ICUJP :: Interfaith Peace and Justice Calendar of Events for Southern California

For a comprehensive Los Angeles area calendar of Social Justice, Peace and Community events, see:
the Center for the Advancement of Nonviolence (CAN)

This web site provides announcements and information. ICUJP does not necessarily endorse the meetings herein announced.

| February 2 – Viewing and Forum with ICUJP: GW Bush's State of the Union Address | February 7 – ICUJP FORUM: Then They Came For Me – Civil Liberties... History, Now and Tomorrow | February 9 – Pax Christi, ICUJP and Catholic Worker Protest: Ash Wednesday | February 21 – Facts and Analysis: Naomi Klein | March 17 – ICUJP Preaching Peace Luncheon: Save the Date |

Preaching Peace Luncheons

(various locations, apx 11:30 a.m.)
The THIRD Thursday of every OTHER month:
Mar 17, May 19,
Jul 21, (Sept 15 only if NO 9/11 event!), and Nov 17th

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Vigils

Please Attend Your Local Peace Vigil!
See our short list below

See Neighbors For Peace and Justice for a list of local vigils, or attend one of the vigils listed below.
Get out and STAND UP FOR PEACE!

News & Issues

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How Our Nation Has Become Involved In Torture & Corruption:
Seymour Hersh article - Abu-Ghraib Photos - Justice Dept. Memos - CPA "Order 30" - Bechtel Corporation Info

ICUJP weekly meeting schedule 7:00 am morning meeting
Wilshire-Immanuel Presbyterian Church 3300 Wilshire Boulevard L.A.

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ICUJP Calendar of Events

Wednesday February 2, 2005
ICUJP invites you to
State of the Union Address
of G.W. Bush:
A Community Viewing, & Discussion

All Saints Church
132 N. Euclid
Pasadena
directions

What is the Prophetic Response?

Speakers include
Rabbi Leonard Beerman
Leo Baeck Temple

Edina Lekovic
Communications Director
MPAC (Muslim Public Affairs Council)

John Orr
Emeritus Professor of Religion, USC

A community viewing of the President’s address, an impromptu response by a panel of inspired interfaith speakers, an Open Mike audience question and answer session and discussion, and then a Passionate Pragmatic Call to Action.

Want to be a part of the solution? Or the problem? Bring an open mind, an active body, and a kind heart. We’ll provide the snacks. Join us!

Wednesday February 2, 2005
Embracing the Stranger:
A Faith Perspective on Immigration
Series, no. 4

Reaching Out:
Catholic Responses to Migrant Needs

7:30 pm
Holy Family
1501 Fremont Ave.
South Pasadena
directions

with
Claretian Father Richard Estrada
executive director of Jovenes Inc. and

Jesuit Father Michael Kennedy
pastor of Dolores Mission Church
Boyle Heights

More information: 626 799-8908

Monday February 7, 2005
And Then They Came For Me:
Civil Liberties...
History, Now and Tomorrow
co-sponsored by Progressive Jewish Alliance
& Progressive Muslim Union

6:00 pm to 8:30 pm

SGI-LA Friendship Center
5899 Venice Blvd. at Fairfax
Los Angeles
directions
download a flyer

Moderator
Stephen F. Rohde
Civil Liberties lawyer and author of American Words of Freedom

Key note address
Rev. James Lawson

Speakers include:
Hussam Ayloush
Executive Director
Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)

Arif Shaikh
Public Relations & Media Director, Islamic Relief Worldwide
(8 months pregnant wife was detained with Mr. Shaikh)

Yaman Hamdan
Law student at Chapman University
Daughter of detainee, Imam Abdul-Jabbar Hamd

Jim Matsuoka
Survivor of the World War II Japanese American Internment

music by
Ani Zonneveld and Fidel Sánchez

We will be looking at historical perspectives regarding the current immigration roundups and the oppressive racist abuse of the Muslim community; it's mirror reflection of the internment of Japanese Americans; the struggle for justice of African Americans and its echoes of Nazi Germany.

