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WEDNESDAY 19
“Fast Times in Palestine”
Pamela Olson’s new memoir, Fast Times in Palestine, recounts her time in Ramallah as a young journalist from 2003-2005. It was described by Rebecca Vilkomerson, executive of the Jewish Voice for Peace, as, “a moving, inspiring account of life in Palestine that’s enormously informative yet reads like a novel.” Celebrate the publication with the program’s short presentation from the author, a Q&A session, and a book signing.
7-9 p.m., free
Stanford University
Building 160, Room 124
THURSDAY 20
Eat crab, fight AIDS
Support individuals living with HIV and help prevent this spreading epidemic by joining this crab feed fundraiser for AIDS Project East Bay. APEB provides free and confidential HIV and STD/STI testing with a scheduled appointment.
6-10 p.m., $45
8945 Golf Links, Oakl.
San Jose Short Film Festival
The 3rd annual San Jose Film Festival will present entertaining shorts from filmmakers around the world on Oct. 20-23rd. The weekend will be speckled with VIP events, parties and interesting forums and panels. San Jose will be taken over with Hollywood style. Each of the four days will be broken down into two-hour blocks of short films of various genres. Tickets are now online for sale.
7 p.m.- 12 a.m.
CineArts Theater @ Santana Row
3088 Olsen Drive, San Jose
SATURDAY 22
Figth police brutality in the Central Valley
Remember Oscar Grant and join in the caravan of resistance standing in solidarity against police violence. Rain or shine, protest outside these city police stations and stand up against those who “shoot down innocent people” and “carry out raids on immigrant and harass those working to end this abuse”.
11 a.m., free
Outside the Stockton Police Station, 22 E. Market, Stockton
or
12:30 p.m., free
Manteca Police Station, 1001 W. Center, Manteca
or
2:00 p.m., free
Stanislaus County Jail, 1115 H St., Modesto
A community forum on state repression will take place in Cesar Chavez Park at 4 p.m. in Modesto
Contact Kat Williams at wearealloscargrant.cv@gmail.com
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