film screening "Señorita Extraviada"

oin Code Pink Austin for a free screening of the documentary film "Señorita Extraviada" (Missing Young Woman), a film by Lourdes Portillo about the 320+ women murdered in 10 years in Juarez, Mexico. Come learn about this social justice issue and what you can do.

Location:
Austin History Center (810 Guadalupe Street)

Organizer:

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

Directions: To volunteer: On volunteer nights we can be found at 300 Allen Street in the Allen Street Warehouse. From the highway, take 7th Street east past Pleasant Valley. Once you pass Pleasant Valley you will go over a bridge. The first right turn after the bridge is Allen Street. Allen Street will dead end into the Allen Street Warehouse, which will be on your right.

Organizer:

URL: http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?searchtype=address&country=US&addtohistory=&searchtab=home&address=300+Allen+street&city=A

Gratis-Kino am Unicampus: Mem u Zin

Mem u Zin

Einlass 18.30, Beginn 19.00
Eintritt frei.

Mem u Zîn
Türkei, 1992, OVmdU
R: Ümit Elci

DAS kurdische Epos verfilmt: In der Nacht des Newroz, des kurdischen Frühlings- und Neujahrsfestes erzählt ein alter Mann die Geschichte von Mem und Zin, von ihrer Liebe, ihrer Trennung, ihrem Tod. Die Geschichte der beiden Liebenden, denen Macht, Haß und Intrigen der Herrschenden gegenüberstehen...

Mit freundlicher Unterstützung der ÖH - Uni Wien.

Location:
Altes AKH / Universitätscampus, Hof 2, Hörsaalzentrum, HS C1

Cost: Eintritt frei.

Organizer:

URL: www.kanafani.at

Baskenland: Europas Ausnahme oder Zukunft?

mit Jonan Lekue, Anwalt und Aktivist der baskischen patriotischen Linken

Am 17. April wurde im Baskenland gewählt und wieder einmal wurde Europa von dem kleinen Volk, das zwischen Spanien und Frankreich geteilt ist, überrascht. Die Partei der „Kommunisten des Baskenlandes“ (EHAK), eine Organisation baskischer Kommunistinnen und Kommunisten, die die Unabhängigkeitsbestrebungen ihrer Landsleute verteidigen, schaffte mit 12,5 % (150.000 Stimmen) den Einzug von neun Abgeordneten in das baskische Regionalparlament.

EHAK sammelte die Stimmen der Wähler und Wählerinnen, die ein linkes Unabhängigkeitsprojekt als Zukunft des Baskenlandes sehen und für ein Referendum über die Selbständigkeit als demokratisches Mittel zur Lösung des bewaffneten Konfliktes eintreten. Zuvor schien die Lage der Unabhängigkeitsbewegung äußerst schwierig, da der spanische Staat die Kandidatur von Aukera Guztiak verbot, die von der Justiz in gewohnt totalitärer Manier als „Nachfolgepartei“ der ebenfalls verbotenen Batasuna ohne weitere Beweismittel „enttarnt“ und als illegal erklärt wurde. Die Unabhängigkeitsbewegung entschloss sich daraufhin, EHAK zu unterstützen, die ihrerseits anbot, eine demokratische Plattform für alle unterdrückten politischen Kräfte zu sein. Der bisherige baskische Regierungschef Ibarretxe, dessen Partei PNV zwar stimmenstärkste Kraft blieb, jedoch deutlich verlor, ist nun, will er seine Versprechung eines Referendums wahr machen, von der Unterstützung der baskischen Kommunisten abhängig.

Aus einer Ausnahmesituation außerhalb des demokratischen Rechtsstaates machten die Baskinnen und Basken neuerlich ein Zeichen, dass ihr Wunsch nach Selbstbestimmung und Freiheit nicht verboten werden kann.

Jonan Lekue wird die Wahlen, die künftigen Entwicklungen im neuen baskischen Parlament und die Chancen auf ein Referendum zur Selbstbestimmung des Baskenlandes analysieren und eine Initiative der baskischen Linken für eine europäische Koordination der revolutionär-demokratischen Bewegungen gegen das Europa des Kapitals und der Entdemokratisierung vorstellen.

Location:
OKAZ
Gusshausstrasse 14/3
1040 Wien
www.vorstadtzentrum.org

Cost: wie immer freier Eintritt!

Independent Film Festival of Boston

april 21-24, 2005

120 screenings in the best independent theatres in Boston

nightly parties, panel discussions, appx 20,000 attendees

submission deadline: february 28, 2005

Mission: The Independent Film Society of Boston, a 501(c)3 non-profit, produces the annual Independent Film Festival of Boston. Our mission is to showcase emerging filmmakers, musicians and visual artists and provide attendees direct access in interactive environments to these artists.

Location:

URL: http://www.iffboston.org

World Week for Animals in Laboratories

April 23-30

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.

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.

Location:

URL: http://www.wwail.org/index.cgi

Boston Cyberarts Festival

2005 Boston Cyberarts Festival!

The creative connection between two of Boston’s most vital forces – the arts community and the high-tech industry – is once again in the spotlight, with more than 70 exhibitions and events in and around the Boston area from April 22 through May 8. It’s the first and largest collaboration of artists working in new technologies in all media in North America, encompassing visual art, dance, music, electronic literature, web art, and public art. For a complete listing of all events, go to our Events listing.

CyberArtCentral, the Festival’s headquarters, is located at Art Interactive, 130 Bishop Allen Drive, Cambridge (near Central Square). Festival-goers can obtain printed and CD-ROM catalogs, chat with Festival staffers, and purchase the CyberPass discount card or Festival merchandise – and view the special exhibition “Body Language” by Scott Snibbe. Special Festival hours are Tuesday through Saturday from noon to 6pm.

