CAFTA- The Trojan Calf

**Please forward**

Dear friends,

Never thought international trade laws would make you laugh? Check this out:
www.quixote.org/calf

It's a biting, two-minute movie called "CAFTA -- The Trojan Calf." Its
message -- that the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) has been
presented to Central America as a gift, but like the Trojan Horse, it's
really a vehicle for American corporations to secretly invade new markets.
It's an important story that will keep you smiling, and hopefully inspire
you to action. (Make sure you watch for the kicker at the end!)

After watching the movie you can join with thousands of others in
rejecting CAFTA by signing a full-page ad to appear in the NY Times the
first of June. Congress may vote on the agreement as early as July.

We hope you like the movie, and we encourage you to pass it along to your
family and friends.

www.quixote.org/calf

Enjoy the show!
The Quest for Peace Staff

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Cost: 35/individual donation (recommended)

Directions: Because it is such a broad issue, free trade is a difficult topic to convey to the public. In it's struggle to oppose CAFTA- the Central American Free Trade Agreement, Quest for Peace has created a short flash film which it hopes will highlight some of those problems found in free trade agreements.

Organizer:

URL: http://www.quixote.org/cafta

CAFTA- The Trojan Calf

**Please forward**

Dear friends,

Never thought international trade laws would make you laugh? Check this out:
www.quixote.org/calf

It's a biting, two-minute movie called "CAFTA -- The Trojan Calf." Its
message -- that the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) has been
presented to Central America as a gift, but like the Trojan Horse, it's
really a vehicle for American corporations to secretly invade new markets.
It's an important story that will keep you smiling, and hopefully inspire
you to action. (Make sure you watch for the kicker at the end!)

After watching the movie you can join with thousands of others in
rejecting CAFTA by signing a full-page ad to appear in the NY Times the
first of June. Congress may vote on the agreement as early as July.

We hope you like the movie, and we encourage you to pass it along to your
family and friends.

www.quixote.org/calf

Enjoy the show!
The Quest for Peace Staff

Need Flash Player - get it free
at:www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi

Location:
online

Cost: 35/individual donation (recommended)

Directions: Because it is such a broad issue, free trade is a difficult topic to convey to the public. In it's struggle to oppose CAFTA- the Central American Free Trade Agreement, Quest for Peace has created a short flash film which it hopes will highlight some of those problems found in free trade agreements.

Organizer:

URL: http://www.quixote.org/cafta

CAFTA- The Trojan Calf

**Please forward**

Dear friends,

Never thought international trade laws would make you laugh? Check this out:
www.quixote.org/calf

It's a biting, two-minute movie called "CAFTA -- The Trojan Calf." Its
message -- that the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) has been
presented to Central America as a gift, but like the Trojan Horse, it's
really a vehicle for American corporations to secretly invade new markets.
It's an important story that will keep you smiling, and hopefully inspire
you to action. (Make sure you watch for the kicker at the end!)

After watching the movie you can join with thousands of others in
rejecting CAFTA by signing a full-page ad to appear in the NY Times the
first of June. Congress may vote on the agreement as early as July.

We hope you like the movie, and we encourage you to pass it along to your
family and friends.

www.quixote.org/calf

Enjoy the show!
The Quest for Peace Staff

Need Flash Player - get it free
at:www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi

Location:
online

Cost: 35/individual donation (recommended)

Directions: Because it is such a broad issue, free trade is a difficult topic to convey to the public. In it's struggle to oppose CAFTA- the Central American Free Trade Agreement, Quest for Peace has created a short flash film which it hopes will highlight some of those problems found in free trade agreements.

Organizer:

URL: http://www.quixote.org/cafta

CAFTA- The Trojan Calf

**Please forward**

Dear friends,

Never thought international trade laws would make you laugh? Check this out:
www.quixote.org/calf

It's a biting, two-minute movie called "CAFTA -- The Trojan Calf." Its
message -- that the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) has been
presented to Central America as a gift, but like the Trojan Horse, it's
really a vehicle for American corporations to secretly invade new markets.
It's an important story that will keep you smiling, and hopefully inspire
you to action. (Make sure you watch for the kicker at the end!)

After watching the movie you can join with thousands of others in
rejecting CAFTA by signing a full-page ad to appear in the NY Times the
first of June. Congress may vote on the agreement as early as July.

We hope you like the movie, and we encourage you to pass it along to your
family and friends.

www.quixote.org/calf

Enjoy the show!
The Quest for Peace Staff

Need Flash Player - get it free
at:www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi

Location:
online

Cost: 35/individual donation (recommended)

Directions: Because it is such a broad issue, free trade is a difficult topic to convey to the public. In it's struggle to oppose CAFTA- the Central American Free Trade Agreement, Quest for Peace has created a short flash film which it hopes will highlight some of those problems found in free trade agreements.

Organizer:

URL: http://www.quixote.org/cafta

CAFTA- The Trojan Calf

**Please forward**

Dear friends,

Never thought international trade laws would make you laugh? Check this out:
www.quixote.org/calf

It's a biting, two-minute movie called "CAFTA -- The Trojan Calf." Its
message -- that the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) has been
presented to Central America as a gift, but like the Trojan Horse, it's
really a vehicle for American corporations to secretly invade new markets.
It's an important story that will keep you smiling, and hopefully inspire
you to action. (Make sure you watch for the kicker at the end!)

After watching the movie you can join with thousands of others in
rejecting CAFTA by signing a full-page ad to appear in the NY Times the
first of June. Congress may vote on the agreement as early as July.

We hope you like the movie, and we encourage you to pass it along to your
family and friends.

www.quixote.org/calf

Enjoy the show!
The Quest for Peace Staff

Need Flash Player - get it free
at:www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi

Location:
online

Cost: 35/individual donation (recommended)

Directions: Because it is such a broad issue, free trade is a difficult topic to convey to the public. In it's struggle to oppose CAFTA- the Central American Free Trade Agreement, Quest for Peace has created a short flash film which it hopes will highlight some of those problems found in free trade agreements.

Organizer:

URL: http://www.quixote.org/cafta

Big Muddy IMC Meeting

This is our general meeting to discuss general IMC business along with updates from working groups such as the Muddy Media paper, Big Muddy News Radio, and Events. New people are always welcome!

Location:
214 N Washington
Carbondale, IL

Directions: We are near the Town Square Pavillion in Carbondale. Specifically, we are around the corner from the Neighborhood Co-op and Longbranch; a block north of Tres Hombres; and three doors south of WDBX.

Organizer:

URL: http://bigmuddyimc.org

CAFTA- The Trojan Calf

**Please forward**

Dear friends,

Never thought international trade laws would make you laugh? Check this out:
www.quixote.org/calf

It's a biting, two-minute movie called "CAFTA -- The Trojan Calf." Its
message -- that the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) has been
presented to Central America as a gift, but like the Trojan Horse, it's
really a vehicle for American corporations to secretly invade new markets.
It's an important story that will keep you smiling, and hopefully inspire
you to action. (Make sure you watch for the kicker at the end!)

