War Tax Protest

The annual War Tax protest will take place at the main post office on Fayette St. at 10 PM. Close to 50% of tax dollars go to warmaking.

Bring fake mailboxes with signs on them—Lockheed Martin, Halliburton and Bechtel. Taxpayers will be encouraged to send their returns right to the war profiteers.

The Pledge is looking for Bush masks. Do you have one or know where one can be found? It would be appropriate for George Bush to be there collecting the returns.

Kagiso, Max

Location:
Main Post Office on East Fayette Street

Directions: I83 ends at Fayette Street and just east of it is the post office.

Organizer:

Prison Book Program Volunteer Night

Join us to answer prisoners' letters and send books to them.

Location:
110 Arlington St., Boston

Directions: 2 blocks from Arlington T stop or 3 blocks from Back Bay T stop

Organizer:

URL: http://www.prisonbookprogram.org

DROWNED OUT

75m, 2002 documentary
Three choices. Move to the slums in the city, accept a place at a resettlement site or stay at home and drown. The people of Jalsindhi in central India must make a decision fast. In the next few weeks, their village will disappear underwater as the giant Narmada Dam fills. Bestselling author Arundhati Roy joins the fight against the dam and asks the difficult questions. Will the water go to poor farmers or to rich industrialists? What happened to the 16 million people displaced by fifty years of dam building? Why should I care? Drowned Out follows the Jalsindhi villagers through hunger strikes, rallies, police brutality and a six-year Supreme Court case. It stays with them as the dam fills and the river starts to rise...

Location:
Mercury Cafe 2199 California St, Denver, CO 80205

Cost: donation

Organizer:

URL: http://www.mercurycafe.com

Què és l'espai europeu d'ensenyament superior? per CEPC-UAB

Què és l'espai europeu d'ensenyament superior? Acte de formació amb TONI VERGER i ROBERT GONZÁLEZ (membres del departament de Sociologia de la UAB).
13.30 hores, Aula 9 de la Facultat de Ciències Polítiques i Sociologia (UAB)

Location:
Aula 9 de la Facultat de Ciències Polítiques i Sociologia de la UAB

Cost: 0 neures

Organizer:

URL: http://www.coordinadora.net

ACTE sobre la reforma de l'EEES - CEPC-UAB

El proper dijous 15 d'abril hi ha un interessantíssim acte de formació sobre el procés de Bolonya o la reforma de l'espai europeu d'ensenyament superior (campanya nacional d'enguany de la CEPC).
Hi intervindran en Toni Verger, que parlarà dels procés de liberalització de serveis (entre ells l'educació), i en Robert Gonzàlez, que centrarà la seva exposició en el desenvolupament dels tractat de Bolonya que posa en marxa l'espai europeu d'ensenyament superior (és molt didàctic). Ambdós ponents són membres del departament de Sociologia i molt implicats als moviments socials.

L'acte es farà dijous 15 a les 13:30h a la sala 7 de la facultat de polítiques i sociologia (al pis de baix).

Us esperem a tots i totes!
El proper dijous 15 d'abril hi ha un interessantíssim acte de formació sobre el procés de Bolonya (campanya nacional d'enguany de la CEPC).
Hi intervindran en Toni Verger, que parlarà dels procés de liberalització de serveis (entre ells l'educació), i en Robert Gonzàlez, que centrarà la seva exposició en el desenvolupament dels tractat de Bolonya que posa en marxa l'espai europeu d'ensenyament superior (és molt didàctic). Ambdós ponents són membres del departament de Sociologia i molt implicats als moviments socials.

L'acte es farà dijous 15 a les 13:30h a la sala 7 de la facultat de polítiques i sociologia (al pis de baix).

Us esperem a tots i totes!

Location:
Sala 7 - Facultat de Polítiques i Sociologia (UAB)

Cost: gratis

Organizer:

URL: http://www.coordinadora.net

CONFERÈNCIA - Debat: "Pietr Kropotkin : Una lectura anarquista de Darwin"

CONFERÈNCIA - Debat:
"Pietr Kropotkin : Una lectura anarquista de Darwin"
Presenta: Manel Aisa (Ateneu Enciclopèdic Popular)
Ponent: Álvaro Girón Sierra (membre Investigador de la Institució Milà i Fontanals . Consell Superior de Investigacions científiques (CSIC).

