Tierrechtsdemo gegen Pelz bei P&C

Der Tierrechtsbewegung in Österreich ist es gelungen mit Ende November 1998 alle Pelzfarmen in Österreich zu schliessen. Die Kampagne gegen spezialisierte Pelzgeschäfte hat den Pelzhandel drastisch reduziert. Durch Billigpelzverkäufe in Kaufhäusern erlebt der Pelzhandel ein Wiederaufleben. Bei Peek & Cloppenburg werden die meisten Pelze von allen Kaufhäusern verkauft. Es gibt eine internationale Kampagne gegen P&C um sie dazu zu bringen, den Pelzhandel zu beenden.

Location:
U3 Zieglergasse, Ausgang Stiftgasse - Demo gegenüber der P&C Filiale (Ecke Stiftgasse-Mariahilferstrasse).

Antisemitismus und Antizionismus

Vierter Teil der Vortragsreihe in Vorbereitung der Solidaritätsdelegation „Risse in der Mauer“ nach Palästina im August 2005.

Vortragende: Yvonne Schmidt

www.vorstadtzentrum.org

Location:

Baltimore Free Store Donation Time

Donate your unwanted stuff, dumpster dived goodies, and liberated items to the Baltimore Free Store.

We take donations every Saturday from noon to 3pm at our garage location.

We are located in the middle of the block surronded by 33rd, Guilford, 32nd, and Calvert streets. Easiest way to get there is to turn right into the alleyway after 3221 North Calvert Street. The garage is straight ahead to the right.

We take everything and anything except furniture.

For more information see: www.baltimorefreestore.org

Location:
behind 3221 North Calvert Street (turn down alley)

Cost: FREE FREE FREE

Organizer:

URL: www.baltimorefreestore.org

Weekly Antiwar Vigil

Location:
Town Square, Carbondale

Organizer:

Weekly Antiwar Vigil

Location:
Town Square Carbondale

Weekly Antiwar Vigil

Location:
Town Square Carbondale

Bounce: Benefit for Local Veterans

A basketball can not bounce itself--and neither can a veteran bounce back from tragedy alone.

Come out and join the Veteran Services Center in this symbolic event to raise awareness as well as funds so that we may continue to help local Veterans live healthier and happier lives. Strong community support is needed to keep the VSC from closing its doors this summer.

Please join The VSC, various dignataries, and community members as we will be bouncing a basketball continuously for 12 hours.

Here is a great opportunity to show your support for our troops, past and present.

Location:
Oakdale Mall, Johnson City

Cost: Donations Suggested

Organizer:

URL: www.binghamtonvsc.com

Taking your place at the table: Empowering women to run for office

"Taking your place at the table: Empowering women to run for office" will be offered on April 16 from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at South Hills Presbyterian Church in Vestal. A $5 fee covers materials and refreshments (no one will be turned away for inability to pay).

This event is sponsored by the League of Women Voters of Broome & Tioga Counties and the Binghamton/Broome County YWCA. Keynote speakers will be Barbara Paoletti, Deputy Broome County Election Commissioner, and Phyllis Blackman, Tioga County Election Commissioner. Panelists include Suzann Buchta, Broome County Legislator; Sharon Exley, Town of Dickinson Council member; Ursula Hambalek, Vestal School Board; Donna Lupardo, New York Assembly; and Carol Sweeney, Town of Owego Supervisor.

A functioning democracy requires the full participation by, and representation of, all citizens. The under-representation of women at all levels of government is changing, but there is still a long way to go.

AMY FLEMING

Location:
South Hills Presbyterian Church in Vestal

Organizer:

Nat'l Federation of Community Broadcasters

The 30th Annual Community Radio Conference
April 13-16, 2005, Baltimore, Maryland

The first Community Radio Conference was held 30 years ago in Telluride, Colorado. Fewer than half the current NFCB member stations were on the air in 1975. But those that existed inspired those that didn't to get organized, get their frequency, and get the mics turned on. Radio was accessible, powerful, populist, local. Thirty years later, radio is still accessible, powerful, populist and local. There are many who say the Golden Age of radio was in the 1970's. But we say:

The Golden Age of Radio is before Us

The National Federation of Community Broadcasters, created and sustained by community radio stations and their supporters, invites you to attend the 30th Annual Community Radio Conference.

Host stations: WESM-FM and WRYR-LP

Pre-Conference Meetings and Intensives - Wednesday, April 13

Native American Community Radio Meeting
Latino Public Radio Meeting
Intensive: Helping Your Board of Directors Succeed
Having a well run board of directors can make the difference between a station that succeeds and one that barely survives. But most station managers have never been trained in board-staff relations or how to facilitate a well-functioning board. In this highly interactive session you will learn about the role of boards, how boundaries can be set so that board members follow them, what types of people should be on the board, and the role of the board chair. You will also be able to share stories with your colleagues and have your questions answered. Your board members are also invited. Presenter: Mark Sachs. Additional registration fee. See registration form for details.

Opening Session on Thursday morning, April 14
Keynote Speaker: Dick Brooks, co-founder of ActionMedia and a man who has worked in radio as a reporter, producer, station manager, and national trainer. He is a founder of the Great Lakes Radio Consortium, the Superior Radio Network and early incarnations of AIROS.

Tentative Workshop Schedule

We will offer dozens of workshops and discussions. We will try to address the concerns of stations of all sizes, from major urban centers, small rural towns, Indian reservations, medium-sized cities. There are workshops for managers, program directors, development staff, news directors, music directors, program producers.
Thursday April 14
11:30 1. PRSS ContentDepot Update for Community Stations
2. Storytelling for Radio
3. The Yin-Yang of Audio "Non-Fiction" Storytelling-A Listening Session
4. University Licensees: Surviving and Nurturing the Relationship
5. Technology Issues for Non-Techs-Broadcasting and Production
6. Panel of Grantmakers
2:00 1. PRSS ContentDepot Update for Producers
2. Digital Radio
3. Professional Radio Interviewing Skills, Part 1
4. Taking the Temperature of your Development Program
5. Strengthening Local Programs
6. Nuts and Bolts of Contracts
7. To Stream or Not to Stream
4:00 1. Professional Radio Interviewing Skills, Part 2
2. Affiliates Meetings: AIROS, AIR, Low Power FM Stations, Pacifica Radio, Radio Bilingüe
Dinner time Solution Centers: Meet and have dinner with your peers in the same jobs from other stations.

Friday April 15
9:00 1. Professional Radio Interviewing Skills, part 1
2. Technology Issues for Non-Techs: Information Technology
3. Thought is First Action: A Planning Process for Imagining and Designing a
Volunteer Based Community Rural News and Information Service
4. Myers-Briggs: The Key to Understanding Your Strengths and Enhancing Teamwork, Part 1 (pre-registration required)
5. Legal Issues in Broadcasting
6. Using Your Own Data to Make Fundraising Decisions
11:00 1. Financing Large Projects
2. Using the CPB Internet Service Acquisition Grant to Enhance Your Website part 1
3. Grantwriting
4. CPB's Community Service Grants: A Discussion
5. Professional Radio Interviewing Skills, part 2
6. Myers-Briggs, part 2
1:30 1. Enhancing Your Website part 2
2. Non-traditional Fundraising
3. Developing Talk Radio Shows
4. Sister Stations
5. Ethical Issues for Community Radio
6. Radio Writing Ain't The Blues: Making Better Radio Features
3:30 1. Program Exchanges: PRX and PACE
2. Legal Update on Underwriting Issues
3. Community Collaborations and Partnerships
4. Technology to the People!: Using Electronic Technology to Empower Local News Production in Rural Areas
5. Strategic Thinking about Streaming
6. Story Focus for Radio

Saturday April 16
9:00 1. Negotiating: How Everybody Can Win
2. Golden Reel Listening Session
3. Doing a Technical Audit on Your Station
4. Nuts and Bolts of Underwriting
5. Legislative and Regulatory Update
6. Sustaining a Volunteer News Operation
11:00 Plenary: Thirty Years of Community Radio
1:30 1. NFCB Membership Meeting
2. Listening Session
3. Surviving as an Independent Producer
4. Producciones y Más: More on making better radio features

Special Workshop: Pre-registration required.
Mark Sachs is offering a workshop on Myers-Briggs: The Key to Understanding Your Strengths and Enhancing Teamwork.
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator is a powerful tool that helps people identify their unique gifts. It enhances understanding of yourself, your motivations, natural strengths, and potential areas for growth. When people know their Myers-Briggs type in an organizational setting, it often takes the mystery out of why they and coworkers act the way they do. Knowing one's personality type can also enhance teamwork. During this workshop you will gain insight that will assist you in understanding and making the best use of your Myers-Briggs Type. There is a $20 non-refundable fee to cover the cost of materials in this workshop. Pre-registration is required. There will be no on-site registration for this workshop. This workshop takes place during the Conference, not pre-Conference.

