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The Abortion Struggle Today — Our Right and Our Fight

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  The Abortion Struggle Today — Our Right and Our Fight Ever since Roe v Wade legalized limited access to abortion in 1973, it has been under attack across the country. The nationwide assault on abortion rights has many looking at this problem and questioning what we can do? Jenny Brown, the author of the book Without Apology: The Abortion Struggle Now  will join us to discuss the fight for reproductive rights, both the lessons from the past and strategies for today. Please join us online for this important discussion about standing up to the attacks on reproductive rights, as well as the larger struggle for the rights of women and all people. Jenny Brown is an organizer in the women’s liberation movement. She works with the feminist group National Women’s Liberation and has written or coauthored several books on feminism, reproductive rights, and labor, including Birth Strike: The Hidden Fight Over Women’s Work. See the review that Sp...
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Online Townhall Sat. November 6, 4pm (PDT), 7pm (EDT)   In the midst of a pandemic that has ravaged the world, especially its most marginalized communities, we have often found ourselves asking where we went wrong and how we could do better at health care.   Mandeep Dhillon , emergency physician and community organizer, will share her experience with community health work in one of the regions of Mexico hit hardest by economic oppression and state and paramilitary violence.  In doing so, we hope to open up a conversation about how to address the possibilities of collective healing in our territories. Born in Montreal, Canada to a Punjabi family, Mandeep has spent the past twelve years living and organizing in Mexico. Trained as an emergency physician, she has participated in various movement building efforts over the past two decades, including “No One Is Illegal”, organizing with migrant farmworkers, and in solidarity with Indigenous communities. In the past eight years,...
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  The Eyes Of Tammy Faye at an AMC Theatre near you. (amctheatres.com) The Eyes Of Tammy Faye Get Tickets The Eyes Of Tammy Faye 2 HR 6 MINPG13 An intimate look at the extraordinary rise, fall and redemption of televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker. In the 1970s and 80s, Tammy Faye and her husband, Jim Bakker, rose from humble beginnings to create the world's largest religious broadcasting network and theme park, and were revered for their message of love, acceptance and prosperity. Tammy Faye was legendary for her indelible eyelashes, her idiosyncratic singing, and her eagerness to embrace people from all walks of life. However, it wasn't long before financial improprieties, scheming rivals, and scandal toppled their carefully constructed empire.
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 How to Heal Our World - Raj Patel and Rupa Marya https://speakoutsocialists.org/th-10-02-21/ The Links between health and structural injustices and how to heal our world The COVID-19 pandemic has further revealed the shocking racial disparities in our health and our healthcare globally. Our bodies, societies, and planet are inflamed. We have also witnessed mass uprisings around the world in response to this systemic racism and violence. Inflammation is connected to the food we eat, the air we breathe, and the diversity of the microbes living inside us, and to the number of traumatic events we have experienced. It’s connected not only to access to health care but to the very models of health that physicians practice. Join Speak Out Now for a discussion with  Raj Patel  and  Dr. Rupa Marya  about the hidden relationships between our biological systems and the profound injustices of our political and economic systems, and how a different kind of medicine and healt...
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Summer of Soul

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Summer of Soul - Playing at Shattuck Cinemas or on Netflix Link to Shattuck Cinemas   In his acclaimed debut as a filmmaker, Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson presents a powerful and transporting documentary—part music film, part historical record created around an epic event that celebrated Black history, culture and fashion. Over the course of six weeks in the summer of 1969, just one hundred miles south of Woodstock, The Harlem Cultural Festival was filmed in Mount Morris Park (now Marcus Garvey Park).  The footage was never seen and largely forgotten–until now.  Summer of Soul  shines a light on the importance of history to our spiritual well-being and stands as a testament to the healing power of music during times of unrest, both past and present. The feature includes never-before-seen concert performances by Stevie Wonder, Nina Simone, Sly & the Family Stone, Gladys Knight & the Pips, Mahalia Jackson, B.B. King, The 5th Dimension, Ray Baretto, Abbey Lincoln ...
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Grassroots Organizing for Immigration Justice: A Multi-Racial Conversation. (CRG Forum Series)

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Topic Grassroots Organizing for Immigration Justice:  A Multi-Racial Conversation. (CRG Forum Series)  <- Click for Link Description On the Same Page invites you to the first in a series of accompanying events to our August keynote lecture with Karla Cornejo Villavicencio. Join us for an informative conversation with Angela Chan (Policy Director & Senior Attorney, Criminal Justice Reform program at the Americans Advancing Justice - Asian Law Caucus), and Amaha Kassa (Founder and Director of African Communities Together). Moderated by Christain Paiz (Associate Professor of Comparative Ethnic Studies) and Leti Volpp (Robert D. and Leslie Kay Raven Professor of Law). Presented by the On the Same Page Program, the Center for Race & Gender Forum Series, the Department of Ethnic Studies, and the IGS Race, Ethnicity and Immigration Colloquium. IMPORTANT: We will begin allowing access to the webinar at 3:55 pm PST. Once the Zoom capacity for the webinar has r...
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The Murder of Fred Hampton

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  Wednesday, Sep 1, 2021 7 PM (88 mins) BUY TICKETS Google Calendar ICS Face masks covering nose and mouth (without valves) are required at all times.   The Murder of Fred Hampton Howard Alk United States, 1971 Restored 35mm Print Introduction Melissa Charles Melissa Charles is the assistant director for African American Student Development at UC Berkeley. It’s the rare film that decades later can seem as timely as it was the day it came out. The searing documentary  The Murder of Fred Hampton  is such a film. KENNETH TURAN, LOS ANGELES TIMES Intending to chronicle the newly formed Chicago chapter of the Black Panther Party, Michael Gray and Howard Alk documented founder Fred Hampton interacting with the Black community for nearly a year. The dynamic twenty-one-year-old inspired with his rallying cry, “I am a revolutionary,” but his statement “I believe I will be able to die as a revolutionary” proved disturbingly prescient. He was shot dead in his bed during a polic...
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