After watching the movie you can join with thousands of others in
rejecting CAFTA by signing a full-page ad to appear in the NY Times the
first of June. Congress may vote on the agreement as early as July.

We hope you like the movie, and we encourage you to pass it along to your
family and friends.

www.quixote.org/calf

Enjoy the show!
The Quest for Peace Staff

Need Flash Player - get it free
at:www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi

Location:
online

Cost: 35/individual donation (recommended)

Directions: Because it is such a broad issue, free trade is a difficult topic to convey to the public. In it's struggle to oppose CAFTA- the Central American Free Trade Agreement, Quest for Peace has created a short flash film which it hopes will highlight some of those problems found in free trade agreements.

Organizer:

URL: http://www.quixote.org/cafta

STOP "ISRAEL!"

***Please forward widely***

STOP ISRAEL !

The New England Committee to Defend Palestine invites you to participate in
an educational divestment event:

STOP ISRAEL !
May 9th in front of the "SHOP ISRAEL Fair"
Boston's Jewish Community Day School
57 Stanley Ave., Watertown

Exact time to be announced
(check
www.onepalestine.org <

in May for further details)

Boston supporters of Israel are organizing a series of events over the next
several weeks to honor Israel and celebrate its creation. The creation of
the
state of Israel was brought about through an intensive program of ethnic
cleansing by the Zionist movement to reduce a Palestinian majority to a
minority.
Most Palestinians were expelled from their homes, nearly 500 villages were
destroyed while massacres and rapes took place. Since then, a system of
state
sanctioned violence, apartheid, collective punishment, and targeted
assassination of resistance activists has been used against the indigenous
population
to expand the borders of the illegitimate ultra-nationalist apartheid state
of Israel.

This year's festivities in Boston demonstrate a shift to local activities
focused on families and children, apparently in an effort to neutralize
protests
of war crimes, colonialism, and ethnic cleansing. On May 9th, Mothers'
Day, Boston's Jewish Community Day School will host a "SHOP ISRAEL" fair. In
the
words of the organizers: "The three years-plus since the Intifada began
eroding the customer base for Israeli businesses have been especially hard
times
for those geared to tourists - their numbers have dipped by nearly half. So,
organizers, reasoned, why not bring Israel to Boston?" Chair Julie Altman,
now working on her fifth Shop Israel: "These events are important for the
Israelis to be able to stay afloat in these very difficult times." Hamutal
Gavish,
head of the Jewish Community Day School : "Shop Israel brings the flavor of
life in Israel to us and hosting it provides our students and their families
another opportunity to experience her vibrancy and diversity."

The racist nature of such statements becomes clear when one considers that
the "vibrancy and diversity" of life in Israel by definition excludes the
indigenous
people of Palestine. Given the escalation in attacks on the indigenous
population of Palestine over the past three years, including Israel's
bulldozing
of houses, attacking of ambulances, targeted assassination of resistance
leaders, theft of agricultural land, shooting of children, and an apartheid
policy
enforced by a system of checkpoints, bypass roads, and the Apartheid Wall,
"bringing the flavor of life in Israel" to a children's school is positively
chilling.

At this event, the New England Committee to Defend Palestine will provide
education regarding

*the racist nature of Israel and its system of apartheid

*our support for a single democratic Palestine on all the
historic land of Palestine

*the right of Palestinians to resist ethnic cleansing and
occupation of all their land

*$5 billion plus in American tax money given to Israel each
year - a third of our foreign aid given to .001% of the world's
population
- which provides Israel with the hardware for the ethnic cleansing of
indigenous Palestinians through the destruction of Palestinian society and
land and
the killing and injury of Palestinian people

*the importance of isolating Israel economically by measures
including the boycotting of American companies which prop up the Israeli
economy,
local and national divestment campaigns, and economic sanctions against a
state that practices apartheid and ethnic cleansing

We invite you to join us and /or to contribute information about US aid to
Israel, divestment and boycott campaigns, and information about Israeli
products
used for violation of human rights.

New England Committee to Defend Palestine
www.onepalestine.org

Location:
Boston's Jewish Community Day School, 57 Stanley Ave. Watertown MA

Organizer:

URL: http://www.onepalestine.org

STOP ISRAEL! *NOTE NEW LOCATION!*

***Please forward widely***
**NOTE NEW LOCATION**

STOP ISRAEL !

The New England Committee to Defend Palestine invites you to
participate in an educational divestment event:

STOP ISRAEL !
May 9th, 11:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m., Watertown Square
Intersection of Mt. Auburn St. and Main St.
Watertown, MA
(take the 71 bus from Harvard Square)

Boston supporters of Israel are organizing a series of events over
the next several weeks to honor Israel and celebrate its creation.
The creation of the state of Israel was brought about through an
intensive program of ethnic cleansing by the Zionist movement to
reduce a Palestinian majority to a minority. Most Palestinians were
expelled from their homes, nearly 500 villages were destroyed while
massacres and rapes took place. Since then, a system of state
sanctioned violence, apartheid, collective punishment, and targeted
assassination of resistance activists has been used against the
indigenous population to expand the borders of the illegitimate
ultra-nationalist apartheid state of Israel.

This year's festivities in Boston demonstrate a shift to local
activities focused on families and children, apparently in an effort
to neutralize protests of war crimes, colonialism, and ethnic
cleansing. On May 9th, Mothers' Day, Jewish Community Day School
will host a "SHOP ISRAEL" fair in Watertown. In the words of the
organizers: "The three years-plus since the Intifada began eroding
the customer base for Israeli businesses have been especially hard
times for those geared to tourists - their numbers have dipped by
nearly half. So, organizers, reasoned, why not bring Israel to
Boston?" Chair Julie Altman, now working on her fifth Shop Israel:
"These events are important for the Israelis to be able to stay
afloat in these very difficult times." Hamutal Gavish, head of the
Jewish Community Day School : "Shop Israel brings the flavor of life
in Israel to us and hosting it provides our students and their
families another opportunity to experience her vibrancy and
diversity."

The racist nature of such statements becomes clear when one
considers that the "vibrancy and diversity" of life in Israel by
definition excludes the indigenous people of Palestine. Given the
escalation in attacks on the indigenous population of Palestine over
the past three years, including Israel's bulldozing of houses,
attacking of ambulances, targeted assassination of resistance
leaders, theft of agricultural land, shooting of children, and an
apartheid policy enforced by a system of checkpoints, bypass roads,
and the Apartheid Wall, "bringing the flavor of life in Israel" to a
children's school is positively chilling.

