We have our incredible new Walk Against Rape website up! Check it out!
http://sfwar.org/walk/index.html
Set up your fundraising page here: http://www.firstgiving.com/sfwar
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Speakers Bureau / CI Presentations?
Hello AMAZING and FANTASTIC Volunteers!!
I hope you’re enjoying the sunny (and also rainy??) weather and having a super spring.
Here at SFWAR, we’re working hard and having fun as usual. We’ve been exploring some new and thrilling ways to engage YOU, fabulous volunteers, based on suggestions and requests we’ve heard from y’all.
So…how would you like to be famous? Well, in San Francisco at least. We’re looking at creating opportunities for volunteers to speak and present in schools, , offices, colleges, etc..
We have two tracks we’re thinking about, and your feedback will determine which (or both) we pursue:
OPTION 1: SFWAR Presentations: We train you on our 3 most popular curriculums—Healthy Dating, Sexual Assault Prevention, and Sexual Harassment (Jeopardy!). We work together on facilitation and presentation skills, and when you’re ready, you head out into the wild…that is, middle and high schools in San Francisco.
OPTION 2: Speakers Bureau. We work together to create a story or narrative to share in a panel with other SFWAR Speakers. The Speaker’s Bureau presents in schools, colleges, organizations, etc., and offers a dialogue and conversation about sexual violence.
So what do you think? Do any of these options interest you? What would be your dream? Share with me and we’ll try to make it happen! This is an awesome opportunity to build public speaking skills, community connections, and to create valuable conversations about sexual violence.
Please give me your feedback whenever you can!
With love and respect,
Isaak
Isaak Brown
Community Educator
San Francisco Women Against Rape
(415) 861-2024 x.308
3542 18th St. #7, San Francisco, CA
I hope you’re enjoying the sunny (and also rainy??) weather and having a super spring.
Here at SFWAR, we’re working hard and having fun as usual. We’ve been exploring some new and thrilling ways to engage YOU, fabulous volunteers, based on suggestions and requests we’ve heard from y’all.
So…how would you like to be famous? Well, in San Francisco at least. We’re looking at creating opportunities for volunteers to speak and present in schools, , offices, colleges, etc..
We have two tracks we’re thinking about, and your feedback will determine which (or both) we pursue:
OPTION 1: SFWAR Presentations: We train you on our 3 most popular curriculums—Healthy Dating, Sexual Assault Prevention, and Sexual Harassment (Jeopardy!). We work together on facilitation and presentation skills, and when you’re ready, you head out into the wild…that is, middle and high schools in San Francisco.
OPTION 2: Speakers Bureau. We work together to create a story or narrative to share in a panel with other SFWAR Speakers. The Speaker’s Bureau presents in schools, colleges, organizations, etc., and offers a dialogue and conversation about sexual violence.
So what do you think? Do any of these options interest you? What would be your dream? Share with me and we’ll try to make it happen! This is an awesome opportunity to build public speaking skills, community connections, and to create valuable conversations about sexual violence.
Please give me your feedback whenever you can!
With love and respect,
Isaak
Isaak Brown
Community Educator
San Francisco Women Against Rape
(415) 861-2024 x.308
3542 18th St. #7, San Francisco, CA
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
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Instituto Familiar de la Raza
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Mission Graduates
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Admin Assistant
Management Assistant
Instituto Familiar de la Raza
Human Resources Director
Mission Graduates
Outdoor Challenge Program Manager
Outdoor Challenge Trip Leader
Monday, March 15, 2010
Declaring Our Erotic
Declaring Our Erotic
Eight Tuesday eves. Begins April 13.
An erotic writing workshop open to all
Ever read through a sexy short story and thought, "I'd like to do that!" This writing workshop is for anyone who's considered writing erotic stories or writing about sex, or who'd like to get more comfortable doing so! No previous writing experience is necessary.
We each need safe space in which to be our whole erotic selves -- to delve into the fantasies and imaginings that we've learned or been told don't "go with" our public sexual identities. In this workshop we'll celebrate and struggle with the fullness of our erotic expression.
