San Francisco, California
Study Groups Events
Mark your calendar now for
Radical Women's 41st Anniversary Conference
October 3-6, 2008, San Francisco
Theme: The Persistent Power of Socialist Feminism
Speakers:Civil rights attorney Lynne Stewart and activists and scholars
from Central America, China, Australia and the U.S.
Key topics:Multi-racial organizing; the dynamic leadership of
youth and queers; women of color and immigrant women spark a labor
revival; declaring independence from the twin parties of war.
Workshops:Skills building for women organizers; political theory;
movement strategy and much, much more.
For more information or to register, go to www.RadicalWomen.org
or contact the Conference Organizing Center at
radicalwomenus@gmail.com or 206-722-6057 or 206-722-2453.Radical Women
Thursday, June 26th, 7pm
Marriage is Not Enough: Radical Queers Take Back the Movement. Celebrate the legalization of same-sex-marriage and commemorate the militancy of the drag queens of color who stood up to the police during the 1969 Stonewall rebellion. Featuring: Beck, a radical queer youth worker seeking to make ENDA inclusive; Poonam, board member of Trikone, the Bay Area’s S. Asian LGBT organization; and Anita O’Shea, a queer leader in Radical Women and Bay Area Coalition for Our Reproductive Rights. They will speak on the need to stop the sellouts of poor and working class issues by mainstream LGBT leaders and the necessity of building a radical movement that fights for true equality and not just acceptance. Bring your ideas and opinions!Come early for a fabulous summer buffet, with vegetarian option, available at 6:15 p.m. for a $7.00 donation. This meeting takes place at New Valencia Hall, 625 Larkin Street, Suite 202, San Francisco. (The office is located five blocks from the Civic Center BART station, and on the #19 and #31 Muni bus lines.)
Everyone is welcome! For more information, call 415-864-1278, or email CalRadicalWomen@yahoo.com.
Freedom Socialist Party
Sunday, June 22, 12:00pm
Freedom Socialist Party Meeting
Beyond the Dalai Lama: What are the Tibetan Protests All About?
Marxist feminist Nellie Wong will discuss the situation in Tibet and delve into burning questions found all over the headlines in recent months. What are the issues behind the uprising in Tibet? Does Tibet meet the definition of a separate nation from the People’s Republic of China? What are the debates and protests leading up to the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games? How does China’s rise as an economic power amid capitalist globalization affect working people and the poor within its borders and beyond? The public is invited to learn about, debate and explore these and other questions at what’s sure to be a fascinating discussion. Other international, national and local reports on socialist feminist activities will also be featured on the agenda.A delicious homemade brunch, with vegetarian option, will be available at 11:15am for a $7.00 donation. The meeting is free and takes place at New Valencia Hall, 625 Larkin Street, Suite 202, in San Francisco (at Eddy Street, near Civic Center BART, and on/near Muni lines #19, 38, 47 & 49).
Please call 415-864-1278 or email bafsp@yahoo.com for more information. Everyone is welcome.
Radical Women
Thursday, June 12, 7 pm
Attend Bay Area Radical Women's upcoming meeting and discussion--
And get ready for Radical Women's fall conference!
RW is holding an international conference October 3-6, 2008 in San Francisco! The theme of the gathering is "The Persistent Power of Socialist Feminism." Speakers from Latin America, Australia and the U.S. will examine women's leadership role in the global struggle against sexism, racism, homophobia, and the suffering caused by capitalism. Workshops on feminist and Marxist theory, the state of the U.S. union movement, immigrant rights, and skills training for women organizers will also be presented.
You can get involved in this historic gathering by coming to Radical Women meetings NOW! Learn more about what RW stands for, join the work and the fun, and plan to volunteer and to attend this conference with other feminists from California and far beyond. We want to change the world!
Come early for hearty dinner, with vegetarian option, available at 6:15 p.m. for a $7.00 donation.
