Greater Philadelphia area Action:
You are invited to join the Greater
Philadelphia Chapter
of the ACLU of PA for its Annual Chapter Meeting.
Secrecy,
Surveillance and
Security: A status report on civil liberties in the post-Bush era
featuring
keynote speaker Vic Walczak, legal director of the ACLU of PA
Tuesday, March
16 at 6:15
p.m.
Center for
Architecture,
1218 Arch St., Philadelphia, PA 19107
Free & open to the public. No RSVP
required. For more
information contact us at aclupa@aclupa.org or (215) 592-1513 x122.
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From: Jewish Voice for Peace <info@jewishvoiceforpeace.org>
An Evening with JVP in Philadelphia
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Dispirited? Enraged?
We'd like you to bring your checkbook to support JVP's current
campaigns for divestment from TIAA-CREF, in support of the Goldstone
report, toward freeing Israeli war resisters the Shministim, and
Palestinian anti-Occupation resisters includingAbdallah Abu Rahmah from
Bil'in. Your hosts:
Jesse Bacon, David Basior, Rebecca Subar, and Marlena Santoyo Jewish Voice for Peace members work together for peace, social
justice, equality, human rights, respect for international law, and a
U.S. foreign policy based on these ideals. JVP opposes
anti-Jewish bigotry, anti-Muslim racism, and anti-Arab
oppression. JVP takes brave stands and gives loud, principled
support to fellow activists in the U.S. and Israel/Palestine who resist
the status quo; seek an end to the Israeli occupation of the West Bank,
Gaza Strip, and East Jerusalem; seek security and self-determination
for Palestinians and Israelis; work for a just solution for Palestinian
refugees based on principles established in international law; seek to
end violence against civilians; and work for peace and justice for all
peoples of the Middle East. For more, visit www.jvp.org |
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March 18, Community College of Philadelphia,
B'Tselem's
Director of US Communications
Reconciliation and Human Rights- Citizen
Activism in
Israel/Palestine
A discussion with Mitchell Plitnick,
Director of
US Communications
for B'Tselem: The Israeli Information Center
for Human Rights
in the Occupied Territories
and Illit Rosenblum of the Coalition of
Women for
Peace
Thursday March 18, 2009, 12:30 PM
Community College of Philadelphia
1700 Spring Garden Street, Room BG-10
Contact the
Washington DC
B'Tselem office: mitchell@btselem.org
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The Waiting Room: From: Women's
Medical Fund
[mailto:judy@womensmedicalfund.org]
Please join us for a performance of The Waiting
Room, an
original play written by Megan Smith, Bryn Mawr College senior and WMF
phone
counselor. The Waiting Room tells the story of five women, each faced
with an
unwanted pregnancy and unable to afford an abortion.
The Waiting Room
will be
performed on Friday, March 19 and Saturday, March 20 at 8:00 pm on the
Bryn
Mawr College campus in Goodhart Hall (in the Katharine Hepburn Teaching
Theater). Click for a map.
Tickets are $5; all proceeds and donations will
benefit
Women's Medical Fund.
Saturday night's performance will be followed
by a Q
& A session and a reception. Students have planned a raffle to
raise
additional funds.
Directors: Luisana
Taveras '11,
Megan Smith '10, Playwright: Megan Smith '10
Producer/House Manager: Sam Haun '10, Scenic
Designer/Technical
Director: Di Wang '10
Stage Manager: Sarah Theobald '12, Cast: Nikki
Lopez '10,
Halima Freudberg '12, Augusta Irele '10, Fabiola Decius '10, Helen
Kunda '12,
Sarah Fischer '13, Isabel Holmes '12
This event is
made
possible by Bryn Mawr College Special Events Fund, The Dean's Office,
and the
Bryn Mawr College Women's Center.
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Help us get out of Iraq and Afghanistan
Northwest Greens
has
chartered a bus for Saturday, March 20, to take us to the National
Peace Rally
at the White House, www.march20.org. This rally is most important
because it
will let President Obama know that people like us are against his
continuing
occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq.
Participating in
civil
wars in two foreign countries has been terribly expensive – in dollars
and in lives. The occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq has cost us nearly
a
trillion dollars, http://www.costofwar.com/. As of today’s count, 5,386
U.S. service members have died in those civil wars (504 of them under
Obama’s command) www.icasualties.org. The Pentagon no longer keeps tab
of
civilian casualties (fear of trials for war crimes, perhaps), but the
estimates
are in excess of one million dead.
Also, you should
take a
moment now to reserve space on our bus, which will leave at 8:30 a.m.
on
Saturday, March 20, from in front of the Unitarian Society of
Germantown, 6511
Lincoln Drive in West Mount Airy. All you have to do is send your check
or
money order for $30/seat (round trip) to “Northwest Greens,” P.O.
