Pulitzer Prize winning poet Philip Schultz - SF State alumnus '67, is the author of seven books of poems including "failure 92007), which won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize. director of the Writer's Studio an founder of NYU's graduate creative writing program, He is in San Francisco to celebrate the publication of his newest collection, "The God of Loneliness: Selected and New Poems".

Radical Women continues its Feminist Theory Series with a discussion of women's leadership based on Revolution, She Wrote, by Clara Fraser, the founding mother of socialist feminism, at its Thursday meeting, April 22, at 7:00 pm. A spring buffet with vegetarian option for $7.50 served at 6:15 pm. For more information or childcare, call 415-864-1278,

A collection of 40 years of writing by a man known as the "father of bioregionalism" and "a thorn in the side of the environmental movement", Envisioning Sustainability collects seminal essays that defined the bioregional movement and shaped the sustainability revolution including "More Than Just Saving What's Left", "Growing a Life-Place Politics" and "A Metamorphosis for Cities: From Gray to Green."

For 3-10 months workers at Great Oriental Restaurant in Chinatown received NO WAGES for their 40-60 hour work week. Most workers are paid less than minimum wage, face many labor violations and disrespect on the job. In March, Great Oriental Restaurant workers began to organize and stand up for their rights with the support of CPA members and community allies. The owner, Mr. Leong, has threatened to sue workers who are asking for minimum wage, as well as sue CPA. TAKE ACTION!!! Call Mr. Leong (415-398-3691) to tell him you support the workers. Then come to the rally for worker justice.

Students for the "Economics of Philanthropy" class are putting on a symposium to showcase what they have learned over the course of the semester. Join us to learn more about "effective philanthropy" and get connected to dozens of local non-profits. There will be free food, drink, and entertainment.

Money is at the intersection of nearly every aspect of modern life. The Money Fix is a feature-length documentary exploring our society's relationship with the almighty dollar. The film documents three types of alternative money systems. This film will transform the way you perceive money and economics. Join us for a lively evening of discussion with the film's director, Alan Rosenblith.

Join Greenaction and youth and women community leaders from Kettleman City and Bayview Hunters Point for an afternoon of live theater, local foods, and solidarity with these polluted communities that are fighting for health and justice. At 2 pm, enjoy local foods for lunch, beverages, and a donation bar. Hear from Kettleman City and Bayview Hunters Point youth environmental justice activists. At 3 pm, "Birthing the Truth: Mothers and Youth Speak Out about Environmental Toxins" Special performance by the Kairos Theater Ensemble, presenting Playback Theatre, an interactive theater that reenacts community stories using sound, spoken word, and movement. Proceeds will benefit Greenaction's youth leadership programs.

More than 1000 people from faith, labor, and community groups will march through the Financial District to Wells Fargo's annual shareholders meeting, where a delegation will address the bank's top executives and demand changes to corporate practices that have bankrupted families and the public coffers while entrenching those who crashed the economy. The state of California had 632,573 foreclosures in 2009 alone. The march starts at Justin Herman Plaza and ends at the Merchants Exchange Building at 465 California Street.

Come to our panel discussion on “Reinventing the Press: Saving Democracy”: Panelists include John Nichols, co-author of the recently published The Death and Life of American Journalism and regular contributor to The Nation magazine. He will be joined by Peter Phillips, who founded and has edited at Sonoma State University Project Censored, an annual publication that for 33 years has covered the most important news stories neglected by the mainstream media.

The Yes Men are a pair of notorious troublemakers who sneak into corporate events disguised as captains of industry, then use their momentary authority to expose the biggest criminals on the planet. They have gained international acclaim and notoriety for exposing dehumanizing business practices and helping to keep critical issues in the international spotlight. They do this through impersonating representatives of powerful corporations and government organizations such as ExxonMobil, McDonald's, and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

The fourth Wed. of the month 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. Rachel Luxemburg, Group Manager, Community at Adobe will be our guest speaker for our April MeetUp. Since Rachel is managing a team of employees and oversee a number of programs amongst them the user groups program (over 550 user groups with approx 10,000 users), Rachel's presentation will lead into an informal discussion about scale and community management.

What can we in Oakland learn from the peacekeeping and trauma healing work already being done in conflict areas of Africa and elsewhere? Come to our community gathering with David Anderson Hooker, renowned peace-builder and mediator working in war-torn regions of Africa. Refreshments will be served.

