Music and Culture

Local events listings
All information last updated 2012-01

San Pablo bay area:
Sonoma State University -
"What's Hot in the Next 10 Days", public events in and around the campus:
[http://calendar.sonoma.edu/wv3/wv3_servlet/urd/run/wv_event.Whatson]


San Francisco bay area:
Bay Area Progressive Calender
[http://bapd.org/notices.html]
This list contains HUNDREDS of events for culture and empowerment.
From growing your own food, working with your community, arts and music, here you will find more than you imagined!

Viracocha underground venue in San Francisco
[http://northbayuprising.blogspot.com/2011/10/october-culture-calender-at-viracocha.html]

SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA ART AND POETRY CALENDAR
[http://www.sfheart.com/ArtPoetryEvents.html]

Longhaul infosop calender of events and gatheringshome of the Slingshot newspaper and annual planner book!
[http://thelonghaul.org/] click on "calender" at top of website

"Indybay.org" newswire and calender
what's HAPPENING in our Civil Rights movement
[http://www.indybay.org/calendar/?page_id=12]

EcoCalendar from the Ecology Center

[http://www.ecologycenter.org/calendar/]

Social Justice events from the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Berkeley!

[http://www.bfuu.org/events]


Alameda county [Oakland, Berkeley, etc.] -
Country Joe's open mic!
Every 2nd Friday Night of the month! • 7-9 pm
[http://www.countryjoe.com/gigs.htm]
* Signup: 6:30pm First come, first served
* MC: Country Joe McDonald (in rotation w/3 others)
* Terms: 2 songs or 10 minutes (whichever comes first)
* Sound: Steinway Grand Piano and House PA with multiple mics
* Info: 1924 Cedar St. at Bonita , Berkeley , 94709 | (510) 841-4824
Back in June 2008, Country Joe McDonald (of 1960s band, Country Joe and the Fish, fame) began hosting a monthly open mic in North Berkeley. Riding its success, in October, Country Joe's Cafe Music Hall opened . . . only to close in January 2009 as the economic climate made staying open untenable. Happily, Country Joe has found a new venue for his monthly open mic: The Berkeley Unitarian Church on Cedar. How many open mics are hosted by a bona fide 1960s Berkeley folk hero?

"Rock Paper Scissors Collective"
[http://rpscollective.com]
2278 Telegraph Avenue Oakland
(510) 238-9171
The collective offers classes on making your own clothes, art, and 'zines.
They also have a 'zine library!

"Dances on Behalf Of [D.O.B.O.] your Hopes, Dreams, & Worries"
Every first Friday Night of the month! • 8-9 pm
with Cynthia Winton-Henry
Cost: FREE • Love offerings gladly accepted
To Register: Just show up! For more info call 510/465-2797
Venue InterPlayce 2273 Telegraph Avenue (at 23rd St.) Oakland, CA 94612 www.interplay.org
Come to InterPlayce on the first Friday night of each month to chill, sing out, witness, move, or find center in a space where dancers, musicians, poets create art on behalf of your hopes, dreams, and worries for our world. Join hands with friends and strangers. Breathe, play a little, and drink in beauty and truth. Stay late for beverages. Take in the Oakland Art Murmur, a great gallery hopping event in the neighborhood.

San Francisco city -
On the Page, Off the Page. Poetry Open Mic with Diamond Dave!
We are back at the Library, and we have moved to Wednesday. On the Page, Off the Page. Open Mic Poetry with Diamond Dave. Food for the Body, the Spirit, and the Mind. Now the Second Wednesday of each month, downstairs at the newly reopened Park Branch Library. Come eat, drink, listen, perform. Invite your friends (both on and off Facebook)
S F City & County Park Branch Library
1833 Page Street (between Cole and Shrader)
San Francisco, CA

KC Turner Presents
[http://www.kcturnerpresents.com/home.html] 
[kc@kcturnermusic.com] 
Open Mic list:  Monday's @ Finnegan's [http://www.kcturnerpresents.com/products-group-23.html] 
Tuesday's @ Red Devil Lounge 
Wednesday's @ Max's [http://www.kcturnerpresents.com/products-group-24.html] 
Residing in San Francisco, CA.- KC Turner keeps busy by presenting live music throughout the San Francisco Bay Area; billing shows at venues & coffee houses, producing his own house concert series, hosting 3 open mics, representing & booking a handful of independent artists including Megan Slankard, The Welcome Matt & The Courtney Janes, helping connect people to new local talent, heading a songwriting club and strumming a few of his own songs from time to time. Turner consistently sells out shows at well respected San Francisco venues such as Cafe Du Nord...packs every house concert he produces & books national tours for a handful of artists...including himself. He has recently partnered with San Francisco radio giant "KFOG" to put on a series of house concerts representing the San Francisco local music scene while also raising money for "Music in Schools Today", a local organization that focuses on funding music education in public schools. In addition he produces 2 annual show cases at Bazaar Cafe called "Bazaar Stock", which is a free event that features 36 local musicians and also helps to raise money for "Music in Schools Today".