Box 44353, Philadelphia, PA 19144-7353.
If you are not
able to
attend the National Peace March, your donation will allow us to offer a
discount to someone less fortunate. Thank you for your help in ending
two wars.
Peace, Chris Robinson, 215-843-4256
Northwest Greens, P. O. Box 44353,
Philadelphia, PA
19144-7353
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LaSalle University Hosts: Dr. Hanan Ashrawi:
Peace in the
Middle East:
A
just peace or just any peace?
When: Thursday,
March 25,
2010, Time: 12:30PM-2:00PM
Where: The Dan
Rodden
Theater (In the UNION Building)
LaSalle's
location is: 1900 W. Olney Ave., Philadelphia, PA 19141
Hanan Ashrawi,PH.D. will discuss her
distinguished work
for Palestinian national rights. Ashrawi was official spokeswoman for
the
Palestinian delegation to the Middle East Peace process during the 1991
Madrid
peace conference. Ashrawi is the recipient of the 2005 Mahatma Gandhi
International Award for Peace and Reconciliation, the 2003 Sydney Peace
Prize
and the 2002 Olof Palme Prize.
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Women's International League for Peace and
Freedom
invites you to a PARTY WITH A PURPOSE
The Middle East Children's Alliance
(MECA), a
registered non-profit working to improve the lives of children in the
Middle
East, has launched the MAIA project to bring clean water to the
Children of
Palestine. MECA provided the funds to build a water purification
and
desalinization system for the school. Each unit can provide pure
drinking
water for 2,000 students and staff. The MAIA Project's goal is to
provide
water purification and desalinization units at 20 Gazan elementary
schools,
kindergartens and nursery schools.
STEP OUT TO BRING CLEAN WATER TO THE CHILDREN OF GAZA
SATURDAY, MARCH 27, 2010. 5:30 - 7:30
The
Fairmount Water Works Interpretive Center
640 Water Works Drive. Philadelphia, Pa. 19130
* Exhibits, speakers, photographs,
videos, wine,
hors d'oeuvres, music, and Raffle*
Tickets: Students, $5.00; Adults, $20.00,
Reservations or more information, contact Doryloder@verizon.net or
215-438-5323
or come and pay at the door!
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National and International Action:
cnl@fcnl.org>
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Be a Peace of the Action, David Swanson
Sixty-five congress members, including 60
Democrats and 5
Republicans, voted to end the occupation of Afghanistan on Wednesday.
But 356
congress members, including 189 Democrats and 167 Republicans voted to
keep the
war going. This creates a better opportunity than you might
think.
But we have a lot of work to do, and it is the work of rebellion and
resistance. We can take a moral stand now, or we can doom our
children
and the world to suffering. There are no other choices, and
waiting for
others to lead us is not a moral option.
Be part of Peace of the Action:
http://peaceoftheaction.org
During the week of March 13-21, we will have
regularly
scheduled non-violence training, teach-ins and outreach during the day
and in
the evenings, we will be having: "dining with a dose of reality."
Our special programs:
Monday, march 15: Kevin Zeese (national
director of
voters for peace) and Dr. Margaret Flowers (single-payer activist)
speak about
the importance of always linking the u.s. war economy to the collapse
of the
rest of the economy and how we need to end the wars to have positive
social
programs here at home.
Tuesday, march 16: ex-CIA agent, Ray Mcgovern,
talks
about the importance of keeping Rachel Corrie’s dream alive on the
anniversary of her murder while trying to protect palestinian’s homes
from destruction.
Wednesday, march 17: David Swanson (after
downing street)
and Debra Sweet (national director of world can’t wait) speak about the
importance of holding u.s. war criminals accountable–from the top down.
Entertainment by Banjer Dan.
Thursday, march 18: Cindy Sheehan speaks about
the
importance of ramping up the anti-war movement to perform courageous
and
committed acts of civil resistance.
Friday, march 19: some of us will be leaving
camp to go
down to Charlottesville, Va to protest war criminal, john yoo, who is
speaking
at university of virginia (from: 1pm to 6pm) and we will be making
signs and
getting ready for the march on dc sponsored by answer.
Saturday, march 20: march on dc—meet at camp at
10am and we will be going together to the white house for the
march—after
the march, our friend, cynthia mckinney, will be visiting us at camp.
Sunday, march 21: pota day off: on our “day
off” we will be protesting at the aipac (american-israel public affairs
committee) convention at the dc convention center from 8am to about
8pm. War
criminals, Tony Blair and Benjamin Netanyahu will be speaking at the
conference.
Monday, march 22: our actions begin
(stealth–info
will be given at camp).
