Upcoming: Activism and Protests Events

Jul 20, 2009: Chris Hedges: Empire of Illusion:End of Literacy,Triumph of Spectacle at The Hillside Club

FullCalendar — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:37:20 -0700

Chris Hedges will discuss his major new book:

"Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle"

Tickets: www.brownpapertickets.com/event/71755
phone order: 800-838.3006
Independent Bookstores: Pegasus Solano, Pegasus Shattuck, Pendragon, Moe's, Diesel, Walden Pond, Modern Times
$10 advance, $12 door, benefits KPFA Radio
Information: www.kpfa.org/events or 510.848.6767x609
Chris Hedges writes a weekly column for www.Truthdig.org that is published every Monday. He is currently a senior fellow at The Nation Institute and a Lecturer in the Council of the Humanities and the Anschutz Distinguished Fellow at Princeton University. He spent nearly two decades as a foreign correspondent in Central America, the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans, and has reported from more than 50 countries, while working for The Christian Science Monitor, National Public Radio, The Dallas Morning News and The New York Times, where he was part of the team that won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for the paper's coverage of global terrorism. He currently writes for Harper's, New York Review of Books, Granta, Mother Jones, and Foreign Affairs. The author of the best selling "War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning," - a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction - Hedges received the 2002 Amnesty International Global Award for Human Rights Journalism. He is the author of "American Fascists," a book on the Christian right, and "I Don't Believe in Atheists". In 2007 he famously debated Christopher Hitchens in Berkeley on "Is God Great?" - massively viewed on YouTube.
Media contact: ken@kpfa.org 510.967-4495

$10 advance, $12 door.

Aug 28, 2009: Calgary Critical Mass Bike Ride — August at Eau Claire Plaza

Grant Neufeld — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:37:22 -0700

On the last Friday of every month, cyclists around the world gather to ride the streets together to assert the rights of non-automotive traffic to use the streets.

The ride gathers at the plaza starting at 5:30. We usually head out closer to 6 for a ride that usually goes for half an hour to an hour. The route of the ride can be different every month, usually just made up along the way.

Newcomers are always welcome.

Please bring noisemakers - whistles, bells, etc.

Look for folks just hanging out with their bicycle in the plaza when you arrive. Please don't hesitate to ask someone: "hey, are you here for critical mass?"

(Yes, the rides go on all year - regardless of weather.)

Jul 31, 2009: Calgary Critical Mass Bike Ride — July at Eau Claire Plaza

Grant Neufeld — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:36:56 -0700

Jul 9, 2009: Rally for a Change at Methodist Central Hall, Westminster, London, UK

semajmaharg — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 08:58:26 -0700

Thousands of people have already joined the call the call for change. If you haven’t already, join today at http://www.voteforachange.co.uk

But we know that the government have their own kind of change in mind. We must ensure that it’s the interests of voters and not the politicians that win out in the debate ahead.So keep your diary free for 6:30, July 9th, as supporters gather in Methodist Central Hall to call for real reform of parliament.

Already Damon Albarn, Vivienne Westwood, Stephen Fry and a long list of others are demanding the right to vote for a change. But we need your help to get over 1000 people together in Westminster for the Vote for Change Rally, featuring music, poetry and the chance to put leading politicians on the spot. More details will follow soon but this is definitely an event not to be missed.

To register now or for more details email Naomi@voteforachange.co.uk

Aug 13, 2009: 2009 Bi Health Summit at Hilton Chicago

BiNet USA — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 09:55:50 -0700

About the Bi Health Summit: The Bisexual Health Summit is a grassroots, community-oriented meeting designed for community health workers, activists, and other interested community members. The purpose is to come together and share knowledge about health issues affecting bisexuals and men and women who have multi-gendered sexuality, and to build health advocacy skills among bisexual people and our allies.

Join fellow advocates, professionals, activists, and concerned people from across the US and beyond for an update on the field of bisexual health with an emphasis on knowledge-sharing, movement-building, and strategizing about future directions in bisexual health.

Programming: The Bi Health Summit is being held in conjunction with the 2009 National LGBTI Health Summit, and will be both a concentrated, one-day event on August 14th, and a broader presence within the larger conference.

