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Women’s History Month 2020: “Reproducing Justice"
Announcement: Women's History Month 2020 events were canceled due to the official state of emergency at the college. When possible, we will reschedule when the current state of emergency is officially lifted by the Board of Trustees.
The frame of reproductive justice was first developed in the mid-nineties by Loretta Ross and Women of African Descent for Reproductive Justice in response to both the Clinton-era attacks on welfare and the Clinton healthcare plan’s exclusion of the full range of reproductive health services including abortion, and was later defined by the SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective as "the human right to maintain personal bodily autonomy, have children, not have children, and parent the children we have in safe and sustainable communities."
During this moment of escalated attacks on abortion access, the environment, and the rights of migrant families, among other struggles, we aim to both celebrate the history of women of color-led organizing for a broad and intersectional approach to reproductive justice that has encompassed reproductive rights, healthcare access, welfare rights, environmental justice, LGBTQ rights, and disability justice; and with the theme “Reproducing Justice,” we aim to foreground the many types of feminized and reproductive labor necessary to build and sustain movements for change: inter-generational movement building, peer-to-peer consciousness-raising, political education, and grassroots and feminist approaches to organizing and leadership development
Events
Unless otherwise noted, events are held on the Ocean Campus, 50 Frida Kahlo Way (at Ocean). All events are free and open to everyone.
For more information, call (415) 452-5825.
For disability-related accommodations, call (415) 452-5481, 48 hours in advance. Events are organized and co-sponsored by Women's and Gender Studies, Project SURVIVE, the Project SURVIVE Club, Women's Resource Center, Queer Resource Center, Ethnic Studies and Social Justice Collaborative, Gender Diversity Project, Health Education, Creative Writing Program, and Associated Students. Supported by your $5 Student Activity Fee.
Wednesday, Feb 26
1:00-4:00 pm | Upper-Level Student Union
Womyn of Color Gathering: Womyn Empowering Womyn
Women Empowering Women: Showcasing the efforts by Womyn of Color though empowerment in beauty, community, & film. Free community meal during the event.
Fridays Mar 6, 13, 20, 27 | April 10, 24 | May 1, 8
11:00am-2:00pm | WRC, Smith Hall 103
Feminist Discussions Mini-series
Feminist discussion on the Surviving R. Kelly and Euphoria series
Thursday, March 12
4:00-6:00 pm | MUB 250
Writing as Alchemy for Healing
Join Tanea Lunsford Lynx, a third generation born Black San Franciscan on both sides, artist, activist, educator, abolitionist, and award-winning writer for this interactive workshop on the role of the written word in the process of healing and transformation.
Co-sponsored by the Project SURVIVE club and the Creative Writing Program's Visiting Writers Series.
Thursday, March 19
10:00-11:30 am | WRC, Smith Hall 103
Healthy Relationship Workshop with Project SURVIVE
Join CCSF student peer educators for an interactive discussion on healthy relationships, and recognizing the signs of abuse
Tuesday, March 24
4:00-5:30 pm | QRC, Cloud 232
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Explores the history of sterilization abuse of Mexican women in Los Angeles in the 60s and 70s
Thursday, March 26
12:40-1:55 pm | Rosenberg 305
Film Screening: No Más Bebés
Explores the history of sterilization abuse of Mexican women in Los Angeles in the 60s and 70s
April 1 - April 30
10:00am-3:00pm | Cloud Hall, Third Floor
Redressing Injustice Installation
Commemorating the hundreds of unsolved murders and rapes perpetrated against women living in Mexico, Guatemala, and Canada, where indigenous women have been targeted
Saturday, April 4
15th Annual Walk Against Rape
Join our CCSF Project SURVIVE team for this empowering annual event. Visit SFWAR.org for details and registration.
Wednesday, April 8
11:00 am - 3:00 pm | Arts Plaza
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Free testing, information, and safer sex supplies. Co-sponsored by Health Education and the Link Center
Thursday, April 9
4:20-7:00 pm | Cloud 230
Combatting Workplace Sexual Harassment
Screening of Rape on the Night Shift and discussion with Equal Opportunity Employment Commission’s District Director, Bill Tamayo
Monday, April 13
Check back for full details.
