Please join the International Justice Resource Center, the Center for Justice and Accountability and Amnesty International USA for a happy hour get-together in celebration of Human Rights Day.

Just over a year ago, ACCE Members launched a campaign to unite our diverse communities and bring greater accountability to Wall Street Banks by re-occupying and saving families homes. Together with our allies, we sustained a movement that kept families from being put out on the streets by mobilizing thousands in the streets. Join us for an evening of music, food, stories, solidarity and much more at the Foreclosure Fighter Year End Celebration.

Are you an activist, cultural creative, or group facilitator collecting tools for your toolkit? Have you sought new ways to connect with your constituencies and your colleagues? Have you or other members of your team experienced burnout, struggled with communication, or had difficulty resolving conflict? Are you open to investigating new strategies and learning from your peers?

The San Francisco Bay Area Wikipedia Women's Edit-a-Thon 3 will be hosted by the California League of Women Voters, Wiki Strategies, and Tech Liminal. It will be at Tech Liminal's co-working space in Oakland on the afternoon of Saturday, December 15, 2012. Wikipedians of all experience levels are welcome to join us! There will be a workshop for beginners from 1–2pm; more experienced editors should join us from 2–5pm. We will focus on women and democracy, but you are welcome to work on any wiki articles you like. Come one, come all!

A workshop to examine structural disenfranchisement in Oakland connecting public space, private property, policing and resistance. Participants will leave with an understanding of how land privatization has shaped Oakland, knowledge of historical tactics to reclaim and reuse land for communities, and how resisting gentrification can build healthier and safer communities.

Our Truth: An evening of Native Arts Partnered with Malinalli Press' Anthology Turtle Island to Abya Yala *Interview Film Premiere *Jewelry by Cynthia *Poetry Reading & Open Mic *Light refreshments/Potluck

We will be celebrating our gains and victories this year, and reuniting to continue the fight. Our work in 2012 included campaigning for legislation to improve and expand the Community Jobs Program, and administering the SF Green Jobs Corps, a job training program.

"As this storm has shown, those who will bear the brunt of extreme weather in the future will be those who are already struggling to survive. Those without power in society--the poor and working- class people of color inhabiting New York's outlying areas--have been stranded without electrical power. Sandy has lifted the lid off the inequality that already existed in New York City. What quiet failures of justice in our society will be revealed next by the effects of climate change remain to be seen."--Peter Rugh, a facilitator for Occupy Wall Street Environmental Solidarity, describes the effects of Sandy. In the context of environmental and economic crisis, capitalism has shown that people at the bottom will continue to suffer. As global warming continues and as the storms continue to intensify, it's clear that we need a "system change, not climate change".

A call for nominations for the 2013 Oak Human Rights Fellowship, sponsored by the Oak Institute for the Study of InternationalHuman Rights at Colby College in Waterville, Maine. The fellowship is a one-semester appointment as a scholar-in-residence. It is designed to provide human rights practitioners doing "on-the-ground" work at some level of personal risk a respite from front-line duties to enable them to reflect, write, and communicate their work to our campus community

Join us for an afternoon of Holiday Networking Build Solid Connections for the New Year with BCM!!

This special guest presenter, who has traveled extensively in Palestine, will report on the recent military escalation by Israel which has killed and wounded over a thousand people in Gaza since mid-November. Kaufmyn is a City College educator of Jewish heritage who will also discuss the role of the U.S. and of Zionism in the ongoing conflict. Learn more about the growing boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israeli apartheid and bring your ideas for ways to support the Palestinian liberation struggle. Palestinian crafts and olive oil will be available for purchase. Everyone is welcome.

Diverse Voices in Docs is a professional development and mentorship program for emerging documentary filmmakers of color, organized by Kartemquin Films and the Community Film Workshop of Chicago.

Join noted author and activist Angela Davis with Adam and Jeralynn Blueford in honoring Alan Blueford for what would have been his nineteenth birthday. Alan was murdered by OPD officer Miguel Masso on May 6, 2012, just weeks before he was to graduate from Skyline High School in Oakland. This event will bring together family members of victims of police brutality with important activists from across the country to both honor our fallen youth and chart a course for stopping the epidemic of racial profiling and police abuse especially targeting Black and Brown communities.

Celebrate the paperback release of Frank Bardacke’s acclaimed book, 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. Bardacke will read from, discuss, and sign books.

Based at USC's Annenberg School of Journalism, the all-expenses-paid Fellowship is open to print, broadcast, and online journalists from California, or those based elsewhere who contribute to California media outlets. Both newsroom staffers and freelance contributors are encouraged to apply. And it's not just health reporters we're looking for. We welcome applications from any journalists with a serious interest in exploring community health. To encourage collaboration between mainstream and ethnic media, preference will be given to applicants who propose a joint project for use by both media outlets.

