Welcome to the Long Haul

           
3124 Shattuck Ave. Berkeley Ca. Phone (510) 540-0751
(2 blocks from Ashby BART, Across from La Peña Cultural Center)

Sunday May 11th @7:30 PM Cafe Night: Anti-Mining Resistance in Guatemala and Argentina.

Presentation by Fausto Roberto Valiente de Leon from the Pastoral Commission for Peace and Ecology in San Marcos, Guatemala on the current state of affairs. Click on ,the Network in Solidarity with the People of Guatemala for further details. David Modersbach will be giving a report-back on Mines and Community Resistance in Argentina. Vegan refreshments at 7:30, Presentations start at 8:00. Donations requested but no one turned away for lack of funds.

Wednesday, May 14th @ 8:00 PM Radical Movie Night: They Live

(1988)In They Live, the ruling class within the monied elite are in fact aliens managing human social affairs through the use of subliminal media advertising and the control of the economic opportunity.

Wednesday, May 21st @ 8:00 PM Radical Movie Night: Meeting Resistance

(2007)-This film raises the veil of anonymity surrounding the Iraqi insurgency by meeting face to face with individuals who are passionately engaged in the struggle, and documenting for the very first time, the sentiments experienced and actions taken by a nation's citizens when their homeland is occupied.

Sunday May 25th @7:00 PM Cafe Night: Library Benefit.

Movie TBA/and vegan refreshments

Wednesday, May 28th @ 8:00 PM Radical Movie Night: Red Dawn

(1984)About an invasion of the United States by the Soviet Union, Cuba and other communist armies, and the resulting guerrilla actions of a group of American high school students in the town of Calumet, Colorado.

Wednesday, June 11th @ 8:00 PM Radical Movie Night: The Great Dictator

(1940)Chaplin's film about a dictator and a barber from the ghetto being mistaken for eachother is a stirring, controversial condemnation of Hitler, fascism, antisemitism, and the Nazis.

Wednesday, June 18th @ 8:00 PM Radical Movie Night: Born In Flames

(1983)Ten years after a peaceful revolution in the United States in which a socialist government gains power, problems with jobs, with gender issues, with governmental preference and violence still remain. A group of women decide to organize and mobilize, to take the revolution further.

Wednesday, June 25th @ 8:00 PM Radical Movie Night: F For Fake

(1974) Trickery. Deceit. Magic. In Orson Welles's free-form documentary F for Fake, the legendary filmmaker (and self-described charlatan) gleefully engages the central preoccupation of his career-the tenuous line between truth and illusion, art and lies.

Wednesday, July 9th @ 8:00 PM Radical Movie Night: La Haine(Hate)

(1995)The film tells the story of three young friends in an impoverished multi-ethnic housing project in the aftermath of a great riot., Abdel, a local hoodlum, is hospitalized after a riot, where a policeman lost his gun. His Jewish friend Vinz finds it and claims he will kill a cop if Abdel dies.

Wednesday, July 16th @ 8:00 PM Radical Movie Night: Libertarias

(1996)In 1936, a young nun, Maria is recruited by a militant feminist, into an anarchist militia following the onset of the Spanish Civil War. Guided by the older woman, Maria is exposed to the realities of war and revolution, and comes to question her former, sheltered life.

Sunday Nights @ 7:00 PM - Cafe Night

A Social Night/Benefit is held each Sunday by a different group, but no one is turned away for lack of funds. See the 'Upcoming Events' section listed above for to see what specific events are planned.
Note: Just because a Cafe night isn't listed in Upcoming Events doesn't mean it's not happening. Either call us or drop by on Sunday to check it out!!!

Tuesday @ 4~6 PM - East Bay Needle Exchange coordinating meeting

A coordinating/planning meeting for N.E.E.D.

Monday @ 7:00 PM - Stich and Bitch

An ongoing Knitting and Crafts workshop

Tuesday @ 6:15~7:15 PM - Pilates Class

Pilates Mat classes. $8 to $15 suggested donation, but no one turned away for lack of funds. Visit their website at Pilates2thePeople.com

Tuesday @ 8:00~10:00 PM - Anarchist Study Group

Berkeley Anarchist Students of Theory Research and Development, (those BASTARDS), hold a  facilitated discussion group regarding the Theory, Practice, and History of Anarchism every Tuesday night. Visit their website at sfbay-anarchists.org for current readings.

First Wednesday each month @ 7:30 Food Not Bombs General Meeting

A planning meeting for upcoming and ongoing FNB meals. Newcomers are welcome.

Wednesday @ 7:00 ~ 8:30 PM - East Bay Prisoner Prisoner Support night

East Bay Prisoner Support is a newly formed prison abolitionist project formed by members of the Anarchist Black Cross, Prison Activist Resource Center, and the Prison Literature Project. Find out about and connect with other anti-prison groups that are fighting the growing prison-industrial complex. Browse through and/or donate to our growing prison-related book/zine/video library. Read and reply to prisoner mail. Correspond with Political Prisoners. And/or initiate your own prisoner related project.

Wednesday @ 8:30 ~10 PM - Radical Movie Night

Just because a Radical Movie night isn't listed in Upcoming Events doesn't necessarily mean it's not happening. Either call us or drop by on Wednesday to check out if anything's playing!!!

1st & 3d Thursday @ 7:00 Berkeley Liberation Radio General Meeting

Newcomers are welcome - visit the website at ,http://www.berkeleyliberationradio.org for their broadcasting schedule and information on how to get a show.

Saturday @ 3:00 ~ 9:00 / Sunday @ 3:00~11:00 / Monday ~ Thursday @ 6:00~900 Infoshop Open

Come on in and use the computer room, checkout books and/or videos from the library, browse the magazine racks, pick up free stuff, (including our own newspaper, Slingshot), buy a T-shirt, some patches or an organizer, drink coffee, or just hang out and talk with some cool people.

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