NJ & surrounding area Events

[Joanne O'Neill]

 

Free Showing of "Rethink Afghanistan"

 

Please RSVP at : http://rethink.bravenewtheaters.com/screening/show/13213

 

WHAT: screening of  new movie "Rethink Afghanistan"

 

WHEN: Tuesday, October 27 2009 07:00 PM 
 

TICKET PRICE: FREE, RSVP required below

 

http://rethink.bravenewtheaters.com/screening/show/13213

 

WHERE: Collingswood Library 
                      771 Haddon Ave
                     Collingswood, New Jersey 8108
           
Rethink Afghanistan: Filmmaker Robert Greenwald Launches Film Opposing Escalation of War 

As the eighth anniversary of the US-led bombing of Afghanistan draws closer, the Obama administration continues to debate the best way to fight this ongoing war. 

The military approach to Afghanistan is not succeeding; further application of American military force will not bring stability to the country or security to our own. 

With over 90 percent of U.S. funding in Afghanistan directed toward military purposes, non-military strategic options are not being pursued. 

The problems facing Afghan society are economic, social and political in nature, and require economic, social and political solutions. 

The U.S. can play a more constructive role in Afghanistan by engaging civil society than by waging war

Admission Free  -  Donations Appreciated  -  Refreshments will be served

HOSTED BY: PDA / DFA Progressive Democracy South Jersey.

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Picket or Sit-In

For Medicare for All

 (single payer national health insurance)

Wednesday, October 28

12:30

(gather at noon behind Penn Station, Newark)

Blue Cross, 3 Penn Plaza East

Newark, NJ

 

To All Supporters of Medicare for All: 

 

We need you to step up and take action with us on Wednesday, Oct. 28 for Medicare for All.  Momentum is with us and we have to keep it going. 

 

We understand that people have work, etc and of course, not all can come, but please ask yourself if what you have planned for Wednesday is more important than showing visible resistance against "for profit" insurance companies,by supporting single payer health care, the only real public option that will work for all.  A strong support group for those risking arrest is critical, so let's be there.

 

Come and bring a friend.  Go to www.mobilizeforhealthcare.org for more info re: National Day of Action for Medicare for all - Patients, Not Profits, and to sign the pledge.  Let us know if you will be there for Health Care for All.

 

In Solidarity,

Carol Gay and Ellen Whitt , Central Jersey Health Care NOW

 

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 Wednesday October 28 - 7:00 PM to 8:45 PM :

 

Please join in welcoming the newest PDA Chapter in New Jersey

Passaic County PDA

An organizing meeting launching the newly formed chapter will be held:

When: Wednesday October 28 from 7:00 PM to 8:45 PM .

Where: Clifton Public Library located at 292 Piaget Ave, Clifton, NJ 07011-2598.

The goal: Create a working Chapter of PDA in Passaic County and neighboring towns that lie in CD#8 .

For additional information, Contact: Daniel Brown, PassaicCountyP...@gmail.com or call 201-736-4997.

Join their Google Group:

Current web address:
http://groups.google.com/group/PassaicCoPDA

Current email address:
PassaicCoPDA@googlegroups.com

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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29th - PRAWN MEETING 

When: 6:30 - 8:00 PM

Where: 30th ST. STATION, MARKET ST SIDE;(where the tables are) Philly   

PRAWN is discussing the planning of a Potluck event to be held in January.  

• The event would be a forum on ˜What happened at the G-20 in Pittsburgh last September.
• Bill Perry, of Delaware Valley Veterans of America, has some great photographs to show covering the protests.
• We could also invite some other people who witnessed the protests to speak.

 Please join us to help in the planning of this event.    We're also open to other ideas for future events, film shownings, etc..  

 

PRAWN is the Philadelphia Regional Anti-War Network  

http://wwwprawnwork s.net  

Contact Rich at 215-307-7980 or Larry at 215-563-6357

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Thursday Nov 5th @ 7 PM  - Monmouth County DFA/PDA  Monthly Meeting

Where:  Will be held at the Garden State Equality Ramp Up   -   Trinity Church, 503 Asbury Avenue,Asbury Park

This month we will be holding our meeting in support of Marriage Equality for same sex couples in New Jersey. The legislature is expected to include the "Freedom of Religion and Equality in Civil Marriage Act" on its legislative agenda in November.

Join us on Thursday evening, November 5, as Garden State Equality presents Regional Ramp-Up meetings throughout New Jersey in support of the final push to pass marriage equality in the state Legislature

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Thursday Nov 5th @ 7 PM - Join PDA/DFA Progressive Democracy So.Jersey

Where:    Garden State Equality office, 583 Haddon Avenue,Collingswood

What:  Regional Ramp-Up  will be an enthusiastic, rousing call to the legislature to follow through and pass marriage equality now! All are welcome who support equal rights, and especially equal civil marriage rights, for same sex couples and families in New Jersey!

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Saturday, Nov 7 at 7 pm -

Free screening of Why We Fight

Where: Germantown Friends Meetinghouse (Quaker), 47 West Coulter Street, in the Germantown section of Philadelphia

Documentary asserts that in every decade since World War II, the American public was told a lie, so that the Government (incumbent Administration) could take them to war and fuel the military-industrial economy maintaining American political dominance in the world. Interviewed about this matter, are politician John McCain, political scientist and former-CIA analyst Chalmers Johnson, politician Richard Perle, reporter William Kristol, writer Gore Vidal, and public policy expert Joseph Cirincione.

For more information please call Hal or Leila Sawyer, 215 849 7359.

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December 4th, 5th and 6th - New Jersey PDA Statewide Conference & Health Care Forum

Mark your calendars, details are forth coming within the next few days.....be sure to save these dates

 

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Sunday, December 13 -  "Honduras and President Obama's Approach to Latin America" - Sylvia Metzler 

Where: University Lutheran Church
3637 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA (corner of 37th & Chestnut Sts.)

 

What: Brandywine Peace Community Monthly Potluck Supper* & Program,
4:30 p.m.,  *bring main dish, salad, or dessert to share.  Program begins at 5:30p.m.

Sylvia Metzler, a long time Nicaraguan and Central American solidarity activist, will just be back from a visit to Honduras as part of a Quest for Peace delegation accompanying supporters of deposed President Zelaya and learning about the realities on the ground in Honduras six months after the military coup.  

Sylvia has been involved with many justice and peace issues and groups in the Philadelphia area for over 40 years, including HCAP (Health Care for All Philadelphia), promoting a single payer universal health care system, Grannies for Peace, and the Brandywine Peace Community    She a is family nurse practitioner, co-chairs Medicines for Nicaragua, and serves on the board of the Norris Square Neighborhood Project. 

From 1990 - 1992, Sylvia served as a volunteer nurse practitioner in Nicaragua.  She lives and works in Kensington, North Philadelphia where her major hobby is gardening with plants and children.