While Israel-supporters hold their "Shop Israel" fair in a remote
corner of Watertown, the New England Committee to Defend Palestine
will be holding a STOP ISRAEL! event in the central intersection of
Watertown Square. We will provide education regarding

*the racist nature of Israel and its system of
apartheid

*our support for a single democratic Palestine on
all the historic land of Palestine

*the right of Palestinians to resist ethnic
cleansing and occupation of all their land

*$5 billion plus in American tax money given to
Israel each year - a third of our foreign aid given to .001% of the
world's population - which provides Israel with the hardware for the
ethnic cleansing of indigenous Palestinians through the destruction
of Palestinian society and land and the killing and injury of
Palestinian people

*the importance of isolating Israel economically by
measures including the boycotting of American companies which prop
up the Israeli economy, local and national divestment campaigns, and
economic sanctions against a state that practices apartheid and
ethnic cleansing

We invite you to join us and /or to contribute information about US
aid to Israel, divestment and boycott campaigns, and information
about Israeli products used for violation of human rights.

New England Committee to Defend Palestine
www.onepalestine.org
necdp-AT-onepalestine.org

Location:
Watertown Square, intersection of Mount Auburn and Main St.

Directions: Take 71 bus from Harvard Square to Watertown Square

Organizer:

URL: http://www.onepalestine.org

CAFTA- The Trojan Calf

**Please forward**

Dear friends,

Never thought international trade laws would make you laugh? Check this out:
www.quixote.org/calf

It's a biting, two-minute movie called "CAFTA -- The Trojan Calf." Its
message -- that the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) has been
presented to Central America as a gift, but like the Trojan Horse, it's
really a vehicle for American corporations to secretly invade new markets.
It's an important story that will keep you smiling, and hopefully inspire
you to action. (Make sure you watch for the kicker at the end!)

After watching the movie you can join with thousands of others in
rejecting CAFTA by signing a full-page ad to appear in the NY Times the
first of June. Congress may vote on the agreement as early as July.

We hope you like the movie, and we encourage you to pass it along to your
family and friends.

www.quixote.org/calf

Enjoy the show!
The Quest for Peace Staff

Need Flash Player - get it free
at:www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi

Location:
online

Cost: 35/individual donation (recommended)

Directions: Because it is such a broad issue, free trade is a difficult topic to convey to the public. In it's struggle to oppose CAFTA- the Central American Free Trade Agreement, Quest for Peace has created a short flash film which it hopes will highlight some of those problems found in free trade agreements.

Organizer:

URL: http://www.quixote.org/cafta

CAFTA- The Trojan Calf

**Please forward**

Dear friends,

Never thought international trade laws would make you laugh? Check this out:
www.quixote.org/calf

It's a biting, two-minute movie called "CAFTA -- The Trojan Calf." Its
message -- that the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) has been
presented to Central America as a gift, but like the Trojan Horse, it's
really a vehicle for American corporations to secretly invade new markets.
It's an important story that will keep you smiling, and hopefully inspire
you to action. (Make sure you watch for the kicker at the end!)

After watching the movie you can join with thousands of others in
rejecting CAFTA by signing a full-page ad to appear in the NY Times the
first of June. Congress may vote on the agreement as early as July.

We hope you like the movie, and we encourage you to pass it along to your
family and friends.

www.quixote.org/calf

Enjoy the show!
The Quest for Peace Staff

Need Flash Player - get it free
at:www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi

Location:
online

Cost: 35/individual donation (recommended)

Directions: Because it is such a broad issue, free trade is a difficult topic to convey to the public. In it's struggle to oppose CAFTA- the Central American Free Trade Agreement, Quest for Peace has created a short flash film which it hopes will highlight some of those problems found in free trade agreements.

Organizer:

URL: http://www.quixote.org/cafta

CAFTA- The Trojan Calf

**Please forward**

Dear friends,

Never thought international trade laws would make you laugh? Check this out:
www.quixote.org/calf

It's a biting, two-minute movie called "CAFTA -- The Trojan Calf." Its
message -- that the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) has been
presented to Central America as a gift, but like the Trojan Horse, it's
really a vehicle for American corporations to secretly invade new markets.
It's an important story that will keep you smiling, and hopefully inspire
you to action. (Make sure you watch for the kicker at the end!)

After watching the movie you can join with thousands of others in
rejecting CAFTA by signing a full-page ad to appear in the NY Times the
first of June. Congress may vote on the agreement as early as July.

We hope you like the movie, and we encourage you to pass it along to your
family and friends.

www.quixote.org/calf

Enjoy the show!
The Quest for Peace Staff

Need Flash Player - get it free
at:www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi

Location:
online

Cost: 35/individual donation (recommended)

Directions: Because it is such a broad issue, free trade is a difficult topic to convey to the public. In it's struggle to oppose CAFTA- the Central American Free Trade Agreement, Quest for Peace has created a short flash film which it hopes will highlight some of those problems found in free trade agreements.

Organizer:

URL: http://www.quixote.org/cafta

Protesting Colorado's largest Zionist demonstration raising funds for settler militias

Protest the "Walk for Israel" fundraiser, raising money for Israeli paramilitary forces in the Occupied Palestinian Territories!

May 9 (Sunday), 2004, 6825 East Alameda, 2:30 PM

On May 9, 2004 the Allied Jewish Federation of Colorado (AJC) and Rose Medical Center is sponsoring the Third Annual 5K Walk for Israel. These walks for Israel have become a major fundraising method for the United Jewish Communities (UJC) around the United States. In this instance, the Allied Jewish Federation of Colorado is raising money for its "Israel/Global Fund", which in turn is used to contribute to the UJC's "Israel Emergency Campaign" which buys military equipment for the Israeli "Civil Guard".

The AJC's Israel/Global Fund contributes its funds directly to the UCJ's "Israel Emergency Campaign" which in turn contributes these monies to various Israel-related causes including Hasbara (focused Israeli propaganda, "advocating effectively with non-Jewish influentials, working with the media," and "responding to the growing sophistication of anti-Israel advocacy groups"). However, more disturbing by far is the "Israel Emergency Campaign's" financing for military equipment for the Israeli "Civil Guards".

The Israeli "Civil Guard" - Mishmar HaEzrachi - was formed in 1974 and constitutes an integral part of the Israeli National Police under the current command of Major-General Esther Dominicini. Composed of some fifty to sixty thousand volunteers each year (Israeli citizens and foreign persons eligible for immigration under Israel's "Law of Return"), inside Israel the "Civil Guard" serves as a relatively benign police auxiliary, even including Palestinians in Israel's mixed cities. Their duties include traffic monitoring, observation of suspicious activity, and serving as extra manpower for the police. This is the image of the "Civil Guard" that is portrayed to American audiences.

