September 30 2020

GOLDEN GATE PARK 150TH BIRTHDAY

FROM NOW THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE SUMMER, 2020

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2020 marks the 150th birthday of Golden Gate Park, a historic place that has never been more beautiful or beloved.   You are invited to celebrate one of San Francisco’s most treasured and historic recreational, cultural and environmental resources throughout the year through it's website. Golden Gate Park is Everybody’s park! You are invited to come...


Hard Knock Radio

US Companies Exploit Workers

We speak with organizers Carlos Gabriel and Rachel Jackson about Tesla violation of the county’s shelter-in-place order that forced the electric car maker to cease vehicle production at its factories in California and ongoing attempts to sabotage employee efforts to form a union. We also discuss the upcoming general worker strike 2.0 scheduled for June … Continued


May 29 2020

FRIDAY NIGHT FORUMS

INTERNATIONAL LESSONS ON ORGANIZING SANCTIONS ON IRAN

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AROC [Arab Resource & Organizing Center] presents a forum on abolition and the Covid 19 crisis on Friday, May 29. For more information and/or to register for this event, visit the AROC website: AROC


May 29 2020

ROCKSTEADYFEST

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Marin County presents its 'First-Ever Free Virtual Concert and Music Festival.' RockSteadyFest is coming to you Live through Facebook this weekend, May 29, 30, and 31. This unique musical experience takes place on the RockSteadyFest and the Tomales Bay Youth Center FB pages, and Marin TV Channel 30. Free Youth Concert Friday Night, May 29,...


May 30 2020

Badarikashrama Event

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Badarikashrame has scheduled Maata Ki Chowki on Saturday, 30th May 2020 between 6:30pm and 8pm. Let us join together to pray to the holy mother.                        You are invited to participate via the following youtube live link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRlS48GtZbnSzpCkEbNwIUQ


We speak with Desi Danganan about the work of #FilipinosFeedTheFrontline, an alliance of Filipino food businesses and like-minded individuals and organizations that have come together to provide meals to heal their community. We also speak with two Bay Area artists Raw G (Gina Madrid) and Equipto about #CancelRent Festival. In 43 days,#FilipinosFeedTheFrontline raised  $83,757 from … Continued


When activists and advocates are up against a shelter-in-place order, when everything we usually do is completely impossible, who you gonna call?  That’s right!  Disability Justice!  Call ‘em now at 1-800-CRIP-POC-CRIP! Why them, you ask. Because over the past couple of decades activists with disabilities, in particular activists of color, have blazed a path of … Continued


Caroline welcomes Steven Donziger, indefatigable lawyer, lead organizer of 30,000 indigenous people in their class action suit agains Chevron for their apocalyptic degradation of Indigenous land in Ecuador. Chevron was ordered to pay $18 billion, later reduced to $9.5 billion. None of which has been paid. Judge Lewis Kaplan hired a private law firm to … Continued


COVID-19 is everywhere these days and no place has been hit harder than nursing homes. Estimates are that up to one-third of all COVID deaths have been in nursing homes.   But nobody knows for sure, because the federal government and many states aren’t collecting this statistic.  And, about one-quarter of people in those nursing … Continued