DAVID TALBOT: BETWEEN HEAVEN AND HELL: THE STORY OF MY STROKE (PAST EVENT)
January 27, Monday, 7:30 pm – The Hillside Club, 2286 Cedar Street, Berkeley (KPFA Fundraiser)
ouching, informative, sometimes funny, sometimes harrowing,
I couldn’t put it down Anne Lamott, NY Times bestselling author
My stroke did not just change my life. It saved my life.
So begins Between Heaven and Hell: The Story of My Stroke, the powerful memoir
By celebrated historian, journalist, and bestselling author David Talbot. Stricken with
a debilitating stroke at the age of sixty-six, he was left partially paralyzed, struggling
to speak, to swallow, to stand and required constant monitoring. And yet, despite
his startling new condition, he didn’t consider himself a man whose life was really
diminished. He was instead a man whose life was profoundly revived.
For the first time, Talbot invites readers along on his intimate journey through the
life-changing year following his stroke. From that fateful night in November, 2017,
through the harrowing journey from the ER to the stroke center, and ultimately along
his road to recovery, Talbot reveals the painstaking, yet strangely euphoric process
of restarting ones life. And in examining his frenetic past from the frenzied early
days as founder of the online media pioneer Salon, through his successful publishing
career and to his wild journey through Hollywood he offers readers an uncensored
look at a life both shattered and renewed.
Told with Talbots trademark candor and humor, Between Heaven and Hell is a
powerful reminder of how a major health crisis can positively alter ones identity
and shift ones perspective on life itself.
QUINCY McCOY, author of No Static: A Guide to Creative Radio Programing, is the
General Manager of KPFA Radio.
IAN HANEY LOPEZ WITH SARU JAYARAMAN MERGE LEFT: HOW WE WIN IN 2020 (PAST EVENT)
January 22, Wednesday, 7:30 pm – Kehilla Synagogue, 1300 Grand Avenue, Piedmont (KPFA Fundraiser)
With great clarity and thoughtfulness, Ian Haney López shows why the path
to a truly just society lies in a multi-racial coalition of poor, working and
middle-class AmericansPowerful, urgent, and timely.
Robert B. Reich
In Dog Whistle Politics López explained how coded racism in politics tears us
apart. He shows us how we can come together again in his new book, Merge Left.
Van Jones
Ian Haney Lopez teaches in the areas of race and constitutional law. One of the nations leading thinkers on how racism has evolved since the civil rights era, his current research emphasizes the connection between racial divisions in society and growing wealth inequality in the United States. In Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class (2014), Haney López detailed the fifty-year history of how politicians exploit racial pandering to fracture social solidarity and ultimately to convince many voters to support rule by the rich. After publishing Dog Whistle Politics, Haney López co-chaired the AFL-CIOs Advisory Council on Racial and Economic Justice and then co-founded the Race-Class Narrative Project, exploring how to defeat dog whistle politics. His most recent book, Merge Left: Fusing Race and Class, Winning Elections, and Saving America (2019), explains how the political manipulation of coded racism has evolved in the Trump era, while also offering an evidence-based approach to neutralizing political racism and building cross-racial solidarity. Haney López holds an endowed chair as the Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of Public Law at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also the author of White by Law as well as Racism on Trial, books that respectively critique the legal construction of white and Latinx racial identity.
Saru Jayaraman is the President of One Fair Wage, Co-Founder of the Restaurant Opportunities Centers United (ROC United), and Director of the Food Labor Research Center at University of California, Berkeley. Saru is a graduate of Yale Law School and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. She was profiled in the New York Times Public Lives section in 2005, named one of Crains 40 Under 40 in 2008, was 1010 Wins Newsmaker of the Year and New York Magazines Influentials of New York City. She was listed in CNNs Top10 Visionary Women and recognized as a Champion of Change by the White House in 2014, and a James Beard Foundation Leadership Award in 2015. Saru authored Behind the Kitchen Door (Cornell University Press, 2013), a national bestseller. Her most recent book is Forked: A New Standard for American Dining. In 2019, she was named the San Francisco Chronicle Visionary of the Year.RSVP
WOMEN’S MARCH CONTRA COSTA 2020 (WALNUT CREEK) (PAST EVENT)
Saturday January 18 10am – Civic Park, 1375 Civic Dr, Walnut Creek, Contra Costa County, CA 94596
OUR MISSION
Women’s March Contra Costa is a local movement dedicated to empowering, educating and mobilizing citizens of Contra Costa County to stand together in support of civil liberties and protecting our planet. As women, we stand in solidarity as the unifying force that binds families together and unites communities. Our focus is to support, educate and organize events providing meaningful connections, and to speak out against intolerance.
