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Rachel Jackson, New Years Movement 4 Justice, Oakland General Assembly for Oscar Grant, CA Coalition and Oakland Coalition, which meets each Thursday at 7 PM at the Continental Club, 1628 12th Street, Oakland. Next meeting, July 15. For information email: newyears@onefam.org The Oakland Townhall meets this Sat., July 10, 4 PM at Olivet Institutional Missionary Baptist Church, 807 27th St. @ San Pablo Avenue, (510) 452-4201. Frank B. Wilderson, III, author of Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile & Apartheid Red, White, & Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms (Duke University Press 2010); and the director of Reparations…Now a film in progress. He is an Associate Professor of African American Studies and Drama, at the University of California, Irvine. Currently, he a visiting professor at UC Davis. Gregory Caldwell works at the Richmond Youth BUILD Program. He is a Ph.D. candidate at UC Santa Cruz in the History of Consciousness Dept. where he is investigating incarceration: bodies and spirit housed most often in black skin. Greg’s pedagogic interventions with young people speaks to Oscar Grant’s murder and the spectacle or life he inherited, a life where even in death, he is blamed or held culpable for his demise. Mateen Kemet, director, screens a work-in-progress this evening, “Oakland Be Mine,” 7/09/10, 7 to 10:30 PM at Othe Humanist Hall, 390 27th St., Oakland: www.runawayfilmworx.com Sonya Hopkins, an African American cowgirl and contestant in the Bill Pickett Invitational Rodeo this weekend where she has been BPIR finalist, backyardroper@gmail.com Named "Best New Country Artist" by New Music Weekly, Miko Mark serves as MC at the BPIR, 07/10-07/11/2010, 2:30 PM daily, at the Rowell Ranch Rodeo Grounds, 9711 Dublin Canyon Road, Hayward, CA. Visit http://www.billpickettrodeo.com/schedule.html or call (510)864-2747 Tuck & Patti perform at Stanford Jazz, Dinkelspiel Auditorium, July 10, 2010, 8 PM. Visit www.stanfordjazz.org/jazzfestival/07_10.html