Maggots and Men tells the story of the 1921 rebellion of the Kronstadt sailors against the Bolshevik government, and an imagined love story between their leader, Stepan Petrichenko and another sailor. “Set in a mythologized post-revolutionary Russia but based on actual historical events, Maggots marshals early Soviet cinema, the gutter erotics of Jean Genet, and what at times seems like a transgender cast of thousands to build its case for the necessity of queer utopias. dir. Cary Cronenwett, 2009, 54 min, (in Russian & English)” – Matt Sussman, SF Bay Guardian, 2009

The Torchlight Prize was established by the Family Independence Initiative to recognize and reward groups of families, friends, or community members that have self-organized to strengthen their communities or neighborhoods. We invite you to nominate a group for the 2013 Tochlight Prize. Up to four winners will receive $10,000. The deadline for nominations is December 21st, 2012.

Join an all women immersion extravaganza for a feast of the senses and ceremonial celebration this New Year's Eve. The 13 Siren Artists and Healers weave their magic creating an unique celebration. This collaborative creation, begins with a shared meal followed by a spiritual cabaret of music, burlesque, rituals, games, chanting, dance, spell, storytelling, drumming and closes with Midnight Ritual "Bells & Flames" ending in Dancing. This SCENT & ALCOHOL FREE event, in an ADA compliant venue, near BART, also comes with a choice of attending the event in full or part.

Bring: A candle or flashlight. Some honoring songs or short poems. Bring yourself and friends. Let us not forget these victims of violence.Please spread the word among friends All rape is violent. All rape must end

QWOCMAP's Filmmaker Training Program demystifies the art of filmmaking and equips you with the skills to tell the story you want to tell. Spring 2013 applications are due Friday, January 4th by 5pm. This workshop is offered to: African Descent/Black, Asian, Chicana/Latina, Native American/ Indigenous/First Nations, Pacific Islander, Southwest Asian, North African/Arab, Middle Eastern, Muslim, South Asian and Mixed-Race, Who Are Lesbians, Same-Gender-Loving, Two-Spirit, Bisexual, Queer, Questioning women of color and genderqueer, gender nonconforming and transgender people of color. Workshops available for youth 18-25 and adults.

The Celebration of Howard Wallace's life featuring Dolores Huerta. Howard represented Health Care Workers SEIU Local 250 on the steering committee of the San Francisco Living Wage Coalition as a founding member.

The Pipe follows a West of Ireland crab fisherman, 'The Chief', whose life is flung into turmoil by the arrival of Shell Oil in the bay where his family have fished for generations, and in a desperate attempt to protect his livelihood, he steers his 40 foot crab boat directly into confrontation with the worlds largest pipe-laying vessel, Solitaire. The Pipe is a story of a community tragically divided, and how they deal with a pipe that could bring economic prosperity or destruction to a way of life shared for generations.

This core class offers hands on training with 3 chip digital video cameras, microphones, mixers, monitors, and lighting kits for your productions shot on location. Learn shooting techniques and use of accessories to produce high quality video and audio. We'll also discuss equipment safety and check out procedures. Students will be given projects to complete during the class culminating in a final group project. We will be using the Sony PD-150 and PD-170 cameras.

The James Madison Freedom of Information Awards recognize Northern California organizations and individuals who have made significant contributions to advancing freedom of information and expression in the spirit of James Madison, the creative force behind the First Amendment. SPJ NorCal presents the awards during National Freedom of Information Week near Madison’s birthday, March 16.

Truly CA showcases documentaries about California in two formats: Truly CA: Our State, Our Stories is a television broadcast series airing monthly on Sundays at 6pm. Truly CA Shorts is a web-only companion series featuring new downloadable short documentaries (30 minutes or less) every other month. Truly CA films must be about California in some way--not just taking place in California. The films must also be primarily shot in California, and preferably made by California's talented, independent, documentary filmmakers.

We are calling for entries for work published or aired in an ethnic media organization of any size serving an ethnic/newcomer community in Southern California -- between October 1, 2011 and December 1, 2012 [within Oct. 1, 2011-Dec. 31, 2011, Jan. 2012-Dec. 1, 2012].

Multimedia journalism training conference for the ethnic media, community media and nonprofit organizations interested in producing media.

Siren welcomes all Bay Area Women to be part of an Information Session and Community Dialogue that will give shape to Siren's all women arts, wellness and educational programs and events throughout 2013.

Hunger strikes, forced feedings, indefinite detention for life? Obama, the whole world is watching! There are currently 86 detainees that have been legally cleared for release, but are still being held indefinitely! 166 detainees totally are still at Guantanamo. Obama promised to close Guantanamo in his first year. Yet, he just signed the NDAA which adds even further restrictions on the ability to obtain transfers for Guantanamo prisoners! Secret Black sites and extraordinary rendition continue. SHAME! Noon: Gather at either the Marin and SF sides of the eastern walkway, march to middle to converge for silent vigil and rememberance.

This class will introduce you to the world of non-linear editing using Apple's Final Cut Pro. You will learn different editing styles and in the process, acquire the skills needed to edit your own project. Final Cut Pro is a world famous Mac based application that has become the industry standard for film makers such as the Coen brothers and Walter Murch. This workshop certifies you to make reservations in our editing lab.