Solution Centers
Once again this year will be opportunities for people with the same jobs to meet with each other. These are scheduled, unstructured, but facilitated sessions for you to share information and expertise and learn from the experience of your peers.

Low Power FM
We'll offer special workshops for Low Power FM stations in any form of broadcast-readiness. We'll help you navigate the legal terrain, think about programming decisions, and put a strong emphasis on organizational and funding preparedness.

Other
Meetings for conference newcomers and workshop presenters on Wednesday, preceding the Opening Reception. Opening Session Thursday morning. Friday night special program starts at 7:30 with the world premiere of a radio drama written in honor of the 30th Anniversary Conference, then the presentation of the Golden Reel Awards, ending with a dessert reception. NFCB Membership meeting Saturday. The National Youth in Radio Training Project Conference runs concurrently on Friday and Saturday.

Registration Fee
See the registration form for all the details. In order to receive the Member rate, your dues payments to NFCB must be current. Questions about your membership status or your dues? Call Kai Aiyetoro at (510) 451-8200. All other questions concerning registration should be directed to HB Associates at (727) 937-3232 or info-AT-hbassociates.net.

Travel
When you're ready to make your travel plans, we suggest you call On the Mark Travel. They have arranged for discounted fares to Baltimore on American Airlines. You reach them at (800) 618-6275.

Hotel
The Conference Hotel is the Wyndham Inner Harbor, 101 West Fayette St., Baltimore, MD 21201. The toll free reservation number is (800) 996-3426. Be sure to say you are with the NFCB Conference. All rooms (singles, doubles, triples, quads) are $119 plus 12.5% tax. These rates are good through March 16, but we urge you to make your reservations before then—as soon as you know you're coming. All rooms will require one night's deposit.

You can register online at www.wyndham.com/groupevents/358NFCB/main.wnt. While there, you can sign up for Wyndham By Request, which is free and which will provide you with numerous benefits. If you register by phone, you can sign up for Wyndham By Request on this website as well.

Final Schedule, List of Workshops and Presenters
Check the NFCB website for regular additions and updates: www.nfcb.org.

Location:
Baltimore, MD

URL: http://www.nfcb.org

Boston Skill Share

April 16th - 17th 2005 (Saturday and Sunday)

The 3rd Annual....

screening, bike repair, diy tatooing, crafts of all kinds, gardening, health and sexuality, whatever you've got to offer

sign up to teach at bostonskillshare.org

submit by march 18

The purpose of this event is to create a temporary space for people to share skills which help them live practically and happily, creatively and sustainably.

The emphasis is on action over theory, participation over talk.

We want to live with enthusiasm, so let us learn with vigor!


last time we had workshops like this:

Breast and Pelvic Self-Exam

Stretching for Everyone

ASL - You know you want to

Knitting for Beginners and Intermediates

Self Defense: Diffusing Violence Lovingly

Race, Power and Priviledge

Container Gardening

Wildlife Gardening

Vegan Ice Cream Making

Soy Milk Making

Crochet

D.I.Y. Screen Printing

Tattooing for the moment

All The Fixings: vegan nutrition and home electronics repair

Making Music

Location:
300 The Fenway, Boston (Simmons College)

URL: http://www.bostonskillshare.org

Southeast Anarchist Network Gathering

Southeast Anarchist Network Gathering, April 2005:
Charleston’s Burning!
April 15-17, 2005, Charleston, SC

Meet people who share your anti-authoritarian passions, and who want to support each other in challenging oppression!

**Open to all anarchists, anti-authoritarians, and folks curious about anti authoritarian approaches to social change**

In 1822, slave owners in Charleston, S.C., claimed they had uncovered a plot among the people they enslaved. Ostensibly planned by Denmark Vesey, a carpenter and ex-slave, the conspiracy allegedly called on the enslaved and free blacks of Charleston and its surrounding countryside to rise up, kill the Governor, slaughter the white population and set fire to the city before leaving on ships bound for Haiti.

Recently, historians have cast doubt on the coerced confessions of slaves and the testimony of terrified whites, suggesting the entire plot was a fear induced fabrication by owners. Whether the conspiracy is truth or myth, the lesson remains the same two centuries later: the class of plantation owners and bosses remains in perpetual fear of insurrection by its working class. And for the oppressed, the Vesey conspiracy stands as an awesome projection of the possibilities for militant action on the part of a people who have—for centuries—been made to bow down in fear.

With a history of abolitionists, pirates, feminists and war resisters, Denmark Vesey’s story is just one among many tales of resistance rising from South Carolina, oft neglected and forgotten by radicals in other regions. Yet across South Carolina and the southeast, we have seen both struggle and hope blossom like the yellow jessamine in spring.

For the past two years, southeasterners have used the spring as a time to gather, network and share our own tales. We do not wish to see this season pass by without seizing this amazing opportunity.

To this end, the second annual gathering of the Southeast Anarchist Network will be held April 15-17, 2005 in Charleston, SC. As a tool, we hope the SEANet conference will help us get to know each other better, communicate, & share resources, and will increase our ability to respond to and organize against repression, as well as to help us better understand how the anarchist movement is developing.

We envision the conference to focus on networking and building an anarchist infrastructure across our region. We hope to see a lively mix of passion groups, discussions and speakers, as well as plenty of time for entertainment pleasure and subversion. And the beach.

Although we are not interested in challenging or being challenged by organizers who advocate an authoritarian approach, we do want to encourage activists and organizers who work outside of anarchist communities, scenes and groups to join us at this gathering.

We ask that y'all pre-register for the gathering so we have an idea of how many folks to expect.

Working groups have formed across South Carolina to set up logistics for the weekend, including food, childcare, registration, housing, and entertainment. Setting these pieces in place, however, will require work not just within Charleston, but also throughout the Southeast. If you have something to contribute, please email allie (at ) riseup.net or visit us on the web at www.southeastanarchist.org (update coming soon)

Turning the murmurs of discontent into a mighty roar-
Come spring, Charleston’s burning!

The SEANet hosting Collective will be providing free housing and food throughout the weekend.

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the rest is secrets, silence now. if night has fallen, sleep wel

Location:
Charleston, SC

Cost: Suggested donation $5-$20 plus, no one turned away

URL: http://www.southeastanarchist.org

Cycling Instructor Training

Become a League Cycling Instructor: April 15-17

Would you like to teach cycling skills to others?

MassBike is sponsoring a training by the League of American Bicyclists for experienced cyclists to become certified League Cycling Instructors, or LCIs.

This weekend-long training (Friday night through Sunday afternoon) will take place in the MetroBoston area, and is the only such training this year in New England.

As a prerequisite, you must have taken the “Road I” (aka Cycling Skills) class—see previous listing.

The cost of the training is $175, payable to the League of American Bicyclists.

For more information and registration details, click here

www.massbike.org/events/lci2005.htm

www.bikeleague.org/educenter/seminars.htm

Location:

Cost: $175

URL: http://www.massbike.org/events/lci2005.htm

Grassroots Use of Technology Conference

Want to learn how to use the newest technologies to propel your group's activism into the 21st century, while networking with others who share the same passion?

6th Annual Grassroots Use of Technology Conference

Friday, April 15 and Saturday, April 16, 2005

This is the 6th annual conference of Organizers' Collaborative Keynote Speaker, Micah Sifry. The theme for this year's event is "Building Bridges"

workshops/discussions will include:

content management for nonprofit web sites * mobilizing people at the local level * w3c web accessibility * Donor database options * online fundraising * cyber campaigns: what has worked? * geographic information systems * what is Plone-Mumbo-Drupal? * blogging for grassroots groups * Online tools for coalitions Using RSS to share information among organizations * plus many more topics!

