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This Bay Area Events Calendar is compiled by Global Exchange and updated daily at www.globalexchange.org/getInvolved/bayarea.php. Not all events are endorsed by Global Exchange. If you know of an event that is related to Global Exchange's work and is not yet posted, please email the information to events@globalexchange.org Featured Event   San Francisco's GreenFestival and GreenWeek! Sun, Nov 9, 2008 - Sun, Nov 16, 2008   12:00 AM San Francisco, CA Welcome to Green Festival™, a joint project of Global Exchange and Co-op America. We're celebrating what's working in our communities-for people, business and the environment. Join us at the nation's premier sustainability event in San Francisco for an entire week of activities filled with the best in green! *125 renowned authors, leaders & educators *350 eco-friendly businesses in a unique marketplace *Workshops, green films, kids' activities, live music & more *Delicious, organic, vegetarian cuisine For more information contact: Global Exchange greenfestivals.org click [view] to view event Wednesday, November 5th Wed, Nov 5, 2008      12:00 PM - 12:00 AM [view] Code PINK Alert Nov 5th: Revolt or Revolve! Berkeley Wed, Nov 5, 2008      6:00 PM - 12:00 AM [view] Climate Change, Water, and the Himalayas Nixon Peabody LLP One Embarcadero Center, 18th Floor San Francisco, CA Wed, Nov 5, 2008      7:00 PM - 12:00 AM [view] Performance and and discussion with Kayhan Irani, activist, artist and editor of the new book:  Telling Stories to Change the World Revolution Books 2425 Channing Way Berkeley, CA Wed, Nov 5, 2008      7:00 PM [view] AFTER-ELECTIONS PEOPLE'S MEDIA PARTY 390 27th Street, Oakland between Telegraph and Broadway Oakland Wed, Nov 5, 2008      8:00 PM [view] Post Election Bash.  The Coronas first show in the United States! The Boom Boom Room @ Fillmore and Geary, San Francisco Wed, Nov 5, 2008 - Fri, Nov 14, 2008      7:00 PM [view] Red Highways: A Liberal's Journey into the Heartland by San Francisco Radio Host Rose Aguilar San Francisco, Berkeley, Hayward, Capitola, and Sebastopol Friday, November 7th Fri, Nov 7, 2008 - Sun, Nov 30, 2008      6:00 PM - 8:00 PM [view] VETERAN'S VOICES k gallery 2513 blanding ave  (park st bridge) alameda Fri, Nov 7, 2008      7:00 PM - 9:00 PM [view] Can Unarmed Civilians Break the Siege of Gaza? Yes, they can. St. Joseph the Worker Church 1640 Addison St. Berkeley, CA, 94703 Saturday, November 8th Sat, Nov 8, 2008      7:00 PM - 9:30 PM [view] What Are the Causes of this Crisis and What Can We Expect from the New Adminstration?" 1550 Oak Street at Lincoln Alameda Sunday, November 9th Sun, Nov 9, 2008 - Wed, Nov 12, 2008      12:00 AM [view] Green Film Festival Roxie Theater 3117 -16th Street San Francisco Sun, Nov 9, 2008 - Sun, Nov 16, 2008      12:00 AM [view] San Francisco's GreenFestival and GreenWeek! San Francisco, CA Sun, Nov 9, 2008      8:00 AM - 6:00 PM [view] East Bay Green Tour Sun, Nov 9, 2008      1:00 PM - 3:00 PM [view] Medicinal Herb Garden Tour and Hands-On Workshop Alemany Farm and Bear Wallow Herbs Monday, November 10th Mon, Nov 10, 2008      3:00 PM - 5:00 PM [view] End this Endless War! MLK Park (Allston Way between Milvia Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Way) Berkeley, CA Mon, Nov 10, 2008      7:00 PM - 12:00 AM [view] Climate Change, False Solutions and the Road to Climate Action Niebyl-Proctor Library, 6501 Telegraph, Oakland (near Alcatraz) oakland Mon, Nov 10, 2008      7:00 PM [view] Global Justice Ecology Project Niebyl-Proctor Library, 6501 Telegraph, Oakland (near Alcatraz) Tuesday, November 11th Tue, Nov 11, 2008      6:30 PM - 12:00 AM [view] Readings from "Winter Soldier" and "Warrior Writers", testimony by San Francisco members of IVAW. War Memorial Veterans Building ROOM 223 401 Van Ness Avenue San Francisco CA 94102 Tue, Nov 11, 2008      7:00 PM [view] Do Tell Community Screening East Side Arts Alliance 2277 International Blvd Oakland Tue, Nov 11, 2008      7:00 PM - 12:00 AM [view] The Women of Color Resource Center Presents: Do Tell Community Screening East Side Arts Alliance 2277 International Blvd