In Seeking Spatial Justice, Edward W. Soja argues that justice has a geography and that the equitable distribution of resources, services, and access is a basic human right. Building on current concerns in critical geography and the new spatial consciousness, Soja interweaves theory and practice, offering new ways of understanding and changing the unjust geographies in which we live. Come talk about organizing campaigns to reclaim public space, like the Bus Riders' Union, with Soja and community organizers from Just Cause/Causa Justa and Urban Habitat.

People of color and low-income communities have historically had little say in regional planning or economic and environmental policymaking, yet it is these communities that are most negatively affected by these policies. Advocates from these communities often lack the information and resources to participate effectively in long-term metropolitan planning and policy-making. In response to this challenge, Urban Habitat and the Bay Area Social Equity Caucus launched the Boards and Commissions Leadership Institute, in 2009, with the following goals: * People historically marginalized from decision-making processes because of their race and class will hold priority seats on local and regional boards and commissions in the San Francisco Bay Area. * This new network of progressive leaders will be technically and politically prepared and supported to make decisions reflecting the needs of low-income communities and communities of color.

While the journalism industry is still recovering from the collective shock of mass layoffs, buyouts, and closures, there have also been some impressive new ventures to emerge in the last couple of years as brilliant reporters, managers, administrators, and educators react to the demands of a changing media-scape.

Twelve fellowships to attend the Maynard Institute’s Multimedia Editing Program. The Multimedia Editing Program runs from May 31 - June 30, 2010 at the Reynolds School of Journalism at the University of Nevada, Reno. The program will equip participants to help their news organizations strengthen the print product and build a robust online presence.The Reynolds fellowships cover tuition, housing and some group meals during the six-week program. It includes a travel stipend of up to $500.

We are currently accepting applications for the Lisa Kernan Social Justice Fellows Program to honor the life and work of Lisa Devereux Kernan. Fellowships will be provided in the summer 2010 to two outstanding students with a demonstrated commitment to social justice. Lisa Kernan Social Justice Fellows will participate in a four week Program in Summer 2010 that will involve work on a CPATH Trade and Health or EQUAL Health Care project, Fellowship mentoring, and graduate level instruction. Fellows will receive a stipend of $1,000 for the Program. Eligibility: Open to college Juniors, Seniors, and Graduate students.

In 2010, the WMC will host three Progressive Women’s Voices training classes. Each class will include ten women from around the country trained over two separate weekends in New York City. Travel, accommodation, and training expenses are paid for completely by the WMC. Deadline to apply is May 3. Training Dates are June 18-20: Wknd #1 and July 16-18: Wknd #2

Learn how to animate using the power of Photoshop and Final Cut Pro! Ever wanted to make logos move at you in your video, or try your hand at making a character come to life? Then it's time to sign up for this workshop. We will be covering four different levels of animation: stop motion, hand drawn traditional animation, state of the art key framing with final Cut Pro, and a combination of the previous two.

Join us for a conversation with Jack Rasmus, Ph.D., Political Economist, writer for Z Magazine, and author of Epic Recession: Prelude to Global Depression. Jack Rasmus returns to Other Voices to discuss his just-published new book, Epic Recession: Prelude to Global Depression. The book reveals the deep origins of the current economic crisis, explains why current Obama policies have failed, and offers an alternative, comprehensive 28 point program for economic recovery.

Canadian leftist writer Judy Rebick takes us from participatory budgetting in Europe to the U.S. Social Forum to the rise of democracy in Bolivia, exploring how globalization and mass communication technology are revolutionizing our understanding of power and creating profound new ways to change the world.

Sacco and Vanzetti, a riveting 2006 documentary about Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti will show on Friday, May 7 at 7:30 pm to celebrate May Day, the international working class holiday. The film describes the campaign to defend these two Italian immigrant anarchists executed in 1927 during the U.S. government’s crackdown on political dissent. It includes passionate interviews with Howard Zinn, Studs Terkel and Arlo Guthrie. A free-wheeling discussion will follow. Wheelchair accessible.

