By Doug Porter
The hard work and dedication of activists all over the United States continues to provide a ray of hope in this era of darkness.
There are two really big days– April 29 & May 1–in this calendar, and I’ve worked hard to provide as much detail as I could find about activities for the multiple events associated with the People’s Climate March and May Day.
There will be no calendar published next Friday (May 5), hence the bigger than usual window for this week’s posting. I’m headed to New Orleans for Jazzfest. (Yay!)
If you’ve scheduled an event for the week of May 7-11 and I didn’t list it here, please feel free to add it in the comments section.
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So what will you do? Check out this week’s Progressive Calendar listings below. Following those listings are upcoming events of national importance, along with opportunities for organizational involvement and a few reading suggestions.
Get your event listed: I try to list the next 10 days or so of mostly non-commercial events I think our readers might find of interest. I source my material from social media listings and press releases.
Events that are listed on Facebook as ‘private’ or sold out are not listed. In cases where there are competing but similar events or campaigns of the progressive persuasion, I do my best to list everything.
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PowerHour: Building Cross-Community Solidarity
Friday, April 28, 5:30pm
Partnership for the Advancement of New Americans
4809 Fairmount Avenue (City Heights)
For More Information (RSVP)
Hosted by Partnership for the Advancement of New Americans – PANA
Join PANA on April 28 at 5:30 PM at our offices at 4089 Fairmount Ave for a #PowerHour on Building Cross-Community Solidarity. We are thrilled to be joined by Deepa Iyer, Senior Fellow at the Center for Social Inclusion. She is the author of We Too Sing America: South Asian, Arab, Muslim and Sikh Immigrants Shape Our Multiracial Future. We will discuss the work happening at a national level impacting immigrants, refugees, and the Muslim community and how we can win at a local level.
April 29
People’s Climate March – San Diego
Saturday, April 29, 10am
County Administration Building – Waterfront Park
1600 Pacific Highway
For More Information
Hosted by SanDiego350
Join thousands of San Diegans on Saturday, April 29, as we march in solidarity with the huge People’s Climate Mobilization that will take place in Washington DC.
Program:
10:00 am
- Welcome and Introduction, with MCs Rev. Dr. Beth Johnson, Palomar Unitarian Universalist Fellowship and Eryn Wilson, Alliance San Diego
- Music by the Peace and Freedom Chorus, with choir leader Marshall Voit and Peggy Watson
10:15 am
- Opening blessing and comments by Bobby Wallace of the Barona Band of Mission Indians of the Kumeyaay Nation
- California State Assembly Member Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher
- Professor Jeff Severinghaus, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
- Professor Jim Miller, American Federation of Teachers, Labor Council Environmental Caucus, SD Free Press columnist, and City College
- SDSU Environmental Engineering student Willow Lark and UC San Diego student Mukta Kelkar
11:00 am
- 1-mile loop march (see route here) led by student contingent and featuring puppets, sunflowers, butterflies and more
- Music by Veracruz Blues
11:50 am
- Music by Veracruz Blues
- Senior Pastor Rev. J. Lee Hill, Jr., Community Congregational Church, United Church of Christ
- Dan Sullivan, President and Founder of Sullivan Solar Power
- Esperanza Miranda, City Heights community member and Environmental Justice Promotora with Environmental Health Coalition
- San Diego City Council Member David Alvarez
12:25 pm
- Closing ceremony by Grupo Quetzalhuitzilin de san diego
People’s Climate March San Diego
(North County – Oceanside)
Saturday, April 29, 10am
Tyson Street Park
Pacific & Tyson Streets (Oceanside)
For More Information
Please join North County Mobilization for Climate/Environmental Justice!
Join the “San Diego Water Protectors”, “Public Watchdog”, and many other North County “Environmental Rights Activist” groups in a Nation-Wide Mobilization for Climate/Environmental Justice. We will not stand by and let this, or any other Administration to allow the poisoning of our Earth. Water is Life! Meet us at Tyson Street Park, on April 29th at 10am to stand up for our planet, our families, our children…OUR FUTURE!