Haight Ashbury Peace Vigil
3rd Friday of every month, from 6:00 to 8:00 pm
Corner of Masonic and Fell, in the Golden Gate Park Panhandle, San Francisco,​ California
We will have our peace signs, music, candles, and snacks. Join us for the whole two hours or for just five minutes. Everybody welcome! Please dress for the weather.
 Pictures from past vigils can be seen here:
[www.flickr.com/photos/​haightpeacevigil]

Solidarity

Solidarity is a word which means a solid alliance, formed out of different types of people and groups to help each other out.  Solidarity between big-business and the government, to keep the money coming and to keep the majority of the People down, is called Fascism!
“The first stage of fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of State and corporate power.” -Benito Mussolini (1883-1945), 1st openly Fascist Dictator in world history.

Fascism? Read the "14 points of a fascist government" [http://www.ellensplace.net/fascism.html], written 2004 by Dr. Laurence Britt, a political scientist who studied the political process of Hitler (Germany), Mussolini (Italy), Franco (Spain), Suharto (Indonesia), and Pinochet (Chile). 
Similar to the empire of the old Soviet Union, the process of Fascism in the USA is used to protect a tyranny of military bureaucracy and corporate dictators from Afghanistan to Honduras. [http://friendlydictators.blogspot.com/2007_09_01_archive.html].
Domestic Fascism is an ongoing process in the U$A, designed to prevent any disruption to the balance of economic monopolies. Anyone is a target of investigation, anywhere there is an internet enabled device is a tool of surveillance. 2 million people are in prison, just like in the old USSR... [unitedstatesfascism.blogspot.com]

Cultural Solidarity:  

There are many groups and individuals in the greater bay area who are protecting our multi-culture, creating it from the grass-roots and defending it from Fascism's process of dictating from the offices of corporate executives what brand of sub-culture we subscribe to... 

From the ghettos of our metropolis to the vineyards out in the valleys, and in the minds of the liberated, we all know something is wrong. 

When we seek strength in the arms of our neighbor, in order to rebuild our communities, we must stand strong for our multi-culture and work together to create community empowerment. 

[Click on the following images for better detail. The images are gorgeous!]
Perception dollar, imaged above, and the following list of links are from [http://www.communitycurrency.org/perception.html] 
-[www.permaearth.org]  -[www.monetary.org]  -[www.thegreatturning.net]  -[www.gift-economy.com]  -[www.co-intelligence.org]  -[www.bioneers.org]  -[www.holisticmanagement.org]  -[www.ProgressiveRadioNetwork.com -[www.WiserEarth.org] -[www.eon3.net] -[www.vote.org] -[www.wilpf.org -www.newsociety.com] -[www.WakingtheGlobalHeart.com] -[www.SustainWellBeing.net] -[www.RainbowBody.net] -[www.PeaceProject.com] -[www.SacredLight.to] -[www.schumachersociety.org  -[www.communitycurrency.org]

Community Solidarity:  

These are places, people and groups in the bay area which are helping to develop sovereign communities, through localization campaigns and financial grants.
Note from Dr. G. - People of the Republic of California need to develop the sovereign alternatives to the paper money manufactured at a profit by the private banking cartel known as the "Federal Reserve, inc.", because "the fascists who have monopolized the money care not for the laws established by the People!!!"

Bay Area Community Exchange
[http://sfbace.org] 
We are a collaborative network supporting alternative means of exchange 

Bay Localize 
[http://www.baylocalize.org]
We inspire and support Bay Area residents in building equitable, resilient communities. We confront the challenges of climate instability, rising energy costs, and recession by boosting our region's capacity to provide for everyone's needs, sustainably and equitably. We achieve this by equipping organizers, entrepreneurs, and civic leaders with flexible tools, models, and policies that strengthen their communities.

Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment 
[http://www.calorganize.org]
State Office: 3655 S. Grand Avenue, Suite 250 Los Angeles, CA 90007 
Raising up the voices of low income, immigrant and working families across California 

Anti-Racism Committee
[http://www.nlgsf.org/committees/antiracism.php]
Regular Meetings: 4th Monday of the month, 6:30pm, alternating between East Bay and SF.
The Anti-Racism Committee (ARC) of the National Lawyers Guild promotes understanding among white National Lawyers Guild members about the centrality of anti-racism to social justice lawyering. Towards this goal, ARC works to support The United People of Color Caucus (TUPOCC) of the National Lawyers Guild and to implement The TUPOCC Alabama Manifesto principles of racial justice. Using a multi-dimensional framework of power and identity, we aim to make the Guild an anti-racist organization dedicated to multi-racial alliance building for collective liberation.

Center for Third World Organizing
[http://www.ctwo.org]
The Center for Third World Organizing (CTWO, pronounced "C-2") is a racial-justice organization dedicated to building a social-justice movement led by people of color. We were established in 1980 as a training and resource center that promotes and sustains direct-action organizing in communities of color in the United States. CTWO provides organizer training programs, including the model Movement Activist Apprenticeship Program (MAAP) and builds an active network of organizations and activists of color to achieve racial justice in its fullest dimensions.



Economic Solidarity: 
How "Free" is the "Free Market"? In a "Free" country, the People have the Power to defend the fruits of their labor. yet...
Why is the sovereign right to organize unions being given the "death-squad" treatment by agencies such as INFRAGARD [the FBI's union with over 500 corporations]?! and...
Why are monopolized business cartels allowed to flourish, while businesses which are small and profitable or even green are instead brought down by government interference, or even outlawed?!
Corporations have been using the process of Fascism to knowingly destroy the economic stability of the self-employed and the working class... it's time to organize.

Independent America movie.
[http://www.hulu.com/watch/105821/independent-america]

San Pablo Bay Sovereignty blog
[http://sovereignsanpablobay.blogspot.com/]

Hands Off Our Homes!
[http://handsoffourhomes.wordpress.com/]

Living Wage Coalition of Sonoma County
[http://www.blogger.com/www.livingwagesonoma.org] 

East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy
[http://www.workingeastbay.org]
An alliance which advances economic and social justice by building power and raising standards for working families. 

Young Workers United 
[http://www.youngworkersunited.org] 
[415-621-4155]  [youngworkersunited@gmail.com] 
P.O. Box 420963 San Francisco, CA 94142 
Young Workers United, formed in 2002, is a multi-racial and bilingual membership organization dedicated to improving the quality of jobs for young and immigrant workers. We raise standards in the low-wage service sector in San Francisco through worker and student organizing, grass-roots advocacy, leadership development, and public education. 

People Organizing to Demand Environmental and Economic Rights 
[http://www.podersf.org] 
474 Valencia Street Suite #125 San Francisco, CA 94103
[415-431-4210] [info @ podersf.org]
PODER is a grassroots, environmental justice organization based in San Francisco’s Mission District. PODER’s mission is to organize with Mission [San Francisco] residents to work on local solutions to issues facing low income communities and communities of color. PODER believes that the solutions to community problems depend on the active participation of all people in decision-making processes. Improvements to our neighborhood must be made through collective social action to bring about social, economic and environmental justice.  

Modesto Solidarity 
[http://modestosolidarity.blogspot.com] 
[209-690-7319] [modestosolidarity@gmail.com] 
Unpaid wages? Denied deposit? Unsafe workplace? Refused repairs?  Don’t let bosses and landlords use and abuse you!  We are a network of working people and tenants who work to defend ourselves through direct action and mutual support. Modesto Solidarity will help you get back stolen wages and deposits, get repairs made, and stop evictions. To become involved or to let us know of a problem at your work or with a landlord, contact us!

Santa Cruz Solidarity  [http://scsolidarity.blogspot.com][831-216-6321] [scsolidarity@gmail.com]
Santa Cruz Solidarity is a collective response to a common problem.
We are a network of people fighting against mistreatment by bosses and landlords. We are tired of being taken advantage of silently and constantly dealing with every form of disrespect.
We solve our problems through direct action, putting economic and social pressure on bosses and landlords to get what's ours. We use our power as a group to find solutions, instead of using lawyers or police to help us.
 We are a solidarity group. We've got each others backs, and we make it known that renter and worker abuse will not be tolerated. We aren't a legal group or social service.
There is no leader of Santa Cruz Solidarity and we make decisions as a group. We are not funded.
And our work doesn’t end here! We envision a world where power comes from within communities rather than being imposed from without. To this end we hope to unite people to become better at getting what we need.