This meeting takes place at New Valencia Hall, 625 Larkin Street, Suite 202, San Francisco. (The office is located five blocks from the Civic Center BART station, and on the #19 and #31 Muni bus line.)
Everyone is welcome. For more information, call 415-864-1278, or email CalRadicalWomen@yahoo.com
Freedom Socialist Party
Join a weekly Rebel Reading Circle on
beginning Tuesday, June 10, at 7:00pm in San Francisco and at 5:30pm in Berkeley
Learn about the proud, but too often hidden, history of Chicanos in the U.S. Discover a wealth of little-known information about organizing by farmworkers, students and Chicana feminists in California and beyond. Relearn the hard-won lessons of historic labor strikes and boycotts by the United Farm Workers. Discuss the still debated question of Chicano identity.
Books may be purchased at the reading circle or drop by New Valencia Hall, 625 Larkin Street #202, in San Francisco’s Civic Center area. The hall is open 1:00pm-5:00pm, Monday-Friday, and most evenings and weekends by prior arrangement—call 415-864-1278 to schedule an appointment. Or order online at www.RedLetterPress.org.
The reading circles, sponsored by the Freedom Socialist Party, are free and open to the public. Come to a few or all sessions. Choose the time and location that best fits your schedule.
The sessions will be held every Tuesday, from June 10 through August 5, in two locations: one in San Francisco, 7:00-8:30pm at El Cafetazo Café, 3087 16th Street (one block west of 16th Street/Mission BART); the other at UC Berkeley, 5:30-7pm, at Boalt Hall (School of Law), Room 382, Bancroft Way and Piedmont Avenue (east of downtown Berkeley BART).
For more information, email or call 415-864-1278.
Radical Women
Thursday, May 22, 7pm
Celebrate Asian Pacific Islander Heritage Month. Asian immigrant women in the U.S. workforce are one of the front runners for freedom in labor movements. Join us in this meeting to recognize the mounting resistance these women warriors bring against racism, sexism, and wage exploitation on the job and in building the growing solidarity of queers, people of color, and feminists.Come early for a hearty dinner, with vegetarian option, available at 6:15 p.m. for a $7.00 donation. This meeting takes place at New Valencia Hall, 625 Larkin Street, Suite 202, San Francisco. (The office is located five blocks from the Civic Center BART station, and on the #19 and #31 Muni bus lines.)
Everyone is welcome! For more information, call 415-864-1278, or email CalRadicalWomen@yahoo.com.
Freedom Socialist Party
Tuesday, May 20, 7:00pm
Freedom Socialist Party Meeting to discuss
A Socialist Feminist Take on the Economy
Tired of Wall Street’s gobbledygook explanation of the current slowdown? Using the Freedom Socialist newspaper article, “The Economy Needs a Total Makeover” (Vol. 29 #2), as a springboard for a free-wheeling discussion, we’ll talk about the financial problem facing the U.S. and ideas for creative solutions. The article is available at www.socialism.com. Bring your perspective to share!A delicious homemade dinner will be available at 6:15pm for a $7.00 donation. The meeting is free and takes place at New Valencia Hall, 625 Larkin Street, Suite 202, in San Francisco (at Eddy Street, near Civic Center BART, and on/near Muni lines #19, 38, 47 & 49).
Call 415-864-1278 or email for more information. Everyone is welcome.
Saturday, May 3, 7:30pm
Celebrate May Day at a book launch for “Viva la Raza”
Los Angeles feminist and archivist Yolanda Alaniz will talk about her new book, Viva la Raza: A History of Chicano Identity and Resistance, which describes monumental labor battles, surveys the vibrant movement of the 1960s and ’70s, and focuses unique attention on women and Latina/o lesbians and gays. The volume is co-authored with Megan Cornish and has a foreword by the esteemed Chicana/o Studies Professor and historian Rodolfo Acuña.A festive enchilada supper will be served at 6:00pm for a $9.00 donation. The event is hosted by the Freedom Socialist Party and the National Comrades of Color Caucus and will take place at The Women’s Building, Audre Lorde Room, 3543 18th St., San Francisco. (Near 16th St. BART or MUNI bus lines #22 and #26, between Valencia and Guerrero St.) Everyone is welcome. For information, call 415-864-1278 or email .
