Southern California Community Calendar DECEMBER 2015 Listings subject to change. Contact sponsor to verify date, time and venue. Check online for full late listings, recurring events, & resources Nov. 30 - Dec.4 Palestine, Israel & the US denounce the escalating war on Outfest UCLA Legacy Project: Empire: 3-Part Liberation School our people, and to reject all laws Wigstock/The Movie, 7:30p, KPFK Local Station Board on- Session: 7p, “From the Birth of and policies that for the past 21 Billy Wilder Theater, UCLA air candidate forums, 7-9p, 90.7 Zionism to Al-nakba.” 2936 W 8th years- since the implementation Hammer Museum, Wilshire @ FM or www.kpfk.org (streaming or St, LA 90005. See also Dec. 9, of NAFTA and Operation Westwood, West LA. Info: archived). Two one-hour panels 16. This class series is based, in Gatekeeper- have militarized www.cinema.ucla.edu of 4-5 candidates each night part, on “Palestine, Israel & the our barrios, systematically killed 310-206-8013 or 310-206-FILM. discussing their views about the U.S. Empire” by Richard Becker, thousands of migrants at the future of the listener-sponsored published by Party for Socialism border, has separated millions of CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENT Pacifica station. For more info: and Liberation. Purchase a families, and has incarcerated Professor tutors in English/ESL, helps you www.elections.pacifica.org or listen copy via http://store.pslweb.org/ tens of thousands of workers read, speak, write better. Also, help with to KPFK. KPFK Ballot return date Palestine-Israel-and-the-US- in concentration camps called editing/writing technical/scientific reports has been extended to January Empire_p_10.html or during class prisons. Info: www.uniondelbarrio. & theses. Translation from German, Italian, Croatian & Portuguese. See my 2 “Professor” 4, 2016 by the National Election in person. For more info email la@ org 619-923-3685. ads on CraigsList. Ivan 310-649-2291 x-2. Supervisor. pslweb.org.

Dec. 1 -Tue Panel: Thriving in a Hotter World AIDS Day Event, Los Angeles, 4:30p, Mark Taper Auditorium 7:30p, Hammer at LA Central Library, Fifth & Museum. Flower, downtown LA. www. Achieving lapl.org www.facebook.com/ 100% water events/1023020464396663/ sustainability by Empowered: Getting to Zero - a 2050 is a goal of generation free of AIDS. the UCLA Grand Challenge Isabel Allende—in Conversation Team. Join with Susan Orlean about The experts in Japanese Lover, 8p, Skirball climate change, Cultural Center water quality, $28 plus tax includes ticket public policy, and signed copy of book. www. law, and more booksoup.com 310-659-3110. to discuss the feasibility of Dec 2 - Wed: the goal, ways to get there, and Fair Trade & Conscious Gifts Dec 6 - Sun: Holiday Bazaar, 11a-4p, First the importance of local water self- Talk: A Path Appears, 2p, Skirball : Unitarian Church - Channing Delegation: Venezuela Elections sufficiency. Panelists: UCLA faculty Cultural Center. Jennifer Arnold, Dec 2-12. To Learn more and hold Hall, 2936 W. 8th St. Free members Mark Gold, Eric Hoek, writer-director of the HBO doc A a spot, email cbalbertolovera@ parking, refreshment. Hand-made Alex Hall, and Liz Crosson, Water Small Act, talks about her film and gmail.com, revolucionalimentaria. and affordable gifts, local and Policy Advisor for the Office of how storytelling inspires social wordpress.com/2015/06/22/ international fair-trade crafts. 