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SUMMARY:Healing Around Race: Creative Writing Workshop #2
DESCRIPTION:Struggling to process and confront anti-Black and anti-Asian racism within your social networks? Explore the healing power of creative writing! \nThe July 25th workshop focuses on “Stand Together – Creativity and Social Justice” \nEth-Noh-Tec storytellers Robert Kikuchi Yngojo and Nancy Wang\, poet Jennifer Hasegawa\, poet/KFPFA journalist Dennis J Bernstein\, poet/musician/KPFA & POO DJ Avotcja discuss how social justice informs their art. \nParticipants will be invited to engage in creative writing exercises around questions like: What arts do you resonate with and why? What are your creative outlets? If I could\, this is the story I’d tell. \nParticipants will be invited to engage in creative writing exercises around questions like: What are you thinking and feeling right now? How were you personally impacted by George Floyd’s murder and subsequent events. Have you personally experienced or witnessed anti-black or anti-Asian racism? What was your response? How would you respond differently today? How do you respond to stress? What are you doing for self-care? How to deal with parents and peer pressure? \nNOTE: The workshop will be hosted on Zoom and YouTube Live with a sliding scale fee of $5~$15 to help support our presenters\, organizers\, tech and labor costs. If you are interested in participating but are unable to afford the lowest ticketing tier\, please email programs@oacc.cc and we would be happy to work with you on making this event accessible.
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SUMMARY:Book Club: Have Black Lives Ever Mattered?
DESCRIPTION:Join Eastwind’s (virtual) Book Club! \nIn light of recent events surrounding the Black Lives Matter movement\, our July Book Club selection is Have Black Lives Ever Mattered? by Mumia Abu-Jamal. \nNew to the Movement? Fear not! Whether you’ve had many conversations about Black Lives Matter or this will be your first one\, we welcome you all to join us as we learn and grow together. \nThe book club meeting will take place via Zoom on Saturday\, July 25 at 3pm. Register to receive the meeting link. \nJoin our Book Club Facebook group to engage in conversation throughout the month: www.tinyurl.com/ewclub \nBook Club members can use coupon code BOOKCLUB2020 for a 10% discount at www.asiabookcenter.com \nThis event is co-sponsored by Eastwind Books of Berkeley\, OCA – Asian Pacific American Advocates Bay Area Chapters\, and Asian Pacific American Student Development (APASD). \n~ \nAbout the Book:\nIn December 1981\, Mumia Abu-Jamal was shot and beaten into unconsciousness by Philadelphia police. He awoke to find himself shackled to a hospital bed\, accused of killing a cop. He was convicted and sentenced to death in a trial that Amnesty International has denounced as failing to meet the minimum standards of judicial fairness. \nIn Have Black Lives Ever Mattered?\, Mumia gives voice to the many people of color who have fallen to police bullets or racist abuse\, and offers the post-Ferguson generation advice on how to address police abuse in the United States. This collection of his radio commentaries on the topic features an in-depth essay written especially for this book to examine the history of policing in America\, with its origins in the white slave patrols of the antebellum South and an explicit mission to terrorize the country’s black population. Applying a personal\, historical\, and political lens\, Mumia provides a righteously angry and calmly principled radical black perspective on how racist violence is tearing our country apart and what must be done to turn things around. \nAbout the author:\nMumia Abu-Jamal is an award-winning journalist and author of two best-selling books\, Live From Death Row and Death Blossoms\, which address prison life from a critical and spiritual perspective. In 1981 he was elected president of the Association of Black Journalists (Philadelphia chapter). That year he was arrested for allegedly killing a white police officer in Philadelphia. He was convicted and sentenced to death in 1982. In 2011\, after spending more than 28 years on death row\, his death sentence was vacated when the Supreme Court allowed to stand the decisions of four federal judges who had earlier declared his death sentence unconstitutional. He is now serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole. In spite of his three-decade-long imprisonment\, Abu-Jamal has relentlessly fought for his freedom and for his profession. From prison he has written seven books and thousands of radio commentaries. He holds a BA from Goddard College and an MA from California State University\, Dominguez Hills.