There will be plenty of time for discussion and networking. The low cost of attending makes it accessible for all types of community organizations. Last year's event was filled to capacity, and we expect this years conference (limited to 250) to be a complete sellout too -- So register early!

New this year: Community Day on Friday, April 15th. This will be a free event for registrants, Boston non-profits, and others not able to attend on Saturday. It will include introductory panel discussions and workshop sessions on technology and organizing.

To Register: www.organizerscollaborative.org/conference.html

To check out last year's exciting program, go to:
www.organizenow.net/conference/program2004.pdf

Cohosted by M.I.T. Center for Reflective Community Practice.
We are now seeking additional sponsors.

Location:
Tang Center, Kendall Square, MIT

Cost: $45 dollars full-day ($25 for low-income)

URL: http://www.organizerscollaborative.org/conference.html

IMF/World Bank Protest Week

A16 DC Call to Action for 2005 Spring Meetings

On the five year anniversary of the first A16, we are again calling for a mass mobilization against the neo-imperialistic policies of the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and all their cohorts. Free riders in a city where 12,000 people sleep on the streets, there is no public hospital, more people per capita have HIV/AIDS than any other U.S city, and students' reading performances are lower than the national average in all grades beyond first. Globally, these exploitive institutions are forcing developing countries into debt as well as perpetuating the current North-South system of global apartheid, privatizing natural resources essential to everyday life, and the unequal representation that denies countries outside of the G-7 a voice in their own futures.

For these reasons and many others, we, the A16 Planning Collective, are calling for direct actions against these institutions of capitalism which promote poverty, racism, sexism, environmental destruction, and the concentration of power in the hands of the leaders of a few countries during the week of April 11-17. We ask that persons who disagree with the policies and institutions of the World Bank and IMF start to create affinity groups in which to partake in autonomous direct actions as a means to prevent "Business as Usual" as well as the Spring meetings themselves. We have planned two mass direct actions which will take place on April 15 and 16, but will not announce these actions until closer to those dates.

We hope to organize an action that is accessible to everyone who wants to participate, at many risk and experience levels. We will provide information and a framework for actions to affect the overall plans of preventing "Business as Usual" and the Spring meetings, but we will depend on individuals and affinity groups preparation and encourage everyone to come with their own ideas, supplies, and plans. This will not be a standard march and rally, and while it is coming up rather fast, we do believe that we can succeed in stopping these meetings, but it can only happen with your help.

See you on the streets,

In Solidarity, Love and Rage,

Location:
Washington, DC

Organizer:

URL: http://www.A16DC.org

IMF-World Bank Protest

Protests at IMF-World Bank

April 15 - 17 Washington DC

A Better World Is Under Construction!

Call for a Mass Mobilization during the 2005 Spring Meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund

The main action will be April 16.

The 2005 meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank will represent the five year anniversary of the first major demonstrations against these institutions in the United States. Again we will gather in the streets of D.C. on A16 to show that our resistance to these institutions and their greed only grows stronger, and that our dreams for a better world are not only possible, but under construction at this moment, in all corners of the globe. The IMF and World Bank, with all their efforts to demolish these dreams and actions, can never stop us.

The World Bank claims to combat world poverty. The IMF claims to promote global economic stability. For the 60 years of their existence, they have done neither. The World Bank has poured billions into dams, mining, and other projects that have caused immense social and environmental destruction, displacing poor, often indigenous, people from their lands and livelihoods, and destroying fragile ecosystems. The IMF has destabilized the economies of countries like Korea, Thailand, and Argentina, creating mass unemployment. Together, the IMF and World Bank have trapped poor countries in a cycle of unpayable debt. To extract debt repayment from them, they have imposed conditions such as budget caps, user fees for health care, and privatization of water. These policies have impoverished billions. They have also corroded self-determination and corrupted political systems, making governments accountable to foreign creditors rather than their own people.

Instead of building the world that they have promised, the World Bank and IMF have plunged it into a global crisis that is now more urgent than ever.
The number of people in abject poverty worldwide is at an all-time high, and more and more people lack access to water, healthcare, and education.
The world is headed for environmental disaster, while the World Bank pours
17 times more funds into fossil fuel projects than for renewables and energy efficiency. The global AIDS epidemic takes 7,000 lives in Africa every day. According to the United Nations, 30,000 people worldwide die every day as a direct consequence of IMF and World Bank-imposed cuts in social services. Today, South and Southeast Asia is facing an immense natural disaster, and the enormous debt burden of these countries, as well as restrictive conditions on World Bank loans for reconstruction, are going to prevent full recovery. Already, the Sri Lanka government and the World Bank are colluding to use this disaster as an opportunity to displace fishing communities and privatize the coastline for the benefit of the tourism industry.

Over the 60 years of their existence, the IMF and World Bank have systematically enriched multinational corporate interests at the expense of nature and of the rest of humanity. It’s time to demolish these institutions and build a better world.

Each day people around the world people are coming together to construct a better, more just world. Not only are they demonstrating in the streets, but they are actively reclaiming their communities. In South Africa, citizens too poor to afford the privatized water have dismantled water meters and learned plumbing to connect homes to water services. In Argentina unemployed workers are taking over their former workplaces and running them as collectives. People throughout the Global South are working to take back their rights to water, health, land, a clean environment, and self-determination. Five years after thousands came to Washington DC in the first mass show in the U.S. of solidarity with the global struggle against the World Bank and IMF, the Mobilization for Global Justice is calling for people to come to Washington DC April 15-17th, to protest the institutions during their spring meetings and to celebrate the other, more just world that is under construction due to the resistance of millions worldwide!

The Mobilization for Global Justice is committed to making all events safe spaces that are open, accessible, and accepting of all. We welcome everyone to participate in making this happen. If you have any special needs, please let us know.

Location:
Washington DC

URL: http://www.globalizethis.org

So You Want to Influence Your Representative

with David Culp, FCNL Lobbyist

This is a nuts-and-bolts workshop to enable YOU to be a more effective local lobbyist.

The workshop will include tips on:

how to prepare for a lobby visit

what's involved in getting an appointment

how to establish a relationship with congressional staff

how to be an effective advocate for your issues

in Congress

at the State House.

David Culp is a legislative representative for the Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL) in Washington, D.C. where he has worked for 15 years. Previously he was a lobbyist at the Indiana legislature working on environmental, consumer, and nuclear power issues. In Washington, he was instrumental in the passage of the nuclear testing moratorium in 1992 and the Chemical Weapons Convention in 1997. Most recently he helped lead the successful campaign to eliminate funding for new nuclear weapons in the federal budget in 2004.

Parking: Use the Boston Common Garage - $5 all day validation stickers will be available

Location:
Beacon Hill Friends House

Cost: $25

URL: http://www.bhfh.org/qsp/QSP-04-05.html

Rabies Clinics

Boston Neighborhood Licensing Rabies Clinics

Sponsored by the City of Boston Animal Control, Thomas M. Menino, Mayor & the Animal Rescue League of Boston

Attention dog & cat owners:
Low cost vaccination clinics and dog licensing will be held in the various neighborhood locations on the various dates.

Location:
Tobin Community Center 1481 Tremont St, Roxbury

URL: http://www.cityofboston.gov/calendar/calendar.asp?mode=single&id=8731&type=single

Sounds of Dissent

WZBC Boston College Radio 90.3fm

Produced by John Grebe and the WZBC News Staff

Show Description:
Too seldom we hear sounds of dissent in mainstream media. While no one honestly claims to have "all things considered," even our public broadcasting institutions have come to reflect their most privileged listener's interests. As they mine the wealthiest listener demographics to sell to their corporate underwriters, they distort the news. Let's clarify the crucial stories, views, and information excluded elsewhere. How can we build participatory non-commercial educational radio? Locally and globally, people are making sounds of dissent, independent of profit and advertising driven corporate bias. Please call or write in with your program ideas.

