San Jose,
CA
May 15, 2012 - 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Join us in the community celebration featuring: Flag Raising and Proclamation followed by a Reception with Palestinian cuisine.
Guest Speaker: Hala Gabriel, a Los Angeles based filmmaker
Sponsored by: Supervisor Dave Cortese & the Palestinian Heritage Committee
This event is free and open to the public
Wheelchair accessible
Please carpool or use public transporation, light rail and bus. On-street metered parking is available on Hedding and San Pedro Streets. Additional parking at Civic Center Parking Garage.
San Francisco,
CA
May 15, 2012 - 5:30pm - 6:30pm
Come Celebrate World Fair Trade Day with the Founder of a Fair Trade Artisan Cooperative!map
Berkeley,
CA
May 15, 2012 - 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Transition Berkeley is delighted to present a panel of local gardening all-stars who are transforming our community with their commitment to empowering people to grow and share more food in the city.
Meet panelists Daniel Miller of Spiral Gardens Food Security Project; Victory Lee of Victory Garden Foundation; Rivka Mason, garden teacher at Malcolm X Elementary School; Gavin Rader from Planting Justice; and a representative from Phat Beets Produce.
Berkeley,
CA
May 15, 2012 - 7:30pm - 9:30pm
This fascinating and hopeful documentary tells “the Scheer truth” about our two most marginal energy sources-fossil fuel and nuclear. German Lawmaker Hermann Scheer gave this profound interview just before he died at age 66. He was a courageous advocate for solar and renewable energies who with just a few colleagues in the Parliament enabled the "Priority of Renewable Energy" Act which made Germany the leader in solar energy.
Suggested donation $5-$10. No one turned away.
Wheelchair accessible.
Berkeley,
CA
May 15, 2012 - 7:30pm
Tuesday, May 15, 2012 7:30 - 9:00 pm
First Congregational Church of Berkeley
2345 Channing Way, Berkeley, CA 94704
San Francisco,
CA
May 16, 2012 - 7:00pm
Lorca lived in Manhattan from 1929 to 1930, and the poetry he wrote about the city was posthumously published in 1940. Eighty years after Lorca’s sojourn from Spain to New York, Handal, a poet from New York, went to Spain to write Poet in Andalucía.
“Lorca left as part of his legacy a longing for homeland. My own longing stretches across four continents, due to life made exilic by the political turmoil in the Middle East,” Handal said. “His poems are about discovering a lost self. My poems confront that same loss, and resonate with that same yearning for a sustaining place.”
Oakland,
CA
May 16, 2012 - 7:30pm
This impressive film looks back to the dawn and development of the modern environmental movement through the extraordinary stories of the era’s pioneers such as former Secretary of the Interior, Stewart Udall, biologist and author of Population Bomb, Paul Ehrlich, Whole Earth Catalog founder, Stewart Brand, Apollo Nine astronaut, Rusty Schweickart, and renewable energy pioneer Hunter Lovins. Widespread concern about the environment in America was on the rise in the early 1950s after a small group of scientists began to document the impact of our technology on the Earth’s ecosystem.&nb
San Francisco,
CA
May 17, 2012 - 6:00pm
Paul Rice, President & CEO, Fair Trade USAAhmed Rahim, CEO, Co-founder and Master Blender, Numi Organic Tea
San Francisco,
CA
May 17, 2012 - 7:00pm
Come celebrate the launch of Beautiful Trouble -- the creative activist's toolbox for the 21st century & Organizing Cools the Planet -- a climate justice organizing manual praised by Chomsky, McKibbon and Vandana Shiva.
Music? Got that.
Booze? Got that, too.
Yes Men? Billionaires? Super-secret special surprise happenings? Yup, yup and yup.
We'll be doing stuff that's never been done at a book party. Just sayin'.
San Francisco,
CA
May 17, 2012 - 7:00pm
An absurdist dark comedy, author Ryan Kittleman describes The Great Peace as “a serious book that doesn’t take itself seriously.” It tells the story of a group of starving artists led by a reclusive, sweatpants-wearing billionaire determined to overthrow the government. With little hope for peace, a neurotic young gadabout, fresh off a failed suicide attempt, takes it upon himself to save his hometown from ruin.
