Oakland,
CA
May 22, 2013 - 7:30pm - 9:30pm
This is the modern-day story of a native peoples remarkable victory over Western Colonial power. A Pacific island rose up in arms against giant mining corporation Rio Tinto Zinc (RTZ) – and won despite a military occupation and blockade. When RTZ decided to step up production at the Panguna Mine on the island of Bougainville, they got more than they bargained for. The islands people had enough of seeing their environment ruined and being treated as pawns by RTZ. RTZ refused to compensate them, so the people decided it was time to put an end to outside interference in the islands affairs.
Santa Cruz,
CA
May 23, 2013 - 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Rosalie Riegle will speak about her new books: "Doing Time for Peace: Resistance, Family, and Community," and "Crossing the Line: Nonviolent Resisters Speak out for Peace" Inspiring and eye-opening actions presented with undeniable honesty and humility that should be required reading for those interested in civil disobedience and its consequences. Books available for purchase; donation requested. From the publisher website:
Berkeley,
CA
May 23, 2013 - 7:00pm
The speaker is Matilde Marcolliprofessor of mathematics at California Institute of Technology. "I will talk about how even very simple properties of numbers are in fact very mysterious and are at the root of some very active areas of research in modern mathematics. I will also show how our understanding of quantum physics and of elementary particles can help us shape our understanding of some of these fundamental questions on the properties of numbers. The mysteries surrounding prime numbers and prime factorization, in turn, have a broad impact on our information based society."
San Francisco,
CA
May 24, 2013 - 8:30am - 11:30pm
Challenge to Mythbusters on their own regular guest star Retired FBI Agent Frank Doyle's denial of comment made at bomb scene where he blamed Earth First! activists / IWW members Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney for bombing themselves on May 24, 1990 Producer Darryl Cherney, Earth First! Co-Founder Mike Roselle & others present.
San Jose,
CA
May 24, 2013 - 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Not My Life is the first film to comprehensively depict the cruel and dehumanizing practices of human trafficking and modern slavery on a global scale.
Filmed on five continents, in a dozen countries, Not My Life takes viewers into a world where millions of children are exploited, every day, through an astonishing array of practices including forced labor, domestic servitude, begging, sex tourism, sexual exploitation, and child soldiering. Sally Lieber will be also attending.
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."
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.
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.
