SF Freedom School Newsletter
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November 6, 2009
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DARK RIVER
Opera by Mary Watkins
NOVEMBER 12 -- 22
OAKLAND OPERA
INFORMATION
Mary Watkins' new opera, Dark River, tells the history of the SNCC (Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee) and the biography of Fannie Lou Hamer, a central figure of the early to mid sixties Civil Rights Movement. DARK RIVER portrays both the ugliness of the period and the resiliency of the human spirit. Ms. Hamer is a sharecropper, illiterate, with little formal education; in many ways the product of a system engineered to exploit her. Her story is important for various reasons on both a local and national level.
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SNCC 50th Anniversary Conference
To commemorate the April, 1960 founding of the Student
Nonviolent Coordinating Committee at Shaw University, Raleigh, NC.
SNCC 50th Anniversary
To be held in
Raleigh, North Carolina
April 15-18, 2010
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VIDEOS
Ordering Pizza in the near Future?
Awarded an ACLU prize
Tribute to Pete Seeger
by SF Rockin Solidarity Labor Chorus
at LaborFest 2009
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Check out upcoming events at MoAD
* November 5 Women and Humanitarian Assistance in Africa
* November 12 Stalwart: The Art of Christopher Carter
* November 14 Spiral Group Lecture by Richard Mayhew
and their education department
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Consider ordering from
Greenhearts Family Farm
Greenhearts founders Aurora Wilson, Christy White and Paul Hamilton plant every seed, raise and harvest each plant and animal themselves and drive it straight to your home or office. No one but these three dedicated organic farmers ever handles your Greenhearts Family Farm food. Each laying hen is lovingly reared from a day old chick in a green pasture. Every vegetable is grown under the sun, without plastic mulches or chemicals. And our pastured poultry roams free and is harvested humanely with respect and the utmost dedication to the highest quality taste and nutritional value.
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Saturday, December 5
9:30 AM - 2 PM
Teacher Workshop - Water Around the World - provides an overview of the global water situation, and teaching resources for the classroom. International Studies Academy, San Francisco, from Cost of the workshop will be $10, and will cover the cost of materials and lunch. Teachers who have already registered a team for the World Affairs Challenge can attend the workshop for free.
More info: Kelly 415-292-7421 kelly@worldsavvy.org
Or REGISTER []
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Check out the coalition fighting for single payer health care in the nation
health care now
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Lessons from Freedom Summer: Ordinary People Building Extraordinary Movements
by Kathy Emery, Linda Reid Gold, Sylvia Braselmann
Our Price: $22.46
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Freedom Summer ended the isolation of Mississippi from the rest of the nation, and was the point of no return for legal segregation in the country. "Part history text, part curriculum, part invitation to activism, Lessons from Freedom Summer is enormously useful and inspirational..." --Bill Bigelow, editor, Rethinking Schools magazine
Order direct from Common Courage Press
(800) 497-3207
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MORE READING MATERIAL
Musician Changes Tone of Impoverished Village Carlinhos Brown - a singer, songwriter and percussionist who is one of Brazil's best-known artists .... came the realization that to help his neighborhood, he would have to ... found a music school for children who were once like him: poor and short on hope, but full of dreams. .... Mr. Brown coaxed local residents to join a civic association . . . "The day my street was paved, I realized that we could accomplish anything," said Maria José Menezes dos Santos, 68, an active member of the association who has lived in the neighborhood for 38 years and raised 11 children there.
READ FULL STORY
From Racewire: Report Shows Asian Business Owners Really Do Face Discrimination
Oh yes, it's true. A group of fancy researchers have now said it: Asians face race discrimination in government business contracts. A UCLA study found that Asians get the fewest local, state and federal contracts through government minority business programs. The study, commissioned by the Asian American Justice Center, focuses on San Francisco, Chicago and Atlanta to get a picture of what happens in metropolitan areas and
national trends.
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Upcoming Events around the Bay Area
This Sunday, November 8
3:30 - 5 pm
San Francisco: A Healthy City
Prayer Action at 2 pm at Fillmore Plaza.
Make history by joining hundreds of SFOP leaders working to ensure: affordable and accessible health care reform, the city match for the $8.5 million promised for workforce development, full implementation of the policy protecting the rights of undocumented youth, keeping cuts away from our kids and out of the classroom, and dignified housing for all in need. Jones Memorial United Methodist Church 1975 Post St. at Steiner
available until November 11 The Menu is Up
Three Stone Hearth
is a Community Supported Kitchen -- a worker-owned cooperative, offering nutrient
dense foods to homes and families around the San Francisco Bay Area
Friday, November 13
5:30-7:30 pm
Evening with 2 Education Leaders from Haiti. Join T4SJ for a rare opportunity to meet Rea Dol and Euvonie Auguste, 2 women who are at the center of the struggle for democracy and popular education in Haiti. Horace Mann Middle School - 3351 23rd Street, San Francisco (1 block from 24th St. BART)
Friday, November 13
7 p.m.
