Green Party Local Calendar:  March 19 - March 27, 2006

(For Fremont, Newark and Union City -- California, USA)
Additions since last update on March 16, 2006:


SUMMARY OF UPCOMING EVENTS


Sun
 3/19
 6:30pm
 San Jose Ward Churchill, American Indian author, speaks on:
Developing a Strategy to Win
Churchill is a leading national voice against the genocide and repression of Native Americans, and against the many crimes of the US government carried out as "foreign policy".
Sat 3/25 12:00 noon
 San Jose
 Film about Venezuela, followed at 1:30pm by a talk by a Venezuelan trade union leader --at SEIU Local 715 hall in San Jose
Sat 3/25 6:00pm Palo Alto Ex-WMD inspector Scott Ritter and ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern speak on:
The Power of Truth in a Nation of Lies
Sun 3/26 8:00am-2pm San Jose 15 mile segment of 241 mile Latino march for peace, Tijuana to SF (Fernando Suarez del Solar, Pablo Paredes, Camilo Mejia, Aidan Delgado)




DETAILS

Mar. 19 (Sun) 6:30pm, San Jose

Ward Churchill -- Anti-Imperialist, American Indian & Author -- speaks on:
Developing a Strategy to Win

(To be introduced by Yuri Kochiyama)

Labeled "controversial" by politicians and pundits alike, Ward Churchill's scholarship endures the test of time. Rational, angry, yet ultimately hopeful, his is a leading voice against the ongoing genocide perpetrated on Native American peoples and the international crimes of the US government. Intellectually cogent while remaining accessible to the general reader, Churchill will challenge you to think, and the act, in thefight for justice waged since Predator came in 1492.

$5–15 donation suggested, no one turned away for lack of funds

Sponsored by:
Peninsula Anarchist Collective, MEChA, No More, Muslim Student Movement, AK Press, Bay Area Muslim Student Association, San Jose First Unitarian Social Justice Committee, South Comite in Solidarity With Cuba & Latin America, Watsonville Brown Berets, Justice for Palestinians, Estacion Libre

# San Jose First Unitarian Universalist Church
   160 N. 3rd Street, San Jose

Mar. 25 (Sat) 12 noon, San Jose

Hear Venezuelan Trade Unionist Luis ­Primo in San Jose
Speak on the Venezuelan People and the Bolivarian Revolution

12 noon Film Screening: 'Venezuela Bolivarianna: People and Struggle of the 4th World War'

This documentary by Marcelo Andrade examines the Venezuelan Revolution as connected to the worldwide movement against capitalist globalization.

1:30 p.m. Guest Speaker Luis Primo, Regional Coordinator,
National Union of Workers / Union Nacional de Trabajadores (UNT)
SEIU 715
2302 Zanker Road
Refreshments provided / $5 - $15 donation, no one turned away / wheelchair accessible
For more information: email [email protected] , call 408-998-8504 or go to www.SBM4peace.org

Sponsored by Hands Off Venezuela, SEIU Local 715 Latino Caucus, Women's International League for Peace and Freedom--San Jose branch, and South Bay Mobilization

Mar. 25 (Sat) 6:00pm, Palo Alto

"The Power Of truth In A Nation Of Lies"

SCOTT RITTER was the UN's top weapons inspector in Iraq between 1991 and 1998. Before working for the UN he served as an officer in the US  Marines and as a ballistic missile adviser to General Schwarzkopf in the first Gulf war. He is the author of Iraq Confidential, published by Nation Books.

RAY McGOVERN is a member of the Steering Group of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS). He worked as a CIA analyst for 27 years, and now works for Tell the Word, the publishing arm of the ecumenical Church of the Saviour in Washington, D.C.

6:00 Doors open; 6:30 Socializing; Program: 7:00   (Limited seating; fiirst come, first served.)
Suggested Donation: $10 (No one turned away due to lack of funds.)
Sponsors include Multifaith Voices for Peace and Justice, American Muslim Voice, and others.
# 1140 Cowper St., Palo Alto -- First Presbyterian Church
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 More info: http://www.ustourofduty.org/pages/events.html , 
http://www.multifaithpeace.org/calendar_event.php?eid=20060309113524627


Mar. 26 (Sun) 8:00am-2:00pm, San Jose

241 Mile March for Peace  --  15 Mile San Jose segment

Famous anti-war activists Fernando Suarez del Solar, Pablo Paredes, Camilo Mejia and Aidan Delgado will lead a coalition of the willing across this 241 mile quest for peace starting in Tijuana, Mexico, going through Marine Corps Depot Camp Pendleton to the Cesar Chavez burial site in La Paz, CA, culminating in The Mission district of San Francisco with a memorial ceremony and blood drive.

The March began on 12 March in Tijuana.  It passes throught San Jose on Sunday, March 26, then on Monday, March 27 it visits Oakland before ending at an event in San Francisco.

This 15 mile San Jose segment of the march begins at 8am:

8:00 am -
 March: Alum Rock Ave. & White Rd.
3:00 pm -
 Rally: Backesto Park at 13th St. & Empire St.
You can also join the march later, along the route (see link, below).

More info, including detailed route descriptions and maps for the San Jose segment:
  http://www.southbaymobilization.org/calendar/2006/2006_03.htm#0326MarchForPeace

Or contact: (408) 781-4593 -- info @ justthinkfirst.org


Mar. 27 (Mon) Oakland, San Francisco

On Monday, March 27, the march passes through Oakland, and concludes with an event in San Francisco.  More details for these cities later.
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More general, central website for the march:
  http://www.guerreroazteca.org/marcha/ppp_ingles.htm


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