Last year, the Bay Area responded with open arms to the devastation
the wrath of the storm alone. In observance of the one-year
anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, the Marin Humane Society and In
Wednesday, September 6, 7pm, at the Smith Rafael Film Center (1118
answer questions, and Captain Cindy Machado of the Marin Humane
people with pets. A $10 suggested donation will benefit animals in
More than 2,500 of the four-legged Katrina survivors were brought to
placed in new, loving homes.
They were the lucky ones — more than
35,000 companion animals perished in New Orleans due to disaster
and starving animals. The film also begs the question: How can we
protect our pets if something like this happens in the Bay Area?
Haunted by his memories of the dead, frightened and emaciated
animals he saw while filming in New Orleans, Shiley says, It's my
forced to evacuate without their pets.
efforts in the aftermath of the hurricanes last fall. Leading the
region, 2,500 rescued dogs and cats were flown to the Bay Area as
part of MHS' Operation Orphans of the Storm. Animal shelters and
the arms of volunteers waiting to care for them, says Diane
to help these animals, but they deserved much better — they deserved
to be evacuated with their families.
efforts for animals, sending volunteers to the hurricane-stricken
the ability to care for them. IDA's Project Hope volunteers are
and dedication of caring people to right the wrongs of others, says
Elliot Katz, DVM, president, In Defense of Animals. Viewing it made
preparation.
I hope that the harsh lessons we've learned from this
planning around the country.
door beginning at 6pm. Space is limited.
For further information,
Today, 6.5 billion humans depend entirely on oil for food, energy, plastics and chemicals. Population growth is on a collision course with the inevitable decline in oil production.
After assessing today’s dwindling oil reserves and skyrocketing use of oil for fuels, plastics and chemicals, this new documentary questions the motives for the U.S. wars in the Middle-East and Central Asia where 3/4 of the world’s oil and natural gas is located.
Filmmakers Ungerman and Brohy expose the human cost and examine the big picture of the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq that may lead the world toward the next global conflict. Did you know that almost half a million U.S.
military personnel are deployed overseas near oil fields and oil routes? Or that the U.S.
military deployment in Afghanistan and Central Asia blocks China and Russia from accessing oil and natural gas they desperately need for their economies? Interviews gathered throughout the Middle-East, Europe, and the U.S.
, including a Bechtel executive in Baghdad, also expose who is cashing in on the tens of billions of dollars requested from Congress by the current administration of Dubbya Bush. A must-see for anyone who wants to fill in the blanks with what is really at stake with today’s “war on terror.”
Before and after the film, everyone’s invited to indulge in our Humanist Tea House
September 6, 2006 Starts at 07:30 PM
between telegraph and Broadway, below Pill Hill
Michael Franti's documentary on Iraq playing this Fri.
nite at SF Buddhist Center
between Mission, and Valencia, 21st and 22nd St.
“I KNOW I'M NOT ALONE: A Musician's Search for the Human Cost of War.” A documentary of a journey into the war zones of the Middle East.
One critic wrote, “This film re-ignites and inspires us to do more — and to do it differently. It opens the heart and mind.” $5 donation requested.
BYO popcorn. More information: Ann 289-2019
move Camp Casey to the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
, September
8 - 21. The camp on the Mall will carry the name Camp Democracy at
Fort Fed Up. Organizers intend the camp to bring together peace
activists with activists for social justice, united in demanding a
shift of public resources from war to the needs of people.
occupation of Iraq, and will demand that Congress hold the Bush
and the abuses of power here at home that have accompanied it. Camp
in the planning of the camp's activities, which are all in the
initial stages. Organizations already on board are listed on the
provide workshops and training sessions on a wide range of issues,
as well as on communications, voter registration, nonviolent civil
disobedience, lobbying, organizing, media production, and
performance arts.
Congress Members and congressional candidates will
take part. Local elected officials will instruct attendees on
participation in local government. Musicians will perform concerts.
New films will be shown on a large screen. Participants will acquire
Organizations, large and small, can sign up to participate:
Organizations, trainers, speakers, educators, and performers should
Internet activists, and anyone with a blog or a website, can help by
A camp for peace, democracy, and the restoration of the rule of law.
Camp Casey will move from Crawford, Texas, to Washington, D.
C., to
Administration and Congress. Tents will provide activist activities,
trainings, workshops, and entertainment on these themes: War/ Peace/
beginning at 11:00 AM, free Concert Social Justice Festival lasts
until 5:00 PM.
(We are co-sponsors of the Power to the Peaceful
Concert/Social Justice Festival and will have a booth there.)
# Michael Franti FREQ Nasty: 9/9 in SF!!
!
What: The 4th Annual Power to the Peaceful After Party!
Why: 100% of Proceeds benefit the Power to the Peaceful Festival and helps keep free Conscious Music Free in San Francisco!