Festival-goers can also obtain a catalog of all the exhibitions and events in the April 21 issue of The Phoenix and at participating venues.

Location:

URL: http://www.bostoncyberarts.org/

Truth & Justice Radio

WZBC Boston College Radio 90.3fm

Stan Robinson, Richard Krasner and Sally Giacosanzio carry on the vibrant tradition that Martin Voelker began, airing the week's public affairs, with substantive analysis from Boston events on: foreign policy toward Colombia, East Timor, Iraq, Chile; our role in global warming; alternatives to "the market"; water scarcity; sweatshop labor; biotechnology; the demonization of children for problems of the adult world.

Location:
on the radio 90.3fm

URL: http://www.wzbc.org

Mock Jail Cell

Stop Jail Press Conference - and actions

Statewide HArm Reduction Coalition

The individuals and organizations of the Statewide HArm Reduction Coalition request your help.

Friday, April 22 - Attend the press conference at the construction site of the Chicopee women's jail. 9am on Center Street.

Also on Friday the 22nd, plus Sat. and Sun. Help staff a mock jail cell from 9am to 3pm, April 22-24.

We are calling for a moratorium on all jail and prison expansion in Massachusetts, including the Chicopee Women's Jail.

We ask all who care about economic, social and race justice in Massachusetts to contact Governor Romney, your senator, and representative.

Contact Governor Romney

Send letters opposing Jail and Prison Construction and the Chicopee Women's Jail to:

Honorable Mitt Romney
Office of the Governor
State House, Room 360
Boston, MA 02133

Please cc your senator and representative. If you are calling, please also
call these same people to let them know that you are in opposition to jail
and prison construction, specifically the Chicopee jail.

To contact your senator and rep:

www.wheredoivotema.com/bal/myelectioninfo.php.

Click on their names (at the bottom of the page after you submit your
address.)

Scroll down for a Sample Letter:
www.stopchicopeejail.org/stopnewjails.html

AND

Thursday, April 28th Attend the press conference/rally to demand a moratorium on all jail and prison construction in Massachusetts. At the State House, April 28th 11:30am to 1:30pm

Massachusetts does not need new jails onr prisons and should not be allowed to build more. Here is why not: people struggling with addiction are not criminals. 70% of prisoners are incarcerated for non-violent drug and drug-related convictions: their primary issue is drug addiction, which is a medical and public health issue, not a criminal justice, nor a mental health issue.

The human rights of people in jail and prisons are being violated. Numerous complaints about prisons, jails, and youth detention houses in Massachusetts are coming to light, including suspicious deaths, abuse of prisoners by guards in violation of their human and legal rights, and practices which, when prisoners are ultimately released, create greater problems for society. Until these problems are addressed, we demand that no new prisons and jails be built.

The state is wasting taxpayer dollars. Jailors in Massachusetts, who are subject to little effective oversight, cannot be trusted with huge budgets. Waste of taxpayer dollars in the guise of promoting public safety has been amply documented. Redirecting funds from cost effective education and rehabilitation programs, toward placing prisoners into higher security settings than necessary, over staffing and overpaying of prison guards, including an excessive numbers of paid days off (52 on average) is irresponsible.

Majority public opinion is not in support of indefinite detentions of immigrant or 'war on terror' detainees. The jails will also house INS and 'war on terror' detainees--whose human rights are being violated--as federal dollars have already been paid in 'rent' for cell beds for these detainees. Unlike other non-tax funds raised by the state--such as lottery profits, which go into the general fund and are then re-allocated, these federal funds go directly to Jailors in Massachusetts. This is on top of their already bloated budgets.

If we build healthy communities we will not need to build new jails or prisons. $60 million and more of taxpayer money will be misspent. Numerous studies show that alternatives to incarceration for non-violent offenses are more effective, and that crime and substance abuse rates drop as educational levels increase. The people of Massachusetts will be better served by channeling this $60 million+ into drug treatment, our inadequately funded schools, low income housing, employment opportunities, and access to health care for all, which will help create truly safe and healthy communities.

Incarceration is a symptom that masks underlying problems of poverty and racism rather than addressing them.

For more information contact Holly Richardson. 413-348-8234

If you or your organization are able, please send a tax-deductible donation by check or money order payable to:

Arise for Social Justice
write SHaRC in the memo and send to:
Arise for Social Justice
94 Rifle Street
Springfield, MA 01105

Location:
Center Street, Chicopee

URL: http://www.stopchicopeejail.org

Radio with a View

Sundays 10-11:30 am
WMBR 88.1fm

Produced by dave goodman & marc stern for the Independent Broadcast Information Service www.ibisradio.org

*** PLEASE NOTE: Show time has changed to 10:00-11:30 ***

Location:
on the radio 88.1fm

URL: http://www.wmbr.org

Understanding Cultural Differences

Theory and Practice of Understanding Cultural Differences

Janet Ghattas was a Peace Corp Volunteer in Senegal, West Africa from 1963-65. Since then she has been General Director of Intercultural Dimensions, Inc., a cross cultural exchange program to Senegal.

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:
Longy School of Music, 33 Garden Street, Cambridge

Organizer:

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

C. Weeramantry, Former Vice President of the World Court

New England AFSC Speaking Tour for
Christopher Weeramantry, Former Vice President of the World Court

In the weeks leading up to the fundamentally important Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty Review Conference, AFSC’s Peace & Economic Security Program is hosting a speaking tour for Judge Christopher Weeramantry, former Vice President of the World Court.

Justice Weeramantry is best known for his clear opinion in the Court’s 1196 decision on the illegality of the use and threatened use of nuclear weapons.

