Inside Books Volunteer Night

Come and open letters from Texas inmates and send them books that they request. We need all the help we can get.
Also, we always encourage people to bring dictionaries and book donations (soft back, please)for our library.

This is a non-profit organization formed to help Texas inmates through literacy and self-education.

Thursdays 6pm-10pm
Sundays 7pm-12am

Location:
Rhizome Collective
(300 E Allen St)

Cost: FREE

Organizer:

Discussion with Bernardine Dohrn

On February 6, 2005 at 7:00 pm Red Emma's Bookstore and Coffeehouse will host Bernardine Dohrn for a "Reflection on Current US Social Movements from a Strategic Perspective." (Don't worry, Ms. Dohrn thinks the title is a little thick too. It wasn't her suggestion...) Ms. Dohrn has a lifetime of experience in struggle that provides an especially interesting perspective. We hope that you can join us.

As Red Emma's is a small space we request that people RSVP to info-AT-redemmas.org, or 410-230-0450. The purpose of the RSVP is not to exclude anyone. Instead, if there is greater interest than we can accommodate we will search for another location and communicate changes to you. Here is a brief bio of Ms. Dohrn published on pbs.org:
*
Bernardine Dohrn*
Part of the leadership of the Weather Underground, Dohrn was considered the organization’s figurehead. She spent the 1970s living underground and was on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list. Today, Dohrn is an associate professor and director at Northwestern University's Children and Justice Center.

Also, we will screen the documentary "The Weather Underground" before Ms. Dohrn's visit. Please visit the Red Emma's event calendar at www.radicalendar.org for information.

Location:
Red Emma's (tentative)

Cost: Free

Directions: Red Emma's is on the corner of St. Paul Street and Madison Ave. in the neighborhood of Mt. Vernon. We're a block east and north of the Washington Monument

Organizer:

URL: redemmas.org

Organized Resistance Conference

NCOR 2005

The National Conference on Organized Resistance (NCOR) has been happening every winter on the campus of American University in Washington DC since 1998. It aims to provide a space for activists to meet each other, have in-depth discussions, analyze our strategies, tactics, beliefs, learn a few new skills, and give everyone a lot to think about after an inspiring weekend. Activists of all ages or levels of experience are welcome, as are curious non-activists and anyone looking to resist systems of oppression and create something new! Last year about 1500 people participated in NCOR, we hope that you'll join us this year, February 3-6, 2005.

Check out the Events page for info on the Festivals of Resistance (evening shows on Fri/Sat).

www.organizedresistance.org/events.shtml

We will also be screening films on Thurs, Fri, and Sat nights - more info on the film descriptions page.

www.organizedresistance.org/films.shtml

List of tablers (organizations and collectives handing out info about what they do or selling radical books, zines, tshirts, and other cool stuff)

www.organizedresistance.org/tables.shtml

The Workshop Descriptions and Presenter Bios and the Schedule of workshops (.pdf) (times/locations) have been updated. Keep checking back for the most current info.

www.organizedresistance.org/workshops.shtml

If you are planning to attend this year's NCOR, check out the logistics page for info on transportation, housing, food, and arrangements for parents and children.

www.organizedresistance.org/workshops.shtml

Proceeds from films and Festivals of Resistance to benefit mutualaid.org/riseup.net, Neighbors Consejo, We Are Family, and the Transgender Health Empowerment Project.

Thursday, February 3, 2005

7pm Lost Film Fest - Weschler Theatre on campus of American University ($5) - see Film Descriptions.

Friday, February 4, 2005

6pm-7:30pm Opening Panel Discussion: Beyond the Indefinite Empire: Post-Election Organizing. Ward 1 at American University. See the Workshop Descriptions and Presenter Bios page for more information.

7pm 1st Festival of Resistance. First Trinity Lutheran Church (basement), 4th and E Sts NW. $6 all ages. Requiem, Marathon, Bear and the Butterfly, True if Destroyed, The Feverfew.

8pm Films: Mardi Gras Made In China + The Fourth World War ($5) - Ward 1 on campus of American University - see Film Descriptions.

Saturday, February 5, 2005

8:30am - 9:30am Morning yoga and breakfast

9:40am - 5:10pm Workshops, panel discussions, and roundtables - see Workshop Descriptions and Presenter Bios and Schedule of Workshops (.pdf). Also: tablers and guerrilla workshops (see below). All daytime events will be on the American University campus.