How Much: $25, Must be 21+ with valid ID, NO In Outs!
Details: World Class Live Music, DJs and Performance
Stilting and Performance by the Von Stilt Family Stilters!
# Yard Dogs at GAMH Saturday, September 9 8:30 PM
As most of you already know, this show is not to be missed!
V I are getting tix for the Sat night show...
please join us!
Born from the saloon vaudeville that toured the Wild West in the late 1800's. Slammed into the underworld of modern American road culture.
The Yard Dogs combine the elements of vaudeville and burlesque - creating a timeless space for the union of ancient theatrical alchemy and modern pop culture. A true story on stage. Sword swallowers, fire eaters, burlesque, rambling hobo poetry and sideshow oddities all animated by the live sounds of the Yard Dogs cartoon gypsy band, The Golden Wings of Glory.
Burlesque inspired, hair on fire, electrified cartoon music played by a well dressed jug band in a dark circus tent with a man swallowing swords and hobo rambling poetry . Oh yeah, and did I mention the dancing girls, dancing girls, dancing girls! The Yard Dogs offer much more than entertainment.
They peddle adventure and soulful abandon...
a wild electrifying sense of freedom...
written by the light of campfires with the hand of wine, music, lust and dust. -SF Weekly
Tickets available on-line at Virtuous.com Tickets.
com.
You may raise money by donation, raffles, memberships and/or materials donated to you.
It you are hosting a game booth, no cash prizes or live animals are allowed.
Small toys, balloons and other prizes are acceptable. We encourage you to have game booths rather than sell products. Call us for great booth ideas!
entry fee for a booth to be submitted Aug. 1
# 9/11/06, there will be a screening of David
Bay sponsored event. The film will show at the Grand Lake Theater,
September 11th, at 7pm.
Please come on Thursday in SF to talk politics, self-organize, and
# Also on September 11, 2006
In New York, at Ground Zero
9/11/06, for details see their webpage at-
One hundred years ago, on September 11, 1906 Mohandas Gandhi convened a meeting in Johannesburg, South Africa, to mobilize his community to oppose racially degrading legislation. That September 11th, more than 3000 people solemnly pledged to disobey the proposed law, despite the consequences, without the use of violence. This fall, Nonviolent Peaceforce invites you to resolve to break the new cycle of violence that began on September 11, 2001.
Gather with others to reflect on the teachings of Gandhi, to take the Resolution together, to discuss working for the use of nonviolent solutions to conflicts. We've provided a leaflet template you can edit, a Gathering Guide, background articles, and other resources you can use locally to hold your own 100th Anniversary event.
The Nonviolent Peaceforce works in the field every day to break the cycle of violence.
You can work locally-by donating a day's pay or the cost of a day's unarmed civilian peacekeeping, by volunteering your time, by learning more nonviolence skills.
I choose to break the cycle of violence. I will seek to resolve my own conflicts without violence; and I will encourage nonviolent responses to conflict by my neighbors, governments, and civilians worldwide.
We will deliver your resolution signatures to the UN Secretary General after November 11, the anniversary of the end of World War I. This will help us in our work to urge the United Nations to explore unarmed peacekeeping as an alternative to armed peacekeeping.
at the Grand Lake Theater March 30, 2006 to a sold out audience.
Griffin's presentation was videotaped with six cameras, and 9/11
graphics and clips. This video will likely become not only the
definitive Griffin DVD, but will likely serve as the Loose Change for
the older generations. Griffin condensed the highlights of his first
two books on 9/11 into a dynamic presentation.
A slightly shorter
Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, and much of the footage in the
film is from that location. The premiere will be followed by a
This Sept 11, 2006 a new era will dawn on America. On that day the
redress the government.
At no other time in our nations history has so
important a moment drawn near. As the war of lies passes the $500
Billion debt mark and 3000 US dead along with 100,000's in the nation
police force, as all Americans have been affected by corporate and
limited liability governments and municipal codes, time has come for
# Film- 9/11 Guilt: The Proof is in Your Hands September 12, 2006 6:30 pm
Doors open at 6:00 each night, trailers, previews and shorts start at
6:30, film premieres start at 7:00. Q A / discussion with the
of September 11, 2001.
Later they spent many hours with videographer
Celestine Star adding photographs, footage, and other graphics to
document their assertions. The result is 58 minutes of compelling
SALT OR NO SALT? THAT IS THE QUESTION!
FILTER/TALENT party at:
130 Townsend Street (at 2nd St.) 415-227-0500
Designing complex flash animations, mobile GUIs and
print campaigns is hard work. Sometimes you even
have to stay after 6 PM.
Well not on this night
amigo/amigas! Press save, log out and come party with the crew
from FILTER/TALENT. Margaritas, munchies and a chance to savor that last
bit of summer!
