocate, and Eric Jansen and Marilyn Pittman, who are the hosts and producers of radio show Out in the Bay. We will also raise a glass to the next generation of media pros — J.D. Morris, editor of Berkeley's Daily Cal, will receive the $2,500 Bob Ross scholarship. All this, plus entertainment, drinks and appetizers at one of San Francisco's favorite nightspots. Don't miss NorCal's biggest event of the year!

Fragmentation and Flux is a program of work by Haitian filmmakers responding to radical shifts in their physical, political, and social landscapes. These shifts can be characterized as both collisions and collusions, from the disaster capitalism merely accelerated by the earthquake, to the syncretism that has always made up Haitian culture.

In an act designed to provoke a wider war, missiles from Israel assassinated a top Hamas official and killed and wounded many others as its planes and warships have struck more than 20 targets in an ongoing assault. Reports of the bombardment of Gaza are continuing as bodies, including those of children, are being brought to the hospital and morgue.

The townhall aims to raise awareness about Realignment, and build a base in Alameda County to fight for the human rights of people in cages, as well as for formerly-incarcerated people .

Getting Past Capitalism begins with a critique of the impacts of capitalism on human society and the environment. It looks in new ways at what capitalism is and at how it is reproduced. That investigation opens the door to fresh ways of looking at how to challenge it. Cynthia Kaufman looks at some fundamental questions about how capitalism comes to look like a system that is unbeatable, and how people come to have desires that work to reinforce capitalism.

James Alessandro, novelist, screen, radio and TV writer, teacher-- on "Scenes for Novels and Screen" --- craft, pacing, how scenes work

The most resonant slogan of Occupy Wall Street is "we are the 99%!" But who are the one percent? The popular answer is "Wall Street." But to think about this more closely, perhaps the question to ask is: how do the most advanced means of computing and communication of our time create new class relations? Perhaps this isn't your grandparents capitalism we are now living in. Perhaps there are intra-class struggles within the ruling class for which we do not yet have good social maps. Perhaps there are new kinds of class formation outside the ruling class. What do the new relations of communication mean for the creation of art and culture? -------------------------------------------------------- McKenzie Wark is the author of Telesthesia (Polity 2012), The Beach Beneath the Street (Verso 2011), Gamer Theory (Harvard 2007) and A Hacker Manifesto (Harvard 2004). He is professor of culture and media at the New School for Social Research and Eugene Lang College in New York City.

The Bay Area Leadership Network of Color (BALNC) is proud to offer scholarships to professionals in the Bay Area nonprofit, government or socially responsible business sectors to attend our two day training scheduled for Friday, November 30th and Friday, December 7th.

Seeking submissions from essayists and literary journalists on interracial interaction in neighborhoods. What keeps some communities together and some apart? As some communities become global (like Vallejo, Stockton and Oakland/Fremont/Hayward) and others maintain patterns of segregation like Detroit, Milwaukee, Newark and Boston, what are the patterns of interaction and communication? How does this affect our understanding of racial and ethnic identity? Please send a 150-300 word abstract by the deadline to vwagner@sfsu.edu and ywilson@sfsu.edu.

Because of the national scope of this exciting event, Paper Tiger Television is sending out a call to filmmakers across America for documentation of the various protests. We are looking for interviews with employees participating in the walk-out and footage of Black Friday demonstrations in your hometown. How to participate? You can send us: An edited video under 5 minutes that documents the day or the organizing leading to this event in your hometown or region. - or - Unedited footage with descriptive text. We will share submitted videos through our distribution platforms online and in Public Access channels in Manhattan and Brooklyn, as well as edit footage into a longer piece that weaves together the stories accross the country. Everyone will receive credit for their work and submitted footage. Paper tiger is a volunteer run video collective. We will not be generating profit from this project and thus we cannot offer any compensation for footage.

On November 26, the Bay Area will honor the very best in local, independent, Black media. Willie Ratcliff, publisher of the SF Bay View Newspaper will be turning 80 years old, Kevin Weston of the Globe Newspaper, a longtime journalist in the area is battling leukemia, and the People's Minister of Information JR Valrey, of the Block Report and the SF Bay View is recovering from a gun shot wound, so as you can see it has been a rough year but we still will be celebrating life and resistance. Other media-makers who will be participating include Davey D of KPFA, film-maker Kevin Epps, Greg Bridges of KPFA and KCSM, Wanda Sabir of the SF Bay View, Veronica Faissant of KPFA, and Donald Lacy of KPOO, just to name a few. Music for the evening will be provided by jazz extraordinaire Phavia Kujichagulia, jazz rapper Do D.A.T., and Bay Area rap legend Mac Mall. Buy your tickets now, this will be sure to sell out.

