Muslim

Join the ICUJP email announcement list
Jew
Christian peace justice sexism racism progressive activist anti-war Prophetic Tradition
Buddhism
religion church scriptures Jesus Mohammed God Christianity Judaism Islam prophetic
 
For a comprehensive Los Angeles area calendar of Social Justice, Peace and Community events, see:
the Center for the Advancement of Nonviolence
This web site provides announcements and information. ICUJP does not necessarily endorse the meetings herein announced.

| July 10 – Book: Robert Jensen, media critic – Citizens of the Empire: The Struggle to Claim Our Humanity  | July 15 – Community Coalition and Progressive Christians Uniting: Breaking the Barriers to Re-Entry – A One Day Symposium | July 15 – August 1 – Stage: Nonviolent Peaceforce Benefit – The Bhagavad Gita – The Song Of God | July 18 – California Church Impact: Coming Together Garden Tea – Issues of Concern to Women & Children | July 18 – Bahái Center: Youth Interfaith Drumming | July 20 – PSR-LA: Stephen Rohde, Esq. – Liberty and Truth Are the First Casualties of War | July 25 – Peace with Justice and Coexistence: Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi at the Islamic Center | August 5-9 – Fellowship of Reconciliation: National Gathering: Organizing the REAL Superpower: People of the World Choose Peace | September 11 – ICUJP & Many Others: 9/11: Journeys of Global and Local Healing | September 12 – PCU: Eyes on the Prize: The Stakes for People of Faith on November 2nd & Beyond | September 19 – Progressive Citizens Network: REALITY 2004 – Music, Munchies and Musings – Powerful and Uncensored! | 

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
select, then press search
type, then press search

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.

JOIN US EVERY FRIDAY MORNING AT 7:00 am (except where noted below)
— meeting every week since September 28, 2001...
Be an ICUJP Volunteer!
Click here to sign up!
Support ICUJP!
Donation Amount  $25.00  $50.00  $100.00 
ICUJP uses the secure payment services of AuthorizeNet
ICUJP Calendar of Events

Saturday July 10, 2004

The L.A. Sound Posse features
Robert Jensen
media critic

speaking on his new book
Citizens of the Empire:
The Struggle to Claim
Our Humanity

7:00 pm
Suggested donation $5. Tablers are welcome

Venice United Methodist Church
1020 Victoria Ave.
Venice
1 block North of Venice Blvd on Lincoln Blvd.
directions

For directions and information,
More information: 310.289.2171 or visit our
website: www.lasoundposse.org

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

Thursday  – Sunday,
July 15 - August 1, 2004

A Work In Progress Public Showing of...
The Bhagavad Gita
The Song Of God

directed by Jeff Kober
performed by Bernard White

Benefit for the
NONVIOLENT PEACEFORCE
an international organization that is fulfilling Gandhi's dream of a "Shantih Sena", a Peace Army.

at plymouth (a tiny little theatre)
on Melrose at Heliotrope
(3 blocks West of Vermont)

Thursday, Friday, Saturday at 8:00 pm
Sunday at 3:00 pm

No admission will be charged. We will ask for donations to go to Nonviolent Peaceforce

More information: Bernard White or Nathalie Canessa White at 323 661-9508

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

Tuesday, July 20, 2004

PSR-LA presents
Stephen Rohde, Esq.
Liberty and Truth Are the First Casualties of War

7:30 pm

at the home of
Drs. Donald and Judith Broder
Studio City
Please call to reserve and receive directions:
(213) 386 4901 x112,
or email parfrey@psr.org

Stephen Rohde, Esq.
Nationally recognized constitutional law expert, author of American Words of Freedom, and current president of the Beverly Hills Bar Association – will discuss the Bush Administration’s war-time abuses of civil liberties and human rights. Seating is limited.

Sunday July 25, 2004

Peace with Justice and Coexistence presents

Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi
speaking on the
Palestine National Initiative for
a Secular, Democratic Society

6:00 pm

The Islamic Center
of Southern California
434 S. Vermont Avenue
Los Angeles
directions

Dr. Barghouthi is president of the Palestinian Medical Relief Committees, a physican, and a co-author of the new Palestinian National Initiative.

Leonard Beerman, Rabbi Emeritus of Leo Baeck Temple will introduce Dr. Barghouthi. Closing remarks by Dr. Maher Hathout, spokesperson of the Islamic Center of Southern California.

Co-sponsored by:
Women in Black Los Angeles, Palestine Aid Society and the Muslim Public Affairs Council. The event is endorsed and supported by The Reverend Ed Bacon Rector of the All Saints Church in Pasadena, and by Daniel Sokatch

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

SAVE THE DATE
and tell your friends:

Saturday September 11, 2004

ICUJP partners with the Violence Prevention Coalition of Greater Los Angeles
inviting the community to

9/11: Journeys of Global
and Local Healing

Multiple peace marches, each with an individual message tied in to the overall theme of the connection between domestic violence and international violence, will converge in MacArthur Park in Los Angeles for a major rally!