Craig Collins’ vividly illustrated PowerPoint presentation will provide us with an insightful glimpse into his new book, Toxic Loopholes. Instead of a dry treatise on environmental policy, Collins de-mystifies the “environmental protection racket” through dramatic accounts of contaminated communities standing up to corporate polluters and corrupt EPA officials in their quest for environmental justice. Toxic Loopholes blatantly reveals how weak laws, legal loopholes, political collusion and regulatory negligence have rigged a system of bureaucratic barriers to protect polluters from the wrath of their victims.

With high definition comes completely new and exciting ways in how to get your footage into Final Cut Pro. In an ever-changing world of high-definition video cameras, how does one deal with it all? Let BCM show you how! This workshop will cover how to log and capture from AVCHD camcorders as well as the every day FLIP, Kodak Zi8, and other HD consumer camcorders. SIGN UP FOR WORKSHOP PHONE: (510) 848-2288 EMAIL: info@betv.org

The 2010 National Health Fellowships will convene July 11-16, 2010 in Los Angeles. Applications must be postmarked by May 12, 2010. Applications for grants from the Dennis A. Hunt Fund for Health Journalism must be postmarked by May 5, 2010. Check back later for the dates for our 2010/2011 California Health Journalism series, as well as some new training initiatives.

Three California writers (Rebecca Solnit, Jeff Chang, and Guillermo Gómez-Peña) reveal the unique complexities, vibrant cultures, and ever-changing beauty that characterize this place. From Chang's look at the hip-hop generation in his book, Can’t Stop Won’t Stop, to Gómez-Peña's performance art and writing on borders culture, to post-disaster communities in Solnit's A Paradise Built in Hell, these three authors analyze place, not just geographically, but culturally and artistically.

The Middle East Children’s Alliance is proud to present historian NORMAN FINKELSTEIN, celebrating the release of "This Time We Went Too Far: Truth & Consequences of the Gaza Invasion" in a double-bill with Iraqi/UK hip-hop phenomenon LOWKEY! On their international tour, “Rendezvous of Victory” proceeds to benefit children in Gaza.

Asian Pacific Heritage Month Celebration Artists Mia Nakano, Lenore Chinn and Nellie Wong speak about turning art into a collective voice for social change and why the visibility of Asian American queers and women is so important to the movements. Before the meeting you are invited to share a delicious Asian dinner, with vegetarian option, a fundraiser for the organization, at 6:15pm for a $7.50 donation.

Winner of the 2009 River Teeth Literary Nonfiction Prize, Test Ride on the Sunnyland Bus chronicles the story of an American family against the backdrop of one of the civil rights movement’s lesser-known stories. In January 1957, Joseph Spagna and five other young men waited to board a city bus called the Sunnyland with a simple but dangerous plan: ride the bus together-three blacks and three whites-get arrested, and take their case to the U.S. Supreme Court. Fifty years later, Ana Maria Spagna sets off on a journey to understand what happened and why.

Join us for a film screening and discussion with documentary filmmaker Gabriela Martinez. Her film, Women, Art, & Democratic Media in Oaxaca, Mexico covers the July 2006 takeover of the Oaxacan state radio and television stations by women who marched to its installations to voice their political, social, economic, and cultural concerns and ended up taking control of the airwaves. Days later, women overtook 9 other radio stations.

Each year, the Irvine Foundation invites nominations for its Leadership Awards. Nominees may be working in any field — such as education, health, housing, economic development or the environment — in the public, private or nonprofit sector. The Foundation provides each award recipient with $125,000 to support his or her work to benefit the people of California. At least $100,000 is designated for core support of the leader’s project or organization and up to $25,000 may be used for the leader’s own professional development. The Foundation also provides recipients with resources to share proven approaches with policymakers and practitioners in the field.

Understanding Deep Politics will bring together ten distinguished speakers and hundreds of concerned citizens in one weekend for the purpose of challenging the mainstream perceptions of political reality - revealing the hidden forces behind many widely accepted historical and current events. Our speakers will draw upon many decades of research to connect the dots in our ongoing slide towards an Orwellian police state - a much darker future than most citizens realize is being planned. They will delve into the roots of our current crises and the dynamics driving despotic governance, financial plunder, imperialism, loss of civil liberties and assaults on public health. The speakers will explore how these vital insights are continually being suppressed by exposing the media matrix that obscures these facts and stupefies our culture to protect a malignant status quo.