Topics will include, but not be limited, to the following areas:

• Clinical care – who serves the bisexual community and how is it best served?
• Community initiatives – what are the latest strategies?
• Research – what have we learned and what do we still need to explore?
• Education and training – what models are being used and are they working?
• Publications – learn the latest about resources on this topic
• Advocacy and policy work – what next steps should the movement for bisexual health take?

Leadership: The co-chairs are Julie Ebin (Fenway Community Health, Boston, MA), Luigi Ferrer (VP BiNet USA, Miami, FL), and Jennifer Bonardi (Boston, MA). Collective members include Stewart Landers (Boston, MA) and Ed Negron (Chicago, IL).

Feb 3, 2010: 2010 Creating Change Conference at Sheraton Dallas North Hotel

BiNet USA — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 17:05:38 -0700

Creating Change, the 22nd National Conference on LGBT Equality is the annual National Grassroots Organizing and Skills Building Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Conference sponsored by the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force.

Each year the conference is held in a different region of the United States, attracting at least 2,000 to 3,000 attendees from all over the country and is considered a unique environment where activists and leaders come together from diverse places and backgrounds to create a unique community that is both strengthening and inspiring to the participants. Since 1988, Creating Change has been the opportunity for thousands of committed people to develop and hone their skills, celebrate victories, build community, and to be inspired by visionaries of our LGBT movement and other movements for justice and equality.

The primary goal of the Creating Change Conference is to build political power from the ground up to secure our overarching goal of full equality, social justice and dignity for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in the United States. Over the five days of the Creating Change Conference the conference program presents a dozen day-long institutes, sophisticated trainings in the Academy for Leadership and Action, approximately 130 workshops and caucus sessions, keynote plenary sessions, film screenings, meetings, receptions, social events, and a multitude of opportunities for attendees to meet and learn from each other.

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And while there please join BiNet USA and other Bisexual, Fluid, Pansexual and allied Groups and Activists at the Bisexual Caucus at the 2010 Creating Change Conference.

The Plenary sessions provide a common meeting ground for the conference to explore current issues in the LGBT community and our Community will be tabling as well as giving a variety of presentations.

Please join us as we meet to discuss issues of importance to us as a Community, interact and introduce ourselves to members of the greater LGBT Community and all gather to work together on issues of importance to us as a whole.

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Creating Change is a wonderful (as well as a useful & informative) not to be missed experience that EVERYONE should try to attend at least once.

Aug 8, 2009: Bronx Pride 2009 at Barretto Point Park

NYABN — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 18:35:48 -0700

Bronx Pride 2009 Postponed Due to Weather Forecast

Due to the National Weather Bureau’s weather predictions, Bronx Pride 2009 has been postponed to early August. Our headline performer Crystal Waters, as well as other special guests, will still be joining us
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Bronx Pride, is held annually at Barretto Point Park at the intersection of Tiffany Street and Viele Avenue. For your convenience, their is free shuttle-bus service from the Number 6 Train Hunts Point Station.

It features a wide array of entertainment, food, contests, community groups and vendors. In previous years the Pride Festival has attracted over 1,500 community supporters.

Bronx Pride is hosted by the Bronx Community Pride Center in association with several major companies and foundations along with a plethora of vendors and service organizations catering to the LGBT community of the Bronx.

For more information please visit the the Bronx Community Pride Center website. Or contact Sage Rivera at Sage@Bronxpride.org or (718)292-4368 ext 307.

Bronx Community Pride Center is a 501( c ) (3) non-profit organization.

Jul 16, 2009: Allied Media Conference at Wayne State University

rabble — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 06:46:07 -0700

11th Allied Media Conference
"We Are Ready New: Media and creativity to transform our selves and our world"
July 16-19, 2009
Detroit, Michigan

The 11th AMC will advance our visions for a just and creative world. It will be a laboratory for media-based solutions to the matrix of life-threatening problems we face. For the past 10 years, we have evolved our definition of media, and the role it can play in our lives – from zines to video-blogging to breakdancing, to communicating solidarity and creating justice. Each conference builds off the previous one and plants the seeds for the next. Ideas and relationships evolve year-round, incorporating new networks of media-makers and social justice organizers. The 2009 AMC will draw strength from our converging movements to face the challenges and opportunities of our current moment.