1pm - 2pm Disability Caucus - open to anyone with a disability. This will be an informal gathering where we can talk about our experiences as radical activists, obstacles we've encountered, and our vision for accessible movements and communities.

7:30pm 2nd Festival of Resistance. The Tavern on the campus of American University. $5. Head Roc, Cypher Dissident, Food For Animals, Welfare Poets, and more TBA

8pm Film: The Corporation - Ward 1 on campus of American University ($5) - see Film Descriptions.

Sunday, February 6, 2005

9am - 10am Morning yoga and breakfast

10am - 5:20pm Workshops, panel discussions, and roundtables - see Workshop Descriptions and Presenter Bios and Schedule of Workshops (.pdf). Also: tablers and guerrilla workshops (see below). All daytime events will be on the American University campus.

Guerrilla Workshops

We are no longer accepting workshops proposals for this year. However, anyone who feels like they would like to lead a workshop or discussion that is not already on the program (or hell, even if it is and you think it needs even more space!) can do a guerrilla workshop. This year the kind folks from Twin Oaks have volunteered to make this a little less chaotic and will have one central, easy-to-find location where you can write down your guerrilla workshop. Guerrilla workshops have been very popular in the past.

Tablers

While you're not in workshops, you'll be able to check out dozens of groups tabling at this year's NCOR. Some of them will be organizations and collectives handing out info about what they do, others will be selling radical books, zines, tshirts, and other cool stuff. Check out the list of who is tabling this year.

Location:
American University in Washington DC

Cost: $12

URL: http://www.organizedresistance.org

African Film Festival at MFA

The MFA presents its annual African Film Festival, February 2-26.

Over the past few years, this festival has expanded, offering more films covering an ever-diversifying range of subjects.

Hollow City by Maria João Ganga (Na Cidade Vazia, Angola, 2004, 88 min.)
A “calm and unsentimental look at the realities of a war-torn nation” (Variety)

Moolaadé by Ousmane Sembene (Senegal, 2004, 124 min.)
"an example of humanist cinema at its finest, a movie that reminds you of the dignity and heroism of ordinary life.” (A. O. Scott, The New York Times)

Mrs.Wheelbarrow by Moussa Sene Absa (Madame Brouette, Senegal, 2002, 104min.)
a loopy saga of passion, ambition, chauvinism, corruption, gangsters and betrayal.

HIGHLIGHTS
This year’s festival begins with an 8-show engagement of Ousmane Sembene’s acclaimed Moolaadé. It then proceeds with an array of eight features and three short films. Represented are Algeria, Angolia, Burkino Faso, Ivory Coast, Mali, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, and South Africa. This festival is part of the nationally touring African Film Festival of New York.

TICKET INFO
MFA members, seniors, and students $8; general admission $9. Double-feature price: any two back-to-back screenings $14/$15 when purchased at the Box Office or by phone.

www.mfa.org/cgi-bin/webevent.pl

Location:
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Cost: $9/$8

URL: http://www.mfa.org

Iraq War Veterans Tour: Boston

UJP/Military Families Speak Out Iraq Veterans Tour

FROM THE FRONTLINES: Come hear Iraq war veterans and military families report on the US occupation of Iraq and the Bush administration's treatment of soldiers, veterans, and their families. This will be a hearing: these soldiers and family members will testify to this war's realities-- realities rarely seen on television or reported in the newspapers.

Veterans of the United States invasion and occupation of Iraq talk about their experiences and consider questions: Should soldiers talk about politics? Do you have a military obligation? Is U.S. policy making the world safer? How can this war be ended?

Sponsored by Iraq Veterans Against The War, Military Families Speak Out, MA Labor for Justice with Peace (affiliate of US Labor Against the War) and the Iraq War Veterans Tour (a coalition of dozens campus, youth, community, and labor organizations).
 
also sponsored by Soldiers Say No To War

Former Army Sergeant Kelly Dougherty and Marine Lance Corporal Michael Hoffman will be speaking at the following venues. Please note- to accommodate a heavy speaking schedule and requests for media interviews, some events may have only one speaker from Iraq Veterans Against The War, and at other events they may be speaking alongside other activists and community leaders. Please contact each event's sponsor for more information and - we will be posting all updates as soon as they come in.

