KPFA Radio 94.1 FM presents

Advance tickets: $12: brownpapertickets.com :: T: 800-838-3006 or

Pegasus Books (3 sites),
Books Inc (Berkeley),
Moe’s,
Walden Pond Bookstore,
East Bay Books
Mrs. Dalloway’s
$15 door

“This extraordinary history of resistance counters the myth of Indigenous disappearance and insignificance while calling into question the very notion that resistance itself is impossible in a world saturated by capital and atrophying inequality. This is a radical Indigenous history in its finest form.”  —Audra Simpson, author of Mohawk Interruptus

In 2016, a small protest encampment at the Standing Rock reservation in North Dakota, initially established to block construction of the Dakota Access oil pipeline, grew to be the largest Indigenous protest movement in the twenty-first century, attracting tens of thousands of Indigenous and non-Native allies from around the world. Its slogan – “Mni Wiconi” – Water is Life – was about more than just a pipeline. Water protectors knew this battle for Native sovereignty had already been fought many times before, and that even after the encampment was gone their anti-colonial struggle would continue. In Our History is the Future, Nick Estes traces traditions of Indigenous resistance from the days of the Missouri River trading forts through the Indian Wars, the Pick-Sloan Dams, the American Indian Movement and the campaign for Indigenous Rights at the United Nations. While a historian by trade, Estes also draws on personal observations from the encampments and from his own growing up as a citizen of Oceti Sakowin (the Nation of the Seven Council Fires), making this book a work of authentic history, a personal story, and a stirring manifesto for native liberation.

“This book is a jewel—history and analysis that reads like the best poetry—certain to be a classic work as well as a study guide for continued and accelerated resistance.”

—Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz, author ofAn Indigenous People’s History of the United States

Nick Estes, a citizen of the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe, is an Assistant Professor of American Studies at the University of New Mexico, and a co-founder of The Red Nation, an organization dedicated to native liberation. Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz grew up in rural Oklahoma, the daughter of a tenant farmer and part-Indian mother. She is the author of many books, including Outlaw Woman, a memoir of her time in an armed underground group, Red Dirt: Growing up Okie, and Blood On the Border: A Memoir of the Contra War,and the recent, widely acclaimed An Indigenous People’s History of the United States. 

KPFA benefit

*WE HATE SANTA RITA JAIL*
A fundraiser for Oakland IWOC
6pm to close

Come share in the hatred of our county jail (and every other jail, prison, and detention center) and support you favorite local abolitionist crew. All proceeds go toward IWOC’s direct material support program for late night releasees from Santa Rita.

Every week we bring a crew of people out to Santa Rita Jail to meet people as they are released. We share pizza, cigarettes, warm clothes, rides to BART with our neighbors who are getting out late at night. This material support and care work is a small but meaningful way to address the harm caused by incarceration in our Bay Area community. We need your help to keep this project going strong. Please spread the word and we hope to see you Friday

Food and drink provided by Tamarack
Short presentation by IWOC Oakland
Vinyl by Left of the Dial

Inside, Outside, All on the Same Side!

Walk through groundbreaking interactive and immersive exhibits. Meet leading civil rights activists. Learn how to reduce prison populations, protect immigrants, and ensure everyone’s constitutional right to vote. Take action.

A family-friendly event for people of all ages. Free + open to all.

RSVP at ACLU100.org

Schedule below (subject to change)

ALL DAY ACTIVITIES:

Art workshops led by Artismobilus, Justice For Our Lives. Screen printing with Lukas WhatWhat and face painting with Miss Naomi Bee.

Network with Bay Area and California non-profits making the change happen, including: Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, Heyday Books, Initiate Justice, League of Women Voters of the U.S., Building Opportunities for Self-Sufficiency (BOSS), ACILEP network for immigrant rights, Youth Speaks, Oakland Public Library, Secure Justice, Design Action Collective,
Anti-Recidivism Coalition, TGI Justice Project (TGIJP), and ACCESS Women’s Health Justice.

SATURDAY, MARCH 30

10:00 am–4:00 pm
Qulture Collective vendor village featuring local queer and POC artists and makers

11:45 am–12:45 am
SambaFunk! featuring FUNKTERNAL
A collective of dancers, musicians and drummers spreading JOY and social consciousness through their work.

