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Action! from:
Muslim Public Affair Council; Civil Liberties Defense Coalition
MPAC

MPAC has been diligently working with the Civil Liberties Defense Coalition (CLDC) on a Los Angeles City Council resolution opposing the USA PATRIOT Act (USAPA). This resolution also calls upon city accountability for USAPA-related measures through monitoring and documenting the usage of the USAPA.

Los Angeles city residents:
This week it is critical that your L.A. City Council member hear from you in support of the resolution.

See http://icujp.org/speakOut.shtml#patriot for details.

Saturday September 27, 2003
8:00 am
Press conference

8:30 am
Caravan of Volunteers
to El Centro Desert

Saving Immigrant Lives Press Conference & Caravan of Volunteers
Water Station Project
Los Angeles Delegation

Olvera Street Kiosk
(downtown Los Angeles near
Alameda and Cesar Chavez Ave.)
Los Angeles

Since 1994, when Operation Gatekeeper was initiated, more than 2000 immigrants have perished in their desperate struggle to enter the "land of opportunity."

Join The Saving Immigrant Lives Delegation in bringing together legislative, labor and religious leaders to voice our support for:

-- SB60-Identification Cards

-- Consular Issued Identification Cards (Matriculas)

-- and the Earned Legalization Plan

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How You Can Help

Please donate 1 gallon jugs of water (please do NOT purchase water from non-Unionized markets such as Trader Joe's and Smart & Final).

Bring the water from 7:30 am to 8: 30 am to the Teamster Local 630 semi-truck that will be parked on Main Street in front of the Olvera Street Kiosk. Our goal is to collect 2,000 gallons of water during that one hour –

YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE!

Sunday September 28, 2003
12:00 NOON

International Day of Protest
March & Rally:
End the Occupations!
Bring the Troops Home NOW.

Hollywood & Vine
Hollywood, Los Angeles

International Day of Protest
Against Occupation and Empire

From Palestine
To Iraq
To the Philippines
To Cuba and everywhere

Locally and nationally coordinated demonstrations will take place around the world between September 25 and 28.

Monday September 28, 2003
4:00 pm -– 6:00 pm

Coalition for Justice and Peace Presents
Proposition 54: It's Bad Medicine
A Forum with Panel

Pasadena City College
Lillian Vosloh Forum
in the 1500 block of East Colorado Blvd.
just south of the Shattner Library
at the corner of Colorado Blvd. and Bonnie Ave.
directions

Convener
Rev. George Regas
Rector Emeritus, All Saints Episcopal Church Pasadena

Keynote Speaker
Catherine Lhamon
ACLU Attorney

Panelists
Wilma Allen
Pasadena Health Department

Bill Bogaard
Mayor of Pasadena

Reverend Zedar Broadous
Chair LA County Human Relations Commission

Manjari Chawla
Asian Pacific American Legal Center

Bethany Leal
CA Women's Legal Center

Esteban Lizardo
Pasadena School Board

Connie Rey-Castro
PCC Board of Trustees

Delano Yarbrough
Former President
Pasadena Branch NAACP

"...Ward Connerly, the UC Regent appointed by Governor Pete Wilson, has introduced a dangerous, deceptive, and irresponsible initiative that he calls "The Racial Privacy Initiative," even though it has nothing to do with privacy and more to do with his political agenda.

The initiative is a radical measure that would damage our ability to address disparities by race or ethnicity in healthcare and disease patterns, educational resources and academic achievement, and hate crime and discrimination.

“The initiative is also deceptive, with a long list of confusing "exemptions" that are designed simply to provide its backers with one-line comebacks to the serious concerns experts have raised about its sweeping, irresponsible approach..."

more information:
Coalition for an Informed California

October 13
ICUJP Monday Night Forum:
Can the Forces of Democracy Prevail In El Salvador?:
with El Salvador Presidential candidate Schafik Handal

November 16, 2003
ICUJP Fall Conference at USC:
Confronting Extremism and Oppression in Our Religious Traditions:
The Impact on the Public Square

Keynote Speaker
Chip Berlet
Senior Analyst, Political Research Associates
co–author, with Matthew N. Lyons
'Right-Wing Populism in America: Too Close for Comfort'

more information from Political Research Associates:
http://www.publiceye.org/main.htm

Interfaith Communities United for Justice and Peace (ICUJP) c/o the Regas Institute, 215 North Marengo, Third Floor Pasadena, CA 91101 USA tel.: (626) 683-9004 • fax: (626) 683-9485 http://icujp.org email: icujp@pacbell.net (coordinator) webmanager@icujp.org (web and email)