However, with the expansion of the Israeli "Civil Guard" into the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPTs) in 1992/1993 (first announced February 13, 1992, although implementation was postponed until 1993), the relatively benign nature of the "Civil Guard" was immediately perverted into another act of occupation. The "Civil Guard" units that were established in most of the major settlements in the OPTs were granted a series of special powers generally not allowed to members of the "Civil Guard" inside Israel. These new powers included the right to stop, question, and detain Palestinians at will (see: UN Commission for Human Rights E/CN.4/1994/96 of 31 January 1994).

In that the "Civil Guard" reflects the population of the local community, the expansion of the "Civil Guard" into the OPTs was strongly opposed by the Israeli National Police because they recognized that granting militarist settlers the legitimacy of the INP would call into question the legitimacy of the "Civil Guard" program altogether. To quote Jeffrey Boutwell's "Weaponization of the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process":

The inability or unwillingness of successive Israeli governments to constrain the more militant settlers in the territories continues to be a grave concern for the future of the peace process. In June 1998, the Likud government of Benjamin Netanyahu took the unprecedented step of approving the creation of settler civil guard units in Ma’ale Adumim, Ariel, and other large West Bank settlements, a move long opposed by previous governments, Israeli military commanders, and police officials. As criticized by Knesset member Dedi Zucker at the time, such units could evolve into “armed militias of extremist settlers serving as a private army of the Yesha (Jewish settler) Council.”14 This has indeed happened at times, with armed settlers operating independently of, or even in direct opposition to, army and police authority in the territories. Despite the prohibitions on militant organizations like Kach and Kahane Chai, supporters of the late Rabbi Meir Kahane have formed new groups such as the Committee for Safety of the Roads, that act as little more than vigilantes in mounting armed patrols on the roads and byways of the West Bank.

Further documented in the Foundation for Middle East Peace report Israel's Policy of Arming Israeli Settlers Endangers Palestinians in the Territories, as well as the admission of "Civil Guard" affiliations by extremist settler militias, such as the "Jewish Legion", the Israeli "Civil Guard" must be viewed as, at least in part, as a front group for radical Right-wing settlers. As noted in the Foundation for Middle East Peace report Israel's Policy of Arming Israeli Settlers Endangers Palestinians in the Territories, radical Right-wing settlers - even including ones previously convicted of various crimes against Palestinians (a rare enough event in of itself) - have been fully integrated into the "regional defense units" in the OPTs, which on a community level primarily comprise the "Civil Guard".

It is for this "Civil Guard" that a portion of the funds from the AJC's "Walk for Israel" are being raised. According to the ACJ's description of its "Israel/Global Fund" (the beneficiary of the walk), these funds are used for:

UJC Israel Emergency menu (bullet proof vehicles, vests, ...)


PLEASE JOIN WITH US ON MAY 9 TO SHOW THAT THERE ARE TWO-SIDES TO THE ISRAELI/PALESTINIAN EQUATION (THE "WALK FOR ISRAEL" ALWAYS RECEIVES GOOD LOCAL MEDIA COVERAGE) AND TO PROTEST AGAINST THE ALLIED JEWISH FEDERATION'S DECISION TO OPENLY RAISE MONEY FOR THE PUCHASING OF MILITARY EQUIPMENT FOR THE "CIVIL GUARD" AND OTHER PARAMILITARY ORGANIZATIONS OPERATING IN THE OCCUPIED PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES!

For more on the above, see:palestineday.eccmei.net/calendar/050904.html

Location:
May 9 (Sunday), 2004, 6825 East Alameda, 2:30 PM

Cost: None

Organizer:

URL: http://palestineday.eccmei.net/calendar/050904.html

CIUTAT,URBANISME I ESPECULACIÓ - cinema i debat

CIUTAT,URBANISME I ESPECULACIÓ
cinema i debat
5ª sessió: 9-5-04, 19h
metropolis-megalopolis

Edward W. Soja, Kenneth Thompson
Los Angeles: city of the future? / Los Angeles: la ciutat del futur? (GB 1992/49min).

Ridley Scott
Blade Runner (USA 1982/114min). Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Edward James Olmos, M. Emmet Walsh, Daryl Hannah.

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

Cost: gratis

Organizer:

URL: http://www.coordinadoraraval.org

Cinema (per la) Kanalla

Passi de la peli: Barrio

Location:
CSOA Can Vies
Jocs Florals 42
pç sants /mercat nou

Organizer:

EL EFECTO IGUAZU al KOP-Alta Tensió (Prat)

20:30 Filmoteca

EL EFECTO IGUAZU

Documental realitzat durant el transcurs de la lluita dels treballadors de Sintel. Premiat al Goya 2003 com a millor documental.

Location:
KOP-Alta Tensió
c/Dr. Soler i Torrents núm. 36
El Prat de LLobregat.
Al costat estació tren. Busos 65-165 i L10

Cost: Gratis

Organizer:

Por un festival internacional de las luchas sociales en Canes

Contra la destrucción sistemática de los derechos sociales. Contra el paro y la miseria. Por una cultura viva y no de mercado.
Colectivos, organizaciones sindicales y asociativas, están creando un comité de ocupación del Festival y poniendo en marcha una infraestructura de acogida en el lgar. Hay previsto momentos fuertes en el calendario de acciones:
Miercoles 12/5: Ceremonia de inauguración del Festival
Viernes 14/5: Rueda de prensa de la Coordinadora Nacional de los "intermitentes" y Precaruis de Francia, la Federación del Espectáculo CGT, y personalidades i miembros del Comité de Seguimiento dee la Asamblea Nacional de Francia
Sabado 15/5:Manifestación de los trabajadorres del espectáculo y del audiovisual, en respuesta a la llamada hecha por los sindicatos y coordinadoras en lucha contra la destrucción del régimen específico del seguro de desempleo.
Domingo 16/5:Runión-Cumbre de los más grandes estudios cinematográficos mundiales-Americanos,Hindúes,Chinos y Europeos-para discutir sobre la lucha contra la piratería.
Martes 18/5:Iª reunión de los 25 Ministros de cultura de la UE para discutir sobre la "Excepción Cultural"

Del 20 al 22 de Mayo:el colectivo "K.O.à Cannes hace un llamamiento a la unidad inerprofesional:Debates, coloquios, proyecciones acciones y manifestaciones, guerrilla pacífica y reivindicativa Interprofesional.

Primeras firmas: Convergence 06-CROAC Montpellier- AC! 13- CNT_espectacle-Union régionale de la fédération spectacle CGT-Sud_culture-Sud_éducation-Fédération anrchiste Marseille-MADS (mouvement altermondialiste de désobéissance sociale)-CIPM (collectif dees intermittents et précaires de MArseille)-CIP_IdF-Ras l'front Marseille-Résister!-Ligue des droit de l'homme Marseille Nord_Sud- Solidaires 13- Solidaires 34

Location:

UFESTUEK, 8 an EZ 9an, barkatu

.

Location:
.

