PODER San Francisco

The TROPICAL PARTY of the Summer is almost here!! Get your tickets for this rhythm pounding body moving DANCE & CONCERT featuring the dynamic sounds of local artists playing cumbia, salsa, reggae, hip hop and afro-peruvian beats.    Click here to purchase your advanced $7-20 tickets. In the Donation Dedication box please write down Rumba & the number of tickets you are purchasing. Your tickets will be held at the door on the night of the party.

Ya Viene EL FIESTON TROPICAL del Verano!! Compren sus boletos para el Concierto y Baile sensacional presentando grupos musicales tocando los ritmos dinamicos de cumbia, salsa, reggae, hip hop y afro-peruano.   Haz click para comprar sus boletos por $7-20. En la caja que dice Donation Dedication escribe Rumba y el numero de boletos que estas comprando.  Sus boeltos estaran esperando para ti en la puerta la noche del evento.

We recently kicked off our cooperative cooking series CONVIVIO (Get Together). Our friends joined us for a festive evening of cooking at the Fun House, located in San Francisco's Excelsior District and run by our creative hostess Grace Ubiera. On this evening our guests brought an ingredient without knowing who was bringing what. After a collective brainstorm, review of the food ingredients, and a quick assessment of peoples cooking skills the menu was decided. Our chefs organized themselves into teams...

The father/daughter team of Michael and Tatiana got to work on the salsa and lemonade. Our head chef Sofia, aided by Ofelia & Josie, tapped into her extensive restaurant experience and concocted a delicious chicken stew with cactus, cilantro, raisins, tomatoes, onions, peppers & a lil' dab of cola. Gregorio, quite and low key, packed a culinary knockout with his Guatemalan avocado tostadas. The College University duo of Marilyn and Juan felt at ease making an improvised salad dressing for the greens they put together. And Avelina, with her sweet tooth, made an incredible Puebla Mexico inspired dessert with walnuts, raisins, grapes, mangos and yogurt that had us all coming back for seconds.  

Many of our guests first met each other a few weeks back when PODER recruited a over a dozen local community members to participate in the Spanish-language recruitment sessions conducted by Coopertives" style="font-family: Arial;" id="sqzb" href="http://arizmendi.coop/">Arizmendi Association of Cooperatives in preparation for their opening of a new worker-owned bakery in the Mission District. The sessions informed us about the benefits of cooperative workplaces: democratic decision-making, labor with dignity, defense of worker rights, knowledge in business practices, community building and progressive ideals. This experience was both enlightening and strategic- we are looking forward to strengthening our community activities, youth programing, member program, and campaign demands with explicit cooperative ideals & principles.

We recently kicked off our cooperative cooking series CONVIVIO (Get Together). Our friends joined us for a festive evening of cooking at the Fun House, located in San Francisco's Excelsior District and run by our creative hostess Grace Ubiera. On this evening our guests brought an ingredient without knowing who was bringing what. After a collective brainstorm, review of the food ingredients, and a quick assessment of peoples cooking skills the menu was decided. Our chefs organized themselves into teams...

The father/daughter team of Michael and Tatiana got to work on the salsa and lemonade. Our head chef Sofia, aided by Ofelia & Josie, tapped into her extensive restaurant experience and concocted a delicious chicken stew with cactus, cilantro, raisins, tomatoes, onions, peppers & a lil' dab of cola. Gregorio, quite and low key, packed a culinary knockout with his Guatemalan avocado tostadas. The College University duo of Marilyn and Juan felt at ease making an improvised salad dressing for the greens they put together. And Avelina, with her sweet tooth, made an incredible Puebla Mexico inspired dessert with walnuts, raisins, grapes, mangos and yogurt that had us all coming back for seconds.  

Many of our guests first met each other a few weeks back when PODER recruited a over a dozen local community members to participate in the Spanish-language recruitment sessions conducted by Coopertives" style="font-family: Arial;" id="sqzb" href="http://arizmendi.coop/">Arizmendi Association of Cooperatives in preparation for their opening of a new worker-owned bakery in the Mission District. The sessions informed us about the benefits of cooperative workplaces: democratic decision-making, labor with dignity, defense of worker rights, knowledge in business practices, community building and progressive ideals. This experience was both enlightening and strategic- we are looking forward to strengthening our community activities, youth programing, member program, and campaign demands with explicit cooperative ideals & principles.