People’s Climate March San Diego
(North County – Escondido)
Saturday, April 29, 11am
Westfield North County Mall
272 East Rancho Parkway (Escondido)
For More Information
This North San Diego County People’s Climate Rally is for those people that don’t want to fight parking, crowds, and traffic downtown. In your signage, let Duncan Hunter know what you think about how he is voting. He tells people that his constituents don’t believe in climate change!
Tell him you expect him to vote NO on H.R. 861, a bill that terminates the Environmental Protection Agency on December 31, 2018. We will also have a petition asking that Hunter have a town hall this summer during one of the scheduled district work weeks.
Prop 64 & Prop 47 Relief Clinic
Saturday, April 29, 8am
Second Chance
6145 Imperial Avenue
For More Information
Hosted by ACLU of San Diego and Imperial Counties
Do you have a felony on your record? You might be able to change it! On November 4, 2014, the voters of California passed Proposition 47, a law that reduces some felonies to misdemeanors. Here you’ll be able to connect to services and clean your record.
Social Justice Conference: Structural Justice and Intersectionality
Saturday, April 29, 9am
Mother Roalie Hill Hall
5998 Alcala Park (USD)
For More Information
Hosted by CASA – The Mulvaney Center for Community, Awareness and Social Action
The goal of this conference is to bring together people of multiple passions and interests to create dialogue around social justice in a structural sense and engaging the intersectionality of our various justice callings. Through a series of workshops and speakers we will focus on intersectionality and coalition building, motivation and living out our values, compassion, and self care for student activists. The speakers will highlight on specific social justice issues like the refugee crisis, prison reform, and other major social issues. Lunch is provided by a local community partner.
Stronger Together! Concert
Saturday, April 29, 6pm
First Unitarian Universalist Church of San Diego
4190 Front Street (Hillcrest)
For More Information (Tickets)
Hosted by First UU Women’s Chorus
Stronger Together is a concert by the First Unitarian Universalist Church of San Diego Women’s Chorus to benefit Women’s Empowerment International (WE). Join us for a lively evening of music and song, browse our patio marketplace and enjoy nibbles at our post-concert reception. Refugee women who have benefited from WE’s San Diego program will share their stories throughout the concert and sell their wares before (6-6:45 pm) and after the event (8-9 pm).
James Lee Stanley at The GO!
Saturday, April 29, 7:30pm
Grassroots Oasis
3130 Moore Street
For More Information (Tickets)
With a history that includes 5 years on StarTrek Deep Space Nine as the singing Klingon amongst other roles; scoring the Emmy Award Winning prime time CBS TV Cathy Specials; 3 years as Steven Wrights opening act; tours with Bonnie Raitt, the Dixie Dregs, Robin Trower and Robin Williams; composing the hits Coming Out of Hiding, I Dont Want To Talk About It and Plenty of Reason; 26 solo CDs and duet CDs with Peter Tork, Michael Smith, Cliff Eberhardt or John Batdorf
Resisting Rape Culture Conference
Saturday, April 29, 8am
Mira Costa College
1 Barnard Drive (Oceanside)
For More Information (Tickets)
Hosted by NAPAWF San Diego Chapter
Please join us for our first annual Resisting Rape Culture Conference in honor of Sexual Assault Awareness Month.
This year we are honored to feature Natalie Collier, Women’s Rights expert, and Adrenis Hooks, former Department of Justice Advisor on Violence Against Women, who will provide tangible ways in which we can continue to advocate to change rape culture within our families, communities, and nation.
Transgender Day of Empowerment
Saturday, April 29, 6pm
City of Oceanside Public Library
330 North Coast Highway
For More Information
Hosted by Gender Advocacy Project
Please join us for the 5th Annual North County Transgender Day of Empowerment – April 29th (Saturday) from 6 to 7:30pm at the community rooms next to the Oceanside Library. Your host Melissa Marquette and guest speaker Tommi Clinton will empower and educate you on trans issues, bring your questions! We will honor providers with awards and best of all please come ready to share an empowering story that happened to you this year!