All community members dedicated to preserving human rights, respect for diversity and compassion for our shared humanity and planet are encouraged to participate and join together.
This year we focus on getting out the vote!
BLAIR IMANI – MAKING OUR WAY HOME: THE GREAT MIGRATION AND THE BLACK AMERICAN DREAM (PAST EVENT)
January 15, Wednesday, 7:30 pm – St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 114 Montecito Avenue, Oakland (KPFA Fundraiser)
Blair Imani enlivens African American history for a new generation with her
dynamic and thoughtful account of African American migration and resilience.
Jamia Wilson, Publisher of Feminist Press
Over the course of six decades an unprecedented wave of Black Americans left the south and spread across the nation in search of a better life. This migration sparked stunning demographic and cultural changes throughout twentieth-century America. Through gripping and accessible historical narrative paired with illustrations, author and activist Blair Imani portrays the largely overlooked impact of the Great Migration and how it affected and continues to affect not only Black identity, but this nation as a wholeMaking Our Way Home explores issues such as voting rights, domestic terrorism and segregation, along with the flourishing of arts and culture, new activism, and civil rights. She shows how these influences shaped Americas workforce and wealth distribution by featuring the stories of notable people and events, relevant data, and family histories. The experiences of such prominent figures as James Baldwin, Fannie Lou Hamer, El Hajj Malik El Shabazz (Malcolm X), Ella Baker, and others are woven into the larger narrative to create a truly unique record of this magnificent journey.
Blair Imani is a critically-acclaimed historian, outspoken activist, and dynamic public speaker. The author of Modern HERstory: Stories of Women and Nonbinary People Rewriting History (2018) she focuses on women and girls, global Black communities, and the LGBTQ community. She serves as the official ambassador of Muslims for Progressive Values, one of the oldest progressive Muslim organizations supporting the LGBTQ+ community, and she dedicates her platform to advocating for the rights of marginalized people around the world.In 2014, she founded Equality for HER, a non-profit organization that provided resources and a forum for women and nonbinary people to feel empowered. Blair Imani has appeared on television and at progressive conferences around the world. She has been profiled in Teen Vogue, The Advocate, Variety, the Today Show, and by Yahoo! News. From the United States to countries like Kenya and the United Kingdom, Blair Imani has inspired audiences around the world. In 2017, on national television she came out as a queer Muslim woman.RSVP
2020 CALIFORNIA PROGRESSIVE ALLIANCE ANNUAL MEETING (PAST EVENT)
Saturday January 11, 2020 8:30am-9:00pm – UC Berkeley University Pauley Ballroom 2495 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, CA
GUEST SPEAKERS INCLUDE:
Chesa Boudin, SF District Attorney-elect and progressive leader for fundamental criminal justice reform
Lee Camp, political comedian, writer, activist, and host/head writer of Redacted Tonight with Lee Camp on RT America
Aaron Glantz, award-winning journalist, senior reporter with Reveal News, and author of HOMEWRECKERS
Donté Clark, SF Bay Area spoken word artist, performer, and author of a collection of his poems called KNOWFREEDOM
Jane Kim, California Political Director for Bernie Sanders for President 2020, and Senior Fellow at the Young Elected Officials Network
Kshama Sawant, Seattle City Council Member, Socialist, member of Socialist Alternative, and a member of American Federation of Teachers 1789
You won’t want to miss an exciting panel discussion on California Progressives – Unifying and Mobilizing for the Work Ahead!