URL: http://www.ufestuek.tk

UFESTUEK, Saran

UFESTUEK Sarako plazan, herri urratsen bezperan eginen den kontzertuan parte hartuko dute

Location:
SARA, herriko plaza

URL: http://www.ufestuek.tk

FOSS Cafe

FOSS Cafe is an informal introduction introduction to Free Open Source Software (FOSS) and some of the wider issues surrounding it. Presented as part of the MACHINISTA festival, it will feature talks by James Wallbank (Lowtech, UK) discussing Lowtech's work promoting free software for artists and local communities and the recycling of old computers, Bob Kerr (Edinburgh Linux Users Group, UK) discussing his initiative to bring free software into Scotland's public libraries and its relevance to non-profit organisations, and Lawrence Liang (Alternative Law Forum, India) talking about free software in India and its relationship to issues of piracy, copyright and globalisation. Members of Linux groups from across Scotland are invited to attend as well as artists and visitors to the MACHINISTA festival.

FOSS Cafe is a semi-social introduction to FOSS where people who are interested but new to the topic can meet with more experienced people. The discussions will be introduced and chaired by Simon Yuill, a Glasgow-based artist and programmer who works with FOSS technologies.


Speakers:

Lawrence Liang
www.altlawforum.org/

Lawrence Liang is a researcher with the Alternative Law Forum, Bangalore, where he coordinates the research project on "IP and the Knowledge/ Culture Commons". His area of work is on non legal media practises, popular culture and law. He is working on a long-term research project for ALF on Intellectual Property and the Public Domain. The project is funded by a SARAI research grant. He is also associated with the Centre for Study of Culture and Society (CSCS) on a year long seminar course on Law and Culture. He is currently doing a research residency at the Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam.



Bob Kerr
www.edlug.ed.ac.uk/

Bob Kerr is a member of the Edinburgh Linux Group. He recently introduced the distribution of the free software "OpenOffice" throughout the Scottish Library system.

www.theregister.co.uk/2003/12/18/openoffice_cds_live_for_lending/

www.newsforge.com/software/03/12/14/1545216.shtml



James Wallbank
www.lowtech.org

James Wallbank is the director of Lowtech, an organisation set up by arts group Redundant Technology Initiative in 1997. Based in Sheffield, UK, Lowtech is an attempt to find a new, more positive way to engage with the ever changing and potentially divisive world of information communication technology. As such, Lowtech is a leading advocate of universal access to low or no-cost information technology, working with zero-cost technology rescued from the trash, and free, open-source software that costs absolutely nothing. Their Access Space is the first public access internet laboratory to be run entirely with free software. Lowtech believe that free technology is something which everyone can get involved with.

Location:
MONO Cafe, 12 Kings Court, King Street, Glasgow

Cost: FREE

Organizer:

URL: http://www.yourmachines.org

他と自を非暴力でつなぐ「やさしくコミュニケートする」手法

他と自を非暴力でつなぐ「やさしくコミュニケートする」手法
How to Connect Compassionately with Myself and Others

Date: 2004年5月9日
Time: 10：00　-　17：00　
Place: 京都市国際交流会館　
京都市左京区粟田口鳥居町2番地の1　(京都市美術館近く)
蹴上（けあげ）駅から、歩いて５分
京都駅から５番のバスに乗り（２５分）、｢京都会館美術館前｣で下車、東に徒歩１０分
受講費：個人の支払能力に応じて\3,500-7,000
（どなたであれ金銭的理由で受講できないことはありません）

＊ワークショップは通訳付です。どなたも気軽にご参加ください。

「やさしくコミュニケートする」（Compassionate Communications あるいは非暴力的なコミュニケーションーＮＶＣ）手法を学ぶことで、次のことが可能になるでしょう。

-自分の持つ感情や必要性を正直に表現すること
-相手の視点を尊重しながら聞くこと
-抵抗よりも協調性を育むこと
-家庭や、職場での厄介な争いを解決すること
-安全や相互理解、そして同意の上に立った解決を導くこと　


｢やさしくコミュニケートする｣（ＮＶＣ）手法は、個人的、職業的、さらには政治的レベルにおいても、争いを平和的に解決できる非常に有効な手段として実証されてきています。

Rita Herzogリタ・ハーゾック（教育学部修士号）は、ＮＶＣを18年間にわたって研究し、教え続けています。　非暴力コミュニケーションセンター（Center for Nonviolent Communication：1個人、1家族、1組織それぞれにおいて平和な社会を創り出そうという使命のために、Marshall B. Rosenberg教授が設立した国際団体）の公認トレーナーでもあります。　NVCの概念、関連記事、そしてトレーニングやトレーナーなどの情報については、以下のウェブサイトをご覧ください。　

Location:
京都市国際交流会館　

Cost: 個人の支払能力に応じて\3,500-7,000

Organizer:

URL: http://www.cnvc.org/

NONVIOLENT COMMUNICATION: Kyoto workshop

With Nonviolent Communication skills you can learn to:
-Honestly express your feelings and needs
-Listen with respect to other's point of view
-Inspire cooperation rather than resistance
-Resolve troubling conflicts at home and work
-Create solutions based on safety, mutual respect, and consensus
NONVIOLENT COMMUNICATION:
How to Connect Compassionately with Myself and Others

With Nonviolent Communication skills you can learn to:
-Honestly express your feelings and needs
-Listen with respect to other's point of view
-Inspire cooperation rather than resistance
-Resolve troubling conflicts at home and work
-Create solutions based on safety, mutual respect, and consensus

Nonviolent Communication skills have proven to be a powerful tool for
peacefully resolving differences at personal, professional, and
political levels.


Fee requested: ・･3500~6000, based on ability to pay
(Please note: No one will be turned away for lack of funds)

Rita Herzog, M Ed, has been studying and teaching Nonviolent
Communication for 18 years. She is a certifed trainer for the Center for
Nonviolent Communication, an international organization, founded by
Marshall B. Rosenberg, PhD, whose mission is to create peace in the
world, one individual, one family, and one organization at a time.

Location:
Kyoto International Community House

Cost: 3500~6000, based on ability to pay

Directions: Kyoto International Community House, 2-1 Torii-cho,
Awataguchi, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 608-8536
City Bus #5 from Kyoto Station to Kyoto Kaikan Bijutsukan Mae
stop, walk 10 minutes or Tozai subway line, Keage Station, walk 6 minutes
map: www.kcif.or.jp/en/footer/05.html

Organizer:

CAFTA- The Trojan Calf

**Please forward**

Dear friends,

Never thought international trade laws would make you laugh? Check this out:
www.quixote.org/calf

It's a biting, two-minute movie called "CAFTA -- The Trojan Calf." Its
message -- that the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) has been
presented to Central America as a gift, but like the Trojan Horse, it's
really a vehicle for American corporations to secretly invade new markets.
It's an important story that will keep you smiling, and hopefully inspire
you to action. (Make sure you watch for the kicker at the end!)