9to5 Mayor Eric Garcetti. Wilshire @ change. Listen as experts provide witness-venezuelas-elections-this- LA. Info: www.9to5.org/California Westwood. hammer.ucla.edu first-hand accounts of how they december-6-2015. or 213-201-7029. have helped improve conditions for Dec 3 – Thu: underserved communities. www. performs Rally to Defend Bolivarian Joel Taylor Jazz Trio skirball.org annual holiday program, 6-7:30p. Convergence for Climate Action Revolution, 1p. CNN Building, Altadena Library, 600 E. Mariposa Now, 11:30a, Pershing Square (5th 6430 Sunset Blvd., LA 90028. A New Way of Life Re-Entry St, 91001. 626-798-0833 or www. & Olive, LA). https://www.facebook. Hands Off Venezuela. Info: Project 17th Annual Gala, 5p altadenalibrary.org com/events/1669535226634491/ [email protected] (323) Join us as the Climate Summit 285-6545 Reception, 6p Dinner & Awards, convenes in Paris to demand Omni Los Angeles Hotel at urgent action against global Socialist Party Los Angeles California Plaza, 251 S. Olive St., warming and climate change. Business Meeting, 2p, 2617 LA. Host Margaret Prescod of Hauser Boulevard, Los Angeles, KPFK’s Sojourner Truth. honorees Golden Age of Radio with SAG- CA. https://www.facebook.com/ include Piper Kerman, author of AFTRA: Gene Autry’s Melody events/910104515752545/ Orange Is the New Black. Cocktail Ranch Christmas Party, 3p. Autry attire. Info on reservations and Museum in Griffith Park. Info: www. New Era, New Media: MPAC ticket or table prices, Claire theautry.org Convention: Opportunities Arce, 323-563-3575, claire@ for Change: 3-5p, Long Beach anewwayoflife.org. White People for Racial Justice Convention Center, 300 E Ocean general meeting, 7-9 p, at the Eco- Blvd, Long Beach. Tickets: www. Subversive Cinema & Live Village, 117 Bimini Pl., L.A., 90004 mpac.org/convention/new-era- Music: 7p, Venice. Free. Beyond (near First & Vermont). Planning new-media.php. Speakers: Baroque, 681 Venice Blvd. actions, education and fundraising Shahed Amanullah, Co-founder, 310.306.7330. . as allies of Black Lives Matter. Affinis Labs, a Virginia startup . whitepeople4racialjustice@gmail. incubator for businesses with Dec 8 – Tue: Healthcare For All: 7p, Van com positive impacts in global Muslim Nuys. 1st Wed. San Fernando communities; Megan Garvey, Drone-Free LAPD Actions! 9 a, Valley chapter. Improved Dec 5 – Sat: LA Times Deputy Managing LAPD HQ, 100 W. 1st St., L,A,, Medicare (single-payer health Editor for Digital, having broad 90012. Join the Stop LAPD Spying care) for all Californians. Bernardi 21 millas por 21 años de responsibilities including Coalition and other grassroots Community Ctr, 6514 Sylmar Ave. Resistencia - Paseo Ciclistico presentation of online projects; organizations as we demand an 818.766.7318. . (click Diego, Union del Barrio. President, CBS Diversity & police state! (See also Dec.10). on “local chapters”), com/hcasfv>. events/719755084822500/> The [email protected]. 323-258- purpose of the bike ride is to -3- 6722. continued on next page Southern California Community Calendarcontinued... Drone-Free LAPD Actions! 6 p, 424-209-7450 LAPD HQ, 100 W. 1st St., L,A,, 90012. Join the Stop LAPD Spying Dec 9 – Wed Coalition and other grassroots organizations as we demand an Palestine, Israel & the US end to the use of drones and : 3-Part Liberation Empire the police state! (See Dec.8) School Session: 7p, “1948- 1993 – Decades of Palestinian Resistance.” 2936 W 8th St, LA 424-209-7450 90005, near Vermont. See Dec. 2, 16. For info: [email protected]. Dec 11 - Fri:

Film: East Los Angeles and the Herbal Baños w/ Mama Maiz: Chicano Moratorium-selected 7-9p, Alhambra. Baños have been works, 7:30p. UCLA Film & TV used for many generations to Archive, Billy Wilder Theater in heal body & spirit. We gather to Hammer Museum, Wilshire @ discuss different traditional herbs Westwood. www.cinema.ucla.edu for physical & spiritual health. 310-206-8013 or 310-206-FILM. $25/each. Mujeres de Maiz. Florecimiento Ancestral, 2311 El Dec 10 – Thu: Paseo Ave. . . Human Rights Day, 7-8:30p Holy Faith Episcopal Church, 260 Dec 12 – Sat: Locust Street, Inglewood. Hear Holiday Gift and Book Sale: from peace activists returning from 10a -4 p. Presents at affordable 70th Anniversary of the atomic prices. Books include progressive bombing of Hiroshima, Japan. literature, new and used, fiction Learn more about the Japanese and non-fiction. Coffee and tea Peace Movement and Veterans provided. Solidarity Hall, 2122 for Peace activists. Slide Show… W. Jefferson Blvd.,L.A.90018. Music… Sign Pledge To Abolish Wheelchair accessible. Proceeds Nuclear Weapons. Sponsored to benefit Radical Women and by Holy Faith Episcopal JAMS – Freedom Socialist Party. For info: Justice & Mercy Commission – for 323-732-6416, info, call Cathy Deppe 408-206- [email protected], 7992 RadicalWomen.org. -Paid Advertisement- Vote for Grassroots Candidates for Local Station Board! REBUILD KPFK FOR THE 21st CENTURY! Endorsed by Cynthia McKinney, Lynne Stewart, Jim Lafferty, Frank Tamborello of Hunger Action, Hamid Khan, Preston Wood, John Parker, Aris Anagnos, Sherna Berger Gluck, Peggy Lee Kennedy, Rodrigo Argueta, Shakeel Syed, Jack Van Aken, ANSWER, Anti-Racist Action-LA, BAYAN-USA, International Action Center, Peace & Freedom Party LA and San Diego chapters, Puerto Rican Alliance, SEIU Local 721 Latino Caucus, Venice Justice Comm., and numerous other programmers, groups and individuals. Don’t buy the lies of the slate that backs discredited former iED While on the LSB, Grassroots Community Radio Coalition members Summer Reese, who laid off most of the staff at sister station WBAI voted for a Development Task Force, a Fundraising Committee of the and then never sent their withheld taxes in to the government. When LSB with a goal of off-air fundraising, and bylaws changes to increase their faction had the national majority, they postponed the Bylaws- the efficiency and lower the cost of the national board. scheduled 2013 elections with no provision for how or when to hold them. Our slate reflects the racial, social and political diversity of listeners and staff, including the youngest and oldest board members and folks Now, with new management, KPFK is building for the future. with “Chicanos for Bernie,” Greens, social democrats, progressive Under current GM Leslie Radford, KPFK has paid down more than Democrats, socialists, and anti-authoritarians. $70,000 of the debt it incurred during the three previous managers, We unite to oppose “humanitarian” war, racism and all oppression, and most of its remaining debt is owed to other units of Pacifica. destruction of the environment, and austerity, and we stand together

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Top row: Chuck Anderson, write-in Kelly Barnes, Lydia Brazon, Jaye Cho, Michael Corral, Rose Elizondo, Aryana Gladney, Nancy Lawrence, Richard Macias; Staff: Jose Benavides, Tej Grewall Bottom: Brenda Medina, Diana Medina, write-in Jack Neff, Michael Novick, Reza Pour, Schyna Pour, Lawrence Reyes, Alise Sochaczewski, Ron Spriestersbach; Staff: Charlene Muhammad, Fernando -4- Velazquez Dec. 12 - Sat, continued Celebrate 18 years of Youth Holiday Concert: Home for Organizing, 