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SUMMARY:Saturday Night Special presents: (em)Power(ment)
DESCRIPTION:POWER. EMPOWER. EMPOWERMENT. Take your pick. This month SNS explores all kinds of power. From self-empowerment\, to empowering others\, to the powers that be\, to historical power. Personal\, political\, righteous\, economic\, systemic\, authoritarian\, power for good or ill. You can go big or small. The power to pick up the pen\, speak out\, make art\, make dinner\, change and grow\, the power to vote\, the power to choose. Choose what moves you. Share what empowers you. Or what has disempowered you. Write something new. Or don’t. I’m not the boss of you. \nShare your poems\, stories\, comedic sketches\, songs\, or dances\, on our (optional) theme (or any topic). \nEach reader will have 3 minutes maximum. For prose writers this is about one and a half double-spaced pages. \nJULY FEATURES: Thea Matthews & Cassandra Dallett \nSATURDAY\, JULY 25\, 2020\n7 – 9:30 pm\nHosted by: Hollie Hardy \nSIGN UP starts one week in advance\, on July 18. Requests added in the order received until the list is full. \nTo sign up\, put your request to read in the event comments\, or direct message Hollie Hardy. Please time your reading & keep it to 3 minutes max. \nALL ATTENDEES: To prevent being mistaken for a Zoom bomber and blocked\, RSVP on FB\, and use your real full name on Zoom. If you are new and unknown to host\, please reach out in advance so I can vet you\, and put you on the safe list. \nWe will be using the Waiting Room feature and only letting in people we can verify. \nZOOM INFO: \nMeeting ID: 969 9282 4045\nPassword: 838791 \nJoin from PC\, Mac\, Linux\, iOS or Android: https://cccconfer.zoom.us/j/96992824045?pwd=N215UTFaTUFaUUV5VUhadUc2Q1ZOUT09\nPassword: 838791 \nOr iPhone one-tap (US Toll): +16699006833\,96992824045# \nAUTHOR BIOS: \nBorn and raised in San Francisco\, California\, Thea Matthews is a queer Black Indigenous Mexican poet\, black feminist\, educator\, and activist. She writes on the complexities of humanity\, grief\, and resiliency. Her debut poetry collection Unearth [The Flowers] was published by Red Light Lit Press in 2020; and she has work published in Atlanta Review\, Foglifter Journal\, The Rumpus\, and others. Currently\, she is an MFA candidate for Poetry at New York University; and is the poetry editor for For Women Who Roar™. More info at www.theamatthews.com \nCassandra Dallett is a five-time Pushcart nominee. She has been published in over a hundred anthologies and journals. \nCassandra reads often around the Bay Area\, hosts the monthly writing workshop On Two Six\, is a facilitator at MOWW\, (Mills Oakland Writers Workshop) hosts The Badass Bookworm Podcast\, (iTunes\, Spotify\, Soundcloud\, Stitcher\, YouTube) and co-hosts and co-curates the quarterly reading series MoonDrop Productions with Kelechi Ubozoh\, as well as her own monthly Oakland based reading series\, The Badass Bookworm’s Lit Loft. \nAfter three self-published chapbooks Cassandra Dallett’s first full-length book of poetry Wet Reckless(Manic D Press) was released in 2014. In 2015\, she authored five chapbooks\, one of them\, On Sunday\, A Finch (Nomadic Press) was nominated for a California Book Award\, 2018 brought the release of another full-length collection\, Collapse\, also on Nomadic Press\, also nominated for a CA Book Award. Her most recent book\, A Pretty Little Wilderness has just been released from Be About It Press.
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Dan Pfeiffer\, Un-Trumping America
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we welcome Dan Pfeiffer—White House Communications Director under President Obama (2009-2013)\, Senior Advisor to the president (2013-2015)\, and co-host of Pod Save America—for an online discussion with Santa Cruz County Supervisor Zach Friend about his book\, Un-Trumping America: A Plan to Make America a Democracy Again. This ticketed\, online event is presented by Bookshop Santa Cruz and is cosponsored by Santa Cruz Indivisible. It will take place on the Crowdcast platform. \nPLEASE NOTE: This event was originally scheduled for March\, but was postponed due to Covid-19. If you already purchased tickets for the original event\, you are entitled to entry to this virtual event. If you purchased your tickets online\, please check your inbox for an email from Bookshop with information or click here. If you purchased your tickets in the store\,  please fill out the form linked here to register for the new online event. \nTickets for this virtual event are available for purchase on Eventbrite—click here! \nFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author\, cohost of Pod Save America\, and one of Barack Obama’s longest serving advisors: a sharp political playbook for how Democrats can take on Trump\, McConnell\, Fox News\, and the rest of the right-wing circus dominating American politics. \nThere is nothing more important than beating Donald Trump in 2020\, but defeating Trump is just the start of this timely book. Un-Trumping America offers readers three critical insights: First\, Trump is not an aberration\, but rather the logical extension of the modern Republican Party; second\, how Democrats can defeat Trump in 2020; and third\, preventing the likes of Trump from ever happening again with a plan to fix democracy. \nDan Pfeiffer is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Yes We (Still) Can and a cohost on Pod Save America. One of Barack Obama’s longest serving advisors\, he was White House Communications Director under President Obama (2009-2013) and Senior Advisor to the president (2013-2015). He currently lives in the Bay Area with his wife\, Howli\, and their daughter\, Kyla.
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