Yea for Thursday & Saturday at SubRosa!

July 17th- 3rd Thursday

Women, Trans & Queer 

Open Mic

Open mic is a space for you to share yourself in anyway that feels right to you. You can read a story, poem or journal entry that feels important to you. You can sing or play a song you are excited about. You can make other people act out weird or funny things you think of. You can ask questions you need help answering. You can rant about things that piss you off. And you can just come and soak it all up. 

Every 3rd Thursday of the month we reserve the stage for Women, Trans, and Queer folk though everyone is invited and encouraged to come enjoy the show. These Open Mics are always special and this one you can expect at least one accordion! 

Donations directly benefit this community-supported space. Signups for performance at 7:30 fill up quickly. Bring your creativity and artistic inspiration.

SubRosa Bi-Monthly Open Mic
1st & 3rd Thursday 8-10pm (signups at 7:30)

$3-7 at the door. No one turned away for lack of funds.

Saturday July 19th Really Really Free Market! noon-3pm

No money. No trades. Everything is free. 

This market is based on a gift-economy and thinks capitalism sucks. Bring food to share. Bring your special items that you don't use but can't throw away (ex. clothes, toys, art supplies, instruments, books and zines...your free box). Bring your special talents to offer people (ex. haircuts, message, reiki...). Come and take what you can use and say thanks! We will have folks to check in with as you arrive. First come first served, space may be limited. Mutual respect. If you bring things, you are expected to take away whatever is left at the end of the market.

In previous weeks I have posted links to zines that offer thought provoking perspectives on the realm of theory-into-action.  Now I offer a link to a radio show that also offers radical perspectives to consider and act upon as you will.  And now freely lifted from http://anarchistnews.org (a site with many interesting articles, but I caution you about reading the comments).

Final Straw: A view from Sao Paolo on resistance to FIFA; Layla Abdel Rahim on "Wild Children - Domesticated Dreams"

Streaming at AshevilleFM through June 29nd, 2014, then podcasting later at radio4all.net and airing on KOWA-LPFM in Olympia, WA, KWTF in Bodega Bay, CA, KXCF in Marshall, CA, and WCRS-LP Columbus Community Radio 98.3 and 102.1 FM

This week's show features mainly a dubbed interview by comrades at A-Radio Berlin with a member of a Comite Popular da Copa in Sao Paolo, Brazil. The interviewee speaks about the context of resistance in Brazil and how it's developed, public discourse around elections, the cost of living, developments around the FIFA World Cup and upcoming Olympics in Brazil. He discusses the links between politicians supporting these huge events, the political power of the construction companies, the displacement of poor, urban peoples and the further gentrification of cities under the guise of facilitating these huge events that draw short term profits but cause longterm damages. Information about the Comite Popular da Copa in Sao Paolo can be found at: http://comitepopularsp.wordpress.com/

More works by A-Radio Berlin can be found at http://aradio.blogsport.de

At about 40 minutes into the show, the begin presenting a conversation with Layla AbdelRahim about her recent book, "Wild Children - Domesticated Dreams: Narratives of Civilization and Wilderness". She is an anarchaprimitivist who explores ideas of education, domestication and civilization in terms of childhood development and overall human health. In this portion, we define some terms and talk about instrumentalization of living things and symbolic thought and how they are used to shape the child's mind into the civilized and non-empathic perspective. Info on the book can be found at http://www.fernwoodpublishing.ca

Sean Swain, this week, talks about the corruption and enslavement involved in the construction of the Ohio State Capital building in Colombus.

Women, Trans, and Queer Open Mic & Reflections on Riots and Revolt in America & Really Really Free Market Info!

3rd Thursday Women, Trans, and Queer Open Mic,
Thursday June 19th, 7:30-10pm (no open mic Thurs. 6/12)

Every 3rd Thursday of the month we reserve the stage for Women, Trans, and Queer folk though everyone is invited and encouraged to come enjoy the show. These Open Mics are always special. Donations directly benefit this community-supported space. Signups for performance at 7:30 fill up quickly, and it begins at 8pm.  Bring your creativity and artistic inspiration. $3-7 at the door. No one turned away for lack of funds.

Reflections on Riots
and Revolt in America,

Friday June 20th at 7pm

With the passing of the Occupy Movement, the official Left has pushed for a return back into the political system people sought to rebel against. The movement, which sought to break America out of its slumber has been defeated. But as the global situation across the world continues to worsen; economically, ecologically, and socially, revolts continue to pop up and occur across the world and the US, seizing public space, organizing in assemblies, and using the use of riots to defend occupied zones.

Looking back on the history of revolt in the United States, Doug Gilbert discusses his new book, ‘I Saw Fire: Reflections on Riots, Revolt, and the Black Bloc’ and how the Left has often distorted the history of resistance in this country. Self-organized and disruptive action often has been a greater force for change - and a possible departure point to other forms of life, than formal and traditional forms of non-violent protest.

Talk will be followed by Q + A. Free tables of radical literature will also be on hand. Kid friendly.

Really Really Free Market, Saturday June 21st, noon-3pm

No money. No trades. Everything is free. This market is based on a gift-economy and thinks capitalism sucks. Bring food to share. Bring your special items that you don't use but can't throw away (ex. clothes, toys, art supplies, instruments, books and zines...your free box). Bring your special talents to offer people (ex. haircuts, message, reiki...). Come and take what you can use and say thanks! We will have folks to check in with as you arrive. First come first served, space may be limited.  If you bring things, you are expected to take away whatever is left at the end of the market.

And come visit SubRosa during our regular open hours!  We are making a concerted effort to be open regularly, even during the summer.  So, bring a friend, check out a book from the Anarchist Library, peruse the Meristem Health Distro, spark an engaging conversation and much more!

