San Francisco, California
Study Groups Events Freedom Socialist Party
Saturday, May 3, 7:30pm
Celebrate May Day at a book launch for “Viva la Raza”
Los Angeles feminist and archivist Yolanda Alaniz will talk about her new book, Viva la Raza: A History of Chicano Identity and Resistance, which describes monumental labor battles, surveys the vibrant movement of the 1960s and ’70s, and focuses unique attention on women and Latina/o lesbians and gays. The volume is co-authored with Megan Cornish and has a foreword by the esteemed Chicana/o Studies Professor and historian Rodolfo Acuña.A festive enchilada supper will be served at 6:00pm for a $9.00 donation. The event is hosted by the Freedom Socialist Party and the National Comrades of Color Caucus and will take place at The Women’s Building, Audre Lorde Room, 3543 18th St., San Francisco. (Near 16th St. BART or MUNI bus lines #22 and #26, between Valencia and Guerrero St.) Everyone is welcome. For information, call 415-864-1278 or email .
Freedom Socialist Party & Radical Women
Thursday, April 17, 7:00 pm
Special Guest Dirceu Traverso from Sao Paulo, Brazil speaks on
Brazilian Workers’ Struggles Today—
A call for international labor solidarityIn his only U.S. speaking engagement, Dirceu Traverso, a leader of the United Socialist Workers Party (PSTU) and an opposition trade unionist in the federal banking sector, will discuss the broad social and political fights that have unfolded under the Lula government—including the current battles at General Motors US-Brazil—and the formation of CONLUTAS to resist government attacks on the standard of living. Traverso served in the leadership of the Central Union of Workers (CUT) until in 2004 when he and thousands of other trade unionists split in order to form CONLUTAS—the National Coordination of Struggle.
Mr. Traverso will also discuss plans for the July 2008 Latin American and Caribbean Encounter of Workers to be held in Betim, Minas Gerais, Brazil. The gathering is being sponsored by the Bolivian Workers Struggle (COB), the National Coordination of Struggles (CONLUTAS), Batay Ouvriye of Haiti, and the Fighting and Classist Tendency (TCC) of Uruguay.
Delicious refreshments will be served before the talk at 6:00 pm for a $5 donation. Sliding scale and work exchanges are available for students and low income.
The event will be held at New Valencia Hall, 625 Larkin Street #202, in San Francisco (at Eddy Street; 5 blocks from Civic Center BART and on or near #19, #31, #47, #48 and #49 Muni bus lines). The hall is wheelchair accessible.
For more information, please call 415-864-1278 or email . Everyone is welcome!
Freedom Socialist Party
Friday, February 15, 7:30pm movie; 6:00pm dinner
Black History Month Celebration
Special movie featuring James Baldwin--“The Price of the Ticket”
This inspiring film about one of the 20th century’s greatest writers traces his life which began as a boy preacher in 1930s Harlem to becoming a writer in Paris, and later a leader of the 1960s Black civil rights movement. Baldwin wrote prophetically about race, sexuality, class and the necessity for fundamental social change. Americans of every walk of life have been influenced by this man's ideas whether they have ever heard his name or not. Come find out more about his life and heroic battle against racism.A homemade Southern Gumbo dinner will be served at 6:00pm before the movie. The film begins at 7:30pm. Door donation is $3.00 for the movie; dinner donation is $8.50. Sliding scale and work exchanges are available for low-income people and students.
The event will take place at New Valencia Hall, 625 Larkin Street, Suite 202 (at Eddy Street, near Civic Center BART and on the #19 and #31 Muni bus lines). The event is wheelchair accessible. For more information or childcare, call 415-864-1278 or email . Everyone is welcome!
Freedom Socialist Party
Tuesday, February 26, 7-8:30pm in San Francisco
Monday, March 3, 5:30-7pm at UC Berkeley
Weekly discussion series on
One Hemisphere, Indivisible: Permanent Revolution and Neoliberalism in the Americas, written by Guerry Hoddersen
We will read and discuss this recently published book that examines today’s anti-imperialist upsurge in Latin America, outlines the pivotal role U.S. workers must play in ending Yankee exploitation there, and concludes that socialist revolution is a real and vibrant possibility.The eight-session series will be held at two locations: one in San Francisco, every Tuesday, starting February 26, 7–8:30 pm, at El Cafetazo Café, 3087 16th Street (one block west of 16th Street/Mission BART); the other at UC Berkeley, every Monday, beginning March 3, 5:30-7pm, at Boalt Hall (School of Law), Room 382, Bancroft Way and Piedmont Avenue (east of downtown Berkeley BART).
The discussion groups, sponsored by the Freedom Socialist Party, are free and open to the public. To purchase the book in English or Spanish or for more information, call (415) 864-1278
