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Daddy's Girl -- How my father's incarceration affected my life
Dateline:
12/31/1969
Editor's Note: Some 63 percent of federal prisoners have children under the age of 18. When this young woman's father was sentenced to 25 years in prison, it sent her life spinning out of control, but it is her continued relationship with him that has helped her get it all back together. Vanessa Vega, 17, is a participant in the Changing The Odds/YO! Youth Outlook summer program.
SAN FRANCISCO -- Ever since I can remember, my dad was always there for me. He raised me on his own because my mom wasn’t the best role-model and was more interested in finishing high school than raising me. I mean, my dad wasn’t a saint, but he did what he did to give me everything he never had.
For the first 13 years of my life I lived with my dad in San Francisco's Oakdale projects, 1100 block to be exact. My dad was more then a dad to me, he was more like my hero. Rain or shine, my dad was there. I know it was hard for him to raise me because I was a girl but he never gave up, never asked anyone for help. None of my family was there to support him because he was out on the streets getting money the only way he knew how – in order to support us.
Film: A Really Inconvenient Truth
Address:
Humanist Hall 390 27th Street City:
OaklandCost:
$5
First Class: silkscreen poster-making workshop for activism
Address:
474 valencia street @ 16th, 2183 mission street between 17th & 18thCity:
San FranciscoCost:
$150 ($100 returning students)
class description:
silkscreen poster-making is an eight-week workshop sponsored by the sf print collective. classes take place at centro del pueblo and balazo gallery. the workshop covers basics of guerrilla art, graphic design, silkscreen printing, and wheatpasting. students will develop photoshop and screenprinting skills including film prep, working with emulsion, burning screens and printing on paper. as a primer for public artists, the class will also include tips for getting your work up and defending your rights against the police.
Update on the Militarization of the US/Mexico Border: Indigenous Communities Resist Border Wall & Militarization
Address:
3105 Shattuck Avenue (at Prince),City:
BerkeleyCost:
$10 to $20 donation requested No one turned away.
Leaders and members of three Native American communities will speak out against the devastation being caused by the on-going militarization of the US/Mexico Border. Indigenous people and their lands, migrants and other members of communities at the border are being hurt and impacted by the wall-building, "free" trade and the deepening miilitarization of border and immigration control.
Come and hear what the debate on "securing the border," "increased surveillance," "virtual walls" , etc., means to people living in the US militarized zone, on the front line.
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Near Public Transportation75 years of the Highlander Research and Education Center: You Got to Move
Address:
San Francisco Friends Meetinghouse 65 9th St. between Market and MissionCity:
San FranciscoCost:
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The Catalyst Project and the Center for Political Education present...
A Study and Struggle Event
A Study and Struggle Event
Film Showing and Bay Area Celebration of 75 years of the Highlander Research and Education Center: You Got to Move
Thursday, August 21st, 2008 - 7 PM
San Francisco Friends Meetinghouse
65 9th St. between Market and Mission
San Francisco Friends Meetinghouse
65 9th St. between Market and Mission
wheelchair accessible
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