The Peace and Justice Calendar 5.16.12 - 9.29.12
Susan Strong
A service of the Peace, Earthcare, and Social Witness Committee of Strawberry Creek Friends Meeting
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DATED EVENTS:
May 14-20, 2012 San Francisco, California
2012 Justice Begins with Seeds International Conference.
This event has been planned as a platform to present different perspectives and solutions related to food justice and sustainability, as well as to grow momentum and support for various food system related campaigns. This year there will be exciting presentations, by some of the more experienced activists, researchers, farmers, indigenous and entrepreneurs from California, Kenya, South Africa, Mexico and other places around the world.
Friday reception keynote speaker Winona LaDuke: Honor the Earth
Speakers Include:
* Mpatheleni Makaulule: VhaVenda Nation, South Africa
* Gathuru Mburu: African Food Sovereignty Alliance, Kenya
* Mariama Sonko: Association of Young Farmers of Casamance, Senegal
* Adelita San Vicente: Sin Maiz no hay Pais, Mexico
* Lilián Amarilis Guamuch: AFEDES, Guatemala
* Anuradha Mittal: Oakland Institute
* Ann Lopez: Author and activist
* Tezozomoc: South Central Farm
* Ronnie Cummins: Organic Consumer Association
* Jeff Conant: Global Justice Ecology Project
This is a summit for the people by the people!
The purpose of the upcoming conference is to grow the food sovereignty movement by advancing learning and building coalitions between the GMO countermovement in the US, and other movements thriving to develop sustainable food systems, alleviate climate change through soil practices, defend the rights of indigenous communities, reduce social inequalities and encourage citizen democracy against corporatocracy. The Biosafety Alliance is a cross sector, multilevel and inter-ethnic alliance of individuals and organizations working together to conduct broader outreach and educational campaigns around GMOs.
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Miguel Robles 415 3681891 http://biosafetyalliance.org/
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Wednesday May 16th, 5:30-6:30 pm
IMMIGRATION VIGIL for DETAINEES
West Contra Costa County Detention Facility
5555 Giant Highway, Richmond CA 94806
Bob Lane (925) 426-1226
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Screening of Earth Days by Robert Stone
Humanist Hall, 390 27th Street, between Telegraph and Broadway, Oakland Film evenings begin with potluck refreshments & social hour at 6:30 pm,
followed by the film at 7:30 pm, followed by a discussion after the film.
Wheelchair accessible around the corner at 411 28th Street
Earth Days looks back to the dawn and development of the modern environmental movement-from its post-war rustlings in the 1950s and the 1962 publication of Rachel Carson's incendiary bestseller Silent Spring, to the first successful 1970 Earth Day celebration and the subsequent firestorm of political action.
$5 donations are accepted
Contact Florence: 510-681-8699; http://www.HumanistHall.org
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Sunday, May 20
People's Summit and Protest the NATO/G8 Summit in Chicago At the invitation of the White House, military and civilian representatives of the 28-nation US-commanded and largely US-financed North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and heads of state and finance ministers of the G-8 world economic powers are meeting in the U.S., in May. The G8 has been moved to Camp David, but the NATO summit will still be held in Chicago. The Chicago demonstration on May 20 will still protest the war and poverty agenda of both organizations.
Coalition Against NATO/G8 War and Poverty Agenda (CANG8) and Occupy
Chicago are organizing a democratic counter-summit in opposition to NATO and
the G8. Keynote speakers will include Malalai Joya, who is a former Afghan member of parliament and internationally renowned opponent of NATO's occupation of Afghanistan, and Rainer Braun, a member of the International Coordinating Committee of the European No to NATO network.
For more information including housing and ride boards, please go the www.CANG8.org.
United National Antiwar Committee, UNAC...@gmain.com or UNAC at P.O. Box 123, Delmar, NY 12054; 518-227-6947; www.UNACpeace.org
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Sunday, May 20, 6:00 - 8:00 PM
What Do You Know About Prisons? Be Part of the Solution
Asbury United Methodist Church, 4743 East Avenue, Livermore
Where Can Change Happen?