The full schedule as of Sunday, January 30:
Sun Jan 30 Fanueil Hall, Boston 3-5pm
Mon Jan 31 Salem State College 11am-1pm
Mon Jan 31 Endicott College, Beverly 2-5pm
Mon Jan 31 Lynn, MA 6:30-9:30pm
Tues Feb 1 South End, Boston 3:30-6pm
Tues Feb 1 M.I.T. Cambridge 4:30-6pm
Tues Feb 1 Roxbury 7-9pm
Tues Feb 1 Bridgewater State College 7-9pm
Wed Feb 2 UMass Lowell Noon-2pm
Wed Feb 2 UMass Boston 2:30-5pm
Wed Feb 2 Tufts, Somerville 7-9pm
Wed Feb 2 Northeastern Univ, Boston 7-9pm
Thu Feb 3 B.U. Law School 5-6:30pm
Thu Feb 3 Chelsea 7:30-9:30pm
Fri Feb 4 Roxbury Community College 11:30am-1pm
Fri Feb 4 Harvard Univ, Cambridge 4-6pm
Fri Feb 4 Watertown 7-9pm
Sun Feb 6 Boston 11am-Noon

Location:
Community Church of Boston, 565 Boylston Street, Boston, MA 02116

Cost: free

Organizer:

URL: http://www.commchurch.org www.BringTheTroopsHomeNow.net www.justicewithpeace.org

Nourishing Peace

NOURISHING PEACE IN A TIME OF WAR

A meditation session with Louise Dunlap

Sitting, walking, smiling, singing, mindful discussion, & other meditative practices to create and sustain true peace for ourselves and our world in the coming year. (Louise teaches writing and yoga and is a long time peace and justice activist who practices meditation in the tradition of Vietnamese Buddhist teacher Thich Nhat Hanh.

This session is part of a class that meets 1st and 3rd Sundays every month.

Newcomers always welcome.

No experience necessary.

Suggested donation: $15. (or what you can afford)

“True peace is always possible. Yet it requires strength and practice, particularly in times of great difficulty. . . . To practice peace, to make peace alive in us, is to actively cultivate understanding, love, and compassion, even in the face of misperception and conflict. Practicing peace, especially in times of war, requires courage.” Thich Nhat Hanh, /Creating True Peace; Ending Violence in Yourself, Your Family, Your Community, and the World/

Location:
The Yoga Studio, 74 Joy St. Beacon Hill near Cambridge St.

Cost: $15 donation

URL: http://www.justicewithpeace.org

Mitch Snyder Lecture

The 2005 Mitch Snyder Lecture will be delivered by Chris Hedges.

Hedges is the author of 'War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning' which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and 'What Every Person Should Know About War'

Mr Hedges has been a foreign correspondent for fifteen years. He joined the staff of the New York Times in 1990 and previously worked for the Dallas Morning News, the Christian Science Monitor and National Public Radio.

He holds a B.A. in English Literature from Colgate University and a Master of Divinity from Harvard University. He has also been a lecturer in the Council of the Humanities and Ferris Professor of Journalism at Princeton University.

Hedges was a member of the New York Times team that won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for the paper's coverage of global terrorism and received the 2002 Amnesty International Global Award for Human Rights Journalism.

The Snyder Lecture is sponsored by the First Church Shelter and is given each year in memory of the life and example of the ant-war and anti-poverty activist, Mitch Snyder, who died in 1990.

Location:
Margaret Jewett Hall, First Church in Cambridge, Congregational, 11 Garden Street, Cambridge

Cost: free and open to the public

Directions: Across from Cambridge Common

Organizer:

URL: jstewart (at) firstchurchcambridge.org

Combating Global Poverty: Dr. Paul Farmer

Dr. Paul Farmer, who for the last 20 years has worked with poor communities to combat infectious diseases such as HIV/AIDS, and Harvard economist Amartya Sen, who won a Nobel Prize for his work on world poverty, will discuss strategies to help eliminate the spread of disease and hunger in the developing world with the Director of Harvard’s Center for Global Poverty, Dr. Lincoln Chen.

Reservations and information:
All forums are free and open to the public.
Reservations are strongly recommended as some forums get oversubscribed. They guarantee a seat in the building but not the main hall.

