National Day of Silence

This event on campus of UA Fayetteville is meant to heighten awareness of the involuntary 'silence' that is suffered by closeted people of differing sexual orientations. It will be held during the day, the protest march will be held in the very early evening.

Location:
In front of Arkansas Union, also at corner of Ozark Avenue and Dickson Street (on campus).

Cost: Free

Organizer:

Gay Marriage March

This is a call for support (in whatever form you can manage) from all parties interested in a public march to demonstrate unity in opposition to those who would exclude certain individuals from full privileges of citizenship.

Please feel free to inform anyone you think would be interested in supporting our efforts to show up and be counted in the stand against active discrimination.

Location:
Where: Fayetteville, AR
Starting point: Town Square (Mountain Street)
Ending point: UA campus

Cost: Free

Organizer:

Dr.Steven Best Animal Rights Activist and Vegan Dinner

Part of The Omni Center's Earth Day Celebrations in Northwest Arkansas
APRIL 21, DR. STEVEN BEST, ENVIRONMENTALIST AND ANIMALRIGHTS ADVOCATE --
5:30 PM: At Ozark Natural FoodsDinner to Honor Dr. Steven Best. Dinner is $10.00 (seating is limited) to purchase an advanced ticket:
Mail a check to: OMNI
C/o Morgan MacDonald
709 N. Crest Dr.
Fayetteville, AR 72701
Or you may purchase tickets at Ozark Natural Foods.

6:30 pm:Ozark Natural Foods
Lecture by Dr. Steve Best
"Aldo Leopold andThe Land Ethic"

Location:
Ozark Natural Foods

Cost: 10.00$ for dinner speaker at 6:30 free

Organizer:

Omni

Location:

Free Speech Campaign

Our Freedom of Speech is Under Attack

Wednesday, April 21
12:30-1:30pm
Free Speech Campaign

Meet at the Free Forum Area at 12:30pm. We will march quietly to the library and around to the student center. We will have duct tape for people without beards to place over their mouth as a symbolic representation of how our freedom of speech has been limited at SIUC. We have applied for a permit, yet the administration is taking their time on issuing it.

We will also have designated marshals that the police can contact if needed (required by the Board policy).

Additionally, we need people to speak at the USG meeting, write letters to all local papers, and more.

Congress shall make no law.abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people to peaceably assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. ~First Amendment of the US Constitution

Our constitutional right to free speech is under attack by SIUC's administration, police, student conduct code, and other policies, whom wish to confine our rights to a grass knoll outside of Anthony Hall.

On top of that, if someone has reserved that grassy knoll, they have exclusive rights to the only free speech area on campus. Others wishing to express their first amendment right are provided with no other option.

Are we going to tolerate this blatant violation of our freedoms?

Furthermore, the free speech area does not get any traffic because of the construction on the bridge.

Currently, there is a student that is being tried under the student conduct code for exercising his right to free speech. The rules that this student is being tried under affect us all.

Rights are not given, they are taken.
Stand up and take your rights.
What do we do: stand up fight back!

Location:

Cost: FREE!

Academic Freedom and the War on Terror-David Horowitz

David Horowitz has a pretty big forehead. He is also a nationally known author and Tv commentator- widely known for his sometimes ridiculous conservative beliefs. He has a long history of fighting for civil rights and civil liberties- to include the white male, as well as for conservatives. He is an outspoken opponent of racial preferences and reparations and is currently campaigning for more conservative faculty members to redress the political imbalance on nearly all American college campuses.

Location:
Student Center at SIU, Ballroom D

Cost: Opinions are always free, aren't they? This one is

Directions: I don't even know how he gets to these opinions. Lets find out.

Organizer:

Deep Ecology and Christianity: A Fireside Conversation

DEEP ECOLOGY AND CHRISTIANITY: A FIRESIDE CONVERSATION

Deep ecology stresses that humans are vitally and intimately involved with the processes driving the cosmos -- within Christianity are little known mystical traditions that honor and celebrate our role in the cosmic creation; come join the discussion, tell your story and listen with your heart to the stories of others -- Discussion co-led by Hugh Muldoon and Dwight Welch.

Location:
Interfaith Center
913 S. Illinois Avenue
Carbondale

Cost: FREE!

Directions: The Interfaith is located on the corner of S. Illinois Ave [Route 51] and Grand Ave in Carbondale.

Organizer:

URL: http://www.siu.edu/~ucm/

La contaminació atmosfèrica a La Plana i les seues solucions.

A càrrec de Toni Albert de la Plataforma Ciutadana No a la Contaminació.