Intersecting Identities Conference
Annual conference hosted by the Women’s Resource Center
Wednesday, April 15
All day | Smith Hall 103
Planned Parenthood Community Fundraiser
Join students at the Women’s Resource Center in support of the reproductive healthcare access offered by Planned Parenthood
Friday, April 17
10:00-11:30 am | WRC, Smith Hall 103
Healthy Relationship Workshop with Project SURVIVE
Join CCSF student peer educators for an interactive discussion on healthy relationships and recognizing the signs of abuse
Wednesday, April 22
12:00-2:00 pm | Smith Hall Cafeteria
Women’s and Gender Studies Open House
Come learn about the Women's and Gender Studies classes and offerings
Thursday, April 30
6:00 pm | MUB 140
Film Screening: The Mask You Live In & Community Discussion in preparation for our new Intro to Masculinity Studies Course
Join us for film screening and community discussion with Dr. Mauro Sifuentes, instructor for the upcoming WGST 35: Intro to Masculinity Studies course
Events
Monday, February 4, 2019
3:00-6:00 pm | MUB 140
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CCSF African American Studies department chair and History professor Aliyah Dunn- Salahuddin leads this dynamic movement workshop, utilizing Dunham Technique to help participants connect to our ancestors and launch our work as we start the semester.
Wednesday, February 6, 2019
9:10-10:00 am | ARTX 181
Women and Poverty Eradication in Kerala
Join visiting Fulbright scholar, Dr. Bharathy, in discussion about her work with women's collectives on democratic governance and poverty eradication in Kerala. Co-sponsored by the Political Science department.
Wednesday, February 6, 2019
7:30-9:00 pm in Cloud 246
And Thursday, February 7, 2019
11:10 am-12:25 pm Cloud 266
Film Screening and Discussion with Filmmaker: XXWhy with Dr. Bharathy
Join visiting Fulbright scholar, Dr. Bharathy, in discussion about her work with women's collectives on democratic governance and poverty eradication in Kerala. Co-sponsored by the LGBT department.
Wednesday, February 6, 2019
5:00-6:40 pm | La Colectiva/Day Laborer Hiring Hall at 3358 Chavez Street
Women's Work, Women's Power: Women's Collectives from Kerala to SF
Join visiting scholar Dr. Bharathy, who worked with Kudumbashree in India, the largest women collective in the world, in conversation with local organizers from La Colectiva de Mujeres, who organize for justice and dignity for immigrant women domestic workers in San Francisco. Co-sponsored by the Labor and Community Studies department.
Tuesday, February 12, 2019
3:30-5:00 pm | R301
Film Screening: The Feminist on Cellblock Y
Prisoners build a feminist movement from behind bars at an all-male prison in Soledad, California.
Wednesday, February 27, 2019
12:00-2:00 pm | Upper Level Student Union
Womyn of Color Gathering
Healing Through The Arts. An exploration on how diverse art forms can facilitate individual and community healing. A healthy meal will be served.
Wednesday, February 27, 2019
7:00-8:30 pm | Creative Arts 133
Avotcja and Modúpue: Poetry, Jazz, and the Fire of Wordsong
Poetry, Jazz, and the Fire of Wordsong: Connecting the Pacific and the Caribbean through jazz. Co-sponsored by Interdisciplinary Studies and VASA/Oceania Studies
Tuesday, March 5, 2019
8:10-9:25 am | Cloud 268
An Inter-Generational Perspective on Trans Women’s Leadership: A Discussion with Janetta Johnson and Rexy Amaral Tapia
Join us for discussion with local trans rights activists Rexy Amaral Tapia and Janetta Johnson. Rexy advocates for queer, trans and GNC (Gender non-conforming) youth of color in public schools and Janetta advocates for low income transgender women of color and their families who are in prison, formerly incarcerated, or targeted by the police. Together, Rexy and Janetta both work to create resilience against police violence, racism, and poverty while they fight for gender equality.
