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Discussion to Follow: Berkeley in the Sixties
Sunday, August 19th, 2012 | Uncategorized | No Comments
A documentary tracing the development of the radical scene in Berkeley during the 1960s featuring interviews with Jack Weinberg, Michael Rossman and other people’s heroes. 117 minutes (1990)
An audience discussion will follow the movie.
the “Discussion to Follow” movie series happens every second Sunday of every month during the winter months
Oral History Project: Mission Yuppie Eradication Project
Sunday, August 19th, 2012 | Uncategorized | No Comments
A discussion with people who were there recalling what happened and how lessons we might have learned then could apply to the struggle now.
In 1998, The Mission Yuppie Eradication Project began wheat-pasting provocative posters in the Mission suggesting that people fight back against the gentrification of the neighborhood by vandalizing yuppie cars and businesses.
October’s Long Haul oral history project will discuss responses to gentrification and review what’s happened to the Mission over the last decade with people who participated in MYEP. The oral history project happens at Long Haul the third Sunday of every month.
Oral History Project: Smashing the WTO in Seattle
Sunday, August 19th, 2012 | Uncategorized | No Comments
A discussion with people who were there recalling what happened and how lessons we might have learned then could apply to the struggle now.
In 1999, 50,000 people shut down the meeting of the World Trade Organization in Seattle despite tear gas, pepper spray and rubber bullet attacks from thousands of heavily armed police. Those who were there recall it as the most comprehensive take over and occupation of a city they ever witnessed. How was the action pulled together and why can’t we repeat actions like this?
November’s Long Haul oral history project will discuss the Battle of Seattle with a number of people who were there. The oral history project happens at Long Haul the third Sunday of every month.
Anti-Authoritarian Film Festival
Saturday, August 11th, 2012 | Uncategorized | No Comments
The anti-authoritarian film festival presents fims @ 7:00 Pm on the Second Monday of each month. This time we’re screening two films.
State of Siege
In Uruguay in the early 1970s, an official of the US Agency for International Development (a group used as a front for training foreign police in counterinsurgency methods) is kidnapped by a group of urban guerillas. Using his interrogation as a backdrop, the film explores the often brutal consequences of the struggle between Uruguay’s government and the leftist Tupamaro guerillas.
Z
The film presents a thinly fictionalized account of the events surrounding the assassination of democratic Greek politician Grigoris Lambrakis in 1963. With its satirical view of Greek politics, its dark sense of humor, and its downbeat ending, the film captures the outrage about the military dictatorship that ruled Greece when the film was made.
Oral History of the Haste Street Squat
Tuesday, June 5th, 2012 | Uncategorized | No Comments
In 1988 hundreds of people seized and occupied a large abandoned University-of-California-Berkeley owned house on Haste Street. Before the police raided the house a week later, people had already created an amazing community and had successfully faced down tough internal challenges. People who were there remember it as a transformative experience.
There will be a discussion with people who were there, recalling what happened and how – And what lessons that might have been learned then could apply to the ongoing imediate struggles.
This is part of an Ongoing Long Haul Oral History project which takes place on the third Sunday of each month.
Oral History Rodney King Rebellions in the Bay Area
Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012 | Uncategorized | No Comments
A discussion with people who were there recalling what happened and how lessons we might have learned then could apply to the struggle now.
In 1992, thousands took to the streets in the Bay Area after Rodney King’s police attachers were found not guilty by an all-white jury. San Francisco police arrested 1400 people and the mayor declared a citywide 9 pm curfew in the face of widespread looting and outrage.
May’s Long Haul oral history project will explore what happened with people who participated. The oral history project happens at Long Haul the third Sunday of every month.
Celebrate Long Haul’s $100,000 settlement of its lawsuit against the FBI and UC police
Saturday, April 21st, 2012 | Uncategorized | No Comments
- Question and answer with EFF/ACLU lawyers who worked on the case
- Review police documents obtained during the lawsuit
- Eat dessert
Film Screening: Black Power Mix Tape
Monday, April 16th, 2012 | Uncategorized | No Comments
Sunday May 22 @ 7:30 PM
This film Examines the evolution of the Black Power Movement in the black community and Diaspora from 1967 to 1975.
The film combines music, startling 16mm footage (lying undiscovered in the cellar of Swedish Television for 30 years), and contemporary audio interviews from leading African-American artists, activists, musicians and scholars including footage of Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture), Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Eldridge Cleaver, Bobby Seale, Huey P. Newton, Emile de Antonio, & Angela Davis.
Occupation Nation – A video reportback from the movement
Thursday, April 12th, 2012 | Uncategorized | No Comments
B Media Collective is a social justice video collective from Portland, OR. We use documentary films, political remix videos, popular education, and accessible skill-building workshops to cross-pollinate ideas between activist and artist communities to catalyze collaborative work for social justice.
Long Haul Oral History Project
Thursday, March 8th, 2012 | Uncategorized | No Comments
MISTAKES WERE MADE
The Long Haul Oral History Project, “MISTAKES WERE MADE”, brings stories about radical events in recent local history to you, told straight from the horse’s mouth- those who were there. The series is meant to keep these stories alive, to honor our local radical histories, and to reflect on and learn from recent history as it relates to current events.
The intention is to stick with historical narratives and first-person accounts, and we are excited about all the possibilities of topics: occupations, squats, movements, and actions, both that were inspiring as well as those that went horribly wrong (also an important part of our history!). This means we need members of the local radical community to come and share their stories. If there’s one thing the Long Haul does well, it’s attracting people who have been around a while. But we’d really like to extend the invitation also to people we might not know who have participated in the wide variety of radical tendencies and activities that make up our rich local radical history.
Please contact us with ideas and proposals for events!
SCHEDULE:
February 19, 2012 – The Struggles for Peoples Park
UPCOMING:
March 18, 2012 7-9pm at the LONG HAUL
MISTAKES WERE MADE, Long Haul’s Oral History Night series presents our second monthly installment, brought to you as usual on the third Sunday of the month:
Esotericism/ Occultism in the BeastBay circa mid-1980s to mid-1990s
with Lew Finzel and friends.
This time, we’re getting EVEN MORE weird and freaky, while still making some sort of attempt to tie it back to radical politics and current events!
Come see the spectacle (and participate…if you dare).