Location:
Espai el Formiguer c/ Saragossa 19.

Organizer:

Xerrada Alliberament nacional i de classe a carrec de la COS.

2004-04-21 Alliberament nacional i de classe. Xerrada a l'Alcúdia de Crespins


Xerrada-Debat: Alliberament nacional i de classe

A càrrec d'un membre de la COS.

Dimecres 21 d'Abril a les 20:30h a L'Alcúdia de Crespins, a la Sala Generalitat.

Organitza: Endavant-La Costera.

Location:
Sala Generalitat. L'Alcúdia de Crespins.

Organizer:

URL: http://paisoscatalans.org/endavantlacostera

Programación literaria con motivo del día del libro (La Aldea)

DESDE ARTEVIRGO

Programación literaria
CON MOTIVO DEL LIBRO
que organiza el Colectivo IsMar con la "inestimable"? yuda del Yun-Tamiento de L´Aldea:


VIERNES 23 DE ABRIL DE 2004
A LAS 12:OO HORAS
CHARLA-COLOQUIO DE VICTOR RAMIREZ

"LA IMPORTANCIA DE LA LITERATURA"
I.E.S DE SAN NICOLAS DE TOLENTINO

***** **** ********** *************** ****************

VIERNES 23 DE ABRIL DE 2004
20:00 HORAS
CALLE PEATONAL


LA ESCRITORA PEPA AURORA
PRESENTA LOS LIBROS DE CUENTOS:
"LA PLAYA DE LAS MARAÑUELAS"
"LA BRUJA DE MARICHUSENA"
INTERVIENEN:
VÍCTOR RAMÍREZ Y JOSE ALMEIDA


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Location:
La Aldea(Artevirgo)/Gran Canaria

Cost: la voluntad, que no es poco

Directions: Calle Peatonal de La Aldea (Artevirgo)

Organizer:

[Tenerife]Ciclo de cine contra la videovigilancia y el control social

"La innovación tecnológica viene a complementar y multiplicar, no a sustituir, los sanguinarios modelos de la represión clásica”

CICLO DE CINE CONTRA LA VIDEOVIGILANCIA Y EL CONTROL SOCIAL

-Martes 20 de abril: "BRAZIL"

Sinopsis: Brazil es una visión surrealista sobre un futuro perfecto en el cual impera la tecnología. Todo el mundo está controlado por una agencia gubernamental secreta que prohíbe que el amor interfiera con la eficacia.
Esta fantasía poco convencional, mezcla un humor cruel con un análisis mordaz sobre una inolvidable visión de un mañana soberbiamente sórdido.
Director: Terry William. Año:1985. Duración: 124 min. País: USA

- Miércoles 21 de abril: "EL SHOW DE TRUMAN"
Sinopsis: Truman Burbank, un ciudadano modelo, tiene la sensación de que le vigilan y no se equivoca. Cada segundo de día, desde el momento en que nació, ha sido el protagonista inadvertido de la telenovela más larga de la historia sin que él lo supiera.
Director: Peter Weir. Año:1998. Duración: 99 min. País: USA

-Jueves 22 de abril: "FAHRENHEIT 451"
Sinopsis: Adaptación de la novela de Ray Bradbury, sobre la civilización en el futuro en donde todo el material impreso está prohibido. Un brutal recordatorio de las implicaciones de perder nuestra individualidad y nuestra libertad. Fahrenheit 451 es la temperatura a la cual el papel arde. Guy Montag es un bombero del Departamento de Incendios cuyo trabajo consiste en quemar libros prohibidos por el Gobierno.
Director: François Truffaut. Duración: 113 min. Año: 1966 País: Francia.

-Viernes 23 de abril: "1984"
Sinopsis: Basada en el clásico de George Orwell, escrito en 1948. En 1984 el mundo esta dominado por gobiernos absolutistas que prohíben cualquier manifestación de placer. Winston, un trabajador del Ministerio de la Verdad, está escribiendo un diario que puede ser motivo de detención, tortura y ``vaporización´´. Su vida se complica cuando conoce a Julia, con la que inicia una relación clandestina, que mantienen fuera del alcance de las cámaras que vigilan a la población, para aniquilar cualquier asomo de rebelión.
Director: Michael Radford. Duración: 105 min. Año:1984. País: UK

Todas las proyecciones tendrán lugar en el local sociocultural TAMONANTE (c/Dr. Zamenhof nº7, La Laguna), a partir de las 20:00 horas.
Entrada: 0,50€. Bono 4 películas: 1,50€

Location:
Local Sociocultural TAMONANTE (c/Dr. Zamenhof nº7, La Laguna)

Cost: 0,50€. Bono para las 4 pelis: 1,50€

Organizer:

URL: http://www.azarug.org

[Gran Canaria]Conferencia ”Derecho de asilo y pena de muerte en los medios de comunicación”

Conferencia ”Derecho de asilo y pena de muerte en los medios de comunicación”
Vicente Romano García, catedrático de de Comunicación Audiovisual y Publicidad de la Universidad de Sevilla

Location:
Teatro Víctor Jara, Vecindario.