Doors to the main hall open one hour before the program begins.
To make a reservation, please call 617-514-1643

Speakers’ schedules may change, so please call 617-514-1642 to confirm all forums before coming to the Library. For more information and transcripts of past forums, please visit our website www.jfklibrary.org.

To be notified of forums and forum changes via email, please send your email address to: jfkforums-AT-nara.gov

Location:
John Fitzgerald Kennedy Library
Columbia Point
Boston, Massachusetts 02125

Cost: free

URL: http://www.jfklibrary.org/

POPaganda: The Art & Crimes of Ron English

by Pedro Carvajal (2004, 78 min., video)

This rambunctious documentary features the culture-jamming and billboard-liberation antics of Ron English. The modern day Robin Hood of Madison Avenue, Ron paints, perverts, infiltrates, reinvents and satirizes modern culture on canvas, in songs, and directly on hundreds of pirated billboards. Shot entirely guerilla-style, the film chronicles the evolution of an artist who offers an alternative universe where nothing is sacred, everything is subverted and there's always room for a little good-natured fun. Also featuring art by Shepard Fairey, ArtFux, Cicada, and Anthony Ausgang.

Location:
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Cost: $9/$8

URL: http://www.mfa.org

The Lost Film Fest

What the hell is Lost Film Festival?

1. A traveling showcase of truly independent (read: anti-corporate) film
2. A big annual events in Philly (next one is August, 2005)
3. Satellite events during larger film festivals like Sundance, Sxsw, CMJ
4. A curator for a series of VHS/DVD's released by Bloodlink Motion Pictures

Scathing and hilarious social commentary in the form of narrative shorts, documented pranks, and hot Riot Porn (amateur footage from protests around the world.)

"This is about breaking the illusions cast by Hollywood & CNN," says festival director Scott Beibin. "You won't see a lot of these at typical indie festivals."

The program is an action packed three hours long, and never drags. Narrated by Beibin, Lost Film Fest happens typically in Mad Max like environs like clubs, warehouses, rooftops, & squats staying true to its guerrilla aesthetic.

Their films intentionally fly under the radar of the mainstream.


TOUR LINEUP 2005 - start times vary, check details

The Horribly Stupid Stunt Which Has Resulted In His Untimely Death (THE YES MEN).
The Locust and Scott Beibin on Springer
Fellowship of the Ring of Free Trade (St0len Collective)
Unconventional Coverage (Andrew Lynn, Elizabeth Press)
Dont Call Me Crazy On The 4th of July (Cell Media, Rich Pell)
World Of Evil (dir. TV Sheriff)
Belgian Condom Commercial
Little Brother Gets Busted (Cell Media, Rich Pell)
Mardi Gras Made in China - short version (David Redmon)(
Contestational Robotics (Institute For Applied Autonomy)
Lords of the Chain Ring (Adam Katzman)
Terror, Iraq, Weapons (Mike Nourse)
The King and Dick (Scott Colonico)
State of the Union (Brian Boyce)
The Twin Towers (St0len Collective)
Social Distortion
I'm Not Stealing (Conglomco.org)
LSD a Gogo (Scott Colonico)
Nafta dance (Evolution Control Committee)
Mandate? (Glassbead Collective, DC Indymedia)
Gringothon (Greg Berger)
Piefight 69 (Sam Green)
Fukn USA
&
more

Feb 5 Sat Hanover, NH @ Dartmouth College - Dartmouth Hall Room 105 | 714.501.8237 | Katherine.L.Schuerman [at] dartmouth.edu | 7pm | Free | sponsored by Dartmouth College Greens

Feb 6 Sun Waltham, MA @ Brandeis University | 781.529.2668 | naoko [at] brandeis.edu | 8pm | Free

Feb 7 Mon Cambridge, MA @ Harvard University - Harvard Social Forum @ 45 Mt. Auburn St. | tarnoff [at] fas.harvard.edu | 8pm | $5 suggested donation | 617.947.9502

Feb 8 Tue Boston, MA @ Emerson College

Feb 25 Fri New York, NY @ NYU - Shorin Auditorium | fran [at] nyu.edu, amv236 [at] nyu.edu | sponsored by NYU film society

Mar 11 Fri Lewiston, ME @ Bates College - [Part of DIY FEST] rconrad2 [at] bates.edu- 207-212-0145, mtobey [at] bates.edu -603-231-1539 | sponsored by new world coallition and friends of fair labor

To submit short films click here: www.lostfilmfest.org/submit.html

Location:

Organizer:

URL: http://www.lostfilmfest.org/faq.html

Boston IMC General Meeting

Boston Indymedia general meeting. Status reports from all current working groups, administrative duties, and general concerns, inquiries, projects and discussions. This open meeting is not limited to current members, and all are invited to attend to get involved with Boston IMC.