1:00 pm–1:05 pm
W. Kamau Bell – sociopolitical comedian and host of docu-series United Shades of America with W. Kamau Bell

1:05 pm–2:00 pm
Act to Save Lives: Panel Discussion on Critical Police Reform
Featuring Stevante Clark, brother of Stephon Clark, Uncle Bobby from Love Not Blood Campaign, and James Burch from Anti Police-Terror Project . Moderated by Miguel Quezada from CURYJ

2:00 pm–2:30 pm
Dancing Earth
A collaborative group of intertribal indigenous dance artists

2:30 pm–3:30 pm
Audiopharmacy
Spawned from its roots in hip hop, Audiopharmacy intricately fuses live instrumentation and global musical styles

3:30 pm–4:30 pm
Jonah Melvon featuring adeshamusic
A sibling duo playing music from a new project by Jonah Melvon, Rain Water, and Adesha’s inspiring soul music collection

4:30 pm–5:30 pm
Man Haters: Women, Queers, Comedy
An all-women comedy group based in Oakland, California featuring Irene Tu, Dominique Gelin, Brooke Heinichen and Alexandria Love

6:00 pm–7:00 pm
Hip Hop for Change
A non-profit dedicated to using Hip Hop as a means of positive cultural change

SUNDAY, MARCH 31

11:00 am – 12:00 pm
The Void
Funky jazz soul from Oakland youth

12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
West Grand Brass Band
Dixieland brass band tradition combined with modern musical genres and sounds

1:00 pm– 2:00pm
Art as Activism
Panel featuring Gregory Sale, lead artist at the Future IDs Project, Inno Negara who wrote the best-selling A is for Activist, Rob Liu Trujillo illustrator, author, and co-founder of the Trust Your Struggle, and Sabiha Basrai from Design Action Collective. Moderated by Gigi Harney, ACLU of Northern California Creative Strategist.

2:00 pm– 3:00 pm
Book signing with best selling author Inno Nagara

4:00 pm– 5:00 pm
Mission Delirium
An invitation to revel in the sound of earth shaking drums and face-melting brass

You’re Invited to a Breakfast of Waffles & Zapatismo!

Zapatista Autonomy:
Challenging Solidarity & Organizing in the U.S.

* 10:30am Waffles, coffee, getting to know each other
* 11:00 a.m. Pablo Gonzalez presentation with discussion.

On Pablo Gonzalez

Pablo Gonzalez teaches at UC Berkeley. A first generation Chicano scholar-activist/anthropologist, Pablo is immersed in studying the political and cultural resonance of social movements. In particular, the resonance of Indigenous social movements on Chicanas/os and people of color in the U.S.

Gonzalez has a book manuscript, “Autonomy Road: The Cultural Politics of Chicana/o Autonomous Organizing in Los Angeles California,” which describes a 20-year history of solidarity and political organizing between Chicana/o communities in the U.S. and the Zapatista indigenous communities of Chiapas, Mexico.

The Chiapas Support Committee invites you to join us for a community breakfast and a discussion to deepen our understanding of and relationships with the struggles of Zapatista and Indigenous communities in Mexico and what solidarity looks like in the current political and economic climate. Expressing and organizing solidarity has many race, gender, class facets. How do we speak about Indigenous struggles, how are they linked to our struggles in the U.S., what is the task and responsibility (if any) of U.S.-based social justice movements, anti-racist, environmental justice, racial justice and Indigenous struggles and movements?

We have more questions than answers. The discussion requires we ask the right and critical questions in time and reflect and organize. What are your questions?

Join us in an urgent and intimate dialogue and discussion of what matters most to us in this period of rising capitalist strife and repression.

PLUS HOLD THE DATE:
¡Viva Zapata!
Zapata Across the Borders: Image & Reality
Film Screening & Discussion of the Marlon Brando classic: ¡Viva Zapata!
Also at the Omni
Sat. April 13, 2019, 7 pm
$5-10 donation at the door

For more info:
www.chiapas-support.org

Walk through groundbreaking interactive and immersive exhibits. Meet leading civil rights activists. Learn how to reduce prison populations, protect immigrants, and ensure everyone’s constitutional right to vote. Take action.

A family-friendly event for people of all ages. Free + open to all.

RSVP at ACLU100.org

Schedule below (subject to change)

ALL DAY ACTIVITIES:

Art workshops led by Artismobilus, Justice For Our Lives. Screen printing with Lukas WhatWhat and face painting with Miss Naomi Bee.

