Know All You Can Know: OldEvents

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Old Events

September 7, at 7 pm, showing Voices in Wartime, Andrew Himes' film that is the foundation of a superb educational program. The film features voices of soldiers from many wars, using poetry. We have invited to Iraq Vets Against the War members to join us for discussion following the film. Teachers and students won't want to miss this film. movie20070921.pdf

Location:
Unitarian Universalist Church
2200 East End St NW
Olympia, WA 98502 off of Division and Elliott Streets
Bus stops on Division two blocks from the Church
Contact mailto:kayck@olywa.net for more info

September 11, 6 to 8 pm. Wenatchee area. Know All You Can Know presents an informal workshop on counter recruitment strategies, and Opt Out campaigns. Contact mailto:kayck@olywa.net if interested in joining us.

September 15, Village to Village NW -- Book Sale! e20070915.pdf

September 21, at 7 pm, showing The Ground Truth, featuring voices of soldiers describing their experience during the Gulf and Iraq wars. Information on recruitment tactics, who is targeted. movie20070907.pdf

September 26, at 7 pm. The South Sound Voices education project, in collaboration with Voices in Wartime, and SPokenwword LAB (SPLAB) presents 4 outstanding poets. There will be a panel and community discussion. Poets will describe the effects of war and invite reflection on these losses and prevention of future wars.

Location:
South Puget Sound Community College,
Minnaert Center for the Performing Arts
2011 Mottman Rd SW, Olympia, Washington 98512

Cost:
$10 at the door, $11.24 at http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/18376
Students free with ID

Sponsors:
BRICK
Northwest Social Justice Fund, Unitarian Universalist Funding

Program Endorsement
Voices In Wartime
Poets Against War
Veterans for Peace

The 24th Annual Olympia Film Festival Presents

"BEYOND OCCUPATION"

With Dahr Jamail & Suheir Hammad

Sunday, November 4, 2007, 5:00 PM
Capitol Theater, Olympia
$10 general, $7 students & members
Tickets available at http://buyolympia.com/ and Rainy Day Records

Two masters of the written and spoken word come together, bearing witness to the violences of war and occupation in Iraq and Palestine .

Dahr Jamail will be speaking from his new book, Beyond the Green Zone: Dispatches from an Unembedded Journalist in Occupied Iraq. He is described by Howard Zinn as "a superb journalist," whose reporting "takes us past the lies of our political leaders, past the cowardice of the mainstream press, into the streets, the homes, the lives of Iraqis living under U.S. occupation."

Suheir Hammad is a Palestinian spoken word Hip-Hop artist, best known for her award-winning performance in Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry Jam on Broadway (2003). She has published three collections: Born Palestinian, Born Black; Drops of This Story; and Zaatar Diva. Her passionate performance captures cultural resistance to war, occupation, prisons, racism, dispossession, and gender inequality, while demonstrating the amazing ability to survive, to love, and to maintain hope through times of struggle.

This event is a benefit for The Rachel Corrie Foundation( http://www.rachelcorriefoundation.org/ ) and the kick-off of our Advocating Activism documentary series in the Olympia Film Festival. Sponsors include The Rachel Corrie Foundation, SPSCC’s BRICK, and Evergreen’s SESAME.

Protest at the Tacoma Mall Military Recruitment Station

2007/11/15 - 3:00pm - 6:00pm

Prior to the National Day of Antiwar Action, The Seattle Socialist Alternative is calling for a day of Antiwar Action in Tacoma at the Recruitment Center near the Mall. Socialist Alternative Seattle says this is very important to them since Tacoma is a military town with a heavy Junior ROTC presence in every high school. The protest is scheduled as a "Student Walkout" mainly for high school students, yet it is starting at 3:00pm in the afternoon, so no need to miss school for this.

The protest is part of a larger framework for counter-recruitment strategies in Tacoma.

http://tacomasds.org/node/149 the link will go to the SDS Calendar there are a lot more events listed there.

Cuz the Power of the People Don't Stop!

Commemorate the 8th Anniversary of the 1999 WTO Protests

With the imminent release of the major motion picture,"Battle in Seattle", and the City of Seattle's $1 million settlement with WTO protesters to be distributed soon, we will gather to reflect on the legacy of the WTO protests, to inspire the telling of our own stories, and to learn how the work for local and global justice continues in our region today.

Saturday, December 1, 2007

Labor Temple, 2800 1st Ave, Seattle

$5 suggested donation - no one turned away for lack of funds.

Light fare and beverages provided.

PROGRAM:

Doors open at 6:00

Opening Presentation: - 7 - 8pm: The WTO today: are we still winning?

David Korten, Intl Forum on Globalization, author of "When Corporations Rule the World"
Garry Owens, Northwest LELO
Heather Day, moderator, Community Alliance for Global Justice

Workshops 8 - 9:30pm: Stopping the expansion of NAFTA (The Security and Prosperity Partnership); Connecting the local and global fights for food justice; Free trade, forced migration and immigrant rights; Patenting and Access to Medicines; Using escalation to win organizing victories; Ending the debt burden; Building alternatives to Free Trade Agreements; Reclaiming our history and the media; Non-Violent Direct Action; Biofuels - will they solve the peak oil crisis and lead to greater global justice in international trade?

Party 9:30 - midnight! - Enjoy music, the People's Space for live performance, and the WTO Protest Installation: Bring (or wear) your favorite WTO protest memorabilia for collective, temporary installation that night! (Also, send your electronic images from the protests by Nov 25th to mailto:can@drizzle.com to be included in a powerpoint show)

CO-SPONSORS : Allyship, American Friends Service Committee, AnakBayan, A.N.S.W.E.R. (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism), Arts Kollective Organizing Committee, Backbone Campaign, BALLE Seattle, BAYAN USA, Community Action Network, Community Alliance for Global Justice, Council of Canadians, Dyke Community Activists, Green Party of Seattle, Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies, Inland Boatman's Union, Jubilee Northwest, Moving Images, National Lawyers Guild - Seattle chapter, NAWFORD (North American Women for Diversity), Pepperspray Productions, Philippine-US Solidarity Organization, Pinay sa Seattle, Reclaim the Media, Ruckus Society, Sahng-nok-su, Seattle CISPES (Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador), Seattle Radical Women, Seattle Raging Grannies, Social Justice Ministries - Church Council of Greater Seattle, Student Labor Action Project, Washington Biotechnology Action Council, WA Fair Trade Coalition.

GET INVOLVED!

Co-sponsor (we ask that you help publicize and make a donation if possible): Contact Heather Day mailto:hrd99@igc.org
Join the planning committee: Meetings Wed Nov 21 and Nov 28, 7-9pm, at CAGJ office - 606 Maynard Ave S. in the ID
Volunteers needed Dec 1! - Contact Erica Kay: mailto:can@drizzle.com 206-568-7110, 206-351-2863
Spread the word!

For more info, please contact CAGJ: 206.405.4600

go to http://www.seattleglobaljustice.org/ - for updates and downloadable posters and flyers

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GI COFFEE HOUSE FUNDRAISER!

August 25 ~ 7 to 9 PM
The Richard Hugo House
1634 11th Ave ~ Seattle
( see http://www.hugohouse.org/house/map )

SPECIAL GUEST SPEAKER:
Tod Ensign is director of Citizen Soldier—a GI and veterans’ rights organization that cosponsors the Different Drummer Internet Café near Ft Drum in upstate N.Y. Ensign will discuss his coffee house experience from working with soldiers and families over the last two years. Additionally, we can explore how to effectively engage our communities to support the local coffee house.

Flyer