Location:
Lucy Parson's Center, 549 Columbus Avenue, Boston, MA, 02118-1125

Cost: n/a

Directions: Directions: By train/public transportation: Take the Orange Line to the Mass Ave stop, or the Green "E" line to the Symphony stop. Walk south on Mass Ave for a minute or two. Go left onto Columbus Ave. for 1-1/2 blocks. Lucy Parsons Center will be on the left.

By bus: Take the #1 Dudley/Mass Ave. bus to the corner of Columbus Ave. and Mass. Ave. Walk east on Columbus Ave. 1-1/2 blocks. Lucy Parsons Center will be on the left.

By car, from Storrow Drive: Exit at Copley. Go left at the light, onto Arlington Street. Continue approximatley five blocks until Columbus Ave. Go right onto Columbus Ave. for approximately eight blocks. Lucy Parsons Center will be on your right. If you reach Mass Ave., you've gone one block too far.

From Rt. 93 N or S: Take the Storrow Drive exit. Continue 1-2 minutes on Storrow and exit at Copley. Go left at the light, onto Arlington Street. Continue approximatley five blocks until Columbus Ave. Go right onto Columbus Ave. for approximately eight blocks. Lucy Parsons Center will be on your right. If you reach Mass Ave., you've gone one block too far.

Organizer:

BOTIFARRADA A LLEIDA CONTRA LA CONSTITUCIÓ EUROPEA

bOTIFARRADA ONTRA LA CONSTITUCIÓ EUROPEA

Location:

Plaça del Centre (Lleida)

Organizer:

CineFòrum: "Bloody Sunday" al CSOA l'Estella

Seguint amb el ja clàsic cine fòrum dels diumenges al CSOA l'Estella:

diumenge 6/02: "BLOODY SUNDAY"
pel·lícula de Paul Greengrass que explica els fets que van tenir lloc a la
ciutat de Derry (Irlanda del Nord) el 30 de gener de 1972,
conegut com a diumenge sagnant i que van marcar un punt d'inflexió a la història
contemporània del conflicte irlandès

diumenge 13/02: "MI NOMBRE ES JOE"
pel·lícula de Ken Loach que explica la vida d'en Joe, un ex alcohòlic que viu en
un barri marginal d'una ciutat anglesa

Location:
CSOA l'Estella

Directions: c/ Lepant, 83
al costat de l'estació de tren
de Mataró

Organizer:

URL: http://www.musaik.net/estella

Responding to the G8 Summit

There are many possible responses to the G8 Summit, if you want to explore some of them and make them happen come along to this meeting.

Location:
Quaker Meeting House, Victoria Terrace, Edinburgh, EH1 2JL

Cost: donation

Directions: multimap.com/map/browse.cgi

Organizer:

URL: http://reshape.org.uk

Picnic in the Park

Click here for the history of Food Not Bombs.
Food not bombs is an international movement of people who work along autonomous, egalitarian, decentralized, organization in order to share vegan and vegetarian food with the hungry and homeless, as well as protest social, economic, environmental, and animal injustice world wide.
Our three main principles are food recycling, non-violence, and consensus.
We feel food, being a substance necessary to sustain life, is a right, not a privilege.
According to the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights, Article 25: Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.
We feel that the government spends too much money on weapons and war, and not enough to attend to the basic needs of its people.
We feel that by spending money on war instead of its own people, the government's main priority lies outside its own borders.
According to the Congressional Budgeting Office, the United State's will spend over $400 billion on defense alone, and only $387 billion on all other services (Table 10).
We do not feed the homeless. We have picnics and share food with anyone. The most hungry happens to be the homeless. We don't feed them. The food is shared; we sit with them, talk to them, and learn from them. This is not a soup kitchen or any other impersonal service.