Are you interested in 1) creating and distributing digital content; 2) creating web, gaming platforms, mobile apps or other tools; 3) training youth, adults or seniors to use the latest digital technologies; 4) organizing community programs and events; and 5) creating alliances for sustainable social networks to address the needs of under-served communities? National Black Programming Consortium (NBPC) seeks recent graduates, community organizers, web-based professionals, and others who share these same interests to apply for a fellowship with the Public Media Corps. Applicants for whom Spanish is a first or second language are highly desirable and encouraged to apply. Applicants MUST be from or living in Washington, DC or the surrounding locales. The application period opens Tuesday, April 13, 2010; and closes on Friday, May 14, 2010 at midnight EST.

Behind the Rainbow documents the evolution of South Africa’s African National Congress (ANC) from liberation movement to ruling party. With the 2009 presidential election as backdrop, award-winning filmmaker Jihan El-Tahri explores divisions in ideology and economic policy since Nelson Mandela’s release from prison in 1992 and what it will take to achieve racial equality and revolutionary change. Discussion to follow. Everyone welcome. Hosted by Freedom Socialist Party.

Join us for a brand new film on the past and future of public transportation. Beyond the Motor City examines how Detroit, a symbol of America’s diminishing status in the world, may come to represent the future of transportation and progress in America. The film debuts nationally on PBS on February 8 at 10 pm (check local listings). But over the last 30 years, much of the world has moved on, choosing faster, cleaner, more modern transportation and leaving America — and Detroit — behind. Viewers are taken on a journey beyond Detroit’s blighted urban landscape to Spain, home to one of the world’s most modern and extensive transit systems; to California, where voters recently said yes to America’s first high speed rail system; and to Washington, where Congress will soon decide whether to finally push America’s transportation into the 21st century.

In this presentation, Clothilde Le Coz, who represents Reporters Without Borders in the US will give current news on freedom of expression in Iran and China as well as assessing the condition of Internet freedom in the US. Jim Schuyler of CyberSpark.net will describe how cyber-attacks are used to suppress the right to expression and how many attacks are affecting victims here in the US and around the world.

Join Stanford Pride and Cal Alumni Pride at the SF LGBT Community Center for a look at how LGBT activism has changed since the days of Harvey Milk. Celebrate the first annual Harvey Milk Day with a panel pf LGBT historians, activists, and film makers. Q&A will follow with a chance to meet the speakers after the event. Light food and drink will be provided.

The Living Wage Coalition is building a grassroots movement of low-wage workers and their allies to win economic justice. Anyone who works full time should be able to survive on what they earn. Come be part of discussing next steps in pursuing an economic justice agenda.

The always-interesting CounterCorp returns from May 20th to 22nd in San Francisco featuring Beer Wars, Tapped, Orgasm Inc, The Coca-Cola Case, Food Fight and Houston, We Have a Problem.

Watch as participants of Earthfire Institutes digital storytelling workshop go from technological panic or storytellers block to completing a passionately felt creative piece in two days. These stories are beautifully told in their own voice with Earthfire’s animals and the experience of meeting them as inspiration. For more information on this years Digital Storytelling Workshop led by Leslie Rule of KQED San Francisco.

Broken Promises, Broken Dreams explores the complexities of Jewish Israeli attitudes and the hardships of Palestinians living in the West Bank and Gaza through personal narratives based on work with medical delegations in the region. ”Ultimately this powerful book is about healing festering wounds and narrowing irreconcilable differences.”-Bernard Lown, MD, co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize.

Sebastian Junger is fascinated with "extreme situations and people at the edges of things." His expertise covering dangerous work across the globe has garnered him the National Magazine Award for Reporting. "If you thought you knew what the Afghanistan war was like, Sebastian Junger brings a jolt of reality that leaves you questioning whether the war can, or even should, be won. This is frontline, raw, combat reporting the quality of which you don't often read, because quite frankly, most war reporters never see it. Junger has and he doesn't hold back in the telling." -Peter Mansbridge (New York Times Book Review)

A monthly community meeting featuring a presentation by Arno Hesse, who is going to talk about the Bernal Heights local currency known as "Bernal bucks". This will be followed by open space discussions on local currency.

Magazines are thin. Book projects are on hold. And everyone you know has been laid off. Will business ever be normal again? The answer is no. Never! Join us as speaker Holly Brady shares her perspective and insights on future directions in publishing - and what lies ahead for publishers as we hang ten!