San Francisco Tenants Union





Ecological Solidarity:  
San Pablo Bay EPA
[http://sanpablobayepa.blogspot.com/] 


Solidarity with Political Prisoners encaged in the U$A... and how to help them out!
Because of Fascism, there exists many types of political prisoners across California and the U$A, locked up in many types of prisons, including places where these people are regularly tortured, simply for their political beliefs.
Political Prisoners include "whistle-blowers" of government corruption, Labor organizers, "Patriots" expressing their belief in the constitution, those that are protesting war and fascism, and people who were trying to liberate their communities...
While the many THOUSANDS of Political Prisoners in this country are usually released after a sentence ranging from a few days to a few years, there are dozens of others who have been locked away for DECADES.U.S. political prisoners have endured decades of abuse, many face death in prison

The Jericho Movement 
[http://www.thejerichomovement.com/prisoners.html]
Jericho is a movement with the defined goal of gaining official recognition of the fact that Political Prisoners exist inside of the United States... and winning amnesty and freedom for them. 
San Francisco Bay Area: [http://www.prisonactivist.org/archive/jericho_sfbay/index.html] 

Prisoners of Conscience Committee
[http://www.myspace.com/free_em_all]
[http://socialjustice.ccnmtl.columbia.edu/index.php/Prisoners_of_Conscience_Committee] [http://sfbayview.com/tag/prisoners-of-conscience-committee]
Their Minister of Information [MOI] is JR, who is also the Associate Editor for the San Francisco Bay View newspaper and Host of Block Report Radio [www.blockreportradio.com] [blockreportradio@gmail.com], broadcast weekly at KPFA.  

Oakland 100 Support Committee 
[http://supporttheoakland100.wordpress.com]
[oakland100@gmail.com] 
Since January 7th, 2009, hundreds have been arrested for various forms of participation in demonstrations for Justice for Oscar Grant. Most were arrested for merely being present, as part of mass arrests. Others were arrested for crimes or intended crimes against property. NONE WERE VIOLENT. 

Prison Activist solidarity group 
[http://www.prisonactivist.org/archive/pps+pows/pplist-alpha.shtml] 

Defrauding America solidarity group 
[http://www.defraudingamerica.com/witness_list.html]  This is a list of "whistle-blowers" who were incarcerated for exposing government-corruption. 

Black Cross Federation solidarity group 
[http://www.abcf.net]
Information political prisoners in the United States and beyond.

Not My Tribe solidarity group
[http://notmytribe.com/solidarity/political-prisoners]

(Incomplete) List of individual Political Prisoners:

Mutulu Shakur  
[http://www.mutulushakur.com] 
Father of 2Pac Shakur 
"Dr. Mutulu Shakure Presents A 2Pac Tribute: Dare 2 Struggle" [http://www.daretostruggle.org/cd.html]  







Bradley Manning 
[http://www.bradleymanning.org]
In late May 2010, Private First Class Bradley Manning, an intelligence analyst with the US Army in Baghdad, was arrested, suspected of providing the “Collateral Murder” video to WikiLeaks, showing USA soldiers killing journalists and civilians. On June 6, 2010, he was charged with violating the Uniform Code of Military Justice, including eight criminal offenses and four noncriminal violations of Army regulations.  

Romaine "Chip" Fitzgerald 
Committee to Free Chip Fitzgerald: [www.freechip.org] 
"Join the fight to free Chip Fitzgerald!" article from San Francisco Bay View newspaper [http://sfbayview.com/2010/urgent-update-chip-fitzgerald-on-hunger-strike] 







Eric McDavid
[http://www.supporteric.org]
Eric is a local (Sacramento-based) political prisoner, currently serving a 20 year sentence in federal prison for “thought crime.” He was arrested in January 2006 (as part of the government's ongoing "Green Scare" campaign against environmental and animal rights activists) after being targeted by an undercover informant who formulated a crime and entrapped Eric in it. Eric was targeted by the state for his political beliefs, and his case is important for everyone who dares to stand up. He is currently appealing his conviction and his sentencing.
[http://politicalprisonersusa.blogspot.com/2012/01/2012-01-16-6-years-of-imprisonment.html]  



Lynne Stewart
"Lynne Stewart Defense Committee" [http://www.lynnestewart.org], 1070 Dean Street Brooklyn, New York 11216 
"Lynne Stewart Defense Committee - West Coast"  Coordinator, Jeff Mackler: 510-268-9429 






Erik Oseland
Part of the RNC 8, a group of anarchists arrested for "organizing" the 2008 Republican National Convention protests. After lengthy legal proceedings, Erik eventually agreed to a non-cooperating plea deal, agreeing to take the charge of "Conspiracy to Commit Criminal Damage to Property" (a gross misdemeanor). On October 20th, 2010, he reported to jail to serve a 2 to 3 month sentence.
Erik Oseland RCCF 297 Century Ave S. Maplewood, Minnesota 55119 
text adapted from press release from NYC Anarchist Black Cross Post Office Box 110034 Brooklyn, New York 11211  nycabc @ riseup.net  [http://nycabc.wordpress.com] 