6p-12m, Youth the Holidays, College and Common Peace Race Relay: for Environmental Justice, Philharmonic Choirs at Los 1030a-1p, Culver City. Join Communities for a Better Angeles Valley College, 7p, Recital us as we listen, learn, share, Environment, 4063 East Gage Hall of the Music Building (Room and motivate each other in our Avenue, Bell CA 90201. Join us 106), 5800 Fulton Ave., Valley ongoing dialogue about race for dinner and program, special Glen 91401. Tickets are $15 relations. Peace Center, 3916 performances and dancing through general and $10 for students and Sepulveda Blvd. 310.390.7278. the night. Tickets & Register at: seniors. . Dial 22 for http://bit.ly/YouthEJ18 entry. Dec 14 - Mon: Dec 13 – Sun: MoveOn.Org Brunch 12-2p, Los Onionaires Holiday Concert, PXL THIS 25: 7p, 9p, Santa Feliz, Los Angeles, CA 90027. 10:30 a, The Onion (Sepulveda Monica. 6p: pre-show. Festival Come join us for brunch and Unitarian Universalist Society), features films made with the progressive discussion. Bring your 9550 Haskell Ave., North Hills, Fisher-Price PXL 2000 toy friends and family, a dish to share, 91343. camcorder. “Poor tools require and your thoughts about what better skills.” Pixelators from Dec 19 – Sat: we can do to make our city, our Finding Humor in the Holidays across the globe hoick up inventive Film: Socialist Party LA state, our country a better place. writing/storytelling workshop, approaches to the unassuming Freedom School: Ayotzinapa (We’ll send you the full address 10:30a-12:30p, $45. Beyond throw-away of consumer culture. documentary, 4p, 2617 Hauser when you sign up.) http://pol. Baroque Literary Arts Ctr. 681 These low-tech hi-jinx films Boulevard, Los Angeles, moveon.org/event/events/event. Venice Bl., Venice CA 90291. come through loud and clear by CA www.facebook.com/ html?event_id=145457 Pre-reg. req. 310-281-3175, www. reframing a new cinema language. events/1098961370123761/ creativerites.com, Free. Unurban, 3301 Pico Blvd. Christmas Without Tears (Does Building Blocks Against Climate [email protected] 310-315-0056. laughtears.com. This Tree Make Me Look Fat?) Change! SoCal Shout-Out to Seats assigned at 6p; Doors 1-4p, Wilshire Blvd Hanukkah Family Festival - Paris 2015, This is the City film series: open,7p; Show 8p, No late entry. between Vermont & Western. Celebrating Our Light, 11a–4p. , Los Angeles in the Newsreels Largo at the Coronet, 366 N. La Pick a corner! Pick a block! Sign Skirball Cultural Center, www. 7:30p. Billy Wilder Theater, UCLA Cienega, L.A. Musician Judith up for your location on Wilshire: skirball.org. Noah Shalom, Bazaar Hammer Museum, Wilshire @ Owen and her husband, actor http://againstclimatechange.org/ Ensemble, S.H.I.N.E. Mawusi Westwood. www.cinema.ucla.edu and humorist Harry Shearer Launched by the Converging female dance and drum collective 310-206-8013 or 310-206-FILM. (The Simpsons, Spinal Tap) with Storms Action Network. Sponsored from W. Africa, Lisa Loeb and a heartwarming house party, by all participants. others. Dec 15 – Tue: performers and surprise guests. Proceeds to charity. Tickets $50,

Stop LAPD Spying Coalition $75. General Meeting, 6:30p, Downtown UCLA Labor Center, Dec 20 - Sun 675 Park View St, LA 90057, adjacent to MacArthur Park. Western Music Association Showcase, 12n-3p, The Autry Museum in Griffith PArk, Musicians 424-209-7450 and cowboy poets perform songs and stories of the old west. Hosted by Western Music Assoc. CA chapter. wmacc@ westernmusiccalifornia.org Free with admission to museum, no reservations required.