Organizer:

URL: http://canarias.indymedia.org/newswire/index.php

Xerrada Pilar Prim

- "Per què els arquitectes són els que menys saben d'arquitectura?"

- Propostes de Pilar Prim
- Forum 2004
- Les Arenes / Toros / Edificis perduts
- 400.000 habitatges buits
- ...

Location:
Escola d'Arquitectura La Salle
c/Quatre Camins 2
Barcelona

Organizer:

URL: http://www.pilarprim.tk

Xerrada 'La terra per qui la treballa' a la UPF

Celebració del Dia Internacional de la lluita pagesa a la Universitat Pompeu Fabra de Barcelona.
Xerrada a càrrec d'un membre d'Assemblea Pagesa (Països Catalans) i d'un representant del Col·lectiu de Solidaritat amb el Moviment dels Sense Terra (Brasil)

Location:
Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Aula 20.053
Ramon Trias Fargas, 25-27. 08005 Barcelona.

Directions: www.alternativaestel.org

Organizer:

URL: http://www.alternativaestel.org

"Comandante" a la UAB (organitza CEPC-UAB)

Cicle "cinema compromès a la UAB"

Dimecres 21 d'abril: Cinema compromès a la UAB, Passi de "Comandante". 13.15 hores, Aula 1 de la Facultat de Comunicació.

Location:
Aula 1 de la Facultat de Comunicació.

Cost: gratis

Organizer:

URL: http://www.coordinadora.net

Manifestació contra els tancaments d'empreses al Prat de Llobregat

18:00 Inici de la manifestació a la rotonda de davant de Fisipe.

Recorregut: Avd.Remolar/ Avd. Montserrat/ Carretera Marina/ Carre Lleida /Ctra. Bunyola/ Frederic Soler/ Ferran Puig/ Plaça de la Vila.

Vine a solidaritzar-te amb els treballadors amenaçats pel capitalisme.

Location:
El Prat de Llobregat
(RENFE, autobusos 65, 165 i L10)

Organizer:

Manifestació a El Prat de Llobregat contra l´Especulació i els Tancaments.

El próximo día 21 de Abril la "Xarxa Social d´El Prat de Llobregat" compuesta por diversos sindicatos, secciones sindicales y ciudadanos a nivel particular convoca una manifestación " CONTRA L´ESPECULACIÓ I ELS TANCAMENTS D´EMPRESES".

¡¡Compañero escucha!! ¡Hasta aquí podemos llegar!! ¡¡Ya está bien!!

Estamos inmersos todavía en el sopor electoral de los últimos tiempos. Pero como muchos intuimos fuese cual fuese el resultado, los problemas laborales siguen. En los momentos en que la clase trabajadora estamos viviendo una situación angustiosa por la avalancha de empresas que emigran de unos lugares a otros en busca de mayores beneficios, no debería ser la excusa para aceptar que esto siga convirtiéndose en una mayor degradación de nuestras ya precarias condiciones de trabajo. El mensaje de que tenemos que rebajar salarios y aceptar mas precariedad y sumisión, ya se han demostrado suficientemente inútiles con las experiencias probadas. Las plantillas de las empresas que se “deslocalizaron” , pueden dar buena fe de ello.

Desde la comarca del Baix Llobregat:

Valeo (Sant Esteve Sesrovires, Olesa, Martorelles): más de 550 trabajadores a la calle entre los diferentes centros de trabajo.

Fisipe (El Prat de Llobregat): 461 puestos de trabajo entre trabajadores directos e indirectos.

Viscoseda (El Prat de Llobregat): 150 puestos de trabajo.
Catalana de Polimers (El Prat de Llobregat) 56 puestos de trabajo.

Esteban Ikeda (El Prat de Llobregat): 90 puestos de trabajo.

Eugène (El Prat de Llobregat): 85 puestos de trabajo.

Reno de Medici (El Prat de Llobregat): 200 puestos de trabajo entre los próximos dos años por el cierre total de la planta.

