The 17th Annual African American Community Health Fair

On Tuesday, April 20, 2010, the campus community will come together to celebrate the 17h Annual African American Community Health Fair! Students, staff, and faculty are invited to interact with on and off-campus social service and healthcare agencies, community groups, and individuals from the African American community. Free screenings including HIV antibody testing, cholesterol testing coupons (students only) glaucoma screenings, and nutrition assessments along with valuable information regarding health and self-care will be available from 10 am to 2 pm on the main lawn of the SFSU campus.

Please join us on this very special day!

For more information, please contact Albert Angelo at 415-338-3039 or at aangelo@sfsu.edu

nterviews with people involved during the Occupation of Alcatraz

COMING SOON: Full interviews will be available at the library.


Interviewees:

- Clyde Bellecourt (Ojibwe). Co-founder of AIM (American Indian Movement). Veteran of the Occupation of Wounded Knee (1973).

- Tony Gonzales (Seri/Chicano). Indigenous Rights worker. Leader of AIM West. Community leader and organizer

- Bill Means (Oglala Lakota). Co-founder of IITC (International Indian Treaty Council). Wounded Knee veteran. Co-founder of U.N. Working Group on Indigenous Populations.

- Lenny Foster (Dine'). Prisoner Rights activist. Wounded Knee veteran. IITC board member. Veteran of the occupation of Alcatraz and BIA. Spiritual advisor.

- Dr. Betty Parent. Former Chairperson of the American Indian Studies Department at San Francisco State University.

- Tom Goldtooth (Dine'/Dakota). Executive Director of IEN (Indigenous Environmental Network). Grassroots organizer and educator

-Ann Marie Sayers (Ohlone). Activist/educator. Leader of the Indian Canyon Band of Coastonoan/Ohlone Indians

- L Frank (Tongva) Artist/educator/activist.


Please check back for updates on the full interviews that will be available at the library!
www.romclibrary.org




"We Are Still Here"

By Mark Nicely in collaboration with Larry Sillaway

Located in the West Plaza of the Cesar Chavez Student Center at SFSU.

The mural depicts community activism, self determination, resistance and survivance of Native American people and the defense of native lands. It also makes a connection between the SF State Strike of 1968-69 and the occupation of Alcatraz.

16th Annual Cesar Chavez Celebration

Celebration in Honor of the continued struggle for immigrant workers' Rights

Thursday, March 25, 2010

12p-2p: Malcolm X Plaza
-speakers
-food
-music

2:30p-5p:Richard Oakes Multicultural Center
-Panel discussion on the relevance of Cesar Chavez's struggle, in the current political atmostphere.

All events are free and open to the public

Intersection for the Arts presents: "Open Process Series: Manufactured Manipulation"

Intersection for the Arts presents

Open Process Series:
Manufactured Manipulation

Tueseday, March 16, 2010
7pm
FREE

Amal Kouttab, Director of Community Initiatives at San Francisco Women Against Rape, will facilitate an interactive presentation in which participants learn to critically examine how the media promotes a “rape culture” and how this impacts our relationships with each other and with ourselves. The presentation will frame issues of sexual violence within the larger context of systems and institutions, while exploring how various forms of oppression intersect to create and sustain a cultural climate that normalizes sexual violence. This presentation is ideal for educators and anyone looking for tools to engage in creative dialogue about these issues.

San Francisco Women Against Rape provides resources, support, advocacy and education to strengthen the work of all individuals, and communities in San Francisco that are responding to, healing from, and struggling to end sexual violence. At SFWAR, they believe that no single individual, organization, foundation, or business alone can stop the epidemic of sexual assault, but by responding as a whole community, we each bring our piece of the solution. SFWAR provides a 24-hour free and confidential rape crisis hotline at 415-647-7273. SFWAR invites you to join them for their 5th Annual Walk Against Rape on April 24th culminating with a festival in Dolores Park. For more information or to register for the Walk Against Rape please visit their website at www.sfwar.org.

Amal Kouttab is a registered drama therapist, teacher, mediator, and filmmaker. She has used drama, art and writing to facilitate therapeutic groups in mental health settings, nursing homes, hospitals and drug rehabilitation centers in New York City and the San Francisco Bay Area. She obtained a bachelor's degree in the performing arts and women's studies from the University of Virginia in 1997, and a master's degree in psychology and drama therapy from New York University in 2001. For the past four years, she has facilitated therapeutic workshops with Palestinians and Israelis and other groups in conflict in the Middle East and the Bay Area. She has taught graduate psychology classes entitled Drama Therapy for Social Change at the California Institute of Integral Studies, where she developed part of the curriculum focused on internalized oppression. She co-founded the Araceli Theater Project based at San Francisco General Hospital, which rehearses and performs original educational theater pieces for people with cancer.