Each evening, you'll have the chance to try your hand at some explicit erotic writing. We'll write in response to exercises designed to tap into different aspects of our sexual selves: memory, fantasy, experience, relationship with the body, and more.
Don't be surprised if you find, as have previous participants, that you're more comfortable discussing your own sexual desires after practicing writing about fictional sex!
Eight Tuesday eves. Begins April 13.
An erotic writing workshop open to all
Ever read through a sexy short story and thought, "I'd like to do that!" This writing workshop is for anyone who's considered writing erotic stories or writing about sex, or who'd like to get more comfortable doing so! No previous writing experience is necessary.
We each need safe space in which to be our whole erotic selves -- to delve into the fantasies and imaginings that we've learned or been told don't "go with" our public sexual identities. In this workshop we'll celebrate and struggle with the fullness of our erotic expression.
Each evening, you'll have the chance to try your hand at some explicit erotic writing. We'll write in response to exercises designed to tap into different aspects of our sexual selves: memory, fantasy, experience, relationship with the body, and more.
Don't be surprised if you find, as have previous participants, that you're more comfortable discussing your own sexual desires after practicing writing about fictional sex!
Write Whole: Survivors Write
Write Whole:
Survivors Write
Eight Monday eves. Begins April 12.
Open to all women survivors of sexual trauma!
Transform your relationship with your writing -- and with yourself. For survivors in particular, writing freely in supportive and attentive community opens us up to the possibility of being fully heard in all of our expression, creative and otherwise!
In this workshop, write in response to exercises chosen to elicit deep-heart writing, and deal with such subjects as: body image, family/community, sexuality, dreams, love, faith, and more. We create new art and new beauty out of the difficult and complicated realities of our lives.
You'll be encouraged to trust the flow of your writing voice, and receive immediate feedback about the power of your words!
Survivors Write
Eight Monday eves. Begins April 12.
Open to all women survivors of sexual trauma!
Transform your relationship with your writing -- and with yourself. For survivors in particular, writing freely in supportive and attentive community opens us up to the possibility of being fully heard in all of our expression, creative and otherwise!
In this workshop, write in response to exercises chosen to elicit deep-heart writing, and deal with such subjects as: body image, family/community, sexuality, dreams, love, faith, and more. We create new art and new beauty out of the difficult and complicated realities of our lives.
You'll be encouraged to trust the flow of your writing voice, and receive immediate feedback about the power of your words!
10 good reasons why trauma matters in political activism from Jen Cross
10 good reasons why trauma matters in political activism:
1. We're not immune: We are behind the mainstream, which has long taken the issue seriously. Many of us still think we're not affected by traumatic experiences and that we don't carry all the shit we have lived through around with us. The truth is that we are human beings and our systems react to distress just like everybody else's.
2 It can sabotage us: Trauma impacts our ability to be efficient in our work and get along with each other. Developmental trauma (the way we have been shaped by hardship in upbringing and society) plays out in the way we behave in meetings, collectives, actions, demos... We have great ideas but are often stuck in deeply entrenched, unhelpful patterns of behavior. Raising our awareness around trauma can help us to align our behavior with our intentions and to free up a lot of energy.
3. We care!: About the planet and its people, and especially about our comrades. We don't want to leave them alone when they are suffering; we want them to feel our support. When somebody feels held, they are more able to really show up, connect with the people in their lives, invest their energy in the work, and take risks.
4. Knowledge is power: Understanding traumatic responses can help us understand dynamics in ourselves, in our groups and collectives, and even in wider society. Trauma patterns are also prevalent in history, especially regarding systemic oppression and internalized oppression. Integrating the lens of trauma into our grasp of history and the present moment is essential so that we can break the cycles and move beyond history repeating itself.
5. More resilient movements: After a shock trauma (meaning a major traumatic experience) people can be unable to function for a long period of time. If we help each other and ourselves heal, we can move through it. If we ignore it, the symptoms will last longer, people will suffer more, often ending up disillusioned and leaving political work.
6. Taking care of the whole person: Though wounds from traumatic experiences are not always visible, they are often more painful than physical ones. They are also often accompanied with great shame and guilt. We need a paradigm shift that takes us into account as whole people and that supports taking care of ourselves.