After watching the movie you can join with thousands of others in
rejecting CAFTA by signing a full-page ad to appear in the NY Times the
first of June. Congress may vote on the agreement as early as July.

We hope you like the movie, and we encourage you to pass it along to your
family and friends.

www.quixote.org/calf

Enjoy the show!
The Quest for Peace Staff

Need Flash Player - get it free
at:www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi

Location:
online

Cost: 35/individual donation (recommended)

Directions: Because it is such a broad issue, free trade is a difficult topic to convey to the public. In it's struggle to oppose CAFTA- the Central American Free Trade Agreement, Quest for Peace has created a short flash film which it hopes will highlight some of those problems found in free trade agreements.

Organizer:

URL: http://www.quixote.org/cafta

Greens of KC Organizing Meeting

Come to our regular organizational meeting. We will plan forums, outreach, other events and fundraisers. The Greens of KC strive to promote social justice, grassroots democracy, nonviolence and ecology in all that we do. Come join us!

Location:
Viet Nam restaurant, 39th and Rainbow. See greensofkc.org to verify location (which sometimes changes due to events beyond our control).

Cost: FREE

Organizer:

URL: http://www.greensofkc.org

CAFTA- The Trojan Calf

**Please forward**

Dear friends,

Never thought international trade laws would make you laugh? Check this out:
www.quixote.org/calf

It's a biting, two-minute movie called "CAFTA -- The Trojan Calf." Its
message -- that the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) has been
presented to Central America as a gift, but like the Trojan Horse, it's
really a vehicle for American corporations to secretly invade new markets.
It's an important story that will keep you smiling, and hopefully inspire
you to action. (Make sure you watch for the kicker at the end!)

After watching the movie you can join with thousands of others in
rejecting CAFTA by signing a full-page ad to appear in the NY Times the
first of June. Congress may vote on the agreement as early as July.

We hope you like the movie, and we encourage you to pass it along to your
family and friends.

www.quixote.org/calf

Enjoy the show!
The Quest for Peace Staff

Need Flash Player - get it free
at:www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi

Location:
online

Cost: 35/individual donation (recommended)

Directions: Because it is such a broad issue, free trade is a difficult topic to convey to the public. In it's struggle to oppose CAFTA- the Central American Free Trade Agreement, Quest for Peace has created a short flash film which it hopes will highlight some of those problems found in free trade agreements.

Organizer:

URL: http://www.quixote.org/cafta

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/

CAFTA- The Trojan Calf

**Please forward**

Dear friends,

Never thought international trade laws would make you laugh? Check this out:
www.quixote.org/calf

It's a biting, two-minute movie called "CAFTA -- The Trojan Calf." Its
message -- that the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) has been
presented to Central America as a gift, but like the Trojan Horse, it's
really a vehicle for American corporations to secretly invade new markets.
It's an important story that will keep you smiling, and hopefully inspire
you to action. (Make sure you watch for the kicker at the end!)

After watching the movie you can join with thousands of others in
rejecting CAFTA by signing a full-page ad to appear in the NY Times the
first of June. Congress may vote on the agreement as early as July.

We hope you like the movie, and we encourage you to pass it along to your
family and friends.

www.quixote.org/calf

Enjoy the show!
The Quest for Peace Staff

Need Flash Player - get it free
at:www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi

Location:
online

Cost: 35/individual donation (recommended)

Directions: Because it is such a broad issue, free trade is a difficult topic to convey to the public. In it's struggle to oppose CAFTA- the Central American Free Trade Agreement, Quest for Peace has created a short flash film which it hopes will highlight some of those problems found in free trade agreements.

Organizer:

URL: http://www.quixote.org/cafta

Who Will Stop CAFTA Contest

Quest for Peace of the Quixote Center will run a full-page, New York Times signature ad in opposition to CAFTA- the Central American Free Trade Agreement. The 44,000 dollars and 2,500 signatures it takes is being raised from engaged citizens like you, who wish to proudly and publicly say "No" to CAFTA. The state with the highest number of signers (as a percentage of the state's total population) will be specifically acknowledged in the New York Times Ad. Show the country and Mr. Bush that your state will not tolerate CAFTA! See ad text at our website: www.quixote.org/cafta.

Location:
www.quixote.org/cafta

Cost: $35/individual donation (recommended)

Organizer:

URL: http://www.quixote.org/cafta

CAFTA- The Trojan Calf

**Please forward**

Dear friends,

Never thought international trade laws would make you laugh? Check this out:
www.quixote.org/calf

It's a biting, two-minute movie called "CAFTA -- The Trojan Calf." Its
message -- that the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) has been
presented to Central America as a gift, but like the Trojan Horse, it's
really a vehicle for American corporations to secretly invade new markets.
It's an important story that will keep you smiling, and hopefully inspire
you to action. (Make sure you watch for the kicker at the end!)

After watching the movie you can join with thousands of others in
rejecting CAFTA by signing a full-page ad to appear in the NY Times the
first of June. Congress may vote on the agreement as early as July.

We hope you like the movie, and we encourage you to pass it along to your
family and friends.

www.quixote.org/calf

Enjoy the show!
The Quest for Peace Staff

Need Flash Player - get it free
at:www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi

Location:
online

Cost: 35/individual donation (recommended)

Directions: Because it is such a broad issue, free trade is a difficult topic to convey to the public. In it's struggle to oppose CAFTA- the Central American Free Trade Agreement, Quest for Peace has created a short flash film which it hopes will highlight some of those problems found in free trade agreements.

Organizer:

URL: http://www.quixote.org/cafta

CAFTA- The Trojan Calf

**Please forward**

Dear friends,

Never thought international trade laws would make you laugh? Check this out:
www.quixote.org/calf

It's a biting, two-minute movie called "CAFTA -- The Trojan Calf." Its
message -- that the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) has been
presented to Central America as a gift, but like the Trojan Horse, it's
really a vehicle for American corporations to secretly invade new markets.
It's an important story that will keep you smiling, and hopefully inspire
you to action. (Make sure you watch for the kicker at the end!)

After watching the movie you can join with thousands of others in
rejecting CAFTA by signing a full-page ad to appear in the NY Times the
first of June. Congress may vote on the agreement as early as July.

We hope you like the movie, and we encourage you to pass it along to your
family and friends.

www.quixote.org/calf

Enjoy the show!
The Quest for Peace Staff

Need Flash Player - get it free
at:www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi

Location:
online

Cost: 35/individual donation (recommended)

Directions: Because it is such a broad issue, free trade is a difficult topic to convey to the public. In it's struggle to oppose CAFTA- the Central American Free Trade Agreement, Quest for Peace has created a short flash film which it hopes will highlight some of those problems found in free trade agreements.

Organizer:

URL: http://www.quixote.org/cafta

Nonviolent Action Training Series

Nonviolent Action Training Series for activists and volunteers, led by Sharon Delgado and Barbara Hayes --

Session 1--Mondays 3:30 to 5 pm, March 1, 8, 15, 22, 29.