A Knight Fellowship is invigorating and productive – for fellows and for journalism. Each year, 20-plus journalists from all over the world come together for 10 months of learning, collaborating, creating and fun. They are among the most adventurous, optimistic and motivated people working in journalism today. They have a unique opportunity to draw on the richness of knowledge and experience at Stanford University and in Silicon Valley.

A film which explores the history and social significance of soul food to black cultural identity and its effect on African American health, good and bad. Soul food will also be used as the lens to investigate the dark side of the food industry and the growing food justice movement that has been born in its wake.

MCCLA gallery department is proud to present "Esperando la llegada del Alba". The exhibition is the result of a work with Bay Area residents representative of the Latino cultural diversity. It addresses the question of community while nurturing the talent of non-professional participants and places them at the center of the creative process based upon the cooperation between acclaimed international artists Moise Touré and Francis Viet, local talent Kiazad Ehya, Tomo Saito, and the non-professional performers who have participated in the year-long adventure.

A key focus of this gathering will be how to reach and engage ALL neighbors including lower income, immigrant, diverse, etc. neighbors. Neighbors Online Networking - Bay Area and Beyond - Who is doing what locally? Multiple tools and models from around the world. Inclusive Community Engagement Online - Stories and lessons you can adapt and use in your own community are emerging from the world's largest effort to inclusively connect 10,000+ diverse neighbors online in St. Paul, Minnesota by 2014. Whether a neighborhood has a YahooGroup from a decade ago, a local neighborhood parent group on Facebook, or a private e-block group on NextDoor, the goal of deep inclusion and connecting neighbors *across diversity* is something we will discuss. This will also be an opportunity to learn what is already happening on the ground in San Francisco to bridge diverse local communities with social media so we can share those stories via our national outreach.

The battle to win reproductive rights for all continues. Radical Women looks at the impact of four decades of the landmark Roe v. Wade Supreme Court ruling on the lives of women,particularly women of color.

Free trade is one of the sacred cows in American economic policy. But as our $500 billion a year trade deficit continues, people are asking whether it deserves this status. The principles of economics that underlie free trade are controversial, and some of the most recent economic models question its soundness as policy. Fletcher will look at what economic history really says about free trade, and what some rational alternatives might be.

The Singapore Creative Writing Residency is open to writers of all stripes and any nationality. Jointly organised by the National University of Singapore’s University Scholars Programme (NUS USP) and The Arts House (TAH), the Singapore Creative Writing Residency 2013 aims to: a) provide time, opportunity and environment for the Resident to complete a written work in the English language of substantial length and content;

The INSTITUTE 2013 is a 3-day introductory organizing training for young organizers, young member leaders, and youth organizers from across the country. Participants will come together to build their skills, exchange lessons learned, and strategize to fight and win justice for our communities. We'll develop a solid and systematic orientation to the fundamentals of organizing, including base-building, campaign strategy, and leadership development. Rooted in current youth struggles, the INSTITUTE will provide a unique space for emerging leaders to engage with the challenges and opportunities of the current moment, to advance our organizations and to build a stronger movement. Participants will receive SOUL's youth organizing curriculum manual, as well as breakfast and lunch for all three days. Training fees range from $150 to $640, and are determined on a sliding scale based on organizational budget. The training fee does not cover lodging expenses. Lodging options in the area can range from $45-90 per night per person. Feel free to contact us if you have questions regarding accommodations. Space for the Institute is limited, so please apply early! Your application will be considered complete once you have submitted BOTH the organizational application AND the individual application online by January 18th, 2013. Individual applicants from the same organization only need to submit 1 organizational application.

Learn what to do before 911 arrives in communities that experience street and/or domestic violence and are neglected by the system.

Please join the California Writers Club, Berkeley Branch to learn more about technology resources for writers. David Mitroff, business consultant, social media expert--will talk about optimizing marketing techniques and resources for writers

The 28th Annual Empowering Women of Color Conference, “Labor of Love, Labor of Sorrow: Bodies and Souls Building Life,” seeks to honor a multiplicity of women’s experiences around labor. As women of color, our journeys are marked by stretches of struggle and moments of victory. We seek to honor labor across generations: our mothers, grandmothers, and caregivers whose souls and bodies gave us life

The Attitudinal Healing Connection presents the 15th annual holiday celebration in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Make the Dream Real 2013. This free community event will take place at McClymonds High School (2607 Myrtle St., Oakland, CA) on Monday, January 21, 2012 from 10am – 12 noon, with a delicious food justice meal from People’s Grocery following.

Make your own TV shows or films in our full-service Large Studio, the biggest studio in the East Bay! Or, choose our simple and easy to use Express Studio which can be operated by just one technician. This 4-part class will show you the basics of all aspects of studio production, from camera and lighting to audio and graphics. Take turns on crew positions as you produce actual shows.

Werner Schroeter (West Germany, 1973). Actor Ila von Hasperg in person. Introduced by Tom Luddy. Three women turn an abandoned shack in the Mojave Desert into a kind of Charles Manson commune in Schroeter's "meditation on the new feminism in America," compared to Fassbinder and Robert Altman. With Schroeter's split-screen short Argila (1969). (112 mins)

Post-election, everyone is focusing on how to create a robust economy. Twenty-four-year CIA veteran Goodman argues that American military spending makes us poorer and less secure while undermining our global political standing. Drawing on his first-hand experience with war planners and intelligence strategists, Goodman offers an insider's critique of the U.S. military economy from President Eisenhower's farewell warning to President Obama's military expansion. He outlines a vision for how to alter our military policy, practices and spending to better position the U.S. globally and enhance prosperity and security at home.