Screening of “Paying the Price for Peace:
The Story of S. Brian Wilson”
Saturday, April 29, 7pm
The Joyce Beers Community Center
3900 Vermont St (Hillcrest)
No Link
Activist San Diego is co-sponsoring this special screening which includes a Q&A session with the Associate Producer following. Vietnam veteran S. Brian Willson paid the price for peace as he was run over and nearly killed by a military train during a non-violent protest at The Concord Naval Weapons Station in California on September 1st, 1987. The train was carrying weapons that were to be shipped to Central America and used to kill innocent civilians in Nicaragua, El Salvador & Guatemala.
March: Justice for Juan
Saturday, April 29, 9:45am
Begin at the corner of First and Heffernan in Calexico
End at the International Border Fountain
For More Information
Hosted by: NAACP Imperial County, Black Lives Matter, Imperial Valley Social Justice Coalition
The above organizations will be marching in solidarity with Juan Montez, a DACA student who suffers from learning disabilities as a result of a traumatic brain injury, and who was tragically deported as a result of Trump’s hard line stance on immigration. We demand that Montez be allowed to return home, to Calexico, and we voice the need for comprehensive immigration reform with an accessible path to citizenship, sanctuary cities, and the right of students to learn without fear of deportation.
South Bay People Power Meeting
Saturday, April 29, 1pm
Chula Vista Public Library – Civic Center Branch Conference Room
365 F Street (Chula Vista)
For More Information/RSVP
Planning meeting to hear reports on recent actions we’ve taken, determine next steps in our advocacy for sanctuary/immigration law enforcement policy and other issues, and discuss how we want our group to be organized (goals statement, roles, meeting times).
Friends of the City Heights Library Law Day
Saturday, April 29, 9:30am
City Heights Library
3795 Fairmount Avenue
For More Information
Free classes on: immigration, renter’s rights , wills, worker rights, and more. Meet with a volunteer attorney to discuss your legal issues.
Nuclear Waste Burial on San Onofre State Beach Town Hall
Saturday, April 29, 2:30pm
Del Mar Branch Library
1309 Camino Del Mar
No Link
Join the Advocates from Public Watchdogs for details of the issue of Southern California Edison attempting to bury nuclear waste at the beach at San Onofre Park.
No More BS (Border Sewage) March
Saturday, April 29, 3pm
Both Imperial Beach & Coronado
See Below for Details
For More Information
Hosted by SB Clean Water Movement
Our hope for this march is to make a clear statement in the streets of IB that this is no longer acceptable and we will no longer stand for this! Rally your friends & family! Dress up those strollers and kiddie wagons as we march with our families and neighbors in solidarity against this! This is a call to action South Bay! Your presence is required!! CLEAN BEACHES FOR OUR CHILDREN!
So far, the plan is to have Coronado start on one side of town (meeting at corner of 3rd and Palm Ave by Pacific Realty). IB will start across on another side (meeting at the corner of 3rd & IB Blvd by the Estuary). We will simultaneously march towards the IB Pier Plaza where our cities will collide and we will disburse onto the beach to spell a word for an aerial photo. Our goal here is to raise awareness so Capitol Hill hears/sees us through the visual photo. The bigger the attendance the bigger the message we are sending to Washington DC!!!
April 30
U.S. Imperialism and the Threat of Global War
Sunday, April 30, 2pm
City Heights Library
3795 Fairmount Avenue
For More Information
Hosted by San Diego PSL
Was the attack on Syria a heart felt response by Trump or a warning to the Chinese Government?
Since the bombing, the Russian, Syrian, and Iranian governments have taken further measures to demonstrate to the U.S. that they will not be bullied into submission, including Russian warships crossing into the Mediterranean Sea and moving toward the U.S. ships that launched the attack, Syria firing on U.S. planes, etc.
As we are brought to the edge of global conflict in the Middle East the U.S. further sent its Pacific Fleet straight to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea with a Chinese reply of 150,000 troops stationed along Korea’s northern border.