7. Trauma work is radical! One - Social transformation goes along with personal transformation. One without the other is bound to fail. Two - If we believe in mutual aid, it needs to include a basic understanding of trauma and social context, so that we can support others and ourselves effectively. Three - trauma work challenges old and often gendered belief systems and messages like "just tough it out", "pull yourself together", "boys don't cry", "women do the emotional work", etc. and gives us a chance to come up with new ways of behaving.
8. You're not alone: When we acknowledge trauma, we don't have to take everything personally anymore. Our psychobiological systems react to stress. It's normal. It does not mean we are weak or bad activists. Just imagine how much more powerful we can be if we can do away with identifying with our symptoms and focus on healing them instead.
9. Becoming strong: Healing from trauma can be empowering for yourself and the people around you. Working your way through it can give you greater perspective, meaning and strength. Especially if you feel supported throughout the process. Stronger people make stronger movements.
10. Compassion is a muscle: Exercising this muscle is crucial on our way towards social transformation. It counters the destructive socialization of western civilization that teaches us to avoid strong feelings and isolate, withdraw, consume, and become alienated. And it builds our capacity for a felt sense of safety and connection that fuels our collective strength in the struggle.
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Standing up for Education: Coming Together to Defend our Rights
:: SOUL SUNDAY SCHOOL ::
Standing up for Education: Coming Together to Defend our Rights
Sunday, March 14th, 2010 | 3-5PM
287 17th Street, Suite 225 (@ Harrison)
Oakland
On March 4th, students, teachers, and workers struck in a statewide-turned-national day of action to support quality and affordable public education. Throughout the school year, this broad, multigenerational coalition has continued to find common ground in defending public education against deep budget cuts, job losses, and fee hikes.
SOUL, the School of Unity & Liberation, invites you on March 14th, 3:00-5:00PM to a Sunday School conversation about the upsurge in educational activism and its potential for transforming our campuses and our communities. We will discuss the progress of recent actions across the Bay Area as well as the future possibilities for this growing effort to address California’s systemic problems.
We will be joined by involved students, faculty and staff from area schools such as SF State, UC Berkeley, CSU East Bay, and UC Santa Cruz as well as representatives from Bay Area youth and community organizations.
For more information and to RSVP, please email info@schoolofunityandliberation.org or find SOUL at www.facebook.com/schoolofunityandliberation
Standing up for Education: Coming Together to Defend our Rights
Sunday, March 14th, 2010 | 3-5PM
287 17th Street, Suite 225 (@ Harrison)
Oakland
On March 4th, students, teachers, and workers struck in a statewide-turned-national day of action to support quality and affordable public education. Throughout the school year, this broad, multigenerational coalition has continued to find common ground in defending public education against deep budget cuts, job losses, and fee hikes.
SOUL, the School of Unity & Liberation, invites you on March 14th, 3:00-5:00PM to a Sunday School conversation about the upsurge in educational activism and its potential for transforming our campuses and our communities. We will discuss the progress of recent actions across the Bay Area as well as the future possibilities for this growing effort to address California’s systemic problems.
We will be joined by involved students, faculty and staff from area schools such as SF State, UC Berkeley, CSU East Bay, and UC Santa Cruz as well as representatives from Bay Area youth and community organizations.
For more information and to RSVP, please email info@schoolofunityandliberation.org or find SOUL at www.facebook.com/schoolofunityandliberation
Poemsong for Liberation: A Poetry Workshop
Sins Invalid presents:
Facilitated by Vanessa Huang and Leroy Moore
Sunday, April 18th, 2010, 3 – 6 pm
Brava Theater Center
2781 24th St. at York Street, San Francisco
Cost: Free
Facilitated by Vanessa Huang and Leroy Moore
Sunday, April 18th, 2010, 3 – 6 pm
Brava Theater Center
2781 24th St. at York Street, San Francisco
Cost: Free
Poetry is not a luxury: “it is through poetry that we give name to those ideas which are – until the poem – nameless and formless, about to be birthed, but already felt” (Audre Lorde)
This workshop will invite participants to deepen our truth-telling practice in community, through poetry. We will explore and write poetry of necessity.