Suzy Williams at West Side Jazz Forum: 2:30p, Santa Monica. Film screening: The Cowboys, Family Flicks: The Sound of Donations appreciated. Christian 1972 (John Wayne), 1:30p. Guest Music, 11a. Free. Billy Wilder Institutes Community Room, Speaker: Andrew Nelson, Asst Prof Theater, UCLA Hammer Museum, KPFK LSB Finance Committee 1308 Second St. . Univ. The Autry Museum in Griffith cinema.ucla.edu 310-206-8013 or Cahuenga Blvd. West, Studio Park. Info: www.theautry.org 310-206-FILM. City; . Info: 323-636-7388. Review Christmas Without Tears (Does station finances. This Tree Make Me Look Fat?) MESS (Media Ecology Soul Anti-Racist Action general 8p. Harry Shearer and Judith Salon) Interviews: 4-6p, Santa meeting, 2-5p. Report from Dec 16 – Wed: Owen charity show. See Dec. 19 Monica. LA performance artist/ TORCH Anti-fascist Network for details. comedian/ actress/ filmmaker international gathering last month 3-Part Liberation School April Hava Shenkman (aka in Philadelphia, discussion of Session: Palestine, Israel & the Dec. 23 - Wed HAVA). Her performances blend recent rise in open and veiled US Empire: 7p, “Oslo’s Failure, theatre, comedy, & art through the white supremacist activity in BDS, and the Present Intifada- The Comedy documentary: “Where eternal spirit of the Clown. www. southern CA, and distribution Potential Defeat of Israel.” 2936 to Invade Next,” Michael Moore’s aprilhavashenkman.com/ Free. of new issue of “Turning The W 8th St, LA 90005. See Dec. 2, latest feature film. Opens in wide Unurban Cafe, 3301 Pico Blvd. Tide: Journal of Inter-communal 9. For more information email la@ release, consult newspapers and 310.306.7330. . Solidarity”. Harriet Tubman pslweb.org. Internet for listings. . Center, 5278 W. Pico Blvd., Los Angeles. Info: 323-636-7388, Dec 17 – Thu: Dec 26 - Sat: Black Lives Matter LA [email protected]. Gene Autry double feature: Man Fundraiser, film screening White People for Racial from Music Mountain (1938), The and panel, “Anne Braden: Justice, 7-9 p, at the Eco- Cowboy and the Indians (1949), Southern Patriot,” 5-7:30p, Village, 117 Bimini Pl., L.A., 12n-2:30p. The Autry Museum in Neighborhood Unitarian 90004. Please join us for Griffith Park. www.theautry.org Universalist Church, 301 N. the next general meeting. Orange Grove Blvd. Pasadena, whitepeople4racialjustice@gmail. Activist Support Circle: Last 91103. Braden was a white com Fri 630p, Santa Monica. This anti-racist in the civil rights and group is seeking a new location Black Power era. Panel featuring Public Works Improv Theater: so contact them with ideas Patrisse Cullors (co-founder, Black “Under Milk Wood,” 7:30p. or to check whether an event Lives Matter) and Jason David (co- Beyond Baroque, 681 Venice is scheduled. 310.399.1000. founder AWARE-LA), Suggested Bl, Venice 90291. $10. Concert , . events/1060666740645999 -5- Southern California Community Calendar continued... Jazz Funk Fest: 7-10p, Free. Full Moon Coyolxauhqui Circle: -Paid Advertisement- Santa Monica. Unurban, 3301 9p, location TBA. Talking Circle Pico Blvd. 310.315.0056, based on indigenous traditions KPFK Members please VOTE 310.306.7330. , for women & QTGNC. Mujeres . de Maiz. . . Dec 27 - Sun: Dec. 31 - Thu

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KPFK needs a new board to solve financial shortfalls and increase listenership. $5 donation for each listing requested. YOUR VOTE IS CRUCIAL! For more information see www.CandidateSlate.org See display ad rates on page 8. If you haven’t received your ballot email [email protected] or for more info call (310) 286-1011 or (310) 458-7213 What’s at Stake at the Paris Climate Summit As Marches Are Banned by Naomi Klein ( Excerpted from The Guardian, UK) Whose security gets protected by any means necessary? Whose security millions if not billions of people. Should we expect the UN to follow suit and revoke is casually sacrificed, despite the means to do so much better? Those are the the credentials of half the civil society participants? questions at the heart of the climate crisis, and why climate summits often end It’s worth thinking about what the decision to cancel marches means in real terms. in acrimony and tears. Climate change is a moral crisis because every time wealthy nations fail to act, it sends The French government’s decision to ban protests and other “outdoor a message that we in the global north are putting our comfort and economic security ahead of the suffering and survival of the poorest and most vulnerable people on Earth. activities” during