CONTENTS:
PHILLY AREA ACTION:
NATIONAL & INTERNATIONAL ACTION:
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ART FOR LIBERATION - (Because Art
Makes
Resistance Irresistible!)
ART FOR LIBERATION with Elizam Escobar and
Joserramon Che
Melendes
Friday, July 16, 2010 @ 7:00pm
The Rotunda, 4014 Walnut St
($5 suggested
donation to
benefit Centro Pedro Claver)
Calling all poets and playwrights, radicals,
culture
workers and community organizers! Join us for a conversation about art
in the
everyday work of social movements.
With special
guest Elizam
Escobar, a renowned painter and art theorist from Puerto Rico who spent
twenty
years in prison for his involvement in the Puerto Rican independence
movement.
During and since his incarceration, his art has been a vital component
of
Puerto Rican organizing on the island and in the U.S.
Plus
performances by poet
Joserramon Che Melendes (San Juan), Spiral Q Puppet Theater, and
members of MMP
Arts and Culture Collective.
Also featuring a
special
one-night exhibition of ZAPATA VIVE!, a portfolio of prints from La
Escuela de
Cultura Popular Martires del 68 (Mexico City).
Co-sponsored by
Books
Through Bars, Centro Pedro Claver, MMP's Arts and Culture
Collective, the National Boricua Human
Rights
Network and Spiral Q.
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You're Invited! Second Leadership Initiative
Training -
The Healthcare Reform Law
Saturday, July 17th, from 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
(Lunch will
be provided)
the PUP office (112 N. Broad St., 11th Floor)
Phila.
Learn how to educate others on the new health
care reform
law. We'll teach you everything you need to know! Also here
from
recent graduates about what they have learned as they have gone out and
educated
their communities.
By the end of this interactive training you'll
be able to
talk to all your friends and neighbors about the new health care law,
host your
own house party or educational forum and even know how to educate and
have a
mtg. with a State Rep or Member of Congress!
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This training is located in Philadelphia
but, if you would
like to hold
one in your area please contact us.
Please email Antoinette at
akraus@philuap.org or
call with questions 267-971-1680
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Event: The End of Capitalism Workshop - in
Philly by
Popular Demand!
Start Time: Thursday, July 22 at 7:00pm
End Time: Thursday, July 22 at 9:00pm
Where: Wooden Shoe Books @ 704 South St.
John Kirkland, Kathy Black, and 17 other
friends are also
invited.
To see more details and RSVP, follow the link
below:
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Ed Aguilar invited you to join the group "The
Project for Nuclear Awareness (PNA USA)"
Ed says, "Hi, you're cordially invited to join
the
new PNA Facebook group, replacing our PNA page. We're now campaigning
for the
START treaty, which will be harder to pass than some thought. Will you
join us,
in DC in September, PA districts, August 11? Stay tuned!".
To see more details and confirm this group
invitation,
follow the link below:
http://www.facebook.com/n/?group.php&gid=140622395949961&mid=29d23b6G2d1f52f1G52d1c04G6&n_m=marlsan%40cavtel.net
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NATIONAL & INTERNATIONAL ACTION:
Please check this out. The health of 9 million
is at
stake
Last night I went to a screening of a video
called
Gasland. I am officially scared to death. We all know
somewhere in
the back of our heads that outrages like this happen all the
time. This
one needs a few moments (or maybe more) of your time outside the
protective
partition. The movie is showing on HBO and you can see a trailer
and get
lots more info at their website. http://gaslandthemovie.com.
Please look at the website, sign the petition
and if
there’s any other way you can imagine yourself contributing to the
struggle, please consider it seriously. Here in the NY, PA, DE,
VA, and
OH area, where the bulk of the Marsallus shale is located, most of us
rely on
the Delaware River watershed for our water. The Delaware River
watershed
is the largest unfiltered drinking water supply in the country, serving
about 9
million people. Unfettered, unregulated, unplanned development of
the
shale will really be a kind of doom. Many have pointed out that
if we
think the oil wars are bad, just wait and see what the water wars will
be
like. There may still be time to keep from shooting ourselves in
the
foot.
Peace - Z - Deborah Zubow [mailto:DeborahZ@pccy.org]
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The Longest War -- Help AFSC end it.