Session 2--Sundays 3:30 to 5 pm, April 25 and May 2, 16, 23, 30.

(Suggested donation for series--$5 to $25)

Location: Resource Center for Nonviolence

To find out more or to register call 423-1626 ext. 103

Location:
Resource Center for Nonviolence

Cost: (Suggested donation for series--$5 to $25)

Directions: Resource Center for Nonviolence
(515 Broadway at Ocean)

Organizer:

Stitch n' Bitch (knitting circle)

Knitting circle. All Skill levels encouraged!

Location:
134 Seaside
West Side of Santa Cruz
near Garfield Park

Cost: one million dollars

Directions: Seaside and Pendegast off Almar

Organizer:

URL: http://www.corporateswine.net

Mothers Day Candle Light Vigil for Peace

Celebrate Mother's Day with a Call for Peace!

The war in Iraq rages on - the war in Afghanistan is yet ongoing - the devastation in Israel and Palestine continues - and on all sides, the people want Peace!

Come together on the evening of Sunday, May 9th, at the Town Clock/Collateral Damage Sculpture in Santa Cruz for a Candlelight Vigil for Peace

Gather at 7PM and light candles together as the sun sets - share some silence, some prayers, some poems, and some songs

As we feel the mothering presence in each of us, male and female alike, may we call on gentleness, on love, on nurturance, and on forgiveness to fill this world now and for seven generations to come.

Bring candles, friends, children, and hope for a world of Peace!
Bring an instrument and a song or a poem if you would like!

for all the Children, and all the Families, the Whole World over!

sponsored by
Veterans for Peace (VFP)
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF)
the Coalition for Impeachment Now! (COIN!)
and others

Location:
Town Clock/Collateral Damage Sculpture - Santa Cruz

Directions: corner of Water and Mission Streets, just opposite main post office in downtown Santa Cruz

Organizer:

FAIR & BALANCED

FAIR & BALANCED
Comedy news satire from an unapologetic, anti-corporate, anti-fascist, good-old-fashioned leftist perspective.

And... it's actually very funny.

Location:
CHANNEL 27
Community Television of Santa Cruz County

CAFTA- The Trojan Calf

**Please forward**

Dear friends,

Never thought international trade laws would make you laugh? Check this out:
www.quixote.org/calf

It's a biting, two-minute movie called "CAFTA -- The Trojan Calf." Its
message -- that the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) has been
presented to Central America as a gift, but like the Trojan Horse, it's
really a vehicle for American corporations to secretly invade new markets.
It's an important story that will keep you smiling, and hopefully inspire
you to action. (Make sure you watch for the kicker at the end!)

After watching the movie you can join with thousands of others in
rejecting CAFTA by signing a full-page ad to appear in the NY Times the
first of June. Congress may vote on the agreement as early as July.

We hope you like the movie, and we encourage you to pass it along to your
family and friends.

www.quixote.org/calf

Enjoy the show!
The Quest for Peace Staff

Need Flash Player - get it free
at:www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi

Location:
online

Cost: 35/individual donation (recommended)

Directions: Because it is such a broad issue, free trade is a difficult topic to convey to the public. In it's struggle to oppose CAFTA- the Central American Free Trade Agreement, Quest for Peace has created a short flash film which it hopes will highlight some of those problems found in free trade agreements.

Organizer:

URL: http://www.quixote.org/cafta

Nashville Food Not Bombs at Legislative Plaza

Every Sunday, Food Not Bombs shares free vegetarian food with Nashville's hungry and homeless. All are welcome to attend. Feel free to bring food you have cooked or just come eat with us. Clean-up volunteers are especially welcome!

Location:
Legislative Plaza in downtown Nashville (between Charlotte and Union along 6th Ave. N.)

Cost: Free!

Organizer:

Mother's Day Circle: Radical Stories, Radical Lives

For all mother's, daughters, activists, and children:

Join us for two hours of storytelling and community as we gather together and share some wisdom.

Kids are very, very welcome. We'll be interspersing original storytelling with some brilliant new children's books and time for group movement.

Location:
Nashville Friends Meetinghouse, 26th Ave N. and Talbott

CAFTA- The Trojan Calf

**Please forward**

Dear friends,

Never thought international trade laws would make you laugh? Check this out:
www.quixote.org/calf

It's a biting, two-minute movie called "CAFTA -- The Trojan Calf." Its
message -- that the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) has been
presented to Central America as a gift, but like the Trojan Horse, it's
really a vehicle for American corporations to secretly invade new markets.
It's an important story that will keep you smiling, and hopefully inspire
you to action. (Make sure you watch for the kicker at the end!)

After watching the movie you can join with thousands of others in
rejecting CAFTA by signing a full-page ad to appear in the NY Times the
first of June. Congress may vote on the agreement as early as July.

We hope you like the movie, and we encourage you to pass it along to your
family and friends.

www.quixote.org/calf

Enjoy the show!
The Quest for Peace Staff

Need Flash Player - get it free
at:www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi

Location:
online

Cost: 35/individual donation (recommended)

Directions: Because it is such a broad issue, free trade is a difficult topic to convey to the public. In it's struggle to oppose CAFTA- the Central American Free Trade Agreement, Quest for Peace has created a short flash film which it hopes will highlight some of those problems found in free trade agreements.

Organizer:

URL: http://www.quixote.org/cafta

CAFTA- The Trojan Calf

**Please forward**

Dear friends,

Never thought international trade laws would make you laugh? Check this out:
www.quixote.org/calf

It's a biting, two-minute movie called "CAFTA -- The Trojan Calf." Its
message -- that the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) has been
presented to Central America as a gift, but like the Trojan Horse, it's
really a vehicle for American corporations to secretly invade new markets.
It's an important story that will keep you smiling, and hopefully inspire
you to action. (Make sure you watch for the kicker at the end!)

After watching the movie you can join with thousands of others in
rejecting CAFTA by signing a full-page ad to appear in the NY Times the
first of June. Congress may vote on the agreement as early as July.

We hope you like the movie, and we encourage you to pass it along to your
family and friends.

www.quixote.org/calf

Enjoy the show!
The Quest for Peace Staff

Need Flash Player - get it free
at:www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi

Location:
online

Cost: 35/individual donation (recommended)

Directions: Because it is such a broad issue, free trade is a difficult topic to convey to the public. In it's struggle to oppose CAFTA- the Central American Free Trade Agreement, Quest for Peace has created a short flash film which it hopes will highlight some of those problems found in free trade agreements.