Mega–Tex (El Prat de Llobregat): 20 puestos de trabajo, la totalidad de la plantilla.

Printer. (Sant Vicenç dels Horts):400 puestos de trabajo.

Nobel Lamwerk (Abrera): 50 puestos de trabajo.

Pero por si esto fuera poco encima las direcciones de las empresas, multinacionales o no, aprovechan la situación para chantajear y amenazar a los trabajadores con el fin de conseguir convenios a la baja. NISSAN y SEAT (ambas con centros en la comarca del Baix Llobregat) son ejemplo de ello.

Esto es un verdadero drama para el pueblo. ¿Porqué? Tan sencillo porque a los trabajadores directos de estas empresas se les han de añadir los trabajadores indirectos o subcontratados y, evidentemente a sus familias. ¿De cuantas personas estamos hablando?. Son miles.

Ya sabemos que las multinacionales no van a ninguna parte a crear puestos de trabajo ni a crear riqueza para nadie que no sean ellas mismas, ni se van o se vienen por los salarios porque estos, en el mejor de los casos no llegan ni al 10% de la facturación, por tanto este no es el motivo de las deslocalizaciones, sino que el motivo hay que buscarlo en que las multinacionales son verdaderos especuladores que utilizan el chantaje permanente para obtener ayudas, beneficios fiscales y libertad de actuación para sus maniobras especulativas.

Por todo esto desde el Baix Llobregat decimos que SE ACABÓ. Que nos tienen que oír. Hemos de cambiar la dinámica conformista y pactista. Esto no se arregla con 45 días por año. Ni con 60 días. Puestos de trabajo estables y de calidad. La lucha está en la calle.
Por esto entre todos tenemos que conseguir que el próximo 21 de Abril a las 18:00 horas la MANIFESTACIÓN EN EL PRAT DE LLOBREGAT CONTRA LOS CIERRES, LA PRECARIEDAD Y LA ESPECULACIÓN, con salida en la rotonda situada entre la Ronda de Ponent y la Av/ Remolar seamos MILES DE TRABAJADORES DE TODAS LAS COMARCAS DE Catalunya los que gritemos que las empresas NO SE CIERRAN.
¿Y porque en el Prat de Llobregat? . Más de 2000 puestos de trabajo perdidos en una población en los últimos 4 años es motivo más que suficiente.
También hay un trasfondo oscuro de especulación inmobiliaria. El grupo inmobiliario catalán “Espais Promocions Inmobiliàries”, firmó recientemente la compra de los terrenos de RENO DE MEDICI (la “PAPELERA”) de unos 96.000 metros. “Espais” abonará 80 millones de €uros. El interés de Espais por la operación radica en las expectativas de que los terrenos sean recalificados a medio plazo, de forma que puedan destinarse a uso residencial.
Se da la circunstancia de que la planta se encuentra en una zona en plena transformación porque en sus inmediaciones se construirá la nueva estación intermodal del AVE que enlazará con el aeropuerto.
En la misma área, “LA SEDA DE BARCELONA” vendió en 2000 la planta de VISCOSEDA a las inmobiliarias “VERTIX “ y “LANSCAPE”, filial del Banco de Sabadell. Los dos grupos tienen previsto edificar en la parcela mil viviendas y varios edificios de oficinas.
De FISIPE todavía no sabemos que pasará. Lo que si está claro es que los terrenos son de uso industrial y para ser edificados la recalificación por suelo urbanizable corre a cargo del Ajuntament d´El Prat de Llobregat (IC – PSC)...
No sirve con solidarizarse con los trabajadores afectados si después se facilita la recalificación de los terrenos. Si los políticos van a las manifestaciones es porque realmente quieren ayudar a los afectados, no para salir en la foto... Los terrenos de estas industrias no pueden ser recalificados como urbanizables hasta que todos y cada uno de los trabajadores afectados sea recolocado en otros centros de trabajo respetándoles sus condiciones,o con una nueva reubicación del mismo centro. O sinó no hay cierre.
El Prat de Llobregat a este paso se convertirá en una ciudad “ocupada” por los usuarios de los servicios que nos van a instalar, pero que no podremos disfrutar los ciudadanos de El Prat porque habremos tenido que emigrar.
¿Si no tenemos empleo quien comprará las viviendas que van a edificar en los terrenos de nuestros puestos de trabajo...?.
Hay que gritar fuerte para detener la sangría de puestos de trabajo en El Prat y mañana en L´Hospitalet, Cornellà , Reus, Olot, Lleida, Girona, Catalunya, Madrid, Sevilla, París, Berlin, Europa.....
QUE NOS OIGAN GRITAR UNA VEZ MÁS. NO PARAREMOS NUNCA.