Social media can be a powerful tool for for-profits and non-profits alike. But how do you get everyone on board? How do you enable people with tools and the knowledge they need to be effective and efficient? This class will discuss ways to use your existing marketing strategies with social media tools and reach new networks and new connections. Instructor Janet Fouts is a social media coach, speaker and serial entrepreneur.

Ever wonder what it's like to live a day in the life of someone somewhere in the world? David Evan Harris wanted to help you find out. So he founded the Global Lives Project. Meet David at Meet the Change. You'll hear some lessons from his work and insights about our globalized world. You'll also meet a whole host of other awesome change-makers, such as yourself!

Reportback from a convergence of 33,000 people called by Bolivian president Evo Morales in response to the Copenhagen summit. With Alberto Saldomando of the International Indian Treaty Council, Colin Rajah from NNIR, Jason Negron-Gonzalez with Movement generation and Evelyn Rangek-Medina of the Ella Baker Center.

Paloma Pavel and Carl Anthony metropolitan regional equity and highlight solutions to problems of environmental justice that take into account entire metropolitan regions: the inner city core, the suburbs and the exhurbs. Anthony and Pavel will explore examples of people building healthy, socially just and multiracial communities across the country.

The students of the public university system in Puerto Rico are starting their 5th week of strikes to protest cuts to public education. Come to support the strikers and demand the governor of Puerto Rico and the UPR administration stop their repression and intimidation. Also learn more about the fight to end US occupation of Puerto Rico and their struggle for self-determination and Puerto Rican independence.

Free workshop for young people aged 16-22 about starting your own business and creating a business plan.

Lecture by author Dana Whitaker (Transforming Lives $40 at a time) on the real-life stories of women throughout the world, microfinance and ending poverty.

Remaking Citizenship: Latina Immigrants and New American Politics by Kathleen Coll and 20th Anniversary Party for Mujeres Unidas y Activas!! Weaving the stories of Mexican and Central American women with history and analysis of the anti-immigrant upsurge in 1990s California, Remaking Citizenship examines the impact of legislation on Latina women’s lives and their engagement in grassroots political organizing- from MUA’s domestic workers’ rights campaign to fights against domestic violence and immigrant- bashing. Come celebrate Latina resistance and resilience! 10% of all Remaking Citizenship sales will benefit MUA.

A live screening from autonomous Oaxaca featuring short dovumentaries from the video collective Mal de Ojo, and works from San Juan Copala and video-maker Gabriela Martinez.

Mrs Guondo is fighting to remain in the United States. But its not just because of the ethnic conflict and drought that has plagued her native Mali. Threatened with deportation, he 2-year old daughter Djenabou could be forced to undergo female genital cutting, a controversial rite of passage that dates back thousands of years and has been outlawed in 16 countries. Using rarely cited grounds for political asylum, Guondo must convince an immigration judge that in Mali - where more than 85% of women experience genital cutting - she will be unable to protect her daughter from well-intentioned relatives who believe all girls must have their external genitalia surgically removed.

JMLE invites submissions for a special theme issue exploring the relationship between media literacy and digital media and learning. The special issue will consider articles, essays, and book reviews related to the theme. Manuscripts can look at some questions as: "Why are aspects of mass media and popular culture generally absent from discussion about difital media and learning?" "How does scholarship in digital media and learning address issues of representation and cultural difference?" "How do messages about media literacy and about the value of digital media and learning resonate with journalists, policymakers, school leaders, teacher,, parents and children and young people themselves?"

Secure Communities, starting June 1st 2010, is a new police/ICE collaboration program that will automatically investigate the immigration status of anyone, citizen or noncitizen, who is arrested and finger-printed for any crime, no matter the severity, by electronically crosschecking their fingerprints against ICE databases and then holding them in jail for ICE to detain them. On the first day of San Francisco implementation, stand up to say No to S-COM - in San Francisco and everywhere.

From women's human rights in Iran to the economic engagement of women in the Middle East to the growing use of technology in movement building, Afjkami will appear in conversation with IWOW director Calire Winterton in this Extraordinary Voices, Extraordinary Change speaker series program.

What lies behind the attack and what to do about it with Debra Sweet, World Can't Wait, Khalil Bendib, Artist, KPFA and Henry Norr, Free Palestine Movement.