Please RSVP to events@filtertalent.com by September
6th or no chips for you!
# Sept 13-Nov 29.
12 week HoopGirl™ Hoopdance Workout. SAN FRANCISCO. Weds, 8-10pm.
Taught by Certified HoopGirl dance instructor Annie with guest appearance by Christabel
more to be announced...
Ticket Prices..
For full festival info, online ticket sales and ticket outlets please visit:
Join Earthdance, the world's largest synchronized music and dance event for peace, uniting over 250 locations in 50 countries.
GIVE PEACE A DANCE>>>
9:00 a.m. All groups and individuals should meet at the Berkeley staging
Frontage Rd.
Here, everyone needs to sign waivers, we give you trash
/recycle bags, pencils, tally cards and a map of the areas we need to
clean. THERE ARE SEVEN BERKELEY SITES clean up until 12pm noon
ForestEthics invites you to join us on September 20, 2006, for our 2nd Annual Wine Tasting and Auction at supperclub in San Francisco, from 6:00 - 10:00 pm.
Sip exquisite wines and micro-brews.
Savor gourmet hours d'oeuvres. Save Endangered Forests by bidding on rare wines, relaxing getaways, and a wide array of other auction items.
Admission is $50.
00. More information to follow. Visit
for updates on this event, or contact
Jessica @ forestethics.
org or at 415-863-4563 x312.
September 20, 2006, 6:00 - 10:00 pm, supperclub, 657 Harrison St. (at 3rd Street), San Francisco
Sip exquisite wines.
Savor gourmet hors d’oeuvres. Save Endangered Forests by bidding on rare wines, relaxing getaways, and a wide array of other auction items.
The event features tastings from three premier California vineyards, along with live and silent auctions.
Please visit our web page for updates on auction items and to reserve one of the supperclub’s chic beds for private seating.
or call 415.863.
4563 ext. 312
check this out!
Sierra Nevada Mountains of Northern California.
Here is a flyer on
Civic Center Plaza Polk St. and Grove St
We’re also excited to announce the first round of LoveFest floats chosen, with more to come including floats from Spundae / Skills / Beatport, Opel / Qool / SF Station, Supperclub / IN Grooves, Tantra, Space Cowboys, Sound A.M.
/ Omnis Recordings / Sound of Mind, Anon Salon, Bay Area Drum n Bass Collective, Vau de Vire Society, Project Alma, Nutbass Records, Disfunktion Crew / Seismic / Mighty, Pleasure Zone, Evil Breaks / Strategik, LiveLife Culture, Thursday Night Productions, The Purgatory Cruiser / Yellow #5 Ooze System, San TRANCEcisco / Dream GenuineUs , KCRH Radio / BayRaves.com / Zapatistas / DubStar, and more to be announced!
A free dance parade down the heart of San Francisco, a massive festival by donation at the Civic Center plaza, a take over of City Hall, and the official after party at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium produced by Spundae and Skills with an incredible line up.
You can’t miss this! If you’re out of town now is the time to make travel plans. We’ll be working to put together some deals with hotel partners, check back on the site often.
LoveWeek events start Wednesday, September 20th, with our official kick off event at the famous Qool Happy Hour. Thursday we celebrate a special dinner, reception, and night of super clubbing at the Supperclub. Friday night is the official LoveFest pre-party presented by Opel at Mighty, Thrust for Love, with Lee Coombs.
Then Saturday is where it all comes together starting at 12 Noon!
Would you like to help us pull it off? San Francisco LoveFest is an all volunteer non-profit organization, whose goal is to put on an event that creates and fosters love, community, respect, peace, fun, and a platform for dance culture to shine in a world full of turmoil.
We could use your help in a number of ways. Please see the Volunteer section of the site for ways you can help! The Love is Coming.
Stay tuned.
Join us for a relaxing, recharging week of community, fearlessness, and fun. At Hidden Villa Hostel in the Los Altos Hills.
Led by comedian and filmmaker Alicia Dattner and singer/songwriter Christina Kowalchuk.
# Oct 5 The World Can't Wait! Drive Out the Bush Regime!
Protest! The world is on fire!
Now is the time, if you want to stop it, to raise your voice.
Join us October 5th!
# Please join us for the First Annual Berkeley Sustainability Summit!
The Ecology Center will be hosting this event on Friday, October 6, from 9:00 to 3:00.
Summit highlights will include a series of brief presentations that will cover the whole range of sustainability projects and efforts currently underway in Berkeley, structured networking, and an all-organic catered lunch.