Who is Hungry and Why?

According to the US Census, 12.1% (34.6 million people) of the population are current in poverty.
According to America's Second Harvest, the number of Americans who were hungry or food insecure was 33.6 million in 2001.
23.3 million people sought emergency food relief from their network of services in 2001.
The number of homeless people living in America is unknown, however the National Coalition for the Homeless cites an Urban Institute study which says that 3.5 million people (1.35 million children) will experience homelessness in any given year.
In Florida, America's Second Harvest states that the poverty rate is 12%, and that the childhood poverty rate is 18.8%.
The Homeless Coalition of Hillsborough County counts 6,481 homeless people.
There is no single cause of homelessness in the United States.
Some reasons include lack of jobs, lack of a living wage, decline in public assistance, a lack of affordable housing, lack of affordable health care, domestic violence, mental illness, substance abuse (this may often begin after becoming homeless, as a way to deal with the harsh reality of living on the street).
The Homeless Coalition of Hillsborough says the two biggest trends of homelessness in the county are a shortage in affordable housing and a rise in poverty, although other factors do have an influence.
There are homeless because our society needs them. It needs people on the bottom and it needs minimum wage earners/"flexible" labor/a reserve army of labor, etc. Why criminalize what we're doing? Doing what we are doing threatens the status quo, social stratification, the "necessary" reserve.. We are lifting the homeless up and treating them as equals - it's revolutionary.

Why Not Get a Permit?

See the main page, Information section, for all the documents the police have given us.
The permit application is expensive, around $100, although the application fee can be waved for non-profit organizations.
We cannot nor do we want to obtain 501(c)3 non-profit status. It is not beneficial to our organization.
The city requires $500,000 liability insurance (3.2).
Insurance purchased through the city costs $240 or more per event.
There is a $25-$50 fee for reservations, plus a $100 clean up fee (although we make no messes).
Permits can only be obtained three times per year.
According to page 2 (#16), of the City of Tampa Special Events Permit Application (the permit we have been arrested for not having) "food and drinks cannot be given away to the public". However it specifies food may be sold, although to do so requires an additional $100 vendor permit.
Overall, we feel that we do not need permission to share our food in our parks with those in need.
We take full responsibility for all food consumed. In fact, we are eating with the homeless, and keep all of our health and safety in mind.

Why Not Feed on Private Property?

Picnics and gatherings are what parks are for.
These are public parks, which means they are our parks, and we have a right to use them.
This is where the homeless live. We feel it is wrong to make the homeless come to us. We wish to share food and have them eat at their homes, and speak with them in their environment.
Tampa Food Not Bombs has been picnicking there for 8 years. The homeless know us and like us; some even prefer our food over others.
Herman C. Massey Park, according to the Tampa Government website, is solely dedicated for picnic use. The fact that there are no bathrooms is something the city must reconcile. What if a family was there to have a picnic and needed to use the bathroom? Where should they go?
The human body takes 4-8 hours to digest food. People are able to find bathrooms within that time, however, are often only able to use them after paying for goods. This excludes the poor, hungry, and homeless.
We have not encountered any problems with waste disposal.

Why is FNB Doing This?

It's the right thing to do!
The government isn't doing it.
We as a community feel we should take care of our fellow humans.
We wish to build and improve our community.
We wish to treat the homeless, hungry, and poor as equals, and raise awareness that they should be treated as such.
We wish to teach self-sustainability.
We wish to build confidence in the homeless.
We are doing this because it should not be illegal. To ignore the laws is to keep sharing food illegal.
We are doing this to change the laws in Tampa. We wish to amend or rescind the current city law that prevents us from sharing food.
For 8 years, we haven't had problems.
We feel this is a violation of our civil liberties guaranteed by the constitution, including the freedom of speech, and the freedom of assembly.
We feel that food is a right, not a privilege or commodity, and therefore it should be given away freely.
We do it out of love.
We feel we must raise awareness that the city is spending more money on redevelopment than on dealing with homelessness and poverty.
There are homeless because our society needs them. It needs people on the bottom and it needs minimum wage earners/"flexible" labor/a reserve army of labor, etc. Why criminalize what we're doing? Doing what we are doing threatens the status quo, social stratification, and the "necessary" reserve. We are lifting the homeless up and treating them as equals - it's revolutionary.

