3:30 pm

Pershing Square
Between 5th & 6th, Hill & Olive
Downtown Los Angeles
directions

sponsored by
Clergy & Laity United for Economic Justice
(CLUE)

2800 Los Angeles Luxury Hotel Workers Struggle to Obtain a New and Just Contract

The current situation:
As of October 15, 2800 Los Angeles luxury Hotel Workers have been working without a contract for six months. In spite of the presence of a federal mediator for the past several weeks, there has been no significant progress in negotiations. Key issues, including wages more in line with comparable cities, fair workloads, protection of employee health benefits and workforce diversity, have not been addressed recently. And during this time management has suspended numerous workers and has made life highly stressful for all their workers, particularly for those who are identified as worker leaders in the struggle.

Management has tied negotiation on these key issues to the union's relinquishing their demand for a two-year contract expiring in 2006. The union has pointed out that a 2006 expiration, coordinating the Los Angeles contracted with as many as nine other cities, is crucial to level the playing field in negotiations between union locals in individual cities and national hotel chains.

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What Then Are We To Do?
Contribute to the "Hungry for Justice" collection of food staples. CLUE is going to begin a relief center next month to relieve pressure on workers heading into the holiday season. The first food distribution will be Thursday, November 23. At that time, in addition to the staples we have collected, CLUE will be distributing Thanksgiving turkeys to workers and their families. Can you help us find several thousand turkeys?

Continue contributions to the Worker Hardship Fund, either by mailing your check to CLUE or by using your credit card on CLUE's website: www.cluela.org So far we have collected over $6000. These funds will also be administered through the relief center.

In solidarity for justice,

Rev. Alexia Salvatierra
Rev. David Wheeler
CLUE

Thursday November 18, 2004
Affirm Our Moral Values
co-sponsored by ICUJP and the American Friends Service Committee

6:15 pm - 8:15 pm

American Friends Service Committee
980 N. Fair Oaks Avenue
Pasadena
directions
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In this past election, we saw "morality" redefined to be little more than opposition to abortion and gay marriage. But, what about war's cost to civilians and society? What about taxes being cut for the wealthy while poor and working poor people were forced out of social programs that support basic needs? What about the pollution of our environment? What about spreading fear against GLBT and immigrants? What about the death penalty? These are moral values and we cannot allow morality to be defined to not include them.

Please join faith-based and other activists for a meeting to design a strategy for speaking the truth about our broader agenda and definition of morality through the media, our places of worship and other organizing. Sponsored by Interfaith Communities United for Justice and Peace and the American Friends Service Committee.

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Thursday November 18, 2004
USA Patriot Act – Three Years Later
Panel Discussion

6:30 – 8:30 pm

Southwestern University
School of Law
675 S. Westmoreland Ave
Los Angeles
Bullocks Wilshire Bldg., Room 330
directions

A retrospective look at the implications of the Patriot Act on our rights, civil liberties, privacy, freedoms and safety as a nation following the third anniversary of the passage of the USA Patriot Act.

with

Stephen Rohde
Former President ACLU of Southern California

Katherine Darmer
Chapman University Law Professor and Author of
National Security and Civil Liberties in a Post 9/11 World

Sherman Austin
Los Angeles Activist Incarcerated under the Patriot Act

Mark Gonzales
Spoken Word Performance following the event

Refreshments will be provided

Sponsored by:
Southwestern Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild
Southwestern Latino American Student Association
Southwestern Black Law Student Association
Southwestern Public Interest Law Society

Thursday November 18,
Friday November 19 &
Sunday November 21, 2004
Seeking Justice
for the Assassination
of Archbishop Romero
and Other Crimes Against Humanity

For us, Oscar Romero was like Martin Luther King for the United States, or Gandhi for India.
   -- Dr. Francisco Acosta
        founder, Archbishop Romero University in El Salvador

For the first time in 25 years, an individual has been held accountable for the assassination of Archbishop Romero. Under a little-known U.S. law that permits civil suits against persons who have committed human rights violations in other countries if they live in or visit the United States, a federal judge, on September 3rd, found Alvaro Rafael Saravia, a former Salvadoran air force captain, liable for his key role in organizing the killing. Read more...

Thursday November 18, 2004
USC & SANA Educational Forum

4:00 pm - 6:00 pm

featured guests
Matt Eisenbrandt &
Almudena Bernabeu
(CJA)
Joseph Palacios, PhD
(The Center for Religion & Civic Culture)

USC University Religious Center
Fish Bowl Chapel
835 W. 34th St
Los Angeles
directions
(Parking in Structure D, Gate 4 off Jefferson)

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Friday November 19, 2004
Hosted by
La Clinica Mons. Romero Forum

6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Immanuel Presbyterian Church
3300 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles
directions

featured guests
Eduardo Gonzalez
(Clinica Romero)
Matt Eisenbrandt &
Almudena Bernabeu
(CJA)

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Sunday November 21, 2004
Forum at All Saints Church

10:15 am

All Saints Church
132 N Euclid Ave
Pasadena
directions

featured guests
Matt Eisenbrandt &
Almudena Bernabeu
(CJA)
Nico van Aelstyn
(Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe, LLP.)

Followed by Lunch at Noon
Pupusas & other Salvadoran delicacies

The Center for Justice & Accountability (CJA), based in San Francisco, works to deter torture and other severe human rights abuses around the world by helping survivors hold their persecutors accountable. CJA is the leading center in the United States that tracks down human rights abusers in the U.S. and brings civil suits against them. CJA also provides information and training to U.S. and other government agencies to help them pursue and prosecute human rights abusers within their borders. Amnesty International and others estimate that hundreds of human rights abusers now live in the United States, and dozens more visit every year.

Matthew Eisenbrandt, CJA’s Litigation Director, and Almudena Bernabeu, CJA’s International Attorney, led the investigation of the Romero assassination and served as co-counsel at trial.

Nico van Aelstyn, a partner with the law firm of Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe LLP, served as the lead trial counsel on a pro-bono basis.

For more information please contact Sonia Estival at
(415) 544-0444 x303 or sestival@cja.org

Wednesday December 8, 2004
Medical Aid For The
War-Injured Children of Iraq
Sponsored by
Nomorevictims.org
and Veterans for Peace

Greet Asra'a and her father before their return to Iraq

7:30 pm

Venice United
Methodist Church
1020 Victoria Ave
Venice
directions
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Featured Speakers
Medea Benjamin
(Global Exchange)

Fernando Suarez de Solar
(Miltary Families Speak Out)

Tim Goodrich
(Iraq Veterans Against the War)

Cole Miller
(nomorevictims.org)

In 2002 Cole Miller, founding director of NoMoreVictims.org, made a poster using Vietnam Veteran Alan Pogue's powerful photograph of Asra'a Mizyad, an Iraqi child who was severly injured in a US missile attack near Basra in 1999. Miller and Pogue made an unsucessful attempt to get Asra'a out before the war. In August of this year, they returned to the Middle East and brought Asra'a and her father, Abdul-Ameir Salman, to Houston, where she received rehabilitative treatment and a prosthetic arm.

Soon they will return to their home in Abu Floos, in southern Iraq, where Asra'a's mother and four brothers and sisters await their arrival. Please join us in greeting Asra'a and her father while they are in Los Angeles. Proceeds from the event will help fund their return, provide a nest-egg to help Asra'a and her family.

More information about NoMoreVictims' recent trip to Iraq and the work to bring Asra'a to the U.S. for medical treatment can be found at nomorevictims.org

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
Click for a Full List of ICUJP 2003 Highlights
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

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.