Job Announcement: Part-time Bookkeeping/Administrative Assistant

DUTIES: Mostly bookkeeping. Some administrative tasks and errands.

---BOOKKEEPING DUTIES:Pay bills

Reconcile bank accounts

Transfer money between accounts

Enter expenses into Quicken (Need to be able to do split transactions)

Export data from Quicken into Excel and prepare financial reports

Assist with tax preparation using Turbo Tax.

---ADMINISTRATIVE DUTIES:
Pick up and drop off mail at nearby Post Office

Make copies and purchase office supplies

Put together client charts

Filing

Assist with e-mail advertising

1973: Silvia Rivera Gives a Speech at Christopher St March

1973. Silvia Rivera forced her way on to the stage when organizers told her she would have to wait for a much later slot. (context: in 1970, she was not permitted to give a speech at the march at all) Here is the speech.

Report: 'It's War in Here': A Report on the Treatment of Transgender and Intersex People in New York State Men's Prisons

Interviews with imprisoned transgender people and their advocates to document the widespread harassment, physical and sexual abuse, discrimination, and violence that transgender, intersex, and gender non-conforming people face inside state custody.

published by Silvia Rivera Law Project
Read the report here: http://srlp.org/files/warinhere.pdf

Article: Queer Injustice: The Widespread Sexual Abuse LGBT People Face in Prison

While sexual violence is part of the daily prison experience for many inmates, LGBT people are disproportionately targeted by staff and prisoners. 
Read more here:
http://www.alternet.org/story/149873/queer_injustice%3A_the_widespread_sexual_abuse_lgbt_people_face_in_prison/

Ride To End Rape: Men's role in the prevention and end of sexual assault

Luke Heller will be traveling through San Francisco on a journey called Ride To End Rape. This is a nationwide trek to raise awareness about men's role in the prevention and end of sexual assault. For more information please visit http://www.ridetoendrape.com/

The Feministing Five: Patty Berne

http://feministing.com/2009/09/19/the-feministing-five-patty-berne/


An interview with an SFWAR board member!
The Feministing Five: Patty Berne
Patricia Berne is the Co-Founder and Director of Sins Invalid, a San Francisco theater company that blends performance and art with the political vision of a more just and equal world.

Job Announcement: SFWAR Community Educator

Job Announcement
San Francisco Women Against Rape
Community Educator
Reports to: Director of Community Initiatives
Full-time (40 hours/week)
Non-Exempt Position

San Francisco Women Against Rape (SFWAR) is a community-based, anti-sexual assault, social justice organization. We provide 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. We provide support to sexual assault survivors, their families, and communities, and use education and community organizing as tools of prevention. We believe that ending all forms of oppression is integral to ending sexual assault and challenge oppression within our organization and communities. We are a majority women, transgender, and people of color organization and prioritize working with and for communities facing multiple forms of violence and oppression.

‎7th annual Queer Women of Color Film Festival!!!!!!!!

SFWAR is a community partner with QWOCMAP and we hope you can come out to the film festival this year!!

http://hosted.vresp.com/261223/12abf66dfd/1368008705/5c82cb2b2d/
http://qwocmap.org/festival.html

The Queer Women of Color Film Festival is held every year in June in San Francisco and features films that address the vital social justice issues that concern women of color and our communities, authentically reflect our life stories, and build community through art and activism. Enjoy the creativity of emerging media atrists who are Asian/Pacific Islander, Black/African American, Chicana/Latina, Native American and Mixed-Race lesbians, bisexual, queer and questioning women in the Bay Area.

Building Your Self Care Toolbox: Feldenkrais clinic for parents and teachers

Low-Cost Feldenkrais® Community Clinic hosted by Project Commotion

Offering 1-on-1 Functional Integration® (FI) lessons to members of our community. This service is targeted towards parents, caretakers, mothers-to-be, and teachers of young children.

Summer clinic hours: Tuesdays, June 7 through July 26

Times: 12:15pm and 1:15pm. Sessions generally run 40 minutes – 1 hour.

Sliding scale fee $5 - $40. No one will be turned away for lack of funds.

Location: Project Commotion, 2095 Harrison Street at the corner of 17^th Street, San Francisco.

Please call 415-252-8059 or email susan@projectcommotion.org to schedule an appointment.

Please wear comfortable clothing that allows you to move and bring a pair of socks!

The Feldenkrais Method® is a mind-body approach to learning, developing awareness, and discovering comfort and fluidity through movement. FI sessions are hands-on individual lessons that use gentle, guided touch and verbal instruction to explore movement, reveal habits, and discover new possibilities and choices that can help you:

• Increase body awareness, comfort, mobility, balance, and flexibility. • Relieve stress. • Improve sleep and breathing. • Reduce pain from injury or repetitive stress. • Address challenges that can result from neurological conditions, chronic pain, arthritis, and other conditions.