Also, here is another reminder to Support SubRosa
during our Spring/Summer Fundraiser!

You can donate to our secure page at EverRibbon, which collects the money through WePay. SubRosa is also fiscally sponsored by a 501(c)(3) non-profit, so your donation can be tax deductible.

And so you can donate HERE!

June 11 – Day of Solidarity with Marie Mason, Eric McDavid, and All Eco-Prisoners

June 11 – Day of Solidarity
with Marie Mason, Eric McDavid,
and All Eco-Prisoners

June 11 began as an international day of solidarity with long-term eco-prisoner Jeff “Free” Luers in 2004. At the time Jeff was serving 22+ years. Infuriated by the environmental devastation he saw occurring on a global scale, Jeff torched three SUVs at a car dealership in Eugene, Oregon. The sentence imposed on him was meant to send a clear message to others who were angered by capitalism’s continued war on the Earth’s ecosystems – and to those who were willing to take action to put a stop to it.

After years of struggle, Jeff and his legal team won a reduction in his sentence and he was released from prison in December 2009. But in the years intervening Jeff’s arrest and release, the FBI had carried out a series of indictments and arrests in an attempt to devastate the radical environmental and anarchist communities. Two of the people caught up in this maelstrom of repression were Eric McDavid and Marie Mason.

Marie Mason and Eric McDavid share the unfortunate distinction of having the longest standing sentences of any environmental prisoners in the United States. Please join us in an International Day of Solidarity with Marie Mason, Eric McDavid, and all Eco-prisoners on every June 11. This is a time to remember our friends who are in prison – who are continuing their struggles on the inside. This is a time to continue and strengthen the very work for which Eric and Marie are now serving so much time – to struggle against capitalism, ecological devastation, and the ever more diffuse forms of control in this prison society.  From http://earthfirstjournal.org/june11/

Go to the links below for more information about these political prisoners and others.  The second link is to a site that is an art show regarding the June 11th focus.

We at SubRosa don't have anything formally planned for this date, but the space will be open from 11am until 3pm.  Come on down to SubRosa and write a letter to these folks (we'll have material and info available), and/or engage in conversation about how we can support these (and other) political prisoners, act to defend the earth, work to dismantle the prison-industrial-system, offer solidarity to each other AND much more!  

While it is important to cultivate  a culture of resistance, it is also important for us to nurture a culture of caring, for the earth, for each other, for ourselves...and these two ways-of-being are also inter-related.  Let these questions be seeds to share about and act on:  How is it that cultures of resistance and caring are related? How can we live our lives to bring these more fully into being?

And if you can't make it to SubRosa you can do your own thing, by yourself or with others.

june11.org | neveraloneart.org

Who Is Oakland: Anti-Oppression Activism, the Politics of Safety, and State Co-optation

Another thought provoking zine on the subject of  engaging in social struggle with others and a critical examination of anti-oppression politics.

Who Is Oakland: Anti-Oppression Activism, the Politics of Safety, and State Co-optation (zine available at escalatingidentity.wordpress.com by clicking on the title).

From the synopsis – written collaboratively by a group of people of color, women, and queers – and is offered in deep solidarity with anyone committed to ending identity-based oppression and exploitation materially. By “materially,” we simply mean that we do not believe that consciousness raising or vague changes in personal attitudes can disrupt, delegitimate, and ultimately dismantle systems of domination.

We don't currently have this zine at SubRosa, but read it at the link above and bring your thoughts and conversation to the community space.  

6/6- Friday Art Opening Featuring Artwork by the Women of the Santa Cruz County Jail, 6/5- Open Mic, 6/4- A Show!

Art Opening 

Featuring Artwork by the 

Women of the Santa Cruz County Jail

Friday June 6th from 6-8pm

Featuring artwork, talent

and stories from the women.

plus snacks and beverages.

The Artistic Rehabilitative Therapeutic* (ART) Initiative is a UC Santa Cruz student-run organization that conducts weekly therapeutic art projects with the women in the Santa Cruz County Jails.

Our mission is to pair art creation with coping skill education in a supportive and collective space in order to tackle issues regarding recidivism and idleness.

This program provides a reciprocal learning relationship with the inmates and facilitators, aiming to educate and heal through creating self-esteem, fostering creativity, and empowering a critical consciousness within a supportive community.

More information is available at http://www.theartinitiative.org/

Now go back in Time from Friday 6/6 to the previous Thursday
and attend SubRosa's 1st Thursday Open Mic on 6/5!

Open mic is a space for you to share yourself in anyway that feels right to you. You can read a story, poem or journal entry that feels important to you. You can sing or play a song you are excited about. You can make other people act out weird or funny things you think of. You can ask questions you need help answering. You can rant about things that piss you off. And you can just come and soak it all up.

Donations directly benefit this community-supported space. Signups for performance at 7:30 fill up quickly and it all begins at 8pm!

Once more I encourage you to step back in time from Thursday
 and go to a great show Tomorrow, Wednesday June 4, 7pm!

*Emperor X (noisepop/folk) http://emperorx.bandcamp.com/

**Slime Girls (chiptunes/punk) http://slimegirls.bandcamp.com/

***Just Nick (2ndwavewhining/folkpunk) http://nickwuebben.bandcamp.com/

****Justin Beepboop (localpunk/chiptunes)http://justinbeepboop.bandcamp.com/

*****The Limes (shrektunes/folkpunk) http://alexanderthegrape.bandcamp.com/

 

COME OUT AND SUPPORT TOURING ACTS!
ALL AGES & $3-7$ @ DOOR (notaflof)

NO DRINKING-NO DRUGS-NO BULLIES

PUNK TIME IS DEAD---SHOW UP ON TIME Y'ALL

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