Peace & Human Rights Events

VENUE:

Plumbers Hall

1621 Market St
@ Gough St.
San Francisco, CA 94103

start: 05/09/2009 - 1:00pm
end: 05/09/2009 - 5:00pm

CA, SF: Bail Out Working People - NOT the Banks! TEACH-IN & MASS MOBILIZATION PLANNING MEETING

Bail Out Working People - NOT the Banks!
Join us on May 9 in San Francisco for a
TEACH-IN & MASS MOBILIZATION PLANNING MEETING

Learn about what is happening in the labor movement and in our communities to fight for the interests of working people.
Help organize a mass mobilization around our demands, including:

  • Massive job-creation program.
  • Single-payer healthcare for all.
  • Moratorium on home foreclosures and evictions.
  • Pass the Employee Free Choice Act.
  • Tax the rich - don't bail out the banks.
  • Money for jobs and social services, not for war

Speakers to be announced.

The bankers have organized themselves and vigorously lobbied for bailouts. We, working people, need to organize ourselves to demand policies in the interest of working people as whole.

VENUE:

TBD


Washington, DC 20024

start: 05/13/2009 - 12:00am
end: 05/13/2009 - 11:59pm

DC: Afghanistan: A Road Map For Progress - Seeking Global Security

Afghanistan: A Road Map For Progress - Seeking Global Security | Press Release

The Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) - "77 Strong and Growing" - Open to New and Different Ideas - Hosts Series of Forums to Discuss Military, Political, Economic and Social Policy Options in Afghanistan

VENUE:

TBD


Washington, DC 20024

start: 05/05/2009 - 12:00am
end: 05/06/2009 - 11:59pm

DC: Afghanistan: A Road Map For Progress - Seeking Global Security

Afghanistan: A Road Map For Progress - Seeking Global Security | Press Release

The Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) - "77 Strong and Growing" - Open to New and Different Ideas - Hosts Series of Forums to Discuss Military, Political, Economic and Social Policy Options in Afghanistan

VENUE:

TBD


Washington, DC 20024

start: 04/28/2009 - 10:00am

DC: Afghanistan: A Road Map For Progress - Seeking Global Security

Afghanistan: A Road Map For Progress - Seeking Global Security | Press Release

The Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) - "77 Strong and Growing" - Open to New and Different Ideas - Hosts Series of Forums to Discuss Military, Political, Economic and Social Policy Options in Afghanistan

VENUE:

TBD


Washington, DC 20024

start: 04/21/2009 - 12:00am
end: 04/21/2009 - 11:59pm

DC: Afghanistan: A Road Map For Progress - Seeking Global Security

Afghanistan: A Road Map For Progress - Seeking Global Security | Press Release

The Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) - "77 Strong and Growing" - Open to New and Different Ideas - Hosts Series of Forums to Discuss Military, Political, Economic and Social Policy Options in Afghanistan

VENUE:

Cannon Office Building

Independence and New Jersey Aves., NE.
Room 345
Washington, DC 20005

start: 04/01/2009 - 2:30pm

DC: Defining American Strategic Interests in Afghanistan, and the Northwest Border Area of Pakistan

Afghanistan: A Road Map For Progress - Seeking Global Security | Press Release

The Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) - "77 Strong and Growing" - Open to New and Different Ideas - Hosts Series of Forums to Discuss Military, Political, Economic and Social Policy Options in Afghanistan

VENUE:

Rayburn House Office Building

255 South Capitol St SE
Entrances are on South Capitol St & Independence Ave
Washington, DC 20024

start: 03/25/2009 - 2:30pm

DC: Afghanistan: A Road Map For Progress - Seeking Global Security

Afghanistan: A Road Map For Progress - Seeking Global Security | Press Release

The Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) - "77 Strong and Growing" - Open to New and Different Ideas - Hosts Series of Forums to Discuss Military, Political, Economic and Social Policy Options in Afghanistan

VENUE:

Georgetown University Law Center

600 New Jersey Avenue NW
Hart Auditorium
Washington, DC 20001

start: 03/20/2009 - 12:00pm
end: 03/20/2009 - 2:00pm

Panel Discussion on National Security Courts: Bringing Detainees to Justice and Justice to Detainees

You're Invited to a Panel Discussion on National Security Courts: Bringing Detainees to Justice and Justice to Detainees: Remaining Questions about Detention and Trials after Obama's Executive Orders

The Constitution Project, Human Rights First, and the Georgetown Center on National Security and the Law will co-host a panel discussion exploring the legal and constitutional issues raised by President Obama's executive orders on detention and Guantanamo, including proposals for the establishment of a national security court and a preventive detention regime. The Constitution Project has previously condemned proposals for national security courts and preventive detention in its report "A Critique of National Security Courts."

The panelists will be:

  • David Laufman, Attorney, Kelley Drye & Warren LLP; former Assistant United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia who has prosecuted terrorism cases

VENUE:

23rd Street & Constitution Avenue
Washington, DC 20037

start: 03/21/2009 - 4:40pm

DC: March on the Pentagon

Gather at 12 noon at 23rd St. & Constitution Ave. NW in Washington, D.C.

Much more information at:

http://www.pephost.org/site/PageServer?pagename=M21_homepage

VENUE:


Washington, DC 20091

start: 03/08/2009 - 12:00am
end: 03/22/2009 - 11:59pm

DC: Our Spring Break

Our Spring Break

We are seeking students to come to DC for their spring break and help end the illegal occupation, and related injustices. We will have a presence in DC from March 8th-March 22nd.

The week of the 8th through the 14th will be focused on the issue of torture and youth will be working with Witness Against Torture and their 100 Days Campaign.

The following week will focus on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, with March 19th being the anniversary of the invasion of Iraq.

http://ourspringbreak.org