the Paris climate summit is disturbing. What preoccupies me Banning the most important spaces where the voices of climate-impacted people most is the way it reflects the fundamental inequity of the climate crisis itself – would’ve been heard is an expression of this unethical abuse of power: once again, a and that core question of whose security is valued. wealthy country is putting security for elites ahead of the interests of those fighting for Here’s the first thing to understand. The people facing the worst impacts of survival. climate change have no voice in western debates about whether to do anything I write these words from Stockholm, where I’ve been doing climate-related public to prevent catastrophic global warming. Climate summits are rare exceptions. events. When I arrived, the press was having a field day with a tweet sent by Sweden’s For two weeks every few years, voices of the people who are hit first and worst environment minister, Åsa Romson. Shortly after news broke of the attacks in Paris, she get a little space to be heard where decisions are made. That’s why Pacific tweeted her outrage and sadness at the loss of life. Then she tweeted that she thought it islanders and Inuit hunters and low-income people of color from New Orleans would be bad news for the climate summit, a thought that occurred to everyone I know travel thousands of miles to attend. The expense is enormous, but being at the who is connected to this environmental moment. She was pilloried for her supposed insensitivity – how could she be thinking about climate change at a time of such summit is a chance to speak about climate change in moral terms and put a carnage? human face to this catastrophe. The reaction was revealing, since it took for granted that climate change is a Even in these rare moments, frontline voices don’t have enough platform in official minor issue, a cause without real casualties. Especially when serious issues like climate meetings, where the mic is dominated by governments and well-funded green groups. Ordinary people are heard in grassroots gatherings parallel to the summit, war and terrorism are taking center stage. It made me think about something in marches and protests, which attract media coverage. Now the French government Rebecca Solnit wrote: “climate change is violence.” has decided to take away the loudest megaphone, claiming securing marches would It is. Some is grindingly slow: rising seas that erase whole nations, and compromise its ability to secure the official summit where politicians meet. droughts that kill thousands. Some violence is fast: storms with names such Once again, the message is: “our security is non-negotiable, yours is up for grabs.” as Katrina and Haiyan that steal thousands of lives in a single event. When Some say this is fair against the backdrop of terror. But a UN climate summit is governments and corporations fail to act to prevent catastrophic warming, that’s not a meeting of the G8 or the World Trade Organization, where the powerless try to an act of violence. It’s violence so global and inflicted against so many ancient crash the party. “Civil society” events are not distractions from the main event. They’re cultures, present lives, and future potential that there’s not a word capable of integral to the process. So the French government should’ve never been allowed to containing its monstrousness. Using acts of violence to silence the voices of decide which parts of the summit it would cancel. those who are most vulnerable to climate violence is more violence. Rather, after the attacks of 13 November, it needed to determine whether it had In explaining why forthcoming football matches would go on as scheduled, France’s the capacity to host the whole summit – with full participation from civil society, secretary of state for sport said: “Life must go on.” Indeed it must. That’s why I joined including in the streets. If it couldn’t, it should’ve delayed and asked another country the climate justice movement. to step in. Instead Hollande has made decisions that reflect values and priorities about who and what will get full security protection. Yes to world leaders, football matches Because when governments and corporations fail to act in a way that and Christmas markets; no to climate marches and protests pointing out that the reflects the value of all of life on Earth, they must be protested. negotiations, with the current emission targets, endanger the lives and livelihoods of © 2015 Guardian News and Media Limited -6-