Justice Weeramantry talks will include:

April 19
4pm – Suffolk University Law School, Boston
For More Information Contact: Meuy Lee - meuylee (at ) gmail.com

April 20
5pm – Harvard University Law School, Cambridge
Contact JGerson (at ) afsc.org

April 22
Tufts University Hiroshima/Nagasaki Conference Banquet
Contact www.hiroshima-nagasaki2005.org

April 24
3-5pm – AFSC Fund Raising Reception - $50 per person
Contact JGerson (at ) afsc.org

Location:

URL: http://www.afsc.org/events/boston.htm

Ethical Society Movie Group

Movie Group after the Platform.

What and where will be announced later.
We will discuss the implications and significance of the film afterwards over more food and drink.

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

Peaceable Kingdom

Peaceable Kingdom

In this potentially life-changing indictment of the horror of factory farming, we hear the riveting stories of people struggling with their conscience around some of our society’s most fundamental assumptions in an inspiring story of personal redemption, compassion, healing and hope.

Documentary, 60 minutes

www.tribeofheart.org

Location:
Worcester Artist Group
38 Harlow Street
Worcester, MA 01605

URL: http://www.whizspark.com/es/ViewSchedule.aspx?eid=834

Facing White Privilege/Racism

with Melody Brazo

Sunday evenings April 10, 17, 24, 2005

This workshop will provide a time for us as Friends to examine how we can grow in our awareness of the pernicious effects of racism. While we may believe that the Divine speaks through everyone, and that we need to listen deeply for the truth in each person's voice, there are many barriers which sepatate us from people who are different from us. These barriers keep us from being able to hear the fullness and depth of the Holy Spirit's voice.

Over the course of this workshop we will begin to look at those differences, and the barriers which keep us apart, in a worshipful setting. Through the use of queries, brief readings and worship sharing, we will practice listening deeply to people of color, and to each other. Using the material of our own lives as a place to start, we will examine situations in which we could have acted or spoken differently. We will practice strategies for effectively dismantling racism in ourselves and in our communities.

While this workshop will be a good follow-up for those who participate in the workshops addressing racism at Yearly Meeting Sessions, previous preparation is not required.

Our goal will be to hear not only about the pain which racism inflicts on all people, but also about the gifts available to those who work to undo the effects of racism.

Melody Brazo is a Diversity Educator who works with public and independent schools, community groups and religious organizations to support them in examining issues of race, class, gender and sexual orientation. She is a white, lesbian, college-educated mother in a multiracial family. She is also a member of Fresh Pond MM. in Cambridge, MA.

Location:
Friends Meeting at Cambridge

Cost: $40

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

Kristina Sheryl Wong's 'Free?'

A Night with Krystina Sheryl Wong - One Night Only!

Asian American Resource Workshop & Boston Progress Arts Collective

present

"FREE?"

a night with Kristina Sheryl Wong

Kristina will be presenting excerpts of "Free?"- a hilarious performance chock full o' biting wit and clever-as-hell use of performance art devices. Wong shakes up your notions of "Ethnic identity-based performance" and wakes up the politics of race and gender in a cutting edge interpretation for the new millenium. Whether she's satirizing the recent popularity of spoken word, donning a SARS mask to protect herself from her own family, or giving one lucky audience member a look deep into her "metaphorical vagina" (to see their inner child of course!) -- Wong's accessible social commentary makes her a hit with college crowds and highbrow performance critics alike.

Q&A to follow!

For more information:
contact Ching-In at 617-426-5313

About the artist:

Kristina Wong is a Los Angeles-based solo performer, writer, actor, educator, activist, and filmmaker. She is the writer/ performer behind two solo shows, "Miss Chinatown 2nd Runner Up" and the nationally touring "Free?" Noted for her quirky, culture-jamming, subversive style, Kristina takes an offbeat artistic approach to political activism that upstages the strangeness of our times. One of her first projects, a mock mail order bride site www.bigbadchinesemama.com continues to create an uproar among Asian fetish folk, porn directors, activists and klansmen to this day. She's the recipient of a Durfee Individual Artist Award, an Artist-in-Residence grant from the City of Los Angeles, Visual Communications' "Armed with A Camera" Fellowship, and Rosenthal PEN USA Emerging Voices Fellowship. Her creative work has been noted by the Village Voice, East Bay Express, LA Weekly, SF Examiner, PBS Bookshow, CHUM TV (Canadian Network Television), Ms. Magazine, Bitch Magazine and the upcoming PBS/ NAATA funded "Searching For YLLOGRL" documentary.

Location:
East Meets West Bookstore
934 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA

Cost: Suggested donation $5

URL: http://www.kristinawong.com/

The Witness (documentary)

The Witness

In this award winner, construction contractor Eddie Lama explains how he feared and avoided animals for most of his life, until the love of a kitten opened his heart, inspiring him to rescue abandoned animals, become a vegetarian, and ultimately, to bring his message of compassion to the streets of New York.

Documentary, 43 minutes

www.tribeofheart.org

Location:
Worcester Artist Group
38 Harlow Street
Worcester, MA 01605

URL: http://www.whizspark.com/es/ViewSchedule.aspx?eid=834

Simon Diaz Performance

An icon in Venezuela, 76-year-old singer-songwriter Simon Diaz is one of the most important figures of Latin American folk music.

Location:
Berklee Performance Center 136 Massachusetts Avenue Boston, MA 02115

Directions: Nearest T Station: Green Line - Hynes Convention Center Station

URL: http://www.cityofboston.gov/calendar/calendar.asp?mode=single&id=8709&type=single

Protesta mundial contra el desaforament de Andrés Manuel López Obrador

Barcelona: domingo 24 abril, 11h, Plaça Catalunya

PROTESTA MUNDIAL CONTRA EL DESAFUERO


El gobierno federal y sus aliados PRI y PAN pretenden eliminar tramposamente de la contienda electoral al posible candidato presidencial con mayor apoyo popular en el país, el alcalde de la ciudad de México Andrés Manuel López Obrador. Utilizan argucias legales juridicamente insostenibles, con procesos y afirmaciones que ofenden nuestra inteligencia, lo que significa un golpe a la democracia y al derecho que tenemos de decidir por quien votaremos en el 2006.


