San Rafael,
CA
May 24, 2013 - 7:30pm
Award-winning Bay Area filmmaker Saul Landau will present his film.
The documentary contains rare footage from the 1994 peasant uprising and in-depth interviews with Subcomandante Marcos, the ski-masked "poet-warrior."
San Francisco,
CA
May 25, 2013 - 8:30am - 11:30pm
About a dozen of the artists are here in person for this history-making event, known world over as California’s most festive celebration of personal expression and radical film form. Among the most eagerly anticipated are new pieces from regional luminaries Anne McGuire and Jeanne Finley. Local fave Doug Katelus debuts his Hard Ticket, Kelly Sears kicks in The Rancher, and Salise Hughes contributes her masterful Charade. The one and only Lana Voronina unveils her new intermedia performance piece New World Order Rave Mom.
Oakland,
CA
May 25, 2013 - 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Various local environmental justice organizations, including Green Action, Rising Tide North America, and others will join with Earth First! activists Darryl Cherney and Mike Roselle as well as members of the Bay Area IWW for a screening of the film "Who Bombed Judi Bari?" This will be preceded by brief presentation from each group on their efforts to bridge the supposed gap between workers, low income communities, and environmentalists. The film showing will be followed by a Q & A w/Producer Darryl Cherney & Earth First! Co-founder Mike Roselle
San Jose,
CA
May 25, 2013 - 7:00pm
Stricken by cancer and close to death, Judi Bari--a leader of the movement to save California’s old growth redwoods--gives her testimony about the attempt on her life and her lawsuit against the FBI for trying to frame her and Darryl Cherney.
San Francisco,
CA
May 28, 2013 - 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Are you a techie or do-gooder interested in digital storytelling, online community, emerging technologies, or all of the above?With more than 130 submissions from all over the globe, we're overwhelmed with the talent and stories people shared with us.Our event will feature a screening of top story submissions with an awards ceremony for the winners! Winners, chosen by a panel of expert judges, will receive product donations from our partners.
Berkeley,
CA
May 28, 2013 - 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Report Back by Marsha Carlton
Berkeley,
CA
May 28, 2013 - 7:00pm - 9:00pm
In 1971, Bruce Neuburger—young, out of work, and radicalized by the 60s counterculture in Berkeley—took a job as a farmworker on a whim. He could have hardly anticipated that he would spend the next decade laboring up and down the agricultural valleys of California, alongside the anonymous and largely immigrant workforce that feeds the nation. This account of his journey begins at a remarkable moment, after the birth of the United Farm Workers union and the ensuing uptick in worker militancy.
San Francisco,
CA
May 28, 2013 - 7:00pm
Armed conflict, weak states and transitional societies are a central security challenge for the United States; the State Department’s new Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations (CSO) works to break these cycles of violent conflict by mitigating crises in priority countries. They engage in conflict prevention, crisis response and stabilization, aiming to address the underlying causes of destabilizing violence.
San Ramon,
CA
May 29, 2013 - 8:00am - 11:00am
Join us to Bike the Math from Dublin/Pleasanton BART (8am) to Chevron Headquarters in San Ramon. Let's tell Chevron to stop fueling climate chaos and become a renewable energy company!
Cupertino,
CA
May 29, 2013 - 12:30pm - 2:30pm
Make It Happen! Choose Fair Trade
Carmencita "Chie" Abad will discuss the horrible working conditions she endured in the U.S. territory of Saipan while making clothing for the Gap. In her struggle to unionize workers, she was forced to leave the island and is now working to educate Americans about inhumane factory conditions occurring worldwide, including on U.S. soil. Chie will tell her audience what they can do to help eliminate sweatshop abuses occurring worldwide.