When Tomas Young saw President Bush on television speaking from the ruins of the Twin Towers, he responded to the call to defend his country by enlisting in the Army. But rather than being sent to Afghanistan to rout out Al Qaeda and Taliban warriors, Bush ordered the invasion of Iraq and everything changed. While riding on his first mission to Sadr City—in an unarmored Humvee with no canvas covering—he was shot just above his left collarbone and instantly paralyzed. This is Tomas' coming home story, as he evolves into a new person, dealing with his disability and finding his own unique and passionate voice against the war. Features two original songs by Eddie Vedder. Winner of the Best Documentary award from the National Board of Review. Directed by Phil Donahue and Ellen Spiro. Official Movie Web Site
Time:
2:30pm
Description:
Legalizatin for all; Stop the Raids and Deportations; Right to Live in Peace; Right to Dignified Work for All People; Right to Migrate: Right to a Just and Equitable Education.
Starting at City College at 2;30 p.m.; March down Broadway to Pantoja Park; the day's events will continue with a public assembly at Memorial Park, Oceanview and 30th.
The San Diego Branch of the International Socialist Organization meets every Thursday at 6PM at the City Heights Recreation Center, 4380 Landis Street, 2 blocks South of University on Fairmount.
Meetings are in English with Spanish Translation Available.
Time:
6:30pm - 9:00pm
Description:
COMMUNITY RIGHTS FORUM ON IMMIGRATION
Palomar College, Room P-32, 1140 W. Mission Road, San Marcos CA 92069; This event is free and open to the community!
Guest Speakers/Panelists: Mark Day, Local Documentary Film Maker; Consuelo Martinez, Escondido Human Rights Committee; Pedro Rios, American Friends Service Committee; Alor Calderon, Employee Rights Center
Topics to be discussed include: Nativism, grassroots community organizing, legislative updates on immigration, and “Know Your Rights” information.
INFO: Please contact John Valdez 760/744-1150 x. 2219 or jvaldez@palomar.edu
Sponsored by the Palomar College Multicultural Studies Department, Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan (MEChA) de Palomar College and the Escondido Human Rights Committee
Time:
6:45pm
Description:
General Meetings are held on the first and third Thursday of each month. Pilgrim United Church of Christ. 2020 Chestnut Ave. Carlsbad, CA, 92008.
Visit our website for more information at www.NCCPJ.org
Description:
December 7th is pillows for peace send off day. The beginning of an ongoing message to the President to end this war.
Send a pillow to: The White House, 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., Washington, DC 20500
Monthly General Meeting in San Diego the first Friday of every month at 10:00 AM at Christ the King Catholic Church (located at 29 North 32nd Street, 92102).
Please call our office at 619.584.5744 ext.60 for more details.
Activist San Diego’s Monthly Film Series
Come for the film, stay for the stimulating discussions
The End of Suburbia - Fri. May 2, 7:30 pm
The End of Suburbia: Oil Depletion and the Collapse of The American Dream is a documentary film concerning peak oil and its implications on the suburban lifestyle.
Rational & Entertaining! 7:30 pm
Joyce Beers Community Center, 1090 Vermont, one block north of University, next to Trader Joe's
Hillcrest Shopping Center, SD 92103 * please park in Ralph’s underground parking
Wheelchair Accessible – Stimulating discussion
Free/ Donations accepted - Post screening discussion - for info: 619-528-8383 www.ActivistSanDiego.org
Time:
7:30pm
Description:
The Prince Myshkins are back? With a bag of songs that will wake up America!
An evening of hilarious and thought-provoking songs of social justice with CHARLIE KING and THE PRINCE MYSHKINS
Prince Myshkins: For over a decade, the Prince Myshkins meticulous lyrics, rapid-fire vocal delivery and intricate accordion and guitar playing have won them the acclaim of audiences and fellow songwriters all over the U. S. KPBS San Diego (where they were "resident satirists" during their eight years in town) calls them "first-rate musicians whose sardonic songs induce life-threatening fits of laughter."
Charlie King: Charlie King has been at the heart of American folk music for over 40 years. His work is wry and beautiful, funny and deeply moving, sung with warm compassion and a biting wit. Peggy Seeger says “If we had more Charlie Kings in the world I’d be less worried.” "One of the finest singers and songwriters of our time." -- Pete Seeger
Location: First Unitarian Universalist Church - 4190 Front Street, Hillcrest, San Diego
Directions: take Washington St. into Hillcrest, go north on First St. for three blocks, go left on Arbor for one block. The UCSD medical Center will be on your right, Church parking lot on your left.
