MARIN PEACE AND JUSTICE COALITION
September 1, 2006
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A GUIDE TO ACTIONS AND EVENTS IN MARIN AND BEYOND
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LIVE YOUR DREAM SO OTHERS MAY LIVE THEIRS
IMPORTANT MPJC EVENT DATES:
Mon. September, 4, 5:30 p.m - until the cows come home
Come celebrate Labor Day at MPJC's
Labor Day Potluck – BBQ
First United Methodist Church
9 Ross Valley Dr. San Rafael
Bring your social or political issues along with your “potluck” or “fixin’s” for the grill, network and connect with other like minded Marinistas and really celebrate LABOR DAY the way it was meant to be celebrated.
Peace and love…
Fishbob
David Solnit, the Robin Hood of Social and Political Change
Sat., September 9, 10 .a.m. - 4 p.m
CHANGE THE WORLD THROUGH -
NONVIOLENT DIRECT ACTION TRAINING
• Learn about nonviolent direct action as a tool for social and political transformation.
• Learn to and practice techniques and scenarios for civil disobedience.
• Learn other ways besides civil disobedience that you can participate in nonviolent direct action.
• Learn about making action art that challenges the status quo.
• Learn about being a puppetista or a guerilla clown.
• Prepare for upcoming actions in September supporting the nationwide Declaration of Peace campaign.
COME TO A NONVIOLENT DIRECT ACTION TRAINING led by local, national, and international organizer and activist DAVID SOLNIT
•DOMINICAN SISTERS OF SAN RAFEL
1520 GRAND AVE., SAN RAFAEL
(Grand & Acacia)
PLEASE BRING A $10-15 DONATION FOR THE TRAINER
PLEASE BRING SOME FOOD TO SHARE FOR LUNCH
Sponsored by ¡Presente! Affinity Group, and MPJC coalition member. Phone 415-461-3662 for more information.
David Solnit, is a founder of Art and Revolution, which has helped popularize the use of art, street theater, and giant puppets as an innovative form of resistance in numerous movements across North America, and from Israel and Palestine to Argentina.
David is a direct action, strategy and street theater trainer and currently works with Courage to Resist, supporting GI resistance and the People Powered Strategy Network, promoting people power strategies to end the Iraq war and occupation. David lives and works as a carpenter in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Sun., Sept. 17, 1- 3 p.m.
(doors open 12:30)
Amy Goodman: A Celebration of Independent Media
A BENEFIT FOR THE INDEPEDENT MEDIA GUIDE OF MARIN
Amy Goodman will be appearing with investigative journalist David Goodman. They have co-authored a new book “Static” .
Live music performance by Shree Dove
Video presentation by LinkTV
Co-sponsored by:
• Marin Peace and Justice coalition
• KPFA radio
• The Expressions Program, Dominican University
Let's Change Marin's Media Landscape! Help the Independent Media Campaign to challenge the corporate lambs and support the roaring voices from Independent sources.
Click on the guide to find out more!
Freedom Happens when you make a choice...
Angelico Hall, Dominican University On Acacia Ave. (near Grand Ave)
San Rafael, CA
General - $18
Students - 12
THE POLITICAL SCENE
THE COMING WEEKS IN MARIN AND BEYOND
Please go to www.mpjc.org for the details
Tues., September 5, 7:30 - 9 pm
Crane Project
PeaceNovato work party.
Tues., September 5, 7 - 9 pm
DFAMarin
Meetup of Democracy for America Marin
Thurs., September 7, 7 - 8:30 pm –
Democratic Central Committee of Marin (DCCM),
Thurs., September 7, 2006
7:00 pm and 9:00 pm screenings
Premiere of “9/11 Press For Truth”
Grand Lake Theater, 3200 Grand Lake Avenue
Oakland, California,
Fri., September 8, 7:30 p.m.