Tuesday, March 5, 2019
3:00-6:00 pm | MUB 140
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PDF Removed, a Black-centric socio-political comedian and educator, channels the power of her ancestors in this interactive workshop. With the fierceness of Harriet Tubman and the clarity of James Baldwin, Mosely demonstrates that art has power when people take action. Performers and audience members co-create experiences that prove people can laugh together and generate change.
Wednesday, March 6, 2019
6:30-9:20 | Cloud 246
Film Screening: Queen Christina
Queen Christina, starring Greta Garbo, is a 1933 film based on the true story of Queen Christina of Sweden, a cross-dressing intellectual who refused to marry. Co-sponsored by the LGBT Studies Department.
Thursday, March 14, 2019
5:00-7:00 pm | R305
Drop the MIC (Military Industrial Complex): Feminist Leadership Against Militarism
Join Krystal Rain Twobulls and Brittany DeBarros from About Face: Veterans Against War and local activists from GABRIELA, representing the struggle for the liberation of all oppressed Filipino women, and BAY-Peace: Better Alternatives for Youth, which supports and empowers Bay Area youth to transform militarism and other forms of violence for this Bay Area stop of the national Drop the MIC tour. Co-sponsored by the Philippine Studies department.
Tuesday, March 19, 2019
Intersecting Identities Conference
Wednesday, March 20, 2019
6:30-9:20 pm | Cloud 246
Honoring the 50th Anniversary of the Stonewall Riots: the legacies of Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P. Johnson
Join the History of Queer Film class for selected film screenings highlighting the legacy and leadership of trans women of color at the heart of the riots that birthed the modern LGBT rights movement. Co-sponsored by the LGBT Studies Department.
Wednesday, March 13, 2019
12:00-2:00 pm | Women’s Resource Center, Smith Hall
Women's Resource Center Open House
Come meet the student leaders at the WRC and learn about the programs and services available to all CCSF students at the Women's Resource Center.
April 2- April 30, 2019
10am-3pm Mon-Thurs | Third Floor Cloud Hall
ReDressing Injustice Installation
Commemorating the hundreds of unsolved murders and rapes perpetrated against women living in Mexico, Guatemala, and Canada, where indigenous women have
been targeted.
Saturday, April 6, 2019
CCSF at 14th Annual Walk Against Rape
Walk and fundraise with CCSF Project SURVIVE’s team.
Thursday, April 11, 2019
4:20-7:00pm | R305
Immigrant Women at Work
Join us for a film screening of Rape on the Night Shift and discussion on grassroots organizing led by janitors leading the fight by immigrant women workers against workplace sexual harassment, and the role of civil rights law in supporting their efforts. Co-sponsored by the Latin American and Latino/a Studies department.
Thursday, April 25, 2019
11:10-12:25 Batmale 203
Poetry Book Reading: The Inheritance of Haunting with Heidi Andrea Restrepo Rhodes
Join CCSF alumna and queer Latinx poet, Heidi Andrea Restrepo Rhodes, for a reading from her new book of poetry, the "Inheritance of Haunting," which was selected for the 2018 Andres Montoya Poetry Prize. Co-sponsored by the Creative Writing Program's Visiting Writers Series.
Thursday, April 25, 2019
5:00-8:00 pm | Student Union, Lower Level
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Join Tanea Lunsford Lynx, a third-generation born Black San Franciscan on both sides, artist, activist, educator, abolitionist, and award-winning writer for this interactive workshop on the role of the written word in the process of healing and transformation. Co-sponsored by the Creative Writing Program's Visiting Writers Series.
Thursday, February 15
1:45-3:00 pm | Rosenberg 305
MAJOR! (Documentary Film)
The film follows the life and campaigns of Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a 73-year-old Black transgender woman who has been fighting against the prison industrial complex and for the rights of trans women of color for over 40 years.This is the story of one woman’s journey, a community’s history, and how caring for each other can be a revolutionary act.
