So Much Going on at SubRosa, Jan. 2nd-8th 2012

-Monday, Jan. 2nd, 6-7pm- Spanish Conversation, a Free Skool class. We'll pick a topic to discuss each week and speak exclusively in Spanish while we're together. Intermediate to advanced Spanish skills are required.

-Tuesday, Jan. 3rd, 7-10pm- A Show! Pop Punk! High Dive (a queer-positive pop-punk band from Bloomington, Indiana, with Toby Foster, Nick Romy, and Ryan Woods, from defiance, ohio), Songs for Moms (an all-female Bay Area punk trio that formed in the spring of ‘06) and more! Bring money for the touring bands.

-Thursday, Jan. 5th, 8pm- Open Mic, sign-ups 7:30pm- Come express yourself, challenge yourself, challenge the audience. Donation.

-Friday, Jan. 6th, 6-8pm- First Friday Art Opening! A Museum of Natural History, art by Stephen Odell. Bones, feathers, insects, stones, dried flowers and drift wood all have a voice to share. It is this collective, co-creative perception that thrives in a greater communion of direct experience with the natural world and with each other over the technological obsessions that only serve to exalt the ego and self-centeredness. Artist Reception, Snacks, Refreshments, Tea Service and a Reading of "The Other Way to Listen" by Byrd Baylor. Art at SubRosa the month of January.

-Saturday, Jan. 7th, 1pm- Mass Media, a Critical Intro, a Free Skool class.

-Sunday, Jan. 8th, 5pm- Rad Dad Event. “Rad Dad: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Fatherhood” collects the best pieces from Tomas Moniz’s award-winning “Rad Dad” zine and from Jeremy Adam Smith’s blog Daddy Dialectic, two kindred publications explore parenting as political territory.

SubRosa is an anarchist community space run by a collective of committed volunteers. We put energy into SubRosa to create a vibrant community space available for events, classes, and meetings, collaborations and organizing, art and creativity, as well as reading and studying. We are working to create a world guided by mutual support, without coercive control.

Go to the SubRosa website for more info http://www.subrosaproject.org/

Sat. April 2nd at 2:30pm

“Popular Resistance in Palestine: A history of Hope & Empowerment”
with Dr. Mazin Qumsiyeh

Saturday April 2nd at 2:30pm
at SubRosa, 703 Pacific Ave.

On Saturday, April 2nd, Dr. Mazin Qumsiheh (pictured on right when arrested by Israeli soldiers at Al Walaja in May 2010), a Palestinian author and activist, will speak about militant nonviolence and the Palestinian struggle. Viewpoints will galvanize around the following topic of discussion: "Given the current turmoil in Egypt, the impasse in making progress towards a resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and the prominent role that the U.S. government plays in the Middle East region, what should be the priorities of U.S. Middle East policy and why?”

Professor Mazin Qumsiyeh teaches and does research at Bethlehem and Birzeit Universities in Israeli occupied Palestine. He previously served on the faculties of the University of Tennessee, Duke and Yale Universities. Qumsiyeh is president of the Palestinian Center for Rapprochement Between People and coordinator of the Popular Committee against the Wall and Settlements in Beit Sahour. His most acclaimed book is Sharing the Land of Canaan: human rights and the Israeli/Palestinian Struggle.

He published an activism handbook on his website qumsiyeh.org. Qumsiyeh’s main interest is media activism and public education. He also regularly lectures on issues of human rights and international law. His new book Popular Resistance in Palestine reviews Palestinian nonviolent civilian resistance to displacement and occupation dating back to the beginning of the 19th century until today.

The events are sponsored by the Middle East Program of Resource Center for Nonviolence and the Palestine Israel Action Committee.

Anarchists Against the Wall

Anarchists Against the Wall (in occupied Palestine)

Saturday, January 22, 1pm – 3pm
at SubRosa, 703 Pacific Ave.

Speaker and short film.

Anarchists Against the Wall is a direct action group established
in 2003 in response to the wall Israel is building on Palestinian
land in the Occupied West Bank. The group works in cooperation
with Palestinians in a joint popular struggle against the occupation.

Donations at the door are welcome (notaflof)

awalls.org