Location:
Biblioteca Pública Arús.
Passeig de Sant Joan 26. Barcelona

Organizer:

URL: http://www.ateneuenciclopedicpopular.org

La crítica situacionista de la societat desigual

Taula rodona a càrrec de J.L. Bedlow i Miquel Amorós

Location:
Ateneu Barcelonés

Directions: Carrer Canuda 6

Organizer:

Presentació del llibre "l'Avi Siset" a la TORNA

L'Avi Siset que totes i tots hem cantat existia, aquesta és la seva història




L'AVI SISET EM PARLAVA
La història d'una cançó, la crònica d'una generació

Presentació del llibre "L'Avi Siset", prologat per Lluís Llach amb

·PONÇ FELIU (autor i nét)
·JORDI GASULL

i debat sobre els fonaments del republicanisme a Catalunya

DIJOUS 15 D'ABRIL, 19.30 HORES
LA TORNA
Ateneu Independentista i Popular de la Vila de Gràcia
Sant Pere Màrtir, 37
08012 GRÀCIA

Que siguem moltes i molts.

Location:
LA TORNA
Ateneu Independentista i Popular de la Vila de Gràcia
Sant Pere Màrtir, 37
08012 GRÀCIA

Cost: Gratis

Organizer:

Hitzaldia: gaztetxeak eta literatura

Zer aportatu diote gaztetxeek literaturari?
Euskal literaturan, gaztetxeak isladatzen al dira?
Galdu arte nobelak zer du errealitatetik...
Literatura egiten al da gaztetxeetan?

Galdera guzti hauek erantzuten saiatuko da Juan Luis Zabala idazle eta kazetaria.

Berea da Galdu arte nobela arrakastatsua, Azkoitiko gaztetxearen historia kontatzen duena. Edizio ugari izan ditugu dagoeneko, eta gazteen artean oso irakurria da lan hau.

Interneten osorik dago nobela Susa argitaletxearen webgunean.
www.susa-literatura.com

Hori Bai
z u t u n ! k

Location:
Larrabetzuko gaztetxea

Organizer:

Free Meal at L.I.N.K.

The purpose of L.I.N.K., the Lawrence Interdenominational Nutrition Kitchen, is to provide a pleasant, safe place for the hungry or lonely to share a free, nutritious meal and the companionship of one another. We believe loneliness can be as painful as hunger, companionship as powerful as love. Anyone who desires a meal is served, no questions asked. Diners are treated as our invited guests. We do not provide counseling, but rather refer individuals to appropriate agencies when they ask for help. Our focus is on food and fellowship.

Location:
Basement of 1st Methodist Church
221 West 10th Street
Lawrence, KS

Cost: free

Organizer:

URL: http://community.lawrence.com/link/

Anarchist Black Cross Letter Writing

The Anarchist Black Cross has sought to bring attention to the plight of all prisoners and to inspire an Anarchist resistance and support movement on the outside. We fund-raise on behalf of prisoners or defense committees in need of funds for legal cases or otherwise, and organize demonstrations of solidarity with imprisoned Anarchists and other prisoners.
Please attend a letter writing session before attending a regular meeting.

Location:
Solidarity!
13 W. 14th Street
Lawrence

Cost: free

Directions: Between Massachusetts and Vermont, on the south side.

Organizer:

URL: http://www.kansasanarchist.net/ABC/

Peace Vigil-Concord

Thursday Peace Vigil
5pm-6pm

in front of the NH State House, Concord

Location:
in front of NH State House, Concord

Organizer:

Seacoast Peace Response Planning Meeting2

Second monthly planning meeting of Seacoast Peace Response. Usually the third Thursday of every month.

Please contact us if it is your first time attending. Dates and times change occastionally.

Location:
Dover Friends Meeting House (Quaker)
141 Central Ave.
Dover, NH

Organizer:

URL: http://www.seacoastpeaceresponse.org

HOLY COW

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Location:
my house

Cost: $20

Directions: up and to the left

Take Back the Night!

Take Back the Night 2004. bands: Exlove Nation, Go Betty Go, and Titsofrenix. student performances: Indus, Naked Voices, Urban. Spoken Word, and Speakers. Keynote Alena Donovan.
5:30 until it ends.

Location:
Anisqoy'o Park In Isla Vista

Cost: free

Organizer:

Monterey Peace and Justice Center Opening Party!

MONTEREY PEACE AND JUSTICE CENTER OPENING PARTY

On tax day, April 15, the Monterey Peace and Justice Center will officially step out onto the world stage with an opening party from 1 to 6pm!