EL PRÓXIMO 21 DE ABRIL A LAS 18:00 HORAS EN EL PRAT DE LLOBREGAT, ROTONDA ENTRE AV/ REMOLAR Y RONDA DE PONENT. (Autobús L-10, 65, estación RENFE)


CONTRA LOS CIERRES, LA PRECARIEDAD Y LA ESPECULACIÓN

Location:
El Prat de Llobregat

Directions: Ronda de Ponent y la Av/ Remolar

Organizer:

Bold Speak - student democracy radio show

Bold Speak will shortly be hitting the airwaves, Edinburgh's first politics and current affairs show on student radio. Show numero uno - democratic Britain, ailing, failing, or fighting fit? We take a look at the Scottish Parliament, visit the people of Dumbiedykes and Bilston Glen, and they'll be a live debate on Bush and Blairs favourite beverage, democracy export...and how its going down in Iraq. Turn on (Weds 5:00pm), tune in (87.7fm fresh air) and drop out (for half an hour - it's good for the soul.)

Location:
Broadcast from the Pleasance

Cost: FreeEEEEE! It's radio.

Organizer:

Indymedia Scotland Meeting

Group meeting to discuss relevant issues to Indymedia Scotland.

Location:
usually
Autonomous Centre of Edinburgh
17 West Montgomery Place
Edinburgh EH7 5HA
tel. 0131 5576242

Organizer:

URL: http://scotland.indymedia.org

Free Spanish Class

Free Spanish Classes are held every Monday and Wednesday at the Solidarity! Center. Classes are for anyone and everyone interested in learning Spanish at any level.

Location:
Solidarity! Radical Center
13 w. 14th Street
Lawrence

Cost: Free!

Organizer:

Peace Vigil-Concord

Wednesday Peace Vigil
12noon-1pm

in front of the NH State House, Concord

Location:
in front of the NH State House

Organizer:

FTAA and the Central America Free Trade Agreement

Andy Davis is co-director of the World Fellowship Center (near Conway) and has just returned from the Third Annual Hemispheric Encounter in Struggle Against the Free Trade Area of the Americas(FTAA), in Havana, Cuba. He will talk on the FTAA and the Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA). With CAFTA coming before Congress in the US and Central American countries in the coming months, this issue is on the front burner of the transnational corporations, so it is important that we not let it pass unnoticed. It can be stopped!

Location:
South Church, 292 State St., Portsmouth

Organizer:

URL: http://seacoastpeaceresponse.org

"How 'Free Trade' Subverts Democracy and Widens the Wealth Gap - and What We Can Do About It"

Speaker Andy Davis is a political activist and storyteller who co-directs the World Fellowship Center in NH. He has recently returned from the Third Annual Hemispheric Encounter Against the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) in Havana Cuba. His talk will be about the FTAA and the Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), and stories of resistance struggles from throughout the Americas. With CAFTA coming before Congress in the US, this issue is on the front burner of the transnational corporations, so it is important that we not let it pass unnoticed. It can be stopped! At the end of the talk there will be a letter-writing session for anyone moved to share their opinion and views with our government representatives.

Location:
South Church, 292 State St. in Portsmouth

Cost: Free

Organizer:

Screening of Independant Media in a Time of War

Stuff

Location:

Organizer:

BBQ Party

Stuff

Location:

Organizer:

Protest

Stuff

Location:

Organizer:

"Myth, Terrorism and Taboo"

Cablecast of provocative and informative discussion of U.S. foreign policies in the Middle East. Guests include Jeff Blankfort, Ivan Eland, Richard D. Hecht, Stephen Zunes and others. Controversial and illuminating assertions and analyses. Daring critique of the impact of the pro-Israel lobby in shaping U.S. foreign policy towards Iraq and the Arab world. Program repeats Sat., 4/24 at 5:30 p.m. on cable CH17 in Santa Barbara.

Location:
Cablecast on commercial-free, community access cable TV, CH17 in Santa Barbara, CA

Cost: free (if you have cable)

Directions: Turn on TV. Surf to Ch17 by 9:30 p.m. Program runs for one hour.

Organizer:

CYA: Horrors and Truths

STOP THE TRAGEDIES, STOP THE ABUSE!

Leading youth advocates in the campiagn to SHUT DOWN the California Youth Authority will be presenting to the Santa Cruz community on the horrors, realities and proposed alternatives to the nations worst juvenile prison system.