Leonard Peltier 
[http://www.leonardpeltier.net] 
[http://www.whoisleonardpeltier.info] 
[http://www.freepeltiernow.org]    








Mumia abu-Jamal 
International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia abu-Jamal in Philadelphia: [215-476-8812]
[http://www.laboractionmumia.org] 
[http://www.prisonradio.org/mumia.htm]
[http://www.freemumia.org] 

2012-01-11 "William Singletary, 65, Courageous Witness of Mumia's Innocence" by Steven Argue [http://politicalprisonersusa.blogspot.com/2012/01/2012-01-11-william-singletary-65.html]

"Angola 3" 
[http://www.angola3.org]
"In The Land Of The Free" movie trailer: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2H8P33aXhc] 
Robert King c/o Kings Freelines 2008 New York Av. #B Austin, Texas 78702 kingsfreelines@gmail.com 512.473.0680 

Paul French 
During 2010-04-08, an anti-police demonstration took place in Olympia, WA. Over 50 people marched through the streets as a part of the West Coast Days of Action Against Police Violence. 29 arrests were made. Police attacked all participants violently, using pepper balls, batons, etc. One of those arrests was Paul French, who was convicted of "felony assault" of an officer, and is sentenced to several months in prison. He is currently in debt to the prison for medical expenses and unable to buy anything from commissary (not even a toothbrush).
To write to him, please write: Paul Joseph French C/O Thurston County Corrections 2000 Lakeridge Drive SW Olympia, WA 98502

"Liberation" by "erik_ruin" of the Just Seeds Artists' Cooperative, 2009. 

"The system is the problem, but it ain't just gonna change: the people must unite as one to break free from these chains." ~Dead Prez

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Free School

Currently under construction...

Northbay Free School is a de-centralized network of programs which offers the people an education of "Right Knowledge" including:
- Community building
- Small-scale agriculture- Personal expression and empowerment- History and global topics

Free School classes [updated 2012-01-15]:
Indoor Seed Starting Class
 Richmond Grows
 Tuesday, January 31st from 6:30-8:30pm
 Richmond Public Library, Community Room
 325 Civic Center Plaza, Richmond
 Cost: Free
 *** Please register at: http://richmondgrow sjan31.eventbrit e.com/***
 Get a head start on tomatoes and peppers! Learn how to start your vegetable garden inside to get a jumpstart on your garden. We will cover the basics, from preparing your equipment through hardening-off the seedlings in preparation for transplanting.
 For more information about Richmond Grows – please visit: www.richmondgrows. org/
 *** Please register for the free class at: http://richmondgrow sjan31.eventbrit e.com/***

Witchcraft 101
[http://www.meetup.com/Tailends/]
7-9PM, every 2nd Friday of the month
Contact: witchyzing1955 @ yahoo.com
Location: The Red Raven magic shop [http://www.redraventreasures.com/index.html]
1505 Louisiana Street Vallejo, CA 94590
(707) 558-0808
The Red Raven takes donations for the space they are providing, but none will be turned away for lack of funds.
What to bring:
*$2.00 to cover expenses, such as paper and printing.
*Paper and pen to take notes, a folder to carry home handouts.
My intention is to present a series of classes about The Craft. We will begin with a bit of history. From there we move into ritual and its elements. All throughout this will be a generous sprinkling of actual ritual and energy workings. And more, there's always more!


Other Free School networks:
Eastbay Freeskool
[http://eastbayfreeskool.wikia.com]

Free University of San Francisco
[http://fusf.wordpress.com/]
- The following video shows the introductions of the participants at the initial organizing meeting for FUSF: [http://charleskruger.wordpress.com/2010/12/27/excitement-san-francisco-free-university/]
- 2011-01-11 "Revolution 101 - CAREERS AND ED ISSUE: Free University of San Francisco takes a run at the system" by Caitlin Donohue from "San Francisco Bay Guardian" newspaper:
[http://www.sfbg.com/2011/01/11/revolution-101]

The Historic First Teach-in of THE FREE UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO
All courses here listed take place at Viracocha, 998 Valencia Street@21st,
the Mission District, SF, CA Other locations & courses TBA.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2011
...
Sat., 9:30-11:30 AM “Criminal Procedure and Sentencing”
Instructor: MATT GONZALEZ is an attorney and former president of San Francisco County's Board of Supervisors.