Come help celebrate this emergence of a new force in our community. Enjoy light refreshments, see the office, share your hopes for the center. Please feel free to bring any books, videos or DVD's you would like to share through the lending library.

The office is located in Pacific Grove at 702 Forest Avenue (at Gibson), Suite D1. Go up the stairs and turn left.

Bring a friend!

Location:
The office is located in Pacific Grove at 702 Forest Avenue (at Gibson), Suite D1. Go up the stairs and turn left.

URL: http://www.peacemonterey.org

Copwatch / HUFF Street Organizing & Broadcasting

HUFF (Homeless United for Friendship & Freedom) activists and Copwatch workers will jointly staff a table to sign up volunteers, gather reports, and broadcast Bathrobespierre's Broadsides, a Free Radio Santa Cruz show that airs 6-8 PM Thursdays (as well as Sundays 9:30 AM -1 PM). Folks are invited to call in reports from the street about police and host behavior as well as updates on other matters.

Location:
Pacific and Soquel Sts. in front of the Borders Bookstore

Open Mic Santa Cruz

Monthly open mic focusing on clean and positive performances. All performing art forms are welcome.
See some photos of past events at:

This event is sponsored by the Baha'is of Santa Cruz.

Location:
Louden Nelson Community Center
301 Center Street, Santa Cruz

Cost: Free!

Organizer:

URL: http://www.mic9.com

Drowned Out: We Can Not Wish Them Away - film

THURSDAY, APRIL 15TH, 2004
8pm at College 8, Room 240

Feature film: “Drowned Out: We Can’t Wish Them Away”
(India)

The tribal peoples of India have learned activism the hard way, as the waters rising from the infamous Narmada River dam project threaten to swamp their rural villages. Filmmaker Franny Armstrong, formerly a London rock musician, spent three years documenting the lives of these impoverished, illiterate environmental heroes. Why bother with a complex story in a distant land? “The war for the Narmada valley is not just some exotic tribal war,” says Arundhati Roy. “It's a war for the rivers and mountains and forests of the world.”

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“A film of enormous heart, grit and insight that is both taut political essay and enormously moving plea.”

- San Francisco International Film Festival Jury

Location:
College 8, Room 240
UCSC

Cost: Free!

Directions: map!
maps.ucsc.edu/wvcollegeeight1b.html

Organizer:

URL: http://scmefa.org/4-15.html

AIR AMERICA RADIO IS ON THE AIR

THE O'FRANKEN FACTOR
ADrug-Free Radio
Liars beware: Al Franken, co-host Katherine Lanpher and Team O'Franken invite you to spend three hours a day in the Zero Spin Zone.
Weekdays noon-3pm
Repeat: 11pm-2am

THE MAJORITY REPORT
The Right has had its say for the last three years. Now, on "The Majority Report", co-hosts Janeane Garofalo and Sam Seder have theirs. Our side just got a little bit louder.
Weekdays 8pm-11pm

THE RANDI RHODES SHOW
Randi brings her own brand of provocative and infectiously humorous talk to Air America Radio.
Weekdays 3pm-7pm
Repeat: 2am-6am

UNFILTERED
Unfiltered is co-hosted by Lizz Winstead, Chuck D, and Rachel Maddow. This uncompromising program puts politics and culture through the wringer, uncensored and unfiltered.
Weekdays 9am-Noon

Location:
Go to www.AirAmericaRadio.com

Directions: For details related to available radio stations
and for RealAudio Live Feed, go to the web site

URL: http://www.AirAmericaRadio.com

U.S. WAR TAX DAY

Tallahassee

Thursday, April 15, 2004 - U.S. WAR TAX DAY: A no money for war demonstration from 4:00 pm to 06:00 pm. at the U.S. Post Office, 2800 South Adams Street.

Forty nine percent of our federal tax dollars go past military, current military and expenditures for Iraq and Afghanistan Join us to protest this misappropriation of our tax dollars toward the military and war. Cost of War
flyers will be available for leafleting and WAR TAX signs will be displayed.

Contact: Jeff Bastian bastianj-AT-capitalweb1.com 850-224-5862

Location:
U.S. Post Office, 2800 South Adams Street.

Cost: free

Organizer:

Speakers Panel regarding Misconceptions and Stereotyping of People of Color in Mainstream Society

AISU is releasing a press release regarding the Seminole mascot, an anti-mascot protest, and a Speakers Panel regarding Misconceptions and Stereotyping of People of Color in Mainstream Society.