MARIN ORGANIC HOSTS
WENDELL BERRY AND MICHAEL POLLAN
POINT REYES STATION
SAT., SEPTEMBER 9, 10 AM - 4 PM
NONVIOLENT DIRECT ACTION TRAINING
Sat., September 9, 9:30 - 11 am –
Novato Democratic Club's
Sat., September 9, 1-5 PM
BIG BIKE BASH
MCBC to Celebrate Nine Years of Success
Sat., Sept. 9, 3 - 6 PM
FRANK EGGER FOR WATER BOARD
A GALA CAMPAIGN KICKOFF
2 MEADOW WAY, FAIRFAX, 94930
Sat., September 9th, 2006, 10 a.m.
5th Annual Rally and March for 9-11 Truth
This Year's theme- "Impeach the Terrorists!"
Rally 10:00 am in San Francisco at the Panhandle
(between Oak and Fell at Ashbury)
10:30 am March/Parade up Ashbury to Haight Street
Sat., September 9, 2006, at 10 P.M.
Also airing
Sunday, September 10, 1 A.M.
Monday, September 11, 2 P.M.
Marin’s GROWING Garbage Problem...
Watch and Learn from LA’s problem
Garbage Mountain [TV-G]
Sunday, September 10, 6 P.M.
MITF Annual Dinner
Special Guests from Haiti Featured:
Father Gerard Jean-Juste
Pierre Labossiere
Brian Concannon
Sun., September 10. 3:30 - 6:30pm.
DEMOCRATS, PLEASE STAND UP
MARIN/SONOMA UNITY CAMPAIGN
Democratic Unity Campaign Kickoff celebration:
Mon., September 11
Work a Day for Peace!
www.workadayforpeace.org or www.nonviolentpeaceforce.org (en Español además).
Mon., September 11, 2006, 6:30 pm
Premiere of new film of David Ray Griffin-
“9/11 the Myth and the Reality”
Grand Lake Theater, 3200 Grand Lake Avenue, Oakland
Tues., Sept. 12, 6:30 pm –
Novato Fair Campaigns Act - Project $$$$$
Novato City Council addresses fair campaign issues,
Tues., September 12, 6:30 pm
Film- 9/11 Guilt: The Proof Is in Your Hands
Grand Lake Theater, 3200 Grand Lake Avenue, Oakland
Wed., September 13, 8 pm
What Can I Do? Lecture Series
Haiti: The UNtold Story
Sonoma State university
Thurs., September 14, 7:30 pm
VENEZUELA –
Social change in an oil-rich country
Tiburon Library
Sat., September 16, from 10 AM to 4 PM
PRACTICAL POLITICS CLASS
How YOU can be an Activist for Your Community
“All politics is local” -Tip O'Neill
Dotty LeMieux’s community activist and political training class
Sat., September 16, Noon - 5pm
Videoblogging Workshop
COLLEGE OF MARIN
Learn to - Be the Media
In this hands on workshop you’ll learn the ins and outs of videoblogging
Sat., September 16, 4 - 6 p.m. –
California Clean Money and Fair Elections Act
Marin Area Working Group for Proposition 89: at Town Center Community Room, 770 Tamalpais Drive, Suite 201, Corte Madera
Sun., Sept. 17, 1- 3 p.m. (doors open 12:30)
Amy Goodman: A Celebration of Independent Media
A BENEFIT FOR THE INDEPEDENT MEDIA GUIDE OF MARIN
Mon., September 18, 7 - 9 pm
Sustainable Novato (SN)
Monthly meeting,
Thurs., September 21, 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m
Northern California 9-11 Truth Alliance Meeting
at The Grand Lake Neighborhood Center
September 23, 2006
The Declaration of Peace:
A Day of Nationwide Nonviolent Action
Sat., September 23, 4 pm
‘A Little Piece of Ground’ Concert
In aid of ‘A Little Piece of Ground’ books to schools project
Sunday, September 24, 2006, 7:00 pm
9/11 & The American Empire:
Intellectuals Speak Out
Thurs. September 28, 7 - 9 pm
TERRORISM EXPLAINED:
How Governments Use Thugs, Drug Dealers, and
Religious Fanatics to Control Us and “Justify” Endless War,/
Sat, September 30. 6-10 pm
Annual Marin Democratic Party Fundraiser:
"Dancing With Democrats"
Sat., September 30,
"Green Your School" Day
A NextGeneration Event
Fri., October 6
Novato Peace Vigil
(and each first Friday of the month through fall and winter months), 5:30-7 pm --
Peace Vigil, at old Novato City Hall.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 7,
Benefit Barbecue
supporting Mainstreet Moms (the MMOB.org)
Mon., (tentatively) October 9, afternoon –
Redwood Landfill Expansion
Hearing on Final Environmental Impact Report
on the Redwood Landfill by Marin County Planning Commission. Room 328,
Fri. -Sun., October 20 - 22
17th Annual Bioneers Conference.