Peter
Lems, AFSC [mailto:actioncenter@afsc.org]
The longest ever-that's what the U.S.-led war
in
Afghanistan is. Day after day, week after week, the government,
in your
name, squanders resources needed for jobs, better schools, college
scholarships, repaired bridges and roads, enhanced unemployment
benefits.
AFSC has opposed the war in Afghanistan from
the
beginning. We believed then, as we do today, that dialogue and
diplomacy
are more effective ways to engage the world.
And now polls show that the majority of
Americans are
coming to agree with us, just as Afghans increasingly call for NATO -
including
U.S.-troops to leave their land.
But yet the U.S. government still insists on
paying for
this war. I ask that you please support us with an immediate
contribution
so we can continue to bring attention to the human and financial costs
of this
devastating conflict.
http://support.afsc.org/site/R?i=bY-UMrPsPTRGLOeb-bTetA..
We'll use the money to fund programs like:
* Speaking tours by Afghans to bring
their voices
directly to the American public;
* A mural project featuring dozens of
artists and
their reflections on the civilian war casualties;
* A video contest: How Would You Spend A
Trillion
Dollars?;
* Widespread distribution of materials
that outline
the costs of war;
* "Eyes Wide Open" exhibits which feature
a pair of boots to represent each of the deaths
incurred by a U.S. soldier.
And, in Washington, D.C., we continue to
advocate for a
timeline ending the war in Afghanistan, to oppose any additional
extended
funding for it, and for a reductions in overall military spending so
that those
resources can be used for urgent domestic needs.
Your pro-peace leadership is needed more than
ever.
And we need your financial support NOW to help us continue our
efforts.
Help us build the momentum for peace and "to take away the occasion of
war." Please make your contribution today.
View this
message as a web
page.
http://support.afsc.org/site/R?i=3chzfEv7XCKcG8Y8A3viOg..
With grateful thanks, Peter Lems, For AFSC's
Wage Peace
Campaign
PS. Your
donation is
most welcome and is tax-deductible!
http://support.afsc.org/site/R?i=dIHO5ElTGbkCY5co_fZg8g..
Forward this message to your friends.
http://support.afsc.org/site/R?i=wPFwfz6LTCZXSDknuDcS7A..
Help support AFSC's worldwide work for peace,
justice and
human dignity.
**
Make a donation today. **
http://support.afsc.org/site/R?i=WIJVZc8DVTTYR9qvNJEJBQ..
American Friends Service Committee, 1501 Cherry
Street,
Philadelphia, PA 19102
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By
James Ridgeway and Jean Casella, Solitary Watch
U.S.
Supermax Prisons Are Challenged in the European Court of
Human Rights, and Lose the First Round For years,
four
British nationals have been fighting against their extradition to the
United
States to face various terrorism charges, arguing that such a move
would place
them at risk of human right violations, as defined by the 1950 European
Convention on Human Rights. When courts in the UK ruled against the
four men,
they took their cause to the European Court of Human Rights in
Strasbourg.
Frank
Schaeffer: "Christian-Zionism" Is Trouble for
Israel and the USA Some of the nuttiest American
religious
leaders today (and in the past) have latched on to one form or another
of
Christian Zionism. These days Reverend John Hagee (pastor of a mega
church with
thousands of members in San Antonio) is a leading Far Right Evangelical
and
ardent fan of Israeli expansion into the disputed West Bank.
*
"Israel's Press' Political Leukemia," by
Bernard Avisha,
(Bio)
Avishai splits his time between
Jerusalem
and Wilmot, New Hampshire. He is adjunct professor of business at
Hebrew
University. He's taught at Duke, MIT, and was director of the Zell
Entrepreneurship Program at the Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya.
From 1998
to 2001 he was International Director of Intellectual Capital at KPMG
LLP.
Before this he headed product development at Monitor Group, with which
he is
still associated. From 1986 to 1991 he was technology editor of Harvard
Business Review. A Guggenheim Fellow, Avishai holds a doctorate in
political
economy from the University of Toronto. Before turning to management,
he
covered the Middle East as a journalist. He's written dozens of
articles and
commentaries for The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, Harvard
Business
Review, Harper’s and many other publications. He is the author of three
books on Israel, including the widely read, "The Tragedy of Zionism,"
and the recently published "The Hebrew Republic."