[ March 20, 2007; 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm. ] The Commonwealth Club Office
595 Market Street (at Second)
San FranciscoAfter four years at war in Iraq, more than 150,000 troops have been deployed and more than 3,000 American men and women have lost their lives. But the fallout of the war goes beyond casualties, touching returning soldiers, their families and fellow Americans. Hear young veterans share [...]
[ March 13, 2007; 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm. ] San Francisco Public Library | Koret Auditorium
100 Larkin St. (Civic Center) Enter at Grove St. and Hyde St.
San Francisco
ITVS Community Cinema, KQED Community Outreach, and the San Francisco Public Library present:
FILM: BLACK GOLD
Multinational companies have made coffee the second most traded commodity in the world. But as westerners revel in designer lattes, impoverished Ethiopian coffee [...]
[ March 10, 2007 to March 11, 2007. ] World Can’t Wait is hosting a two-day Youth and Student Conference open to all young people and students who want to bring the horrors of the Bush Regime to a halt! If you were inspired by the “Mission of a Generation” Speaking Tour, want to get more involved in organizing your own school, or want [...]
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[ February 18, 2007 to March 22, 2007. ] Films to be shown at the
Pacific Film Archive Theater, 2575 Bancroft Way (between College and Telegraph), Berkeley
and at the
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 701 Mission St. (at Third St.), San Francisco
See website for full listing of film schedule.
Many films will be shown, including:
Black Gold, The Camden 28, Conversations on a Sunday Afternoon, KZ, My [...]
[ March 8, 2007; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] PJA will kick off our first annual Sweatshop Awareness Month with a screening of China Blue, Micha Peled’s stunning documentary illustrating the lives of young women working in a blue jeans factory in China. With China Blue, “Mr. Peled doesn’t just record the girls’ indignities,†says the New York Times, “he listens to their dreams.†[...]
Just realized that the International Conference for the Abolition of Foreign Military Bases started in Ecuador this last week. Considering the U.S. has military presence in only 226 countries, I’m assuming Bush is preparing to give some kinds of answers to the questions to come during his trip to South America.
The whole concept is [...]