PROTESTA MUNDIAL CONTRA EL DESAFORAMENT

Als pobles i governs del món
Al poble de Mèxic
A la Cambra de Diputats i Senadors
Al President de Mèxic Vicente Fox Quesada

Estudiants, acadèmics i residents mexicans a l'estranger fem públic el
nostre rebuig al desaforament del Cap de Govern de la Ciutat de Mèxic,
Andrés Manuel López Obrador, consumat el 7 d'abril passat.
Estem convençuts que és una acció coordinada entre el Govern Federal i
els partits aliats a ell (PRI i PAN), que té l'objectiu polític
d'eliminar de la contesa electoral al possible candidat presidencial
amb major suport popular en el país i el millor situat en les
enquestes d'intenció de vot.
Más que buscar instaurar la legalitat (de ser aquesta la seva intenció
haurien començat per ells mateixos), l'acció de processar-lo i
inhabilitar-lo políticament és un intent de perpetuar-se en el poder.
Això tornaria il·legítimes les eleccions presidencials del 2006 i
obstaculitzaria el procés democràtic a Mèxic.
Volem aclarir que abans que donar suport a un candidat o a un partit,
el que demandem és el respecte al dret democràtic dels mexicans i
mexicanes a decidir pel nostre futur.
Busquem i vam lluitar per un Mèxic per a tots i totes, on no tinguin
més cabuda la injustícia, la corrupció ni la impunitat.
Per això avui, 24 d'abril, ens manifestem en moltes ciutats del món
-com ho fan a Mèxic- perquè volem que la comunitat internacional
conegui la injustícia i el cop a la democràcia que s'està fargant en
el nostre país.
Des d'aquí, vam alçar la nostra veu per a dir-li al govern de Vicente
Fox i als seus partits polítics còmplices que:
No permetrem que ens llevin el nostre dret a decidir!

S'annexen signatures

Nota: S'agraeixen i inclouen les signatures solidàries de la comunitat
internacional
Si vols signar pica aquí:

members.lycos.co.uk/apoyoamlo/
una salutació

Location:
Barcelona:Plaça Catalunya

Organizer:

URL: http://chiapas.pangea.org/home/mexp.htm

Manifestació en suport als immigrants sense papers.

Seguida de comida popular y de un concierto
Lugar: Plaça Universitat. (hasta a Pla de Palau). El lugar de la comida y del concierto está todavía por determinar.

Location:
Lugar: Plaça Universitat. (hasta a Pla de Palau).

Organizer:

Dinar-Concert de la Fera Ferotge a Olesa

Per diumenge, l'AJIO té muntat un dinar-concert amb el grup La Fera Ferotge, perquè cal rescatar de l'oblit a Ovidi Montllor. El menú consta d'amanida de pasta, truites i pintxos. Vi, moscatell i cervesa. Preu 6 euros.

Location:
Parc del porxo de Santa Oliva

Cost: 6 euros

Organizer:

Ciutat,urbanisme i especulació - cinema i debat

Juan Gamero
El Tercer hombre
(GB 1949/104 min)
Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles, ...

Location:
Ateneu del Xino
C/Robador,25
M Liceu o St. Antoni

Cost: gratis

Organizer:

URL: www.coordinadoraraval.org

Passi de "La toma"

Documental sobre l'ocupació de fàbriques a l'Argentina fet per Naomi Klein i Avi Lewis

Location:
Casal Popular La Guitza
c/sant martí, 14
Sant Cugat del Vallès

Organizer:

URL: www.nodo50.org/casc

IV Marcha Macrocárcel de Zuera (Zaragoza)

Informamos sobre lo que tenemos preparado esta año para el día 24 de Abril. Ya es el 4º año que se organiza esta marcha contra el centro de exterminio de Zuera. Desde su apertura han muerto en Zuera 15 pres@s. 15 personas que han sido llevadas, inducidas, empujadas a la muerte y por ello hemos querido que esta Marcha contra la Macrocárcel de Zuera tenga como tema central las muertes en las prisiones.

24 DE ABRIL: IV MARCHA CONTRA LA MACROCÁRCEL DE ZUERA

Saldremos desde la Plaza de la Madalena a las 10:30 lo más puntuales que podamos.
En frente de la Macrocárcel desde las 12 del mediodía habrá:
- Petardos para anunciar nuestra llegada.
- Txalaparta anticarcelaria
- Presentación de los actos de la Jornada.
- Charla- debate a cargo de Madres Contra la Droga de Madrid "Droga y Cárcel"
- Vermú solidario con las personas presas
- Concierto de "Oskar con Kon K y Jaume con A" desde Barcelona
- Taller de cartas: Habrá direcciones de presos y presas a los que podremos escribirles cartas. La organización se encargará de hacerlas llegar a su destino. Leeremos a su vez cartas remitidas por l@s propi@s pres@s, informaciones acerca de la situación de compañer@s encarcelados, dedicatorias...
- Concierto de Rap a cargo del grupo 1986, de Zaragoza
- Charla- debate a cargo de Shalaketa, de Bilbao "Presentación del informe sobre la cárcel de Nanclares de Oca"
- Teatro: "Monólogos desde dentro"
- Concierto "Manolo cabezabolo"
- Durante todo el día habrá distris, y mesas informativas con temática anticarcelaria.
- Y sobre todo.... procuraremos que TODO SEA OIDO DESDE DENTRO!!

