Join QWOPMAP for one of our upcoming Spring 2010 Filmmaker Training Program workshops where you can turn your vision into reality. These workshops are offered to Lesbians, Same-Gender-Loving, Genderqueer, Transgender, Bisexual, Queer & Questioning women who are African Descent/Black, Asian/South Asian/South West Asian/Arab, Pacific Islander, Chicana/Latina, Native American & Mixed-race.

Join QWOPMAP for one of our upcoming Spring 2010 Filmmaker Training Program workshops where you can turn your vision into reality. These workshops are offered to Lesbians, Same-Gender-Loving, Genderqueer, Transgender, Bisexual, Queer & Questioning women who are African Descent/Black, Asian/South Asian/South West Asian/Arab, Pacific Islander, Chicana/Latina, Native American & Mixed-race.

Films with a message are being accepted in the following categories: Short Films; Social Issues; All Genres; and All Ages. All submissions must be postmarked by 1/22/10 See website for full details.

Attend a volunteer training and learn how to become a computer tutor - then be placed in the community technology lab that is the best fot for your skills and interests. You may not think you're a computer expert, but if you know your way around the Internet, e-mail and office productivity programs, we could use your help. The Community Technology Network has partnered with computer labs across San Francisco to recruit and train computer volunteers to to teach computer classes, monitor labs and conduct one-on-one tutorials. This training will help you understand that sharing your knowledge of the computer is easy and fulfilling.

Nominations for people of African-American descent, over 60, who are changing the world.

Maria Suarez Toro is a feminist, journalist and human rights activist who co-directs FIRE: the Feminist International Radio Endeavour.

TAVIS SMILEY SPEAKING Nationally known radio & television personality, Bestselling author, political commentator,
“ACCOUNTABLE: MAKING AMERICA AS GOOD AS ITS PROMISE”
Hosted by Andrea Lewis

With Hatem Bazian, Larry Everest and the Arab Resource and Organizing Center.

A special screening of Darryl Robert's documentary America The beautiful: Is America Obsessed With Beauty to benefit Beyond Hunger a nonprofit dedicated to helping individuals move beyond food and weight obsession.

Request for Entries for the Human Rights Center Mobile Challenge to encourage innovations in mobile technologies for human rights investigations and advocacy.

Joel Berg reads from his book "All You can Eat: How Hungry is America" at the Alameda County Community Food Bank.

Fifteen of Northern California's editors, publishers, innovators and academics meet to discuss the future of the threatened San Francisco paper.

Award ceremony for open government and first amendment awards given out by SPJ's Northern California chapter.

Jet Martinez' murals crisscross San Francisco, from Potrero Hill to Clarion Alley, referencing surrealism and an unmistakeably unnatural nature, echoing artists from Africa and Asia to South America. Come hear him talk about his work and take a visual tour. Free.

An art show by women veterans to raise awareness about the obstacles they face returning home from war and transitioning from combat to community.

Media Alliance and Berkeley Community Media are co-sponsoring the taping of a 28 minute-public access segment on the digital transition and the use of a converter box. Q+A session to be recorded.

No Justice No Bart is going to Rockridge BART to attempt a shutdown of the station. A large turnout is needed to meet this civil disobedience goal.

Presented by Alliance for Justice and the Bar Association of San Francisco.

40 hour training course in conflict mediation.

M0 project is a media competition open to California youth aged 13-18. Videos and posters about how people are making their neighborhoods healthier will be shown to state and local lawmakers to help shape future funding and law.

The 2009 Anthony Prize is a $1,000 cash award recognizing outstanding achievement in grassroots environmental activism. Nominations are due by March 21, 2009.

Workshops sponsored by New America Media and co-sponsoried by the Graduate School of Journalism, UC Berkeley and The Center for the Integration and Improvement of Journalism.

A panel discussion on careers in animation with Carlos Baena of Pixar, Josh Book of Wildbrain, Jim Conrads of Dreamworks, Dawn Haggstad with Pixar, Marge Dean with Wildbrain and Eric Pavey with Electronic Arts. "Come hear more about 3D geekery and be regaled with tales from behind the monitor". Free.

March 21st National Day of Action on the 6th anniversary of the Iraq War.

A new documentary featuring archival footage from the Free Speech Movement. Sponsored by Art and Education Media. Proceeds benefit Food Not Bombs.