Hear staff members of "Books Not Bars", a program of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, speak about the 'Alternatives for Youth Campaign.' This is a statewide campaign to shut down the CYA and replace it with smaller, more rehabilitative facilities.

Meet local youth advocates, see how YOU can support youth and change in our own county.

Location:
Resource Center for Nonviolence
515 Broadway
Santa Cruz

Cost: free

Organizer:

URL: http://www.booksnotbars.org

Street Performer Weekly Gig with SAFE

SAFE (Society for Artistic Freedom and Expression) will have regular weekly Sing Outs on the Sidewalk in front of New Leaf Market 6pm every Wednesday evening.

SAFE calls for the restoration of the Voluntary Street Performers Guidelines and the end to onerous restrictions on peformers downtown.

One local Downtown Ordinance dictates the 10' forbidden zones limiting performers to less than 20% of downtown sidewalks. Another literally excludes them from narrower sidewalks in other business districts. Another is the "Move Along Law" which mandates criminal penalties for not "moving along" every hour.

Bring your instrument or just your ears. Bring a friend.

Hot soup by Joe Schultz.

Take back our public spaces from some creeping privatization, favored by a segment of the merchants.

We also share information on recent police and "host" harassment of performers.

Location:
In front of downtown New Leaf Market at Pacific and Lincoln Aves. between the Cafe Campesino and Alfresco's kiosks.

Cost: Free, but bring quarters and scraps to throw to performers!

WATSONVILLE BROWN BERETS

Brown Beret Meeting

We are a militant grassroots Chicana/o organization who has been active in our community since 1994 in response to gang violence and ignorance which claimed the lives of many young raza. Our goal is to educate one another about political and social issues and methods to ameliorate our community. Topics include student and political activism, social justice and equality, cultural and environmental awareness, unity and indigenous spirituality. We invite all people of color to join us in solidarity. HASTA LA VICTORIA SIEMRE!!

Location:
LA MANZANA CENTER (NEAR ADELANTE CENTER)
18 WEST LAKE AND MAIN STREET
WASTONVILLE, CA 95076

Cost: none

Directions: WE MEET IN THE UPSTAIRS BUILDING NEAR THE REAR PARKING LOT
Bring a friend or comrade!!

Organizer:

Video Showing: Alternative Perspectives on 9/11

This is a documentary/video compilation by Ken Jenkins. This video does a great job in setting the historical context for 9/11 and our government's role in terrorism since WWII. This video is a hard-hitting film that takes the information and research compiled by many and puts it together to form a very disturbing picture of what our government's role in 9/11 may have been.

Location:
The Ugly Mug Coffee House
Corner of Porter St. and Soquel Dr. in Soquel Village

Cost: Free, but donations will be accepted

Organizer:

URL: http://www.TheMeridianNews.com

Women and Islamic Law (Shariah)

The UC Santa Cruz Muslim Student Alliance presents
WOMEN IN ISLAM WEEK

ALL ARE WELCOME to this weeklong event of educational talks,
dialogue, and a poetry performance to challenge and deconstruct stereotypes and misconceptions of Women in Islam.

Wed 4/21: Women and Islamic Law (Shariah)
Kresge 327
7:00 pm

A talk on Women and Islamic Law Stanford Professor Hina Azam

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Thurs 4/22: Muslim Poetry Performance
College 9/10 Namaste
8:00 pm

Spoken word artists perform Calligraphy of Thought
- a Bay area artist collective

- -

FREE REFRESHMENTS!!!

For more info:
www.ucscmsa.org
ucsc_msa-AT-yahoo.com
Sr. Fatimah 831-502-0243

Location:

Cost: FREE! (including) REFRESHMENTS!

Organizer:

URL: http://www.ucscmsa.org

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

Tallahassee Birth Coalition

We are a group of families working together to encourage empowerment in birth, breastfeeding, and attatchment-style parenting. At each of our meetings, we have a free lending library, free childbirth education (question and answer by a childbirth educator), a clothing exchange, and sign-up for our postpartum volunteer support cooperative. Come if ya got babies, if you're expecting one, or if you just want to support our ideas and other women in our community! We can really use donations of good books on these subjects (incuding natural family health)!
We meet the THIRD WEDNESDAY of every month at Meyers park so the kids can play! Hope to see you there!

Location:
Meyers Park Playground

Cost: FREE

Organizer:

Press Conference to Announce FSU Joining the Mt. Olive Boycott

We will be holding a press conference to announce FSU oficially joining the boycott of the Mt. Olive Pickle Company as an action of solidarity with those farm workers whose rights are being so severely abused.