Pasaremos todo el día en la Macrocárcel así que traeros comida, bebida y protejeros de los rayos solares y viento de este desierto donde han colocado muros de muerte que estamos dispuest@s a romper!!!!
ABAJO LOS MUROS DE TODAS LAS PRISIONES

Antes de ir para Zuera......
Día 22 de abril: Charla-Debate "Droga y Cárcel" a cargo de Madres contra la Droga de Madrid. 19 horas en el local de la Cnt de Zaragoza.
Para más información sobre bonos de viaje, de apoyo, etc.. escribir a: marchazuera-AT-yahoo.es
o pasaros por los centros sociales de zaragoza

Location:
Macrocárcel de Zuera (Zaragoza)

Organizer:

Anti-G8 meeting

meeting to organise responses to the G8.

Location:
Quaker meeting house, Victoria Terrace, Edinburgh, EH1 2JL.

Cost: donation

Directions: www.streetmap.co.uk/streetmap.dll

Organizer:

URL: http://reshape.org.uk

Aberdeen Radical and Subversive Film Screenings

**Radical and Subversive film screeings every Sunday in Aberdeen**

**Provisional Schedule (subject to change!)**

24 April
Weapons of Mass Deception: Inside the Media War you Never Saw, Danny
Schechter, 104 min, colour, USA 2004
Presented by Paul O¹Hanlon from Edinburgh

There were two wars going on in Iraq - one was fought with armies of
soldiers, bombs and a fearsome military force. The other was fought
alongside it with cameras, satellites, armies of journalists and propaganda
techniques.

WMD explores this story with the findings of a gutsy, media
insider-turned-outsider, former network journalist, Danny Schechter, who is
one of America's most prolific media critics. Schechter says he
"self-embedded" himself in his living room to monitor media coverage, by
fastidiously tracking the TV coverage on a daily basis. He wrote thousands
of words daily about the coverage for Mediachannel.org, the world's largest
online media issues network, and then collected his columns. He has
continued his one-man investigation with WMD, a two-hour indie non-fiction
film that asks the questions that his media colleagues refused to confront
before, during and after the war. Featuring footage from inside Iraq, and
inside the media, WMD tracks the media war through February 2004.

1 May 2005
Precarity DVD-Magazine Issue 3 (197 minutes - extracts, 'passing the
remote'-style)

A compilation of 17 videos documenting on the rebellion of precarious
flexworkers across the continents.

>From the occupation of abandoned factories in Argentina, to the interruption
of the French prime time news and the devotion to Saint Precarious at the
MayDay? Parade in Milan, the DVD is advertising a new brand of labour
activism. It is a toolbox to investigate on new modes of collective action
and an instrument for the radical organization of the consumerised younger
generation.

8 May 2005
The Vacuum Cleaner. Works from 2003

Presented by the vacuum cleaner (www.thevacuumcleaner.co.uk). This
astute collection of fine UK-based incidences of culture jamming includes:

Prayers to Sainbury's Supermarket
Stop Shopping Tour 03
Virgin on the Ridiculous
Whirl-Mart
Prayers to Products
Taking 'Back' Action
Re-Call - Cup Fault
Cleaning the MCA
Cleaning Wall Street, NY

Location:
The Carlton Bar (upstairs), Castlegate, Aberdeen

Cost: Totally free!

Directions: To the right of the salvation army building, to the left of the Voluntary Service Aberdeen Shop. Go through the front door of the bar, take an immediate right and head on up the stairs.

Organizer:

PEACE NOW meeting

This week, our PEACE NOW meeting was moved to Sunday, at the Pride Factory instead of our usual Saturday at the Center.

Location:
Pride Factory.

Cost: buy something at the Pride Factory

Directions: Commercial Center Drive and Sahara, just west of Maryland Parkway

URL: www.geocities.com/lvstopthewar

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

State Repression Conference-Syracuse University-Free!

A free conference discussing state repression and what can be done about it.
State your Response to State Repression
April 24th
Syracuse University
FREE!

HOW FREE IS AMERICA?

There are already 2 million people in U.S. prisons. 2/3's of the people in prison are latino/a and African-American. Under the USA PATRIOT Act the FBI need not have a probable cause to conduct secret searches or surveillance on civilians, and the President can establish military tribunals for any person in the United States on the basis of secret evidence and hearsay.

On September 11, 2001, the political landscape changed dramatically. Instantaneously, it became unpatriotic to criticize President Bush, the government, or US policy on any front. Activist groups like the Sierra Club announced that they were indefinitely suspending all criticism against Bush’s pro-corporate agenda as the nation tried to pull together.” (Best and Nocella, 2004, p. 9). The depletion of civil rights and freedoms are nowhere more obvious than with the October 26, 2001 passage of the USA PATRIOT Act, which gave the green light to the government to have unlimited mobility of their powers of surveillance, search and seizure, detention, and suppression of dissent. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) believes,

Many parts of this sweeping legislation [PATRIOT Act] take away checks on law enforcement and threaten the very rights and freedoms that we are struggling to protect. For example, without a warrant and without probable cause, the FBI now has the power to access your most private medical records, your library records, and your student records... and can prevent anyone from telling you it was done.

