<h3>Please join us!</h3><h3>At CounterPULSE, Nov. 14, Wednesday evening 7:30 pm til 10...<br></h3><h3>Public Commons vs. Corporate Privatization</h3>
<h4>November 14</h4>
<p> With Mayor Newsom trying to give away the city's
wi-fi space to a corporate consortium, efforts by Bechtel
and other private contractors to take over our public water
system, the ongoing scandal of PG&E selling us our own
"public" power and their current efforts to
take over alternative power, incessant pressure to privatize
the public schools, a national culture that blindly accepts
corporate interests as preferable to public interests, we'll
talk about how the San Francisco Bay Area can begin a concerted
push back. Ted Nace ("The Rise of Corporate Power
and the Disabling of Democracy"), Aliza Wasserman,
Jessica Bell, Matt Leonard... just added: <font face="Century Gothic"><span style="font-size: 14px;">David Cobb and Shannon Tracey from Democracy Unlimited of Humboldt County will be talking about their successful measure T in 2006 to eliminate corporations from local politics...
</span></font></p><p><br><font face="Century Gothic"><span style="font-size: 14px;"></span></font></p><p><font face="Century Gothic"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Then, after Thanksgiving, don't miss this fantastic panel:
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<h3>Food Security & Urban Agriculture</h3>
<h4>November 28 </h4>
<p> Our food system is being refashioned by new urban farmers,
farmers markets and community-supported agriculture, and
importantly, by savvy shoppers who demand local, organic
and safe food. Still, food security is tenuous for too many
of our neighbors. Amy Franceschini (Victory Gardens, past
and present), Willow Rosenthal (City Slicker Farms), Jason
Mark (Alemany Farm, and editor of <em>Earth Island Journal</em>).</p><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><a href="http://www.chriscarlsson.com" target="_blank">www.chriscarlsson.com</a><br>Fall-Winter Talks 2007-08:
<a href="http://www.counterpulse.org/fall-winter-talks.shtml" target="_blank">
www.counterpulse.org/fall-winter-talks.shtml</a><br>The Nowtopian (my blog): <a href="http://www.lipmagazine.org/ccarlsson/" target="_blank">http://www.lipmagazine.org/ccarlsson/</a><br><a href="http://www.shapingsf.org" target="_blank">
www.shapingsf.org
</a><br><a href="http://www.processedworld.com" target="_blank">www.processedworld.com</a><br><a href="http://www.fullenjoymentbooks.com" target="_blank">www.fullenjoymentbooks.com</a>