June 7:
Beyond Resistance, Toward Liberation
Eleventh Annual Artists Against Rape
A Night of Healing and Liberation through the Arts!
Thursday, June 07
Brava Theater
6 pm Silent Auction | Performance 8 pm
Sliding Scale Donation
$ 5-20 youth (under 18)
$10-50 adults
No one turned away for lack of funds
Artists Against Rape features spoken word, music and art from local poets,
artists and activists speaking out against and healing from sexual violence. As
San Francisco ’s only community-based rape crisis center, San Francisco Women
against Rape offers this unique supportive space for expression and community
building. A silent auction will be held before performance, all raised funds
will support SFWAR free and confidential programs.
Facility is Wheel Chair Accessible
RSVP for free Childcare!
For more information call 415/861-2024 or visit www.sfwar.org for details.
JUNE 9:
Another World is Possible! Another U.S. is Necessary!
U.S. Social Forum - Upcoming Bay Area Events!
Dance all the way to Atlanta : DJ's, dancing, silent auction and surprises!
Leftist Lounge IV
Saturday, June 9, 8 PM - 2 AM!
@ Balazo Gallery
2183 Mission St. @ 18th, San Francisco
$5-20 sliding scale (No one turned away) Wheelchair accessible!
Calling all revolutionaries, souljahs, freedom fighters, graffiti
writers, grassroots organizers... Shake yo conscious booties to
celebrate the struggle and raise funds for some real shit!! The
Leftist Lounge is a celebration of local, national and international
struggles for social, economic and racial justice.
This is a benefit party to get working-class members of local
grassroots organizations to Atlanta this summer for the 1st ever
national U.S. Social Forum. Come out and help our communities
participate in this important opportunity to build a strong and
united left to challenge u.s.imperialism!
If you have the resources to get yourself to the forum or if your
organization is sending you and you can help support someone else
going, make a donation!! Visit SOUL's website at:
www.schoolofunityandliberation.org. Click on Donate Now!
Voices of Iraqi Workers
2007 Solidarity Tour
Coming to San Jose , Santa Cruz , Berkeley & San Francisco
June 10th – June 12th
Sunday, June 10th 2-4 p.m.
Laborers Hall, San Jose
509 Emory St. at Coleman (south of Hedding)
Sunday, June 10th 7:30-9:30 p.m.
Veterans Hall, Santa Cruz
846 Front Street
Monday, June 11th 7:00-9:00 p.m.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Middle School, Berkeley
1781 Rose St. (3 blocks West of MLK Way at Grant)
Tuesday, June 12th 8:00-10:00 a.m.
LABOR BREAKFAST, SEIU Local 87, San Francisco
450 Golden Gate Ave. (RSVP Requested)
Tuesday, June 12th 7:00-9:00 p.m.
First Unitarian-Universalist Church , San Francisco
1187 Franklin St (at Geary)
Featured Speakers
Faleh Abood Umara, General Secretary
Iraqi Federation of Oil Unions
Hashmeya Muhsin Hussein, President
Iraqi Electrical Utility Workers Union
(first woman to lead a national union in Iraq )
Find Out . . .
What conditions for working people are like in Iraq
How the occupation has affected families and children
Why unions oppose the proposed oil investment law
What will happen if the occupation continues
What will happen if it rapidly ends
What Iraqi working people want to happen
Whether a peaceful, stable, non-sectarian Iraq is possible
Admission: $5-15 sliding scale (no one turned away for lack of funds)
Additional donations to support Iraqi unions will be solicited.Make
checks payable to: USLAW Iraq Labor Solidarity Fund
For more information: mlprophet@earthlink.net
or (510) 527-1222
regarding San Jose event: joan@wilpfsanjose.org
or 408-243-4359
regarding SF Labor Breakfast: iraqsolidarity@uslaboragainstwar.org
or (415) 440-
4809 or (510) 698-6276
regarding SF evening event: arabamericanlegal@gmail.com
or (415) 861-7444
National Sponsors: U.S. Labor Against the War, American Friends
Service Committee, United for Peace and Justice.
