San Francisco,
CA
June 27, 2013 - 9:00pm
A Night of Mind Altering Prose
San Jose,
CA
June 28, 2013 - 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Winner of 20 film festival awards "Bidder 70 centers on an extraordinary, ingenious and effective act of civil disobedience demanding government and industry accountability. In 2008, University of Utah economics student Tim DeChristopher committed an act which would redefine patriotism in our time, igniting a spirit of civil disobedience in the name of climate justice.
Follow Tim, Bidder 70, from college student to incarcerated felon. Redefine justice for yourself. Choose your side."
2012 72 minutes
Palo Alto,
CA
June 30, 2013 - 11:00am - 12:00pm
Washington doesn't like to talk about its use of military drones very much. No wonder: they just might be illegal under U.S. and international law...to say nothing of the Administration's so-called "targeted killing" program and its insistence that even U.S. citizens are legitimate targets of warfare from afar.
Oakland,
CA
July 3, 2013 - 7:30pm
By Brian Knapperberger
In recent years, the radical online community known as Anonymous has been associated with attacks or “raids” on hundreds of targets. Angered by issues as diverse as copyright abuse and police brutality, they’ve taken on child pornographers, the Bay Area Rapid Transit system and even forced a standoff with Mexican drug cartels. They’ve hit corporate targets like Sony, cyber-security firms like HBGary Federal and would-be web controllers like the Church of Scientology.
San Jose,
CA
July 5, 2013 - 6:30pm - 9:00pm
Winner of a Student Academy Award®, Sin País (Without Country) explores one family’s complex and emotional journey involving deportation. (2012)
Sin País (Without Country) attempts to get beyond the partisan politics and mainstream media’s ‘talking point’ approach to immigration issues by exploring one family’s complex and emotional journey involving deportation.
Oakland,
CA
July 5, 2013 - 7:00pm
New Documentary Film Focuses on Mumia's Innocence:
How Philadelphia's Police and DA actively manufactured Mumia's guilt, and suppressed his innocence
A short film by Stephen Vittoria, writer/director of "Mumia - Long Distance Revolutionary,"with Rachel Wolkenstein, lawyer for Mumia, legal consultant on this film
with speakers: Rachel Wolkenstein, lawyer for Mumia,and a Member of Mumia's Family
Speaking on:
INNOCENT: The Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal
Berkeley,
CA
July 7, 2013 - 7:00pm
Following the "Arab Spring," the political landscape in the Middle East is dramatically shifting. Join us for a presentation and discussion with Dr. Hassan Fouda about the future of democracy in the Middle East. Dr. Fouda has made numerous visits to Arab countries and has interviewed many Arab government officials, opposition leaders, and opinion makers. He was born in Egypt and became an American citizen in 1974. Dr. Fouda is active with the Council for National interest. www.cnionline.org
San Francisco,
CA
July 7, 2013 - 7:00pm
New Documentary Film Focuses on Mumia's Innocence:
How Philadelphia's Police and DA actively manufactured Mumia's guilt, and suppressed his innocence
A short film by Stephen Vittoria, writer/director of "Mumia - Long Distance Revolutionary,"with Rachel Wolkenstein, lawyer for Mumia, legal consultant on this film
with speakers: Rachel Wolkenstein, lawyer for Mumia,and a Member of Mumia's Family
Speaking on:
INNOCENT: the Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal
Petaluma,
CA
July 11, 2013 - 5:00am - 8:30pm
Peak oil, climate change, economic turmoil—the problems our society faces are immense and structural, and they aren’t going away. Conventional approaches aren’t working, but growing numbers of communities are finding solutions by applying permaculture design on the local scale.
San Jose,
CA
July 12, 2013 - 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Maxine Kaufman-Lacusta, a Quaker Jewish activist and author from Burnaby, B.C., Canada, will speak on nonviolence in Palestine and introduce her book "Refusing to be Enemies: Palestinian and Israeli Nonviolent Resistance to the Israeli Occupation"