Sat. 11:30-1:30 “Jack Kerouac, Thelonious Monk and Jackson Pollack”
Instructor: ALAN KAUFMAN is author of Matches (Little, Brown), Jew Boy (Fromm/FSG) and editor of ‘The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry’ and ‘The Outlaw Bible of American Literature/co-edited with Barney Rosset (Basic Books/Perseus)

Sat., 2-4 PM “Vision and the Visionary Poem”
Instructor: DIANE DI PRIMA is the Poet Laureate of San Francisco and a Beat legend.
She is the author of 43 books of poetry and prose, including Pieces of a Song (City Lights) and her memoir, “Recollections of My Life as a Woman” (Viking/Penguin).

Sat. 2-4PM "San Francisco Labor History and the Great Strike of 1934"
Instructor: BOBBY COLEMAN is an attorney and co-founder of the Revolutionary Poets Brigade.

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2011

Sun., 9-11:00 AM “Restoring San Francisco's Urban Wildlands”
Instructors: MARTIN HOLDEN is a writer, restoration ecologist, and partner in University Press Books, Berkeley. SHARON BEALS is a Bay Area environmentalist and professional photographer, specializing in native habitats and restoration efforts. Her most recent book, Nest: Fifty Nests and the Birds that Built Them (Chronicle Books) will be in bookstores in May.

Sun: 11:30-1:30 RE/Search Publications: V. Vale and Charles Gatewood
V.VALE , publisher of RE/Search Publications and CHARLES GATEWOOD, legendary underground photographer will present and discuss. The books in the RE/Search library are a constant source of imagination, curiosity and challenge to all preconceived notions of the world. An abiding interest in transgressive lifestyles manifested RE/Search’s best-selling volume Modern Primitives, as well as Modern Pagans and Angry Women.
Presented will be a 25 minute DVD in which Vale explains the conception and growth of the ideas behind "Modern Primitives," as well as giving a small publishing history of RE/Search. San Francisco photographer Charles Gatewood has been studying and documenting alternative culture since the mid-1960s. In 1977, Gatewood began collaborating with V. Vale, and he was a major contributor to the Re/Search books Modern Primitives and Modern Pagans.

Sun., 2-4PM “Abolishing Corporate Personhood to Create Authentic Democracy”
Instructor: DAVID COBB was the Green Party candidate for President of The United States in 2004. He is currently a national spokesperson for Move To Amend, a national coalition calling for a constitutional amendment to abolish of “Corporate Personhood."

PHILOSOPHY COURSE SCHEDULE:

Monday, February 7, 6-7:45 PM:
TITLE: Marx from Modernity to Postmodernity (labor, time, fantasy)
LECTURER: Susan Shin Hee Park
OBJECTIVE: use a Cultural Studies approach to engage students in a discourse about a theoretical topic with immediate socio-political, concrete applications

Monday, February 7, 8-9:45
John Cage and the Spirit of Dada
Instructor: John Smalley
This class examines the life and work of American composer John Cage (1912–1992) in relation to the early 20th-century avant-garde art movement known as Dada.

Tuesday, February 8, 6-7:50 PM
Lecturers: Jordan Bohall and Elena Granik
Title: Critical Thinking (Introduction to Logic)
This special session of “Critical Thinking” aims to give a thorough understanding of the rudiments of logic.

Tuesday, February 8, 8-10 PM
Introduction to Nietzsche
Lecturers: Evan Karp and Andrew Paul Nelson
Brief introduction to the life of Friedrich Nietzsche, with a reading of select passages from various works with a special emphasis on Thus Spoke Zarathustra and a discussion on the themes and style that make this book so unique and important.

STAY TUNED FOR MANY MORE CLASSES, COURSE TITLES AND OTHER DETAILS....AND PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD ABOUT THIS HISTORIC OCCASION! Your attendance is your stand against the corporate privatization of university education. Join us!

About Us

Northbay Uprising Radio provides a counter-culture entertainment and information service for the liberated people of the San Pablo bay area (and beyond), featuring...
- a Showcase of North Bay talent, musicians, and poets, transmitting to an audience numbering thousands across the north-east San Pablo Bay.
- a journalistic enterprise with volunteer journalists, recognizing the right to an unrestricted and independent press as inherently protected and recognized by the First Amendment to the Constitution for the United States of America.


