Sunday June 8, 2003
ICUJP hosts
Another Nation/Another World
Be Not Afraid
an interfaith service honoring those in the religious and lay communities who have taken risks for justice and peace
ANOTHER NATION/ANOTHER WORLD:
Be Not Afraid is conceived as an antidote to the “culture of fear” that has pervaded the American social and political landscape since 9/11 and that has facilitated constriction of our civil liberties, adoption of pre-emptive war as the baseline principle of our foreign policy, and prosecution of the war against and occupation of Iraq.
Bracketed by music and poetry, the three keynote speakers will be asked to discuss the religious, cultural or personal motivations of their work for peace and justice. In addition to the keynote speakers, clergy from seven or eight religions will discuss courage, risk and fear through the lenses of their traditions.
3:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Immanuel Presbyterian Church
3300 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles
(2 blocks west of Vermont at Berendo)
Tuesday June 10, 2003
Physicians for Social Responsibility-Los Angeles presents a very special evening with:
Kelly Hayes-Raitt
speaking on
Face-to-Face with the Women of Iraq
At the home of Drs. Judith and Donald Broder, Studio City
9:00 pm
Seating is limited. When you make your reservation, PSR-LA will give you the address and directions.
Kelly Hayes-Raitt visited Iraq for ten days in February, just five weeks before the U.S. bombings and invasion. She spoke with hundreds of women and children at the neighborhood bomb shelter where over 400 Iraqis were killed in the 1991 bombings, at a pediatric hospital where children were dying of leukemia because they couldn't get the medicines they needed under U.N. sanctions, and in the streets and shops of Baghdad.
Kelly is returning to Iraq for two weeks in June to find the children and women who touched her so deeply. She wants to see firsthand the true impact of the bombings and invasion on these individual's lives.
Call (213) 386-4901 x117
A tax-deductible donation will be requested to defray Kelly's upcoming fact-finding mission.
Tuesday June 10, 2003
Register 2004
Community Roundtable
Voter Education, Reform, Registration, and Participation
safeguarding democracy is everybody’s business...
On June 10, your perspective and input is needed to help shape Register 2004 to be as useful as possible.
Register 2004 is a new coalition of local groups, organizations, and individuals to support voter education, reform, registration, and participation and to provide a local face-to-face and an online community to affect participatory democracy.
Immanuel Presbyterian Church
3330 Wilshire Boulevard
at Berendo
7:00 pm
more information:
http://www.register2004.org
register2004@sbcglobal.net
or call 310 739 -1159
download a flyer
Saturday, June 14, 2003
You are invited!
Come together to create a
Congress Of Vigils:
Communities Organizing for Peace & Justice
$10 Donation (Lunch included)
No one turned away for lack of funds
Loyola Law School
Student Lounge
919 S. Albany Street, L.A., CA
(Between Alvarado & the 110 Fwy on Olympic Blvd)
Parking $3.00 all day
(Entrance on Albany Street)
9:00 am - 4:30 pm
To create a Congress of Vigils, an ongoing, decentralized coordinating network, of all community-based vigil members who wish to share resources, support, ideas, and projects with members of other vigil communities in the Southland. It is our hope that this Congress will celebrate the diversity and local autonomy that has proven so valuable in our vigils, while also finding new ways to harness their energy, resourcefulness, and creative activism to areas of coordinated activity.
AGENDA:
9:00 am - 10:00 am:
Registration,
Continental Breakfast,
Informal Gathering
10:00 am - 10:30 am:
Brief Welcoming Presentations
10:30 am - 12:00 pm:
Assembly I:
Open-Floor Discussion of Issues Facing Vigils & Vigil Congress
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm:
Lunch,
Informal Gathering, Cultural Event
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm:
Focus Groups/ Creating Action Committees*
* Participants are welcome to attend one or more of the Focus Groups scheduled or create their own around areas of interest. Focus Groups are encouraged to create an Action Committee for future coordination between vigils interested in joint activity.
2:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Assembly II:
Focus Group/Action Committee Reports,
Open-Floor Discussion of Organization of
Vigil Congress
Sponsors and Participants:
Sponsored by the many vigils for peace and justice throughout Southern California. Please urge at least one and hopefully all members of your vigil community to attend, whether or not you continue to actively vigil or have altered your activities. Your ideas, spirit, and contributions are essential!
more information: insyte2@hotmail.com
Saturday June 21 - July 5, 2003
ICUJP joins
Take Back the World, Take Back Our Community!
Human Rights Festival
SolFest 2002 – Saturday June 21
Spirit of Life, Spirit of Love, Spirit of Liberation (SOL) Foundation
and Two Weeks of Education, Arts and Awareness in MacArthur Park
This two-week Festival will include a vast array of cultural-political events throughout the diverse communities of Southern California and will merge art, dance, theater, music, film/video, and photography, with political analysis and action. It will involve and reflect the rainbow of ethnic and racial diversity in our community.
MacArthur Park
between 6th and 7th on Alvarado
Los Angeles
There are several opportunities for your participation.
