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

Saturday May 1, 2004

Caravan for Justice
Legalization Now for Immigrant Workers
sponsored by Multi-Ethnic Immigrant Organizing Network (MIWON)

Caravan starts
at MacArthur Park at Noon

Protest at Gov. Schwartzenegger's office at 2:30 pm (Westwood)

Rally at 5:00 pm at Forever 21
in Koreatown

Join the caravan to demand that immigrant workers receive legalization now and that the immigrant bashing be stopped!

The caravan starts at MacArthur Park at Noon. The march proceeds to the Westwood Federal Building and on to the Santa Monica Office of Governor Schwarzenegger at 2:30 pm marching through Koreatown at 4 pm then to the Assi Market and Forever 21 for a 5 pm Rally.

More information:
(213) 353-1781 or (213) 748-5866

Monday, May 3, 2004

Co-sponsored by First Unitarian Church of LA, Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice (CLUE), Progressive Christians Uniting & Progressive Jewish Alliance

Working Class Heroes:
The State of American Labor – May Day 2004

7:00 PM

First Unitarian Church,
2936 W. 8th Street
Los Angeles
(near 8th & Vermont, additional parking available at First Baptist Church across street)
download a flyer

Speakers to include

Rev. Ignacio Castuera
St. Johns United Methodist Church

Maria Elena Durazo
President, Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Union, (HERE) Local 11

Suzi Weissmann
Saint Mary's College
Host of KPFK's "Beneath the Surface"

Kent Wong
Director, Center for Labor Research and Education, UCLA

And some real Working Class Heroes...
members of HERE Local 11

In order to support Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice (CLUE) and their "Hungry for Justice" food bank for striking workers, ICUJP is asking people to bring at least one of the following items as a suggested donation:

Rice, Beans, Toothpaste, Diapers, Baby Formula, Laundry Detergent (in plastic containers)

Thursday, May 6, 2004

ICUJP Preaching Peace Luncheon

Speaker:
Rabbi Leonard Beerman
Founding Rabbi, Leo Baeck Temple

Respondants:
Imam Saadiq Saafir
Masjid Ibaadillah

Rev. Dr. James E. Brenneman
Pasadena Mennonite Church

Noon to 2:00
download a flyer

Center For Religion And Civic Culture (CRCC)
University Religious Center, USC

Directions (from Figueroa Street, East side USC Campus): Go west on Jefferson . Turn south (left) into Gate 4 (across from Royal Street). Let the attendant know that you are there to attend the ICUJP luncheon and ask for directions to the University Religious Center.
Further information on directions can be obtained from CRCC at 213-740-8562

Lunch: Kosher, Vegetarian
Cost: We request a donation of $10.00
Sponsored lunches available
RSVP: 626-683-9004 or by e-mail to icujp@pacbell.net

About ICUJP Preaching Peace Luncheons
Preaching Peace Luncheons provide an opportunity for interfaith dialogue around the challenges of preaching, teaching and engaging congregations and religious communities in the work of peace and justice.

Friday and Saturday
May 14 -15, 2004

Creating a Culture of Ahimsa:
Visions and Strategies
Inaugural Conference

Friday May 14:
9:00 am to 6:30 pm

Saturday May 15:
8:30 am to 8:30 pm

California State Polytechnic University
3801 West Temple Avenue
Pomona
directions

The Ahimsa Center conferences will be dedicated to experiments and innovations in Ahimsa (nonviolence). In our inaugural conference we will focus on Visions and Strategies for Creating a Culture of Ahimsa.

The conference will advance our understanding of visions and worldviews inspired by nonviolence and enable us to explore the strategies through which such visions are translated into realities. Our main goals for this conference are to:

Help us see the depth and destructiveness of violence. Violence is so pervasive, and yet so invisible—and hence so corrosive.
Make us aware of the constructive power of nonviolence and its practical significance in social, political and ecological contexts. Nonviolence is often misunderstood and hence assumed to be of little practical significance.
Engage us in building communities of ahimsaks (people committed to ahimsa). Individual as well as social transformation is critical to the creation of a culture of ahimsa.
Teach the meaning and significance of the culture of ahimsa
Investigate the role of education, training and networking in fostering respect and care for all life forms
Illuminate the role of compassion, civility, forgiveness, courage and justice in creating a culture of ahimsa
Explore individual and community level experiments and innovations in the culture of ahimsa