THE PANEL WILL FEATURE:
Cat Brooks (moderator), KPFA co-host of UpFront, former Oakland mayoral candidate, and long-time performer, organizer and activist
Maureen Cruise, RN, Director of Healthcare for All– Los Angeles Chapter
Manuel Barajas, Professor of sociology at CSU-Sacramento and Chair of the Task Force on the Center for Race, Immigration and Social Justice
Trinity Tran, Co-founder and lead organizer of California Public Banking Alliance, Public Bank LA and Divest LA
Estee Chandler, Board member of Jewish Voice for Peace Action (JVPA) and host/producer of KPFK’s Middle East in Focus
Ben Grieff, Campaign Director for Evolve California (campaign to restore funding for California’s public schools by reforming Prop 13)
Mari Rose Taruc, Coordinator of California Utility Justice Campaign and organizer for environmental justice and climate solutions
NO WAR WITH IRAN – RAPID RESPONSE RALLY (PAST EVENT)
Thursday, January 9, 4:00 PM – Corner of Civic Dr. and Ygnacio Valley Rd. in Walnut Creek, CA
Assassinations don’t make us safer and Trump’s unhinged foreign policy has needlessly endangered the lives of U.S. troops and Iraqi, Iranian, and countless other civilians. We will not be led into another illegal war.
Join one of the hundreds of demonstrations happening across the country today to say: No War with Iran. Let’s make the anti-war, pro-diplomacy majority of Americans visible and loud. Where Trump acts with ignorance, fear, war, and moral weakness, we will show up with diplomacy and political courage. We are the majority, we stand united, and we oppose Trump’s war with Iran.
FRUITVALE VIGIL TO MARK 11TH ANNIVERSARY OF OSCAR GRANT’S DEATH (PAST EVENT)
Wednesday January 1, 2020 Noon-4pm – Fruitvale BART station
ALAMEDA COUNTY, CA — A vigil was planned for Wednesday at the Fruitvale BART station to mark the 11th anniversary of the fatal shooting of Oscar Grant III by a BART police officer.
The noon rally at the station at 3401 E. 12th St. will celebrate the life of Grant, who was fatally shot by former BART police Officer Johannes Mehserle on New Year’s Day in 2009.
It is being organized by the Oscar Grant Foundation, which is headed by Grant’s mother, the Rev. Wanda Johnson.
A mural of Grant was unveiled at the Fruitvale BART station in June and a previously unnamed street next to the station has been renamed Oscar Grant III Way.
Mehserle was charged with murder and a jury eventually convicted him of involuntary manslaughter. He was sentenced to two years in prison.
**[Police Brutality Martyers](https://www.kerr2020.com/cms/police%20brutality%20martyers/)**
**[Oscar Grant Foundation (OGF)](https://oscargrantfoundation.org/)**RSVP
BLACK LIVES MATTER – ALL LIVES MATTER (PAST EVENT)
Sunday, Nov. 17, 2019 – 10:30am-12:30pm – 6501 Telegraph Ave, Oakland (just North of Alcatraz Ave.)FREE — but we will pass the hat to support ICSS — FREE
The Oscar Grant Committee Against Police Brutality and State Repression (OGC) was organized in the aftermath of the police murder of Oscar Grant on January 1, 2009. The OGC was formed as an ongoing multi-racial movement, organized democratically, building a united front with others to achieve justice and organize solidarity and political support to the families that have been victimized by police brutality. As part of their multi-racial strategy, the OGC combines the slogans Black Lives Matter and All Lives Matter, something which has generated considerable misunderstanding and controversy within our movement. We have invited two leaders of the OGC, Frank Runninghorse and Gerald Smith, to discuss their position on this matter.
For info or to subscribe to our weekly announcements, Call Gene Ruyle at 510-332-3865 or email: cuyleruyle@mac.com For our full schedule, go to icssmarx.orgRSVP
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