Be a part of it at www.alliedmediaconference.org

Aug 31, 2009: Evolution: A Tangled Bank • Burning Man 2009 at Black Rock City

jlam — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 15:30:42 -0700

In 2009, the Burning Man will rise above a “tangled bank” consisting of irregular wooden triangles. No two elements of this organic composition will be quite the same; together they’ll create what’s best described as a chaotic truss. At night the tangled bank will come alive with luminous life forms scratching, crawling and slithering their way through it. This space will also house a pond known as the Gene Pool. Strange Ur-creatures will peep outward from the surface of this primal soup. The central tree supporting Burning Man, beribboned with a double helix, will exist in flux: switching on and switching off, changing colors unexpectedly.

Sep 21, 2009: 2009 IAP2 Annual Conference at TBD

planspark — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 18:40:08 -0700

Jan 26, 2010: Westchester Bisexual Discussion & Peer Support Group at The Loft LGBT Community Center

NYABN — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 18:02:24 -0700

The group is a facilitated discussion group for men, women, genderqueer, transgender, and not-quite-sure people, as well as people who fall on different places along the monogamous to polyamorous dimension, as long as you inhabit the space between totally straight and totally gay somewhere (i.e., bisexual, bi-curious, omnisexual, pansexual, questioning, queer, fluid, “I don’t label myself,” heteroflexible, homoflexible, SGL, and bi-friendly).

People who wish to understand their bisexual loved ones are also welcome.

The group meets at The LOFT, the LGBTQ safe space in White Plains, Westchester, New York, at 7:30 PM on the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays of every month.

Even if you can't always make it to the group meetings in person, join us on line, ask questions, chat, make some "net-friends" and keep up with what is happening in the Westchester and surrounding bisexual community.

Aug 15, 2009: Universal Hip Hop Parade at Marcus Garvey Boulevard at De Kalb Avenue

universalhiphopparade — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 16:26:15 -0700

Come join the world's longest celebration of Hip Hop Culture. The 10th Annual Universal Hip-Hop Parade steps off in the Bed-Stuy neighbourhood of Brooklyn on Saturday August 15th at 3:00 PM from Marcus Garvey Boulevard at De Kalb Avenue and proceeds down Marcus Garvey Boulevard to Fulton Street and finishs up at the corner of Franklin Avenue.

The parade, an annual non-profit educational and cultural event is always held on the Saturday before the anniversary of Marcus Garvey's August 17th birthday. Marcus Garvey used culture as a tool to empower people and encouraged the growth of Black institutions.

So come to the historic Black neighborhood of Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn on Saturday, August 15th 2009 and celebrate this legendary freedom fighter's birthday by participating in and watching the 10th Annual Universal Hip-Hop Parade.

Your presence and participation is what makes the celebration fun, exciting and successful!

Aug 13, 2009: Netroots Nation at David L. Lawrence Convention Center

raines — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 20:33:31 -0700

Netroots Nation amplifies progressive voices by providing an online and in-person campus for exchanging ideas and learning how to be more effective in using technology to influence the public debate. Within that campus, we strengthen community, inspire action and serve as an incubator for progressive ideas that challenge the status quo and ultimately affect change in the public sphere.

Jun 13, 2010: Brighton Naked Bike Ride 2010 at The Level

nsayers — Thu, 23 Mar 2006 07:39:27 -0700

DATE, TIME AND DETAILS TO BE CONFIRMED...

Every June, in cities around the world, people ride bikes naked to celebrate cycling and the human body. The ride demonstrates the vulnerability of cyclists on the road and is a protest against oil dependency.

Be there, as bare as you dare!

2010 will see the fifth annual Brighton ride, following its massive success in 2009 when 700 people rode through the heart of the city.

Planning meetings to discuss the ride's organisation and promotion will be held monthly prior to the event, between January and May.

Jul 31, 2009: Critical Mass Brighton bike ride at The Level

nsayers — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 17:09:22 -0700

Critical Mass Brighton

Free mass bike ride through the heart of Brighton & Hove

Celebrating cycling and promoting a fun, healthy, sustainable alternative to petrol-dependant transport.

Bring bikes, lights and noise!

The ride meets at the Level on the last Friday of every month at 6pm.