A new film on media activism by filmmaker and former journalist Sue Wilson. Rally against hate radio and the ever-popular Rush Limbaugh at 1:30pm before the premiere.

Post-screening discussion with Suzanne Whelan of Friends of the Urban Forest and Muadi Mukenge of the Global Fund for Women.

A conference call to engage national, state and local leaders to strategically collaborate on ensuring an accurate count for underrepresented communities. With Arturo Vargas, National Assn of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials, Terry Ao, Asian-American Justice Center, Terri Ann Lowenthal, The Census Project and Wade Henderson of LCCR.

Barbara Lee: The Renegade for Peace and Justice

A book about the artist and her activism. Lopez has consistently challenged predomonant modes of latino and Latina representation, proposing new models of gender, racial and cultural identity. With Dr. Amalia Mesa-Bains, UCLA.

A report on recent projects created in Palestine and Lebanon. In January 2009, artists from Precita Eyes Mural Arts Center traveled to Palestine and Lebanon and worked with over 100 community members in the creation of 6 monumental murals.

The spot.us community is hosting an informal dinner party to raise awareness about environmental hazards having a negative impact on East Bay communities living close to industrial runoff.

Learn how to observe and document police activity, use a scanner, capture important video, and stay safe while doing it. All are welcome. This is a free event.

The Community leadership Conference will explore what it means to be a leader in the 21st century. LEAP is a national organization founded in 1982 with a mission to achieve full particiation and equality for Asian pacific Americans through leadership, empowerment and policy.

The Point follows two pre-teen friends as they produce "block-witness news", a news show that highlights the overlooked aspects of their block and the people they love. In the midst of urban blight and environmental hazards, they navigate through the obstacles to tell stories, until tragedy strikes close to home. The Point was shot on location in the Southeast Quadrant of San Francisco with the help of local organizations, businesses and residents.

There are over 11,000 women imprisoned in California. The majority have survived domestic violence. Join Free Battered Women in celebrating the freedom of formerly incarcerated survivors of domestic abuse and to fight for the freedom of those who remain imprisoned.

Our poster art instructor is launching a drop-in series of workshops for children and youth in drawing that explores exaggeration, patterns, color, shadowing and perspective while encouraging the outrageous, the unusual and the strange. $10-$15 per session and ages 7-15.

Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking, will talk about her work against the death penalty. fifteen years after beginning her crusade, the Roman Catholic sister has witnessed five executions n Louisiana, and today educates the public about the death penalty by lecturing, organizing and writing.

Fellowship for social change activists of color active for at least 10 years: sabbatical with a 25,000 stipend. Applications due 3/31/09.

Widow of Egyptian President Anwar Sadat; Professor; Peace Advocate; Author, My Hope for Peace In conversation with Mary Bitterman, President and Trustee, The Bernard Osher Foundation

Health Consequences of the Iraq War with speakers Dr. F.A. Al-Alusi, Department Head of Internal Medicine, Baghdad University and Dr Eric Stover, Director of Human Rights Center, School of Public Health, UC Berkeley

Documentary on the isolated leader of the North Korean regime with interviews from refugees from prison camps. Part of the Human Rights Film Festival.

The White House is organizing a regional universal healthcare summit in Los Angeles. Many have said the single payer option is off the table and support for H.R. 676 is not happening. The bus will inform the White House of California's vision for it's health care future. $70.00 roundtrip busfare or donate so someone else can go in your stead.

Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf speaks at the McArthur Foundation Symposium on International Criminal Justice.

Funding for independent media intended for public television broadcast from the Center for Asian American Media. Production funds deadline is April 9th at 5:00pm PST.

Krip-Hop Nation, Art and Action and the Univeristy of California bring you the first ever panel/performance event highlighting two upcoming movements in hip-hop (krip-hop by artists with disabilities and homo-hop by artists who are queer).

Amy Goodman in conversation with Roy Eisenhardt at Cty Arts and Lectures

With dynamically illustrated perspectives across the art form, hundreds of photographs, and numerous essays curated by Stencilarchive.org founder Russell Howze. Stencil Nation builds upon published works to give the most extensive and up to date history of stencil art.

The Propublica reporter and former staff writer at the Guardian and the Weekly and a Polk Award winner speaks on the future of investigative reporting.

Technology played a pivotal role in the 2008 election and has forever changed the political landscape. Leading technology and civic leaders are coming together to discuss how new media is changing not only politics and democracy - but society and business as well.