Are all of those on the so called “left” united on these issues? Are all socialists opposed to U.S. intervention? What is U.S. Imperialism and how do we oppose it? Get these and other questions answered as we work to build a strong understanding of these issues to prepare for what is to be done.
YES, We CAN: The Power of Electricity Choice
Sunday, April 30, 9am
St Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral
2728 Sixth Avenue (San Diego)
For More Information
Hosted by San Diego Energy District
San Diego’s 2015 Climate Action Plan committed the City to “100% Renewable Energy by 2035.” Through a Community Choice program, however, San Diegans could have 100% clean energy much sooner. Erika Morgan, Executive Director of the San Diego Energy District, will describe how Choice programs work and what we can do to capture the benefits for our City, State, and planet.
May 1
14 EVENTS ON MAYDAY!
There are actions on eight college campuses, a big rally downtown, a hotel picket line, a march from downtown to Chicano Park.
College Campus Teach-Ins – 9am
Campus Marches Noon – 1pm
City College
B Building (Near Park & A)
Mesa College
LRC Rose Garden
Miramar
Student Cafeteria
Cuyamaca
Grand Lawn
Grossmont
Quad (Front of Tech Mall)
Caesar Chavez
Main Lobby
Mid City Center
Main Lobby (6:30-7:30pm)
SDSU Walk Out!
Hepner Hall SDSU – 12:15pm
Citywide College Rally – 1pm
@ City College B Building (Near Park & A)
Big MayDay March – 2pm
March from City College to Federal Building
San Diego Workers March! Marcha de Trabajadores
For More Information / People over Profits-SD
3:00pm Rally at the Federal Building, 880 Front Street
4:00pm March in Downtown San Diego heading to Chicano Park
May Day San Diego 2017- Workers and Community Resist!
For More Information / MAY 1st San Diego
3:00pm Rally at the Federal Building, 880 Front Street
4:00pm March in Downtown San Diego heading to Chicano Park
Rally with Hotel Workers on International Workers Day!
For More Information / Organizing Beyond Barriers
3:30pm Omni Hotel
675 L Street (San Diego)
After the picket, we will be joining the May Day March as it passes Market and 6th.
Marcha 1o de Mayo – Condado Norte San Diego
For More Information / San Diego Dream Team
Wildwood Park, 601 East Vista Way (Vista) 4pm
Refinery Town Book Tour with Author Steve Early
Monday, May 1, 7pm
Humanities Center, Serra Hall (University of San Diego)
For More Information
Come hear Steve Early speak about the Richmond Progressive Alliance & “Rebel Cities” in The Trump Era.
Steve Early is a labor journalist, lawyer, longtime Communications Workers of America activist, and Labor for Bernie volunteer who belongs to the Richmond Progressive Alliance in Richmond, CA. He is the author of three previous books about labor and workplace issues
School Board Town Hall
Monday, May 1, 4pm
San Diego Education Association
10393 San Diego Mission Road
For More Information
Hosted by San Diego Education Association
Come to a town hall meeting with SDUSD Trustees Evans, Whitehurst-Payne and SDUSD Supt. Marten.
The school board and superintendent are planning to lay off 1,000 educators. That’s 1 in every 7! They’re also cutting enrichment classes and slashing student supports. These cuts are just predictions and they’ve been wrong every time.
The District doesn’t really know what its budget will be until June. Right now they are just guessing, and they have a long history of guessing wrong. Last year their budget was off by 48%, and in 2014-15 by 94%!
May 2
District 5 – San Diego County Budget Forum
Tuesday, May 2, 6pm
Palomar Unitarian Universalist Fellowship
1600 Buena Vista Drive, (Vista)
For More Information
Hosted by Invest in San Diego Families
Is the County of San Diego using its budget of $5.4 billion wisely? We need a budget that improves San Diego’s economy by investing in families and our community. Come join your neighbors to discuss what our community needs.
San Diego County has $1.9 BILLION in cash sitting_ in the bank, 3 TIMES more than financial experts recommend.