This kinetic, colorful modern-day city symphony follows a young Egyptian who discovers a vibrant underground culture of skateboarders, hip-hop musicians, and graffiti artists. “Highly radical in the context of contempo Egyptian and Arabic cinema” (Robert Koehler). With a magical short, The Journey of Stones (Seydou Cissé, Mali, 2012). (131 mins)

Wenonah Hauter, Executive Director of Food & Water Watch, is one of the nation’s leading healthy food advocates. She has worked extensively on food, water, energy, and environmental issues at the national, state and local level. Experienced in developing policy positions and legislative strategies, she is also an accomplished organizer who served from 1997 to 2005 as Director of Public Citizen, Energy and Environment Program. Prior to that she was environmental policy director for Citizen Action, and a senior organizer at the Union of Concerned Scientists. She runs an organic farm in Virginia that provides healthy vegetables to more than 500 families in the Washington, D.C. area. She contends that the local food movement is not enough to solve America’s food crisis and the ensuing public health debacle it has created. In Foodopoly she aims at the real villain: the massive consolidation and corporate control of food production, currently preventing farmers from raising healthy crops, and limits the choices people can make

A groundbreaking work of investigative journalism, The Terror Factory: Inside the FBI's Manufactured War on Terror shows how the FBI has, under the guise of engaging in counterterrorism since 9/11, built a network of more than fifteen thousand informants whose primary purpose is to infiltrate Muslim communities to create and facilitate phony terrorist plots so that the bureau can then claim victory in the War on Terror.

A joint meeting of the faculty and student-led Save CCSF group to help plan a militant, inclusive fightback that Freedom Socialist Party and Radical Women believe should be aimed at supporting the folks at the bottom.

J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism and the McCormick Foundation are seeking to fund four women-led media projects that show promise in creativity and sustainability. We will fund U.S.-based individuals who have original ideas to create new websites, mobile news services or other entrepreneurial initiatives that offer interactive opportunities to engage, inspire and improve news and information in a geographic community or a community of interest. The McCormick New Media Women Entrepreneurs award provides $14,000 in funding to women who have the vision, skills and experience to launch a new venture.

Wilentz looks back and forward at the country: at its slave plantations, its unthinkable revolutionary history, its kick-up-the-dirt guerrilla movements, its troubled relationship to the U.S., the totalitarian dynasty that ruled for decades, as well as its creative culture, its ancient African traditions and attitudes, and its uncanny resilience.

Scientists, policymakers, business leaders, journalists—all seek to harness the deluge of data generated by the minute through sensing networks and social media. Aided by the increasing availability of high-speed Internet, wireless networks, and mobile devices, people with access to multimedia tools contribute to these data flows both intentionally and inadvertently. Apps can now map the flow of traffic, rivers, and wind; social media sites chart the pulse of user sentiment; the online marketplace provides instant measures of economic activity; and online education platforms bring their own stream of information and feedback loops.

Radical Women calls on supporters of women's rights to oppose anti-abortion demonstrators as they march through downtown San Francisco to mark the 40th anniversary of the historic Roe v Wade Supreme Court decision. Bring chants and picket signs!

Adam Mansbach, the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Go the F**k to Sleep, returns with a fearless new novel about a too-wise kid and the father who left him, the price of revenge and the greatest graffiti stunt New York City has ever seen.

Monica Wangu Wamwere, the mother of a detained human rights activist, and her unceasing search for justice in Kenya are movingly detailed in this spirited documentary portrait. With an animated short about a Nigerian asylum seeker, Lack of Evidence (Hayoun Kwon, France, 2011). (80 mins)

Foundations play a critical role in advancing the work of human rights activists around the world. From ensuring the right to political participation in new democracies to supporting equality for LGBTQ people to securing girls’ right to education, foundations globally are supporting efforts to ensure that the rights of all people are promoted and protected. Please join us for an in-depth exploration of current trends in human rights grantmaking based on a forthcoming report from the Foundation Center and the International Human Rights Funders Group. Advancing Human Rights: The State of Global Foundation Grantmaking will be the first-ever examination of human rights funding by over 700 foundations located in 29 countries with giving totaling $1.2 billion in 2010. This overview of the state of human rights grantmaking will be followed by a panel discussion with leading human rights funders on their giving priorities and the challenges and opportunities facing grantmakers working in the field of human rights. Presented by: Christen Dobson, Program Manager, Policy and Research, International Human Rights Funders Group and Steven Lawrence, Director of Research, Foundation Center. Funder panelists: · Kate Kroeger, Executive Director, Urgent Action Fund for Women’s Human Rights · Caitlin Stanton, Senior Program Officer, Global Fund for Women

Nonprofits know that social media is now a “must do.” However, they often struggle to develop an over-arching social media strategy and specific goals that are measurable, actionable, and realistic. Another big challenge is to stay on top of the ever-evolving array of social media platforms and tools and choose appropriate ones for the organization’s strategy.