Leaders in Washington this spring will decide whether to send more guns and helicopters for the war in Colombia. On Monday April 20th people in a half-dozen cities across the US will present 4,000 paper cutout dolls, each representing 1,000 of Colombia's four million displaced people. This symbolic action is intended to raise the profile of the Colombia's crisis and the need for anew US policy.

Interviews with former and current gang members in Stacy Peralta's documentary. A presentation of ITVS Community Cinema.

A critique of the idea of a global commons, the history and context of the commons under feudalism, and a demonstration of the boundary between commons and commodity. With Ian Boal, Raj Patel and Vijaya Nagarajam.

Free monthly gathering to discuss tools and strategies for building and managing effective online communities. This month with Nish Nadaraja and Michelle Broderick from Yelp.

Join Bay Localize for an evening of music, insight and conversation around building stronger communities in the face of climate change and the economic crisis. learn how global, federal and state policies will impact local efforts - and how you can get involved.

Coming on the heels of President Obama's first 100 days in office, Fran Beal, social justice activist, writer and Third World Women's Alliance member, traces the history of gender and women's liberation up to the 2008 election.

The 1973 military coup in Chile deposed Salvador Alende and installed a dictatorship foralmost 20 years. In Where Memoory Dwells, Macarena Gomez-Barris examines cultural sites and representations in post-disctatorship Chile - what she calls memory symbolics - to uncover the impact of state sponsored violence.

Submit a technology-themed haiku on behalf of a nonprofit organization for a chance to win them $2,000. A panel of judges will select the top 10 entries and web votes will pick the winner amongst those. All submissions must be haiku form (5/7/5) and be technology-themed (Anybody want to submit one for us?)

The Pacifica Foundation, the object of a huge media democratization struggle in the 90's and early 2000's has a Bay Area meeting of it's listener-elected Board of Directors. Pacifica is the license holder for (5) high power radio stations and provides programming to hundreds of smaller community stations. Meeting Friday, Saturday and Sunday till 2pm. There will be times for public comment for each daily session.

A dinner and rally celebrating the new book by Mumia Abu-Jamal "Jailhouse Lawyer" with Angela Davis and Noelle Hanrahan.

Three locations to celebrate the 15th anniversary of Open Studios and get ready for the full weekend of over 100 Open Studios throughout the city. At 2425 17th Street (at Potrero), 744 Alabama Street (at 19th) and 2345 Harrison Street (at 19th) until 11pm.

New support group for independent writers, editors and journalists sponsored by the Media Workers Guild.

San Francisco Women Against Rape invites you to participate in our 4th annual Walk Against Rape. As part of Sexual Assault Awareness Month, Walk Against Rape will be held on April 25th, 2009. To register go to www.firstgiving.com/sfwar or register morning of the event. For more information, please visit our website at www.sfwar.org or call 415-861-2024.

Community Technology Network is hosting an affinity group at the Nonprofit Technology Conference. The subject of discussion will be best practices and resources for stimulus package proposals.

Coalition for a Democratic Pacifica hosts a meeting and potluck on the 60th Anniversary of KPFA's founding that doesn't cost $300 to attend - just a dollar or two donation in a basket. With a program and discussion on the state of KPFA and Pacifica.

4-part class to learn to make your own TV show and be certified to produce at Berkeley Community Media's East Bay studios.

Public comments needed for a proposal to have independent civilian investigators outside the Oakland Police Department Internal Affairs Department investigate citizen compliants against Oakland police officers. Speakers are needed at the Oakland City Council Public Safety Committee meeting to support this proposal.

Novelist and poet Alice Walker on her recent visit to Gaza, interviewed by Malihe Razazan and introcued by Penny Rosenwasser.

Documentary by Chris Felver on the Navy serviceman turned philosophical anarchist and Beat poet and writer. Also screens April 30th at 4pm at the Sundance Kabuki and May 6th at the Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley at 6:30pm.

Training on police observation and the rights of citizens in police encounters. The trainers especially hope to gte folks who a) can bring video cameras b) have some spanish language skills c) feel comfortable documenting encounters with police.

San Francisco Supervisor's Budget Committee Hearing on a possible amendment to the Administrative Code to set the level of PEG (public, educational and governmental cable access stations) funding in the future. This is necessary for the independent survival of public access television in San Francisco.

Keynote address by Susan Crawford, Special Assistant to the President. Webstreamed by the Media Access Project.