UCSD Dems: Reproductive Rights
Tuesday, May 2, 5pm
Bear Room, Price Center (UCSD)
For More Information
Marlene Lara, the Advocacy Coordinator for Planned Parenthood Action Fund of the Pacific Southwest will be coming to speak to us about reproductive rights.
Know Your Rights@UCSD!
Tuesday, May 2, 5pm
UCSD Cross-Cultural Center
Price Center East
For More Information
Hosted by Ready Now San Diego
Do you want to learn about your rights, the future of DACA, recent executive orders and about legal resources?
Join us at the next informational forum at UC San Diego’s Cross-Cultural Center, Comunidad Room (9500 Gilman Dr. La Jolla, CA 92093). Come receive important information and resources connecting you to legal service providers that may be able to help you with your case. We will also be having a lawyer present at this event. Lastly, light refreshments will be provided.
May 3
Now Is the Time to Become a U.S Citizen!
Wednesday, May 3, 5pm
Resurrection Church
1445 Conway (Escondido)
For More Information
Hosted by Ready Now San Diego and Alliance San Diego
Attend one of our free evaluation events. If we determine that you qualify for naturalization and for our free services, we will offer you an appointment to complete your application during step two.
POPSD Presents the Barriers of Reentry
Wednesday, May 3, 6:30pm
Border X Brewing
2181 Logan Ave (Barrio Logan)
For More Information
Hosted by People over Profits-SD
We will be discussing the barriers to reentry that many individuals encounter the day they transition back into society, and we will also be talking about the systematic injustices within our unjust system. It’ll be an interactive night filled with knowledge, personal experiences, solutions, trivia, and etc. More details to come soon!!! RSVP now and please share the event link!
May 4
Community Briefing – Champion Civil Rights in San Diego
Thursday, May 4, 6pm
City Heights (Location with Registration)
For More Information
Hosted by ACLU of San Diego and Imperial Counties
Register today to attend an upcoming ACLU Community Briefing to hear about how together, we can impact local, state, and national policy.
Our Community Briefings will help you understand how you and your community can:
– Advance the California Resistance Legislative Agenda including:
SB 10, The California Money Bail Reform Act;
SB 31, The California Religious Freedom Act;
and SB 54, The California Values Act.
– Be a Rapid Responder to stop raids on people’s homes and worksites.
– Become a Know Your Rights Ambassador and help defend communities’ civil rights and liberties.
– Help stop cuts to vital services and advocate for responsible public investment.
The Loving Story: Film Screening & Talk
at the San Diego Central Library
Thursday, March 4, 6:30
San Diego Downtown Public Library
Neil Morgan Auditorium
330 Park Boulevard
For More Information
Hosted by San Diego Law Library
The San Diego Law Library, in partnership with the San Diego City Library, presents a showing of the Emmy Award-winning documentary The Loving Story.
The Loving Story is a 2012 documentary about Richard and Mildred Loving, parties to the landmark 1967 Supreme Court case Loving v. Virginia, which legalized interracial marriage. The couple married in 1958, at a time when anti-miscegenation laws were held up in 16 states. After the state of Virginia declared their marriage to be illegal, the American Civil Liberties Union helped bring their case to court. The film takes us behind the scenes to witness the legal challenges and emotional turmoil faced by the families and attorneys to the case.
Oceanside Public Meeting on Beach Nuclear Waste Facility
Thursday, March 4, 6pm
Oceanside City Council Chambers
300 North Coast Highway (Oceanside)
For More Information
Citizens Oversight sued the Coastal Commission and now we are entering settlement discussions. Although settlement discussions are required to be confidential to allow frank discussion, we want to be open to public input on the matter of where nuclear waste from San Onofre will be stored. This meeting, at the Oceanside City Council Chambers on May 4, from 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm, will be transcribed and included in the public file for the lawsuit.
