Bring your own picnic and drinks...
5:30 pm to 9:30 pm
Neighborhood Church
301 North Orange Grove Blvd.
Pasadena
directions
Neighborhood Unitarian Universalist Church is just north of the 134 Freeway at 301 North Orange Grove Boulevard. Next to Pacific Oaks College and the Gamble House on the west side of the boulevard.
Neighborhood Unitarian Universalist Church hosts ICUJP and friends as we come together on Independence Day. Celebrate and relax, watch the firworks and enjoy each other's company as we join in a celebration of values we can be proud of – Liberty and Justice for All.
Thursday July 8, 2004
Conscientious Projector Presents
Film screening and discussion
Hidden In Plain Sight
Directed by John Smihula and Narrated by Martin Sheen
7:00 pm
Metro Gallery
64 North Raymond Avenue
(at Union Street)
Pasadena
directions
Fair trade coffee and snack bar
As the outrages at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison continue to make the headlines, Conscientious Projector takes a look at U.S. complicity in campaigns of torture and murder in Central and South America. ?Hidden In Plain Sight? focuses on the School of the Americas at Fort Benning, Georgia? training ground of Latin American dictators, assassins and death squads. Community discussion will be held afterwards, with Hector Aristizabel, who appears in the film, and was, himself, a torture victim in his native Columbia. For more on the film, look up www.hiddeninplainsight.org
Conscientious Projector takes place on the second Thursday of every month featuring investigative journalism and documentary filmmaking. The series offers the public an opportunity to meet and talk with filmmakers and journalists and discuss critical issues with friends, neighbors and local community leaders.
A Film Series Presented by
Sustainable World and
The Theatre of the Oppressed
in Association with Light Bringer Project
Thursday July 15, 2004
Breaking the Barriers to Re-Entry:
A One Day Symposium
presented by the Community Coalition and Progressive Christians Uniting
8:00 am – 3:00 pm
Holman United Methodist Church
3320 W. Adams Blvd.
(Arlington Exit off the 10 Fwy, South to Adams, Right Two Blocks West)
Los Angeles
directions
Looking at the impact of mass incarceration on families and communities – a free symposium and continental breakfast and light lunch.
For more information and to RSVP:
contact Lorraine Dillard 323-750-9087, ext. 243
Sunday July 18, 2004
Coming Together Garden Tea
A discussion of
Issues of Concern to Women & Children
with People of Many Faiths
Featuring Elizabeth Shoals
Director of Public Policy
California Council of Churches
3:00 pm
Hospitality House
1200 W. 7th Place
Los Angeles (near USC)
directions
RSVP 310 837 1313
co-sponsored by:
California Church Impact, Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice (CLUE), Fellowship of Reconciliation, Immaculate Heart Community Peace and Justice Commission, ICUJP, Southern California Ecumenical Council
Sunday July 18, 2004
Youth Interfaith Drumming
6:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Meeting Bahái Center
5755 Rodeo Road (at La Cienega)
Los Angeles
Multipurpose Room in Unity Center
directions
Featuring Libby Shoals
Director of Public Policy
California Council of Churches
What You Can Do for Others & Yourself
re Higher Education & Crimianl Justice
RSVP to M.C. Paul Reese 909 861-2649
pcelove04@aol.com
co-sponsored by:
California Church Impact, Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice (CLUE), Fellowship of Reconciliation, Immaculate Heart Community Peace and Justice Commission, ICUJP, Southern California Ecumenical Council
Thursday - Sunday,
August 5 - 9, 2004
The Fellowship of Reconciliation
National Gathering
Organizing the REAL Superpower:
People of the World Choose Peace
Occidental College
1600 Campus Road
Los Angeles (Eagle Rock)
directions
Celebrating 90 years of creative nonviolent leadership, the Fellowship of Reconciliation will hold its national meeting this August at Occidental College in Eagle Rock.
For more information on this conference and to register on line, visit:
www.forusa.org/conference2004
Featured speakers include:
Kathy Kelly
(Voices in the Wilderness)
Rev. James Lawson
Bishop Gene Robinson
Rabbi Leonard Beerman
and the parents of slain peace activist Rachel Corrie
Participating Organizations presenting workshops include:
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU),
American Friends Service Committee (AFSC),
Center on Conscience and War,
Los Angeles County Human Relations Commission,
Center for the Advancement of Nonviolence,
Pace e Bene Nonviolence Service,
Global Exchange,
United Teachers of Los Angeles (UTLA) Human Rights Committee,
Interfaith Communities United for Justice and Peace (ICUJP) and more.
Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) teachers can obtain one (1) teacher’s salary credit for attendance. For details contact Linda Tubach at 626.284.6212 or ltubach@lausd.k12.ca.us.
For more information on this conference and to register on line, visit:
www.forusa.org/conference2004