Location:
FSU Campus
Student Services Building
Room 203

Cost: Free

Organizer:

Alexander Cockburn to deliver a speech entitled "From the War on Drugs to the War on Terror: 20 Years of Presidents Who Suck"

Left wing journalist Alexander Cockburn will be speaking at the request of the Center for Participant Education.
The esteemed journalist and political commentator will visit Tallahassee on April 21st to deliver a speech entitled “From the War on Drugs to the War on Terror: 20 Years of Presidents Who Suck”. Cockburn has demonstrated that he can speak at length on just about any pressing issue from his work with The Nation and his own newsletter Counter Punch. Cockburn is Oxford-educated, has appeared on numerous television programs and has authored several books, including “Whiteout: The CIA, Drugs and the Press” and “Washington Babylon”. Anyone who wishes to join the discussion can come to the Carraway Building, room 101, on the FSU campus at 7PM. This event is presented by the Center for Participant Education.

Location:
FSU, Carraway Building, room 101

Cost: free!

Directions: The Carraway Building faces the FSU Bookstore and is accessible off Woodward Avenue.

Organizer:

URL: http://www.yourfreeuniversity.com

Students United for Peace and Justice

General meeting to participate and voice your opinions on current campaigns and issues.

*Mission Statement*

“We the students are in a unique position to act as a catalyst for democratic change in our social environment. We seek to expose and remedy the root causes of injustice, inequality, apathy and fear. We will accomplish this through
education, empowerment and creative activism.”

WE MUST BE THE CHANGE WE WISH TO SEE IN THE WORLD- Gandhi

Location:
Florida State University
Room 311-D Oglesby Union- 3rd floor

URL: http://www.fsusup.com

Alliant Vigil

Eighth year of a weekly vigil outside international war merchant Alliant Techsystem's corporate headquarters. Although we are opposed to specific weapon systems produced by ATK, our main concern is the violent solutions this Minnesota based company represents to complex world problems. We ask who profits and who dies?

Location:
5050 Lincoln Drive, Edina

Organizer:

URL: http://circlevision.org/alliantaction.html

PEACE VIGIL

This weekly vigil is held on the Lake Street Bridge (Lake Street and River Road)--the Peace Bridge. All people who are antiwar and wish to vigil for peace and justice are invited to stand with us.

This vigil has been ongoing since 1999 and will continue weekly regardless of weather: 4:30 to 5:30 every Wednesday.

Pick up a sign there or bring your own.

Location:
Lake Street Bridge, River Road and Lake Street/Marshall. Vigil begins on the St. Paul side. (The bridge connects Minneapolis and St. Paul.)

Organizer:

Granny D Walk and Rally for Democracy

Twin Cities community members will be putting on their walking shoes to walk with 94 year old Granny D in support of Democracy and the Fair and Clean Elections Act. Doris "Granny D" Haddock is a great-grandmother who in 2000 walked 3,200 miles from California to Washington D.C. to demonstrate her concern about big money in politics. She continues to work for Fair and Clean Elections, and will be walking in Minnesota throughout the week to demonstrate support for Minnesota's proposed legislation.

Location:
The walk will begin at 5:30 at the Stone Arch Bridge at 6th St SE (on the east bank) and will proceed over the Mississippi to the Minneapolis City Hall for a rally at 6pm.

Cost: free

Organizer:

URL: http://www.lwvmn.org//face

Matty Weis - How to Get Stupid White Men Out of Office

As an emergency response to the current political stupidity, 12 of the most
brilliant young political artists and organizers in a generation have come
together to create the most important political book of 2004. HOW TO GET
STUPID WHITE MEN OUT OF OFFICE (Soft Skull Press) is going to revolutionize
the way young people who don't do electoral politics do electoral
politics-and how they win. Mattie Weiss, a contributor to the book, will be
speaking.

HOW TO GET STUPID WHITE MEN OUT OF OFFICE documents 20 success stories from
the past five years of young people who have swung or won elections-from
city councils to the Senate-in 16 states, South Korea, and on the Internet.
HOW TO GET STUPID WHITE MEN OUT OF OFFICE puts its finger on the pulse of
an unprecedented historical moment when the blossoming youth-led political
movement-from Seattle to peace to sweatshops to immigrant rights to
hip-hop-has awakened and begun to flex its cultural influence and
organizing muscle in the nasty new battlefield of electoral politics.