Oakland Tue, Nov 11, 2008      7:30 PM - 9:30 PM [view] Van Jones, Barbara Lee and Danny Glover: The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems First Congregational Church of Oakland 2501 Harrison St Oakland Tue, Nov 11, 2008      7:30 PM - 9:30 PM [view] The Green Collar Economy: How 1 Solution Can Fix Our Biggest Problems Aimee Allison First Congregational Church of Oakland 2501 Harrison St Oakland Wednesday, November 12th Wed, Nov 12, 2008      12:00 AM [view] Economic Justice by the Bay Reality Tour Wed, Nov 12, 2008      6:00 PM - 8:00 PM [view] Breema: The Art of Being Present with Jon Schreiber, director of the Breema Center. A complimentary workshop Breema Center, 6076 Claremont Ave at College in Oakland (two blocks NW of the Rockridge BART Station) Oakland Wed, Nov 12, 2008      6:30 PM - 12:00 AM [view] The Best of the San Francisco Ocean Film Festival Roxie Theater  3117 16th St San Francisco Thursday, November 13th Thu, Nov 13, 2008      12:00 AM [view] A Reality Tour of San Francisco's Sweatshops Thu, Nov 13, 2008      9:00 AM - 5:00 PM [view] One Day Teach-In on Synthetic Biology - The Bay Area's Next Bubble? Mission Creek Senior Community (4th and Berry Sts.) San Francisco Thu, Nov 13, 2008      9:00 AM - 5:00 PM [view] One Day Teach-In on Synthetic Biology - The Bay Area's Next Bubble? Mission Creek Senior Community (4th and Berry Sts.) San Francisco Thu, Nov 13, 2008      6:00 PM [view] Offshore Oil: Drilling Ourselves Into The Next Generation or An Environmental Catastrophe? Bentley School, 1000 Upper Happy Valley Road Lafayette Thu, Nov 13, 2008      6:00 PM [view] Building Livable Streets: Gil Penalosa on Reclaiming Cities for People The Commonwealth Club: 595 Market Street San Francisco Thu, Nov 13, 2008      7:00 PM [view] The Pink & Green Party! Medjool Restaurant/Lounge 2522 Mission Street San Francisco Friday, November 14th Fri, Nov 14, 2008      7:00 PM - 12:00 AM [view] Winona LaDuke ³Building a Green Economy: Indigenous Strategies for a Sustainable Future² First Congregational Church of Oakland 2501 Harrison St. Oakland, CA Fri, Nov 14, 2008      7:15 PM - 12:00 AM [view] Womansong Circle Evelie Posch, Sacred Song First Congregational Church of Berkeley 2345 Channing St (at Dana) Berkeley Fri, Nov 14, 2008      7:30 PM - 12:00 AM [view] Kung Pao Kosher Comedy Presents: The 4-3/4 Annual Cafe con Comedy Dolores Park Café,  501 Dolores St. @ 18th St. San Francisco Saturday, November 15th Sat, Nov 15, 2008      10:00 AM - 5:00 PM [view] A Workshop On How To Secure Land for Urban Agriculture Alameda County Public Health Department, 1000 Broadway Oakland Sat, Nov 15, 2008      1:00 PM - 4:00 PM [view] Open Mic in the Victory Garden Civic Center Plaza San Francisco, CA Sat, Nov 15, 2008      6:00 PM - 10:00 PM [view] Vukani Mawethu Choir's 22nd Anniversary Ubuntu Awards Celebration 1st Presbyterian Church, on 27th at Broadway Oakland Sat, Nov 15, 2008      7:00 PM - 9:00 PM [view] Amy Goodman: Standing Up to the Madness First Unitarian Universalist Church 1187 Franklin Street San Francisco Sat, Nov 15, 2008      8:00 PM - 12:00 PM [view] Holiday Celebration, Trance Dance & Satsang Bhakti Mandir (House of Devotional Ecstasy) 6225 Doremus Ave Richmond	Global Exchange is an international human rights group that relies on its members - tens of thousands of people like you - to work with us to create social, political and environmental justice. 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"A Black Family in the White House that Slaves Built" | The Bigotry of Prop. 8 | Why Racist Attacks Didn't Work

Rights & Liberties Newsletter November 5th, 2008 More from Rights & Liberties »

