Past Citizen Hope Events and Activities
Past Events/Activities:
• Miracle on Pier 48 Food and Toy Distribution
• Toy Drive and Gift Wrapping Party at the African American Art and Culture Complex
• Holiday Love for All Party Supporting “API Equality” and “And Marriage for All”
• MLK Jr. Day of Service with Chinatown Community Development Center, Gilman Playground, Alamo Square Park, and the SF Parks Dept.
• Citizen Hope Mixer with Local Elected Officials
• NAACP 100 Yr Anniversary with Dennis Herrera and Zion-I
• Citizen Hope Film Screening: Medicine for the Melancholy with The Osiris Coalition and Director Barry Jenkins
• A Conversation on Reentry with Kamala Harris, Lateefah Simon, Jessica Flintoft, and Jakada Imani
• Rumba for a Cause for the Boys and Girls Club with Latinos a Morir
• May 1st with California State Controller John Chiang with SEIU 1000 supporting Asian Pacific Islander Labor.
• Citizen Hope for Californians for Justice with performances by youth.
• San Francisco United For Maine Equality
• 9500 Liberty – Bay Area Premiere & Cocktail Reception
• Citizen Hope’s 2nd Annual Holiday Love Party Benefitting All of Us or None’s “Community Giveback” Bicycle Giveaway
• Conversation with U.S Ambassador to Australia nominee and former President of the CSU Board of Trustees Jeffrey Bleich
• Sultan SF & Citizen Hope Present Mia Ante Art/Jewelry X Tyaglo Art X Y-MAC Benefitting Y-MAC Youth Making a Change
• Citizen Hope Reception Promoting Volunteerism at Statewide Candidate Forum
• Citizen Hope Sultan X Ian Ross Art Show Benefitting Thrive House for Youth
• Such a Bittersweet Day book launch party!
• Bay Area Benefit and Citizen Hope: BLANKETS, JACKETS & SOCKS FOR THE HOMELESS
• Conversation with Judge Thelton Henderson
• Valentine’s Night for Haiti | Manor West | Sunday February 14, 2010 with Citizen Hope
• Saturday for Love Benefitting API Equality with Asian Elected Officials
• A Forum on Our Future: The State of Public Education in 2010 with Jane Kim, Carlos Garcia, Aimee Allison, and Larry Aceves
• PST | Citizen Hope | Coleman Advocates | DJ Sake-One & Wen Davis | March 4
• Citizen Hope Poetry Reading Day at Serra Elementary and El Dorado Elementary
• Talking Points: A Conversation with Judge Teri L. Jackson with Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights
• Citizen Hope/A Good Idea MLK Jr. Service Day, including homeless food/clothing drive.
• Conversation at Glide Memorial with Reverend Cecil Williams and Janice Mirikatani
• Citizen Hope Spring Reading Day at Junipero Serra Elementary
• Coleman Advocates College and Career Volunteer Readiness Day
• “Soundtrack for a Revolution” Film Screening with SF Freedom Schools
• Citizen Hope Presents: Meet the Next Generation of East Bay Leaders
• Conversation with Coleman Advocates and Executive Director N’Tanya Lee
Conversation with Judge Thelton Henderson, 2/10
Please join us for a very special discussion with United States District of Northern California Judge Thelton Henderson.
Judge Thelton Henderson is one of the most inspiring and accomplished civil rights leaders of our time.
The focus of this intimate discussion will be on the lessons that Judge Henderson would share with the next generation of civil rights activists, attorneys, organizers and public servants.
The conversation will be moderated by Lateefah Simon, Executive Director of the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights. The event is co-sponsored by Citizen Hope and the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights.
All are welcome. This event is free. Please spread the word.
RSVP HERE: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=277422648570&ref=nf
Wednesday Feb 10th
5:30pm-7pm
African American Art and Culture Complex
Judge Henderson’s Bio from UC Berkeley Law School:
“One of only two African-American students in the Boalt Hall class of 1962, Thelton started his legal career as the first black attorney at the Civil Rights Division of the US Department of Justice. He went South to investigate voting rights abuses and soon confronted the challenge of being a black man in authority within the largely white world of the American legal system. He became a bridge between the Kennedy Justice Department and the leaders of the civil rights movement whom he came to know when they were all forced to lodge in the same segregated motels throughout the South. As a young lawyer and a representative of the federal government, Henderson grappled with many tough choices, including the decision to loan his car to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. one fateful night, a crucial act which ultimately cost him his job.