Northbay Uprising Radio is a collective of misfits who have written the following fictional accounts about themselves:

* Dr. G.  is a Lumpenproletariat Communitarian operator operating on 33 degrees of Reality, from such prestigious institutions as the "R.B.G. Communiversity" and the "Invisible College", and when asked to describe his practice, he says "agnostic gnostic sovereign organizing" [sovereignsanpablobay.blogspot.com]. Other folks, however, call him a "low-level terrorist", or other worse names just for doing what he feels. But that's all-right... cuz Dr. G. appears as he pleases on the streets, underground, airwaves and meadows of the San Pablo bay area, and is helping to create an independent and grass-roots culture as an alternative to the monopolized media cartels and their sponsors. His mission as a journalist is best summed up in these words: "Have nothing to do with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather expose them." -Ephesians 5:25

* Miss Demeanor is of international parentage, and legend has it her father was a Russian and her mother was of Romania, who escaped the downfall of their civilization and taken in by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea who had received them in open arms thanks to the Dear Leader and the Juche idea. In 2008, Miss Demeanor was kidnapped by imperialist pigs from Japan, but escaped with the help of "Joe, the Red Sailor", who had set her up on a fishing boat based at Vladivostok, where she was able to snag a small sailing boat with which she wandered the waves along the 38th parallel line back to her home at the Buddhist monastery near Haeju. Instead, she ended up crossing the Pacific Ocean to the Northbay in glorious North California, specifically North Richmond (along the 38th parallel line). There she befriended the local natives and spent the next 3 years fighting the class war on the front lines of Richmond with her companion Pearl Ann (a Cat from Altair-4) commanding a small armada of 8 boats (and 1 cat-sized boat for Pearl Ann), invading neighboring cities, including Oakland at Lake Merritt and along the Marin county coastline. At the Marina Bay Yacht Harbor, under the light of the petroleum gas flares belching from Chevron, the local fascists tried to kidnap her ("being arrested") and she was rescued by the 4th International Communist Party [http://redrave.blogspot.com] working within the local transportation unions. They arranged for her passage by boat to Vallejo, where she was given health insurance, lodging, and a vehicle. In Vallejo she was exposed to organized religion for the first time and, disgusted by blatant hypocrisy, decided to spend the summer trying to invoke Satan ("if he's real, why won't he help me out?") while listening to Lil' Wayne (and KMEL radio). She is now practicing the cleansing light of Juche-Buddhism [http://juchebuddhism.blogspot.com] and lives comfortably with the tribes of the Northbay, fighting the good fight on the airwaves and in the streets.

* Internship program:
DJ Jazzy Jeff 2nd (Vallejo High School)

Acknowledgments:To former NBU radio co-host "Reme-D" and his partner for helping design this beautiful blog and for having provided music, news and analysis.


All views and opinions expressed on any Northbay Uprising media is solely that of the producer, their guests, and their sources, and do not always reflect the views and opinions of anyone associated with Ozcat Entertainment.
Ozcat is headquartered at a community and culture center in Vallejo and is devoted to fostering independent culture in the Northbay, and holds a broadcast license for KZCT 89.5fm.Ozcat provides internships, non-profit solidarity work, community services, and more.

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Liberated Zones

What are Liberated Zones?
They are places, whether permanent or temporary, where liberated people can be themselves and create their own destiny, through art, music, media, political empowerment and by other means...
Anywhere independent thinking thrives is a "liberated zone," created by a liberated people...

San Pablo bay area:

The following links are to groups, people and media which all-together are creating the Liberated Zones of the 5 counties in the San Pablo bay area:

Map of the San Pablo Bay Area

Sonoma County:

KWTF Radio
[kwtf.info@gmail.com]

KWTF Radio is Sonoma County's newest community radio station. We are happy to join the diverse group of full power, low power, and internet radio stations that already serve the people of Sonoma County. We intend to bring voices and communities to the air that are not already represented, with a focus on local news, talk, art, and culture.

Groundswell
[http://groundswellsonoma.wordpress.com]
A workers and student solidarity network that supports working class people in issues on the job and with housing at the local grassroots level

Police Accountability Clinic and Helpline
[http://www.Pachline.org]

Petaluma Bounty
[http://www.petalumabounty.org]

Peace and Justice Center of Sonoma County
[www.peaceandjusticesonomaco.org]
467 Sebastopol Avenue  Santa Rosa, CA 95401
[707-575-8902]
Works to replace violence, war, racism, and economic injustice through active nonviolence as a way of life and as a means of radical change.

