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Sunday February 20, 2005
CodePink: Women for Peace
Invite you to attend
What's Really Happening in Iraq
Jodie Evans
co-founder of CodePink (www.codepinkalert.org), reports-back from a humanitarian aid mission that delivered over $650,000 in aid to Falluja refugees.
5:00 pm
Throop Church
300 S Los Robles Ave.
Pasadena
Parking: In the church lot or the adjacent lot to the north.
directions
$5 suggested donation
no one turned away for lack of funds
Please RSVP to book@codepinkalert.org
or call 310-827-4320
5:00 pm - Social Gathering & refreshments
5:30 pm - Presentation
6:30 pm - Community Discussion
Hear CODEPINK Co-Founder Jodie Evans report-back from an unprecedented trip to Jordan and the Iraqi border. The Families for Peace delegation delivered over $650,000 worth of medical and humanitarian aid for the thousands of refugees, mostly women and children, made homeless by the U.S. attack on Falluja in November. While the delegation was not able to enter Iraq because of deteriorating security, they did meet in Jordan with the Iraqi health team in charge of their donations, dozens of human rights, women’s and humanitarian aid organizations based both in Iraq and Jordan and with Iraqis who have been victimized by the war.
“With all the Iraqis have suffered during this war and occupation, it’s amazing the tolerance and gratitude they have shown us. We’re thrilled that our aid has been able to save lives and help children, but the most important thing is to end this abusive occupation that has brought so much death and suffering to both sides,” said Fernando Suarez of Escondido, CA, whose son Jesus was a marine who died in Iraq on March 27, 2003.
Jodie Evans is editor of the book Twilight of Empire, which includes her first-hand look at the effects of the occupation of Iraq on the Iraqi people. She is cofounder of the women’s peace group Code Pink, and has been a community, social and political organizer for the last 30 years. She organized a Peace Conference in Dubrovnik in June of 1999 about imagining Peace in the 21st century, and she is coauthor of the forthcoming book How to Stop the Next War Now.
Tabling by community groups is welcome.
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)
Saturday February 26 &
Sunday February 27, 2005
Who Got Glitched &
How Do We Fix It
A Teach-In On Election Reform
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Saturday February 26
7:00 -10:00 pm
Film As Evidence
Venice United Methodist Church - Sanctuary
1020 Victoria Ave.
Venice
directions
$10 donation appreciated.
No one turned away
reservations: sheri@citizensact.org
PROGRAM
Votergate
Preview and other breaking evidence
Robert Cohen & Russell Michaels discuss their upcoming feature
Standing Out In The Rain With Jim Crow
Election Day Voter Supression footage that is entered in the Conyers report
Linda Byrket, Director
(also shows breaking
Georgia Election footage)
Electile Dysfunction
A darkly comic and disturbing overview of theElection with Director Penny Little
Sunday February 27
2:00 - 5:00 pm
Who Got Glitched?
Teach-In & Symposium on Election Reform
The Church at Ocean Park
235 Hill St.
Santa Monica
(2nd & Hill, S.M.)
directions
$10 - $5 Students/Seniors (res. encouraged)
No one turned away for lack of funds.
reservations: sheri@citizensact.org
PROGRAM
Part One:
On The Ground
Video The Vote
Columbus, 11/02/04 footage
Bob Fitrakis
Attorney, Publisher, The Theft of Ohio
Blair Bobier
Green Party - The Recount Fraud
Joan Quinn
Attorney - Fraud in Greene County
Part Two:
The Machies
Votergate, the Film
Bev Harris/Black Box Voting
investigating Diebold
Part Three:
How Do We Fix It?
PANEL
Mandeep Gill -
Overview of Election Reform legislation & organizations
Bob Fitrakis -
Freepress, Media
Blair Bobier -
Run-off Voting
Bev Harris -
Training Citizens to Audit
Brad Friedman -
Divestiture for Democracy
Kevin Spidel, Medea Benjamin, Susan Clark & Sheri Myers -
Mobilizing the Grassroots
Butch Wing -
Building the Rainbow Coalition
Networking & Strategizing with All Participants
Ian Masters, Moderator (45 min)
first they ignore you,
then they ridicule you,
then they fight you,
then you win.