Returning to California , Henderson became the first legal aid attorney in East Palo Alto once again forging a new path. Distressed to learn that neigboring Stanford Law School had only graduated its first black attorney in 1968, Thelton became its Assistant Dean in charge of recruiting students of color. When he left Stanford in 1976 to practice law, twenty percent of the entering class were students of color and Henderson ’s program became a nationwide model. While Henderson was in private practice, he was nominated to the federal bench. Selected by President Jimmy Carter in 1980 to sit in the Northern District of California, Thelton Henderson became the only African-American judge on that court for ten years. He was selected as its first black Chief Judge in 1990 and served in that post until 1997.
Throughout his distinguished career on the federal bench, Judge Henderson has ruled upon many of the most critical and difficult issues of our time. From halting the slaughter of dolphins by the tuna fishing industry, to striking down California ’s controversial affirmative action initiative, to his recent decision placing the California prison health care system under federal receivorship, Thelton Henderson has demonstrated his conviction that the U.S. Constitution belongs to everyone.”
Video Clips about Judge Henderson
Citizen Hope’s 2nd Annual Holiday Love Party | X-Mas Night | Manor West
Join us for our 2nd Annual “HOLIDAY LOVE” Party and the One Year Anniversary of CITIZEN HOPE with DJ SAKE-1 and DJ PROCESS! Event benefits All of Us or None’s “Annual Community Giveback!”
There’s nothing like a good party on Xmas night. We know from experience, last year’s party at 330 Ritch was not just the best thing going on in SF on XMAS night, it was one of the better parties of the year.
This year the party will be at MANOR WEST, a beautiful newly remodeled venue in SOMA. It’s only been open for a few weeks, so come check out this new spot before everyone else has.
We’ll be raising money for All of Us or None’s “ANNUAL COMMUNITY GIVEBACK” which gives away BICYCLES and other toys to the children of incarcerated people. Every $60 we raise, gets a kid a bike. Not a bad deal. They really need our help this year, so come show some love, and dance off all that holiday food. Everyone wins.
We’ve got one of the Bay Area’s best DJs, Sake-One, holding it down, along with DJ Process, with us all the way from NYC. Old school hip hop, funk, soul, only that GOOD STUFF.
We know it’s XMAS NIGHT. But the party starts at 9pm, so you’ll have plenty of time before hand to see the fam. Heck, even bring your family along! Bring your cousins, your friends, all are welcome! Old, young, whoever. And this year, Xmas is on a FRIDAY night–you don’t work the next day–how could you not come out?
$10-$20 sliding scale door donation to ALL OF US OR NONE’S “Annual Community Giveback.”
CITIZEN HOPE BUTTONS will be given to the first 75 people that arrive!
What are the holidays really about? LOVE. Come get some.
Citizen Hope Co-Hosts “San Francisco United for Maine Equality”–”To Maine: From San Francisco, With Love”
Guest speakers include State Senator Mark Leno, City Attorney Dennis Herrera and Supervisor Bevan Dufty
*Suggested donation: $25*
Please donate at the door or online:
http://www.actblue.com/page/alicemaine
The campaign website:
http://www.protectmaineequality.org/
The election is “too close to call.” We can make a difference from San Francisco by providing the funds directly to the campaign against Question 1. We hope you can be there.
With love and in unity,
Alice B. Toklas LGBT Democratic Club & Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club | Citizen Hope | African American Democratic Club | API Equality | San Francisco Young Democrats | One Struggle, One Fight (OSOF)
Read more about the campaign here:
From the AP:
“Maine voters face historic choice on gay marriage”
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5i6M_ZwwPV0sIz13340GC6xs9lFlwD9B7MTM00
From San Francisco’s own Paul Hogarth, who traveled to Maine recently:
“Why I’m Optimistic About Maine”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-hogarth/why-im-optimistic-about-m_b_322320.html
May 1 with State Controller John Chiang
Citizen Hope + Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance (APALA) + SEIU Local 1000 + Netroots Nation + San Francisco Young Democrats + The San Francisco Democratic Party . . .
All invite you to join us to celebrate International Workers’ Day and Asian Pacific American Heritage Month with special guest State Controller John Chiang.