$10-$20 - Donation requested / no one will be turned away
Sponsored by Peace & Democracy Action Group of the First Unitarian Universalist Church and Activist SanDiego
Time:
8:30am - 3:00pm
Description:
On Saturday, May 3, 2008, San Diego City College will provide a platform for international relief and peace-making organizations to raise awareness about their mission, work and accomplishments. This conference will provide ways in which the San Diego community can have a greater impact on global relief efforts through international organizations. City College is an inner-city campus with an internationally diverse student body, faculty and staff, and is committed to the development of informed, active citizens who will be lifelong learners, engaged in community development and community service.
This will be a great experience for students and members of the community that are interested in finding volunteer work and internships and/or are interested in studying peace, conflict resolution, and community activism. We will also be presenting about the newly established Peace Studies Department coming to City in the Fall.
This event is free to the public. There will also be free continental breakfast and free lunch to the first 100 guests, as well as a performance by the Afro-beat Marimba group, Zimbeat (www.myspace.com/zimbeatmarimba). A few speakers include Kathi Anderson from Survivors of Torture, Scott DiPretoro of American Red Cross, Jacob Hall of Peace Corps, Robert Montgomery of International Rescue Committee (IRC), Micheal J. McKay of Catholic Charities, Valery Santacruz from ACCION, Henri Migala- the Executive Dean for Institutional Advancement at Cuyamaca College, and Interim Director Dr. Dee Aker of the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice. Also, Amnesty International and Hosteling International will be two of a few organizations tabling there. All bio's and more info can be found on our website:
www.ciroatcitycollege.org
Time:
6:00pm
Description:
glocal is back!
What do global issues have to do with our local actions? How can we reconcile the way we act and decisions we make locally with the pressing global issues of our day? You tell us! Join us to discuss immigration and the environment and discover and connect with local movements and transformational solutions lived out.
Next Glocal Teach-In: May 3rd at 6:00pm, at Mid-City Nazarene, 4101 University Avenue
Presented by Floresta • Jubilee Economics Ministries • Abundant Nutrition
Center for Justice & Reconciliation • The Ecclesia Collective
The bench demonstrates the use of several natural building techniques and was built by a crew of all women and children in September 2006. It is intended to be a place where people can gather and share their stories and meet their neighbors as an invitation to create peace and understanding.
Time:
2:00pm
Description:
The International Museum of Human Rights at San Diego (iMoHR) invites YOU and your friends to a lecture and discussion, What Health Care Program Meets the Needs of ALL Americans? which addresses the issue of medical care as a universal human right!
An eight-minute segment of a DVD (Salud!) on the Cuban medical care model will be shown, followed by presentations from a panel of health care professionals: Jeoffry Bruce Gordon, MD, MPH, Family and Preventive Medicine Physician; Stanley Mendoza, MD, Professor of Pediatrics, UCSD; and Becky Motlagh, RN, United Nurses Association of CA/Union of Health Care Professionals.
Lecture and discussion: Mission Valley Library, 2123 Fenton Parkway, San Diego (Mission Valley). Free! Light refreshments! Questions: ahoiberg@aol.com or 619.223.8074
Time:
2:00pm
Description:
The International Museum of Human Rights at San Diego (iMoHR) invites YOU and your friends to a lecture and discussion, What Health Care Program Meets the Needs of ALL Americans? which addresses the issue of medical care as a universal human right!
An eight-minute segment of a DVD (Salud!) on the Cuban medical care model will be shown, followed by presentations from a panel of health care professionals: Jeoffry Bruce Gordon, MD, MPH, Family and Preventive Medicine Physician; Stanley Mendoza, MD, Professor of Pediatrics, UCSD; and Becky Motlagh, RN, United Nurses Association of CA/Union of Health Care Professionals.
Lecture and discussion: Mission Valley Library, 2123 Fenton Parkway, San Diego (Mission Valley). Free! Light refreshments! Questions: ahoiberg@aol.com or 619.223.8074
Time:
2:00pm - 4:00pm
Description:
Food Not Bombs - San Diego serves hot vegan meals at the North Park Recreational Park every Sunday. Come on out and eat with us. If you want to help out let us know when you get there.
North Park Recreational Park (By the water tower)
Polk ave & Oregon St. (Between Oregon St. and Utah
Agenda: Leadership Continuity; Forum on Citizen Conduct and Responsibility; Uniform Protocol for Law Enforcement; State Attorney General Response to Police Shootings; El Grupo and Coalition Moving Forward Together
Plan to Attend this Important Meeting.
"It's not okay to shoot or brutalize unarmed people"
Time:
7:00pm
Description:
The Red CalacArts Collective, SD Mesa College Chicana and Chicano Studies Dept., and The Front present: fronteraVERSE poetsCONFRONTINGborders
Dr. David Ray Griffin will lecture at San Diego State University on May 6th, 2008, at 7:00pm. Dr. Griffin will be lecturing on his new book, 9/11 Contradictions: An Open Letter to Congress and the Press.
