Wednesday, July 1, 5:30 PM networking reception, 6:00 PM program, 7:00 PM book signing
Jane Mayer - The Dark Side: National Security and the Endangerment of the Constitution
Commonwealth Club Office, 595 Market St, 2 nd Floor, San Francisco
Jane Mayer, Staff Writer for The New Yorker and author of The Dark Side, takes a closer look at the ways she says Bush administration policies chipped away our nation's core principles, and addresses whether the Obama administration is on the same path or undoing the damage. She addresses constitutional gray areas - torture, wire-tapping, presidential power and Guantanamo detainees.
Cost: $12 members, $18 non-members
For more ticket information, please call; for detailed information on the event, please follow the link:

For more information contact: Commomwealth Club, 415-597-6705
https://tickets.commonwealthclub.org/open.asp?show=1180

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Thursday-Sunday, July 2 -July 5, all day
Socialism 2009 Conference
The Women’s Building, 3543 18 th St., San Francisco
Conference topic: Building a New Left for a New Era. Speakers include Amy Goodman, Nora-Barrows Friedman, John Pilger, Barbara Becnel, Cindy Sheehan, Jeremy Scahill and many more.
Topics include: The Roots of Racial Oppression; What Would a Sustainable Society Look Like? Trading in Pollution: Environmental Destruction & the Fallacy of Market Solutions; Empire and Obama: Power, Illusion and America’s Last Taboo; The Economic Crisis: How Bad Will It Get? Do We Need an Anti-War Movement under Obama? Media as a Weapon: Speaking Truth to Power; One State, Two States: How Can Palestinian Liberation Be Achieved?
Complete schedule here: http://socialismconference.org/schedule.php?conf=SF
Registration: $85 full conference, $35/day, or $10/session

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Friday, July 3, 7:30 PM
An Evening with Marianne Williamson
Unity Center of Walnut Creek, 1871 Geary Rd, Walnut Creek 94597
Marianne Williamson is an internationally acclaimed spiritual leader. Marianne teaches us to believe in the power of miracles and encourages us to connect with our spiritual selves and let it guide our lives. Marianne co-founded The Peace Alliance, a grass roots campaign supporting legislation to establish a United States Department of Peace.  Her latest book, The Age of Miracles, hit #2 on the New York Times bestseller list. Among her other 9 published books, four of them, including A Return to Love, were #1 on the NYT bestseller list. A Return to Love is widely considered a must-read on The New Spirituality.  
Free will offering.

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Tuesday, July 7, 7:00 0PM
Conversation on the Middle East with Dr. Nuhad Tomeh
First Presbyterian Church of Oakland , 2619 Broadway, Oakland
Carol Dolezal-Ng is hosting a conversation in Oakland about current happenings in Syria , Lebanon and Iraq with an extremely knowledgeable church leader from the Middle East,  Dr. Nuhad Tomeh.  

Nuhad Tomeh is currently in charge of the Iraq relief program of the Middle East Council of Churches, focusing on relief supplies and assistance in rehabilitating schools, health care centers, and other community centers.

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Saturday, July 18, 1:30 PM
Tri-City Documentary Series presents9/11: Blueprint for Truth
Fremont Main Library, 2400 Stevenson Blvd at Paseo Padre, Fremont 94538
San Francisco Bay Area architect, Richard Gage, AIA, makes powerful use of video footage to provide the myth-shattering, scientific forensic evidence of the explosive controlled demolition of all three WTC high-rise buildings on September 11, 2001.
Discussion following the film will be led by Kamal Obeid, Structural Engineer, member of Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth
Admission Free
Info: 510-745-1400 or www.TriCityPerspectives.org

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Saturday-Sunday, July 18-19, 9:30 AM – 5:00 PM
Keeping Cool in the Fire: Becoming More Skillful with Inner or Outer Conflict / Presented by: Donald Rothberg & Lawrence Ellis
Fisher Family Hall, Jewish Community Center of S.F., 3200 California St. (@ Presidio Ave), San Francisco 94118
Open to ALL - No prior experience is necessary! 
Cost: $99 - $199 (sliding scale) Limited scholarships available, pre-approval required - email: keepingcool@summerofpeace.net or call (510) 551-5101
Register here: http://keepingcool.eventbrite.com/
In this two-day workshop, we will offer perspectives, tools and practices for transforming conflict - drawn from ancient wisdom traditions, from top academics at places such as the Harvard Program on Negotiation and the MIT Dialogue Project, and from leading-edge work of mediators and peacemakers. We'll look deeply at the nature of conflict; see conflicts as opportunities for reconciliation, learning and deepening relationships; become more skillful when there are difficult emotions and polarizing thoughts; and cultivate mindfulness and skillful speech in the midst of conflict. We will explore all this through short talks, discussion, interactive exercises, meditation, Earth-based ritual, and practice with conflict scenarios drawn from our own life experiences and from simulations.
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July 18 to July 25
Trinity to Trident Interfaith Peace walk
From Livermore to Berkeley  
A Peace Walk will be taking place this July and early August. It is a prayerful walk led by Nipponzan Myohoji Buddhists from Japan.  This is the group that has built Peace Pagodas in many parts of the world, including several here in the United States.  They walk and chant to areas of strife all over the world and always in the name of peace.
 
This walk, which has been named "The Trinity to Trident Interfaith Peace Walk", starts in Los Alamos, New Mexico and will conclude at Ground Zero in Washington. The dates are July 5 - Aug. 10  Between July 18th and the 25th, the walkers will be in the Bay Area.  We will go to Lawrence Livermore Labs, Lockheed Martin, and the Golden Gate Bridge to do ceremony in honor of those killed in Nagasaki by the Plutonium that was shipped from Mare Island under the Golden Gate Bridge.  Each step of this walk will be a prayer towards World Peace and a Nuclear Free Future.
 
We invite you to become involved in any way that is comfortable and appealing to you.  We would, of course, love to have you join us and walk with us for an hour, a day, or the whole week.  More detailed information about the route and timing of the walk will be available later.  http://pacificlifecommunitydesert.wordpress.com/
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Monday, July 20, 7:30 PM
Chris Hedges on Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle
Berkeley Hillside Club, 2286 Cedar Street, Berkeley
Chris Hedges writes a weekly column for www.Truthdig.org that is published every Monday, for which the Los Angeles Press Club just honored him as Online Journalist of the Year and Best Online Column. He is currently a senior fellow at The Nation Institute and a Lecturer in the Council of the Humanities and the Anschutz Distinguished Fellow at Princeton University. He spent nearly two decades as a foreign correspondent in Central America, the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans, and has reported from more than 50 countries.
$10 advance, $12 door, benefits KPFA Radio
Tickets: www.brownpapertickets.com/event/71755 or at independent bookstore (Pegasus Solano, Pegasus Shattuck, Pendragon, Moe’s, Diesel, Walden Pond, ModernTimes)
Phone order: 800-838.3006
Information: www.kpfa.org/events or 510-848-6767 x609

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October 18th - 23rd, in Sonoma
October Conference, "The Economics of Peace" + Praxis Workshop
 
More information to be added as it is finalized.  Watch this space.