David Swanson discussing and signing his new book "Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union."

Cookout With Cindy Sheehan
Charlottesville, VA
Saturday, July 18, 2009

Cindy Sheehan is deservedly the best known peace activist in the United States. Having lost her own son in Iraq, she has worked for the past five years to save others -- and she's not about to let up in her efforts to end our foreign wars and create justice around the world and here at home. More about Cindy here.

Please join Cindy for lunch at noon on Saturday, July, 18, 2009, rain or shine, at 707 Gillespie Ave, Charlottesville, VA, 22902. Cindy will talk about her new book, "Myth America."

The Problem of Punishment: Race, Inequality, and Justice. Keynote speaker: Angela Davis

The Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies at the University of Virginia will present a symposium, The Problem of Punishment: Race, Inequality, and Justice, on Thursday, April 16 and Friday, April 17.

Due largely to several important policy changes connected to the “War on Crime” and the “War on Drugs,” the prison population has climbed steeply since the 1970s, an escalation resulting in the following developments:

The State of the Justice System

• The United States is the world’s leader in incarceration and death row inmates, holding 25% of the world’s prison population but only 5% of the world’s people.
  

Jan Goodman and Ralph Fertig are inviting you to a book signing party with Ann Fagan Ginger and her report back on Chapman College of Law forum with/re John Yoo earlier that day.

The party will be on Saturday, April 18 @ 7:30 p.m. at the home of Ralph Fertig
927 Thayer Ave., Los Angeles (Westwood)
Call for directions: (310) 474-3815

Ann Fagan Ginger will talk about her two new books:

Undoing the Bush-Cheney Legacy: A Tool Kit for Congress and Activists

that Cong. Barbara Lee announced to all her colleagues.

• Ralph Nader says one of 12 best books of 2008
  

Title: Bay of Pigs Peace Event

Date: Sunday, April 19, 2009

Time: 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Location: Near the home of Senator Arlen Specter

Street: West Schoolhouse Lane (at Vaux Street) in East Falls

City State Zip: Philadelphia, PA 19129

Phone: 215-843-4256 and nwgreens@yahoo.com

Twenty-three peace groups (including Northwest Greens) will hold a Bay of Pigs Peace Event from 2:00 until 4:00 p.m. near Senator Arlen Specter's home on West Schoolhouse Lane (at Vaux Street) in East Falls. They want Specter to cut off funding for the U.S. occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan and to bring the troops home now.

On this date in 1961, the Cuban people defeated 1,400 private U.S. security contractors who had invaded Cuba's southern coast four days earlier at the Bay of Pigs.

The Boston area chapter of Antiwar League will meet on Thursday, April 9 at 7:00 pm.

Anyone interested in working on this prosecution campaign is welcome at the meeting. We will also hopefully be setting up additional committees to focus on Stopping the Spy Cameras and Bringing Home the National Guard.

Contact.

Weekend of Celebration of Immigrant Rights!

• Friday April 10: Immigrant Rights Community Action!
  Join with Good Friday Walk, Organized by: 8th Day Center for Justice
  12:00 PM - 3:00 PM at downtown Chicago - Map
  We'll Assemble at Financial Plaza (Clark & Jackson) around 12:30 PM for the Immigration part of the Walk

Richard Armitage | John Berry | Beth Brooke
Kurt Campbell | Richard Danzig | John Hamre
Max Stier | Robert M. Tobias | Paul Volcker
David Walker

Invite you to join Linda Bilmes and Scott Gould for a discussion and book signing to celebrate the release of their book

THE PEOPLE FACTOR
Strengthening America by Investing in Public Service

Thursday, April 2
5:00 – 7:00 p.m.

Please RSVP here.

Monday April 6 – “Celebrating Resistance”

An evening of Poetry, Music & Art with Emma's Revolution, Fuad Foty, Poets Against the War, & others.

Hosted by The Peace & Social Concerns Committee of the Washington Friends Meeting

Monday March 30 – “Gaza, Guantanamo, and My Journey”
An evening with Anne Wright, retired US Army Colonel and Retired US State Department official

co-sponsored by the GMU Chapter of Amnesty International