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	Words for Songs Never Written William Taylor, Jr.   - Tuesday, January 13   - 7:00 PM "William Taylor Jr. turns words into time bombs. His poems read like prayers, but written to a god of blank walls. A god of suicidal scars, jukebox tragedies, and burned out streetlamps. A god of 4 a.m." William Taylor Jr. is a Pushcart Prize nominated poet. He lives in San Francisco with his wife Anise and a cat named Trouble. (Centennial Press) top of page
	AK Press Party Indie Press of the Month Event   - Friday, January 16   - 7:00 PM Come and join AK authors, friends, and allies in a celebration of AK Press Publishing! Snacks and bevvies provided. AK Press is our Indie Press of the Month: AK Press is a worker run book publisher and distributor organized around anarchist principles. All decision-making, including which titles they distribute and what they publish, is made collectively. Their goal is to make available radical books and other materials, titles that are published by independent presses, not the corporate giants, titles with which you can make a positive change in the world. top of page
	Bad Habits: A Love Story Cristy Road   - Tuesday, January 20   - 7:30 PM This is a journey of getting over trundles through wild living situations, drunks, punks, awkward mornings, semirevelatory acid trips, complex definitions of love, complex embraces of lust, complex laws on sexual violence, and a decaying Brooklyn where every glass condo swells the cost of living for a minimum wage society. Finding solace in things like Coney Island, hair metal, and her circle of friends, Carmencita transforms her bad habits into some rendition of living. Still punk, but punk by her own rules, she finds that life can be much more than mere survival. (Soft Skull Press) top of page
	Red Highways: A Liberal's Journey Into the Heartland Rose Aguilar   - Wednesday, January 21   - 7:30 PM Red Highways goes beyond the sound bite to explore the ways our great national pastime of political mythmaking oversimplifies real Americans and flattens three-dimensional people into idealized one-dimensional voters. Rose strives to break the shallow stereotype of red-state voters and to reveal what matters most in the heartland, what makes it tick, and what gets its citizens to the voting booth. She is a journalist and political blogger here in San Francisco. (Polipoint Press) top of page
	The Queer Open Mic   -Friday, January 23   - 7:00 PM The Queer Open Mic has been running in San Francisco for four years and has just switched its venue to Modern Times Bookstore! Join us for this stellar open mic featuinrg poetry, creative writing, music, and more. All kinds of queers are welcome. top of page
	The Burger Queen Social   - Saturday, January 24   - 5:30 PM From the minds that bring you Gay Shame and Ships in the Night comes the Burger Queen Social—a fun and exciting opportunity to meet other radical queer, trans, and genderqueer folks to hook up for political witchery and discussion. With free vegan jerk burgers and a wildly engaging DJ! top of page
	Círculo de Lectores de Literatura en Español   - Tuesday, January 27   - 7:00 PM Join us for our Spanish language book group on the fourth Tuesday of each month. A mix of native speakers and advanced level hablantes, the group has been meeting in the Mission District on a monthly basis for eight years. In January, the group will discuss La Casa De Dostoievsky, by Jorge Edwards. La Casa De Dostoievsky: Un joven escritor, el Poeta, apura la vida entre tragos y amorios en el Santiago de Chile de la posguerra. Enamorado de Teresa, marcha tras ella al Paris de los anos sesenta, donde ambos se entregan a una pasion clandestina en continuo peligro de ser descubiertos. Mas tarde se trasladara a Cuba, donde vivira intensos momentos politicos de la revolucion, para volver definitivamente a su pais, a punto de caer bajo la dictadura de Pinochet. top of page
	Mexico Unconquered: Chronicles of Power and Revolt John Gibler Oaxaca Sitiada: La primera insurrección del siglo XXI Diego Osorno   - Wednesday, January 28   - 7:00 PM Offsite Double Event: Mexico Unconquered (City Lights Boooks) is an evocative report on the epic powers of violence and corruption in Mexico and the underdogs and rebels who put their lives on the line to build justice from the ground up. Oaxaca Sitiada (Grijalbo Mondadori S.A.) chronicles the uprising in Oaxaca with Osorno taking us from the fighters in the streets to the political and military leaders in the halls of power. Note: This is an offsite event at The Center for Political Education, 522 Valencia Street at 16th. top of page
	The Superferry Chronicles Jerry Mander   - Wednesday, January 28th   - 7:00 PM Longtime friend of the store and author of The Case Against the Global Economy, Jerry Mander reads from his latest work. The Superferry Chronicles, well...chronicles...the historically unique, spontaneous, leaderless uprising in the Hawai'ian islands, which took place in 2001. What on the surface might seem like a small-scale fight against corporate interests is in fact at the forefront of struggles against militarism, government corruption, and imperailism in the Hawai'ian Islands and beyond. Jerry Mander is the director and founder of the International Forum on Globalization. (Koa Books) top of page
	San Francisco's International Hotel: Mobilizing the Filipino American Community in the Anti-Eviction Movement Dr. Estella Habal   - Thursday, January 29   - 7:30 PM Part history, part memoir, San Francisco's International Hotel presents the struggle to save the International Hotel in Manilatown, San Francisco. This battle culminated in the 1977 mass eviction of elderly tenant activists. In telling this compelling story, Estella Habal features her own memories of the anti-eviction movement, focusing on the roles of Filipino Americans and their participation in both the anti-eviction protests and the nascent Asian American movement of the time. (Temple University Press) top of page
	Shutdown: The Rise and Fall of Direct Action to Stop the War AK Press Film Premiere Indie Press of the Month Event   - Friday, January 30   - 7:00 PM What, more?! Oh, yes. Come experience the premiere of AK's new film documenting the total shutdown of San Francsico by 20,000 activists the day after the start of latest war on Iraq. AK Press is our Indie Press of the Month: AK Press is a worker run book publisher and distributor organized around anarchist principles. All decision-making, including which titles they distribute and what they publish, is made collectively. Their goal is to make available radical books and other materials, titles that are published by independent presses, not the corporate giants, titles with which you can make a positive change in the world. top of page
	Gay Shame Weekly Meetings   - Saturdays   - 5:30 PM Gay Shame seeks nothing less than a new queer activism that foregrounds race, class, gender and sexuality, to counter gay consumerism and the increasingly hypocritical left. Come to a general meeting: all are welcome. top of page
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