A San Francisco Bay Area Progressive Calendar Events and Other Notices Related to Progressive Activism
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See the film Milk somewhere other than at a Cinemark theater
Marin County: Weekly Creek Walks with the Salmon Protection and Watershed Network
Food banks struggle to meet growing requests for help
Sponsor a Family for the Holidays
Older Notices (on a second page)
Dec 4 Thursday
12:00 Noon SF: Treating Post Traumatic Stress in Military Families (a live video teleconference)
7:00 PM Berkeley: Our Environmental Destiny (Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.)
7:00 PM SF: The Truth about Anarchism and Class (meeting of the Alexander Berkman Social Club)
7:00 PM Berkeley: Cool Cuisine - Taking the Bite out of Global Warming
Dec 5 Friday
4:10 PM Oakland: The AK Press Annual Winter Sale
6:30 PM Berkeley: The Battle of Algiers (film) [New]
7:00 PM Berkeley: The War Behind Me: Vietnam Veterans Confront the Truth about U.S. War Crimes (author Deborah Nelson) [Newer]
Dec 6 Saturday
SF: Training for Transition (T4T) (two-day course)
8:00 AM Novato: Help assemble Warm Wishes backpacks for 5,000 homeless men, women and children
10:00 AM SF: Urban Composting (free class)
11:00 AM Campbell: Holiday Peace and Social Justice Crafts, Gifts and Information Fair [New]
11:00 AM San Jose: 26th Annual Holiday Peace Fair
12:00 Noon SF: International Day of Action for Climate Solutions (rally) [Newest]
2:00 PM Berkely: Common Agenda Regional Network (monthly meeting) [Newer]
2:00 PM Oakland: Project Censored Receives PEN Oakland National Book Award [Newer]
3:00 PM Berkeley: Toy Clinic with Free Lead Testing
3:00 PM Oakland: Yes we did - Now What? (Sam Webb, national chair, Communist Party USA)
Dec 7 Sunday
1:00 PM Berkeley: 23rd annual Holiday Appeal for Class-War Prisoners (PDF)
2:00 PM Berkeley: Black Rain (film on the medical horrors of post-atomic Hiroshima) [New]
6:00 PM Berkeley: Spirit of Activism Silent Auction and Raffle (for the Bay Area Coalition for Headwaters)
6:00 PM SF: San Francisco Bicycle Coalition Auction, Art Show, Party & Fundraiser
7:00 PM SF: Manos de Resistencia: Women Peacemakers in Colombia [New]
Dec 8 Monday
7:00 PM Corte Madera: Election Victory Celebration with Democracy for America-Marin and Progressive Democrats of Marin [Newer]
Dec 9 Tuesday
12:00 Noon Oakland: International Human Rights Day: A Call for Human Rights in Iraq, Haiti, US
12:00 Noon SF: The Global Food Crisis: Why it Happened and What it Means (World Bank advisor Dr. Christopher Delgado)
7:00 PM Oakland: Free informational workshop for folks interested in becoming foster or adoptive parents [Newest]
Dec 10 Wednesday
12:00 Noon Palo Alto: Human Rights Day Celebration (vigil and leafletting at Lytton Plaza)
7:00 PM SF: Gender Based Violence (films, speaker and write-a-thon) [Newest]
7:30 PM Los Altos: The United States and the International Criminal Court (Standord law professor Alan Weiner)
Dec 11 Thursday
5:00 PM SF: Holiday Party with BAYCAT (Bayview Hunter's Point Center for Arts & Technology)
6:30 PM Berkeley: The Garment Jungle (film - a garment-district noir with political underpinnings) [New]
7:00 PM SF: Capitalism’s Meltdown: A Left Perspective (Nancy Reiko Kato and Bob Price) [New]
7:00 PM Berkeley: Introduction to Urban Permaculture
Dec 13 Saturday
9:00 AM Oakland: Dancing in the Gap of Uncertainty (workshop) [New]
9:00 AM Santa Clara: Make the World of a Difference: Community Nonviolence Conference and Pre-Parliament Event
10:00 AM Oakland: Vegetarian Cooking Class: Healthful & Humane Holiday Cooking and Baking
10:00 AM Marin County: Steelhead Salmon Habitat Restoration
10:00 AM Oakland: Healthful & Humane Holiday Cooking & Baking
10:00 AM SF: KPFA Crafts & Music Fair
1:00 PM Oakland: What'S Really Happening On California's Death Row? (Stanley Tookie Williams Legacy Summit)
2:00 PM San Lorenzo: Amnesty International Group 612 Write-a-Thon [Newest]
Dec 14 Sunday
9:00 AM Point Reyes: Help restore and protect the natural communities of Point Reyes National Seashore
10:00 AM SF: KPFA Crafts & Music Fair
10:00 AM Berkeley: EcoHouse Workshop: Grow Edible Mushrooms at Home
11:11 AM SF: EcoHoliday SF - A Local Shopping Experience [Newest]
12:00 Noon Palo Alto: Holiday Peace & Social Justice Craft, Gift & Information Fair
Dec 17 Wednesday
6:00 PM SF: The sixth annual International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers (memorial gathering)
7:00 PM SF: Reforming Washington: Using the Internet to Impact American Politics (Lawrence Lessig) [New]
7:00 PM SF: SF Greens Holiday Party
7:30 PM SF: Economic Meltdown? Recession? Depression? What are we going to do?
Dec 18 Thursday
6:30 PM Berkeley: The Job (film - portrait of a young man captures the alienation of the working world) [New]
Dec 19 Friday
2:00 PM Berkeley: Demonstrate for Peace - Send our troops home now - Keep out of Iran (monthly demonstration)
Dec 20 Saturday
Saint Anthony Foundation’s 21st Annual Curbside Donation Drop Off (through Dec 25)
6:30 PM Berkeley: Zabriskie Point (film on the ’60s war between radical and straight cultures) [New]
Dec 27 Saturday
10:00 AM Marin County: Salmon Hike in Muir Woods [Newest]
Dec 28 Sunday
8:00 AM SF: Sea Watch for Endangered Species [Newest]
9:00 AM Point Reyes: Help restore and protect the natural communities of Point Reyes National Seashore
Jan 8 Thursday
6:00 PM SF: Scrapping the Health Care System to Find the Solution (Zeke Emanuel)
7:00 PM Berkeley: Berkeley Oil Independence Blueprint Report and Public Hearing [Newest]
Jan 10 Saturday
Costa Rica: A Rainforest Plant Medicine Council Gathering (ten days)
10:00 AM SF: Urban Composting (free class)
Jan 13 Tuesday
7:30 PM Palo Alto: Beyond Elections: Sustaining Our Commitments to Justice and Sustainability (Robert Jensen)
Jan 14 Wednesday
6:00 PM SF: Ron Suskind on Obama's opportunity and Bush's pre-Iraq-war knowledge
Jan 21 Wednesday
Pacific Grove: The 29th Annual Ecological Farming Conference
Jan 24 Saturday
1:00 PM SF: How to Fundraise in an Economic Crisis (workshop for nonprofit staff and board)
Jan 28 Wednesday
7:00 PM Berkeley: Learn How to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint
Feb 18 Wednesday
7:30 PM SF: Art & Politics: Doug Minkler
Feb 25 Wednesday
7:30 PM SF: Bees in the City

How to submit an event or other notice

To submit a notice, just send an email message to bapd@comcast.net. The message should either contain a single plain-text file or a single HTML file to post with minimal editing (no Microsoft Word documents), OR it should mention the URL of an existing web page for the above list to link to.

This table of events and other notices is compiled by Ken Cheetham.

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