San Diego Veterans for Peace, Hugh Thompson Memorial Chapter 91 invites you to our monthly meeting. Everyone is welcome, regardless of your being a veteran or simply have some ideas to share about waging peace. Church of Today, 8999 Activity Road, just north of Miramar Rd.
The Impeachment Cmte. of San Diego meets every Wed. @ 7PM @ The Other Side Coffeehouse @4096 30th St. (@ Polk Av.) 86 City Councils in the U.S. have passed resolutions urging Congress to impeach Bush and Cheney. We're collecting signatures to do the same in San Diego. More than One Million people dead from these wars based on lies, and Pelosi and Conyers say impeachment is off the table! But 54% of Americans favor impeachment.
Monthly meeting for our North County members on the second Thursday of every month at 10:30 a.m. at Pilgrim United Church of Christ in Carlsbad (2020 Chestnut Avenue, 92008)
Please call our office at 619.584.5744 ext.60 for more details.
Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice Conference Room C&D, USD Campus
Recent protests in Tibet and around the world have overshadowed the torch relay leading up to the Beijing Olympics. Spontaneous peaceful protests in many parts of Tibet are evidence of deep-rooted resentments against Chinese governance. What can be done to achieve a peaceful solution?
Join us for a Teach-in on Tibet that will survey Tibetan history, religion, and politics as a background to understanding recent events.
Featured Speakers Dorothy Berger, Co-chair, International Tibet Support Network; Jhampa Kalsang, Author, Tibetan Astro-Science; Kalsang Peling, San Diego Friends of Tibet; Karma Lekshe Tsomo, Associate Professor, Theology & Religious Studies, USD
Sponsored by Joan B. Kroc School of Peace Studies, USD
Time:
6:00pm
Description:
The San Diego Branch of the International Socialist Organization meets every Thursday at 6PM at the City Heights Recreation Center, 4380 Landis Street, 2 blocks South of University on Fairmount.
Meetings are in English with Spanish Translation Available.
Time:
6:30pm - 7:30pm
Description:
PEACE CORPS Info Session
Have you always thought about serving abroad? The Peace Corps is pleased to present a special Peace Corps information session at Borders Books in Mission Valley.
Presentations highlight work assignments and regions where volunteers serve, as well as the life-changing experience of serving as a Peace Corps Volunteer. Information about the application process, eligibility requirements, geographic placement, and benefits is also covered.
Borders Bookes -- Mission Valley, 1072 Camino Del Rio N. San Diego, CA 92108 (Located in the Mission Valley West shopping center, off of the 8 freeway and Mission Center Road.)
Time:
7:00pm - 8:30pm
Description:
Roger Lowenstein
One of today's foremost economic journalists, bestselling author Roger Lowenstein shares his views on the economy and discusses his new book, While America Aged: How Pension Debts Ruined General Motors, Stopped the NYC Subways, Bankrupted San Diego, and Loom as the Next Financial Crisis. Along with other present challenges, America faces a crisis of epidemic proportions in the nation's pension system, which is collapsing at the very moment when the population is rapidly aging. Lowenstein delivers a hard-hitting indictment of how corporations and governments made ruinous promises to workers that that will have disastrous effects on our economy. His book provides a powerful wake-up call, and a much-needed roadmap for a way forward.
Neurosciences Institute, 10640 John Jay Hopkins Dr., La Jolla. Parking is free. Please arrive early. Advance registration strongly advised. Registration fee is $35, please refer to section ID 065550. Call (858) 882-8000 or register online.
UCSD Extension Presents Revelle Forum at The Neurosciences Institute
9500 Gilman Drive 0170-A La Jolla, CA 92093-0170 (858) 964-1056
Time:
7:00pm
Description:
Please come and write letters with us on behalf of prisoners of conscience all over the world.
Together we are making a difference.
2nd and 4th Thursday of each month at 7:00pm
First Unitarian Universalist Church, 4190 Front St. (across from UCSD Medical Center) Parking is Free in the Ace parking lot.
-Take Washington West from the 163 South.Turn Right on First St. Follow the solid white lines left at Arbor and cross Front to get to the parking lot on the left.
-From the 163 North take the Robinson exit and go Left on University.Turn right on First St and cross Washington. Use above directions thereafter. -Take the Washington exit from the 5 and go east. Use the same directions after turning left onto First.
Parking is free for Amnesty members. Please park first and come in for parking permit.
E-mail us at group137@amnestysd.org
for more information
Description:
December 7th is pillows for peace send off day. The beginning of an ongoing message to the President to end this war.
Send a pillow to: The White House, 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., Washington, DC 20500
Biojustice Discussion and Film @ the City Heights Free Skool, 4246 Wightman St., San Diego, CA 92105
Come out to the Free SKool Friday night to continue our series of discussions about the upcoming Biotech Industry Conference which will be
promoting GMO Foods, Bioengineered medicine and Biological weapons, right here in the Convention Center in San Diego.
