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

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

Saturday May 15, 2004

A Budget Issues Workshop for People of Faith

featuring

Jean Ross
Executive Director, California Budget Project

Sen. Richard Alarcon
Chair, Joint Legislative Committee on Ending Poverty

Elizabeth Shoals
Public Policy Director,
California Church IMPACT

8:30 am - 12:30 pm

First AME Church
2720 S. Harvard Blvd.
Los Angeles
(from 10 fwy., exit on Western, south to Adams, left to La Salle,
left to 25th St., left to Harvard)
directions

Suggested donation: $10.00
(no one turned away)

More information:
Rev. Kathy Cooper-Ledesma 323 256-3162 or email kathy@calchurches.org

Saturday May 15, 2004

Peace of Music
1st Annual Culver City High School
Peace Concert

5:00 pm - 10:00 pm

tickets: $10.00 adults, 5.00 students
(children under 12 free)

Robert Frost Auditorium
Culver City High School
4401 Elenda Street
Culver City
directions

featuring:

Frieden (student rock band)

Los Angeles Peace Chorus (interfaith choral)

KO (inspirational pop)

Breathable Kingdom (funky world fusion)

Brazilian Jazz

Yuval Ron Ensemble (mystical Middle Eastern)

Join the students of Culver city High School as they present an evening of music and entertainment celebrating peace, culture,and education. The concert will showcase a variety of cross-cultural rhythms and styles by diverse artists. Music will include talented choral arrangements, pop fusion, indigenous sound, Brazilian classics and sacred musical traditions. Come together for a truly inspirational event!

poster design by Monica Leon

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

Monday May 17, 2004

Brown v Board of Education:
Promises To Keep

sponsored by
the Beverly Hills Bar Association

Co-sponsored by Los Angeles County Bar Association, ACLU of Southern California, Public Counsel, Progressive Jewish Alliance, CLUE, Council on American Islamic Relations, Bet Tzedek Legal Services, Physicians for Social Responsibility-LA, Interfaith Communites United for Justice and Peace, Los Angeles Human Relations Commission

7:00 to 9:30 pm

Free to the General Public
MCLE credit available

Holman United Methodist Church
3320 West Adams Blvd
Los Angeles
(Arlington Exit off the 10 Fwy,
South to Adams, Right Two Blocks West)
directions
download a flyer

A community discussion sponsored by the Beverly Hills Bar Association, exploring the historic decision in Brown v Board of Education, decided May 17, 1954 and the work left to be done to achieve racial equality in America

Featuring a panel of distinguished speakers:

Rev. James Lawson
Chair, Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice

Judge John Meigs, Los Angeles Superior Court

Judge Roosevelt Robinson (ret), worked on the Brown case as a law student at Howard University

John Patton, Former President of the BHBA

Angela Oh, Member, President's Initiative on Race; Professor, University of California at Irvine

Isabelle Gunning, Professor of Law, Southwestern Univ. School of Law and Member, Board of Directors, ACLU-SC

Stephen Rohde, Moderator; President, BHBA; Author of American Words of Freedom

RSVP to Pam at the BHBA, 310-553-6644

Thursday May 20, 2004

The World Wall: A Vision of the Future Without Fear
A Multi-Panel World Traveling Peace Mural

Presented By:
Social and Public Art Resource Center (SPARC)

Reception
6:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Featuring the Mexican
and Israeli-Palestinian Panels

SPARC Gallery
685 Venice Boulevard
Venice
directions
310 822-9560

On Thursday, May 20th there will be a reception for the Los Angeles premiere of two of eight panels from the traveling peace mural, The World Wall: A Vision of the Future Without Fear. Conceived of by artist Judith F. Baca and sponsored by the Social and Public Art Resource Center (SPARC), this 210 foot long mural consists of eight 10 x 30 foot portable panels on canvas. The World Wall mural addresses contemporary issues of global importance: war, peace, cooperation, interdependence and spiritual growth. Invited artists from around the world were asked to envision the transformation from a war-based society to a peaceful one.

As the World Wall tours internationally, additional panels by artists from different countries are added to complete this visual tribute to the "Global Village."

Currently on display through June 4th in the SPARC Gallery is the panel done by two artists from Mexico (Martha Ramirez-Oropeza and Patricia Quijano) and the panel created collaboratively by an Israeli Jew, an Israeli ! Arab and a Palestinian (Adi Yuketieli, Ahmed Buriat and Suliman Mansur.)

Co-Hosted By:

Consulate General of Mexico
American Friends Service Committee
Americans for Peace Now
Interfaith Communities United for Justice and Peace
Levantine Cultural Center
Mexican Cultural Institute
Muslim Public Affairs Council
Progressive Jewish Alliance

For more information about SPARC and the World Wall mural, please visit:
http://www.sparcmurals.org

About the Social and Public Art Resource Center (SPARC)

Founded in 1976 by Judith F. Baca, Christina Schlesinger and Donna Deitch, SPARC is recognized as one of the country's most respected community-based arts organizations. SPARC is dedicated to producing, presenting and preserving public art. The organization is best known for its signature piece, the Great Wall Of Los Angeles ! – the longest mural in the world – and for its work in hundreds of Los Angeles neighborhoods at a grass roots level to produce a rich legacy of murals that reflect the ethnic face of our city. A socially relevant, activist minded, politically spirited organization, at the heart of what SPARC believes is that art is a tool for social change and self-transformation.

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

Friday May 14, 2004

Public Witness: End US War Crimes and Atrocities
Vigil For Justice and Peace

10:00 am – 11:30 am

Downtown Los Angeles Federal Building
300 N. Los Angeles Street

Bring Testimony, Peaceful Spirit, Courageous Heart, Compassionate Intentions, Unwavering Hope, Musical Instruments, Signs of Life

called by Rev. Paul Sawyer and friends

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

Economic Justice is the Foundation of Peace:
The US Occupation of Iraq is Part of a Worldwide Attack Against Working People

"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.!

Peace Vigil every Wednesday evening

Palisadians for Peace
until consciousness shifts
beyond war

from 5:00 pm -6:30 pm
at the corner of
Swarthmore
and Sunset Blvd.
Pacific Palisades

Please bring signs, banners,
wear T-shirts, hats, etc.

This is a peaceful event.
The goal is to ask "Why War?"

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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