How Prop. 8 Could Dismantle My Marriage By Thanh Ngo, New America Media The passage of Prop 8 means my partner Andrew and I will be legal strangers once again. He will no longer be my husband. Read more »   Yesterday morning, several hours before the networks declared Barack Obama the new president of the United States, Michael Ratner, President of the Center for Constitutional Rights, wrote a short e-mail that captured the excitement of the historic election. "Lines are huge!" he wrote. "Obama will win. It is historic." A black family in the White House that slaves built. Yes, slaves were used in the construction of the White House. When I was a child this never could have happened. In the 50's when I visited Florida, even after Brown v. Board of Education, there were separate drinking fountains and bathrooms for Blacks. When Center for Constitutional Rights was founded in the 60's there were only three elected Black officials in the Black belt; today there are thousands. So we are seeing an amazing moment in American history. The sentiment would be repeated by many Americans over the course of the day, overwhelmed at the significance of the first African-American president. Today, where I live in Brooklyn, there was not a copy of the New York Times to be found. They'd sold out by 8am. Enthusiasm and relief over the election was tempered by news today that in California, Proposition 8, which seeks to eliminate the right to same-sex marriage, will pass. It is a bitter loss, even as the legal ramifications remain unclear. We may wish to believe that Obama's election means the country is starting to move past racism, but prejudice remains pervasive. Just as we can't rely on Obama to solve the mountain of social and racial inequalities that remain, neither can we sit back while same-sex couples are denied the most basic human rights. Be sure to visit AlterNet tomorrow for more on Proposition 8, as well as further analysis on this historic election. Thanks for reading, Liliana Segura Editor, Rights & Liberties     Why African Americans Should Oppose California's Proposition 8 By Sikivu Hutchinson, AlterNet Voting for Prop 8 is a betrayal of civil rights principles and a hypocritical denial of some of the real crises that imperil black families. Read more »   Surprising Last Minute Religious Rallies for Both Sides of CA's Proposition 8 By Karen Ocamb, AlterNet The final push both for and against California's proposition 8 to terminate marriage rights for gay couples was made by various religious groups. Read more »   California's Prop. 5 Could Change the Course of America's Drug War By Silja J.A. Talvi, AlterNet Californians have chance with the NORA initiative to reject decades of fear mongering and try alternatives to jail for drug abuse. Read more »   Racism Isn't Keeping Arab Americans from the Polls By Habib Battah, IPS News Despite discriminatory tactics attempting to derail their votes, huge numbers of Arab Americans will vote on Tuesday. Read more »   Rep. Keith Ellison on the Ugly Attacks Obama Has Faced in the Election By Liliana Segura, AlterNet The first Muslim in Congress, no stranger to the prejudice and fearmongering leveled at Obama, explains why these attacks ultimately fail. Read more »   California's Prop 4 Jeopardizes Doctor-Patient Relationship By Carole Joffe, Dr. Eleanor Drey, RH Reality Check Prop 4 would turn physicians into cops, eroding their trust with younger, teenage patients. Read more »   Daring to Dream of a Black President The Independent Some of America's leading black voices, including Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison, Spike Lee and Tiger Woods share what it means to them. Read more »   PEEK and Video: The hottest buzz and videos on the web     Same-sex Marriage Bans Pass in CA, AZ, FL By Joe Shaulis, Jurist Legal News and Research In bitter contrast to the election of the first African-American president, prejudice prevails on LGBT rights. Read more »   The Man Behind Proposition 8 By Max Blumenthal, The Daily Beast The reclusive billionaire, the mother of Blackwater's Erik Prince, and the drive to fund this year's most controversial referendum. Read more »   Cruel California Ballot Initiative Seeks to Keep Elderly Prisoners Locked Up Longer By Heidi Strupp, New America Media Prop. 9 asks taxpayers to pay to incarcerate those who cost the most to confine yet pose the least threat to public safety. Read more »   Mercenary Firm Offers to 'Detain Troublemakers' on Election Day By Lindsay Beyerstein, Firedoglake This is probably not the best sign for democracy. Read more »

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Michael Markarian: Animals & Politics