Network with Bay Area and California non-profits making the change happen, including: Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, Heyday Books, Initiate Justice, League of Women Voters of the U.S., Building Opportunities for Self-Sufficiency (BOSS), ACILEP network for immigrant rights, Youth Speaks, Oakland Public Library, Secure Justice, Design Action Collective,
Anti-Recidivism Coalition, TGI Justice Project (TGIJP), and ACCESS Women’s Health Justice.

SATURDAY, MARCH 30

10:00 am–4:00 pm
Qulture Collective vendor village featuring local queer and POC artists and makers

11:45 am–12:45 am
SambaFunk! featuring FUNKTERNAL
A collective of dancers, musicians and drummers spreading JOY and social consciousness through their work.

1:00 pm–1:05 pm
W. Kamau Bell – sociopolitical comedian and host of docu-series United Shades of America with W. Kamau Bell

1:05 pm–2:00 pm
Act to Save Lives: Panel Discussion on Critical Police Reform
Featuring Stevante Clark, brother of Stephon Clark, Uncle Bobby from Love Not Blood Campaign, and James Burch from Anti Police-Terror Project . Moderated by Miguel Quezada from CURYJ

2:00 pm–2:30 pm
Dancing Earth
A collaborative group of intertribal indigenous dance artists

2:30 pm–3:30 pm
Audiopharmacy
Spawned from its roots in hip hop, Audiopharmacy intricately fuses live instrumentation and global musical styles

3:30 pm–4:30 pm
Jonah Melvon featuring adeshamusic
A sibling duo playing music from a new project by Jonah Melvon, Rain Water, and Adesha’s inspiring soul music collection

4:30 pm–5:30 pm
Man Haters: Women, Queers, Comedy
An all-women comedy group based in Oakland, California featuring Irene Tu, Dominique Gelin, Brooke Heinichen and Alexandria Love

6:00 pm–7:00 pm
Hip Hop for Change
A non-profit dedicated to using Hip Hop as a means of positive cultural change

SUNDAY, MARCH 31

11:00 am – 12:00 pm
The Void
Funky jazz soul from Oakland youth

12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
West Grand Brass Band
Dixieland brass band tradition combined with modern musical genres and sounds

1:00 pm– 2:00pm
Art as Activism
Panel featuring Gregory Sale, lead artist at the Future IDs Project, Inno Negara who wrote the best-selling A is for Activist, Rob Liu Trujillo illustrator, author, and co-founder of the Trust Your Struggle, and Sabiha Basrai from Design Action Collective. Moderated by Gigi Harney, ACLU of Northern California Creative Strategist.

2:00 pm– 3:00 pm
Book signing with best selling author Inno Nagara

4:00 pm– 5:00 pm
Mission Delirium
An invitation to revel in the sound of earth shaking drums and face-melting brass

Is industrial civilization compatible with economic democracy, or is democratic socialism impossible in a globalized industrial society?  This presentation will examine the powerful material conditions that have frustrated every effort to replace capitalism with genuine democratic socialism.  Hopefully, this will become the starting point for a discussion about what kinds of energy sources and technologies are most conducive to democratic control.

Strongly suggested background reading:
https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/11/30/democratic-socialism-the-impossible-dream/
https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/02/01/why-did-socialism-fail/

Craig Collins, Ph.D. is the author of Toxic Loopholes (Cambridge University Press), which examines America’s dysfunctional system of environmental protection. He teaches political science and environmental law at California State University East Bay and was a founding member of the Green Party of California.

His forthcoming books: Marx & Mother Nature and Rising From the Ruins: Catabolic Capitalism & Green Resistance reformulate Marx’s theory of history & social change and examine the emerging struggle to replace catabolic capitalism with a thriving, just, ecologically resilient society.

Panel and Dialog:

Jose Bernal: Senior Organizer Ella Baker Center for Human Rights. Serves on the S.F. Reentry Council; advocates for restorative justice policies; spearheaded campaigns to de-privatize reentry services and end gang  injunctions. Graduate of Stanford University’s Project ReMade program, a course aimed at empowering the formerly incarcerated.

Jonathon Simon: directs the Center for the Study of Law and Society at UC and teaches about punishment, prisons, and mass incarceration. His books include, Governing through Crime: How the War on Crime Transformed American Society and Created a Culture of Fear (2009) and Mass Incarceration on Trial: A Remarkable Court Decision and the Future of Prisons in America (2014). Simon believes that invoking human dignity can fuel efforts to change the direction of the carceral state. Listen to his interview on Dignity and The Carceral State: https://kpfa.org/episode/against-the-grain-april-4-2018/

Starr King Room-light lunch provided