On February 21, 2012, five members of a Russian feminist punk collective Pussy Riot staged a performance in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow. Dressed in brightly colored tights and balaclavas, they performed their "Punk Prayer" asking the Virgin Mary to drive out Russian president Vladimir Putin from the church. After just forty seconds, they were chased out by security. Once a retooled video of the events circulated on YouTube (edited to seem much longer than the actual performance), the state was riled into action. Three members of the collective, Maria Alyokhina, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, and Yekaterina Samutsevich, known as Masha, Nadya, and Katya, were arrested and charged with felony hooliganism motivated by religious hatred, an offense carrying a sentence of up to seven years. As their trial unfolded, these young women became global feminist icons, garnering the attention and support of activists and artists around the world, including Madonna, Paul McCartney, and Sting, as well as contributors to this book: Yoko Ono, Johanna Fateman, Karen Finley, Justin Vivian Bond, Eileen Myles, and JD Samson. The Internet exploded with petitions, music videos, and calls to action, and as the guilty verdict was anticipated, Pussy Riot responded with articulate, unwavering courtroom statements, calling for freedom of expression, an end to economic and gender oppression, and a separation of church and state. They were sentenced to two years in prison, and inspired a global movement. Collected here are the words that roused the world.

Since 1991, BAVC's MediaMaker Awards have provided in-kind training and post-production grants for independent artists with a particular focus on supporting emerging artists and underserved communities. The Awards were designed to give independent artists direct access to the latest digital media technologies and prepare them for broadcast on public television with focused digital and multiplatform strategies for community engagement. BAVC selects between six and eight fellows annually. We are extremely proud of our past MediaMaker award winners and are honored to have played a role in their development, completion, broadcast, distribution, and audience impact.

How do we write the history of a new medium and what constitutes its materiality: the technological apparatus, the epistemic conditions of its gradual emergence and evolution, or its appropriation and use in specific cultural practices? Various approaches within the field of media history have adopted an exclusive focus on one of these realms. This talk, by contrast, sets out to develop a new model of media archaeology that examines the mutual constitution of these different materialities. -------------------------------------------------------- Stefan Andriopoulos is chair of the Department of Germanic Languages at Columbia University. He is the author of Possessed: Hypnotic Crimes, Corporate Fiction, and the Invention of Cinema (University of Chicago Press, 2008), which won the 2009 SLSA Michelle Kendrick award for best academic book on literature, science, and the arts. His new book Ghostly Apparitions: German Idealism, the Gothic Novel, and Optical Media is forthcoming with Zone Books in Fall 2013. He has co-edited a special issue of Grey Room "On Brainwashing: Mind Control, Media, and Warfare," and his articles have appeared in such journals as Critical Inquiry, Representations, and English Literary History. Stefan Andriopoulos has held visiting professorships at Harvard University, in the Department of the History of Science, and at Cologne University, in the Research Institute "Media, Culture, Communication." He serves as co-chair of the executive committee for an emerging Ph.D. program in Film and Comparative Media at Columbia University.

This March Lip Service West, a literary arts nonprofit that runs a regular reading series in Berkeley, is putting together a reading fundraiser event featuring all-women writers in honor of International Women's Day and we’re looking for writers to submit their stories! We want to hear from you. 1,500 words or less, true stories, and for this event we are looking to highlight women and women's issues. Submit your story at www.lipservicewest.com (add a note in the submission that this is the event you are submitting your story for and a little about yourself is always nice too). Please spread the word to your writer friends! The event will be a benefit for Motivating, Inspiring, Supporting, and Serving Sexually Exploited Youth (MISSSEY), a non-profit that advocates and facilitates the empowerment and inner transformation of sexually exploited youth by holistically addressing their specific needs. MISSSEY collaborates to bring about systemic and community change to prevent the sexual exploitation of children and youth through raising awareness, education and policy development.

Celebrate StoryCorps' 4th year anniversary in the Bay Area and our more than 2,500 interviews recorded here! The event will feature StoryCorps founder Dave Isay and classic NPR programs.

Films must be 10 minutes or shorter in length, and submitted as QuickTime H264. DVD's may be either hand delivered or mailed to be received by Friday February 1, 2013 with the entry form and release form completed for each performer. East Bay Express Attn: Terry Furry 620-3rd Street Oakland, CA 94607

A weekend-long event where people craft richer stories. Join 80 programmers, art directors, film producers, game designers, developers, advertisers - to form multidisciplinary teams and build prototype transmedia experiences, all in 54 hours. Tie-in multiple platforms and media to make your universe richer and immersive, enjoy advice by coaches from the media and tech industries, and pitch your project to a jury of industry luminaries from Lucasfilm, AKQA, IDEO.org to win the Prize!