PUBLIC FORUM:CRISIS IN HONDURAS: A PARTICIPANT'S ACCOUNT
Hear ISRAEL SALINAS, Secretary General of the United Workers Federation of Honduras and leader of the National Front Against the Coup (Frente Nacional Contra el Golpe de Estado), report on the latest developments in the struggle for democracy in Honduras. International Longshore & Warehouse Union Local 34 Hall, 4 Berry St. (next to the AT&T Ballpark, at the corner of 2nd & King Sts.) For more information: 415-826 1905 wercampaign@gmail.com Sponsored by: San Francisco Labor Council and others
Donation $5 ($3 seniors, students, unemployed; no one turned
away for lack of funds)
Sunday, November 15th
3-5 pm
PANEL DISCUSION: Strategies for Anti-Racist Organizing
Humanist Hall, 390 27th St in Oakland
sponsored by the Catalyst Project
with Linda Burnham longtime leader for racial, gender, and economic justice, Dawn Phillips of Just Cause Oakland, Alicia Garza of People Organized to Win Employment Rights (POWER), Carla Wallace of the Fairness Campaign and Kentucky Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression. Panelist will ground current anti-racist work within a legacy of long-term social movements, share strategies for building working class power in communities of color in Oakland and San Francisco toward systemic change. Panelists will layout what those big picture strategies look like in practice. They will share lessons and strategies for anti-racist organizing with white people and ways white people can be part of efforts to build vibrant multi-racial movements for justice. If you would like childcare or ASL please let us know by Tuesday November 10th. If you plan to attend this open session, please RSVP to Chris Crass at chris@collectiveliberation.org.
Saturday, November 21
8pm. Potluck at 6:30 pm
Songswap
The feature performer is Mark Levy, a songwriter,
folklorist, and musical stylist who's been an active member of the Freedom Song Network practically
since its inception. He writes sharp satirical songs ("Every Sperm Does Not Deserve A Name") and compassionate broadsides and also has a broad repertoire of Yiddish labor songs and Ladino songs that he's found in archives and brought back to vivid life. at 885 Clayton (in the Haight, between Carl & Parnassus), San Francisco more info: berngil@att.net)
Some of the events AT MODERN TIMES BOOKSTORE
Monday, November 9
7:00 PM
Cuba's Revolutionary Health Care
System, Talk, Institute for the Critical
Study of Society
Wednesday, November 11
7:00 PM
The Importance of Being Iceland
Eileen Myles
Monday, November 30
7:00 PM
Fundi: The Story of Ella Baker
Left Turn Film Night
This phenomenal woman, activist, and advisor
to Martin Luther King, played an instrumental role in the American civil rights
movement.
Fridays
P.P.P.-the People's Poetry Party
Musicians, Singers, Dancers, Actors, Storytellers, Poets, Visual Artists,
All are welcome! Open Mic every Friday night 7-10 pm. Location: Your Community
Cafe
4501 MLK Jr. Way, Oakland
PALO ALTO
Thursday, December 3
7:00 - 9:00 p.m.
Facing History and Ourselves and
The Allstate Foundation Invite You to
Banished: A Film Screening and Conversation with Director Marco Williams
Cubberley Community Theatre
4000 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto
RSVP Today!
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READING MATERIAL
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Arts education boosts graduation
A study from the Center for Arts Education looks at the relationship between school-based
arts education and high school graduation rates in New York City public schools,
and concludes the arts play a key role in keeping students in high school and graduating
on time. ..... the report states, "the arts cut across learning styles and language
barriers and engage students who might otherwise be uninterested in school and on
a path to dropping out."
Read more
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Mike Miller, A Community Organizer's Tale, People and Power in San Francisco
Book Talk Schedule:
Thursday, December 3, 12:00 noon
Santa Rosa Junior College
Thursday, December 3, 3:00 p.m.
Sonoma State College
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THE COST OF WAR
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EVERY FRIDAY NIGHT! LISTEN TO The League of Pissed Off Voters Radio Show
6 to 8 pm
Five ways to listen to the show:
- In Person: Come down to the Pirate Cat Radio cafe and watch the show live or join
in. 2781 21st Street at Florida.
- Radio: Listen at 87.9 FM. You can get it in about half of the city.
- iTunes Radio: Click on the "radio" link in iTunes, expand the "Alternative" tab,
and scroll down to Pirate Cat Radio.
- Streaming Online: at http://www.piratecatradio.com/listen.php
- Podcast: Download podcasts of the last five shows at http://www.piratecatradio.com/playlist.php?dj=kings
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Thank you for your continuous support of SF Freedom School and your dedication to
struggle for democracy, justice, and peace.
In Solidarity,
Kathy Emery
SF Freedom School