March 14, 2012

Dave Zirin:

Peace-and-Justice Sportswriter and Author
One of UTNE Reader's "50 Visionaries Who Are Changing our World"

Wednesday, March 14, 2012, 7:00PM

First Congregational Church of Berkeley
2345 Channing Way

Tickets: $15 general, $10 low-income/students
Buy tickets online today!

speaking on
Sports Under Occupation
Benefit for Soccer Balls for Children in Palestine

If there was an award for 'Most Valuable Sportwriter,' I would vote for Dave Zirin. His writing combines vivid narrative, good humor...knowledge of the game, and a keen awareness of the connection between sports and the world outside. -- Howard Zinn

Dave will sign his new book (with John Carlos, Foreward by Cornell West), The John Carlos Story: The Sports Moment That Changed the World--nominated for an NAACP Image Award!--plus his book A People's History of Sports in the US: 250 Years of Politics, Protest, People and Play

Cosponsored by Haymarket Books
ASL Interpreted, wheelchair accessible

Cosponsored by KPFA

Dr. Mustafa Barghouti:
Palestinian Leader and Physician
 
Saturday, March 3, 2012, 7:30PM

King Middle School
1781 Rose Street, Berkeley

 Tickets: $15 general, $10 low-income/students, $50 event and reception
Buy tickets online today!

speaking on
The Future of Palestine
& the Impact of the Arab Spring

Dr. Mustafa Barghouti is General Secretary of the Palestinian National Initiative, and President of the Union of Palestinian Medical Relief Committees.

For info: 510-548-0542, www.mecaforpeace.org

Introduced by Stanford Professor Dr. Khalil Barhoum
Plus Special Dinner Reception, 4-6pm!  Reception details coming soon.
Benefit for medical relief for Palestinian children.

Cosponsored by KPFA

ASL interpreted, wheelchair accessible

Occupy the Truth: Whistlebolowers Conference: Exploring truth and transparency in an age of terror.
 

Friday, February 17, 2012 at 6:00 PM - Sunday, February 19, 2012 at 4:00 PM (PT)

Who is the Conference for? Anyone who really cares about truth and transparency. (Practitioners and academics in the information, communication, media, computer, and library domains, members of NGOs working on civil society and good governance issues, and all who are interested in ethical, legal and regulatory aspects of information and communication.)

http://occupythetruth.eventbrite.com/

Black History Program

Thursday, February 9 2012
6:00 p.m.

John & Jean Knox Center for the Performing Arts
FREE

Contra Costa College African American Studies and Black Student Union are hosting the annual Black History Month Celebration. The theme is “African Heritage Past, Present and Future.”

The event is free and open to the community. All are welcome to come and celebrate an American story. Learn more about the building of a nation and the influence that African Americans have throughout the world.

For more information contact professors Carolyn Hodge at (510)235-7800 ext.
4540 chodge@contracosta.edu; or Manu Ampim at (510)235-7800 ext. 4351
mampim@contracosta.edu.

Planning for the End of Life

A  WORKSHOP  ON
Conscious and Compassionate End-of-Life Choices

with 

Ann-Ellice Parker

2-5 pm  •  Sunday, February 12, 2012

The Hillside Club

 2286 Cedar Street (at Arch), Berkeley  94709

Empower yourself and your loved ones by preparing for the eventual end of life.
Explore options—possible decisions you and/or your loved ones can make now and may
not be able to make nearer death. Living well includes preparing for a compassionate death.

The workshop will include:
    •  an overview of the key end of life issues   •   critical health decision making
    •  resolving family differences  •  advanced directives  •  home funerals and ecological burials  
    •  extensive discussion of your questions  •  time to fill out forms such as designating your Health Care Power of Attorney.

Each participant will receive a packet with facts about dying, costs, green burials, home funerals, Advanced Directives, DNRs and Living Wills.

Led by Ann-Ellice Parker, CEO of Seasons of Change and death education counselor dedicated to providing safe spaces for courageous discussions about death and dying.

Advance Registration (till February 9th):  $25 ($20 Club members)

Registration (February 10th–12th):  $30 ($25 Club members)

Tickets available at Brown Paper Tickets online and at 800-838-3006

 Also checks can be sent to:  Hillside Club c/o End of Life Workshop, 2286 Cedar St., Berkeley CA 94709

KPFA Radio 94.1FM presents

An Evening with HARI KUNZRU

GODS WITHOUT ME

Hosted by Richard Wolinsky

TUESDAY, MARCH 13 - 7:30 pm

Hillside Club

2286 Cedar Street, Berkeley

$12 advance tickets: brownpapertickets.com :: 800-838-3006

or: Pegasus Books (3 locations), Mrs. Dalloway’s, Moe’s Books, Walden Pond, DIESEL, A Bookstore, in SF - Modern Times Bookstore ($15 door)

An Evening with Michael Klare

“The Race For What’s Left: The Global Scramble for the World’s
Last Resources”

Hosted by Philip Maldari

Thursday, March 15, 7:30 pm

The Hillside Club, 2286 Cedar Street, Berkeley

$12 advance tickets: >brownpapertickets.com< t: 800-838-3006 or:
Pegasus Books (3 locations), Mrs. Dalloway’s, Moe’s Books, Walden Pond,
DIESEL, A Bookstore, in SF - Modern Times Bookstore ($15 at door)

KPFA benefit

DREAM: "Let's Make It Real" 

14th Annual Martin Luther King National Holiday Celebration

Monday, January  16, 2012

10:00AM to Noon

McClymond's High School

2607 Myrtle Street

Oakland,CA 94607

A Free Community Event

The KPFA Community Advisory Board will meet on Saturday, January 21st at 4:30 PM at KPFA.

This evant in open to the public.