Over 700 youth from 12 Bay Area schools will be showcasing artwork and performances around the program theme of immigration and identity.

A mass mobilization of community groups and individuals to protest the May 31st attack.

Monthly meeting of the board of directors of the nation's first community radio station, 10 years after its internal democratization. Meeting held this month on the Peninsula.

A South Asian lens on the LGBT experience: a series of shorts followed by the documentary: Freddie Mercury: The Untold Story.

Meet, greet and send off delegations going to the US Social Forum, a movement-building process aimed at creating people's solutions to the economic and ecological crisis.

The two experts in a discussion moderated by Dennis Bernstein. A benefit for the First Voice Apprenticeship Program.

Opening reception for the exhibit focusing on images of the global effort to defend rivers an human rights. Discussion with artists Robert Dawson and Roberto Guerra, Steve Rothert, American Rivers and Aviva Imhoff, International Rivers.

Learn more about TechSoup's product donation program and how to get started at a free webinar. This webinar will walk you through the steps of getting started and accessing low cost technology products.

The Greener Mind Summit is a forum for people from the Bay Area to come together to share innovative ideas, make meaningful connections and get inspired to act.

Quarterly meeting of the caucus focusing on civil rights framing in shaping federal funding investments in low-income communities. With Bob Allen, Urban Habitat, Shireen Malekafzali, Policy Link and Guillermo Mayer, Public Advocates.

Opening Night of the three-day film festival. QWOCMAP will present 34 new films this year with a focus on queer Native-American, Indigenous and First Nation women for 2010.

Learn the hard skills needed to start growing food on urban rooftops and the role rooftop gardens play in the quest for ecological justice for communities of color. We'll improve a rooftop garden that needs some reconstructing to maximize its effectiveness. The garden is managed by POWER members and they are growing healthy produce and building a community dialogue on the role urban food production plays in self-sufficiency and community self-determination.

Opening reception for exhibit: music by the Freedom Song Network Musicians

Music and Jamaican food at a send-off party for KPFA-Radio's apprentices to the US Social Forum in Detroit.

Join the monthly Community Rechnology Meetup to tour the Gray Area Foundation for the Arts, The Archetype Boutique, the Luggage Store Gallery, and the Shih Yu-Lang Central YMCA to explore community art and technology projects.

Entries are invited of short films based on a poem and created since January 1, 2007. The Zebra Poetry Film Festival has established itself as an international forum for short films that deal with poems either aesthetically or in terms of their content or form. First prize: 10,000 EUR. Submissions due June 14th.

Opening night reception for the Generations HIV new media quilt. The Story Project will be compiling stories of 21st century HIV experiences.

Community rally and press conference at Frank Ogawa Plaza to show support for a community-strengthening contract for redevelopment of the Oakland Army Base.

A day of learning and networking with professionals working together to address and prevent elder abuse. Presented by Legal Assistance for Seniors.

Cybersecurity Policy and the role of organizations in crafting it with Lillie Coney, Electronic Privacy Information Center - Peter Neumann, SRI - Tim Edgar, NSS - Alexander Joel, Office of the Director of National Intelligence - Jennifer Granick, Electronic Frontier Foundation. Webcast.

The Freedom Bus Coalition invites you to a town hall meeting to discuss and share your ideas on the political situation on immigration and the need to unify responses to the emergency situation in Arizona. Spanish-English translation, childcare and food supplied.

Put your ideas and convictions on film! As part of the colonial conflict in Palestine, Israel has instituted a policy of apartheid that separates Palestinians from Israelis and Palestinians from each other, creating an oppressive and racially discriminatory system. It denies basic Palestinian rights to land, education, movement, and housing while devastating the economy, trying to undermine civil society, and forcing continuous displacement upon the majority of Palestinians. You are invited to submit short [less than 5 minutes] videos on the theme of “Israeli Apartheid.” Videos should reflect the nature, realities, and/or consequences of the apartheid policy in Israel, in the occupied West Bank and Gaza and against Palestinian refugees in the diaspora.

A celebration of biodiversity, cultural diversity, creative arts and ecological resistance. With Carl Anthony from Urban Habitat and Cynthia Ong from LEAP. Indigenous dance, organic food, storytelling, live music and an art auction.