People are being picked up on minor violations; there’s a lot of harassment (a knock on the door at 4:30 in the morning). The Muslim community is fearful. They feel isolated, and afraid of being deported. They feel targeted by the department of Homeland Security; they are being excluded from entering the US. It resembles the internment of Japanese Americans in the US during WWII and of course the persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany.

Wednesday February 9, 2005
Ash Wednesday protest action
with Pax Christi &
the Catholic Worker

prayer & public witness
“Rend your heart, not your garment. Return to Yahweh, your God—gracious and compassionate.”
Joel 2: 13

co-sponsored by:
Interfaith Communities United for Justice and Peace (ICUJP),
Catholic Worker Los Angeles, Progressive Christians Uniting
(PCU) & Justice and Peace Commission of the Immaculate Heart Community

Interfaith Ash Wednesday Prayers for Repentance in this time of War

8:00 am
Gathering and March

9:00 am
Public Witness at Front Steps

Downtown Los Angeles
Federal Building
300 N. Los Angeles St
Los Angeles
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JOIN OUR ONGOING FAST:
against violence, war taxes, food etc. during Lent.

JOIN OUR SOLIDARITY FASTING EVERY DAY,
ONE DAY A WEEK, OR ONE DAY:
Register your fasting with us at cponnet.stcamillus@usa.net
or 323 225 4461 x221

JOIN CATHOLIC WORKER EVERY WEDNESDAY:
Public Witness at LA Federal Building starting at 8:00 am at Temple and Alameda Sts.

Contact the President and members of Congress:
fasting from silence and speaking PEACE

Co-sponsors: Catholic Worker Los Angeles &
Interfaith Communities United for Justice and Peace

Monday February 21, 2005
Please join Robert Greenwald, Lisa Smithline and...
• Alternet.org • American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) • Coalition for World Peace (CFWP) • Code Pink • Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) • Democracy for America (DFA) • Interfaith Communities United for Justice and Peace (ICUJP) • KPFK Pacifica Radio • Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) • Nation Magazine • Office of the Americas (OOA) • Progressive Jewish Alliance (PJA) • South Asian Network • Topanga Peace Alliance •

Naomi Klein
FREE IRAQ!
From Killer Liberators and the Corporations They Serve

7:30 pm

Venice United Methodist Church
1020 Victoria Ave. (at Lincoln)
Venice
directions

6:00 pm -
Reception/Fundraiser with Naomi Klein and Tom Hayden
To help create a "War Room" to End the War in Iraq (donation $100)

SAVE THE DATE:
Thursday March 17, 2005
ICUJP Preaching Peace Luncheon

Details to Follow!

We offer a special thanks to our past and future host congregations
2001

September 23	All Saints Church, Pasadena
October 7	Masjid Omar Al-Khattab USC Mosque
October 14	University Synagogue, West LA
October 28	Our Lady of Solitude Catholic Church East LA
November 4	Temple Kol Tikvah Woodland Hills, SF Valley
November 11	Immauel Presbyterian Church Downtown LA
November 18	First African Methodist Episcopal Church (First AME) Faith In Action download a flyer descargue un folleto
December 9	Agape International Spiritual Center Culver City Is There Another Way? w/ Rep. Barbara Lee download a flyer
2002

January 13	Holy Name of Jesus Roman Catholic Church South Central LA Martin Luther King Day Practicing Nonviolence download a flyer
February 10	SGI Buddhist Fellowship Center West Los Angeles Weapons of Mass Destruction: What Is Our Responsibility? download a flyer
March 10	Masjid Omar Al-Khattab USC Mosque Women of the World United in Faith for Peace download a flyer
April 14	Hamilton United Methodist Church 10th Anniversary of the LA Uprising — Injustice at Home and the War on Terrorism download a flyer
May 12	Islamic Center of Southern California War and Our Children's Futures download a flyer
June 9	Our Lady of the Assumption Catholic Church Hall, Claremont Our Foreign Policy: A Safer World or Nuclear Terror? download a flyer
July 14	Temple Beth Shalom of Whittier Life, Liberty & the Pursuit of Happiness — The Rising Tide of Repression and Discrimination download a flyer
August 11	Santa Monica Friends Quaker Meeting Hiroshima-Nagasaki Never Again! download a flyer
September 10	First Baptist Church, LA A Gathering for Civil Liberties and Peaceful Tommorows download a flyer
October 13	Loyola Marymount University Peace Conference: on the Immoral & Illegal U.S. War Against Iraq download a flyer
November 10	Westwood United Methodist Church Candlelight Vigil and Worship - No War in Iraq with Physicians for Social Responsibility-Los Angeles, California Peace Action, Los Angeles Catholic Worker, Concerned Citizens for National Security, Americans Against War with Iraq, Friends of the United Nations-Los Angeles, Office of the Americas, Coalition for World Peace, American Friends Service Committee, Southern California Federation of Scientists, Agape International Spiritual Center, ICUJP download a flyer
December 18	Masjid Omar Al-Khattab USC Mosque International Human Rights Day download a flyer
2003
Click for a Full List of ICUJP 2003 Highlights