Speakers and Panelists

Krishna Ahuja-Patel, International President, Women's International League of Peace and Freedom, Geneva

A. T. Ariyaratne, Founder and President, Sarvodaya Shrmadana Movement, Sri Lanka

Kiran Bedi, Civilian Police Advisor to the United Nations Department of Peace Making, New York

Christopher Key Chapple, Professor of Theological Studies and Associate Academic Vice President at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles

Peggy DoBreer, K-12 Curriculum Coordinator, Center for the Advancement of Nonviolence, Los Angeles

Jack DuVall, President, International Center on Nonviolent Conflict, Washington D.C.
Dolores Huerta, Co-founder, United Farm Workers of America and President, Dolores Huerta Foundation, Bakersfield, CA

Laura Finley, Lecturer, University of Northern Colorado and Colorado State University

Mahmood Ibrahim, Chair and Professor, History Department, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

Padmanabh S. Jaini, Professor Emeritus, Jain and Buddhist Studies, University of California at Berkeley

Mary Elizabeth King, Professor of Political Science, United Nations University of Peace, Costa Rica Resident Scholar at Oxford, U.K.

Uma Majmudar, Religious Studies, Emory University, Atlanta, GA

Shabbir Mansuri, Founding Director, Council on Islamic Education, Fountain Valley, CA

Eisha Mason, Executive Director, Center for the Advancement of Nonviolence, Los Angeles

D.R. Mehta, Founder and Chief Patron, Bhagwan Mahaveer Viklang Sahayata Samiti (Jaipur Foot), and Prakrit Bharati Academy, India

Mutombo Nkulu-N'Sengha, Assistant Professor, Religious Studies, California State University, Northridge

Da’an Pan, Associate Professor, English Department, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

Tara Sethia, Director, Ahimsa Center and Professor of History, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona

Sulak Sivaraksa, Prominent Thai Social Critic; Founder, International Network of Engaged Buddhists; Editor of Sangkhomsaat Paritat

More information:
please contact Professor Tara Sethia at (909) 869 3868, tsethia@csupomona.edu

Sunday, Monday and Tuesday May 16-18, 2004

The time has come
to break the silence!
Clergy Leadership Network (CLN)

The Clergy Leadership Network invites you:

To join in a public witness of progressive patriotim
To join with people of every faith in a courageous challenge to renew America's moral voice at home and in the world redirect policies that shape our life together
To join in an exploration of the faith-based social vision echoing through our sacred texts
To join others who are ready to work for a future based not on our fears, but on our hopes

Friday June 18
and Saturday June 19, 2004

Founding Convention
On Ending Poverty in California
California Dream Foundation
To Develop a Master Plan to End Poverty

University of Southern California (USC)
Los Angeles
$25 registration fee
(fee waivers available to all qualified applicants)

California’s first annual statewide poverty convention is convened by Senator Richard Alarcón, Co-Chair of the Joint Senate and Assembly Committee.

The California Dream Foundation, established for the purpose of staging this event, invites representatives from foundations, government, corporations, labor, community and faith-based organizations, as well as concerned residents, to participate.

The event will:

Bring a cross-section of society together to address the causes of poverty and develop solutions to end poverty in California.
Form a nonpartisan coalition of stakeholders to champion an economy that works for all Californians.
Create a set of Resolutions that will serve as a common poverty policy platform

To Register:

Log on to www.californiadreamfoundation.org
or contact us at (818) 725-7900 to reserve your space at this event

Please submit registrations form by May 14, 2004
download a flyer

More information:
The California Dream Foundation... To End Poverty In California
P.O. Box 2507, Van Nuys, CA 91401
ph: (818) 725-7900
fax: (818) 788-7997

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

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

Tuesday April 20 , 2004

Protest Bechtel Corp
Vigil and Protest

Every Tueday Evening
Who Is the Bechtel Corporation Anyway?

at the Metro Red Line
Hope and 7th St station
Downtown Los Angeles
directions

Parking after 4pm for $2
on Hope between 7th and 8th St.

5:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Open mike speak out;
bring a candle if you can.
Music and spoken word welcome

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.!

For more information:
call (323) 292-7405, or or 323-221-1698
e-mail la@crossroadswomen.net

Interfaith Communities
United For Justice and Peace

Vigil for Peace
Every Saturday
since October 2002
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Fairfax And Third
near Farmer's Market, Los Angeles

for information: call 626 683-9004

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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