One goal of the Greenpeace training program is to spread skills in a variety of direct action techniques throughout the activist world with the idea that the more skilled and experienced activists there are in our shared movements, the better for all. We recognize the fact that most, if not all, meaningful social movements throughout history have been conceived, organized, and orchestrated from the ground up by front-line communities. We also see how the environmental activist movement has often failed to be inclusive and supportive of these very same communities. As a larger, well resourced activist organization, Greenpeace would like to be a part of changing this dynamic by supporting all communities through offering direct action skills trainings, resource development, and bringing different activist communities together by creating a safe and inclusive space for skill sharing and learning.

Strike Debt is building a movement to challenge this system while creating alternatives and supporting each other. At the Debtors’ Assembly we will come together as a community and begin to rethink debt, not as an issue of individual shame, but as a political platform for collective resistance and action. Come to the Assembly to learn about tools for escaping the closing walls of debt, to share resources and skills, and to magnify our voices. As we share our experiences we can begin to take back from the financiers what they have taken from us: our freedom and our future.

The complex history of Sudan, from its establishment in 1956 to its partition in 2011, is detailed through interviews, rare archival footage, and the personal experiences of one mixed-race family. “An eye-opening account of an issue that hasn’t received nearly enough international attention”(Rolling Stone). With short Farewell Exile (Lamia Alami, Morocco, 2011). (107 mins)

Join the NaNoWriMo Young Writers Programs at the annual 'Thank Goodness It's Over' reading for an opportunity to support, encourage, and celebrate the incredible artistry of the youth in our community. In November, nearly 100,000 young writers took part in NaNoWriMo's rapidly growing YWP, a challenge that asks kids and teens to write an entire novel, from scratch, in the month of November. This event has no entry fees, judges, or prizes. Participants write for the thrill of writing. This reading features students from participating classrooms throughout the Bay Area as they read short excerpts from their novels!

The Beatshop workshop will host 'Reason' and 'Ableton' Live. The class will cover a wide range of topics depending on skill level from DJing, producing, recording, synthesizer programming, drum programming, sampling and mixing.

Guetty Felin in person. Broken Stones observes everyday life as it resumes after the Haitian earthquake of 2010, amidst the ruins of the once beautiful and grand cathedral, affectionately called Notre Dame de Port-au-Prince. With Africa Shafted: Under One Roof, a portrait of the residents of Johannesburg’s tallest building (Ingrid Martens, South Africa, 2011). (117 mins)

Banganà shows the life of the Wodaabe nomadic herders through the eyes of two young women: Mooro, a young mother who had her first child, Jumaare, and Mariama, her cousin, a teenager who attends the school at Dakoro, a small town in the heart of Niger. This point of view of two young women takes us along the whole film. Banganà is the name of the wodaabe village where most of the filming was made. There is a well where the boys and the young men fetch the water which the girls put on the donkeys to take it to the camp. There is the everyday life made of care for the cows and the calves, of grinding the millet, the main food in the dry season, but also of fun. In the afternoon the girls gather together to chat of their life of young women, and in the night they meet to sing and dance together.

Inspired by the Chicago teachers’ strike and the Quebec students who won the repeal of tuition hikes, a movement to defend CCSF is growing. San Franciscans want and need CCSF to continue being a beacon of higher education for immigrants, women, people of color, queers, seniors, the unemployed, and working people. The faculty/staff and student coalitions have joined together to form a campus/community coalition to defend the college. All members of the Bay Area community are invited to attend to learn more about what’s happening at CCSF and to help plan the fightback. Bring your ideas!

As an entertainment lawyer Daniel is an expert on the landscape of media law. He will be presenting on issues that come up frequently at CMCM - questions about copyright, licensing and fair use. Other areas of media law that he will talk about are remix, new media, and the Internet.

In Cory Doctorow's wildly successful *Little Brother*, young Marcus Yallow was arbitrarily detained and brutalized by the government in the wake of a terrorist attack on San Francisco -- an experience that led him to become a leader of the whole movement of technologically clued-in teenagers, fighting back against the tyrannical security state. A few years later, California's economy collapses, but Marcus's hacktivist past lands him a job as webmaster for a crusading politician who promises reform. Soon his former nemesis Masha emerges from the political underground to gift him with a thumbdrive containing a Wikileaks-style cable-dump of hard evidence of corporate and governmental perfidy. It's incendiary stuff -- and if Masha goes missing, Marcus is supposed to release it to the world. Then Marcus sees Masha being kidnapped by the same government agents who detained and tortured Marcus years earlier. Fast-moving, passionate, and as current as next week, *Homeland* is every bit the equal of *Little Brother *--* *a paean to activism, to courage, to the drive to make the world a better place.

Screening of Michael Gondry's The We and The I and an opening night reception.

The NGLC program integrates transformational leadership with management skills all through a multicultural framework. Participants graduate from the 10-month program with the necessary confidence, leadership vision, and practical, senior level management skills to thrive in diverse organizations operating in challenging environments. Said one NGLC alumnus, it is “a safe haven for growth, healing, and examination of what it means to be a leader of color in the nonprofit sector.”

