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8:00 am Mourning Mothers Walk for Healing @ San Leandro Marina Park
Mourning Mothers Walk for Healing @ San Leandro Marina Park
May 11 @ 8:00 am – 1:00 pm
1000 MOTHERS TO PREVENT VIOLENCE Hosts 10th Mourning Mothers “Walk for Healing” For Families and Friends of Homicide Victims and those impacted by PTSD” (San Leandro – May 11, 2019) Hundreds are expected to join 1000 Mothers to Prevent Violence 10th annual “Mourning Mothers Walk for Healing” at the San Leandro Marina Park (Heron); The Mourning Mothers Walk was started by Lorrain Taylor, founder and executive director of “1000 Mothers to Prevent Violence” to help grieving families dealing with PTSD and to raise awareness to the ongoing impact of violence … Continued
12:00 pm Desperate Holdings Real Estate & LandMind Spa
Desperate Holdings Real Estate & LandMind Spa
May 11 @ 12:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Opening Friday, April 5, please visit DESPERATE HOLDINGS REAL ESTATE & LandMind Spa, an immersive art installation organized by Cassie Thornton of the Feminist Economics Department (the FED). See our full website at http://www.desperateholdings.com. Installation available for viewing through May 11th. In 2015 Cassie Thornton, recently displaced from her San Francisco apartment, walked past the Salesforce Tower construction site in downtown San Francisco. Workers were digging 200 ft below, where they found Barbary Coast beams and thick clay-like soil. The foreman offered her and her friend a truckload of this clay, which would otherwise … Continued
3:00 pm Report Back from Haiti
Report Back from Haiti
May 11 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Report Back from Haiti
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4:30 pm ‘Doughnut Economics’ Reading Group @ Omni Commons
‘Doughnut Economics’ Reading Group @ Omni Commons
May 11 @ 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
‘Doughnut Economics’ Reading Group @ Omni Commons
Doughnut Economics Reading Group: Creating a world with neither human suffering nor planetary peril Doughnut Economics: 7 ways to think like a 21st century economist By Kate Raworth Chelsea Green Publishing (2017) The capitalist economic system defines every aspect of our lives: the schooling and medical care we get, where we live, and how we sustain ourselves. The system works for a lucky few and exploits everyone else. And it’s a real threat to the survival of our species (and many others) on this planet. We know the system needs to change—but we … Continued
7:00 pm Jenny Odell: How to Do Nothing @ Tamarack
Jenny Odell: How to Do Nothing @ Tamarack
May 11 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Please join us for a talk by Jenny Odell in celebration of her new book How to Do Nothing / Resisting the Attention Economy. ”A galvanizing critique of the forces vying for our attention—and our personal information—that redefines what we think of as productivity, reconnects us with the environment, and reveals all that we’ve been too distracted to see about ourselves and our world Nothing is harder to do these days than nothing. But in a world where our value is determined by our 24/7 data productivity . . . … Continued