Past Featured Guests:

Noam Chomsky on the 12/16-18/98 U.S. bombing of Iraq.

Jackie Cabasso, Michael Klare, Paul Shoup, Julianne Smith, and Michael Simmons on continued U.S./NATO bombing, on U.S. ignorance of  democratic opposition in Serbia, and on U.S. use of bombings and  harmful sanctions (or their threat) for unilateral enforcement.

Phyllis Bennis on  U.S. aggression and criminal violation of international law, including bombing Iraq (Institute for Policy Studies, author of "Calling the Shots: How Washington Dominates Today's U.N.").

Nancy Gust live from Basra, Iraq, during her inspection of health conditions under U.S.-driven U.N. sanctions against Iraq.

George Capaccio returned the day before from Iraq with Voices in the Wilderness.

Edward N. Wolff (author of  Top Heavy) on wealth inequality in the U.S.

Bella Galhos (representative of the National Council of Timorese  Resistance) on 3/99 Timorese requests for disarming the paramilitaries, bringing U.N. peace monitors, and support for self-determination for East Timor.

Ann Withorn (Professor at U. of Mass. and a founder of the New School for Women) was arrested in welfare civil disobedience in December '98 for occupying Mass. Gov. Cellucci's office, on fighting  welfare cuts. She co-edited For Crying Out Loud, a '96 anthology on women & poverty in the U.S.

Tomas Valasek (Center for Defense Information) from Slovakia, on security issues, on Kosovar independence and the Organization for Security & Cooperation in Europe.

Linda Carney (mother, writer for Survival News, welfare recipient) on the effects of "welfare reform" on recipients' lives.

Betty Reed-Mandel (founder of Survivors, Inc. for welfare survivors) on Massachusetts "welfare reform."

Wendy Wallas (of Radio Villa Victoria of El Salvador) on her work since the '92 Peace Accords in El Salvador with young people creating an independent news network among that country's citizens.

Stephen Provizer (Radio Free Allston, MA, founding organizer), shut down by the FCC for unlicensed broadcasting of community radio.

Curt Goering on the '99 Amnesty International campaign on U.S. police misconduct, brutality, and abuses (Amnesty International  U.S.'s Deputy Executive Director).

Michael Avery on U.S. police misconduct, brutality, and abuses (National Lawyers Guild).

Ramone Baez (father of Anthony Baez—killed by NYC police officer's choke hold on 12/22/94) on police misconduct, brutality, and abuse.

Norman Solomon (Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting) on the consistent biases in mainstream news media (taped).

George Pillsbury (Director of the Massachusetts Money and Politics Project of Mass. Voters for Clean Elections) on Mass. Referendum Question 2--before the Nov. '98 elections.

John O'Connor (Campaign for Fair Electric Rates) that dissented  from the electric utility industry's massively funded (and successful) drive to pass Mass. Referendum Question 4--before the Nov. '98 elections.

Anthony Schinella (Independent candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives' 8th Congressional District's seat vacated by Joe Kennedy) on his run before the Nov. '98 elections.

Location:
on the radio 90.3fm

URL: http://www.wzbc.org

Solidarity with the Bromley Heath Workers

After two years of "negotiations", workers employed by the Bromley Heath Tenant Management Corporation (TMC) are still without a new contract. The workers, members of SEIU/ Firemen and Oilers, Local 3 who are paid below the industry standard, are seeking improvements in wages and benefits and contract language that can help put an end to management's unjust and discriminatory practices that endanger the workers' health and safety. April 16th provides an opportunity for all of us to extend our hands in solidarity with these workers.

Day of Solidarity with the Bromley Heath Workers

11am - Rally at Heath and Bickford St.
12:30pm - March through the Community
followed by a BBQ at park in Bromley Heath

Solidarity Speakers • Union Updates • Music

Sponsored by: Rank and File Committee of Local 3 and SEIU/NCFO Local 3

Endorsed by: City Councilors Chuck Turner and Felix Arroyo; Boston
School Bus Union; New England Organization for Human Rights in Haiti; MLK, Jr. Bolivarian Circle; International Action Center; Women's FightBack Network

For more info:
The Bromley Heath Rank & File Committee:
617-938-8965, P.O. Box 413, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130;
Chuck Turner's District 7 office 617-427-8100,
USWA 8751 - 617-524-7073

Location:
Jamaica Plain

No Draft No Way Conference

No Draft No Way Conference on Youth & Resistance

Hear from Veterans, draft counselors, counter-recruiting organizers, youth
activists, and community organizers.

Workshops and tactical discussions will include:

1. Counter-Recruiting Strategies

2. The Economic Draft

3. Organizing to Resist the Draft

4. Declaring "Military-Free" Schools

5. Your Rights on Campus

Register for the conference:
www.nodraftnoway.org/a16register.shtml

Transportation from Boston:
617-522-6626 or iacboston (at ) iacboston.org

Location:
New York City

URL: http://www.nodraftnoway.org/conference.shtml

Defend Ward Churchill!

Prosecute Civil Rights Violators!

At the request of the Colorado governor, The University of Colorado is considering firing tenured professor Ward Churchill for a speech he made about 9/11 in which he compared at least some World Trade Center victims to a Nazi named Eichmann. He's had some speech offers withdrawn thanks to threats of violence and the firestorm set off by the lynch mob has also resulted in over 100 death threats to Ward Churchill. This is intolerable and should not be allowed to happen again. The people on government payroll involved should be prosecuted for conspiring to deprive Ward Churchill of his civil rights.

Speakers from the Maoist Internationalist Movement, more to be announced.

Demonstration to go ahead in event of firing or civil settlement.

Location:
Outside Harvard Science Center

URL: http://www.etext.org/Politics/MIM/mn/sept112001/index.html

Food Not Bombs

Food Not Bombs shares free vegetarian food with hungry people and protests war and poverty throughout the Americas, Europe, Asia and Australia.

Food Not Bombs is organizing for an end to the occupations of Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine.

We also support actions against the globalization of the economy, restrictions to the movements of people and the destruction of the earth.

Food Not Bombs is an all volunteer organization dedicated to nonviolence.

Food Not Bombs has no formal leaders and strives to include everyone in its decision making process.

Each group recovers food that would otherwise be thrown out and makes fresh hot vegetarian meals that are served in city parks to anyone without restriction.

The groups also serve free vegetarian meals at protests and other events.

Food Not Bombs works in coalition with groups like Earth First!, The Leonard Peltier Defense Committee, Anarchist Black Cross, the IWW, Homes Not Jails, Anti Racist Action, In Defense of Animals, the Free Radio Movement and other organizations on the cutting edge of positive social change and resistance to the new global austerity program.

We hope you will join us in taking direct action towards creating a world free from domination, coercion and violence.

Food is a right, not a privilege.

Serving:

Monday meal: 6-8pm across from 57 South St., Jamaica Plain

Tuesday meal: cook at 3:30 at Spontaneous Celebrations, 45 Danforth St. near the Stony Brook T Stop
and serve from 6-8 at the South Street Mall Park

Wednesday meal: 5-7pm Central Square, Cambridge

Friday meal: 12-4pm Boston Common

Saturday meal: 12:30-2:30 Boston Common

Sunday meal: 5-7:30 St. James, 1991 Mass Ave., Cambridge


Food Not Bombs 955 Mass Ave. Room 121, P.O. Box 9183, Cambridge, MA, 02139

Location:
varies

Cost: free

URL: http://foodnotbombs.net/

March and Rally for Laboratory Animals!

March from M.I.T. and rally in Harvard Square to protest the torture and killing of innocent animals in laboratories.

March at 1pm
Protest at 2pm

Please don't be late!
We need to start on time and we need as many as people as possible!

S T O P T H E K I L L I N G !

Please join us for a March, Protest and Leafleting event in Cambridge, MA to stand up for the millions of lab animals suffering in research and testing labs throughout the US and particularly in MA. This event will commemorate WLALW, World Laboratory Animal Liberation Week, April 16-24 and WWAIL, World Week for Animals In Labs, April 23-30.

March: meet at 1pm the steps of the Rogers Building, MIT (77 Massachusetts Avenue) where we will gather to march to the protest site at Harvard Square. Protest: Johnson's Gate Harvard Square, Mass Ave, across from Au Bon Pain and "The Pit."