Why doesn't FNB Work with Churches?

We don't need to, the churches are working with us.
The work churches do are important, and we will refer people to utilize their services, however we are not a church, and have different goals, beliefs, and actions.
We are working together to change the laws.
However, we do not share the same goals.
Our organization works on consensus, and we decided through that method that we do not want to be affiliated with churches.
Not everyone in our organization is religious.
We are more secular based.
With religious services, there is no dialogue with the people. You do not get to sit, eat, and talk with those you feed. With us, we ensure open dialogue.
We do not believe humanitarian services should be accompanied by preaching.
We do not believe food should be exchanged for religious ideology.
Churches do not serve vegetarian meals.
Churches are not flexible.
Churches are hierarchical, we are not. We do not want to be entered into their hierarchy and bureaucracy.
Churches should not have a monopoly on feeding the homeless.
There are no requirements to eat food with us.
We feel that religious people often speak to others in a condescending tone.
Religious groups are often exclusionary: excluding different races, ethnicities, other religions, non-religious people, or even gays and lesbians.
We do more than feed. We try to improve lives, provide companionship, promote healthy living, build community, give clothes and books, and teach and learn from the homeless.
We do not push our beliefs on those we share food with.
We don't just feed the homeless; everyone is welcome at our picnics. We also share food at events and protests.

What are the Solutions to Homelessness?

There is no one solution.
We should ask them what they think the solution is.
Taking care of our communities should be our first priority..
We should try to build strong local infrastructures.
We should try to provide more jobs and houses.
We should build more homeless and community centers.
There should be free healthcare and education.
We should end unjust economic practices such as greed; overconsumption; waste; commodification of goods such as food, water, and healthcare; profit fixations, etc.
Mayor Iorio should visit the HUD meetings which have a very detailed blueprint for ending homelessness. She failed to attend the last meeting.
End the stigmatization of homelessness by ending the myths of laziness, violence, etc.
We need to come together to solve the problem because when people suffer, its everyone's problem.
Obviously, there should be money for food, not for bombs.

Location:
Downtown Tampa @ Herman Massey Park

Cost: Free to ALL

Directions: www.tampagov.net/appl_tampa_address_locate/mappage.asp

Organizer:

URL: http://www.TampaFNB.org

Discussion with Bernardine Dohrn

Bernadine Dohrn, former Weather Underground member and "most dangerous woman in America", will share her thoughts on the current state of activism and social movements.

Due to space concerns, the event will *not* take place at
Red Emma's. Instead, we will be holding it a few blocks away at the Cork Gallery, 1601 Guilford Ave.

Location:
1601 Guilford

Cost: Free

URL: www.redemmas.org

Film Screening - Juvies

PLEASE PASS WIDELY... Everyone should see this IMPORTANT film created by incarcerated youth in our criminal IN justice system.

SPONSORED BY "ALL OF US OR NONE"
Sunday February 6, 2005
Resource Center for Nonviolence
515 Broadway SC, 95060
4-6 PM

Snacks, Drinks and Childcare available!
CONTACT: 831-418-0018

All Are Welcome!

The Newly formed Santa Cruz chapter of "All Of Us Or None" presents the youth-produced film, "JUVIES." This movie is a recent product of a diverse group of incarcerated youth in LA County. These youth were all tried as adults under California's Proposition 21. They are serving 12 year to life sentences. This is an amazing documentary.

"All of Us Or None" is a coalition of indivuiduals and groups working to support people and families of those who are "prison affected." We work practically to end the systematic discrimination that ex-felons/convicts experience.

Members include former prisoners/families, prison activists, students, and concerned citizens wanting to completely change the way we address (and spend on) issues of justice, public safety, and rehabilitation.

ALL ARE WELCOME!

Location:
Resource Center for Nonviolence
515 Broadway SC, 95060

Organizer:

3rd Annual Spring Inter-Tribal Pow Wow

Florida State University’s American Indian Student Union will be having their third annual Spring Pow Wow. The Pow Wow will be FREE to the public and will be the weekend of February 5-6, 2005 at the Florida State University’s Oglesby Union Green.

