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.

Bail Our Troops Out of Iraq & Afghanistan/Accountability NOW

WHAT: Veterans, Military Families and concerned citizens will deliver United States, Afghanistan and Iraqi flagged draped coffins and hold a memorial service outside Congressman Henry Waxman’s Los Angeles office.

WHY: As concerned citizens, we oppose military escalation in Afghanistan and support non-military solutions to the conflict. We are intent on disrupting the notion that a 'consensus' exists on the escalation in Afghanistan. We want our representatives to oppose this escalation by signing onto the bipartisan letter drafted by Rep. Walter Jones (NC-R). (See Letter Below)

Angry about the mess made by Wall St.?

Angry about economic injustice, war & racism?

Agree with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. that
EVERY WORKER HAS THE RIGHT TO A JOB OR INCOME?

Unite and do something about it! -
Commemorate Dr. King on the anniversary of his assassination
and support the national March on Wall St to Bail Out People, Not Banks!

In Los Angeles
Support Tent City Protest at Downtown Bank Plaza
333 S. Hope St. (enter at 4th Street)
Friday April 3rd, 4 - 7 PM

On Friday, April 3rd demonstrate at Bank Plaza in downtown L.A. to tell the banks and the government: Stop the Evictions and Foreclosures, Bail Out the People - Not the Banks!

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.

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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

The Newly Invigorated! Metro WDC Ad-hoc Trainers' Collective Facilitator Skill Share

Focus: Re-Invigorating our Network: FuN & GaMeS; NeW ToYs, UnTeStEd ExErCiSeS!

Bring your most interesting, most unusual, favorite, un-tried or
otherwise compelling 'thing' to share!

Come ready to participate and add to your toolbox of light& livelies,
openers, energizers, role plays, games, etc....

PLEASE! RSVP if you can to ryano@washingtonpeacecenter.net or
202-234-2000 at the Peace Center with approximate time needed for your skill-sharing!

This IS part of an ongoing series of Facilitator/trainers' skillshares, workshops for the public and trainings for trainers.

Feel free to pass this invitation on to other facilitators, workshop leaders and trainers from any discipline that would be interested
in engaged skillshares and building our collective resources.

TO ANNOUNCE: IMMIGRATION RIGHTS MARCH AGAINST THE RAIDS, DETENTIONS AND DEPORTATIONS, AND FOR FULL UNCONDITIONAL LEGALIZATION FOR
ALL UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS AND THE REUNIFICATION OF FAMILIES | Press Release

WHAT: PRESS CONFERENCE to symbolically close the outreach campaign aimed at mobilizing the community for an Immigration Rights March in Downtown Los Angeles on Saturday, March 28th, 2009, at 10AM, beginning at Olympic and Broadway, and ending with a rally at City Hall.

WHEN: Friday, March 27th, 2009, at 4:45PM

WHO: The Southern California Immigration Coalition comprised of immigrant rights activists, groups, and organizations, community members, student and politically affiliated organizations, and many other supporters of immigrant and human rights.

WHERE: Placita Olvera (In Front of the Centro Cultural East of the Kiosko)535 N. Main Street, LA, CA 90012

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

Shut Down the Army Experience Center at Franklin Mills Mall
By Pat Elder

Killing is fun -- and life is cheap at the Army Experience Center at the Franklin Mills Mall in suburban Philadelphia.

"This is so cool!" This is so cool!" The enthralled 13 year-old kept repeating as he squeezed rounds from his M-16, picking off "enemy combatants" while perched on a real Army Humvee.

We're in the new Army Experience Center in suburban Philadelphia and the young teen, who doesn't look older than eleven, was obviously impressed with the Army's killing machines. "I just came to the mall to skateboard in the skate park across the hall but everyone said this was pretty cool. I just had to try it and its great!"

When: Saturday, March 28, 2pm

Florida Mass March - Front Street Park to Melbourne City Hall

Join several hundreds from more than 10 cities, Miami to Atlanta, in demanding our government fund human needs instead of war and corporate greed. Bail out the people and the troops, not the banks. ("Hey, Obama, yes, we can. Troops out of Afghanistan.") In addition to sending a message to elected officials, our coming together for this mass march for peace will stir the consciousness of the broader public, educate the uninitiated, and cultivate a new bond between citizens, peace and justice activists and those from more than 60 local, statewide, and national groups.

Bean Park Speakers