Co-Sponsors include:

VPC- Violence Prevention Coalition

SANA - Salvadoran American National Association

CAIR - Council on American Islamic Relations

CORAL - Communities Organizing Resources to Advance Learning

FOR - Fellowship of Reconciliation

NLG - National Lawyers Guild, Los Angeles Chapter

SOL Foundation

PAX Christi Los Angeles

Tikkun Community

All Saints Church, Pasadena

To add your group for a march or as a co-sponsor,
please call the ICUJP office at 626-683-9004,
or e-mail icujp@pacbell.net with "Journeys" in the subject line

Sunday September 12, 2004
Progressive Christians Uniting

Eyes on the Prize:
The Stakes for People of Faith
on November 2nd & Beyond
Convocation-Rally

2:00 pm

Ward AME Church
1177 W 25th St.
Los Angeles
directions

September 19, 2004

Organized by Progressive Citizens Network
Reality 2004
Warning! This event may provoke fits of laughter, rage or any emotion in between.
Not for the faint of heart!

3:00 pm -7:00 pm

Monte Vista UUC
9185 Monte Vista Ave.
Montclair
directions

Tickets: $20 at door $15 pre-paid
$10 students with current ID
No one turned away for lack of funds.
Must make arrangements 2 weeks in advance.

Jerry Quickley
Highly regarded performance poet and host of 90.7 KPFK's Beneath the Surface. Jerry has traveled to Iraq covering the occupation from a hip-hop perspective with a documentary called B-Boy in Baghdad.

Sonali Kolhatkar
Dynamic host and producer of 90.7 KPFK's Uprising and co-director of the Afghan Women's Mission. Sonali is a published author who writes and speaks about human rights in Afghanistan and of the responsibilty of the US to the people of Afghanistan

Dante Zappala
Author of the Dear Mr. Bush letter and a high school history teacher, Dante wrote his Dear Mr. Bush letter after he lost his beloved brother in Iraq. He brings a compelling and insightful perspective to important issues and current events.

Suzanne Westenhoefer
Passionate and accomplished stand-up comic and actor. Her HBO Comedy Special was nominated for a Cable Ace Award. Suzanne brings her own brand of irreverent humor and perspective to current social and political issues.

Music by DJ Buddy
Munchies
No Host Bar (light spirits)
Guest Speakers
Powerful and Uncensored!

Contact: Theresa Hernandez (909) 843-0393 or
Agnes Ferrer (909) 529-5201

Local ticket delivery
available for groups of 10 or more

Limited Seating
Buy your tickets early!

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
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

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.!


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.
Religious Communities Must Stop Blessing War and Violence
 War Won't End The War
War Is Not Hte Answer: Who Pays? Innocent Civilians. Who Profits? Dictators, Oil Companies, Politicians
 War Won't End The War
Peace Will Not Come From War
War Is Not Hte Answer: Who Pays? Innocent Civilians. Who Profits? Dictators, Oil Companies, Politicians
 War Won't End The War
War Is Not Hte Answer: Who Pays? Innocent Civilians. Who Profits? Dictators, Oil Companies, Politicians War Won't End The War
War Won't End The War
War Won't End The War War Is Not Hte Answer: Who Pays? Innocent Civilians. Who Profits? Dictators, Oil Companies, Politicians
War Is Not Hte Answer: Who Pays? Innocent Civilians. Who Profits? Dictators, Oil Companies, Politicians War Won't End The War
Peace Is: Health Care, Schools, Food Peace Is: Health Care, Schools, Food
Peace Is: Health Care, Schools, Food Peace Is: Health Care, Schools, Food
icujp.org calendar archive
Search The Calendar Archive
 

| calendar_12.01

| calendar_01.02

| calendar_02.02

| calendar_03.02

| calendar_04-5.02

| 04.20.02_busInfo.html

| calendar_09.02

| calendar_10.02

| calendar_11.02

| calendar 12.02a

| calendar 12.02b

| calendar 01.03a

| calendar 02.03a

| calendar 03.03a

| calendar 03.03b

| calendar 03.03c

| calendar 04.03a

| calendar 05.03a

| calendar 05.03b

| calendar 06.03a

| calendar 06.03b

| calendar 07.03

| calendar 08.03

| calendar 09.03a

| calendar 09.03b

| calendar 10.03

| calendar 11.03

| calendar 12.03a

| calendar 12.03b

| calendar 01.04a

| calendar 01.04b

| calendar 01.04c

| calendar 02.04a

| calendar 02.04b

| calendar 03.04a

| calendar 03.04b

| calendar 03.04c

| calendar 03.04d

| calendar 04.04a

| calendar 04.04b

| calendar 05.04a

| calendar 05.04b

| calendar 06.04a

| calendar 06.04b

| calendar 06.04c

| calendar 07.04a
FAIR USE NOTICE: This site contains copyrighted material the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. We are making such material available in our efforts to advance understanding of environmental, political, human rights, economic, democracy, scientific, and social justice issues, etc. We believe this constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material on this site is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml If you wish to use copyrighted material from this site for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use', you must obtain permission from the copyright owner.
© 2001 design by elbop for Interfaith Communities United for Justice and Peace