The Rural Vote on Prop 2 Posted: 05 Nov 2008 03:46 AM CST The factory farm corporations that spent $9 million to oppose Proposition 2 in California would have us all believe that urban city slickers just don't know what it's really like on the farm. They tried to romanticize agriculture and use farmers as spokespersons, even though these are the very corporations that have polluted rural communities and pushed family farms out of business. The vote on Prop 2 demonstrates that urban and rural citizens alike saw through it all. With 79% of the precincts reporting so far, the map shows that we didn't just win wide margins in Los Angeles and the Bay Area, but we also won solid majorities in rural counties with a heavy agricultural presence like Kern, Imperial, Riverside, and San Bernardino. The fact is, no matter where people live, they know that cruelty is just wrong. And the people who live in the closest proximity to industrial farm animal production know just what kind of impact these factory farms have not only on animal welfare but also on the environment, public health, and poverty. Californians from every demographic and every corner of the state sent a simple message tonight: All animals deserve humane treatment, including animals raised for food. And that's a message that will be heard in the Midwest, the South, and all across the country.

Update on Congressional Races Posted: 05 Nov 2008 02:26 AM CST The returns continue to come in, and HSLF-endorsed candidates in the House and Senate races now stand at 279 wins and 13 losses. We've lost some great friends of animals in Congress, such as Sen. Elizabeth Dole (R-N.C.) and Reps. Nancy Boyda (D-Kan.), Don Cazayoux (D-La.), Phil English (R-Pa.), Ric Keller (R-Fla.), Jon Porter (R-Nev.), and Chris Shays (R-Conn.). We were not against their opponents so much as we were for these incumbents who had been strong supporters and leaders for animal welfare. We will be sad to see these lawmakers leave Washington, but we will congratulate the victors in these races and hope to work with them, too, on humane legislation in the 111th Congress. We helped to reelect some of our greatest champions in Congress who were facing competitive contests, such as Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Mary Landrieu (D-La.) and Rep. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.). Many of our other champions cruised to reelection without much of a threat, like Sens. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.), and Carl Levin, and they will continue fighting for animals. We defeated some of the worst enemies of animal welfare in Congress, such as Sen. John Sununu (R-N.H.) and Reps. Tom Feeney (R-Fla.), and Joe Knollenberg (R-Mich.), and we look forward to having animal protection champions Jeanne Shaheen, Suzanne Kosmas, and Gary Peters replace them in Washington. We are watching about 20 competitive races that are still too close to call, including the Senate races in Minnesota and Oregon. HSLF is backing Republican incumbent Norm Coleman over Democratic challenger Al Franken, and Democratic challenger Jeff Merkley over Republican incumbent Gordon Smith. In the House, we are waiting to see if animal-friendly lawmakers like Reps. Jerry McNerney (D-Calif.) and Dave Reichert (R-Wash.) will hold onto their seats, and if challengers like Mark Schauer and Walt Minnick can defeat anti-animal legislators like Reps. Tim Walberg (R-Mich.) and Bill Sali (R-Idaho). In the open seats not yet called in the House, we are backing Democrat Frank Kratovil over Republican Andy Harris in Maryland's 1st District, and Democrat Charlie Brown over Republican Tom McClintock in California's 4th District. Harris and McClintock are two of the most extreme anti-animal state legislators in the entire country, and they share the distinction of being two of the only lawmakers who have voted against bills to ban the shooting of live animals over the Internet. We will be sure to keep you posted as we learn more. Expect a full wrap up from "Animals & Politics" after we get some sleep.

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