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Creator of Olympic Black Power Statue Encourages SJSU Students on Nakba Day
San Jose State students continue with their pro-Palestine encampment, even after the University administration has chastised them insisting they leave. On May 15, Nakba Day, a large crowd of students rallied at the encampment in front of the Olympic Black Power Statue....
Posted: Thu, May 16, 2024 10:55pm PDT
"Arcadia" - Interview with Director Chloe Xtina on Plans to Film "Arcadia" in Santa Cruz (audio/mpeg 78.0MB)
Chloe Xtina is a Sundance Ignite x Adobe fellow and she'll be shooting her third short film in Santa Cruz in mid-May. “Arcadia” is the story of a young woman’s “sexual awakening infused with the precarity of climate collapse.”...
Posted: Mon, May 6, 2024 8:40am PDT
Iranian Rapper’s Death Sentence Sparks Outrage, Global Rallies
Popular Iranian dissident, rapper and hip-hop artist Toomaj Salehi, a 33-year-old former factory worker known for his protest songs and social media posts critical of the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran, has been sentenced to death after being convicted of “spreading corruption on earth” charges. The sentence has been globally condemned including by the State Department’s office of the U.S. Special Envoy for Iran by calling for his release and that of Kurdish-Iranian rapper Saman Y...
Posted: Sat, Apr 27, 2024 7:29pm PDT
Creative Growth Workers Unionize, Announce Rally
ACTION ALERT: Solidarity Rally on Saturday, April 6, 12pm outside SFMOMA (151 3rd Street) coinciding with the public opening of "Creative Growth: The House that Art Built."...
Posted: Tue, Apr 2, 2024 7:30am PDT
Omar Sosa's 88 Well-Tuned Drums (audio/mpeg 110.0MB)
Interview with Afro-Cuban pianist/composer Omar Sosa, who is on a world tour that includes Kuumbwa Jazz Center in Santa Cruz on Monday, April 1 and Birdland in NYC April 9 to 13....
Posted: Fri, Mar 29, 2024 5:27pm PDT
Madi Diaz - "Weird Faith" - Interview (audio/mpeg 93.3MB)
Singer/guitarist Madi Diaz discusses her new album "Weird Faith' and plays Felton Music Hall on Saturday, March 30....
Posted: Wed, Mar 27, 2024 10:00am PDT
Request for Gaza Ceasefire Resolution by 4/7, 35th Anniv of Berkeley Peace Wall Dedication
We sent this to the Berkeley City Council this morning, Monday, March 25, 2024...
Posted: Mon, Mar 25, 2024 7:35pm PDT
Chaos as Street Artists displaced by Sale of Public Sidewalk to Vendors in Santa Cruz (video/mp4 1920.5MB)
Chaos unfolds as Santa Cruz and Global artists Alex Skelton and Joff Jones are confronted by territorial vendors, police officers, and more new regulations which see large areas of Pacific Avenue made exclusive and privatized by a new permitting system where certain individuals are apparently granted exclusive use of our Public Sidewalk if they pay money to the City.
This is a developing story. . ....
Posted: Sat, Mar 23, 2024 9:37am PDT
San Francisco Trans Film Festival Call for Submissions
Founded in 1997, the San Francisco Transgender Film Festival (SFTFF) builds a strong and diverse community through the power of transgender cinema. SFTFF is the world’s first and longest-running Transgender Film Festival, and co-presents year-round screenings in collaboration with other LGBT film festivals. Our programs strengthen awareness of transgender identity, history and culture, support emerging and established independent filmmakers working with transgender themes and provide a dynami...
Posted: Tue, Mar 19, 2024 1:36pm PDT
BERKELEY LEAP YEAR Save the Park
We toured with the Brass Liberatin Orchestra and sussed capitalism and oligarchy...
Posted: Fri, Mar 1, 2024 2:00am PST
City of UC/Berkeley’s metal sculpture graffiti art wall's first opening reception!
City of UC/Berkeley’s metal sculpture graffiti art wall
project had it’s first opening reception Sunday 2/11/24!!...
Posted: Mon, Feb 12, 2024 9:38pm PST
Check out the Illusion Room @ the 4th Street Gallery North of Gilman & south of sk8park
I went to see the little pop up gallery to check out what artists in the community are doing. Weekends Noon or 1 pm? to 4-6?pm....
Posted: Mon, Feb 12, 2024 5:20pm PST
Street Mural for People's Park
Haste St and Bowditch St, Berkeley...
Event Date: Sun, Feb 11, 2024 1:00pm PST
Posted: Fri, Feb 2, 2024 8:26am PST
attention!! calling all graffiti artists!
City of/UC Berkeley has announced a new participatory art project!...
Posted: Mon, Jan 8, 2024 2:09am PST
Local activist interview on KALX radio in Berkeley
Photo of Lynda Carson in front of Subway Guitars holding a handmade guitar she built in the guitar workshop of Master Luthier, Ervin Somogyi....
Posted: Sat, Dec 30, 2023 6:24pm PST
RACCOON - new activist group seeks members
RACCOON - 'Radical Anti-Capitalist Collective Of Outrageous Noise"
is a new activist group in the SF Bay Area
it will be LOUD and CONFRONTATIONAL
It is seeking members - if interested email RACCOON@gmx.us
more info at https://sharetheworld.club...
Posted: Thu, Dec 28, 2023 6:50am PST
Ten thousand acts of graffiti vandalism in solidarity with the people of Palestine
A communique from a bay area anarchist writer engaged in an endless campaign against all forms of captivity and colonization...
Posted: Sat, Nov 18, 2023 4:34pm PST
Howard Zinn Book Fair 2023
City College of San Francisco
Mission Campus
1125 Valencia Street,
San Francisco, CA. 94110...
Event Date: Sun, Dec 3, 2023 10:00am PST
Posted: Tue, Nov 7, 2023 1:20am PST
Artists for Palestine "Fix" Israeli Propaganda Billboard in Oakland
Crew of Artists that refuse to have Israeli Propaganda pollute their communities....
Posted: Sun, Nov 5, 2023 1:36pm PST
Notes on Tell
Kyla Searle responds to an in-process showing of Tell, a new work of performance dancing towards racial healing. Co-Directed by Sarah Crowell and Keith Hennessy, Tell holds space for the vulnerability, beauty, and necessity of multi-racial collaboration...
Posted: Thu, Oct 19, 2023 2:57pm PDT