$20 Advance, $25 Door
Doors at 7:30 p.m., Show at 8:00 p.m.
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Come to this FREE film screening of Beyond Measure, a film challenging the assumptions of our current education system.
More about the film:
Every day we hear stories about America’s troubled education system. And we’re told that in order to fix what’s broken, we need to narrow our curricula, standardize our classrooms, and find new ways to measure students and teachers. But what if these “fixes” are making our schools worse.
In Beyond Measure, we set out to challenge the assumptions of our current education story.
Rather than ask why our students fail to measure up, this film asks us to reconsider the greater purpose of education. What if our education system valued personal growth over test scores? Put inquiry over mimicry? Encouraged passion over rankings? What if we decided that the higher aim of school was not the transmission of facts or formulas, but the transformation of every student? And what if this paradigm-shift was driven from the ground up? By students, parents, and educators? By all of us?
In Beyond Measure, we find a revolution brewing in public schools across the country. From rural Kentucky to New York City, schools that are breaking away from an outmoded, test-driven education are shaping a new vision for our classrooms. These are schools that see critical thinking, communication, exploration, experimentation, collaboration, and creativity as the key to good education. And they are dramatically improving outcomes for children of all backgrounds. They are schools where practically every student graduates and goes on to finish college.
Beyond Measure offers a positive picture of what’s possible in American education when communities decide they are ready for change. Are you?
Join Food First every third Wednesday of each month for their community meeting. This meeting is open to everyone who wants to learn or help with food injustices on a local and global level. This month’s topic is Dismantling Racism in the Food System.
Food First is a nonprofit organization based in Oakland. Founded in 1975 by Frances Moore Lappé and Joseph Collins, it describes itself as a “people’s think tank and education-for-action center”. Its mission is “to eliminate the injustices that cause hunger”.
Food First envisions a world in which all people have access to healthy, ecologically produced, and culturally appropriate food. After 40 years of analysis of the global food system, we know that making this vision a reality involves more than technical solutions—it requires political transformation. That’s why Food First supports activists, social movements, alliances, and coalitions working for systemic change. Our work—including action-oriented research, publications, projects and Food Sovereignty Tours—gives you the tools to understand the global challenges, build your local movement, and engage with the global movement for food sovereignty.
In this letter we hear from Hector Salgado, a long-time La Peña community member who arrived to the U.S. after being exiled from Chile after being imprisoned at the age of 16 during the Pinochet coup. He represents many exiled Chilean’s opinion on Felipe Kast being invited to UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business’s Latin America Conference on April 1, 2016
Berkeley, CA – I found appalling to see UC Berkeley extending an invitation to Felipe Kast from Chile. Mr. Kast is a former member of Pinochet’s political party UDI and his family, are all well known supporters of the Pinochet dictatorship.
I have included a link here (In Spanish) that connects Mr. Kast family to the massacre of 22 families in the South of Chile. Obviously, Mr. Kast can’t be responsible for the actions of his family. But, as a congressman and a former supporter of Pinochet, he has refused repeatedly to speak about this horrendous crime. After 40 years, the families of Paine are still looking for justice and their disappeared family members. It’s time he confronts this issue, especially in Berkeley where a great majority of the Chilean Exile Community settled after the brutal 1973 coup by dictator Pinochet .
During the last few days Mr. Felipe Kast has been involved in heated discussion in congress about the issue of abortion. One memorable intervention became a theme for all Chileans during the last few days: “No sé de dónde salió la idea de que la mujer tiene derechos sobre su cuerpo”. “I don’t know where did the idea that women have rights over their bodies came from “. That’s your guess for you!
He is also against: 1.Same-Sex Marriage 2.The emergency contraception pill 3.The regulation of life in gay couples 4.The adoption of children by gay couples and many more issues.
As far as we are concerned, the issues are not only about human rights, but also about the fundamental civic rights for our people. Rights that here in California and in Berkeley, in particular, are protected by law.
Therefore it is very hard for us to understand that an institution like UC Berkeley, which has been connected with La Peña Cultural Center and the Chilean Exile Community for the last 40 years, decides to invite such a divisive “politician”.
The Nazi background of his family, his political background as a member of UDI, the political party created by dictator Pinochet and his silence regarding the massacre of the 22 people of Paine on October 16, 1973 makes this person unfit to be a guess of UC Berkeley.
You can tell UC Berkeley’s school of business how you feel by contacting them here.
$15 Advance, $20 Door
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W87MgKRy4yo