Freedom Socialist Party & Radical Women
Thursday, April 17, 7:00 pm
Special Guest Dirceu Traverso from Sao Paulo, Brazil speaks on
Brazilian Workers’ Struggles Today—
A call for international labor solidarityIn his only U.S. speaking engagement, Dirceu Traverso, a leader of the United Socialist Workers Party (PSTU) and an opposition trade unionist in the federal banking sector, will discuss the broad social and political fights that have unfolded under the Lula government—including the current battles at General Motors US-Brazil—and the formation of CONLUTAS to resist government attacks on the standard of living. Traverso served in the leadership of the Central Union of Workers (CUT) until in 2004 when he and thousands of other trade unionists split in order to form CONLUTAS—the National Coordination of Struggle.
Mr. Traverso will also discuss plans for the July 2008 Latin American and Caribbean Encounter of Workers to be held in Betim, Minas Gerais, Brazil. The gathering is being sponsored by the Bolivian Workers Struggle (COB), the National Coordination of Struggles (CONLUTAS), Batay Ouvriye of Haiti, and the Fighting and Classist Tendency (TCC) of Uruguay.
Delicious refreshments will be served before the talk at 6:00 pm for a $5 donation. Sliding scale and work exchanges are available for students and low income.
The event will be held at New Valencia Hall, 625 Larkin Street #202, in San Francisco (at Eddy Street; 5 blocks from Civic Center BART and on or near #19, #31, #47, #48 and #49 Muni bus lines). The hall is wheelchair accessible.
For more information, please call 415-864-1278 or email . Everyone is welcome!
Freedom Socialist Party
Friday, February 15, 7:30pm movie; 6:00pm dinner
Black History Month Celebration
Special movie featuring James Baldwin--“The Price of the Ticket”
This inspiring film about one of the 20th century’s greatest writers traces his life which began as a boy preacher in 1930s Harlem to becoming a writer in Paris, and later a leader of the 1960s Black civil rights movement. Baldwin wrote prophetically about race, sexuality, class and the necessity for fundamental social change. Americans of every walk of life have been influenced by this man's ideas whether they have ever heard his name or not. Come find out more about his life and heroic battle against racism.A homemade Southern Gumbo dinner will be served at 6:00pm before the movie. The film begins at 7:30pm. Door donation is $3.00 for the movie; dinner donation is $8.50. Sliding scale and work exchanges are available for low-income people and students.
The event will take place at New Valencia Hall, 625 Larkin Street, Suite 202 (at Eddy Street, near Civic Center BART and on the #19 and #31 Muni bus lines). The event is wheelchair accessible. For more information or childcare, call 415-864-1278 or email . Everyone is welcome!
Freedom Socialist Party
Tuesday, February 26, 7-8:30pm in San Francisco
Monday, March 3, 5:30-7pm at UC Berkeley
Weekly discussion series on
One Hemisphere, Indivisible: Permanent Revolution and Neoliberalism in the Americas, written by Guerry Hoddersen
We will read and discuss this recently published book that examines today’s anti-imperialist upsurge in Latin America, outlines the pivotal role U.S. workers must play in ending Yankee exploitation there, and concludes that socialist revolution is a real and vibrant possibility.The eight-session series will be held at two locations: one in San Francisco, every Tuesday, starting February 26, 7–8:30 pm, at El Cafetazo Café, 3087 16th Street (one block west of 16th Street/Mission BART); the other at UC Berkeley, every Monday, beginning March 3, 5:30-7pm, at Boalt Hall (School of Law), Room 382, Bancroft Way and Piedmont Avenue (east of downtown Berkeley BART).
The discussion groups, sponsored by the Freedom Socialist Party, are free and open to the public. To purchase the book in English or Spanish or for more information, call (415) 864-1278