The World According to Monsanto - 108 Min. On March 11 a new documentary was aired on French television (ARTE – French-German cultural tv channel) by French journalist and film maker
Marie-Monique Robin, The World According to Monsanto - A documentary that Americans won't ever see. The gigantic biotech corporation Monsanto
is threatening to destroy the agricultural biodiversity which has served mankind for thousands of years.
Anna Baltzer, a Jewish American Columbia graduate, Fulbright scholar, granddaughter of Holocaust survivors, and volunteer with the International Women's Peace Service, is touring the United States with her acclaimed presentation and book describing her experiences documenting human rights abuses in the West Bank and supporting Palestinian-led nonviolent resistance to the Occupation.
Providing photographic documentation and critical information often misrepresented or ignored in the Western media, Anna's presentation covers checkpoints, settlements, demonstrations, Israeli activism, the 1948 war & refugees, censorship, the Separation Wall, and more.
Free/Donations accepted; Four Points Sheraton Hotel, 8110 Aero Drive, San Diego 92123
Sponsored by American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee & Activist San Diego
info: 619-448-2288 619-840-1945
Time:
9:00am - 12:30pm
Description:
"Reach Across The World, Transforming Lives Through Fair Trade"
9am - 12:30pm, Cafe Moto in San Diego, Free; REGISTRATION REQUIRED AS SEATING IS LIMITED: www.fairtradesd.org
The San Diego Friends of Fair Trade is creating a FREE and fun event on May 10th to help bring people together to be a part of The World’s Largest Coffee Break and to provide our community with an understanding our how Fair Trade can be easily incorporated into our everyday lives.
Titled, Reach Across The World: Transforming Lives Through Fair Trade, this FREE seminar will feature a keynote address by Jacqueline De Carlo, author of Fair Trade - a Beginner's Guide; a panel presentation from business, faith community, and non-profit leaders who have established successful business practices; plus fair trade chocolate and coffee tasting and of course a Fair Trade Coffee break at noon!
This year, on World Fair Trade Day - May 10th - at noon Pacific Standard Time, thousands of people across North America and Canada will join together to enjoy a Fair Trade Coffee Break at the same time. The Guinness Book of World Records reports that the current record for the World’s Largest Coffee Break consisted of 3,000 people enjoying the same break.
You can help break this record…and do it with Fair Trade flair! World Fair Trade Day’s main message is one of solidarity in calling for justice in trade. They hope to raise awareness for Fair Trade by joining together across distances and time zones to enjoy a cup of Fair Trade coffee.
Time:
4:00pm
Description:
Going to the LA SOCIAL FORUM? INTEREST MEETING ~ Saturday at 4:00 at the Activist Center- 4246 Wightman, SD 92105
WE WANT A VERY LARGE CONTINGENT OF SAN DIEGO'S LEADING ACTIVISTS TO ATTEND and participate in the LA SOCIAL FORUM June 27-29th. Why?
Codepink will be gathering at the end of the pier in Ocean Beach for a sunset vigil on Mothers Day supporting ALL moms who have lost a child in the war and whose children are still deployed. Bring a pink flower. Hope to see you this Sunday, Mothers Day, before the sun sets.
Second annual Mother’s Day Stand for a Better World to promote world peace and justice. The free event takes place along Sunset Cliffs at the intersection of Froude Street and Sunset Cliffs Boulevard. The “stand in silence” ceremony begins at 1 p.m. and lasts five minutes. For more information, call (619) 758-1668, (619) 507-1812 or e-mail betterdecisions@cox.net
Time:
2:00pm - 4:00pm
Description:
Food Not Bombs - San Diego serves hot vegan meals at the North Park Recreational Park every Sunday. Come on out and eat with us. If you want to help out let us know when you get there.
North Park Recreational Park (By the water tower)
Polk ave & Oregon St. (Between Oregon St. and Utah
The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) will hold the last Public Participation Hearing in San Diego County on Monday, May 12, in Borrego Springs at the Borrego Springs Resort, De Anza Room, 1112 Tilting T Drive, Borrego Springs, 1pm - 5 p.m and 6:30 - 9:30 p.m.. on the massive and so-called "Sunrise Powerlink" transmission line project of SDG&E.
As you may know, the line has been deliberately planned through at least a dozen county open space preserves and would run through the Anza Borrego Desert State Park, is a potential fire hazard and will cost SDG&E ratepayers (you) some $1.5 billion for construction alone. True estimates of the cost of the line are reported to exceed $7 billion, including the $1 billion or more that SDG&E will make in interest payments as they will hold the paper on the line.
The important issue regarding this hearing is that there is now confirmation that three members of the five member state commission will be attending, hence there will be a quorum of the commission to hear you tell them why this destructive and inappropriate power line project of San Diego Gas & Electric should not be built. The meeting has become even more important due to the governor's interference with his own commission over this line.