1. Juvenile Detention, Institutional Change-Lisa Hill, Superintendent, Camp Sweeney
2. Psychiatric Considerations-Terry Kupers M.D. Court and Prison Consultant
3. Secure Housing Issues (SHU)- Ron Ahnen, President Calif Prison Focus, Professor
4. Area Legislature-Assemblywoman Joan Buchanan
5. Formerly Incarcerated-Jerry Elster, Staff, All of Us or None.
There is no charge for this event but donations are appreciated.
Please join us for light refreshments and to speak with the panelists from 8:00 to 9:00 PM
For more information, contact Sally Bystroff at 925-449-8555 or sallyb...@gmail.com
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Monday, May 21, 2012 9:30 AM- 2:30 PM
Immigrant Day 2012: One California
State Capitol, Sacramento (walk in from corner of 11th Street and L St.)
Meet at Amtrak Martinez
522 - Capitol Corridor
Dep MTZ 7:19 AM
Arr. SAC 8:28 AM
543 - Capitol Corridor
Dep SAC 3:35 PM
Arr. MTZ 4:33 PM
California Unitarian Universalists will join immigrants, advocates, community members, and policy makers in raising our voices on behalf of all California's immigrant families. We will gather on the north steps of the Capitol for a rally, then proceed in teams to speak to legislators about protecting immigrant families. We will be supporting AB1801 (Ammiano). The TRUST Act is a bill to restore trust and accountability to California's participation in the S-Comm program, respecting the wish of local communities to opt-out of the program and implement safeguards to guard against racial profiling. For more information and to register for training prior to the event please go to: http://org2.democracyinaction.org/o/6754/p/salsa/event/common/public/?event_KEY=48387
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Screening of: Voices of a Tsunami
Tuesday, May 22, 7:30 PM (potluck at 6:30)
Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists' Hall
1924 Cedar (@Bonita), Berkeley www.bfuu.org
In 2010 a major earthquake in Chile caused a tragic tsunami on Robinson Crusoe Island, 350 miles out in the ocean. There will discussion afterwards led by filmmaker Oscar Abeliuk. Potluck precedes the 7:30 film at 6:30.
Sponsored by the BFUU Social Justice Ctee as part of our Conscientious Projector Series
Suggested donation $5-$10. No one turned away. Wheelchair accessible. Ph:510-841-4824
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Wednesday, May 23, 7:00 pm
Ending Gun Violence: What We Must Do
Ygnacio Valley Library 2661 Oak Grove Rd., Walnut Creek
(2 blks.south of Ygnacio Valley Rd. and Oak Grove Rd.)
The Diablo Valley Democratic Club is pleased to announce its May program:
What have we learned from Oikos? Tucson? Virginia Tech? Did you know that Pleasant Hill has a gun shop within 1,000 feet of DVC and recently allowed a home gun dealership to open?
Karen Arntzen of the Contra Costa Brady Campaign to End Gun Violence will talk about the need to stand up to the NRA and to demand that our candidates stand up for gun control. Info 925-946-046
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Wednesday, May 23, 2012 Social Hour at 6:30 PM followed by film at 7:30 PM
Marilyn Waring and Terre Nash's "Who's Counting" Film Viewing
Humanist Hall 390 27th Street, uptown Oakland between Telegraph and Broadway
Marilyn Warning is a vocal critical of the standard cost-benefit analysis of labor and productivity. Her consideration of unpaid female labor throughout the world, which is officially discounted as being "nonproductive" in a much as it generates no capital gain, no "growth" to the economy. Waring's argument, however, is a holistic rather than gender-partisan, surveying a wide range of matters, including the "productivity" that wars generate, through the prism of the dismal of the value of women's work at home. This official view, she and Director Terre Nash content, is nuts. Who's Counting? The question holds a double meaning, referring to who fixes valued, according to what set of priorities, and to who and what is the scheme is being "counted" as having value or not. Marilyn Waring's work and intriguing life is described in this eye-opening documentary film.
