[Noisebridge-discuss] Fwd: Community Congress this week!!! Sat, Aug 14, 9-5, & Sun, Aug 15, 9-1pm, at USF Fromm Hall

[Leif Ryge]

On 08/10/2010 04:48 AM, Fernando Martí wrote:
> Friends,
>
>
> My apologies for the late announcement - I've been a little under the weather
> for the last two weeks. Looking forward to seeing you all at this  week's
> Community Congress! For those of you who took part in the economic development
> summit, notes have been posted on www.sfcommunitycongress.wordpress.com. Two
> work groups have continued meeting, an arts/cultural economy group and a worker
> cooperatives group, and will bring their vision and platform to the Congress.
> Also, for those interested, CPE is hosting a related event, Worker-Ownership&
> The City: A Panel Discussion on Cooperativism in Communities of Color, this
> Tuesday, August 10th, 7:00 PM at Centro del Pueblo (474 Valencia St.), with Omar
> Freilla of South Bronx’s Green Worker Cooperatives, Guillermina Castellanos
> of La Colectiva,  and Poonam Whabi of Design Action Collective.
>
> ~ Fernando
>
>
>
> Please come out to this important event next weekend and be part of San
> Francisco history!
>
> 2010 Community Congress
> Saturday, August 14, 9am - 5pm, and Sunday, August 15, 9am - 1pm
> University of San Francisco, Fromm Hall (please note change of location)
>
> The Community Congress will be held on August 14-15th to bring
> together community activists, residents, workers, artists and thinkers seeking
> to create a progressive vision for the future of San Francisco. Topics will
> include how San Francisco can begin to become energy independent; strategies for
> creating alternative systems of municipally controlled finance; progressive
> revenue reform; sustaining arts and culture as a vital aspect of urban
> development; improving public transportation; increasing affordable
> housing; supporting critical health and human services; and
> participatory budgeting.
>
> For more information, please check out this week’s San Francisco Bay Guardian,
> "Reinventing San Francisco." And pick up the Guardian for another installment
> next week! http://www.sfbg.com/2010/08/03/reinventing-san-francisco
>
> The Congress will take place on Saturday, August 14 from 9 am to 5 pm and
> Sunday, August 15 from 9 am to 1 pm at the University of San Francisco, Fromm
> Hall, at Parker and McAllister, directly behind St. Ignatius Church (Muni lines
> 5, 21, 31, and 33). See USF map at http://www.usfca.edu/campusmap/. This event
> is wheelchair accessible. Light lunch will be provided. Thanks to a grant from
> the USF Jesuit Foundation for support.


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