Occupy Petaluma
[www.occupypetaluma.com]

Occupy Santa Rosa
[www.occupysantarosa.org]

CRIC House (Center for Cultural Renewal Internship Center)

the Anarchist Bed and Breakfast and Retreat Center

part of the network of Willing Workers on Organic Farms

Sebastopol, near Green Valley Village, Sonoma County, California

[CricHouse.Blogspot.com]

CRIC.house@gmail.com

Phoenix Theater
www.thephoenixtheater.com
201 Washington Street
Petaluma, CA 94952
(707) 762-3565
The Petaluma Phoenix Center is a one-of-a kind, teen center and all-ages music hall, located in downtown Petaluma.
Our mission is to foster the emotional, physical and social development of the young people we serve by enabling them to create and engage in programs for music, the arts, and health and wellness, while preserving and improving the historic Phoenix Theater as a resource for youth and the community at large.

IMPACT! Petaluma
A group dedicated to empowering the working-class, youth, students and minorities in their area!
www.impactpetaluma.org

Arlene Francis Center for the Arts
A group whose purpose is to create alternative grass-roots art and events for the community!
www.myspace.com/northbayfac


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Napa Valley:

Students for a Democratic Society at Napa Valley College
People's Picnics, DIY ethics, fighting to preserve cultural studies...
Liberating the minds of one student at a time...
[no website, do a web search]

Slack collective 

964 Pearl St. Suite B

Napa, CA 94558

Radical space for counter-culture, with free movie nights, music shows, free school classes and more.

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Solano County: 

Ozcat community radio station and culture center
A place where all sorts of events are allowed to happen, from all-ages to exclusive, empowering the culture of the people to blossom.
[www.ozcatradio.com]

Gathering Of The Tribes


St. Vinnie's Culture Club
At the corner of Marin and Florida streets in central Vallejo
Monday through Friday from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m.
[707-649-0996]
Offering locally produced and fair-trade coffee from Moschetti's coffee roasting company
[http://northbayuprising.blogspot.com/2012/01/2012-01-18-three-women-create.html]

Musicians and Fine Artists for World Peace
Alan Moore, founder [415-424-7238] [bflyspirit8@aol.com]
[http://www.reverbnation.com/musiciansforpeace]
[www.butterflyspirit.org/projects/mfawp_list.php]



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Contra Costa County:

Diablo Valley Movement for a Democratic Society (MDS) /Diablo Valley College Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
Concerts, protests, information wars...
These students are real cultural warriors, and have done alot of work in liberating minds!
[no website, do a web search]


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San Francisco bay area:

"Between the storms" by Fred Rowe
2nd place award, Eastbay Regional Park 2010 photo contest

Alameda County [Oakland, Berkeley, etc.]

Long Haul infoshop and culture center
"The Original Liberated Zone of the Eastbay!"
3124 Shattuck Ave. Berkeley CA. 94705
(510) 540-0751
Monday~Thursday 6~9
Saturday 3~9
Sunday 3~9
[http://thelonghaul.org/]




Berkeley Flea Market
Every Saturday and Sunday.
1937 Ashby Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94703
(510) 644-0744
[http://www.berkeleyfleamarket.com]
The Berkeley Flea Market is owned and operated by Community Services United, a group of non-profit organizations working for the benefit of their community. Having a flea market each weekend benefits the community by providing goods and services to the public and supporting non-profit organizations that also benefit the community.
Real treasures can be found, secret knowledge, underground videos, books, homemade health products, and a magic drum circle which can manifest dreamtime visions...

the 924 Gilman Street Project
924 Gilman St Berkeley, California 94710
(510) 525-9926
[http://www.924gilman.org]
924 gilman street is a all ages volunteer run club.

The Holdout infoshop and culture center
Come hang out with community and collective members while browsing our radical literature selection, zines and books! Enjoy drinks and snacks and play some board games!

Phat Beets Produce
[http://www.phatbeetsproduce.org]

BioFuel Oasis [A worker-owned cooperative]
1441 Ashby Ave @ Sacramento Street
Berkeley, CA 94702
biodevas @ biofueloasis.com
510.665.5509
[http://www.biofueloasis.com]


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San Francisco city
Station 40 infoshop and culture center
3030-B 16th Street

Mutiny Radio
[pcrcollective.org]
2781 21st Street, deep inside the Liberated Zone of the Mission District.
(415) 341-1199
The place is actually a Cafe, with bagels and fantastic food. Enjoy!
Open Mon-Thu, Sat-Sun 7am-10pm; Fri 7am-12 midnite

Thrillhouse Records
[http://www.thrillhouserecords.com/sfStore.html]
3422 Mission St, San Francisco CA 94110
Hours: Sometime around High Noon to a little bit after dinner

Bound Together Bookstore
[http://www.boundtogetherbooks.com]
1369 Haight Street, San Francisco, CA 94117.


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Sacramento Delta:

Occupy Sacramento
[http://occupysac.com/?page_id=115]