From carlsson.chris at gmail.com Wed Sep 17 08:17:44 2008 From: carlsson.chris at gmail.com (Chris Carlsson) Date: Wed Sep 17 08:18:54 2008 Subject: Shaping SF Tonight! Talk! 40th Anniv of SF State Strike! Sunday! Bike tour Eco-History! Message-ID: <234837310809170817q3147e13ew636a2ebefa1d5e7b@mail.gmail.com> 40th Anniversary: San Francisco State Strike 1968-69 Wed. Sept. 17, 7:30pm Free The student/faculty strike at S.F. State College in 1968-69 was a seminal event, ushering in ethnic studies in higher education, contributing energy and activists to dozens of San Francisco political movements and much more. Learn about it from original participants: Roger Alvarado, Margaret Leahy, John Levin, Nesbit Cruschfield. Also, this Sunday, Sept. 21, 12 noon-4 pm, meet at CounterPULSE for another installment of our ongoing BICYCLE HISTORY TOURS, this one on the theme of Ecological History and covering the northern part of the city... $15-50 sliding scale requested to benefit Shaping San Francisco. --Chris -- I am on the road again, Toronto, NYC, New Brunswick, and Troy. Back in SF Sept. 17 www.nowtopia.org The Nowtopian (my blog): http://www.lipmagazine.org/ccarlsson/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://gdc.groupd.com/pipermail/shapingsf-talks/attachments/20080917/a105ffea/attachment.html From carlsson.chris at gmail.com Wed Sep 24 15:10:50 2008 From: carlsson.chris at gmail.com (Chris Carlsson) Date: Wed Sep 24 15:11:59 2008 Subject: Shaping SF tonight, 7:30 pm! Talk: Global Africa Message-ID: <234837310809241510m5fb42ff4h519e7f6b7eafc330@mail.gmail.com> Global Africa; African Liberation Movements Since 1945***co-sponsored by Global Commons Foundation* Wed. Sept. 24, 7:30pm Free A discussion of African liberation movements and decolonialization from 1945 to the present, of political problems of the post-independence period?coups, civil wars, struggles against oppressive regimes, economic problems of post-independence, of cultural renaissance, and of links to movements in diaspora. Immanuel Wallerstein, Walter Turner and Will Grant. part of the Great Rehearsal week of events on 1968 and beyond. Tonight at 7:30 at CounterPULSE, 1310 Mission at 9th, San Francisco. -- I am back in SF, immersed in too many threads to disclose here! www.nowtopia.org The Nowtopian (my blog): http://www.lipmagazine.org/ccarlsson/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://gdc.groupd.com/pipermail/shapingsf-talks/attachments/20080924/adf468ed/attachment.html