About the workshop leaders:
VANESSA HUANG is a poet, writer, filmmaker, cellist, community organizer, and consultant who has worked to integrate cultural work and digital/social media with leadership development and movement building from the margins. She is a recent finalist for the 2010 Poets & Writers California Writers Exchange Award.
LEROY F. MOORE JR is a Black disabled writer, poet, and community activist who has authored a spoken word CD and chapbook entitled Black Disabled Man with a Big Mouth & a High IQ and created the Krip-Hop Mixtape Project. He is a cofounder of and frequent performer in Sins Invalid.
Sins Invalid is a performance project that incubates and celebrates artists with disabilities, centralizing artists of color and queer and gender-variant artists as communities who have been historically marginalized. Our performance work explores the themes of sexuality, embodiment and the disabled body where normative paradigms of “normal” and “sexy” are challenged, offering instead a vision of beauty and sexuality inclusive of all individuals and communities.
This event is wheelchair accessible. Although we cannot guarantee a scent free environment, we ask that people please refrain from using scented products for this event. Our workshops are open to anyone who is interested in exploring the intersection and disability and embodiment. Limit: 20 participants. If space becomes limited, we are prioritizing participants who identify as having a disability. For more information and/or to enroll, please contact: info@sinsinvalid.org or call 510-689-7198.
Angela Davis: Radical Pedagogy
‘Angela Davis: Radical Pedagogy,’ film by Angela Carroll
Read the interview and watch the trailer at Filmmaker Angela Carroll on her new film ‘Angela Y. Davis: Radical Pedagogy.’ Screenings and Q&A with the filmmaker are
Read the interview and watch the trailer at Filmmaker Angela Carroll on her new film ‘Angela Y. Davis: Radical Pedagogy.’ Screenings and Q&A with the filmmaker are
- Wednesday, March 10, 1-3 p.m., in the
- Wednesday, March 10, 6-7 p.m. and 7-8 p.m., at the
- Friday, March 12, 8-9 p.m. and 9-10 p.m., also at the
Open Process Series: Manufactured Manipulation
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Amal Kouttab, Director of Community Initiatives at San Francisco Women Against Rape, will facilitate an interactive presentation in which participants learn to critically examine how the media promotes a “rape culture” and how this impacts our relationships with each other and with ourselves. The presentation will frame issues of sexual violence within the larger context of systems and institutions, while exploring how various forms of oppression intersect to create and sustain a cultural climate that normalizes sexual violence. This presentation is ideal for educators and anyone looking for tools to engage in creative dialogue about these issues. San Francisco Women Against Rape provides resources, support, advocacy and education to strengthen the work of all individuals, and communities in San Francisco that are responding to, healing from, and struggling to end sexual violence. At SFWAR, they believe that no single individual, organization, foundation, or business alone can stop the epidemic of sexual assault, but by responding as a whole community, we each bring our piece of the solution. SFWAR provides a 24-hour free and confidential rape crisis hotline at 415-647-7273. SFWAR invites you to join them for their 5th Annual Walk Against Rape on April 24th culminating with a festival in Dolores Park. For more information or to register for the Walk Against Rape please visit their website at www.sfwar.org. Amal Kouttab is a registered drama therapist, teacher, mediator, and filmmaker. She has used drama, art and writing to facilitate therapeutic groups in mental health settings, nursing homes, hospitals and drug rehabilitation centers in New York City and the San Francisco Bay Area. She obtained a bachelor's degree in the performing arts and women's studies from the University of Virginia in 1997, and a master's degree in psychology and drama therapy from New York University in 2001. For the past four years, she has facilitated therapeutic workshops with Palestinians and Israelis and other groups in conflict in the Middle East and the Bay Area. She has taught graduate psychology classes entitled Drama Therapy for Social Change at the California Institute of Integral Studies, where she developed part of the curriculum focused on internalized oppression. She co-founded the Araceli Theater Project based at San Francisco General Hospital, which rehearses and performs original educational theater pieces for people with cancer. |
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Article: It’s Official: Women of Color Feel Impact of Racial Wealth Gap The Worst
It always helps to have research to confirm what you already know about racial inequity in America. But occasionally, even when the news is not new, the findings turn out to be appallingly dire, shocking even to the sensibilities of cynical people who find it hard to be surprised anymore. (That would be this blogger.)