Neo-McCarthyism is upon us and the United States citizens are dumbfounded. All one needs to do is look around. The Mass arrest of nearly 500 nonviolent activists at the 2004 Republican National Convention in New York city, which the judge (State Supreme Court Justice John Cataldo) ordered the immediate release of just hours before President Bush's speech at the Republican National Convention. Were not denied release by the city. The city was later fined in the refusal to comply with the judge’s order. Or look at the witch-hunt after animal rights activists that are involved in the international campaign Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty. “The government has issued a five-count federal indictment that charges each activist, and SHAC USA, with violations of the 1992 Animal Enterprise Protection Act, the first law that explicitly seeks to protect animal exploitation industries from animal rights protests.” The committee's minority leader, Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT), refused to partake in a meeting to talk about the denial of these aboveground nonviolent animal rights activists as a serious threat. It was a “… corporate conspiracy masked as a Senate hearing. Instead, Leahy wrote a statement for the public record that vilified the proceedings, wherein he remarked that , “most Americans would not consider the harassment of animal testing facilities to be 'terrorism,' any more than they would consider anti-globalization protestors or anti-war protestors or women's health activists to be terrorists.”

Of course in this age of Neo-McCarthyism the landscape in the United States has changed dramatically from the 1950s, but the blueprint is still is the same. Communists are replaced with terrorists. Attorney General John Ashcroft played the role of Senator Joseph McCarthy (and it remains to be seen whether or not Alberto Gonzalez will continue to fill those shoes), and the Congressional Meetings on Eco-Terrorism stand in for the House Un-American Activities Committee. Similar to the past, the government is convincing the public that the enemy lurks not only outside our borders, but within them as well. The Administration might even say, “There are those in this country that are not with us.” The danger is said to be catastrophic, a demand for immediate measures, with no questioning of implementation of counter-action with no limitations.

Please join us April 24th, 2005 at Syracuse University to begin to question U.S. policies. On April 24th, 2005, Syracuse University will be the site of a timely and highly important forum on civil liberties, the Bill of Rights, and freedom of expression, thought, and speech, at the State Your Re-Action to State Repression Conference. This conference is free and open to anyone who wishes to attend.

For information and inquiries, contact the Conference Committe
staterepression (at) gmail.com

Welcoming Opening Remarks (9:00-9:20)
Facilitator: Alyson Newquist, Conference Commitee Member
Professor Winston Grady-Willis, African American Studies at Syracuse University
Different Political Campaigns Against Repression (9:30-11:10)
Facilitator: Dr. Maxwell Schnurer, Marist College

1. Speaking in Defense of Lynne Stewart
Laura Raymond, National Lawyers Guild

2. Speaking in Defense of Dr. Rafil Dhafir Madis Senner, Dr. Rafil Dhafir Defense Committee

3. Speaking in Defense of Jeffrey "Free" Luers, Jamie Moran, Friends of Jeffrey Luers

Freedom of Speech and Action (11:20-12:50)
Facilitator: Joel Capolongo, Conference Committee Member

1. SHAC7
Andy Stepanian, Animal Defense League

2. Can the USA PATRIOT Act Be Patriotic?
Dr. John D. Brule, Professor Emeritus, College of Engineering, Syracuse University

3. Mark Spadafore, Central New York Labor Federation, Union Organizing
Lunch (12:50-1:40)
Nationalism, Racism, and Identity (1:50-3:20)
Facilitator: Diane Swords

1. Speaking in Support of Revolution is the U.S.
Leslie James Pickering, Arissa Press

2. From Fighting Terrorism Since 1492 to Ward Churchill
Scott Richard Lyons, Native American Studies, Syracuse University

3. International Foreign Imperialism
Professor Horace Campbell, Political Science and African American Studies, Syracuse University
Alternatives to Repression (3:30-5:00)
Facilitator: Jessica Maxwell, Syracuse Peace Council

1. Former Political Prisoner from the Jericho Movement

2. Abolish of Prisons
Ashanti Alston, Critical Resistance

3. Prisonization of Communities: What are the Alternatives?
Marsha Weissman, Director, Center for Community Alternatives and Alan Rosenthal, Director, Justice Strategies, Center for Community Alternatives Center for Community Alternatives (CCA)

Community Dialogue on Creative Responses to Repression (5:00-5:40)
Facilitators: Conflict Management Center (CMC), Maxwell School, Syracuse University

Group Break Out
Keynote Speaker (5:40-6:20)
Facilitator: pattrice jones, Coordinator, Eastern Shore Sanctuary

Terrorism: A Word Used to Repress
Ann Hansen
Closing Comments (6:20-6:40)
Facilitator: Eli Moore, Conference Committee Member

Professor Micere M. Githae Mugo Syracuse University, African American Studies
See also:
www.cala-online.org/events/State_Your_Reaction.htm

Location:
Syracuse University

Radica Radio!!!

Join dJettes Pepperboxx and Queen B for two hours of Feminist dialouge, interviews, rants, raves, and MUSIC!!!

Location:
cyber space or radio anrarchista 106.9 FM

Cost: so freeee it hurts

Directions: go to www.radioactiveradio.org

Organizer:

stuDent walKout on commUnities of sanDiego / radioActive sanDiego

commUnities of san Diego: Sunday April 24 8-9PM

This week, commUnities of san Diego coVers the statewide stuDent walKout to protest the governor's proposed cutbacks and fee increases for higher education.

commUnities of san Diego reports on the diverse commUnities of san Diego and the border region, with a focus on those commUnities underrepresented in the corporate media.

commUnities of san Diego is facilitated by the outReach group of radioActive san Diego.

Facilitator for this week: Queer-J Brad

Show suggestions and feedback: outreach-AT-radioactiveradio.org

Location:

Organizer:

URL: radioactiveradio.org

Imagining Trans-formations: Women of Color Film Festival

Imagining Trans-formations: We imagine formations that work across possibilities of time and space. We inscribe our bodies into a history that has tried to eradicate the many that we are. Our motherhood is erased and we shout: “We are mothers!” Childhood is foreclosed and we shout: “We are children!” Borders deny our existence, and we shout: “We are here!” History has been told through a time that is not ours. Our voices, our bodies and our cameras present the possibilities which were, will be, have been, and are.