Mattie Weiss is a 24-year-old white girl from south Minneapolis. Though a
Midwesterner to the core, Mattie has also lived in Nicaragua (where her
parents worked in solidarity with the Sandinistas in the late 1980s),
Bolivia and South Africa. Mattie graduated with a Political Science degree
from Swarthmore College. As a student activist Mattie organized students
and staff around issues of global economic justice, local race politics,
and a campus-based living wage campaign. While still in college, Mattie
worked for the Active Element Foundation in New York, doing research for
the Future500 youth organizing directory. Mattie has also worked as a
community muralist and a union organizer in Minneapolis. She has worked as
a writer and researcher for the Applied Research Center, a racial justice
"think and do tank," where she wrote and published a major report on youth
organizing around the country.

Location:
Ruminator Books
1648 Grand Avenue
St. Paul, MN 55105

Cost: Free

Merriam Park Neighbors for Peace Meeting

Merriam Park Neighbors for Peace Meetings
Wednesdays
7:00 p.m.

Most Wednesdays (all but the last Wednesday of the month), our meetings are held at St. Mark's Catholic Church, 2001 Dayton Avenue, St. Paul. Community Room in NW corner of Lower Church (basement). Enter through door on NW side of church near rectory and go downstairs to Community Room on immediate left.

Map to St. Mark's Catholic Church:
www.mppeace.org/images/mapmppeacemeeting.gif

On the last Wednesday of each month, a social potluck dinner is held at 6:00 p.m. at a member's home. Please e-mail us at info-AT-mppeace.org or call (651) 647-0580 for the location of this month's potluck, or for more information on our group. You can also visit our web site for a complete listing of all of our upcoming and ongoing events: www.mppeace.org/events/

To find a neighborhood peace/justice group near you, visit Minnesota Neighbors for Peace at www.mnneighbors4peace.org.

Location:
St. Mark's Catholic Church, 2001 Dayton Avenue, St. Paul
Community Room in NW corner of Lower Church (basement)

Cost: Free and open to the public

Organizer:

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

Mobilize for Global Justice - DC

Mobilize for Global Justice
Stop World Bank and IMF Destruction
April 21– 25, 2004 in Washington, DC

Globalize Liberation, not Corporate Greed!
EDUCATE -- ORGANIZE -- MOBILIZE

In solidarity with global struggles against the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, join the mass mobilization in Washington DC, April 21-25, 2004.

From the World Social Forum in Mumbai (Bombay), India, to the streets of Washington DC, people have called for protests at the semi-annual meetings of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). This April, when the profiteers of global economic destruction try to meet behind closed doors, global justice activists will come together to demand the globalization of liberation, not corporate greed!

2004 is the 60th Anniversary of the World Bank & IMF.
Since 1944, these institutions have pushed policies that:

· Decimate women’s rights and devastate the lives of women, their families and communities.
· Hand democracy over to bankers and corporate boards.
· Trap countries in a cycle of debt dependence.
· Force governments to privatize essential services.
· Perpetuate the destruction of the environment in the name of profit-making.
· Institutionalize the domination of the wealthy over the impoverished-the new form of colonialism.
· Facilitate corporate agendas through the economic re-structuring of countries enduring conflict and occupation, such as Afghanistan and Iraq.

In the 60th anniversary year of the IMF and World Bank, Mobilization for Global Justice demands the following:

· Open all World Bank and IMF meetings to the media and the public.
· Cancel all impoverished country debt to the World Bank and IMF, using the institutions' own resources.
· End all World Bank and IMF policies that hinder people's access to food, clean water, shelter, health care, education, and right to organize. (Such "structural adjustment" policies include user fees, privatization, and so-called economic austerity programs).
· Stop all World Bank support for socially and environmentally destructive projects such as oil, gas, and mining activities, and all support for projects such as dams that include forced relocation of people.

We furthermore demand that the United States government, the largest shareholder and most influential government in the World Bank and IMF, adopt the above demands, and work vigorously to compel the World Bank and IMF to implement them.

We call upon all those who fight for justice to join in solidarity with others around the world in forging a human-centered globalization: a globalization of the right to food, medicine, safe water, shelter, education, a clean environment and the right to organize; a globalization of the freedom of speech, belief, assembly, and reproduction; a globalization of liberation from fear, poverty, and violence. We stand for the rights of indigenous peoples, the rights of all genders, the rights of people living with HIV/AIDS, the rights of communities to self determination. We stand for affordable health care, strong labor rights, and social and economic policies that place people before profit. This is the globalization we envision, demand, and will fight for. In place of that other globalization -- the globalization of greed -- we will live the change we want to see!

Another World Is Possible!


Also, that weekend, be sure to attend the March for Women’s Lives (marchforwomen.org), April 25, 10 am, assembly on the Mall.

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