SEMPRA is the parent corporation of SDG&E and is the mastermind behind this power line, which would facilitate the movement of gas-generated electricity from Mexico into the US using SEMPRA's gas from the Baja LNG plant it is completing now with Shell Oil. SEMPRA already owns and runs one gas-fueled generation plant across the border in Mexicali. More plants would mean cheaper electricity for SoCAL as the Mexican environmental and labor laws are much weaker than in the US. SEMPRA/SDG&E wants to move the electricity northward to the LA market. This is explicitly stated in their testimony. The power generated in Mexico will not be for San Diego alone but for lucrative markets to the north. SDG&E tried to build a line in southern Riverside County some years ago -- but that line was rejected by the CPUC. Now they are trying to cross San Diego County for the same purposes.
The 7,000+ page draft Environmental Impact Report issued by the CPUC favors a mix of in-county conventional generation combined with renewable generation for our electricity needs as the #1 alternative to this massive power line project. This power line project is the largest infrastructure project ever planned for San Diego County. It would tie ratepayer (our) dollars to old, non-renewable, fossil-based electricity generation. The renewables that SDG&E claims to be accessing by this line in Imperial County is a fig leaf for the project -- and one which the governor conveniently uses to promote the line. In fact, the Stirling Engine technology is unproven and has been thoroughly vetted in Phase 1 of the CPUC hearings by the Center for Biological Diversity legal team. They demonstrated that the technology has major problems and will not do what the SDG&E says it will do.
This is a titanic battle for San Diego and Southern California's energy future. If SDG&E can put a massive 500 kV line through the park and northern route communities while destroying publicly held open spaces, or alternatively route the line through southern communities and the Cleveland National Forest, it will lock us into yesterday's technology, do immense environmental damage to our county and make it more difficult for the all important energy shift to non-polluting renewables so necessary in a global warming world.
Your presence at the May 12th hearing in Borrego is crucial. Please come if you can. Please contact family members, neighbors and friends to let them know their voices are needed at this meeting.
FYI, I am an intervener in the CPUC proceedings on this project from Ramona. Our issue is fire; see our testimony at www.mbartek.com and our brief at www.musseygraderoad.com
I am also the coordinator for CUSP (Communities United for Sensible Power), a coalition of communities -- north and south -- from the desert to the ocean -- opposed to this line. We favor sustainable, economical and renewable energy for San Diego's energy future e.g. rooftop solar.
We need YOUR help. Please come and speak on May 12th.
More info: Diane Conklin, Spokesperson, Mussey Grade Road Alliance, P.O. Box 683, Ramona, CA 92065; (760) 787 - 0794 or dj0conklin@earthlink.net
Time:
6:30pm - 8:00pm
Description:
North County San Diego Chapter 471 meets 2nd and 4th Monday nights at Carlsbad High School. Businesss meeting 2nd Monday, Work meeting 4th Monday.
Where: San Diego County Bar Association, 1333 Seventh Avenue, San Diego
Hosted by: The American Constitution Society Lawyer’s Chapter of San Diego
America has a long history of securing benefits and workplace protections though organizing workers. Please join us for a discussion on how organizing works, how it can be improved and how the current law benefits and burdens efforts to organize.
The panel will examine the challenges facing the right to organize in San Diego, and what legal, tactical and policy tools can be brought to bear to protect that right.
Panelists Include: Lorena Gonzalez
Secretary-Treasurer and CEO, San Diego Imperial Counties Labor Council; Prof. Ruben J. Garcia
Associate Professor of Law, California Western School of Law; Richard Barrera, San Diego Regional Organizer, Service Employees International Union United Healthcare Workers-West
Moderated by Kevin Keenan, Executive Director, American Civil Liberties Union of San Diego & Imperial Counties
The American Constitution Society: The American Constitution Society for Law and Policy (ACS) is one of the nation's leading progressive legal organizations. Founded in 2001, ACS is a rapidly growing network of lawyers, law students, scholars, judges, policymakers and other concerned individuals. www.acslaw.org
The Event: The panel is free and open to the public. RSVP’s are encouraged by Clicing here
Tubman/Chavez Multicultural Center, Euclid & Market (southeast corner), Bring your own lunch. Info: ahcsd@cox.net
Time:
7:00pm
Description:
The Impeachment Cmte. of San Diego meets every Wed. @ 7PM @ The Other Side Coffeehouse @4096 30th St. (@ Polk Av.) 86 City Councils in the U.S. have passed resolutions urging Congress to impeach Bush and Cheney. We're collecting signatures to do the same in San Diego. More than One Million people dead from these wars based on lies, and Pelosi and Conyers say impeachment is off the table! But 54% of Americans favor impeachment.