The AISU Spring Pow Wow will have Prairie Island as the Host Northern Drum from Welch, Minnesota and Square Top as the Host Southern Drum from Anadarko, OK. The Head Man will be Quanah Henry of Smith Lake, NM and Head Lady is Matilda Williams from Lawrence, KS. Returning as arena director is Darrell Goodwill of Window Rock, Arizona with Terry Fiddler, our MC from Cheyenne River, SD.

Dance Categories:
- Men’s (18 & up) Southern Straight, Northern Traditional, Fancy, and Grass.
- Teen Boys’ (13-17 yrs) Combined Traditional, Fancy, & Grass.
- Junior Boys’ (7-12 yrs) Combined Traditional, Fancy, & Grass.
- Women’s (18 & up) Southern Traditional, Northern Traditional, Fancy, and Jingle Dress.
- Teen Girls’ (13-17 yrs) Combined Traditional, Fancy, and Jingle Dress.
- Junior Girls’ (7-12 yrs) Combined Traditional, Fancy, and Jingle Dress.

Schedule of Events:
- Saturday 10 AM –9 PM
- Gourd Dance 11 AM & 5 PM
- Grand Entry 12 noon & 6 PM
- Sunday 10 AM – 7 PM
- Gourd Dance 11 AM
- Grand Entry 12 noon

Location:
Union Green at Florida State University

Cost: FREE entry to everyone!!!!!

Directions: The Union Green is located on Woodward Avenue just South of the Tennessee St. & Woodward Ave. intersection. For a map please view www.fsu.edu/Campus/newmap/ , where the green will be found at F6, abbreviated as OGC. Parking will be available at the parking garage and parking lot across Woodward Avenue. The host motel is the University motel at 691 W. Tennessee St. 32306, (850) 224-8161.

Organizer:

URL: www.fsu.edu/~sga/aisu

Peace Witness, Tallahassee

Join the Tallahassee Network for Justice and Peace, Veterans for Peace, Vietnam Veterans Against the War, Military Families Speak Out, Sundays and Thursdays in front of the Old Capitol, corner of Apalachee Parkway and Monroe Street
BUSH LIED; CHENEY LIED; RUMSFIELD LIED; POWELL LIED; THEY ARE ALL LIARS; AND THEY THINK YOU ARE TOO DUMB TO KNOW THE DIFFERENCE. BUSH LIES - GIs DIE
Sundays 12:30 to 2:30.
Thursdays 4:00 to 6:00
www.tnjp.org
organize-AT-TNJP.org

Location:
Old Capitol, corner of Apalachee Parkway and Monroe Street

Cost: FREE!!!!!

Tennessee Coalition to Abolish State Killing's OPEN HOUSE

Consider this an initial invitation/announcement to an
OPEN HOUSE at our NEW OFFICE.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18th
3:00 - 6:00 p.m.
refreshments served...


Randy Tatel
Executive Director
Tennessee Coalition to Abolish State Killing
PO Box 120552
Nashville, TN 37212


Murder and capital punishment are not
opposites that cancel one another, but
similars that breed their kind. It is the
deed that teaches not the name we
give it.
George Bernard Shaw

Location:
5003 Indiana Avenue, Unit B.

Organizer:

URL: http://www.tcask.org

Just Talking with Rev. Fuzz

'Just Talkin' with host, Pastor Enoch Fuzz
WVOL Radio am1470 /Sundays 5pm til 7pm

'Just Talkin' provide an important community forum to interview leaders and news makers who can share unique information and discuss issues pertinent to the lives of people and the community.
Phone calls with questions and comments are always welcome 227.1470 or 737.WVOL!!!

Editors note: This is an excellent community forum in Nashville which focuses on a broad range of issues relevant to progressives in middle tennessee including labor, civil rights, immigrant rights and urban development.

Location:

Mideast Peace Coalition

The mideast peace coalition is a progressive book discussion group and gabfest. It has also been an incubator for some of Nashville's most interesting social justice groups including the Peace Coalition. They meet at the nashville peace and justice center. 1016 18th Ave So.

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MOBILIZING PEACE ACTIONS FOR MARCH 20

An ad hoc group of local activists have agreed to organize a massive local action on March 20 protesting the war and demanding action for peace on the anniversary of the
American invasion of Iraq. Discussion of what and where and how will begin.

Location:
Room 101 Shattuck Hall, Mt Holyoke College, Rt 116, S Hadley
(http://www.mtholyoke.edu/cic/map/824.shtml).

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