Organizer:

URL: http://www.quixote.org/cafta

CAFTA- The Trojan Calf

**Please forward**

Dear friends,

Never thought international trade laws would make you laugh? Check this out:
www.quixote.org/calf

It's a biting, two-minute movie called "CAFTA -- The Trojan Calf." Its
message -- that the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) has been
presented to Central America as a gift, but like the Trojan Horse, it's
really a vehicle for American corporations to secretly invade new markets.
It's an important story that will keep you smiling, and hopefully inspire
you to action. (Make sure you watch for the kicker at the end!)

After watching the movie you can join with thousands of others in
rejecting CAFTA by signing a full-page ad to appear in the NY Times the
first of June. Congress may vote on the agreement as early as July.

We hope you like the movie, and we encourage you to pass it along to your
family and friends.

www.quixote.org/calf

Enjoy the show!
The Quest for Peace Staff

Need Flash Player - get it free
at:www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi

Location:
online

Cost: 35/individual donation (recommended)

Directions: Because it is such a broad issue, free trade is a difficult topic to convey to the public. In it's struggle to oppose CAFTA- the Central American Free Trade Agreement, Quest for Peace has created a short flash film which it hopes will highlight some of those problems found in free trade agreements.

Organizer:

URL: http://www.quixote.org/cafta

STOP ISRAEL! *NOTE NEW LOCATION!*

***Please forward widely***
**NOTE NEW LOCATION**

STOP ISRAEL !

The New England Committee to Defend Palestine invites you to
participate in an educational divestment event:

STOP ISRAEL !
May 9th, 11:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m., Watertown Square
Intersection of Mt. Auburn St. and Main St.
Watertown, MA
(take the 71 bus from Harvard Square)

Boston supporters of Israel are organizing a series of events over
the next several weeks to honor Israel and celebrate its creation.
The creation of the state of Israel was brought about through an
intensive program of ethnic cleansing by the Zionist movement to
reduce a Palestinian majority to a minority. Most Palestinians were
expelled from their homes, nearly 500 villages were destroyed while
massacres and rapes took place. Since then, a system of state
sanctioned violence, apartheid, collective punishment, and targeted
assassination of resistance activists has been used against the
indigenous population to expand the borders of the illegitimate
ultra-nationalist apartheid state of Israel.

This year's festivities in Boston demonstrate a shift to local
activities focused on families and children, apparently in an effort
to neutralize protests of war crimes, colonialism, and ethnic
cleansing. On May 9th, Mothers' Day, Jewish Community Day School
will host a "SHOP ISRAEL" fair in Watertown. In the words of the
organizers: "The three years-plus since the Intifada began eroding
the customer base for Israeli businesses have been especially hard
times for those geared to tourists - their numbers have dipped by
nearly half. So, organizers, reasoned, why not bring Israel to
Boston?" Chair Julie Altman, now working on her fifth Shop Israel:
"These events are important for the Israelis to be able to stay
afloat in these very difficult times." Hamutal Gavish, head of the
Jewish Community Day School : "Shop Israel brings the flavor of life
in Israel to us and hosting it provides our students and their
families another opportunity to experience her vibrancy and
diversity."

The racist nature of such statements becomes clear when one
considers that the "vibrancy and diversity" of life in Israel by
definition excludes the indigenous people of Palestine. Given the
escalation in attacks on the indigenous population of Palestine over
the past three years, including Israel's bulldozing of houses,
attacking of ambulances, targeted assassination of resistance
leaders, theft of agricultural land, shooting of children, and an
apartheid policy enforced by a system of checkpoints, bypass roads,
and the Apartheid Wall, "bringing the flavor of life in Israel" to a
children's school is positively chilling.

While Israel-supporters hold their "Shop Israel" fair in a remote
corner of Watertown, the New England Committee to Defend Palestine
will be holding a STOP ISRAEL! event in the central intersection of
Watertown Square. We will provide education regarding

*the racist nature of Israel and its system of
apartheid

*our support for a single democratic Palestine on
all the historic land of Palestine

*the right of Palestinians to resist ethnic
cleansing and occupation of all their land

*$5 billion plus in American tax money given to
Israel each year - a third of our foreign aid given to .001% of the
world's population - which provides Israel with the hardware for the
ethnic cleansing of indigenous Palestinians through the destruction
of Palestinian society and land and the killing and injury of
Palestinian people

*the importance of isolating Israel economically by
measures including the boycotting of American companies which prop
up the Israeli economy, local and national divestment campaigns, and
economic sanctions against a state that practices apartheid and
ethnic cleansing

We invite you to join us and /or to contribute information about US
aid to Israel, divestment and boycott campaigns, and information
about Israeli products used for violation of human rights.

New England Committee to Defend Palestine
www.onepalestine.org
necdp-AT-onepalestine.org

Location:
Watertown Square, Intersection of Mount Auburn and Main St.

Directions: Take 71 bus from Harvard Square to Watertown Square

Organizer:

URL: http://www.onepalestine.org

Pioneer Valley Vigil for Peace and Justice

The Sunday vigil was begun by local "Parents and Grandparents for Peace" on July 14, 1979, under the street-wide banner: "TOWARD GLOBAL NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT AND A VERIFIABLE US-USSR MORATORIUM ON NUCLEAR TESTING." The vigil has met every Sunday since, from 12 noon to 1 p.m., barring a couple of impossible blizzards. It has passed out thousands of leaflets on a great variety of issues under the slogan, "If You Want Peace, Work for Justice," and participants have varied from a dozen or so die-hard activists to fifty and more during the Gulf War.

Location:
Amherst Common

URL: http://www.nonviolence.org/amhvigil/

Northampton MOTHER’S DAY MARCH

Reclaim the day! Celebrate the courageous women who have said, “NO” to war. Women in all walks of life who have worked, and continue to work for peace and justice. Everyone is invited - men, women and children - to join us as we celebrate Mother’s day in the spirit of its founders.

Location:
Meet at 12:30 pm at the Bridge Street School, Route 9, Northampton.
Walk to Main Street for Vigil and Rally until 2 pm.

Organizer:

Wheels of Justice Workshop on Media Activism

The Wheels of Justice is a cross-country trek bringing eyewitness to war and occupation from Iraq and Palestine to communities all over the United States. They have traveled more than 18,000 miles and visited more than 19 states since July 2004. The current speakers on tour, Mazin Qumsiyeh and Mike Miles, have both recently returned from the occupied lands of Iraq and Palestine. Mazin is a Palestinian American and an Associate Professor of Genetics at Yale University. He is a cofounder and currently national treasurer ofAl-Awda, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition. He last visited with his family in the occupied West Bank in October 2003. Mike Miles, a Catholic Worker, has been to Iraq three times since 1997 and recently returned from Palestine.

Mazin will give a short workshop on Media Activism. Followed by a potluck.

Location:
Traprock Peace Center
103 Keets Rd
Deerfield, MA

Cost: Free

Directions: Routes 5 & 10 to Keets Rd. Go to Top of the hill and make a left after the Traprock sign.

Organizer:

URL: http://www.traprockpeace.org