David Cay Johnston, a reporter for The New York Times for thirteen years and now a columnist for Reuters, is the author of Perfectly Legal and Free Lunch - both New York Times' bestsellers. He is also the president of Investigative Reporters and Editors, and the recipient of a Pulitzer Prize. In The Fine Print, he reveals just how major corporations work with the government to relax rules, re-write regulations, and enforce only the rules that benefit them. All of this is done without the consumer's Knowledge, and it costs every American family money they cannot afford to lose.

Protest & Action at the Berkeley Marine Corps officer recruiting center 2019 Shattuck ave on November 27th at 12pm noon!

The Haight Ashbury Neighborhood Council (HANC) has operated Kezar Gardens Ecology Center, the longest-running recycling center in San Francisco, since the 1970s. But due to land-use pressures from local neighbors, San Francisco's Recreation and Park Department has plans to evict HANC and replace it with a community garden. The eviction of the recycling center will negatively impact local businesses and reduce the effectiveness of San Francisco's sustainable recycling program. Causes.com is hosting a discussion with the Save Kezar Gardens organizer, Soumyaa Kapil Behrens, neighborhood stakeholders, and other Bay Area activists and organizations to collaborate on the campaign to keep the ecology center. This discussion will be a great opportunity to learn more about California's recycling laws and the impact they have on local communities.

It's hard to imagine it's already November, but it is, which means it's time to think about planning for 2013 (if you aren't already).

Learn how the relief program works, who qualifies and how to apply for it. Help give your audiences information that could get real dollars in their pockets to compensate for unfair foreclosure proceedings.

As a gay child of straight parents, Andrew Solomon was born with a condition that was considered an illness, but it became a cornerstone of his identity. While reporting on the explosion of Deaf pride in the 1990s, he began to consider illness and identity as a continuum with shifting boundaries. Spurred by the disability-rights movement and empowered by the Internet, communities with such “horizontal identities” are challenging expectations and norms. Their stories begin in families coping with extreme difference: dwarfism, Down syndrome, autism, multiple severe disabilities, or prodigious genius; children conceived in rape, or who identify as transgender; children who develop schizophrenia or commit serious crimes. The adage asserts that the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree, but in Solomon’s explorations, some apples fall on the other side of the world.

Around the globe young women are in the forefront of student battles and, with City College of San Francisco in crisis, this Radical Women meeting features a discussion on why public education is a feminist issue.

Benefit for the San Francisco Living Wage Coalition

TransForm believes that high speed rail has the potential to reinforce cities as the hubs of our economy, relieve congested roads, plus help California meet clean air and greenhouse gas reduction goals. Yet it also has an enormous price tag, is being slapped by lawsuits and has generated opposition in cities and farms alike. (Read more in TransForm's June 2012 report). Join Dan Richard, Chair of the California High Speed Rail Authority, Elizabeth Alexis from Californians Advocating Responsible Rail Design; and Marian Lee from Caltrain for a lively discussion on overcoming some of the most confounding issues facing the project and addressing community concerns. Sponsored by TransForm and the California Association of Environmental Professionals, this event will be on Thursday, November 29 at San Jose State University. The event includes light snacks and networking starting at 6:00 p.m.

"Measuring the Networked Nonprofit," co-authored by Beth Kanter and KD Paine, is an entertaining and useful book about two processes that nonprofits need for success in a networked age: To become networked and to understand and use measurement. Join us for an informal lunchtime chat with blogger and trainer Beth Kanter as she shares ideas from her new book on how measurement can truly help your nonprofit change the world. You'll receive a copy of her book. The session ends with a booksigning.

In Hot & Heavy, Tovar rallies together a bold group of women who open up about their desires, struggles, and internal dialogues as they learn to embrace and exalt their womanly curves. Hot & Heavy celebrates the many fabulous aspects of being fat-building fat-positive spaces, putting together fat-friendly wardrobes, learning how their bodies inform their personal politics, and creating supportive, inclusive communities. The contributors offer a diverse set of viewpoints, revealing a complex set of fat-positive beliefs and desires.

TEDxFiDiWomen is an individually organized TEDx event taking place in San Francisco and held in conjunction with TEDxWomen in Washington DC on November 30th, 2012. This event brings together female leaders, thinkers and doers to share real ideas and solutions to issues impacting women worldwide.

Direct action in S.F. targeting billionaire real estate mogul Richard Blum (husband of U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein). Noon Rally & March down Montgomery to a 2nd Rally at Sen.Feinstein’s office at Market/Montgomery/Post.