This clinic is made possible by Project Commotion and a group of Guild Certified Feldenkrais Practitioners^CM from the Institute for the Study of Somatic Education San Francisco IV training.

Project Commotion (PC) is a community space where children, families and educators are invited to learn and grow together through movement, sensory experiences, and play. We aim to impact the community through our work by offering free or low-cost services to children and families in financial need.

PC offers classes that incorporate movement, tumbling, music, play, dance, and martial arts as a means of fostering healthy development, self-awareness and self-expression. Private, semi-private and small group classes are available for children, and community workshops are offered for adults. PC serves as a foundation of support and information for parents, educators, and other professionals working with children, by providing seminars, workshops, and hands-on experiences in movement. By increasing the level of awareness throughout our community, Project Commotion brings about a vital change in the way that adults can support children's learning and development.

Please contact us if you have questions.

Project Commotion 2095 Harrison Street, San Francisco, CA 94110

Ph 415-252-8059 Fx 415-252-9829 www.projectcommotion.org

Training: Revolutionary Youth Media Education

RYME- Revolutionary Youth Media Education for youth 12-19 years old.

The RYME program includes radio, video and on-line journalism (blog) production as well as poetry, performance and theatre, organizing and consciousness on poverty, racism, migration, police brutality and liberation

All classes are taught bi-lingually and include lunch

Full scholarship and stipends offerred to low-income youth.

Program begins June 7th-Space is limited. Registration deadline is May 15th.

Applications can be downloaded here: http://www.poormagazine.org/node/3854

For more information contact us by email at deeandtny@poormagazine.org

Documentary Film on military rape and sexual trauma - Do you have a Story?

Do you have a story about military rape/mst and sexual trauma? Do you know someone who does?

Swordfish Productions invites you to tell your story and help give a face and a voice to the victims and survivors in the documentary film FORGOTTEN ANGELS -A Matter of Honor-The Right Side of Justice

Our all women’s team has been working on shooting for this film for over 25 years- this horrific mistreatment of women has been going on forever - finally it’s now safe to be visible in the world as the subject is being addressed publically and at all levels.

Director Ann P Meredith – a survivor of rape and mst herself and ourr female crew will work with you to insure a safe space to tell your story. If you need to remain anonymous, use a different name, be filmed and photographed in shadow - it is okay. The most important thing is that your voice is heard and your story told!

We just got back from Washington D. C. where we interviewed over 60 people…

You are not alone!

Contact us at 415 623 9048 or email forgottenangels7@gmail.com for more information and to set up an interview.

Thank You.

FORGOTTEN ANGELS - A Matter of Honor – The Right Side of Justice

Swordfish Productions

P. O. Box 153

Tiburon CA 94920

415 623 9048

FORGOTTENANGELS7@gmail.com

Orientation Session: CCSF Trauma Prevention and Recovery Certificate

4/28 6-8p
https://docs.google.com/a/mail.ccsf.edu/viewer?a=v&pid=sites&srcid=bWFpbC5jY3NmLmVkdXxqYW5leS1za2lubmVyfGd4OjQzZTk4YzRhODFkMzViZWI

FREE: SF Refresh: Amazing Event!

SF Refresh's goal is to create six daylong citywide events that enable San Franciscans to receive free whole body care in community garden settings in 2011. Activities include: gardening classes, yoga, life coaching, meditation, trauma care, nutrition classes, massage, acupuncture, tea and coffee cuppings, movement classes, preventative health care information and more.

http://sfrefresh.blogspot.com/p/2011-events.html

Dates
Saturday, April 16th (in Hayes Valley and the Western Addition)
Saturday, May 21st
Sunday, July 24th
Saturday, August 20th
Sunday, September 25th
Saturday, October 15th

Free EFT workshops

If you are interested in a great self-help tool, come learn how to do EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) for FREE. On Monday evenings, I now offer a free monthly workshop, and a new weekly ongoing group. Please scroll down to register. Please post or forward this announcement.

FREE workshop last Monday of the month 6:15-6:45pm

Monday evenings weekly ongoing group 7:15-8:45pm

1/2 CEU available for workshop for MFTs and LCSWs for $5

Exact address and directions sent upon registration
near El Cerrito Plaza BART station

Self Care Tip: Free Classes at Sports Basement

http://community.sportsbasement.com/free-classes/

Sports Basement has FREE classes like Yoga, Bike Maintenance, CPR and Running! Check it out if you need some FREE self care!!!

