Minnesotans plan trip to Gaza for Gandhi-inspired march | Press Release

CODEPINK: Women for Peace and the Minnesota Gaza Freedom March Participants' Committee Present Occupation 101, a film by Sufyan Omeish and Abdallah Omeish

Date: Sunday, December 6, 2009, 4:00 pm

Location: Hennepin Methodist Church, 511 Groveland Ave., Minneapolis, MN 55403

Cost: suggested donation $10 at the door, no one turned away

Veterans for Peace | PRESS RELEASE

What: PRESS CONFERENCE and Action for Rape in the Military Awareness Week

When: 10:30am, Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Where: In front of the Armed Forces Recruiting Station, Times Square, Broadway and 42nd, New York City, NY

For further information call:

• Ann Wright, event coordinator, 808-741-1141;
• Michael McPherson, Executive Director of Veterans for Peace, 314-303-8874
• Mike Ferner, National President, Veterans for Peace, 419-360-3621
• Leah Bolger, National Vice-President of Veterans for Peace, 541-207-7761
• Sandy Kelson, National Rape Awareness week coordinator, 814-382-4887

Participants:

Institute for Policy Studies Invites you to the

33rd Annual Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Awards

Thursday, October 15, 2009

National Press Club Ballroom, 13th Floor
529 14th Street NW, Washington, DC

5:30 PM: Reception and Light Fare
7:00 PM: Human Rights Program

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RSVP & Reservations
Early Bird tickets: $40 through September 30th

Tonight: NYC Event on Afghan War Anniversary

ENDING OBAMA’S WAR: SOLIDARITY WITH THE PEOPLE OF AFGHANISTAN AND PAKISTAN

When: Wednesday, October 7, 2009 at 7:00pm
Where: Proshansky Auditorium, The Graduate Center, CUNY, 365 Fifth Ave at 34th Street [BDFV & NQRW trains to 34th St, 6 train to 33]

44,000 Uninsured Americans Die Annually While U.S. Spends $651 Billion on Military

Florida Mass March to End War Economy: Healthcare, Not Warfare

When: 12pm, Saturday, October 17th

Where: Main entrance to the University of Central Florida, Orlando (South East corner of Alafaya Blvd. & University Blvd).

ORLANDO – On Saturday, October 17, citizens from across Florida will participate in the “Florida Mass March to End the War Economy” in Orlando, Florida. The march is being held in solidarity with anti-war groups around the nation who are participating in a day of protest and action called for by the National Assembly Against the Occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan.

Please try to attend the next "Army - Don't Go to Iraqistan" rally to be held this coming Saturday, Oct. 10 at West Point to address people arriving for the Army-Vanderbilt football game. Directions.

We will gather at 10:30 a.m. in Highland Falls by the clock at the southern most tip of the public park at Main Street and West Point Highway, just south of West Point's Thayer Gate. The rally will end at noon, kickoff time.

Eleven of us attended the rally there this last Saturday, and we found the experience very worthwhile.

Please try to attend the next "Army - Don't Go to Iraqistan" rally to be held this coming Saturday, Oct. 10 at West Point to address people arriving for the Army-Vanderbilt football game. Directions.

We will gather at 10:30 a.m. in Highland Falls by the clock at the southern most tip of the public park at Main Street and West Point Highway, just south of West Point's Thayer Gate. The rally will end at noon, kickoff time.

Eleven of us attended the rally there this last Saturday, and we found the experience very worthwhile.

What do you really know about war? Hear from the people who have been there:

 

• Iraq
• Afghanistan
• GI Resistance
• Women in the Military
• Homeless Veterans
• Military Families

When: Sunday, Nov. 8th, 11:30 AM - 4:30 PM Where: Multi-Purpose Rm - Student Services Center

Keynote Address by Rep. Bob Filner (CA-51), Chairman of Veterans Affairs with highlights from Arlington West & Cross My Heart, by Peter Dudar & Sally Marr. Music by Kevin "Mac Mac" McCoy.

Featuring:

• Iraqi Oil Worker Union Leaders
• Pakistani Women, Youth & Labor leaders
• Scholars and Policy Experts on Afghanistan
• Antiwar Trade Unionists from Across the US
• Iraq & Afghan War Veterans

We are at a turning point in US History. In 2008 the labor movement had a moment of triumph, playing a critical role in electing Barack Obama and a majority Democratic Congress. In 2009 we find ourselves still in the middle of a devastating economic crisis with wars and militarism standing between working people and the peaceful just world we seek and deserve.

If, as Alice Walker reminds us in her new book, “hard times require furious dancing”, David Alan Harris knows the hard times and the furious dancing. For the young men and boys he encountered in Sierra Leone, he provided warmth and the container for fury, through a process called Dance/Movement Therapy.

Harris will share stories of the boys he worked with in a keynote address as a part of the University of Maryland’s Semester on Peace:

Atrocities, Resilience, and Healing:
Peace-Building Lessons from African Child Soldiers

Wednesday October 14, 2009
7-9 pm
Stamp Student Union, Colony Ballroom
University of Maryland, College Park

Join him as he inspires us all to dance with each other, and join us afterwards at the UMUC Marriott Inn and Conference Center to put all of our energy to music, in a celebration of resilience and healing!