It is a chance for professionals, activists, and interested parties to:
• Get exposed to the broad range of local sustainability endeavors,
• Share your work with a broad cross-section of Berkeley leaders working on companion issues,
• Develop strategic relationships and cross-pollinate with other innovators between and among sectors,
• Increase the coordination of diverse efforts that will move Berkeley toward being the most sustainable city in the country, and
• Reinforce a broadly shared civic passion for a vital, sustainable future.
To purchase tickets, contact Carrie Bennett at 510-548-2220 x235
Nature Walks are held the first Saturday of every month from 10 a.
m. to 12 noon.
Meet at the bookstore kiosk near the main gate of the San Francisco Botanical Gardens at Strybing Arboretum, 9th Avenue at Lincoln Way.
Darin Dawson of the San Francisco Botanical Garden, who is a plant expert. Angie Geiger returns in September.
Burning Man Presents the 7th annual Decompression HEAT THE STREET FaIRE!
bet. Mariposa and 22nd St
12 hrs of art on 6 blocks and a new chill-out park!
Most sound ends at 10pm on street; we hope to go until 11pm at Mariposa St.
Stage
This will be our best Decom yet with the newly formed BM Special Events Team, a newly rennovated park and an expanded block...
BUT it could be our last year at this site...
IF we don't all work together Playa style to help.
Here's what to DO!
* Come at noon to enjoy a full day of art, theme camps, music, circus, puppetry, fire art, marching bands and more!
Don't miss any of it!
* Take public transportation, bicycle or park in the UCSF lot just 3 blocks away at 16th and 3rd St (see map) or on Illinois St.
* Express yourself in your finest playa pageantry!
* Volunteer! Contact: Firekitty@burningman.com today to join our team!
* Bring your playa imagery (VHS/slides/CD ROMS) to the Visual Check Point inside Cafe Cocomo, or email us.
Here's how to SAVE Decom!
* Respect the Dogpatch neighborhood, our home for 7 years
* Tread lightly on our beautiful new park.
..no stakes, no unleashed dogs, no vehicles of ANY kind in the park
* Enter and leave the neighborhood very very quietly!
* Dont bring renegade sound systems or unauthorized fire art. None!
* LEAVE NO TRACE!
Pick up any trash and help us recycle
10th Annual Veterans Day Dinner and Silent Auction, Nov 9 Nikko Hotel SF $150
per person for a delicious dinner for yourself or a gift to others! tax deduction to you.
# Nov 11/12 8th and Brannan/ councourse exhibition ctr.
SF
The Green Festival is a two-day party with a serious purpose: to accelerate the emergence of a new economic paradigm that is life-affirming and life-restoring. Together we are cultivating a culture of sustainability and social equity that honors our interdependence with all life. Green Festival unites green businesses, social and environmental groups, visionary thinkers and thousands of community members in a lively exchange of ideas, commerce and movement building fun.
Learn: Attend lectures and workshops by thought leaders, business visionaries and community activists shaping the green movement.
Network: Connect with like-minded individuals and organizations who are committed to the possibility of a better world. See Network.
Get Involved! Learn about organizations effecting positive and sustainable change in our region, our country, and the around the planet.
Socialize: Have fun interacting with others, for the sheer joy of it.
Meet interesting people who share common interests. Spend some time at the food court and listen to local musicians. Parents, find a place to relax in the Family Rest Stop.
Eat Well: Sample delicious, healthy, organic, and sustainable produced food prepared on site. ALL FOODWARE IS BIODEGRADEABLE - COMPOST! WE ENCOURAGE YOU TO BRING YOUR OWN FOODWARE TO THE EVENT.
Greening the Event: We believe in deep sustainability - to achieve intergenerational equity, we must design equity into the present. We try to address all aspects of the event - beginning with our own consciousness and the budgetary process.
The Green Economy Expo: If you are a green business of any size, this could be the perfect place for you to connect to your target audience.
Call 1-877-727-2179 to exhibit your products. See who's Exhibiting in 2005.
Shop at the Green Festival for all of your Holiday Gifts!
Purchase goods and services from 300 exhibitors who practice the principles of sustainability, ecology, and social equity. Go shopping online - we've identified online resources for green goods.
The best thing that we liberals can do would be to start vocally supporting the 2nd amendment and actually making use of it personally to be able to defend ourselves.
They are going to use disasters and epidemics to herd people into camps, we need to resist and we need to be able to defend ourselves.
That is the only kind of language the riech wing understands.
And that is what this is all coming to, its not about the cable TV wedge issues they keep people distracted with.
Remember Katrina and the 9th Ward. re:
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free
State, the
right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed.
Who are the militia, if they be not the people of this country.
..?
I ask, who are the militia? They consist of now of the whole people,
except a few public officers.
(1725-1792), drafted the Virgina Declaration of Rights, ally of James
Jonathan Elliot, ed.
, v.3 p.425 (Philadelphia, 1836)
Congress have no power to disarm the militia.
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