www.bioneers.org.
October 27-28, 2006
Community Media/This Way Forward
MEDIA Conference
Alliance for Community Media,
Western Region
Sat., November 11, 2006; 10 am to 10 pm.
Lifting The Fog Off 9/11:
Applying the Scientific Method to the World Trade Center Destruction -
A one-day conference.
THIS WEEK ON CHANNEL 26
MARIN COMMUNITY PROGRAMING
Following is the schedule of films that are seldom, if ever, seen on PBS that are now showing on southern Marin’s Comcast Cable Channel #26
Have some ideas?
WEDNESDAY 8/30/2006
9:00 am- DEMOCRACY NOW
8:30 pm- GLOBAL WARNING, AN INTERVIEW WITH MORDECHAI VANUNU*****
10:30 pm- SPIRAL INTO IT
Thursday 8/31/2006
9:00 am- DEMOCRACY NOW
4:30 pm- BEYOND TREASON***** must watch, the fall-out v of Depleted Uranium (radioac-tive) effects all of us
5:30 pm- THE GREAT CONSPIRACY
7:30 pm- MPJC PRESENTS, “PEACE PATRIOTS” Narrated by actress and Air America Radio host, Janeane Garofalo, this feature-length documentary film follows a diverse group of indi-viduals, ranging in age from 14 to 75, including middle and high school students, college stu-dents, teachers, clergy, and war veterans from Korea, Vietnam and the Persian Gulf, as they take part in vigils, marches, theater performances, and civil disobedience
sit-ins to protest the U.S. invasion and on-going military occupation of Iraq.****
“TIME TO ABOLISH WAR” Learning to Abolish War: teaching toward a culture of peace***
FRIDAY 9/1/2006
9:00 am- DEMOCRACY NOW
5:30 pm- LOOSE CHANGE*****
MONDAY 9/4/2006
9:00 am- DEMOCRACY NOW
TUESDAY 9/5/2006
9:00 am- DEMOCRACY NOW
WEDNESDAY 9/6/2006
9:00 am- DEMOCRACY NOW
4:00 pm- PEACE, PROPAGANDA, AND THE PROMISED LAND*****
8:30 pm- THE GREAT DECEPTION****
10:30 pm- SPIRAL INTO IT
Thursday 9/7/2006
9:00 am- DEMOCRACY NOW
5:00 pm- PAINFUL DECEPTIONS; THE 911 SCAM
7:30 pm- MARIN PEACE AND JUSTICE COALITION PRESENTS “OCCUPATION DREAMLAND” is
an unflinchingly candid portrait of a squad of American soldiers deployed in the doomed Iraq city of Falluja during the winter of 2004. A collective study of the soldiers unfolds as they patrol an environ-ment of low-intensity conflict creeping steadily towards catastrophe. Through the squads activi-ties Occupation: Dreamland provides a vital glimpse into the last days of Falluja. The film documents the citys waning stability before a final series of military assaults began in the spring of 2004 that effectively destroyed it. ****
FRIDAY 9/8/2006
9:00 am- DEMOCRACY NOW
5:30 pm- AZMI BISHAARA****
6:00 pm- RIGHT OF RETURN and WALL OF HATE
"The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact, non-Westerners never do." Samuel P. Huntington
Now every Thursday night at 7:30 PM on Channel 26 “MPJC PRESENTS” 2 full hours, of new hard hitting and up to date Documentaries and Movies concerning current political, environmental and health issues crucial for an informed American public. |