Rally of CWA workers at AT&T

LunaFest is a nationwide traveling festival of short films by .. for... and about.. women. The festival accepts short films of 20 minutes or less in a variety of genres that embody the inspirational roles of women in local, national and international communities. Postmark deadline for submissions of April 30, 2009.

The Foundation is offering a $3,000 grant to one nonprofit organization based on a blogger's demonstration of how they are effectively utilizing social media to raise awareness and/or funds for their cause.

A memoir of 10 years on the run from the FBI. Introduced by Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz.

The Sociology Department at SFSU presents a program celebrating the role of artists in the student movements of 1968 featuring "960 seconds" by Maris Bustamante and "Juana" by Carla Lucero.

The California Endowment Health Journalism Fellowship is calling for applications from Caliofrnia television, radio and digital journalists from mainstream and ethnic media outlets for a training program on health reporting. Applications are due on May 1st.

A showcase, colloquium and jam session for the people, ideas and projects that are defining the future of journalism around the Bay Area and beyond.

Wiretap Magazine, in partnership with the Nation Institute, is accepting applications for a new fellowship program. This is an eight month subsidized fellowship for entry level reporters to improve the coverage of independent arts and culture in America. One fellowship for a writer, the other for a video/photojournalist.

March from Dolores Park to Civic Center Plaza.

Panel discussions and workshops on just trade policy including land reform, agrarian politics, biofuels, agribusiness, indigenous issues, militarization, counterinsurgency and ethanol.

Documentary of the Aguinda vs. Chevron case prosecuted by 30,000 Ecuadorians against Chevron Corporation for contaminating the Amazon rainforest.

Potential police oversight models, management of the existing BART police force. Community groups will try to set the agenda and establish community demands for BART policy.

Two videos on the community's sucessful resistenace in 2001-22 to government plans to build an airport. One of the video features police response to a 2006 visit by the Zapatista Other Campaign Caravan. This event is part of a coordinated support campaign to remember what happened in Atenco and free 12 remaining political prisoners from Mexican prisons.

Conference sponsored by the UC Berkeley Human Rights Center on incorporating technology into human rights investigations and advocacy.

Documentary of a young Israeli soldier with regrets following his participation in an anti-Palestinian military operation. Part of the Human Rights Film Festival.

With David Campos, Carmen Chiu, Phil Ting and Mike Burns.

Documentary on the Democratic Voice of Burma, dissident journalists operating within the miliary junta-ruled country. Part of the Human Rights Festival.

Panel discussion with former Washington Post managing editor Steve Coll, Slate founder Michael Kinsley and for Sf Chronicle executive editor Phil Bronstein.

Visions of Female Sexual Power and A World Without Rape edited by Jaclyn Friedman and Jessica Valenti.

The Beat Within conducts writing workshops at 40 Bay Area juvenile halls and publishes a magazine for incarcerated teens and is holding a fundraiser. Silent auction, music, food and drink and a chance to make a difference in the lives of at-risk youths.

Bring your animated film and show it at this open screening festival. Program will include films from Don Albrecht, Jeff Atwood, Signe Baumane, Charlie Canfield, Nick Fox-Geig, Gene Hamm, Andy Kaiser, Chris Perry, Michael Stevenson and the SF State Animation Program. Contact karlcohen@earthlink.net if you'd like to screen.

500 Bay Area Youth focusing their creative lenses on the theme of Immigration and Identity.

From a young girl's magical waltz with the moon to lyrical interpretations of grief to the strut of a queer secret agent, these films are a combination of family, funniness and freedom. All works created through the Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project.

Victor Lee Lewis, known for his role in the film "The Color of Fear" is teaching drop-in classes every Monday night at Seminary of the Street. Students earn social justice concepts while working to heal the underlying issues that male cross cultural social justice collaborations so difficult.

Phone banking to increase voter turnout for the statewide special election. May 7th - Just Cause 1611 Telegraph Avenue May 11 - Ella Baker - 344 40th Street May 13 - Urban Habitat - 436 14th Street

Attend this meetup and learn from a panel of experts who have experience installing new computer labs and updating existing labs. We'll discuss things to consider when building a room, choosing software and ensuring that your equipment is secure.

Conference for members of the industry, academics, government workers and nonprofits on spurring broadband deployment and adoption.

The City of San Francisco to honor poet, journalist and activist John Ross at the May 12th Board of Supes meeting with a poetry reading "Poems Under the Dome" at 5:30pm at City Hall.