March, meet at 1pm; Protest: 2-5pm. It is about a mile and a half walk from the March to the protest. It is fine to just do one or the other if that works better for you.

It is estimated that at least 200 million animals suffer in labs throughout the United States. 75 million "excess" mice, alone, are "discarded" without even being used by researchers per year.

Massachusetts has one of the largest lab animal populations in the nation and the world. Every day, primates, dogs and cats, mice and rats, and other animals suffer horribly in experiments in Massachusetts.

Every day, animals are burned, cut, maimed, addicted to drugs, starved, and given fatal diseases, often with no anesthesia. In fact, no federal law regulates what happens to animals during actual experiments. Even food, water, medical care, and infant access to mothers can be denied if it is deemed to be necessary for the experimental conditions. Law enforcement is notoriously lax, and ethical decisions are made by industry insiders, often co-workers and friends of the researchers.

About 2000 primates are currently suffering in Southborough, MA--many have been the victims of cocaine and heroin studies (forced addiction), and some of these studies have been going on for 35 years! Plus, horrible stress studies, failed xenotransplant experiments, and a variety of painful invasive procedures. Called the New England Regional Primate Center (NEPRC), this facility is part of the Harvard Medical School and is one of the 8 Primate Research Centers in the nation.

Dr. Jane Goodall, world-renowned primatologist, states with regard to primate research, "Researchers find it very necessary to keep their blinkers on. They don't want to admit that the animals they are working with have feelings and personalities. That people can go to work and allow such barbaric conditions to continue, is a very black mark against humanity."

But, instead of even scaling back research on nonhuman primates, Harvard's Southborough facility is actually expanding. And now we learn that BU's application to NIAID for the BU Bioterror lab says that BU will pay $3.1 million to the NERPC to construct a new breeding and holding facility---for primates that will be sickened and killed by the worst pathogens on the planet---anthrax, Ebola, Marburg, plague, SARS.

Please help us get the truth about what is happening to these poor animals out!

Unseen they suffer but for our efforts.

Location:
M.I.T. to Harvard Square

URL: http://www.massachusettsanimalrights.com

World Week For Animals In Labs Rally/Protest

PROTEST FOR THE RIGHTS OF MILLIONS OF ANIMALS, PROTEST FOR THE RIGHTS OF MILLIONS OF PEOPLE!

Stand up! Speak out! Join with others and let your voices become the voice of compassionate outrage for the approximately 30 million animals who will be experimented on in laboratories this year.

World Week for Animals in Laboratories (WWAIL) is an annual event designed to expose the plight of animals used for testing and research. WWAIL seeks to arouse concern for animal in laboratories as well as educate the public about the scientific, moral, and economic objections to animal experimentation, also known as vivisection.

In Defense of Animals designated a week in April for lab animals action and rememberance. Boston WWAIL 2005 will be observed during the week of April 10-16. Since the earliest demonstrations in 1986, WWAIL has grown to involve scores of activities across the U.S. and worldwide. Everything from educational events to direct action protests has spurred unprecedented concern about animal research.

The time has come for dramatic change. With a wide and growing array of non-animal research methods rendering vivisection increasingly obsolete, animal experiments conducted today could be eliminated with the full-scale implementation of non-animal methods - without risk to human health. However, the research, drug and chemical industries - entrenched in animal research for legal, economic and political reasons - perpetuate the myth that animal experimentation is necessary.

WWAIL looks to the future with the hope of ending the misery and pain for animals in laboratories and at the same time, improving human health. Supported by thousands of animal advocates, physicians, veterinarians, scientists, and healthcare reformers, WWAIL challenges the animal research industry's propaganda with hard facts and fresh perspectives.

Science and our ethical relationship with all living creatures must progress beyond vivisection.

Signs, literature provided! Just show up!!
See also:
www.animaldefense.info/boston

Location:
Rally starts at 1p, 77 Mass Ave- Roger's Building-MIT. March down Mass Ave to Harvard Square. Protest at Harvard Square (Mass AR Coalition) until 5p.

Organizer:

URL: http://www.animaldefense.info/boston

Tent Meeting

Devoted to individual expression and enlightenment, The Tent's "tent meeting" is modeled after the 19th century Parisian salon, an alternative venue for public gatherings offering performances, lectures, and discussions in the arts, humanities, and sciences.

It specializes in providing audience and community to voices typically unheard or otherwise marginalized. We invite you to offer your works.

Please contact La Madre for a consult: 857-919-2598

Start Date: 11/27/2004
End Date: 12/31/2005

Repeats: Every Saturday

Location:
South End Technology Center, Tent City, Garden Level, 359 Columbus Avenue, Boston, MA 02116

Directions: Nearest T Station: Orange Line - Back Bay Station

URL: http://www.cityofboston.gov/calendar/calendar.asp?mode=single&id=8415&type=span

No Draft No Way Conference

Stop the draft! Shut down military recruiting!

NO DRAFT NO WAY CONFERENCE on Youth & Resistance

Join us for a strategic conference featuring:

* Organizing now to stop the draft before it starts.
* Draft Resistance
* Stopping Military Recruiting Hear from youth organizers, draft resistance counselors, and military veterans.

Join discussion groups and workshops to organize counter-recruiting teams.

download flyer -
www.iacboston.org/a16/apr16ndnwconfleaflet_boston.pdf

Organized by
NoDraftNoWay.org & FIST (Fight Imperialism, Stand Together)
www.FIST.cc

Location:
New York City

URL: http://www.NoDraftNoWay.org

Ethical Society Potluck

Potluck

The Ethical Society of Boston is a secular religious and educational fellowship without formal creed or dogma. We are a community, joined together to help develop our ethical ideals, to celebrate life's joys and support one another through life's crises, and to work together for the improvement of our world and the future of our children. Membership is open to those who agree with our principles regardless of racial, religious or national origin. The Ethical Society is part of the larger Ethical Culture movement whose member societies are joined together through the American Ethical Union, headquartered in New York, NY.

Location:
Brookline

Organizer:

URL: http://www.bostonethical.org/thismonth.html

River Cleanup of North River

Earth Days 2005
Environmental Justice: Take Back Your Neighborhood!
An Educational Experience Linking Health & the Environment
Through Activism, Research & Art

Salem State College will celebrate Earth Day on April 11. But in 2005, Earth Day becomes Earth Days as we expand our program from April 4 - 22. The goal of Earth Days 2005 is to present members of the College and the local communities it serves with information about the impact of environmental degradation on our local, state, national, and global communities. The chosen theme this year is: "Environmental Justice: Take Back your Neighborhood!"
April 4 - 22

Screening of documentaries and films that focus on environmental issues, Seminar Room, Central Campus Residence Hall

Wednesday, April 6, 7pm Oil on Ice (2004; 60 min.)
Connect: A New Ecological Paradigm (1997; 23 min.)
Thursday, April 7, 7pm The Burning Season (1994; 123 min.)
Tuesday, April 12, 7pm Chronicle: Cancer Valley (2001; 30 min.)
Drowned Out: We Can't Wish Them Away (2002; 75 min.)
Wednesday, April 13, 7pm Back to Chernobyl (1989; 60 min.)
Thursday, April 14, 7pm Erin Brockovich (2000; 130 min.)
Tuesday, April 19, 7pm Thirst (1993; 62 min.) Talk and discussion lead by Jonathan Leavitt
Wednesday, April 20, 7pm Cadillac Desert: The Last Oasis (1997; 60 min.)
Cane Toads: An Unnatural History (1988; 47 min.)
Thursday, April 21, 7pm A Civil Action (1998; 112 min.)

Earth Day River Cleanup of the North River organized by MA Community Water Watch (MCWW) on Saturday, April 16, 2005. Meeting at 11:00AM in Leslie's Retreat Park, Salem

Saturday, April 9 - Earth Day Family Program
11am - 1pm, Charlotte Forten Hall, 4th floor, SSC Library

Performances by:

* Jim Scott, an environmental musician and artist in residence of St. John the Divine (NY) for 15 years with the Paul Winter Consort
* The SSC Student Theater Ensemble: "Take Back Your Neighborhood!"
* Going Green Open House: Wind Wigglers and Flyers Children's Art Workshop (1-4pm, Carlton School)

Monday, April 11 - Main Earth Day at SSC

10:30am
Registration/Student Poster Set-Up, Ellison Campus Center
10:30am - 12:30pm
Environmental Career and Volunteer Fair, Veterans Hall, Ellison Campus Center

Representatives from local environmental agencies, companies, and organizations will be seeking students interested in becoming interns, employees and/or volunteers.