The DEETS:
Friday, May 1, 2009 (Intl Workers Day)
5:30pm – 8pm
330 Ritch
San Francisco, CA
Speech + Q&A + Mixer
21+
Come hear the State Controller talk about the battle over the California Budget and the fight to protect working families. During the heat of the budget negotiations, Governor Schwarzenegger directed Controller Chiang to slash the pay of 136,000 state workers down to the minimum wage of $6.55 an hour. John Chiang stood up against the governor and refused to allow state workers to become pawns in the budget battle. Come hear why he took this stance and what he thinks about the current state of California’s budget and politics.
A $5 cover will benefit student outreach and leadership development for the Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance (APALA) to support the growth of young and emerging leaders in the labor movement.
About APALA:
Asian Pacific Americans represent 14 percent of California’s population. Almost half of all APA workers are employed in occupations that are actively targeted by organized labor. The Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance (APALA) was created in 1992 to educate APA workers; promote political education and voter registration programs among APAs; and increase training, empowerment, and leadership of APAs within the labor movement and APA community.
A Conversation on Reentry with Kamala Harris, Jakada Imani, Jessica Flintoft, and Lateefah Simon
California has a recidivism rate of 70%, the highest rate in the nation. What are we doing to reduce this rate of recidivism? What are the costs of mass imprisonment to our society and to our communities? What are we doing for people when they are in prison/jail and when they are released? What are some of the innovative approaches to reentry and rehabilitation that are currently being implemented?
Please join us for a discussion on the critical issues of rehabilitation and reentry. We will be joined by some of California’s most outspoken leaders and advocates on this issue.
All are welcome.
Keynote: San Francisco DA Kamala Harris
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Panelists:
Jakada Imani, Executive Director, Ella Baker Center for Human Rights
Jessica Flintoft, Program Coordinator, Safe Communities Reentry Council
Lateefah Simon, Executive Director, Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights
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Moderator: Steve Ngo, San Francisco Community College Board Trustee
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EVENT: Tuesday, April 7th, 6pm-8pm
WHERE: UC Hastings Alumni Reception Room (200 McCallister)
RECEPTION: Soluna Cafe, 8pm-9:30pm. Join the hosts and panelists for a mixer after the event!
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Hosted by Citizen Hope (citizenhope.org), Black Law Students Association, La Raza Law Students Association, Philipino Law Students Association, Race and Poverty Law Journal, SALSA, LEOP.
Citizen Hope Film Screening: Medicine for Melancholy
Citizen Hope (citizenhope.org) and the Osiris Coalition (http://www.sfhdc.org/osiris.html) are proud to host a special screening of Medicine for Melancholy THIS SUNDAY AT 7:20pm at Landmark Embarcadero Cinemas. We will be joined by the Director and a SF native, Barry Jenkins, for a dialogue and Q and A following the film. He will talk to us specifically about the social and political issues the film raises. We’ll also all be heading out for drinks afterwards to continue the discussion.
“Medicine for Melancholy is a love story of bikes and one-night stands told through two African-American twenty-somethings dealing with issues of class, identity, and the evolving conundrum of being a minority in rapidly gentrifying San Francisco—a city with the smallest proportional black population of any other major American city.”
This film is getting incredible reviews and we have this awesome opportunity to support an San Francisco director and dialogue with him about his work. The film is set to show in San Francisco for one week only–but if it gets a great turnout this weekend, it could be here for longer. So even if you can’t make our screening, please go out and see it this weekend.
To be sure to get a ticket for the film, purchase your ticket NOW at: https://tickets.landmarktheatres.com/Landmark.aspx?TheatreID=224
Select, Sunday, March 8th, 7:20 showing.
For more information about the film: http://www.strikeanywherefilms.com/
To watch a trailer of the film: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ID51kpZ9iK4
Photos from NAACP 100 Year Anniversary Party
Citizen Hope celebrated with the NAACP for their 100 year anniversary at Mighty on Wednesday February 25th! Hip hop artist Zion-I performed music from their brand new album “The Takeover.”
We were also joined by City Attorney Dennis Herrera, Equal Justice Society President Eva Paterson, San Francisco School Board President Kim-Shree Maufas, and filmmaker Kevin Epps. DJs Manny Black, Proof, and King Most held it down!
Thank you to everyone who made the event such a success!
Check out the photos from the event: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2436692&id=1204619&ref=mf
Makeover
We were able to do a rapid web makeover this weekend. Thanks to Matt Haney, Nate Mezmer and Steve Ngo for letting me work on this. The photos in the above rotating banner are by the fantastic Mona T. Brooks.
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