January 28	All Saints Church, Pasadena State of the Union -- What Do YOU Think? with panelists: Cynthia Anderson-Barker -- ICUJP and National Lawyers' Guild Dr. Tamara Eskenazi -- professor at Hebrew Union College Mike Farrell -- chair, Death Penalty Focus and Human Rights Watch Dr. Nazir Khaja -- Islamic Information Center, Los Angeles Rev. Tim McDonald -- First Iconium Baptist Church, Atlanta download a flyer
February 15	Hollywood March for Peace World Peace Day 100,000 march in opposition to war in Los Angeles with millions and millions of friends in every corner of the globe! download a flyer
March 5	Ashes To Ashes Nonviolent Witness Against War On Iraq – Downtown Los Angeles Federal Building ICUJP observes National Moratorium to Stop War on Iraq see our report download a flyer
April 7	La Placita Church of Our Lady of the Angels The Assault on Civil Liberties: PATRIOT Act, PATRIOT Act II, Homeland Security Act, WHAT'S NEXT? download a flyer descargue un folleto
May 5	Beyond Violence Conference at USC: Donald Miller and ICUJP Panel Beyond Violence? Reflections of a Hopeful Realist download a flyer descargue un folleto
June 2	Dolores Mission Catholic Church War Stoppers – Third Party Nonviolent Intervention with guest David Hartsough and Boyle Heights Community Panel download a flyer descargue un folleto
June 8	Immanuel Presbyterian Church Los Angeles Be Not Afraid: Another Nation – Another World download the program
July 7	The Friendship Center (SGI) Stolen Dollars: How the War Economy Short-Changes the Quality of Our Lives download a flyer descargue un folleto
September 8	All Saints Church / Pasadena Unprecedented: The Undermining of Democracy in America download a flyer descargue un folleto
October 13	La Placita Catholic Church An evening with El Salvador Presidential candidate Schafik Handal download a flyer descargue un folleto
November 16	USC – Mark Taper Hall An Educational Forum with Chip Berlet AConfronting Extremism in Our Religious Traditions: The Impact on the Public Square download a flyer descargue un folleto
2004
January 18	St. John's Episcopal Church Freedom Sings! Songs of Dissent and Justice in Celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. download a flyer
February 19	University Synagogue ICUJP & Pax Christi Present: Lies & Laughter with Culture Clash, Edward Asner, René Hicks, Ed Begley Jr., Elayne Boosler, Paula Poundstone, and others download a flyer
March 18	Westwood Federal Building ICUJP in cooperation with the American Friends Service Committee and others, The War in Iraq, One Year Later; A Memorial to This War's Dead A Day of Witness, Grief & Renewal download a flyer

PEACE VIGILS
note: the vigils listed below are being called by various groups and not endorsed by ICUJP unless specifically noted as such.

Please visit Neighbors for Peace and Justice for an extensive list of local vigils in Southern California

Peace Memorial every
Sunday – All Day

Veterans for Peace
Arlington West Memorial
Santa Monica Beach

set-up 7:30-9:30 am,
take down 6:00 pm-7:00 pm
Santa Monica Pier
(North Side)

Please come and volunteer every Sunday or any Sunday! Come help to put up over 800 crosses...