Such is the case with the latest report on women of color and the racial wealth gap from the Insight Center for Community Economic Development, released yesterday, on International Women’s Day.
Take a look at a few choice findings from “Lifting As We Climb: Women of Color, Wealth and America’s Future”:
-Single Black women (across all ages, from age 18 to 64) have a median wealth of $100 and single Latinas have a median wealth of $120. Single white women clock in at $41,000.
-Almost half of all Black women and Latinas have zero wealth or negative wealth. That is, their debts exceed their assets.
-Young women (aged 18 to 35) of all races have a median wealth of zero.
-And even though white women (from 36 to 49 years old) have a median wealth of $42,600, women of color in the same age bracket have a median wealth valued at $5.
-Women of color 65 and older are least likely to receive retirement income from pensions or other assets.
Read more here:
It’s Official: Women of Color Feel Impact of Racial Wealth Gap The Worst
Self Care Tip: FREE Massages at SFWAR!
Hazel Frost, our extern from a local massage school, is providing FREE massages to our volunteers and staff! We've been really enjoying her massages over here and we think you would enjoy them too! The following slots are open, rsvp with Lisa at the office to sign up for a slot!!
3/11
2:30p, 3:10p, 3:45p
3/16
2:30p, 3:10p, 3:45p
3/18
2:30p, 3:10p, 3:45p
3/23
2:30p, 3:10p, 3:45p
3/25
2:30p, 3:10p, 3:45p
3/30
2:30p, 3:10p, 3:45p
3/11
2:30p, 3:10p, 3:45p
3/16
2:30p, 3:10p, 3:45p
3/18
2:30p, 3:10p, 3:45p
3/23
2:30p, 3:10p, 3:45p
3/25
2:30p, 3:10p, 3:45p
3/30
2:30p, 3:10p, 3:45p
Self Care Tip: FREE Yoga Fridays at SFWAR!
Every Friday from 12-1p come enjoy Yoga during your lunch break. Indira Allegra (see below to hear more from her) is providing this amazing service FREE of charge to SFWAR staff and volunteers. Volunteers/interns Kirsti and Sharon have attended regularly and have found it to be very beneficial for them! Teresa attended and felt completely relaxed afterward and that's hard to come by these days!
Please RSVP to Lisa & Teresa if you plan on attending FREE yoga on any of these days below.
The upcoming sessions are:
3/12 12p
3/19 12p
3/26 12p
4/2 12p
4/9 12p
4/16 12p
4/23 12p
4/30 12p
Huffington Post: Indira Allegra, another health fellow, is committed to helping the disability community as well as survivors of sexual assault and abuse. Her goal, she says, is to "use yoga as a tool [enabling] survivors to re-inhabit their bodies."
Pacific School of Religion: “The issue with that separation between mind and body is that it is a lie.” The practice of yoga, on the other hand, strives to unite the two. “After all, the word yoga means to yoke or to bind, and in this practice, we create a space that the mind and body will want to be in partnership with each other,” Allegra says.
Please RSVP to Lisa & Teresa if you plan on attending FREE yoga on any of these days below.
The upcoming sessions are:
3/12 12p
3/19 12p
3/26 12p
4/2 12p
4/9 12p
4/16 12p
4/23 12p
4/30 12p
Huffington Post: Indira Allegra, another health fellow, is committed to helping the disability community as well as survivors of sexual assault and abuse. Her goal, she says, is to "use yoga as a tool [enabling] survivors to re-inhabit their bodies."
Pacific School of Religion: “The issue with that separation between mind and body is that it is a lie.” The practice of yoga, on the other hand, strives to unite the two. “After all, the word yoga means to yoke or to bind, and in this practice, we create a space that the mind and body will want to be in partnership with each other,” Allegra says.
Volunteer Giveaway!!
