"Mcclymonds basketball alumni game"
on Saturday, January 2 at 5:00pm.
Event: Mcclymonds basketball alumni game
What: Sporting Event
Start Time: Saturday, January 2 at 5:00pm
End Time: Saturday, January 2 at 10:00pm
Where: Laney College (gym), oakland,ca
"Taking Root" on Wednesday, January 6 at 7:30pm.
Event: Taking Root
What: Study Group
Start Time: Wednesday, January 6 at 7:30pm
End Time: Wednesday, January 6 at 9:30pm
Where: Humanist Hall
Taking Root
Host:
Humanist Hall
Type:
Education - Study Group
Network:
Global
Date:
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Time:
7:30pm - 9:30pm
Location:
Humanist Hall
Street:
390 27th Street
City/Town:
West Oakland, CA
Film evenings begin with an optional social hour and potluck supper at 6:30 pm followed by the film at 7:30 pm, followed by a discussion after the film.
Wednesday, January 6 at 7:30 pm
Taking Root:
The Vision of Wangari Mathaai
by Wangari Maathai
This award winning documentary tells the story of Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Wangari Maathai whose simple act of planting trees grew into a nationwide movement in Kenya to safeguard the environment, protect human rights, and defend democracy ? a movement for which this charismatic woman became an iconic inspiration. Trees provide shade, prevent soil erosion, supply firewood and building materials, and produce nutritious fruit to combat malnutrition. With this in mind, Maathai founded the Green Belt Movement, a grassroots organization encouraging rural women to plant trees. A seemingly innocuous idea, Maathai soon discovered that tree planting had a ripple effect of empowering change. Grassroots women soon found themselves working successively against deforestation, poverty, ignorance, embedded economic interests, and political oppression, until they became a national political force! Today there are more than 6,000 Green Belt nurseries throughout Kenya that generate income for 150,000 people, and thirty-five million trees have deeply altered the physical and social landscape of the country. Maathai became a member of the new Kenyan Parliament and Assistant Minister of the Environment and Natural Resources.