1 cross for every American soldier killed in Iraq. There is also a sign that says in order to honor all of the Iraqi people who have died, we would have to fill the entire beach with crosses.

For more information,
call Sally Marr (323) 650-8166
or Frank Dorrel – 310-838-8131

Peace Vigil every
Sunday evening

West Valley for Peace

5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
at the corner of
Topanga
and Victory
Wset San Fernando Valley

Peace Vigil every
Thursday evening

War Is Not The Answer Vigil

5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Wilshire and Veteran
Westwood

more information:
www.warisnottheanswervigil.org

Peace Vigil every
Friday evening

Old Town Pasadena
with Members and friends of Neighborhood Unitarian Universalist Church

6:30 pm until sundown

corners of
Colorado and Fair Oaks
Old Town Pasadena

Stand up for the dignity and human rights of all persons

End torture and racist abuse in prisons everywhere

US out of Iraq

We cannot be silent

End US War Crimes
and Atrocities...

Read the New Yorker report by Seymour Hersh on US Torture at Abu Ghraib Prison

view the images of US torture of Iraqi Civilians at Abu Ghraib Prison

Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) Obtains Internal Pentagon Report Outlining Framework for Use of Torture

Pentagon Report March 2003 (PDF) 6.7MB

CCR has posted the controversial Pentagon Working Group Report on Detainee Interrogations in the Global War on Terrorism: Assessment of Legal, Historical, Policy and Operational Considerations on its website. The report is further proof of the Bush administration's disregard for the Constitution and civil liberties and shows there was planning at high levels of government to abuse and torture detainees.

CCR President Michael Ratner stated, "This memo and others show there was planning far up the chain of command to torture detainess; the atrocities at Abu Ghraib and elsewhere cannot be swept under the rug by going after low-level soldiers. Apparently highly placed U.S. officials were willing to approve interrogation methods that violate every convention on torture the United States has ever signed. But they needed to find cover for their actions and a defense to possible criminal prosecution. Government lawyers writing this report wildly distorted the law in an effort to exempt officials from potential criminal prosecution."

download a flyer with War Crimes Facts

Washington Post Editorial calls U.S. acts "War Crimes"

Economic Justice is the Foundation of Peace:
Corruption Characterizes the US Occupation of Iraq

"The disaster that is the occupation of Iraq is much more than the war that plays nightly across U.S. television screens. The violence of grinding poverty, exacerbated by economic sanctions after the first Gulf War, has been deepened by the US invasion. Every day the economic policies of the occupying authorities create more hunger among Iraq 's working people, transforming them into a pool of low-wage, semi-employed labor, desperate for jobs at almost any price."

– David Bacon

Read about Coalition Provisional Authority "Order 30" and the New Oppression in Iraq

Bechtel, along with Halliburton,
recieves billions to implement US control over Iraq's resources.

Their efforts to privatize water in many countries was, in Bolivia, defeated by a grassroots rebellion.

Women, hardest hit by their policies,are central to the fight against Bechtel, starting with grandmothers from Big Mountain who fought displacement.

Bechtel oversees the nuclear dumpsite at Yucca Mountain

Former Secretary of State George Shultz is currently on the board of the Bechtel Corporation. Shultz is one of California Gov. Schwartzeneger's economic advisors.

Last April, the Bush administration gave Bechtel the first big Iraqi reconstruction contract, a prized $680 million deal over 18 months.

As the resistance to US occupation increases daily, Bechtel, the second largest recipient of money to 'rebuild' Iraq, continues to implement US control of Iraq's resources. Bechtel is the world's largest contractor, profiteering from war, human suffering and destruction of the environment. Bechtel made cluster bombs and other weapons of mass destruction, has built nearly half of the world's nuclear power plants and has invaded Shoshone land to oversee the nuclear dumpsite at Yucca Mountain.

Bechtel has a history with Peabody Coal which led to the displacement of Navaho people from Big Mountain. They have tried to privatize water in many countries; in Soweto South Africa women and men are resisting and in Bolivia Bechtel's efforts were defeated by a grassroots rebellion led by women. Women, who are hit hardest by Bechtel's genocidal policies, are holding Bechtel accountable for its crimes.

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