Wednesday, February 21
12:00-2:00 pm | Upper Level Student Union
Womyn of Color Gathering
Reclaiming our lost herstories, restoring our resiliency, and empowering ourselves in the face of oppression. A meal will be served.
Monday, February 26
11:40 am-12:55 pm | Rosenberg 305
Smadar Lavie: Gaza 2014 and Mizrahi Feminism
What is the relationship between Mizraḥi feminism and Israeli ultra-nationalism? What is the relevance of gender justice activism to the 2014 Gaza War and Israel’s foreign policy? Mizraḥi protests dissipate and disappear when the Israel-Palestine conflict dominates the headlines. This talk connects intra-Jewish racial and gendered dynamics to the 2014 Gaza War and tracks sequences that began with social protest and ended with elections that bolstered Israel’s political Right.
Monday, February 26
6:00-7:30 pm | R 305
Killing Us Softly 4 (Documentary Film & Discussion)
Killing Us Softly 4 shows how the advertising industry continues to reinforce, and glamorize, a regressive and debased notion of femininity. The movie challenges viewers to question traditional gender norms and think critically about the fundamental relationship between representation and power. Discussion to follow the screening (moderated by Professor Erik Green).
Tuesday, February 27
2:45-5:45 pm | MUB 140
Transpersonal Change:
Somatic Practice and Community Healing
Former Project SURVIVE peer educator Angela Newsham leads this interactive event based on her performance project, Eyes Yield: The Importance of Community to Heal from Rape, as a part of the One Billion Rising movement. Includes a community meal.
Wednesday, February 28
12:00-2:00 pm | Batmale 203
Feminism Inshallah:
A history of Arab feminism (Documentary Film)
This groundbreaking documentary recounts Arab feminism's largely unknown story, from its taboo-shattering birth in Egypt by feminist pioneers up through viral Internet campaigns by today's tech-savvy young activists during the Arab Spring.
Wednesday, February 28
5:00-8:00 pm | Student Union Lower Level
Singing to Your Soul: How your Voice Can Heal the World
Medicine Woman Gina Breedlove, Sound Healer, Singer & Songwriter from Brooklyn, NY, leads this healing circle. The sound of our voices carries its own medicine, which can gift us with dominion over our minds and spirits. Includes a community meal.
Thursday, March 1
11:10am-12:30 pm | Rosenberg 305
Indigenous Women Resist and Persist,
featuring Pennie Opal Plant
Pennie Opal Plant, wife, mother, and grandmother of Yaqui, Mexican, Choctaw, Cherokee, and European descent, activist on behalf of Indigenous Peoples and Mother Earth for over 38 years, and co-founder of Idle No More SF Bay and Movement Rights, discusses Indigenous Women’s movement resisting desecration of the land, and particularly Big Oil, locally and globally.
Wednesday March 7
12:00-2:00 pm | Women’s Resource Center, Smith Hall
Women’s Resource Center Open House
Celebrating the WRC legacy, building community, and sharing herstories over a meal.
Thursday, March 8
12:00-1:00 pm | Student Cafeteria
International Women’s Day Celebration
Monday, March 12
6:00-7:30 pm | Rosenberg 305
Writing Sexuality in the Media: Who Has Control?
How is sexuality portrayed in popular media, and who has the power and control to write those narratives? Join us as we view a variety of clips regarding how popular media "writes" specific versions of sexuality, with discussion interspersed (moderated by Professor Erik Green).
Thursday, March 15
12:45-2:45 pm | Rosenberg 301
Immigrant Women Worker Power & Organizing
Join leaders from the California Domestic Workers’ Coalition in conversation.
Thursday, March 15
6:00-9:00 pm | Mission Campus - 1125 Valencia Street - Room 109
Birthright: A War Story (Documentary Film & Discussion)
This feature length documentary examines how women are being jailed, physically violated and even put at risk of dying as a radical movement tightens its grip across America: the aggressive campaign to take control over women’s reproductive healthcare decisions.