Yale Has Been Systematically Covering Up Crimes For Decades

According to feminist author Naomi Wolf, even though 16 students filed a federal complaint against Yale University last week for its "sexually hostile environment," sexual harassment at Yale is nothing new.
"For at least two decades, Yale has been systematically covering up much more serious crimes than the ones the students have even identified," said the author, who graduated from Yale in 1984, on CBS's Early Show this week.
Read More Here:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/05/naomi-wolf-yale-has-been-_n_844869.html?ref=fb&src=sp

Article: Beyond Manning Up: An NYC Paramedic Speaks Out About Men’s Violence Against Women

When I first started in EMS, I was struck by how many domestic violence calls we got. Within weeks, it became a regular part of the night, just another bloody dispute amongst the asthma attacks, strokes, shootings etc.

I’d like to say there was a moment that shook me out of complacency...

Read More

Conference: A Call To Men: Engaging Men and Boys to Prevent Domestic and Sexual Assault

http://www.acalltomen.org/downloads2/Northwest%20Regional%20Training%20Institute%202011.pdf

Article: Get An Education, Get Sexually Harassed

A 14-year-old female honor roll student is being forced to choose between her education or her safety as a result of school district budget cuts. The Twin River Unified School District has decided to discontinue its school bus service that picks students up at predetermined locations and takes them to their local high schools. Without the bus service, the young girl must leave home at 6:30 a.m. — usually before sunrise — to walk approximately 2.4 miles to get to school by 7:30 a.m. On several occasions men have stopped while driving their cars to proposition the young girl regarding sexual acts. Some of these men proceeded to follow her for several blocks hurling insults at her because she ignored and rejected their advances.

Read More Here: http://calcasa.org/calcasa/get-an-education-get-sexually-harassed/

Jobs Available

Youth Advocate Internship
Seven Tepees Executive Director
CALCORPS Internship Program Coordinator

‘Sex Crimes Against Black Girls’ Exhibit Uses Art to Confront Incest

Last week, I checked out “Sex Crimes Against Black Girls,” a multimedia art exhibit that tackles many forms of sexual abuse black girls endure in the African Diaspora. The work, which will be at Bed-Stuy’s Restoration Plaza until April 2, was rich, provocative, and in some cases, quite pretty. But, because I’m a nosy writer, I was most intrigued by its curator, Shantrelle P. Lewis. For her day (and all-night) job, the New Orleans native directs programs and exhibitions at another organization, the Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute. But the 32-year-old chose to use her free time and psychic energy to find works by black and Latina artists that address the knotty subject of intra-racial sexual violence. Lewis, an incest survivor, was kind enough to sit on the phone and explain why:

Read more here:


http://colorlines.com/archives/2011/02/from_the_color_purple_to.html

Recy Taylor, Sexual Violence, and the Horrors of Jim Crow

Cynthia Gordy over at The Root caught up with 91-year-old Recy Taylor, who’s still fighting for justice nearly seven decades after her brutal gang rape brought international attention to America’s civil rights struggle. It’s a horrifying, but powerful story.

http://colorlines.com/archives/2011/02/recy_taylor.html

Book Release: The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence in Activist Communities

The extent of the violence affecting our communities is staggering. Nearly one in three women in the United States will experience intimate violence in her lifetime. And while intimate violence affects relationships across the sexuality and gender spectrums, the likelihood of isolation and irreparable harm, including death, is even greater within LGBTQI communities. To effectively resist violence out there—in the prison system, on militarized borders, or other clear encounters with "the system"—we must challenge how it is reproduced right where we live. It's one thing when the perpetrator is the police, the state, or someone we don't know. It's quite another when that person is someone we call a friend, lover, and trusted ally.

Based on the popular zine that had reviewers and fans alike demanding more, The Revolution Starts at Home finally breaks the dangerous silence surrounding the "open secret" of intimate violence—by and toward caretakers, in romantic partnerships, and in friendships—within social justice movements. This watershed collection compiles stories and strategies from survivors and their allies, documenting a decade of community accountability work and delving into the nitty-gritty of creating safety from abuse without relying on the prison industrial complex.

Fearless, tough-minded, and ultimately loving, The Revolution Starts at Home offers life-saving alternatives for ensuring survivor safety while building a road toward a revolution where no one is left behind.

Ching-In Chen is the author of The Heart's Traffic.
Kundiman Fellow Jai Dulani is an interdisciplinary storyteller and activist/educator.
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha is the author of Consensual Genocide.

Andrea L. Smith is Assistant Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at UC Riverside. She is the award-winning author and/or editor of several books, including Native Americans and the Christian Right: The Gendered Politics of Unlikely Alliances; Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide; The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Nonprofit Industrial Complex; and Color of Violence: The INCITE! Anthology. Smith currently serves as the US Coordinator for the Ecumenical Association of Third World Theologians, and she is co-founder of INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence. She recently completed a report for the United Nations on Indigenous Peoples and Boarding Schools.