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  • Sharing Our Stories: Exhale Tour to Build a Pro-Voice Movement

    Posted Friday March 15th 2013 by Isaac Lev

    This February, Exhale, an Oakland-based nonprofit organization craeted by and for women who have had abortions, hit the road to build a Pro-Voice Movement with students around the country on their Sharing Our Stories Tour. The tour visited 13 schools in the San Francisco Bay Area, New York City, Chicaco and Milwaukee, connecting to over 400 students. Most known for their national, multilingual after-abortion talk […] Keep reading

  • Bay Area Radical history Project Kicks off February 28 at The Holdout

    Posted Monday February 11th 2013 by Jen Angel

    We'll be partnering with The Holdout, an Oakland social center, to promote a series of events exploring local radical history. It probably goes without saying that knowing the history of where you are is important. Our second, but equally as important goal (and the goal of much of our work!) is to move things off of the Internet, and create contexts where people are encouraged […] Keep reading

  • The Right Profile: Trevor Aaronson Booking Spring Dates on FBI Targeting of Muslim Communities

    Posted Thursday December 6th 2012 by Mike McKee

    After exposing the FBI's "manufactured war on terrorism" in his award-winning 2011 Mother Jones article, "The Informants", Trevor Aaronson has continued to explore the troubling policy of surveillance and entrapment directed at law-abiding Muslim communities. His new book, The Terror Factory: Inside the FBI's Manufactured War on Terrorism (Ig Publishing, January 2013), investigates how the FBI has, under the guise of engaging in counterterrorism since 9/11, built a […] Keep reading

  • Urban Farming is Not a Crime: Get the Dirt on Novella Carpenter

    Posted Tuesday November 20th 2012 by Mike McKee

    While the Bay Area garnered headlines throughout the 1990s as an epicenter of unconventional food distribution thanks to Food Not Bombs, in more recent years, the focus has shifted to unconventional food production--or, perhaps, it's more accurate to say hyper-conventional food production. That's right, getting your food the old fashioned way: growing it. Few in the movement have emerged as prolific, outspoken and recognized a […] Keep reading

  • Building a Pro-Voice Movement: Exhale Tour on Abortion Stories

    Posted Monday November 12th 2012 by Isaac Lev

      This February Exhale, an Oakland-based organization created by and for women who have had abortions, will set out on college campuses to connect with students, professors, and health staff to transform culture around abortion from one of stigma and shame to one of support and respect.    These women have shared their stories publicly on MTV, the BBC, and New York Times, and will be traveling across […] Keep reading

  • Bay Area Anarchist Bookfair 2013: March 16-17

    Posted Monday November 5th 2012 by Jen Angel

    When I lived in Ohio, every couple of years I would travel to San Francisco to go to the Anarchist Book Fair. Coming from a region where there weren't very many political bookstores or spaces, it was awesome to be able to see all the people and books and things that I could only look at over the Internet, all in one place. These kind […] Keep reading

  • Bill McKibben’s 20-city Fall Tour, “Do The Math”

    Posted Thursday September 20th 2012 by Jen Angel

    This Fall, Bill McKibben and 350.org will be are planning an impressive educational tour to urge action on climate change. The tour, titled "Do The Math," is based on McKibben's recent Rolling Stone article, "Global Warming's Terrifing New Math." From the 350.org website: "It’s simple math: we can burn 565 more gigatons of carbon and stay below 2°C of warming — anything more than that […] Keep reading

  • Filmmakers Bring Palestine-Apartheid Comparison to East Coast Campuses

    Posted Friday September 14th 2012 by Mike McKee

    Are there lessons to draw from the South African experience of Apartheid relevant to conflicts all over the world? The new documentary "Roadmap to Apartheid" explores these connections as they exist in the enduring Israel-Palestine conflict. As much an historical document of the rise and fall of apartheid, the film shows us why many Palestinians feel they are living in an apartheid system today, and […] Keep reading

  • Best African Short Stories: African Violet

    Posted Sunday September 9th 2012 by Isaac Lev

    African Violet, a compilation of stories from the 12th annual Caine Prize for African Writing, is our first endeavor into fiction writing. The Caine Prize has been called "The near-infallible early-warning system for new African talent," and reading this year's collection, we can see why.  The book starts with a punch from prize-winner Rotimi Babatunde: The old jailhouse on the hilltop had remained unihabited for many […] Keep reading

  • Sept 12, New York City: Chris Hedges debates Crimethinc on Diversity of Tactics

    Posted Thursday August 16th 2012 by Jen Angel

    We've been working for quite some time to get this event off the ground, and we're finally ready to make the announcement! This debate is important - and worth having outside of the Internet. Please help spread the word to friends in and near NYC so they can attend in person, and stay tuned for a livestream link. Occupy Tactics: Violence and Legitimacy in the […] Keep reading