Tuesday, March 20
6:00-9:00 pm | Student Union, Lower Level
Terisa Siagatonu - Talanoa poet
Experience the work of award-winning queer Samoan womyn poet, activist, and arts educator.
Wednesday, March 21
10:00 am-4:00 pm | Student Union, Upper Level
Intersecting Identities Conference - Coming From Where You Are: Seeing Your Roots Grow into Branches
This collaborative, student-led conference aims to build bridges among many different communities and promote understanding and acceptance by sharing stories and personal experiences of oppression. We celebrate the roots of all our identities and nurture a welcoming environment where we can all thrive.
Wednesday, March 21
6:30-8:00 pm | Creative Arts 133
Avotcja and Modúpue
Poet, Playwright, and Percussionist, Avotcja and her Jazz Ensemble Modúpue perform, addressing resilience in response to tragedy as recent as the devastation following hurricanes in Puerto Rico just months ago and extending back to the origin of the African diaspora.
Wednesday, April 4
1:00-2:30 pm | Rosenberg 301
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Chilean American fiction writer, poet, teacher and performer Ananda Esteva will read from and discuss the writing of her novel, published in 2017 by Transgress Press.
Thursday, April 5
4:15-6:15 pm | Rosenberg 305
Conversation with Bill Tamayo, EEOC District Director, and Rape on the Night Shift and Rape In the Fields screenings
Join Bill Tamayo to learn about the history of workplace sexual harassment litigation and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s work to support women working as janitors and farm workers in resisting sexual abuse in the workplace.
Saturday, April 7
10:00am-2:30pm | Meet at the Women’s Building, 3543 18th St.
Walk Against Rape
Join Project SURVIVE’s contingent in the 13th annual Walk to end sexual violence, organized by our community partner, San Francisco Women Against Rape.
Tuesday, April 10
3:00-6:00 pm | MUB 140
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African American Studies and History professor Aliyah Dunn-Salahuddin will lead this dynamic movement workshop, utilizing Dunham Technique to help participants connect to our ancestors and sustain our work as we move through the semester. Includes a community meal.
Thursday, April 19
2:30-4:00 pm | MUB350
Alisha Coleman from CA Coalition for Women Prisoners
CCWP is a grassroots social justice organization, with members inside and outside prison, that challenges the institutional violence imposed on women, transgender people, and communities of color by the prison industrial complex.
Thursday, April 19
4:00-6:00 pm | Chef's Table, Statler Wing
Sexual Harassment in the Hospitality Industry
It's real. It's everyone's concern. Panel discussion organized by the Meeting and Event Planning class of Culinary Arts and Hospitality Studies.
Monday, April 23
11:40 am-12:55 pm | Batmale 203
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This 2007 film by Diane Crespo centers on two young women — one an Orthodox Jew, the other a devout Muslim — who meet and become friends as first-year teachers at a public school in Brooklyn. Over the course of the year they learn that they share much in common, not least of which is that they are both going through arranged marriages.
Wednesday, April 25
4-6 pm | Batmale 349
Alisha Coleman from CA Coalition for Women Prisoners
CCWP is a grassroots social justice organization, with members inside and outside prison, that challenges the institutional violence imposed on women, transgender people, and communities of color by the prison industrial complex.
Thursday, May 3
5:00-8:00 pm | Location TBA
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Join Tanea Lunsford Lynx, a third generation born Black San Franciscan on both sides, artist, activist, educator, abolitionist, and award-winning writer for this interactive workshop on the role of the written word in the process of healing and transformation. Includes a community meal.
Tuesday, May 8
11:00 am-1:00 pm | Rosenberg 305
4:00-7:00 pm | Rosenberg 305
PDF Removed (Documentary Film) - Screenings and Community Workshops led by Dr. Shakti Butler
This powerful film from World Trust walks back through the history of violence that has led to our current American justice system, bringing into focus the histories of trauma – on a personal, interpersonal, community, and generational level. The documentary addresses the school-to-prison pipeline, the need for comprehensive criminal justice reform, and the importance of healing and restorative practices. Filmmaker Dr. Shakti Butler leads participants in dialogue for social change.