South Bay Event Sponsors: South Bay AFL-CIO Labor Council, Building &
Construction Trades Council, Communications Workers of America Local
9423, Plumbers & Fitters Local 393, Laborers Local 270, California
Nurses Association, South Bay Mobilization, San Jose Peace Center,
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, Friends of South
Asia, Veterans for Peace, Labor Party, Green Party of Santa Clara
County, Arab-American Community Center, our developing world,
Students for Justice-SJSU Endorsed by Peninsula Peace and Justice
Center, KPFA
Berkeley Event Sponsors: U.S. Labor Against the War % Bay Area Labor
Cmte. for Peace & Justice % United for Peace & Justice % American
Friends Service Committee % Alameda Council Central Labor Council %
Berkeley Fed. of Teachers % KPFA % San Francisco Labor Council %
Endorsed by: Alameda County Green Party % Arab American Union Members
Council % Bay Localize "For a More Livable and Resilient Bay Area" %
California Teachers Association Peace & Justice Caucus % Committees
of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism % CWA Local 9423 %
Declaration of Peace (Bay Area) % East Bay Coalition to Support Self-
Rule for Iraqis % East Bay Labor-Community Coalition % East Bay Peace
Action % Ecumenical Peace Institute % El Cerrito Democratic Club %
Fed. of Retired Union Members % Hayward Demos Democratic Club %
International Solidarity Movement % Inter-religious Witness for Peace
% Labor Council for Latin American Advancement-SF % Meiklejohn Civil
Liberties Institute % Middle East Children's Alliance % Mustard Seed
Affinity Group % Oakland Education Association % Progressive
Democrats of America % California Faculty Association/SEIU Local
1983, SJSU % San Mateo Central Labor Council % SEIU 1021 % SEIU
Public Services Div. No.CA Staff % So. Alameda Cnty. Peace & Justice
Coalition % Unitarian Universalists for Peace NOW % Voices of the
Middle East and North Africa % War Resisters League West % Wellstone
Democratic Renewal Club % Women's International League for Peace &
Freedom-San Jose % Women for Peace %
San Francisco Event Sponsors: U.S. Labor Against the War % Arab
Resource & Organizing Center/ADC-SF % Arab American Union Members
Council % Bay Area Labor Cmte. for Peace & Justice % United for Peace
& Justice % American Friends Service Committee % San Francisco Labor
Council % Unitarian Universalists for Peace NOW % SEIU Local 1021 %
California Nurses Association % Berkeley Fed. of Teachers % KPFA %
Sign Display & Allied Crafts Local 510 DC 36 IUPAT % Endorsed by:
Alameda County Central Labor Council % Alameda County Green Party %
Bay Localize "For a More Livable and Resilient Bay Area" % California
Teachers Association Peace & Justice Caucus % Committees of
Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism % CWA Local 9423 %
Declaration of Peace (Bay Area) % East Bay Coalition to Support Self-
Rule for Iraqis % East Bay Labor-Community Coalition % East Bay Peace
Action % Ecumenical Peace Institute % El Cerrito Democratic Club %
Fed. of Retired Union Members % Hayward Demos Democratic Club %
International Solidarity Movement % Oakland Education Association %
Inter-religious Witness for Peace % Labor Council for Latin American
Advancement-SF % Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute % Middle East
Children's Alliance % Mustard Seed Affinity Group % Progressive
Democrats of America % California Faculty Association/SEIU Local
1983, SJSU % San Mateo Central Labor Council % SEIU Public Services
Div. No.CA Staff % So. Alameda Cnty. Peace & Justice Coalition %
Voices of the Middle East and North Africa % War Resisters League
West % Wellstone Democratic Renewal Club % Women's International
League for Peace & Freedom-San Jose % Women for Peace %
San Francisco Labor Breakfast Sponsors: San Francisco Labor Council
and U.S. Labor Against the War
JUNE 13
USSF Bay Area Meeting, Wednesday, June 13
6:30 PM; @ UNITE/HERE Local 2 in San Francisco
209 Golden Gate Ave., b/w Leavenworth and Hyde
closest BART is Civic Center, wheelchair accessible
If you're plan Get your last-minute updates, connect with others going, and start
planning for when we get back!
ning to attend the Social Forum and want more info, come on out!
-Get the latest updates from National Planning Committee
-Meet up with others who are going!
-Do your part in Atlanta! We NEED volunteers!
-Find people to share rooms, rides, and more!
-Start planning for what we want to do when we get back!
Check out the new BAY AREA USSF website for message boards and
up-to-date info: http://www.co2magazine.com/ussf or call (415)
431-1918
Visit the national website at: http://www.ussf2007.org
JUNE 16th
If you would like to become a volunteer counselor, or otherwise get involved as a volunteer at the Tenants Union, join us for the part I of our counselor training series!
Topics covered include rent control, roommates, repairs and habitability, and security deposits. Immediately following the training there will be a BBQ in our backyard/driveway for SFTU volunteers, new and old. Please join us!
SFTU Counselor Training
Saturday June 16th
10 am to 3:00 PM at the SFTU
558 Capp Street (at 21st Street)
BBQ at 3 pm in the SFTU driveway
If you wish to participate in the training, please RSVP to Claire at claire@sftu.org.
International Jewish Voices of Dissent
June 14th at 6:30 PM
474 Valencia @ 16th Street, San Francisco, 2nd Floor Auditorium
Join Sara Kershnar and Mich Levy for stories of their travels in Israel and
Europe to meet with anti-Zionist Jewish activists and intellectuals , with
the aim of building an international anti-Zionist Jewish network. These
international voices offer a deeper understanding of anti-Zionism from a
Leftist tradition, and inform the role of anti-Zionist Jewish politics and
organizing within the Palestine solidarity movement.
"History is important. You cannot understand [the occupation of Palestine]
by taking a snapshot of its present state: you have to rewind the tape...The
conflict began a century ago, and became acute following the First World
War. In general terms: it is part of the complex of unresolved problems
bequeathed to the region by the Western--British and French--imperialist
Powers in the way they broke up and carved up the Ottoman Empire...But
specifically: it is a conflict between the Zionist project of colonizing
Palestine and the indigenous people of that land, the Palestinian
Arabs...Present-day Israel is not only a product of the Zionist colonization
project but also an instrument for its further extension and expansion.
Colonization is ongoing."
--Moshe Machover, philosophy professor and co-founder of Matzpen, the
anti-Zionist Israeli Socialist Organization.
June 18th: Rally for SF 8
Due to a conflict in Judge Philip Moscone's schedule, the next
hearing for the SF 8 will now be on Monday, June 18, Department 21 -
850 Bryant Street in San Francisco. The court session will be at 9
a.m. with a rally in front of 850 Bryant Street at 8 a.m.