Join with ICUJP at the Sol Fest on June 21, write to Darin of the ICUJP Creative Arts & Social Justice Committee
For more Information about participating or volunteering at the Peace and Justice Fest that will continue through July 5, please contact Lee Siu Hin
Proposed schedule Peace and Social Justice Convergence
(This is an initial schedule and still subject to change)
6/20 (Fri): Opening Ceremony
6/21 (Sat) : Sol Festival (all Day at MacArthur Park)
6/22 (Sun): West Hollywood Gay Pride Parade
LGBT Film Night (Location TBA)
6/23 (Mon): Central American Struggle Night (location: CARECEN)
6/24 (Tue): Youth Conference 12:00 - 5:00 PM (location: Arts in Action)
YOC, QYCCA panel 6:00 PM - 10:00 PM (location: Luna Sol Café)
6/25 (Wed): Colombia Peace Night (location: Arts in Action)
6/26 (Thu): Spoken word/open mike night 8:00 PM - 11:00 PM (Luna y Sol Café or Mama Hot Tamale)
6/27 (Fri): Political Prisoner Night 7:00 PM - 11:00 PM (location: Arts in Action)
6/28 (Sat): Palestine Struggle Night (location: TBA)
6/29 (Sun): 12:00 PM - 6:00 PM Peace and Justice Book Fair (location: Arts in Action)
6:00 PM - 11:00 PM Peace Conference-Iraq, Health Care Not Warfare
(location, Arts in Action)
6/30 (Mon): Theater Night (Location: TBA)
7/1 (Tue): Philippino Struggle Night (location: Philippino Workers Center)
7/2 (Wed): Media Education? (location: TBA)
7/3 (Thu): Immigrant Struggle Night (location: TBA)
7/4 (Fri): Farce of July at east LA
Fourth of July Mobilization
PATRIOT Act Discussion (Location TBA)
7/5 (Sat): Closing ceremony
Sunday June 22, 2003
Dedication Luncheon
the Lloyd Monserrat Pleasant House,
Casa Olivares and
Jovenes, Inc. Youth Center
to meet the needs of former foster youth...
1208 Pleasant Avenue
Los Angeles
Please RSVP by June 20 to:
Nicolassa
213 346-0123
1:00 pm - 5:00 pm
dress is casual, lunch will be sold and children are welcome!
Casa Olivares and the LLoyd Monserrat Pleasant House are transitional living programs designed to prevent former foster youth from becoming homeless by providing them with a stable and secure environment. Our staff will guide, support and motivate them to futher their education, in order to ensure they make the often difficult transition from the foster care system to independence, self-sufficiency and success.
Of the 1000 youth leaving the foster care system every year, 45-65% becomes homeless within two years and our communities can only provide less than half with shelter. To offset the tremndous lack of support and assistance to these youth Fr. Estrada created these progrmas for male youth once they leave the foster care system.
Enrollment is contingent on the youth's willingness to attend school (high school, vocational training or college) full time or attend school part time and work part time. In addition, the Jovenes, Inc. Youth Center will offer our residents a comprehensive array of case managed servicewsw in four specific areas:
1.) assistance in education
2.) career palnning
3.) social services including counseling, health services, etc. and
4.) independent living skills
Monday June 23, 2003
Hungry For Justice?
Rally & March
West steps of the
California State Capital
Sacramento
10th street between L and N
10:00 am - 2:30 pm
Want to resist the WTO, US Empire and Corporate Globalization? Fed up with genetically engineered trees, food, fish, future? Believe that access to healthy food and clean water is a fundamental human right?
Everything is possible!
Join us in a celebration of life, earth, food, water, farming, human rights, action, and spirit
Resist the corporate takeover of our food, our farms, and our future
10:00 am -12:00 noon --
Music, performances and spoken word
with Clan Dyken, the Genetic Mutilators, and more!
12:00 noon - 1:00 pm --
RALLY!
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm --
MARCH through downtown Sacramento
Bring costumes, signs, banners, flags, musical instruments, street art
and good vibes!
SEE YOU IN THE STREETS!
more information: www.sacmobilization.org
Monday July 7, 2003
ICUJP Monday Night Forum
STOLEN DOLLARS:
How the War Economy Short Changes
the Quality of Our Lives
The Friendship Center (SGI)
5899 Venice (at Faifax)
Los Angeles
Mapquest directions
7:00 pm
more information:
icujp@pacbell.net
or call 626 683-9004
For a study guide on the subject of
Social Injustice and the Military Budget, see:
Workshop Trainer Guide
for War and The Economy
Created by United for a Fair Economy,
in collaboration with National Priorities Project
www.@faireconomy.org
1. Major features of the U.S. economy include massive amounts of military spending and huge tax cuts that primarilly benefit the wealthy. The results of these policies are large budget deficits that are then used to justify and force cuts in spending for social programs.
2. The overarching goal of these economic policies is to maintain and increase the tremendous concentration of wealth and power.
3. War and militarism drains resources from social needs and exacerbates state budget crises.
4. Racism plays a significant role in maintaining the climate of fear and insecurity necessary to gain popular support for a militarized society.
5. Racism and scapegoating also play a significant role in maintaining popular support for tax cuts that benefit the wealthy and acceptance of cuts in social spending that fall disproportionally on low-income people, people of color, workers, and youth.
6. Economic justice activists and peace activists have common interests and must join together to build a movement to challenge concentrated power and wealth.
download the Workshop Trainer Guide
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