Sunday: April 24, 2005
9:30 – 11:00 Dis Connected: Incarceration, Mothers and their Children
11:00 – 11:10 Border Project
11:10 – 11:30 Century of Genocide in the Americas: The Residential School Experience
11:30 – 11:45 INTERMISSION
11:45 – 12:15 The Border Crossed Us
12:15 – 12:45 Keynote Speaker: Rachael J. Nez (Dine')
12:45 – 1:30 Q&A and Discussion with Filmmakers: Rosemary Gibbons, Nicole Willis, Rachael J. Nez (Dine’), Jessica Santacoy, Moderator: Vicky Banales, Doctoral candidate, Literature Department
1:30 – 2:30 LUNCH
2:30 – 3:00 Racial Justice Day, Report From the Bay
3:00 – 3:25 Performance: Tru Bloo
3:25 – 4:05 A Certain Liberation
4:05 – 4:35 INTERMISSION
4:35 – 4:45 La Tortilla
4:45 – 5:15 Marginal Eyes: Mujeria Fantasia #1
5:15 – 6:15 Q&A and Discussion with Filmmakers: Yasmine Kabir, Azucena Varela, T. Osa Hidalgo-de la Riva, Oriana Bolden, Moderator: Roya Rastegar, PhD student
6:15 – 6:25 CLOSING
6:25 – 7:30 RECEPTION

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Re-Inscriptions, Imaginings; Sunday: April 24, 2005

Dis Connected: Incarceration, Mothers and their Children (2004, 90 min)
Director: Nicole Willis
Documentary video exploring the impact of incarceration on previously incarcerated mothers and their children in Texas. Through interviews, personal stories work against silences and judgments imposed to reveal the familial, communal and political impacts of incarcerating mothers, and the connections that are shared throughout. From strengths-based and systems perspectives focusing on inter-connectedness, solutions are explored in terms of social justice for these women and their children.

The Border Project (2003, 4 min)
Director: Jessica Santascoy
Borders, whether national, geographic, or economic, that are created by others, by ourselves and are often accepted without question. This short aims to show that borders can become confused and can serve as sites of contemplation and, hopefully, as sites of positive action.

Century of Genocide in the Americas: The Residential School Experience (2003, 18 min)
Director: Rosemary Gibbons
A short and powerful documentary about how Indian Residential Schools became a haven for institutionalized sexual abuse. Inspired by the First Nations survivors of the residential school experience who have taken legal action against the institutions that perpetuated this destructive cycle; the very same institutions that were chartered to provide them an education and provide for their well being. Winner at the 2003 San Francisco American Indian Film Festival.

The Border Crossed Us (2005, 26 min)
Director: Rachael J. Nez (Dine')
Under present immigration and naturalization law the Tohono O’odham are subject to arrest, prosecution, incarceration, and deportation simply because they are unable to provide a birth certificate. Since time immemorial the Tohono O’odham have traveled freely without any regard for the boundary separating the United States and the Republic of Mexico. Today the Tohono O’odham way of life and spiritual harmony is severely disrupted by the boundary and present nationality law.

Racial Justice Day, Report From the Bay (2002, 28 min)
Director: Oriana Bolden
Television segment produced for the Free Speech TV network with interviews by and with young women of color who talk about different aspects of the “war on terror,” both domestically and abroad, as well as the ways they are working to transform their communities in the wake of these attacks.

Performance: Tru Bloo
Through raps “MC Battle,” “Right the Wrong Song,” “The Arab People,” and “Birth of Tru Bloo,” as well as the spoken word slam “Law School,” Tru Bloo makes connections between the struggles of women of color with poor people, immigrants, men of color, queers, and the list continues, inciting women of color to stand in solidarity to confront the issues that affect us all.

A Certain Liberation (2003, 37 min)
Director: Yasmine Kabir
Thirty years after watching her entire family being killed during the Liberation War of Bangladesh in 1971, Gurudasi Mondol roams the streets of Kopilmoni, snatching at will from strangers and breaking into spaces normally reserved for men. In her madness, she has found a strategy for survival. Winner of awards at numerous international film festivals including the 7th Zanzibar International Film Festival, the 5th Bangladesh Film Festival, and winner of the Golden Conch for Best Documentary at the 8th Mumbai International Film Festival in 2004.

La Tortilla (2004, 7 min)
Director: Azucena Varela
This short shows how tortilla makers are sculptors that conjure up the past as they slap maze dough to feed present and future generations. Addresses questions like: “What is tradition? How does tradition endure its disruption as the result of the migration of the communities that practice it? How does it transform across physical and imaginary borders?”

Marginal Eyes or Mujeria Fantasy 1 (2005, 20 min)
Director: T.Osa Hidalgo de la Riva
A semi-animated musical narrative experimenting with dream making and myth making in the context of women’s desire. A xxicana lesbiana archaeologist unearths an ancient matri-linear tribe and is rewarded by xxicana lesbianas – the mayor of Los Angeles, and the governor of California.

Location:
Media Theatre, UC Santa Cruz
across from the Music Building
Porter, College 8 and Oakes are the closet Colleges.