May 6
Day Laborer Outreach
Saturday, May 6, 8am
Border Angels HQ
2258 Island Avenue (San Diego)
For More Information (RSVP, Please)
Hosted by BORDER ANGELS
Volunteers will go out to meet with Day Laborers at sites around San Diego, to distribute information regarding their rights, access to services (such as immigration advice, language courses etc) as well as distributing food, water and hygiene items.
Work-a-Thon for Peace and Social Justice
Saturday, May 6, 9am
Mt Hope Community Garden
4261 Market Street (San Diego)
For More Information
Hosted by Peace Resource Center of San Diego
Volunteer for a day of service in support of the Mt. Hope Community Garden, an initiative of Project New Village in Southeastern San Diego. Project New Village strengthens communities through the development of beautiful, beneficial and bountiful neighborhood food options. The Garden aims to engage culturally diverse stakeholders into creating a neighborhood food ecosystem, which serves as a gathering space for children, families and community.
No More Divide and Conquer: Let’s Tell the Real Story
Saturday, May 6, 10am
San Diego First Church of the Brethren
3850 Westgate Place (San Diego)
For More Information (Registration)
Join us for a timely discussion on a topic that affects all of us. Whatever our color, religion, immigration status, prison record or ethnic group, we live in a society where we feel compelled to compete with one another to survive. However, we cannot thrive in a world where we sacrifice ourselves and others to an economy and societal norms which are ruthless and which put short-term self-interest before our health and the health of the earth itself. This must stop. We can stop it. And we can start with ourselves. Join us for No More Divide and Conquer: Let’s Tell the Real Story, a three-hour event held in person in the San Diego area and online anywhere, to be held Saturday, May 6. Let’s connect to our real power, and use it to co-create a better world in which we can all thrive!
Community Choice Energy (CCE) Forum
Saturday, May 6, 9:30am
First Unitarian Universalist Church
4190 Front Street (San Diego)
For More Information (RSVP, Please)
Do you want a clean energy competitor to SDGE? Come hear NICOLE CAPRETZ and City Council member CHRIS WARD explain community choice energy to bring clean energy electricity in San Diego. Community Choice Energy brings local control and freedom of choice and competition into the electricity marketplace.
Stand With Planned Parenthood [May]
Saturday, May 6, 10am
Planned Parenthood
2017 First Ave (San Diego)
For More Information
Come support Planned Parenthood. This will be the first Saturday in May! Come out and bring your friends! We had great success so let’s continue and make it stronger!!
Art & Collectibles Sale to Benefit The GO
Saturday, May 6, 11am
Grassroots Oasis
3130 Moore Street (Old Town)
For More Information
Just in time for Mother’s Day, Graduation, Weddings, Father’s Day: a Sale of original Art (paintings, ceramics, sculpture, glass) and exquisite collectibles (antique quilts, crystal figurines, Christmas ornaments) to benefit The Grassroots Oasis.
Two years after opening its doors, The GO has become well-known as a center for progressive political organizing and cultural events, including the finest in live music.
Free Community Showing of Moonlight
Saturday, May 6, 6:30pm
Jacobs Center for Community Innovation
404 Euclid Avenue (San Diego)
For More Information
Moonlight tells, for the first time, a coming of age story of a Black boy/young man navigating the challenges of growing up in inner-city Miami while coming to terms with his sexual identity. Moonlight is the first “Black” film to win an Academy Award for Best Picture not focused on slavery. It is only one of two Black films ever nominated for best picture set after the Civil Rights movement of the early ’60s. It and Precious, are also the only two best picture nominees not primarily telling a story through the lens of racism, slavery or Jim Crow oppression.
Moonlight was written, directed and produced by Black individuals and features an all Black cast. Best Supporting Actor winner, Mahershala Ali, for his role as Juan in Moonlight, is the first Muslim to win an Oscar.
May 7
Celebrate 100 Days of Resistance with a Potluck Picnic!
Sunday, May 7, 1pm
Kit Carson Park
3333 Bear Valley Parkway (Escondido)
For More Information
El Arroyo #1 Picnic Area. Bring a dish to share, a blanket. All welcome (dogs on leash)! Plates, cutlery etc supplied. Wear your resistance hats and T-shirts! Face-painting, balloon toss at DJT and DDH.
