Fall Event
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Freedom Voices and the TallMountain Circle present:
Spirit of the Streets
an afternoon of FREE workshops and readings at the Faithful Fools
Sunday, November 16, 12 noon to 3 pm.
The TallMountain Circle will announce the 2008 Tall Mountain Award for Creative Writing and Community Service winner, fine food will be served and a good time is available for all!
Image and Imagination
Ben Clarke, Editor; Photographer, Dorothea LangeWriter-in-residence at the Oakland Museum of California and the Oakland Public Library, Ben Clarke, re-examines Dorothea Lange's photographs along with collaborating artists including: A.K. Black, Scott Braley, Lucha Corpi, Kitty Costello, Maketa Groves, Richard Oyama, Margot Pepper, Eric Robertson, Clifton Ross, Abena Songbird, and Rhett Stuart. Using poetry, personal essay, rap and contemporary photography the artists explore the intersection between Lange's documentary photography and current realities.
Stories from El Barrio
Piri ThomasThrough the Wall: A Year in Havana
Margot PepperMargot Pepper's memoir propels us through the blockade to post-cold war Cuba. It's a surreal world where high-ranking officials are required to pick up hitch-hikers. Root canals, cosmetic surgery and graduate school are free, but toilet paper is exorbitant. There's no income tax nor homelessness, yet no house-paint either. As the story unfolds, Margot pursues a passionate love affair with a penniless Mexican poet who shakes up her views about Cuba.
Back to the Streets
George Wynn“George Wynn writes with toughness, sympathy, and great humor about difficult things and dire situations, and wonderfully about the redeeming qualities of literature and human kindness. He makes invisible people visible, and throws light in the darkest of places.”
Elizabeth McCracken
Author of The Giant's House
Reparations for Slavery
Eric Robertson
I was thinking about those 700,000,000,000 dollars that are to be spread out among the corporations to ostensibly help out the "American worker". Is it corporate welfare or should we be kind and call it trickle-down economics on a grand scale?
It got me to thinking about those workers who never got paid in this country--specifically, those of African descent brought to this country to labor the fields and build the empire.
President of the United States
Eric Robertson
Whatever you think of two party politics, it will be great to have a president in office that is smart, diplomatic, graceful and articulate. And I've already noticed some people starting to look at each other differently. Weren't we supposed to get a "kindler, gentler nation" a few years back?
Warriors' Blood
B. Jesse Clarke
Warrior's Blood
An intergenerational dialogue with my great grandfather O'Clerigh the Irish land pirate and storyteller.
Monday, November 10, 2008
7:30 p.m.
The Marsh
1062 Valencia St.
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The Berkeley campus tree sit ended a month or so ago. The long, nonviolent direct action of dozens of individuals ended in a day and was quickly consumed by other news like bank bailouts and the presidential election. I haven't been back to see if anything is left of the grove, but I understand the trees started coming down quickly before anyone could go back up them.
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My yard is a zoom zone of hummingbirds. I've been stalking them with my camera. There are many flowers around the house that they like to tickle with their tongues. The current favorite is Mexican bush sage that grows in the front yard near the driveway.