We have an AMAZING gift certificate for 5 FREE movie rentals at Fayes Video!! They're funny too!
Just answer these questions correctly to get into the raffle:
1. When is the Walk Against Rape?
2. Which "client type" (see your stat sheets for possible options) should I *always* offer follow up calls to?
3. What email address do stat sheets get emailed to?
Winners will be announced by 3/19!! Email Teresa at teresamartyny@sfwar.org with your answers!
Just answer these questions correctly to get into the raffle:
1. When is the Walk Against Rape?
2. Which "client type" (see your stat sheets for possible options) should I *always* offer follow up calls to?
3. What email address do stat sheets get emailed to?
Winners will be announced by 3/19!! Email Teresa at teresamartyny@sfwar.org with your answers!
Happy Birthday March Volunteers!!
Rani and Gesine! We're doing a little birthday dance JUST FOR YOU! We hope you have an amazing birthday full of love and fabulousness!!!
Jobs
Match Bridge
Youth Fundraiser Position
Mission Asset Fund
Community Engagement Program Assistant
Mission Housing
Resident Services Coordinator
Youth Fundraiser Position
Mission Asset Fund
Community Engagement Program Assistant
Mission Housing
Resident Services Coordinator
Thinking about buying a home? This is as cheap as it gets in SF
Mission Walk Phase II
2 Bedroom Homes Available From $207,755
(80%, 90% and 100% of AMI)
3 Bedroom Homes Available From $263,650
(90% and 100% of AMI)
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http://www.homebricks.com/Missionwalk
2 Bedroom Homes Available From $207,755
(80%, 90% and 100% of AMI)
3 Bedroom Homes Available From $263,650
(90% and 100% of AMI)
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http://www.homebricks.com/Missionwalk
Entrenamiento Gratis de RCP
13 de Marzo 2010
www.RedCrossCPRSaturday.org
1-888-443-5722
Patten University
2433 Coolidge Ave.
Oakland, CA 94601
Clases seran llevadas acabo alas: 9 a.m., 11 a.m. and 1 p.m.
http://micocosf.org/Mission%20Update/March%208/CPRfliers_SPN.pdf
www.RedCrossCPRSaturday.org
1-888-443-5722
Patten University
2433 Coolidge Ave.
Oakland, CA 94601
Clases seran llevadas acabo alas: 9 a.m., 11 a.m. and 1 p.m.
http://micocosf.org/Mission%20Update/March%208/CPRfliers_SPN.pdf
Monday, March 8, 2010
Queer Night at the Movies: A Film and Discussion Series: FREE
If you want some quality diversity training about LGBT issues, this is a great opportunity to learn more in a safe environment and talk about the issues involved.
More info & register here: https://www.feministtherapyassociates.com/QueerFilms.htmlSummary of the Immigrant Youth Rules Committee Hearing
Rules Committee March 4, 2010 Summary
Today, over 60 community members filled the meeting room at City Hall to hear JPD Chief Siffermann answer questions about his department’s refusal to comply with the amendment to the Sanctuary Ordinance passed by the Board of Supervisors in November 2009. Over 30 community members gave several hours of testimony in front of Supervisor Campos (chair of the Rules Committee), Supervisor Mar, Chief Siffermann, Assistant Chief Nance and Starr Terrell, the Mayor’s Liaison to the BOS regarding policy. Supervisor Campos and Supervisor Mar asked many important questions, including how much money JPD has spent on identifying and reporting youth to ICE. Chief Siffermann refused to provide a figure.
Understanding Your Inner Critic
HAPS is starting a 4-week group on the theme of "Understanding Your Inner Critic." The cost is $20 per session, and the group will run from May 1st to May 22nd.
See flyer here.
See flyer here.
Thursday, March 4, 2010
SPARKS FLY: Benefit for Marilyn Buck's release
An evening in honor of Marilyn Buck and all women political prisoners.SPARKS FLY: Benefit for Marilyn Buck's release
When: March 13th, 7pm
Where: Uptown Body & Fender, 401 26th Street, Oakland, CA
(between Telegraph and Broadway)
Why: To support the release fund for longtime political prisoner Marilyn
Buck, who is finally getting out after 28 years lost to the US Bureau
of Prisons
volunteers needed! please contact sparksfly2010@gmail.com
Carmen Aristegui Interviews
Articles and video about sexual abuse by Marcial Maciel, the founding priest of Legendarios de Cristo.