Signs for Life:
Exhibition & Community Participatory Event
Sunday, May 7, 2pm
Malcom X Public Library
5148 Market St (San Diego)
For More Information
Hosted by The Pleasant Institute
The event features the sign art legacy of Southern artist William Pleasant, Jr. Pleasant’s work is a featured part of the Cultural Expressions exhibit in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American Culture and History. Signs for Life will explore Civil Rights and Black Power through the related paintings and signage of William Pleasant, Jr. The afternoon events include cultural food, hands-on community art-making and signage, music making, and much more.
May 10
Running for Elected Office
Wednesday, May 10, 6:30pm
The Rose
2219 30th Street (South Park)
For More Information (Registration)
Hosted by The New Narrative
This will be a coalition-building event with time for concerned citizens to meet and make new connections. Our goal is to develop a stronger sense of how we can all make a direct difference in our world.
Our panelists:
Colin Parent, La Mesa City Councilmember
Chris Ward, San Diego City Councilmember, District 3
Carol Kim, former Candidate, San Diego City Council
May 10
Candidates Forum
with Eric Bauman and Kimberly Ellis
Wednesday, May 10, 6pm
Machinists Union Hall,
5150 Kearny Mesa Rd (San Diego)
For More Information (Tickets)
Hosted by San Diego County Democratic Party
Join us to hear candidates for the executive board of the California Democratic Party talk about the challenges facing Democrats across the state and country, as they debate the future of the Party in California.
May 11
The Future of Feminism with Jamia Wilson
Thursday, May 11, 5pm
Price Center West Ballroom (UCSD)
For More Information
Hosted by UCSD Women’s Center
Join the Women’s Center for our 20th Anniversary celebration, “The Future of Feminism” with keynote speaker, Jamia Wilson
May 12
Happy Hour + Film (Amandla!)
Friday, May 12, 5pm
Peace Resource Center of San Diego
3850 Westgate Place
For More Information
In celebration of Mother’s Day, we will be showing Amandla!: A revolution in Four-Part Harmony, a documentary film that depicts the use of music in the fight for freedom for Africans in South Africa. This was a struggle against the injustices of the Apartheid system. *Amandla means POWER in Zulu and Xhosa.
Role of State Attorneys General
and City Attorneys in Trump Era
Friday, May 12, Noon
Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP
655 West Broadway (San Diego)
For More Information (Tickets)
Hosted by San Diego Lawyer Chapter of the American Constitution Society
The Trump Administration’s “First 100 Days” have focused on many important constitutional issues including immigration, climate change, legalized marijuana, and border security. Governors, mayors, state legislators, city council members, and public advocates all have differing opinions on how to respond to the new policies.
James E. Tierney, the Director of StateAG.or Initiatives, an organization that furthers the efforts of the National State Attorneys General Program, will provide an overview of the role of State Attorney Generals nationwide followed by a discussion of the local roles of Mara Elliott, San Diego City Attorney, and David Loy, Legal Director of the ACLU of San Diego and Imperial Counties.
This is a brown bag lunch. Beverages will be provided. Admission is free, but space is limited.
May 13
Fresh Cinema – Food, Film & Science Showcase
Saturday, May 13, 11am
Digital Gym Cinema
2921 El Cajon Boulevard (San Diego)
For More Information (Tickets)
Hosted by Digital Gym Cinema and Media Arts Center San Diego
A fun-filled day of films, food, conversation, and wellness resources! Fresh Cinema will showcase three food and science-related movies (FORKS OVER KNIVES, KING CORN & THE MARTIAN), followed by hosted panels with local science experts.
Plus, there’ll be FREE simple, cost-effective healthy eating food demonstrations by local chefs, live music by old time blues and fiddle duo Michael Thomas & Stewball and other fun activities!
Upcoming Big Demonstrations
June 11, The Equality March: San Diego
July 2, Impeachment March
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