~Mahatma Gandhi
Presented by CitizensAct.org / Co-Sponsored by CODEPINK, Progressive Democrats of America, Velvet Revolution,
Endorsed by Black Box Voting, 2004 Cobb/LaMarche Green Party Campaign, Open Voting Consortium , Rainbow Push, Interfaith Communities United for Justice and Peace (ICUJP)
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
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September 23
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All Saints Church, Pasadena
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October 7
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Masjid Omar Al-Khattab
USC Mosque
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October 14
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University Synagogue,
West LA
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October 28
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Our Lady of Solitude
Catholic Church
East LA
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November 4
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Temple Kol Tikvah
Woodland Hills, SF Valley
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November 11
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Immauel Presbyterian Church
Downtown LA
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November 18
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First African Methodist Episcopal Church
(First AME)
Faith In Action
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December 9
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Agape International
Spiritual Center
Culver City
Is There Another Way?
w/ Rep. Barbara Lee
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2002
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January 13
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Holy Name of Jesus
Roman Catholic Church
South Central LA
Martin Luther King Day
Practicing Nonviolence
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| February 10 |
SGI Buddhist
Fellowship Center
West Los Angeles
Weapons of Mass Destruction:
What Is Our Responsibility?
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March 10
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Masjid Omar Al-Khattab
USC Mosque
Women of the World
United in Faith for Peace
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April 14
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Hamilton
United Methodist Church
10th Anniversary of the LA Uprising —
Injustice at Home and the War on Terrorism
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May 12
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Islamic Center
of Southern California
War and Our Children's Futures
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| June 9 |
Our Lady of the Assumption Catholic Church Hall, Claremont
Our Foreign Policy:
A Safer World or Nuclear Terror?
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| July 14 |
Temple Beth Shalom
of Whittier
Life, Liberty & the Pursuit of Happiness — The Rising Tide of Repression and Discrimination
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| August 11 |
Santa Monica Friends
Quaker Meeting
Hiroshima-Nagasaki
Never Again!
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| September 10 |
First Baptist Church, LA
A Gathering for Civil Liberties
and Peaceful Tommorows
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| October 13 |
Loyola Marymount University
Peace Conference:
on the
Immoral & Illegal
U.S. War Against Iraq
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| 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
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| December 18 |
Masjid Omar Al-Khattab
USC Mosque
International Human Rights Day
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2003
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 Click for a Full List of ICUJP 2003 Highlights |
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| 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
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| 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!
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| 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
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| 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?
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| May 5 |
Beyond Violence Conference at USC:
Donald Miller and ICUJP Panel
Beyond Violence?
Reflections of a Hopeful Realist
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| June 2 |
Dolores Mission Catholic Church
War Stoppers –
Third Party Nonviolent Intervention
with guest David Hartsough and Boyle Heights Community Panel
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| June 8 |
Immanuel Presbyterian Church
Los Angeles
Be Not Afraid:
Another Nation – Another World
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| July 7 |
The Friendship Center (SGI)
Stolen Dollars:
How the War Economy Short-Changes the Quality of Our Lives
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| September 8 |
All Saints Church / Pasadena
Unprecedented:
The Undermining of Democracy
in America
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| October 13 |
La Placita Catholic Church
An evening with
El Salvador Presidential candidate Schafik Handal
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| November 16 |
USC – Mark Taper Hall
An Educational Forum
with Chip Berlet
AConfronting Extremism in Our Religious Traditions:
The Impact on the Public Square
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| January 18 |
St. John's Episcopal Church
Freedom Sings!
Songs of Dissent and Justice
in Celebration of
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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| 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
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| 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
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Download these
11 x 17 posters
If you do not have a printer that can make an 11 x 17 print -- Save the .pdf file to disk, then take the disk to a copy store and ask for a laser print on 11 x 17 paper. Then you can make copies from the master.
You could even just log-on to icujp.org at a copy store and print all of the below from the web.
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 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
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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."
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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