RootsCamp isn’t your everyday gathering; it’s an “unconference.” Instead of pre-set powerpoints and “expert” panels, participants design sessions and decide the program. The idea is to bring together progressives of all stripes as equals, and have an honest exchange of ideas. When we learn from one another, we take away new ideas, make new connections, and strengthen our work. In the past, participants have come from all over the country, and even around the globe. We’ve had senior staff from national campaigns conversing with first time organizers from a local ballot initiative, and labor organizers from Wisconsin trading battle stories with labor organizers from Dublin. It’s also a rare opportunity for D.C. insiders to interact directly with people fighting on the front lines, and a unique space to begin an honest discussion about what worked, what didn’t, and how we grow stronger together.

From signs of an emerging police state, to NATO war crimes in Libya, and FBI responsibility for a majority of terrorist plots in the US, the 2013 edition of Censored: Dispatches from the Media Revolution reports the News That Didn't Make the News and analyzes why. The book's additional chapters include original analysis on drones and targeted killing, "GuatánamoSpeak," the democracy movement in Kashmir, corporate education "reform," the status of Iraqi refugees, the 1970 Kent State massacre, and the global network of the ruling 1%. Each chapter deconstructs the official narratives and propagandized news frames featured in corporate news coverage. Censored 2013 also includes the latest on Junk Food News and News Abuse and updates from last year’s top censored stories.

A fun, fast-paced, feature-length documentary journey through the local food movement that’s taking root in the San Francisco Bay Area, across the nation and around the world. Edible City introduces a diverse cast of local experts and pioneers who are challenging the paradigm of our broken food system and creating models for healthy, local food systems. The movie digs deep into their unique perspectives and transformative work – from edible education to grassroots activism to building local economies.

Selma James, women’s rights and anti-racist activist, author and international coordinator of the Global Women’s Strike, is returning to the SF Bay Area December 2st and 3rd. Called “one of the key political thinkers and activists of our times,” Selma’s work has addressed the power relations within the working class movement, and organizing across sectors despite divisions of sex, race, age, etc., South and North. Building on her well-received tour last spring on the publication of her book Sex, Race and Class, The Perspective of Winning -- A Selection of Writings, 1952-2011, Selma’s visit here is part of a tour in the US and Canada to help build the grassroots movement for change and launch the campaign to eliminate child poverty and value care giving.

Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines traces the fascinating evolution and legacy of Wonder Woman. From the birth of the comic book superheroine in the 1940s to the blockbusters of today,Wonder Women! looks at how popular representations of powerful women often reflect society's anxieties about women's liberation. The International Museum of Women is pleased to present a Salon Speaker Series event featuring Wonder Women! director Kristy Guevara-Flanagan in conversation with comics writer and expert Trina Robbins, and moderated by IMOW executive director Clare Winterton. Join us to see clips from the film and hear how the "Wonder Woman" TV series became Guevara-Flanagan's initial inspiration for the documentary.

Please join Build It Green and our special guest, Assemblymember Nancy Skinner, for a lively evening with the sustainable building community! Enjoy drinks, hors d'oeuvres, and music, and participate in our silent auction and raffle at Build It Green's annual celebration and fundraiser.

In this exclusive screening of Fixing the Future, David Brancaccio (of public radio’s Marketplace and NOW on PBS) visits people across America using innovative approaches to create jobs, build sustainability and reinvent the American economy. Wine and beer reception begins at 6pm with baked goods provided by local bakery Arizmendi. Movie screening begins at 7pm. Please join us to meet new people, share ideas and just have a good time!

The tragedy of 9/11 didn't stop when the Twin Towers fell. Targeting accelerated, and the victims are still being created. Nicoletta Karam has written the definitive book on the forgotten victims of 9/11. This book is an attempt to document that this backlash did occur, and was much worse and much longer in duration than many Americans realize. Come celebrate the release of this much needed analysis of the 9/11 backlash of violent hate crimes upon diverse groups of people by racist nativist elements in the population

We invite our friends and the local bay area community to join with AIM and AIM-WEST, on the special occasion honoring the life, and passing of Russell Means,

Journalists who contribute to ethnic media outlets throughout California are invited to apply for the all-expenses-paid California Endowment Health Journalism Fellowship at USC Annenberg School of Journalism in Los Angeles. This prestigious mini fellowship provides journalists with an opportunity to hone their reporting skills and learn new ways of thinking about community health throughworkshops, field trips, and discussions with nationally renowned health experts, community health leaders, top journalists, and each other. The fellowship will meet from Feb. 24-28, 2013 in Los Angeles. All expenses for travel and accommodation are covered. Fellows are paired with senior journalists who mentor them via phone and e-mail while they work on reporting projects over the next six months. California-based journalists or journalists who are based elsewhere but contribute to California-based publications are eligible.

JVS is a non-profit organization with free services for job seekers: Join us for a "50+ Job Search Panel," where former JVS clients who found work after 50 will come and speak to current clients about the job search and how they succeeded.