Directions: www.queer.ucsc.edu/home/woc.shtml

www.queer.ucsc.edu/home/wocprogram.shtml

Organizer:

URL: http://www.radicalendar.org/calendar/SC-IMC/all/display/31521/index.php?view=event&fulldate=2005-04-23#

"The Yes Men" by Dan Ollman & Sarah Price

This hilarious radical critique of globalization kicks of the 4th annual Santa Cruz May Day Labor Film Festival, "Reel Work." This year's Reel Work runs from April 24th through May 1st and includes film screenings, special events, marches, and guest speakers from Argentina and other places. Special theme of this year's labor film festival is the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)

Location:
Nickelodeon Theatre, Santa Cruz

Cost: voluntary donation

Directions: Downtown Santa Cruz

Organizer:

URL: http://www.reelwork.org

WaMO Jazz Quartet

WaMO Jazz Quartet - EVERY SUNDAY - featuring Howard Wright keyboards, Jeff Arlt drums, Dave Smith bass, and Chris O'Hara guitar. Jazz from the 60's on, including Wayne Shorter, Chick Corea, Pat Metheny, John Scofield, Joshua Redman as well as original compositions, jams and grooves. Music starts around 6 PM to about 9 PM, No Cover. Union Cafe has food, coffee, tea, beer and wine. 120 Union Street, Santa Cruz, one block over from the north end of Pacific Avenue, downtown Santa Cruz.

Location:
Union Cafe

Cost: No Cover

Directions: 120 Union Street, downtown Santa Cruz

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!!!!!

GREEN PARTY OF HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY MEETING

The Green Party of Hillsborough County promotes progressive politics locally. Please attend our next meeting in order to learn of current initiatives and volunteer opportunities.

Location:
Sacred Grounds Coffee House, 4819 E Busch Blvd.

URL: HillsboroughGreens.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.

Location:

Knitting Round Table

knit·ting n.
1. The act or process of producing something knitted.
2. Material that has been knitted or is being knitted.

Sex and the City dubbed knitting “the new Yoga”. And,
www.dailycandy.com raved, “If you think knitting is not glam, think
again.”

Students at the University School (www.usn.org) do it, and so can you!
Knitting club meets at Blueraku Studios beginning January 9th.
It’s about getting creative, discussing ideas, making friends, and just
plain fun!

New to knitting? You'll be able to pick it up within the first hour.
Take one, two, or three months—sign up is as easy as an email . . . The
best part? 15% of your monthly fee goes to benefit the organization
listed below.

“Knitting 'Round Table” meets on the 2nd and 4th Sunday of each month,
6-8pm; Beginning January 9th, $40/month.
Monthly fee includes yarn and treats for the group. Students must
supply their own needles. And knitting gurus will visit from time to
time to teach new techniques.

Don’t feel like knitting right now, but interested in taking another
class? Check out all spring and summer classes and workshops at
www.blueraku.com.

Location:

深圳律师

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深圳律师事务所深圳律师网深圳律师专线深圳律师协会

Location:

Cost: dfasd

Directions: 深圳律师
整容深圳医院整形医院吸脂隆胸
科瑞信
深圳律师
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深圳律师事务所深圳律师网深圳律师专线深圳律师协会
深圳网页设计深圳网站建设深圳网页制作深圳网络公司
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Organizer:

URL: http://www.szlszx.com

Metropolitan Boy Choir & Choralaires Spring Benefit Concert

The Metropolitan Boys Choir and Choralaires present their 34th Anniversary Spring Benefit Concert to be held on Sunday, April 24th, 2005 at 3:00 p.m. at Orchestra Hall at 1111 Nicollet Mall in downtown Minneapolis. 250 talented young singers present an afternoon of wonderful music making. Bring the entire family to hear choral classics of the past to today's popular show tunes. Joining the choirs will be two very special Celebrity Guests, Dorothy Benham & George Maurer, and two special guest Choirs, CitySongs & Heritage Christian Academy. A Silent Auction begins at 1:00PM in the lobby of Orchestra Hall.

Location:
Orchestra Hall
1111 Nicollet Mall
Minneapolis, MN 55403

Cost: $15 Adults & $11 Seniors/Students

URL: www.mbchoir.com or citysongs.umn.edu

Benefit Concert for Children of Afghanistan

Benefit Concert for Children of Afghanistan
Sunday April 24, 2004
3:00-5:00 p.m.
Weyerhaueser Chapel, Macalester College, St. Paul

Performances by local musicians. A range of talented young musicians including an acappella vocal group from Central High School, string and jazz ensembles and Drumheart will perform. In addition, professional guitarist Dean Magraw and award winning vocalist and veena player Nirmala Rajasekar have volunteered their talent.

Refreshments to follow with Afghani food. Cafe Brenda chef, Nick Schneider, has offered his services to prepare the food. Da Afghan Restaurant will provide Afghan tea.

Freewill donation at the door

All proceeds to the Partnership for Education of Children in Afghanistan (PECA): Building peace, one school at a time (www.afghanimodelschool.org)

This event was inspired by Deborah Ellis' award-winning book The Breadwinner and her two subsequent stories: Parvana's Journey and Mud City. Ellis tells the stories of young Afghani girls who struggle in a nation oppressed by war and the restrictions of the Taliban militia. These powerful and disturbing stories are based on Ms. Ellis' trips to refugee camps in Afghanistan. All of the royalties from her first two books are donated to Women for Women in Afghanistan. (The royalties from the third book go to Street Kids International.)

Sponsored by:
Macalester Urban Land and Community Health (MULCH)

More Information:
(651) 646-0851 or marita.bujold-AT-earthlink.net. Reservations are not being taken, but let us know if you are planning to attend; it will help us know how much food will be needed. Thanks. If attending send your response to Marita at marita.bujold-AT-earthlink.net.

Location:
Weyerhaueser Chapel, Macalester College, St. Paul

Cost: Freewill donation at the door

Organizer:

URL: http://www.afghanimodelschool.org/events.htm

Potluck at the Northampton Community Resource Center (NCRC)

Never been to or heard about the Northampton Community Resource Center? Come check it out, a new community space located in the basement of First Churches, Northampton (Center and Main Street. A potluck for anyone and everyone to come and find out more about the space, how to get involved, what we've done so far and where we are going...

Location:
basement of First Churches, Northampton (Center and Main Street

URL: http://www.pedalpeople.com/cs/