Online Video Chat With Michael Moore on March 16
The 30 minute session will be on Tuesday, March
16th at
3:00 pm EST at Brave New Films site:
http://bravenewfilms.org/michaelmoore
The session will be available for everyone to
watch and
participate by live chatting questions to Michael. Brave New Films’
Robert Greenwald will be fielding the questions you send. You can
also
start today by submitting your questions in advance:
http://bravenewfilms.org/michaelmoore
And, that’s not all! Only on the Brave
New Films
site can you get a special $5 off coupon on your retail purchase of the
‘Capitalism: A Love Story’ DVD or Blue Ray. The coupon is available
now for you to print directly from the site:
http://bravenewfilms.org/capitalismdvd
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Action Alert: PBS to Replace Moyers, NOW with
Newsweek
Editor?
PBS is reportedly in final talks with Newsweek
editor Jon
Meacham to be co-host of its forthcoming Need to Know program (New York
Times,
3/9/10<http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=7zfCC5ak806KRpbox9RGyu4S2%2F1dRiZp>).
Meacham's
consideration for a show that would replace hard-hitting independent
programs Now and the Bill Moyers Journal sends a clear and troubling
message
about PBS's priorities (Extra! Update,
6/05<http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=ymL%2Bk8i1ZVEkSmVJ7crcQu4S2%2F1dRiZp>).
Meacham is a fixture on commercial pundit shows
in
addition to his Newsweek duties. In these venues, he is a consummate
purveyor
of middle-of-the-road conventional wisdom with a conservative slant.
After the
2008 election, Meacham
(10/27/08<http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=gVf0%2BNvXzMTuVIenQ7avanTyxiHN1CHs>)
authored an article on America as a "center-right nation"--a
conclusion based on dubious historical analogies (Sarah Palin is a kind
of
Thomas Jefferson) and cherry-picking national election results, casting
aside
evidence that would undermine the conclusion (FAIR Blog,
10/19/08<http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Dx56JoHslU6JtaxKbEDqc%2B4S2%2F1dRiZp>).
Of course, some
sources
get more than their share "charity, dignity and respect," as when
Meacham remarked about interviewing Rev. Billy Graham (Imus in the
Morning,
6/27/05): "It was amazing. I went in and I realized this is what God
probably was going to look like. The white hair, the blue eyes, he'll
have a
Southern accent, that's the way it should be, I think."
While Now and Bill Moyers Journal are notable
for holding
politicians feet to the fire, Meacham uses much more generous
standards.
ACTION: Please write to PBS and tell them that
choosing
Jon Meacham to host Need to Know would mean that public television
still needs
to find suitable replacements for the hard-hitting, independent
journalism of
Now and Bill Moyers Journal.
CONTACT: Michael Getler, PBS Ombud
Web Form:
http://www.pbs.org/ombudsman/feedback.html<http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=KVSR%2Fm3BU%2FBDsA%2FLE3aRCO4S2%2F1dRiZp>
Please post
copies of your
letters in the comments section on the FAIR
Blog<http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=rG5wfs%2BI183%2BgC91tvXTL%2B4S2%2F1dRiZp>.
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CATA - The Farmworkers' Support Committee.
March 21st!
Immigration Reform March in Washington
D.C.!
"Organizing for the Immigration Reform March in
D.C.
on Sunday March 21st! Anyone want to come? Buses leaving from
Bridgeton, NJ and
Kennett Square, PA. Also, you can make a donation to support the trip
on our
website!"
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Reflection on Jerusalem and American
Responsibility,
Rabbi Brian Walt [rabbibrianwalt@gmail.com]
My latest blog post:
http://rabbibrian.wordpress.com/2010/03/11/how-do-you-deal-with-it-you-pay-for-it/
I invite your responses on the blog site and
also invite
you to subscribe to the blog.
All the Best, Brian
Phone January to May 2010: In Israel: 02
648-1492 ,
052-751-5081
From the U.S.: (617) 553-4915 (local call from
U.S. no
extra charges)
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Great short video of young women's
anti-recruiting mural
in NY
Several young students creatively express their
feelings
against military recruiters in their Brooklyn school and community.
Many of the
young artists
wanted to address the issue of military recruiting, and targeting youth
in
low-income areas. Utilizing a visual style inspired by war-time
propaganda
posters from around the world, the mural portrays three strong young
women in
classic military poses, armed not with violent weapons but with tools
of
creation and education. Banners that read, We Are Not Government
Issued, and
Arm Yourself with the Knowledge to Think for Yourself stream along the
wall.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFqL6XhPLsQ&feature=youtube_gdata
www.groundswellmural.org
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Phyllis Bennis & Amy Goodman on Ending the
US War in
Afghanistan
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/2/23/phyllis_bennis_on_ending_the_us
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Gay Marriage Is Legal in U.S. Capital,, Ian
Urbina, New
York Times, March 3, 2010