Joining dock workers in Sweden and Norway, calls for action in Malaysia and following a previous action in South Africa, this action calls for picketing the arrival of a ship from Israel's Zim Shipping. In San Francisco in 1984, a picket line and a refusal by dock workers to unload a ship carrying South African cargo was a key event in mobilizing the anti-apartheid movement worldwide. The picket aims to do the same with the movement to end Israeli apartheid. The ship is scheduled to dock at berth 58 on Middle Harbor Road in the Port of Oakland.

Do you think access to the Internet and an understanding of how to use the computer is important? Do you enjoy showing people how to improve their skills on the computer? If so, this event is for you. This orientation is an opprtunity to learn more about the digital inclusion movement and how you can help to make a difference.

Come celebrate the birth of our pilot print newspaper form 5 to 8 pm., Tuesday, June 22 at Passion Cafe, located at 28 Sixth St. near Market Street in San Francisco. Join us for drinks and appetizers on the rooftop terrace of this stylish French bistro. Tickets - which include a copy of the newspaper - are - $15 in advance, $20. at the door. members get in free! Tickets to the launch party: http://bit.ly/9a2LZ5 Where to find the newspaper: http://bit.ly/9RbtoT

Full day symposium to shape the emerging discussion on the connection between health and wealth with Judith Bell - PolicyLink, Maxine Hayes - Washington State Dept of Health, and Tony Iton - California Endowment.

Maria Ogneva of Attensity presents on social media and community management and development.

Nicholas Carr explains the overwhelming changes we're all experiencing due to the new electronic media and the omnipresent Internet. Author of "the Shallows: What The Internet is Doing to our Brains", an exploration of his premise that the Internet rewiring our synapses and upending our cultural priorities.

A multi-issue panel connecting the fight against racism and class bias to build links across movements for social and economic change. As the Queer Movement continues to gain visibility and power locally and nationally, the goal is to raise crucial questions around radicalism in this movement and address much-needed reforms. With Jordon Johnson - Equality New Mexico, Tootles - HAVOQ and Anita O'Shea - Radical Women.

To Hear The Band Play: featuring Pete Seeger and the development of Southern folk music.

The Council on Foundations and Grantmakers in Film + Electronic Media (GFEM) are seeking submissions of films and videos for the Council on Foundations’ 44th Annual Film & Video Festival, to be held April 10–12, 2011, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Submissions may target local, state, regional, national and international audiences. The committee will give special consideration to projects that demonstrate innovative strategies for distribution, outreach, public education and civic engagement such as multi-platform distribution through websites, social networking or mobile applications; distribution through schools, libraries or the meetings and conferences of nonprofit organizations; or other comprehensive distribution/engagement plans. See website for full details.

A reading and discussion with excerpts from The Mothers of Ludlow, a musical drama about the 1914 coal miners strike presented by the Youth Musical Theatre.

Go to the beach, form lines in the sand and join hands at noon. The message is simple: No to Offshore Oil Drilling. On June 26th, Americans and people across the world will join hands on beaches united against the dangers offshore oil drilling present our oceans, marine wildlife, fishing industries and coastal economies.

Walk Oakland Bike Oakland presents a car-free street festival, allowing residents to experience the ity's best natura and architectural aspects, outdoor activities and the arts.

Tackle the famous Adobe software on the 3-hour workshop. Learn how to utilize Bridge, inderstand several tools such as dodge, Barn and Sponge. also creating new layers and how to refine edges.

Causes is a Facebook application that has become an important tool for fundraising, advocacy, awareness-raising and grassroots organizing.

A party and celebration to come together over food, company and drink and bid farewell to Books Not Bars Director Zach Norris.

The G.W. Williams Center for Independent Journalism and New America Media are calling for journalists working in ethnic and community media based in California to apply for the Open Internet Reporting Fellowship. The fellows will produce a story, or a series of stories, documenting and explaining the threats to an open Internet and the impact on the communities served by fellows’ respective outlets. All stories must be edited and approved by project editors before publication/broadcast and must be completed by June 30, 2010.

How has your education been compromised by budget cuts and tuition hikes? Essays should not exceed 800 words and should be original, unpublished work that demonstrates fresh, clear thinking and superior quality of expression and craftsmanship. Open to high school and college students. Entries accepted through June 30th. $1,000 cash prize.

San Francisco Superior Court hearing for Francisco Torres, the last of the SF8 facing charges.