The San Diego Branch of the International Socialist Organization meets every Thursday at 6PM at the City Heights Recreation Center, 4380 Landis Street, 2 blocks South of University on Fairmount.
Meetings are in English with Spanish Translation Available.
Time:
6:30pm - 9:00pm
Description:
Join the Green Party of San Diego County (GPSDC) for a viewing of the movie "THIRST" and a discussion about water privatization. "THIRST" tells the stories of communities in Bolivia, India, and the US that meet at the World Water Forum in Kyoto as part of a new movement against global water privatization. As the Forum reaches its final day, no one anticipates the explosive outcome. (Donations for GPSDC accepted)
General Meetings are held on the first and third Thursday of each month. Pilgrim United Church of Christ. 2020 Chestnut Ave. Carlsbad, CA, 92008.
Visit our website for more information at www.NCCPJ.org
Description:
Sixth Annual Al-Awda Convention/Palestine: 60 Years of Forced Exile- Time To Return
May 16-18, 2008 Garden Grove, CA; Embassy Suites Hotel-Anaheim South; 11767 Harbor Boulevard, Garden Grove, CA 92840
Dolores Huerta, activist, educator, co-founder of the United Farm Workers, will be the keynote speaker or the Center for Social Advocacy's 2008 Annual Dinner.
Marina Village conference Center, Captain's Room, 1936 Quivara Way, San Diego, 92109
6-7 p.m. Appetizers and entertainment by Adrienne Nim's Spirit Wind; 7 p.m. Dinner Buffet; 7:45 p.m.-9:30 p.m., Program.
Tickets $65 each; Tables $650 (seats 10); RSVP to Center for Social Advocacy, 619-444-5700
Description:
Sixth Annual Al-Awda Convention/Palestine: 60 Years of Forced Exile- Time To Return
May 16-18, 2008 Garden Grove, CA; Embassy Suites Hotel-Anaheim South; 11767 Harbor Boulevard, Garden Grove, CA 92840
Saturday, 17 May, 10:00 A.M.: The American Association of University Women, San Diego Branch, and the Women’s Equity Council, United Nations Association of San Diego, present Promoting Women’s Equity and Empowerment: Is the United Nations THE Answer?
San Diego Delegates to the United Nations’ Commission on the Status of Women engage in Women, United Nations, and Talk, Talk, Talk! a discussion on the role of the U.N. in promoting women’s rights, the status of CEDAW, the work of NGOs at the U.N., etc.
St. Dunstan’s Church, 6556 Park Ridge Blvd., (corner of Wandermere), San Carlos. Free (donations graciously accepted for the Tech Trek Fund)! Complementary coffee, pastries, and fruit. Questions:
Food Not Bombs - San Diego serves hot vegan meals at the North Park Recreational Park every Sunday. Come on out and eat with us. If you want to help out let us know when you get there.
North Park Recreational Park (By the water tower)
Polk ave & Oregon St. (Between Oregon St. and Utah
Interfaith Meditation for Peace sponsored by the Buddhist Peace Fellowship, third Sunday of each month
On the grassy area in front of the Midway Aircraft Carrier at the foot of Broadway on North Harbor Drive
Getting there: Take Orange or Green Trolley to American Plaza Trolley Station, walk one block south to Broadway. Take Airport Bus #992 west to North Harbor Drive. Bus #2 also goes to North Harbor Drive from University Heights.
Take CA 94 west, exit F Street, right on 11th Ave,
left on Broadway to N. Harbor Dr. Take I 5 south, exit #17/Front St toward Civic Center, right on W. Broadway to N. Harbor Dr. Parking: Metered parking is free on Sunday.
For more information please call Luis 619-543-1326
Time:
6:00pm
Description:
Coalition For Justice MEETING
Palavra Tree at 1212 South 43rd
Agenda: Leadership Continuity; Forum on Citizen Conduct and Responsibility; Uniform Protocol for Law Enforcement; State Attorney General Response to Police Shootings; El Grupo and Coalition Moving Forward Together
Plan to Attend this Important Meeting.
"It's not okay to shoot or brutalize unarmed people"
Time:
7:00pm
Description:
SDCPJ meets on the First and Third Mondays, 7 p.m.
3850 Westgate Place, San Diego, CA 92105
The Impeachment Cmte. of San Diego meets every Wed. @ 7PM @ The Other Side Coffeehouse @4096 30th St. (@ Polk Av.) 86 City Councils in the U.S. have passed resolutions urging Congress to impeach Bush and Cheney. We're collecting signatures to do the same in San Diego. More than One Million people dead from these wars based on lies, and Pelosi and Conyers say impeachment is off the table! But 54% of Americans favor impeachment.
The San Diego Branch of the International Socialist Organization meets every Thursday at 6PM at the City Heights Recreation Center, 4380 Landis Street, 2 blocks South of University on Fairmount.