Please help us by nominating someone to be honored in the 31st Annual Everett C. Parker Ethics in Telecommunications Lecture and Awards Breakfast this fall. Together we will pay tribute to three individuals who exemplify Dr. Parker's achievements through the following three honors: Parker Lecturer The lecturer is a compelling public speaker who can provoke our best thinking about how to put the public interest first in media and telecommunications. Everett C. Parker Award In recognition of an individual whose work embodies the principles and values of the public interest in telecommunications and the media. Donald H. McGannon Award In recognition of special contributions in advancing the roles of women and people of color in the media.

Support ATA at this special benefit show featuring a roster of evocative intermedia artists working in sound/film performance. All proceeds from the show support Artists’ Television Access, the San Francisco-based, artist-run, non-profit organization that cultivates and promotes culturally-aware, underground media and experimental art. Featuring three film-music ensembles: Barn Owl and Paul Clipson Marielle Jakobsons and John Davis John Davis, Jefre Cantu-Ledesma and Paul Clipson

Western States Legal Foundation (WSLF) will be hosting its 30th anniversary gala, “Half Life: Celebrating 30 Years of Working for Peace and Disarmament,” with special guests: retiring Congressman Dennis Kucinich; “Pentagon Papers” whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg; journalist and San Francisco radio host Rose Aguilar; and invited guest Representative Barbara Lee, on February 10, 2013, at Oakland’s First Congregational Church.

Minda Martin (U.S., 2009). Minda Martin in person. Martin’s powerful, beautiful essay film traces her family history back to the forced Cherokee relocation of the 1800s and forward to her own nomadic childhood of poverty and homelessness. With two short portraits of families, Family Nightmare (Dustin Guy Defa, U.S., 2011) and Ah, Liberty! (Ben Rivers, U.K., 2008). (92 mins)

New America Media is offering a fellowship program for journalists covering immigrant women’s issues within the United States, with funding support from Atlantic Philanthropies and other organizations and individuals.

Werner Schroeter (West Germany, 1983). Schroeter's trip to the notorious Manila International Film Festival (dominated by Imelda Marcos) resulted in this "kaleidescope of a ravaged country." "A work beyond categorization, more a weave or flow of different beauties that lie therein" (Cinema Scope). (108 min)

The Thomas I. Yamashita Prize is awarded annually to an outstanding young social change activist in California. The award of $2,500 honors a person whose work transforms the existing social landscape and serves as a bridge between the academy and the community. An awardee helps to build the capacity of community-based organizations and social movements to confront pressing issues by applying her/his academic expertise. Simultaneously, she/he enriches academic scholarship by sharing the insights and knowledge produced from community engagement with the broader academic community. The award is not limited to students, but an honoree's work should reflect a commitment to strengthening ties between the academy and the community.

Use Policy for Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems Presented by: Commander Tom Wright, Alameda County Sheriff’s Office, Captain Tom Madigan, Alameda County Sheriff’s Office A) Protecting Privacy from Aerial Surveillance – 15 minutes Presented by: American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California, The Electronic Frontier Foundation B) Unmanned Aircraft Systems Free Zone – 5 minutes Presented by Alameda County Against Drones

Education nonprofit, World Savvy, is looking for contemporary and traditional artists of all kinds whose work is in conversation with topics related to the global theme of “Population & Progress”

Community Stories (previously the California Story Fund) is an ongoing, competitive grants program designed to support projects that document and share compelling stories from and about California’s diverse communities. Grant awards range up to $10,000 and a cash or in-kind match is required

Frameline's Generations Filmmaker Workshop is a FREE ten-week intergenerational workshop for beginning filmmakers. You will work collaboratively with other Bay Area LGBTQ youth and elders to write, script, cast, storyboard, shoot, and edit a short film that will screen at the 37th San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival June 20-30, 2013. Through hands-on exercises, you will learn how to make a movie from beginning to end – from using a digital video camera to directing actors to editing your footage. You will also get a stipend for your full participation.

Despite widespread celebrations of Twitter Revolutions and social media activism, the relationship between new technology and the social justice goals of peace, freedom, equality and dignity for all people is deeply contradictory. In this talk, Virginia Eubanks will discuss her book, Digital Dead End: Fighting for Social Justice in the Information Age (MIT Press), and reflect on fifteen years of efforts with three grassroots organizations—Our Knowledge, Our Power: Surviving Welfare; the Popular Technology Workshops; and Women at the YWCA Making Social Movement—to make technology serve the needs of oppressed and exploited people in the United States.

Animation Creator HD (Trade Mark) allows your creativity to come to life on your iPad! With simple, yet powerful drawing tools, color sliders, shadowing, and easy to use frame management. You are only limited by your imagination! Your animations will look life-like with the high frame rate playback of Animation Creator HD (Trade Mark)

Get your groove on, dancing to the beat of Sauce Piquante, the Starlings, and the Funky Nixons. Help keep the Gill Tract farmland forever and establish a world class agroecological center to serve the people of the Bay Area and beyond. Backroom community-building activities include allied organizations' interactive information tables, a film clip from Occupy the Farm documentary, and an art table for kids and adults creating valentines and visions for the Gill Tract. You may recall that the 20 acres presently owned by UC Berkeley are at the corner of Marin and San Pablo in Albany, Ca. and have been kept from commercial development by various local citizens' groups for over 15 years. Beginning last Earth Day, the Occupy the Farm movement farmed the land for several weeks and sparked renewed interest and commitment to developing and maintaining the space as a valuable urban agricultural resource serving the ommunity.