Documentary Films
Wednesday, February 1
1:10pm – 4:00pm • Rosenberg 305
She's Beautiful When She's Angry
Resurrects the buried history of the outrageous, often brilliant, women who founded the modern women’s movement from 1966 to 1971.
Thursday, February 16
1:10pm – 3:00pm • Rosenberg 304
MAJOR!
Chronicles the life and campaigns of a 75-year-old Black transgender elder and activist Miss Major Griffin-Gracy.
Thursday, March 9
9:40am – 10:55am • Arts Extension 182
Spirit Catcher
Profiles the life and work of assemblage artist and California native Betye Saar. Followed by a lecture by Dr. Johnetta Richards, African American Studies.
Thursday, March 9
11am – 12:30pm • Cloud 259
States of Grace
Intimately captures the profound transformation of a revered physician and her family in the wake of a life-changing accident. An inspiring story of perseverance and resilience.
Thursday, March 9
1:10pm – 3:30pm • Wellness 103
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Examines the reasons why more girls and people of color are not seeing opportunities in computer science. Followed by a panel discussion and networking opportunity.
Tuesday, March 14
11am – 12:30pm • Rosenberg 301
A Place of Rage
Celebrates African American women and their achievements, featuring interviews with Angela Davis, June Jordan and Alice Walker, reassessing how women such as Rosa Parks and Fannie Lou Hamer revolutionized American society.
Tuesday, April 11
4pm – 7pm • Wellness 103
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In East Los Angeles, three young misfit women find solace in an unapologetic, feminist, all women of color bicycle crew. Riding at night through streets deemed dangerous, the Ovarian Psycos use their bicycles to confront the violence in their lives. Screening followed by Q&A with five members of the Ovarian Psycos Bicycle Brigade.
Coming from the Mission for this event? Join our Community bike ride to the Ocean Campus. Meet at 22nd and Bartlett at 2:15. Ride leaves at 2:30 PM.
Happenings
Wednesday, February 1
11:40am – 12:55pm • Rosenberg 305
Smadar Lavie — Wrapped in the Flag of Israel: Mizrahi Single Mothers and Bureaucratic Torture
Wednesday, February 8
6:30pm – 8:30pm • MUB 180
Naima Shalhoub — Borderlands, Embodiment, and Music
Thursday, February 9
1:10pm – 2:30pm • Wellness 103
Indira Allegra lecture and workshop — Intimate Tensions: Black Sabbatical & Transnational Polyamories
Wednesday, February 22
11:00am – 2:00pm • Upper Level Student Union
Womyn of Color Gathering — Fifty Shades of Strength
Wednesday, March 1
3:00pm – 5:00pm • Wellness 103
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Thursday, March 2
4:10pm – 7:00pm • MUB 50
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Wednesday, March 8
11:40am – 12:55pm • Rosenberg 305
Persis Karim — Iranian Art and Literature: Women Without Men
Wednesday, March 8
12:00pm – 2:00pm • Smith Hall 103 and Smith Hall Cafeteria
Women’s Resource Center Open House and International Women’s Day
Wednesday, March 15
1:10pm – 2:40pm • Wellness 103
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Tuesday, March 21
9:00am – 9:00pm • MUB 140
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Thursday, March 23
2:40pm – 4:00pm • Wellness 103
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Monday, April 3
11:40am – 12:55pm • Rosenberg 305
Lara Kiswani — Local, National, Transnational: Activism in Context
Wednesday, April 5
1:10pm – 2:30pm • Wellness 103
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Saturday, April 8
9:00am – 4:00pm • MUB 140
PDF Removed— De-Stress by Healing from Historical and Individual Trauma
Tuesday, April 11
11:30am – 12:30pm • Community Bike Ride from Ocean to Mission campus — Gather in front of Conlan Hall at 11:15am
12:30pm – 2:00pm • Mission Campus 109
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2:30pm – 3:30pm • Community Bike Ride from Mission to Ocean campus— Gather at Bartlett and 22nd St. at 2:15pm