Meetings are in English with Spanish Translation Available.
Time:
7:00pm
Description:
Please come and write letters with us on behalf of prisoners of conscience all over the world.
Together we are making a difference.
2nd and 4th Thursday of each month at 7:00pm
First Unitarian Universalist Church, 4190 Front St. (across from UCSD Medical Center) Parking is Free in the Ace parking lot.
-Take Washington West from the 163 South.Turn Right on First St. Follow the solid white lines left at Arbor and cross Front to get to the parking lot on the left.
-From the 163 North take the Robinson exit and go Left on University.Turn right on First St and cross Washington. Use above directions thereafter. -Take the Washington exit from the 5 and go east. Use the same directions after turning left onto First.
Parking is free for Amnesty members. Please park first and come in for parking permit.
E-mail us at group137@amnestysd.org
for more information
Description:
December 7th is pillows for peace send off day. The beginning of an ongoing message to the President to end this war.
Send a pillow to: The White House, 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., Washington, DC 20500
Introduction to Nonviolent Conflict Intervention: 1-day Workshop co-sponsored by Nonviolent Peaceforce San Diego and St. Paul’s Peace and Justice Committee
8:30am to 5:00pm, St. Paul’s Cathedral, 2728 6th Ave., San Diego 92103
Nonviolent Conflict Intervention Training is open to everyone. Fragrance free please so we can include participants with environmental illnesses!
Learn Nonviolent Conflict Intervention (NCI) Techniques used successfully by international Nonviolent Peaceforce Field Team Members. These techniques can be used to intervene in community, workplace, organization, and family conflicts and will also increase personal communications skills of participants. Trainers are local NP San Diego volunteers who have been trained by professional NP Trainers.
Cost: Sliding scale $25-85 includes all training materials and on-site continental breakfast and lunch. Scholarships available. Proceeds above actual costs will go to the Nonviolent Peaceforce NCI Training Fund.
Please call or email Debby or Carroll to register or with questions. Space is limited to 20 participants.
Description:
Like any major event or political situation, we little folks’ll probably never know exactly how it all went down. But Happy Songs About The War—the new musical, one-man show written and performed by San Diego singer/songwriter JD Boucharde—was born out of a sincere desire to shed some light on the difference between why we were told we went to war with Iraq, and why we actually did. And, more importantly perhaps, to spread the message of non-violent communication to whomever has ears to listen.
Happy Songs About The War debuts as a two-week workshop on May 25th at 6th@Penn Theatre in Hillcrest and runs through June 4. Tickets will be available on April 1. Please visit the show’s website for more information at www.happysongsaboutthewar.com
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11:00am - 2:30pm
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SUPPORT ART - FIGHT POVERTY - BUILD AWARENESS -
Meet and greet the young artists who have created "Through the Eyes of Children: An Experiential Exhibit of the Lives of Children in Poverty," a collection of chalk drawings and sculptures created by children ages 3-16, many of whom are 50% below the poverty line.
The exhibit depicts the hopes and dreams of low-income children, as well as the obstacles they face in trying to escape a life of poverty. This widely acclaimed exhibit has been shown in more than a dozen venues in San Diego and Los Angeles Counties.
Your presence is crucial to building a critical awareness of the realities of poverty, social injustice and inequalities that affect San Diegans' everyday lives. Please accept our warmest invitation to hear the voices of the youth in San Diego, experience their artful expressions and build strength in a conscious San Diego community. Thank you!
Meet and Greet: Sunday, May 25, 2008, 11-2:30 pm
Exhibit displayed March 18 to May 30, 2008, UCSD Cross-Cultural Center
Please visit www.ccc.ucsd.edu
for directions and E-mail Nparanomos@yahoo.com for any questions, requests and/or opportunities for collaboration.
Time:
2:00pm - 4:00pm
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Food Not Bombs - San Diego serves hot vegan meals at the North Park Recreational Park every Sunday. Come on out and eat with us. If you want to help out let us know when you get there.
North Park Recreational Park (By the water tower)
Polk ave & Oregon St. (Between Oregon St. and Utah
Like any major event or political situation, we little folks’ll probably never know exactly how it all went down. But Happy Songs About The War—the new musical, one-man show written and performed by San Diego singer/songwriter JD Boucharde—was born out of a sincere desire to shed some light on the difference between why we were told we went to war with Iraq, and why we actually did. And, more importantly perhaps, to spread the message of non-violent communication to whomever has ears to listen.
Happy Songs About The War debuts as a two-week workshop on May 25th at 6th@Penn Theatre in Hillcrest and runs through June 4. Tickets will be available on April 1. Please visit the show’s website for more information at www.happysongsaboutthewar.com
Time:
10:00am - 3:00pm
Description:
“Lest We Forget:" YOU ARE INVITED TO PARTICIPATE IN A SPECIAL “MEMORIAL DAY OBSERVANCE” “Arlington West” In the park, on the Bay next to the USS MIDWAY
Come and participate in a simultaneous reading of the 4,000 + names of the fallen in Iraq in a solemn memorial tribute.