Make your voice heard and help the president start his second term with strong climate action, by joining the largest climate rally ever in the Bay Area, in San Francisco, on the same day as the Washington D.C. rally. The first step to putting our country on the path to addressing the climate crisis is for President Obama to reject the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. His legacy as president will rest squarely on his response, resolve, and leadership in solving the climate crisis.

Whitney M. Young, Jr. was one of the most celebrated and controversial leaders of the civil rights era. As executive director of the National Urban League, he took the struggle for equality directly to the powerful white elite, gaining allies in business and government, including three presidents. Discussion to Follow with: Taylor Hamilton, Co-Director of The Powerbroker Chude Allen, Veterans of the Civil Rights Movement Milton Reynolds, Facing History and Ourselves

DataCenter will be offering our 7th annual Research Justice Training Academy (February 20 - 21, 9am - 5pm) - an intensive, hands-on, capacity building program created specifically for community organizers and advocates for environmental justice and health.

Good news: The latest issue of RP&E, "Reimagine," (see invite below), will be released on February 20th at a celebration of RP&E's 20-plus years of publication in support of the social and environmental justice movements. Bad news: Urban Habitat has suspended publication of the journal. RP&E has served as a valuable tool for presenting best practices and movement analysis from groups all over the country, grounded in consciousness of race, class and place. We will be canvassing our allies to investigate co-publishing models. Although we recognize the limits of the non-profit model, absent financial support from Urban Habitat we know that it will be a hard road to take. We will be launching a website (http://friendsofrpe.org) to keep folks apprised of how we might imagine other ways of supporting the journal or some other avenue for the same sorts of work. I'd love to include you in some of these discussions, if you are interested. Let me know if you would like to be included in our email list . As a first step we will be looking for testimonial-style support from organizations and movements that have been profiled in RP&E over the years. I hope you have seen the value of the journal in your organizing, advocacy or educational work and would love to hear how it has been helpful. You can post something directly on the http://friendsofrpe.org site using the comments feature (which is moderated) or send it to me and Christine. The actual costs of publishing are surprisingly modest, but as of this writing, Urban Habitat has determined that it can not afford to do this work. Whether the UH Board will revisit this decision or whether RP&E can find a home elsewhere are open questions. As it happens, this year the JSTOR, collection of every single article in every single issue of RP&E went online( http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=racepoveenvi) If you search the title by author name it will yield a stable reference url for your articles. No matter what form our individual or collective work takes from here, I want to thank you for your contributions to our journal and the work of social and environmental justice organizing--and for your writing!

YEP-Bay Area is holding its first Edu-Chat focused on Social Justice. We will be generously hosted by the San Francisco Education Fund (2730 Bryant Street 2nd floor, SF), which is conveniently located near the 24th Street Mission BART station. The event will be held on February 20th from 6-8pm and will include discussion leaders from the following organizations: - San Francisco Education Fund - Coalition of Essential Schools - New Orleans Liberation Academy - Educators for Fair Consideration - Leadership High School - Inner City Ed Technologies Come discuss social justice issues, learn from thought leaders, and connect with others passionate about education. We look forward to seeing you there!

How can nonprofit organizations grow so they can innovate and survive in today's environment? According to Beth Kanter, author of Beth's Blog, who was named one of the most influential women in technology by Fast Company and one of the BusinessWeek’s “Voices of Innovation for Social Media,” the answer is to improve the ways your organization builds networks and measure results. Come hear Beth share cases studies and success stories from her new book, Measuring the Networked Nonprofit--and from her work around the world-- that give you valuable, how-to insights on using data to change the world--and your organization.

The Untold History of the United States! Project Censored presents Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick They will show one of their 10 part Showtime series episodes and then be joined in discussion with historic whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg! Screening, conversation, Q&A, book signing…

Cecil Williams is many things—a civil rights activist who marched on Selma; a philanthropist who has helped raise millions for the poor; a pastor who has devoted his life to spreading the message of God. But he is perhaps best known as the face of San Francisco’s famed Glide church, where for the past fifty years he has sparked widespread and revolutionary change for a largely disenfranchised community—and inspired others throughout the country and the world to do the same.

The Institute for Justice and Journalism is accepting applications for its 2013 Immigration in the Heartland professional fellowship program, which will focus on children in immigrant families, who count for one in four of all U.S. youngsters. The program will explore the economic and educational challenges these children face and how immigration policies have deeply impacted them, even though about 88 percent are U.S. citizens. About 15 journalists will be chosen for the weeklong conference, “Immigration in the Heartland: Children and Families,” to be held April 21-25, at the University of Oklahoma’s Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication. The application deadline is Feb. 22.

Stop & Go 3-D presents a broad range of emerging works in the field of stop-motion animation, and pushes the boundaries of cinematic possibility by showcasing a diversity of techniques. The short films play with perceptual illusion and 3-D experimentation.