11:00am - 12:15pm
Environmental Research Poster Session Competition by SSC students in Veterans Hall, Ellison Campus Center

1:30 - 3pm
Panel on Environmental Justice in MLK Jr. Room, Ellison Campus Center

The panel will include academics, federal and regional government officials, and local activists who will address questions such as: What is environmental justice? What does it mean to be an environmentally just community? How does a community achieve this goal? Are there lessons to be learned from other communities, from other states, from tribal groups?

6:30 - 9pm
Reception & Ceremony at Charlotte Forten Hall, 4th floor, SSC Library

Friends of the Earth/ Champion of Public Health awards presented to Veronica Eady and Congressman John F. Tierney. Awards presented to students with winning environmental research posters. "Take Back Your Neighborhood" Group Sessions. Winning Environmental Research Posters will receive awards from President Nancy Harrington.

Location:
Salem State College, Seminar Room, Central Campus Residence Hall, Salem, MA

URL: http://www.salemstate.edu/earthday/

Xerrada Plataforma Xúquer Viu

- dissabte 16 d'abril a les 18:30H tindrem a dos companys de la Plataforma Xúquer Viu que ens parlaran sobre el projecte de transvasament que hi ha respecte a aquest riu valencià i tots els efectes que aquest tindrà si finalment es duu a terme.
+ info a www.xarxadelaiguaclara.org/PXV

Location:
Casal Popular de Castelló
C/ Jordi Joan, 37 baix
12006 Castelló de la Plana
Ap. Correus 257
12080 Castelló de la Plana
cpcs@castello.vilaweb.com

Organizer:

Actuació musical al Casal Popular de Castelló

dissabte 16 d'abril , per la nit, actuació del cantant xiapanec Damián Martínez
el dissabte 16 d'abril , per la nit, gaudirem de l'actuació del cantant xiapanec Damián Martínez dins de la gira que està fent per l'estat espanyol. Hi haurà sopar (rues i picadeta) per els/les assistents a preus populars (5€ sopar i actuació). Confirmeu assistència quan abans millor (tel 620523735 o directament passant-vos pel Casal Popular)

Location:
Casal Popular de Castelló
C/ Jordi Joan, 37 baix
12006 Castelló de la Plana
Ap. Correus 257
12080 Castelló de la Plana
cpcs (at) castello.vilaweb.com

Organizer:

earth day

Location:

Festes de Primavera a Sant Andreu

12 a 14h passi de vídeos sobre: precarietat laboral, immigració i mitjans de comunicació.

14h Dinar popular (4 euros) al Brot (Abat Odó 73)

16 a 24h passi de vídeos sobre moviments veïnals, especulació, autoorganització

Organitza: El Brot

Location:
AVV Sant Andreu (Balari i Jovany, 14)

Assemblea informativa tancada immigrants

Per tal de donar a conèixer la lluita de les persones que estan en vaga de fam indefinida i donar-los suport, assemblea informativa per a totes les persones i entitats del barri, a les 12 hores a la Torna.

Qui vulgui col·laborar amb les persones que estan fent la vaga de fam poden portar aigua, sèrum, aigua d'arròs, màrfegues, matalassos i mantes.

Location:
La Torna

URL: http://www.gracianet.org/transversal/

Festa de Mig any de Resistència del CSO Can Calet

11h: preparació de la vetllada
14h: Dinar popular i de trobada: amb els primers menjars que dóna l'hort, botifarres, arrós...
16h (puntual): CELEBRACIÓ DE SIS MESOS D'OKUPACIÓ amb una gran tronada i llençada de coets acompanyada d'un brindis entre tots els assistents i la lectura d'un manifest.
Just després baixarem tots junts cap a Barcelona per participar en la manifestació de cloenda del TOMB ANTIREPRESSIU. A les 18h a la pl. Universitat.
Mentrestant, al CSO hi haurà activitats infantils alternatives per als més jovenets.

I per acabar...
23h: Concert al CSO amb els grups VAPA, MEKACHIS i un grup de metal de Vic.

Tots els actes, excepte la manifestació es realitzen al CSO Can Calet, a la plaça de Can Calet n. 8, a Corró d'Avall. Es troba just al nord de Granollers, passat el límit municipal amb les Franqueses. Un cop arribats a l'entrada de les Franqueses pregunteu, està molt a prop.

REVOLUCIONANT I TRANSFORMANT LA QUOTIDIANITAT!!!
CAN CALET ESPAI ALLIBERAT!!!!!

Location:
Centre Social Okupat Can Calet.
Pl. Can Calet, 8 Corró d'Avall (les Franqueses)
Molt a prop del límit municipal amb Granollers

Cost: Gratis (excepte les birres i el menjar)

Organizer:

URL: http://www.cso-cancalet.tk

CONCNETRACIO ANTIFEIXISTA A REUS

Concentracio antifeixista per la presencia a la ciutat de reus del partit d´ultra dreta i racista Democracia Nacional, a les 17:00 a l´estacio d´autobusos de reus

Location:
REUS: ESTACIO D´AUTOBUSOS

Organizer:

Manifestació del Tomb Antirepressiu

On hi hi lluita hi ha solidaritat!

Manifestació de cloenda de la campanya Tomb Antirepressiu d'enguany, recorregut pel centre de la ciutat i crema de la falla «Estem fartes de repressió!».

Location:
6 de la tarda a la plaça Universitat (Barcelona)

Organizer:

URL: www.moviments.net/tomb

Festes Alternatives de sagrada Família (Festassa)

Dissabte 16 d'abril

19h Pregó
C/ Marina amb Provença

després del pregó
Pelota de Trapo (pallassos i malabars)
c/Marina amb Provença

Cercatasques
21:30 Inici c/Marina amb Provença

Metro L2 l5 Sagrada Família. Cola't!!

Location:

Organizer:

Acte públic: La reforma del estatut i el Pla Ibarretxe: visions des de l'esquerra anticapitalista

Dissabte 16 d'abril a les 19h al Pati Llimona (c/Regomir 3) Jaume I (L4)

Ponents:

- Jaime Pastor [Espacio Alternativo]
- Mikel Labeaga [Ezker Alternatiboa]
- J.R. Castaños [Zutik]
- i Joan Fradera [Revolta Global]

*Organitza: Revolta Global

Location:
Centre Cívic Pati Llimona

Directions: (c/Regomir 3) Jaume I (L4)

Organizer:

URL: http://www.revoltaglobal.net

Inauguracio local expropiat el Zigoto

20h : charla sobre la situacion de lxs presxs de los Black Panthers por el grupo de apoyo a Marshal edie Corway de Baltimore
22h : papeo per tothom
24h : Festa amb dj's ¡¡Oh yeah !!

Location:
Local expropiat el Zigoto
c/Clot, 99
Clot L1, L2

Cercaquintos per l'autogestió de la Colla bastonera de Sants

Aquest dissabte 16 d'abril, després de la mani del Tomb Antirrepresiu, farem un Cercaquintos pel barri per a treure diners que es destinaran a comprar els vestits de la Colla Bastonera de Sants.

El Cercaquintos començarà a les 21 hores (puntual) al Centre Social Autogestionat Can Vies al c/ Jocs Florals, 42 [(M) L-1 Mercat Nou L-5 Pl. Sants] del barri de Sants, i comptarà amb l'animació durant el seu recorregut dels Timbalers de la Republi-k de l'Avern.

Us hi esperem a totes.

Aupa Bastoners !!

Location:
CSA Can Vies (C/ Jocs florals 42)

Organizer:

SKATEGUNE JAIA

JAIA SKATEGUNE BATEN ALDE
JAIA-SKATE ALA HIL!!