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This event is held in conjuntion with:

'The Bodies Are Back' by Margaret Harrison

Wed, Feb 10 - Sat, Mar 27 12pm - 5pm FREE

Margaret Harrison, renowned British artist and pioneer of feminist art, revisits the themes of her very early work exploring notions of the human body as an object of sexuality, consumption, and gaze. The Bodies Are Back consists of works on paper that Harrison produced in the late 1960's/early 1970's displayed alongside new works created for this show. In 1971, Harrison's work was instantly met with controversy and antagonism (the London police shut down her first solo exhibition the day after it opened feeling that its contents were too controversial). This controversy caused Harrison to abandon the issues and themes of this series. Now an established artist with work in the permanent collections of major international institutions, she is critically re-engaging with this body of work, continuing the dialogue that she began four decades ago.


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INTERSECTION FOR THE ARTS is San Francisco's oldest alternative art space and provides a place where provocative ideas, diverse art forms, artists and audiences can intersect one another. At Intersection, experimentation and risk are possible, debate and critical inquiry are embraced, community is essential, resources and experience are democratized, and today's issues are thrashed about in the heat and immediacy of live art.

We depend on the support of people like you. Please help ensure Intersection's future and become a Member today. To become a Member, simply click here to our secure server . For more information, please visit www.theintersection.org

Intersection for the Arts
446 Valencia Street (btwn 15/16), Mission District
San Francisco, CA 94103
http://www.theintersection.org/

The Art of Protest Reception at the CCSC Art Gallery

The Art of Protest: Reception, Thurs, February 11, 2010, 5p-8p


The Art of Protest Reception at the Art Gallery was a huge success!!! There was good food, a great band, and many visitors!!!

for more photos from the event, visit us on flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/47800946@N03/

didn't get a chance to go to the reception? There is still a chance to visit the Art of Protest:
Running Dates: January 25, 2010 − March 11, 2010


A TWO-PART EXHIBIT, “The Art of Protest” will feature historic prints from the College of Ethnic Studies Strikes of 1969 (Part I) and current student work of all media created in response to the budget and education crises threatening our campus (Part II). The gallery doors will open on January 25, 2010 with a display of archived silkscreen prints that convey the spirit of the times and serve as a reminder of the importance of creative expression. On February 11, 2010, from 5 to 8 p.m., a gallery reception and public forum will take place, at which time the silkscreens from the past will be replaced by the current student work. These new works of protest will acknowledge the victories of the past while keeping focus firmly on concerns of the present—lending a voice to the anger felt statewide.

Gallery Hours:
Monday – Friday:
10 a.m. – 6 p.m.
(or by appointment)

the art gallery is located on the Terrace Level of the Cesar Chavez Student Center

Gallery Manager:
Molly Cox
415.338.2580
artgallery@sfsustudentcenter.com
www.sfsustudentcenter.com/artgallery


CHECK OUT T.V. REED'S NOVEL "THE ART OF PROTEST" AT THE ROMC RESOURCE LIBRARY & ARCHIVE RM T-143 (inside the computer lab)



Lisa Lowe, author of Immigrants Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics writes:
"This impressive study shows that culture matters to social movements, and that social movements affect cultural and aesthetic practices. From the transmission of southern spirituals into freedom songs during the civil rights era to political theater in antiracist struggles, from poetry as a site of feminist consciousness-raising to mural painting within the Chicano movement, from rock music and the 1980s anti-apartheid student movement to performance art in ACT UP, Reed vividly demonstrates that cultural work has been a vital medium for imagining and acting for social change."

Safiya Bukhari Book Release-The War Before: The True Life Story of Becoming a Black Panther...

The War Before:
The True Life Story of
Becoming a Black Panther,
Keeping the Faith in Prison,
& Fighting for Those Left Behind

Foreward by Angela Davis
Afterword by Mumia Abu-Jamal
Edited, with an Introduction by Laura Whitehorn


Bay Area Release Event
with
Safiya Bukhari's Daughter, Wonda Jones
Editor, Laura Whitehorn
Former Panther, Kiilu Nyasha and other guests


Thursday, March 11, 7 pm
Women's Building - 3543 18th Street
San Francisco

endorsed by All of Us or None, California Coalition for Women Prisoners, Freedom Archives, Friends of Marilyn Buck, It's About Time & Out of Control


http://www.feministpress.org/books/safiya-bukhari/war

Safiya Bukhari Website to view other Bay Area and National events and read reviews:
http://safiyabukhari.com/

http://www.freedomarchives.org/Safiya_event.html