Come and recommit yourself to being a positive force, of one, working to change the direction of our Country:
Monday, 26 May 2008, 10:00 am to 3:00 pm, The Park on South side of the USS MIDWAY; 910 N. Harbor Drive, San Diego 92101
Why: To Honor and remember all of the 4,000 + young American Patriots we have lost in the occupation of Iraq and to Honor those who have fallen in Afghanistan and all wars throughout our Nations History.
To Confirm and or Volunteer: CALL Jan A. Ruhman @ 858-361-6273 or Jim Brown at 760-419-8650
VETERANS FOR PEACE, Hugh Thompson Memorial Chapter # 91, San Diego, CA. www.sdvfp.org
Time:
6:30pm - 8:00pm
Description:
North County San Diego Chapter 471 meets 2nd and 4th Monday nights at Carlsbad High School. Businesss meeting 2nd Monday, Work meeting 4th Monday.
This is the monthly meeting for the East County Group of Amnesty International. Come join us to take action for ending human rights abuse. Meeting held at Summit Unitarian Universalist Fellowhip 8778 Cottwood Ave. in Santee. Group meets the last Monday of every month.
Like any major event or political situation, we little folks’ll probably never know exactly how it all went down. But Happy Songs About The War—the new musical, one-man show written and performed by San Diego singer/songwriter JD Boucharde—was born out of a sincere desire to shed some light on the difference between why we were told we went to war with Iraq, and why we actually did. And, more importantly perhaps, to spread the message of non-violent communication to whomever has ears to listen.
Happy Songs About The War debuts as a two-week workshop on May 25th at 6th@Penn Theatre in Hillcrest and runs through June 4. Tickets will be available on April 1. Please visit the show’s website for more information at www.happysongsaboutthewar.com
Description:
Like any major event or political situation, we little folks’ll probably never know exactly how it all went down. But Happy Songs About The War—the new musical, one-man show written and performed by San Diego singer/songwriter JD Boucharde—was born out of a sincere desire to shed some light on the difference between why we were told we went to war with Iraq, and why we actually did. And, more importantly perhaps, to spread the message of non-violent communication to whomever has ears to listen.
Happy Songs About The War debuts as a two-week workshop on May 25th at 6th@Penn Theatre in Hillcrest and runs through June 4. Tickets will be available on April 1. Please visit the show’s website for more information at www.happysongsaboutthewar.com
Time:
7:00pm
Description:
The Impeachment Cmte. of San Diego meets every Wed. @ 7PM @ The Other Side Coffeehouse @4096 30th St. (@ Polk Av.) 86 City Councils in the U.S. have passed resolutions urging Congress to impeach Bush and Cheney. We're collecting signatures to do the same in San Diego. More than One Million people dead from these wars based on lies, and Pelosi and Conyers say impeachment is off the table! But 54% of Americans favor impeachment.
The San Diego Branch of the International Socialist Organization meets every Thursday at 6PM at the City Heights Recreation Center, 4380 Landis Street, 2 blocks South of University on Fairmount.
CLAIMING "A RIGHT OF PEACE" MOVING BEYOND THE EMPIRE SYNDROME, Special Guest: Terrence E. Paupp, author of EXODUS FROM EMPIRE: The Fall of America's Empire and the Rise of the Global Community--Book signing and lecture
A vision of a new world order that looks forward to the end of IMF hegemony --
This book lays out a comprehensive vision for a new world order based on cooperation between the developing world and leading Left countries in Latin America. Arguing that the ravages of corporate capitalism are unsustainable, Terrence E. Paupp presents an energetic critique of the problems of empire, and looks ahead to a global countermovement against the IMF and US hegemony.
'There is no book quite like this ... Paupp has achieved a well-articulated alternative vision of a future world order based on law, equity, and sustainability.' -- Professor Richard Falk, Princeton University and Visiting Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara
'Exodus from Empire offers, confidently, a way to see that another world is possible. It's light in a time of darkness.' Professor Brian Foley, Florida Coastal School of Law
Terrence E. Paupp has taught philosophy, international law, and political science at Southwestern College and National University. He is Vice-President of the Association of World Citizens and a senior research associate for the Council on Hemispheric Affairs. From 2001-2005 he served as National Chancellor of the United States for the International Association of Educators for World Peace.
Joyce Beers Community Center, 1090 Vermont, one block north of University, next to Trader Joe's
Hillcrest Shopping Center, SD 92103 * please park in Ralph’s underground parking - Wheelchair Accessible –
Film: "Body of War"