10etan irekiera
11etan skate erakusketa 3.pisuan
skate erakusketa errekaldeko enparantzan
14etan bazkari herrikoia
16 etan txiki-hitzaldia skateari buruz eta ondoren bideoak
17etan skatelibre eta musika 3.pisuan kontzertua hasi arte

8etan KONTZERTUA 3€
-IBON MC ETA GZ DJ (MUSICAL REALITY SHOW, HIP-HOP, RAGGA, DUB, SKATE MUFFINJAIA...) eta freestyle.
12tik aurrera TXILL-OUT-SUSAN DJS

APIRILAK 16 – LARUNBATA
(KUKUTZA GAZTETXEAN –errekalde auzoan - BILBO)

Location:
(KUKUTZA GAZTETXEAN –errekalde auzoan - BILBO)

Cost: 3€

Organizer:

Okupazioren aldeko herri bazkaria

Kaixo lagunok!

Bakarrik zan infomaziñu hau bidaltzeko:
Apirilak 16 zapatua, Sopelako plaza beltzean herri bazkari bat dago okupazioren alde.
12:00 Umeentzako jolasak eta margoketa tailerra.
14:30 Bazkaria eta ostean bertsolariak.
18:00 Gaztetxearen aldeko kalejira.

Urdulizko ta Sopelako gazte asanblada.

Location:
Sopela

Organizer:

第二回東京平和映画祭

◆きくちゆみ◆

いよいよ第２回東京平和映画祭が今週の土曜日（４月１６日）にせまってきました。入場券は２５００円、チケットぴあ（Ｐコード：５５１－０５３）で１５日まで買えます。

朝１０時開演。
最初が『にがい涙の大地から』　
１１：５０から『教えられなかった戦争　沖縄編』
Katsura のミニコンサート（上記サイトでテーマソングの“WHY”が聞けます）
監督とランチをはさんで、
１５：１３から『憲法の危機ー影の政府』　
１５：３９から『９１１ボーイングを捜せ』　
１６：４６から『アボン　小さな家』　
１９：１６から『アマンドラ！』　
の６本が上映されます。

本日ＮＹから『アマンドラ！』のリー・ハーシュ監督も来日しました。
監督とランチはまだ空きがありますので、どうぞお問合せください。
mailto:lunch-AT-peacefilm.net

どの映画も心の奥底を揺さぶるような作品ばかりです。映画を観て悲しくなったり、つらくなったら、和室の休憩室で癒しの達人がお待ちしています（無料、カンパ歓迎）ので、大丈夫です。

この映画祭の当日ボランティアを募集します。朝８時半集合、夜１０時までという丸一日の映画祭で、上映作品は６本、監督が全員きて監督との交流もできます（監督とランチは予約制、ランチ代込み１５００円）。丸一日いられる人が希望です。

小さいお子様がいる方には保育士の有資格者が託児をしてくれますので（子ども一人につき５００円）、ボランティアの方も必要に応じてご利用ください。

ボランティアの仕事は、ブースの店番、受付や会場整理など、いろいろありますが、仕事の合間に何本か映画を観ることもできます。交通費は上限を千円に支給します。テレビや映画館ではなかなか見られない作品が揃っています。

ボランティア希望者はタイトルに「ボランティア希望」と書いたメールを東京平和映画祭とスタッフコーディネーターの堀内良樹さんの両方にＤＭしてください。
東京平和映画祭　
堀内良樹　

なお、ＮＧＯなどでフライヤーを配布したい方は当日朝８時半までに持ち込めばパンフレットに挟み込んで、参加者全員（満員になれば８００人ぐらい？）にお渡します。それでは、みなさんとお会いするのを楽しみにしています。

中国の人たちがどうして反日デモをしているの？と思う方は、この映画祭を最初から観れば、少しは理解できるかもしれません。知ることが平和を創る第一歩、です。

Location:
国立オリンピック記念青少年総合センター
カルチャー棟大ホール
東京都渋谷区代々木神園町3番1号

Cost: １日鑑賞券　2,500円（税込み）

Organizer:

URL: http://www.peacefilm.net

Industrial Workers of the World Pensacola Meeting

The Pensacola General Membership Branch (GMB) of the Industrial Workers of the World was chartered an official branch of the IWW in 2004.

The Pensacola GMB meets on the third Saturday of every month at End of the Line Cafe at 6:30pm. End of the Line Cafe is located at 610 East Wright Street near downtown Pensacola.

All workers are encouraged to join. The IWW is open to ALL WORKERS, but is not open to employers (described as those with the ability to hire or fire) or police officers.

Location:
End of the Line
610 E Wright St
Pensacola Fl 32501

Organizer:

URL: http://www.angelfire.com/fl5/iww

Prometheus Radio Project on Low Power FM

Interested in low power fm? Think Baltimore needs a community radio station? The Prometheus Radio Project has been at the forefront of the ongoing struggle to take back the airwaves, not only (successfully!) taking on Congress, the FCC, and the corporate radio hegemony, but also helping build LPFM stations around the country. We're thrilled to welcome Pete Tridish, free radio genius and Prometheus founder, to Red Emma's for an evening of information and discussion about the fight against media consolidation and for more community frequencies.

See prometheusradio.org for more information...

Location:
Red Emma's

Cost: free

Organizer:

URL: http://redemmas.org

April Labor Lyceum program: We don't get no respect

WE DON¹T GET NO RESPECT!

The April Labor Lyceum program focuses on power through representation on
community boards:

€ HOW DID PARTICIPATING ON BOARDS OF LOCAL AGENCIES AND
ORGANIZATIONS STRENGTHEN OUR MOVEMENT IN THE PAST?

€ HOW CAN LABOR BUILD COALITIONS THROUGH BOARD PARTICIPATION TODAY?

PANEL: Linda Donahue (Cornell ILR), Jon Garlock (Labor Council);
Rosemarie McKinney (Director,AFL/CIO Community Services), Ray Samson
(Executive Board, United Way of Rochester)



Saturday, April 16
10 am to Noon


NYSUT Conference Center
30 North Union Street, Rochester
Light refreshments will be available
This program is free and open to the
public

All Lyceum programs are sponsored by the Rochester & Vicinity
Labor Council, AFL-CIO Education Committee

VISIT US AT WWW.ROCHESTERLABOR.ORG

Location:
NYSUT Conference Center 30 North Union Street

The Jason Crane Show (April 16, 2005)

Coming up on the April 16 edition of The Jason Crane Show:


HOUR 1 (12-1 p.m.)

Jason recaps the news and checks the Elected Officials Report Card
Our Talk Box panelists analyze local news from a progressive viewpoint.

HOUR 2 (1-2 p.m.)

Mike Kemp-Schneider, Sue Slate and Chris Green talk about the innovative approach to learning at Our School.
Financial planner Steve Krauss talks about socially responsible investing, and answers the question: Is it OK for progressives to talk about money?

HOUR 3 (2-3 p.m.)

City Councilman Adam McFadden on the state of the South District.
Jim Bertelone, president of the Rochester Labor Council, talks about recent union successes in our Working It Out segment.


The Jason Crane show airs Saturdays from 12-3 p.m. on NewsTalk 950 AM in Rochester, NY.
Call in on the air at (585) 222-NEWS (222-6397).
To make a comment off the air, dial (585) 423-2950 or comment online.
For booking information, call (585) 234-0091.

Location:
NewsTalk950 WROC AM

Organizer:

URL: http://www.thejasoncraneshow.com

HEALTHY SOILS, HEALTHY FOOD: LOCAL ORGANIC FARMS

HEALTHY SOILS, HEALTHY FOOD:
LOCAL ORGANIC FARMS
Saturday, April 16
1:00- 2:30 PM
For ages 12 and up

Organic farmer Elizabeth Henderson will talk about how local organic farms contribute to Earth Day all year round by building healthy soils and growing crops that taste especially good because they are high in vitamins and minerals. She will illustrate her talk with slides of Peacework Organic Farm in Newark, NY. Elizabeth is the author of the books Sharing the Harvest: A Guide to Community Supported Agriculture and Whole Farm Planning, which will be available for sale at the event.