La Jornada: Marcial Maciel abusó de 2 de sus hijos mexicanos
Proceso: Marcial Maciel abusó hasta de sus propios hijos
La Jornada: Marcial Maciel abusó de 2 de sus hijos mexicanos
Proceso: Marcial Maciel abusó hasta de sus propios hijos
Monday, March 1, 2010
Elouise Brown: Dooda Desert Rock and Energy Policy in Indian Country
Saturday March 20th
@ the Women's Building
American Indian Movement presents…
American Indian Movement presents…
Elouise Brown: Dooda Desert Rock and Energy Policy in Indian Country
The community of Chaco Rio in the Navajo Nation (SW of Farmington, New Mexico) has been blockading entry to the site of a proposed 1,500 megawatt coal fired power plant
since December of 2006. Desert Rock would be the third coal plant within a 20-mile radius, in a region already suffering from extreme levels of toxic emissions.
Elouise Brown is a Diné (Navajo) traditionalist and president of the Doodá Desert Rock committee. She will speak about dangers posed by the coal industry, the exploitation of indigenous land by energy companies, and the ongoing struggle to prevent the Desert Rock plant from ever existing.
Short Films
Making a Stand at Desert Rock - by Klee Benally (8:00)
Killing Coal: Four Corners in the Crosshairs (7:10)
Our Native Roots - Inside the Dooda Desert Rock Camp
Audre Lorde Room 7:30 info: http://www.doodadesertrock.com/
Free Tax Preparation if you make less that $52k!
Get free tax help at The Women’s Building! IRS-certified tax preparers will get you the refund you deserve-you could even qualify for the Earned Income Tax Credit.
To qualify, 2009 household income was less than $52,000.
Call to make an appointment at 415-431-1180 x16 or come for a walk in appointment
Thursday 5:30-8:30 or Saturday 10:30-5:30 from 2/18 - 4/10.
It’s your tax refund. Use it for what matters…your future!
CA Mandated Reporting Laws
CALCASA is pleased to announce the second web conference, in a series of
three, facilitated by Julie Kunce Field, Esq, of The Confidentiality
Institute.
Julie is working closely with CALCASA to provide you with up-to-date and
relevant information about issues of Confidentiality, Mandated Reporting and
Record Keeping.
*CA Mandated Reporting Laws
Date: Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Time: 2:00pm - 4:00pm*
As our first web conference in this series is focused on Confidentiality
(March 4, 2010-10am to 12pm), this web conference will follow-up with
information regarding CA Mandated Reporting Laws. This web conference will
focus on Mandated Reporting Laws in CA as they pertain to survivors of
sexual violence. Julie Kunce Field, Esq will discuss the different
requirements for the various SART partners such as rape crisis center
advocates, hospital personnel, law enforcement, etc.
To register for this web conference, please go to:
https://calcasa.ilinc.com/register/tstfkvk
Please feel free to contact me via email or by phone at
916-446-2520 *313.
three, facilitated by Julie Kunce Field, Esq, of The Confidentiality
Institute
Julie is working closely with CALCASA to provide you with up-to-date and
relevant information about issues of Confidentiality, Mandated Reporting and
Record Keeping.
*CA Mandated Reporting Laws
Date: Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Time: 2:00pm - 4:00pm*
As our first web conference in this series is focused on Confidentiality
(March 4, 2010-10am to 12pm), this web conference will follow-up with
information regarding CA Mandated Reporting Laws. This web conference will
focus on Mandated Reporting Laws in CA as they pertain to survivors of
sexual violence. Julie Kunce Field, Esq will discuss the different
requirements for the various SART partners such as rape crisis center
advocates, hospital personnel, law enforcement, etc.
To register for this web conference, please go to:
https://calcasa.ilinc.com/register/tstfkvk
Please feel free to contact me via email
916-446-2520 *313.