Sunday, November 13th – 2 pm
Song of the Stubborn One Thousand:
The Watsonville Canning Strike, 1985-1987
an event with author Peter Shapiro, joined by pianist Jon Jang!

September 15, 2016

Peter Shapiro was trained as a labor historian at Berkeley in the early 1970s, then left academia and became a letter carrier for the USPS, working as a labor journalist in his spare time — ten years as labor editor of Unity, published by the League of Revolutionary Struggle, then editing the Oakland Postal Worker and…

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Sunday, November 13th – 11 a.m.
Kids’ Book & Craft Event!
Author Emma Bland Smith presents her new picture book
Journey: Based on the True Story of OR-7,
the Most Famous Wolf in the West

September 15, 2016

Bring your kids to Bird & Beckett for a wolf-themed craft and story time. Emma Bland Smith (San Francisco’s Glen Park and Diamond Heights, Arcadia Publishing, 2007) will read her new picture book, Journey: Based on the True Story of OR7, the Most Famous Wolf in the West. Following Emma’s reading, kids can make a…

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So long, Howie…

September 13, 2016

Howard Dudune passed away September 24th, and all that are left are memories… and fortunately, at least one magnificent recording; undoubtedly more. Howie was a joy to hear from the first, a talent you could scarcely comprehend, joyfully exquisite time and again. Eddie Duran-Jazz Guitarist, with Dean Reilly on bass and John Markham on drums,…

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