REGISTRATION begins on Friday, April 1. Sponsored by the Friends of Penfield Public Library. To register call Penfield Public Library, 1985 Baird Road in Penfield, at 340-8720 or go to www.penfieldlibrary.org and follow the link for the "Program Events Calendar".


Lyla Lalik
Young Adult/ Audiovisual Librarian
Penfield Public Library
1985 Baird Road
Penfield, New York 14526
(585) 340-8720 ext. 4011
llalik-AT-libraryweb.org

Location:
Penfield Public Library, 1985 Baird Road in Penfield

URL: www.penfieldlibrary.org

Teen Empowerment’s 2nd Annual Conference, Speak Out & Talent Showcase

Teen Empowerment Conference

Since last year's kick-off of Teen Empowerment in Rochester with the "All Eyes on Teens" youth conference, my colleague, Doug Ackley & his co-coordinator Robert Ricks and 10 Youth Organizers have been connecting with other teens, public officials, police officers, etc. to address the root causes of the violence that is causing so much pain & division in Rochester communities.

This Saturday, April 16 from 1:30-5:00 pm, hundreds of Rochester youth will come together for Teen Empowerment’s 2nd Annual Conference, Speak Out & Talent Showcase, entitled "Wizdom from the Streetz" at the Harro East Ballroom. i am attaching a letter that went out to agencies with more details. we are hoping the Democrat & Chronicle will publish an article this week...so look out for that.

i will be in town all weekend helping out with it. Please let me know if:

* you can do some outreach to Rochester youth
* you are interested in volunteering OR
* you are just interested in checking out the conference.


hope to run into some of you! jennifer

some background about Teen Empowerment follows, if you're interested...

as most of you know, Teen Empowerment is the organization i have been working with out here in Boston for the past 4+ years. it is a unique organization that facilitates teens connecting issues of social justice to issues of drugs, gang violence, miseducation/lack of education, etc. in many youth-focused initiatives, the emphasis is simply on individual behavior control instead of looking at these issues within the larger picture with youth involvement. meanwhile, intra-community violence & youth-on-youth murders are rarely analyzed or considered in progressive movements. it is a powerful connection to make & in the midst of really challenging situations, i find it is some of the most inspiring organizing i have been a part of.

Location:
Saturday, April 16 from 1:30-5:00 pm,

Earth Day Santa barbara..

Vegitation from San Diego will apear at this years EarthDay Celebration.
VEGITATION ~ ALL ORIGINAL ROOTS ROCK REBEL MUSIC

In a time of world turmoil and aggression, a soothing sound is on the wind. From the sunny shores of Ocean Beach, California, comes the all original roots rock rebel music of VEGITATION.
The vegi-experience begins with organic reggae and rock style rhythms, powerful rebel vocals and harmonies, highlighted by tasteful melodies and leads. Music carrying a message of peace and love with the power and importance of a warm fire in a cold world. When you witness a live show, you are part of a movement and a family, together in spirit, dancing in change and celebrating life.
VEGITATION brings a unique approach to music; unlike anything you've heard before. The beats will carry your feet and the words will touch your soul.
VEGITATION is currently working on their second studio album to be released in Spring '05. Fresh off a European tour, VEGITATION is looking to spread it's message of harmony throughout the world.
Be a part of the revolution.
Let the music bring you peace.



VEGITATION has shared the stage with many artists including: Michael Franti and Spearhead, Barrington Levy, The Skatalites, Wailing Souls, The Abyssinians, Karl Denson, Fishbone, Steve Kimock Band, Ras Michael, Eek-A-Mouse, Yami Bolo, The Itals and others. Go to www.vegitationmusic.com for more info.

CONTACT INFORMATION:
Mason Boogie~ manager-AT-vegitationmusic.com
1 (619) 224 1264
WWW.VEGITATIONMUSIC.COM for downloads, pictures, show dates and more.................................................

thanks for your time!
VEGITATION

Location:
At the Park

Cost: free

URL: http://www.vegitationmusic.com

Urban Permaculture

A one day short class on the basic principals of permaculture and ecological design for urban households focused on integration of gardens, water harvesting, alternative energy systems, and waste management (including some basic info on grey water reclamation). The goal will be to introduce participants to design approaches that are practical (as inexpensive as possible!) and aimed at sustainability.



Contact: Ken and Tim 831-425-3514

Location:
Terra Nova Office, 815 Almar

Cost: Free Skool classes are free, donations are accepted for materials if applicable

Organizer:

URL: http://santacruz.freeskool.org/

Self Defense / Martial Arts

Noncompetitive, practical, martial arts-based self-defense accessible to everyone.

Wear comfortable clothes and bring water.

Contact: Danielsan 831-429-8064

Location:
San Lorenzo Park, Duck Pond

Cost: Free Skool classes are free, donations are accepted for materials if applicable

Organizer:

URL: http://santacruz.freeskool.org/

Earth Matters Tennessee

Earth Matters Tennessee (Community Composting at the Peace Sign)

Get your Community Compost from the kids, staff and management of EarthMatters Tennessee. For over 10 years now, EarthMatters Tennessee has managed the community garden and compost produced the anuuual Leaf Lift
contest designed to environmentally educate and divert compostable tonnage (some call "waste") headed for landfill and incineration.

Aside from the buschels of vegetables and herbs we grow each season, our real "crop" is the thousands of pounds of rich, organic compost, perfect for gardens, "yardens" lawns and planters. Support your local community garden.

Location:
Corner of Gale Lane and Leland (off Belmont near 440)
for more info visit www.earthmatterstn.org

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Left of Center

Left of Center plays on Nashville Community Access Television every Saturday at 11:30am in Davidson County on Channel 19 Comcast.

Left of Center is a program dedicated to bringing you the news in Nashville from a progressive and radical perspective. We cover everything the corporate news won't touch. This summer's lineup includes a documentary on the movement to allow residents to opt out of the spraying of pesticides in their neighborhood, a documentary on the march for women's lives, coverage of the protests against the g8 in georgia, the protests against the the $25,000 a plate george bush fundraiser in may, tennesseeans to end the death penalty, Barry Lynn - advocate of Church State Separation, gaza strip about the detention and isolation of palestinians and many more interesting goings on from Nashville and beyond.

For more information or to get your program aired please email chris lugo at christopher_lugo-AT-yahoo.com

Location:

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Peace and Justice Radio 1380 am 4-5pm Memphis

Listen to Peace and Justice Radio on 1380 am 4 to 5 pm. The center's own radio show that will present views and opinions on local, national and international events and issues that foster or impede creating a just and peaceful world.

If you want your business or organization to gain exposure in the memphis P&J community, contact allan at 901.355.0584 or allan (at) midsouthpeace.org. You can place an ad or be an interview guest on our show.

Location:
1380 am radio (memphis local area)

Cost: NA

Contact: allan lummus 901.355.0584 allan (at) midsoutpeace.org or center 901.725.4990 center (at) midsouthpeace.org

URL: www.midsouthpeace.org/media.html

Location:

URL: www.midsouthpeace.org/media.html

Benefit Auction for Valley Free Radio

Benefit Auction for Valley Free Radio
Hosted by Rachel Maddow of Air America Radio


7:00 p.m. to Midnight
Silent Auction 7:00 p.m.
Live Auction 9:30 p.m.
Arts and crafts donated by local artists, gift certificates
from local businesses and service providers, a weekend
getaway, and other great items up for grabs,


Event will include:
*Hors d’oeuvres
*Cash bar
*Live music from straight ahead and progressive jazz band Mosaic
*Performance by electric cellist Gideon Freudmann
*Roots music performance by Ziya

Buy tickets online or at the door! ($5)
Learn More About the Auction and Valley Free Radio by visiting:
www.valleyfreeradio.org
For more information call 586-3531 or 413-883-1411

VFR is community-based, nonprofit, volunteer-run
commercial-free radio station that will broadcast within the
Greater Northampton area, including Easthampton, Hadley,
Hatfield, Amherst, Williamsburg. Our call letters are WXOJ-LP,
103.3FM. We will begin broadcasting in August 2005.
*Valley Free Radio is a project of the Media Education Foundation

Location:
Union Station
125 Pleasant St., Northampton

Cost: $5 Admission

Organizer:

URL: www.valleyfreeradio.org