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WEDNESDAY, JULY 21
Media bash
Watch the politically charged documentary Broadcast Blues, followed by a group discussion about how people have the ability to demand that policymakers put an end to the widespread unethical practices of the mainstream media. Filmmaker Sue Wilson outlines the role the FCC is supposed to play and how the right-wing political movement has been purposely confusing people to sway public opinion and write its own oral history.
7:30 p.m., $5 suggested donation
Humanist Hall
390 27th St., Oakl.
Stop Driving Global Warming
Get the hell out of your cars and help promote the four-day driving and flying boycott that take places Sept. 11–14. The terrorist attacks on 9/11and recent BP oil spill should be major wake up calls that we need to reduce our dependence on oil. Head out to the Berkeley Pedestrian Bridge, which crosses a corridor where more than 250,000 cars travel each day, to raise awareness with banners and support.
9 a.m., free
Berkeley Pedestrian Bridge
Addison at I-80, Berk.
(510) 878-8427
THURSDAY, JULY 22
"Down with Stereotypes"
Alison Owings reads from her two books, Hey, Waitress! The USA from the Other Side of the Tray and the forthcoming Indian Voices / Listening to Native Americans, and discusses what the tales of Beulah Compton, a waitress union leader in Seattle in the 1940s and ’50s, and Tom Phillips (Kiowa), a powwow MC and drug counselor at the Friendship House American Indian Healing Center, have in common.
7 p.m., free
Modern Times Bookstore
888 Valencia, SF
Solidarity with hotel workers
On the 30th anniversary of the 1980 Hotel Strike, join Local 2 and supporters from 13 cities nationwide and in Canada for a coordinated rally and protest for hotel workers’ rights. Hotel workers have endured staff cuts, reduced hours, and excessive injury rates, and now Hyatt Corp. is trying to lock hotel unions into recession-based contracts that would continue to take advantage of hotel workers even after economic recovery.
4 p.m., free
Gather at Local 2 Plaza
In front of the Four Seasons Hotel
Market between Third and Fourth, SF
SATURDAY, JULY 24
Peace Ride
Gear up for the third annual Bikes 4 Life Peace Ride around Lake Merritt to West Oakland’s Revolution Café. Pedalers of all kinds are invited to join this joyful night ride that culminates in a bike-in movie with refreshments at Revolution Café.
7:30 p.m., free
Meet at Lake Merritt Playground
568 Bellevue, Oakl.
(510) 452-2453
TUESDAY, JULY 27
"Close the Loophole"
Attend this town hall meeting led by SF Assessor-Recorder Phil Ting to reform Prop. 13, a 1978 voter- approved cap on property taxes that has severely limited local governments’ ability to collect property tax revenue from commercial land owners. Reforming Prop. 13 could significantly restore funding to public education and services.
7:30 p.m., free
Laney College Student Center
900 Fallon, Oakl.
(415) 418-8435
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