Our joint event with the The Center for Political Education has been cancelled so we can join forces with another WTO anniversary event sponsored by Shaping San Francisco
Seattle/WTO Shutdown: 20th Anniversary
Wednesday 7:30-9:30
Eric Quezada Center for Culture and Politics
518 Valencia Street (near 16th), in San Francisco
Reimagine! is pleased to cosponsor a celebration of 30 years of Freedom Voices Publications and the release of Mujeres Magicás: Domestic Workers Right to Write by Las Malcriadas. We are celebrating with doubleheader SF / East Bay release events co-sponsored with Freedom Voices and Mujeres Unidas y Activas.
By Laife Janovyak
50 years ago, the Cuyahoga River suffered its final industrial river fire, and the nation read about it in Time Magazine. Out of this depiction, a deeply negative regional identity was born, one that stubbornly clings to Cleveland regardless of its historical half-truthfulness. Despite the reality that the same thing happens on industrial rivers elsewhere then and now, and that the blaze was nowhere near the first or even the largest fire to burn on the Cuyahoga, Cleveland became known as “the mistake on the lake.”
A theatrical Town Hall: Voices from the Iranian Community and Allies.Central Stage, 5221 Central Ave, Richmond
Sunday, June 16th, 2:00-4:00pm
Kairos Theater Ensemble, in collaboration with Central Stage is hosting an interactive townhall and teach-in using theater (Playback Theater/Theater of the Oppressed) to lift up and explore the voices of the Iranian community, its community of allies, the stories and hopes of those who fear for war and hope for peace.
By Noam Chomsky
Last June, a group of MIT scientists released the results of what they describe as the most comprehensive modeling of how much hotter the Earth’s climate will get in this century. It shows that “without rapid an
d massive action, the problem will be about twice as severe as previously estimated” a couple of years ago. It could be even worse than that because their model does not fully incorporate positive feedbacks that can occur, such as the melting of permafrost in the Arctic regions caused by the increased temperature. It will release huge amounts of methane, which is worse than carbon dioxide.
“There’s no way the world can or should take these risks,” says the lead scientist on the project. “The least-cost option to lower the risk is to start now and steadily transform the global energy system over the coming decades to low or zero greenhouse gas-emitting technologies.”
At present there’s very little sign of that happening. Furthermore, while new technologies are essential, the problems go well beyond that. In fact, they go beyond the current technical debates in Congress about how to work out cap-and-trade devices. We have to face something more far-reaching—the need to reverse the huge state-corporate and social engineering projects of the post-Second World War period, which very consciously promoted an energy-wasting and environmentally destructive fossil fuel economy.
By Jess Clarke
Amazon, long known for its low pay and bad labor practices at the company’s fulfillment centers, is starting to feel some heat. One of the largest trade unions in the United Kingdom, GMB, is staging ongoing protests, the SEIU has launched a “Warehouse Workers Stand Up” campaign in New Jersey and Sen. Bernie Sanders has introduced the Stop BEZOS Act. The legislation would recapture the hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars provided by the US Treasury for health coverage, food stamps and other government payments to Amazon workers.