On Thursday, April 15, 2004 there will be a panel discussion on "Misconceptions and Stereotyping of People of Color in Mainstream Society". The American Indian Student Union at FSU is hosting the speaker's panel on Misconceptions & Stereotyping of People of Color in Mainstream Society. As a student union, the AISU is supposed to provide for the social welfare of Native Students at FSU, be an educational and cultural instrument for FSU, and be a liaison between the university and the Native American Community. While we have served our purpose as an educational and cultural instrument, the University's administration has never approached us about working with them on issues regarding the mascot and Native American affairs. We have never been approached regarding our opinions on the 'Unconquered' statue and when we met with Student Government and Administration regarding our issues with the 'Integration" statue we were ignored and discriminated against. While we try to provide for Native students on campus, because of the lack of human power and native students this has made this purpose more of a barely attainable goal. As of now, the board members and active members of the American Indian Student Union have remained neutral on the issue of the Seminole mascot. For fear of being targeted by administration and student government and being either zero-funded, loosing our agency status, being silenced as has happened in the past, or replaced with compliant puppets we had never taken an opinion on the mascot as a group. Up until now the AISU has only tried to occasionally educate the FSU and Tallahassee community about Native American mascots and have mostly focused on history, culture, language, and the people indigenous to the Americas. While these latter issues are the main focus of the group we cannot ignore the situation of our people and their portrayal in mainstream society, in particular at our University. The American Indian Student Union is in danger of becoming an inactive organization after this year. Because of the absurdly low percentage of the student body population that is registered as Native American, 0.4%, the organization has yet to receive new, genuinely interested, incoming students with aspirations of becoming a part of and working with such an important group on this campus. Because the American Indian students, culture, education, languages, and programs have been marginalized at this school and we feel our interests have not been of interest to the University, the 2003-2004 Executive Board of the American Indian Student Union is of now taking an official stance of being against FSU's use and portrayal of the Seminole mascot and anything associated with it. We feel that the use of American Indians as sports mascots at this university and the greater society has always been a tool of the mainstream society for erasing who and what Native people truly are and replace them with an inaccurate, offensive, white-created stereotype. In response to the University that refuses to acknowledge and cooperate with the issues of Native students, the American Indian Student Union is holding the events mentioned above in regards to the issue. Because we feel the situation of Native Americans on this campus is such an urgent issue we are presenting the University with the following list of needs for Native Americans.

List of Needs for Native Americans at FSU:

1) Start and fully fund a Native American Studies program that will focus on language, culture, history, society, math & sciences, art, and politics of those people indigenous to the Americas.

2) Provide financial and academic resources and benefits to encourage Native American students to apply to and attend FSU.

3) Develop academic and service programs where FSU students can work with the Seminole Tribe of Florida for the education and betterment of the University and the Seminoles

4) Replace the Seminole Mascot with a mascot that is not a grouping of a minority of people to be stereotyped and objectified.

5) Remove the ‘Unconquered” statue and the headdress from the ‘Integration” Statue.

Trista L. Welch, Director
Nicky Belle, Ass. Director
Jonathan Luna, Public Relations Director
Jennifer Neal, Treasurer

Location:
Student Life Building, room 101 A & B

Cost: free

Directions: The Student Life Building is on Wildwood Avenue across from the International Student Center.

Organizer:

Haiti in Crisis: A Video Showing and Presentation by Paul Miller

Haiti in Crisis: A Video Showing and Presentation by Paul Miller

Thursday, April 15, 2004
7:00 p.m.
Ruminator Books
1648 Grand Avenue, St. Paul, MN

Learn about the current political crisis in Haiti and the conditions that led up to it.

Paul Miller is a local peace and justice advocate who has studied the complex politics and history of Haiti. He has traveled to Haiti eight times as a member of peace and justice delegations. His most recent visit was in December 2003, when he led a delegation that met with Haitian peace and justice organizations. Since his return, Haiti has been thrown into turmoil by the forced removal of the democratically-elected President of the country, Jean-Bertrand Aristide.

Paul will share a video from his recent trip, and will lead a discussion about historic and current issues in Haiti.

Sponsored by Ruminator Books and Merriam Park Neighbors for Peace. For more information, visit the Merriam Park Neighbors for Peace web site at www.mppeace.org, or e-mail info-AT-mppeace.org.

Location:
Ruminator Books
1648 Grand Avenue, St. Paul, MN

Cost: Free and open to the public

Organizer:

URL: http://www.mppeace.org/events/