Wheelchair accessible around the corner at 411 28th Street
$5 donations are accepted for more information contact Florence: 510-681-8699
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Thursday, May 24th
Wellstone Democratic Renewal Club
Humanist Hall 390 27th Street, Oakland(between Broadway and Telegraph)
Potluck at 6:00 PM, meeting at 6:45PM; please bring something to share
Disabled Entrance and Parking on 28th St behind the Hall
The Real Changes in Cuba with Dr. Soraya Castro, Professor, University of Havana Director, Institute on International Relations
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Thursday, May 24, 7:00 PM (potluck at 6:30)
Cindy Sheehan Book Release Celebration: "Revolution, A Love Story"
Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists' Hall
1924 Cedar (@Bonita), Berkeley www.bfuu.org
Cindy Sheehan will give a presentation about how she came to write Revolution, A Love Story. Cindy writes, "I am excited to offer this book as my thanks for being able to be exposed to the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela, its charismatic and compassionate leader, and to you for all your support over these years." Potluck precedes event at 6:30.
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Monday, May 28 at 7:30 pm
Imperiled Life
Revolution Against Climate Catastrophe by Javier Sethness-Castro ~~ appearing in person
Humanist Hall at: 390 27th St, Oakland
Wheelchair accessibility at 411 28th Street
Imperiled Life presents grim news from contemporary climatologists while providing a reconstructive vision inspired by anarchist intellectual traditions and promoting critical thought as a means of changing our historical trajectory. Javier theorizes an exit from the potentially terminal consequences of capital-induced climate change. His book is a collection of reflections on the phenomenon of catastrophe -- climatological, political, social -- as well as on the possibilities of overcoming disaster. We can draw on this book for inspiration in these darkest of times.
Doors open at 6:30 pm for our social hour and pot luck refreshments and Javier's talk will begin at 7:30 pm. Please feel free to bring scrumptious food, organic and local, to enjoy with others.
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Tuesday, May 29, 4:00 PM and 7:00 PM
Peacock Hall, Rossmoor
Video on John Dear
This 55 minute video on the life and work of Jesuit priest and Nobel Peace prize nominee, John Dear. Dear is a non-violent peace activist, organizer, lecturer, retreat leader, and the author/editor of some 25 books on peace and justice. Anyone concerned about world peace in this troubled and divided world will find Dear's vision not only challenging but radically subversive. Please invite a friend to attend along with you.
Good-will offering basket at the entrance
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Saturday, Monday-Wednesday, June 23, 25-27, 9:00 AM - 5:00 PMBePeace Foundations Course with BePeace Teacher Sandy Stober
Unity of Walnut Creek, 1831 Geary Rd, Walnut Creek, CA
BePeace is a practice of coherence through appreciation and connection to universal needs through empathy and honesty.
Learn to: Stop stress; Think more clearly and tap into your intuition more reliably; Maintain emotional balance; Respond consciously to life with compassionate communication; Enrich your own life and help create a more peaceful world.
Cost: $399 ($299 before May 23).
Register at http://unitycenter.net/bepeace or Unity Book Center.
Questions? Call Sappho Calphas at 925-939-5397.
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Saturday, September 29th at Santa Clara University
Carry the Vision Community Nonviolence
Saturday September 29, 2012 from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
Santa Clara University, 500 El Camino Real, Santa Clara, CA 95053
This year promises to be another wonderful event that will inspire and support you in carrying on the vision of Mahatma Gandhi, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and Cesar Chavez in overcoming violence with the power of nonviolence. As someone who is interested in the power of nonviolence to create positive change and a new way of living, this conference will offer you tools, support and inspiration.
Susan C. Strong, Ph.D. Author, MOVE OUR MESSAGE: HOW TO GET AMERICA'S EAR Founder and Executive Director The Metaphor Project http://www.metaphorproject.org