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03 / 5
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[Repeat]Pioneer Courthouse Square Vigil for Peace
Start: 12:00 pm
End: 1:00 pm

Every Wednesday.

Where:        Pioneer Courthouse Square, SW Broadway and Morrison.
Organization:     Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom.
Contact:        (503) 595-5390
Website:        http://portland.wilpf.org/

 

 

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[Repeat]Pioneer Courthouse Square Protest - SW Portland
Start: 5:00 pm
End: 6:30 pm

 

Every Friday.

Location: Pioneer Courthouse Square, SW Broadway and Morrison.

Organization: Portland Peaceful Response Coalition

Contact: (503) 344-5098

Website: http://www.pprc-news.org/

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Ali Abunimah - "Israel and Palestine: Two States or One?"
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm

 

Ali Abunimah
Israel and Palestine:

Two States or One?

 

 

Has Israel’s attempt to “change the facts on the ground” in Palestine been successful?
Is the “two-state solution” a viable option any more? Has it ever been? And what next?

Ali Abunimah, founder of Electronic Intifada and author of "One Country, A Bold Proposal to End the Israeli-Palestinian Impasse" will lay out the arguments…

Friday, March 5, 2010
7:00 pm
First Unitarian Church
Main St Sanctuary
1011 Southwest 12th Avenue
Portland, OR 97205

Download the event flyer here.

Ali Abunimah is a renowned writer and commentator and frequent guest on CNN, MSNBC, the BBC and more.

Sponsored by
Peace Action Committee of the First Unitarian Church,
Americans United for Palestinian Human Rights,
Students United for Palestinian Equal Rights
Cosponsored by
Lutherans for Justice in the Holy Land - A Ministry of Central Lutheran Church, Portland Peaceful Response Coalition

www.auphr.org

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03 / 8
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Rally Against Starbase: the Militarization of Our Schools
Start: 6:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm

Portland Public Schools is
getting ready to vote to accept Department of Defense funding for the
STARBASE program this year. Come out on March 8 to protest. E-Mail the
board with your opposition.
RALLY AGAINST STARBASE MILITARY RECRUITMENT IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS

Monday March 8th - 6:00 pm

BESC Building 501 North Dixon

(2 blocks from the east end of Broadway Bridge)

News Conference at 6:00 pm followed by rally/Board meeting inside at 6:30pm

At their regular March 8 meeting, the PPS Board of Education is
scheduled to vote on a $320,000 revenue contract for STARBASE, a 25
hour "educational" program funded out of the Department of Defense
recruitment budget. Elementary school students in the Starbase program
get 25 hours of so-called science, math and technology instruction at
local military bases. Portland Public Schools has participated in
STARBASE since 1993.

 

For More Info: http://ppsequity.org/2010/03/05/starbase-rally-monday-evening/

03 / 9
03 / 10
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[Repeat]Washington County Weekly Peace Vigil
Start: 6:30 pm
End: 7:30 pm

Location: Beaverton, across from Libary on Hall Blvd between 4th and 5th.

Contact: washcopeace@yahoo.com
03 / 11
03 / 12
(event)
[Repeat]Pioneer Courthouse Square Vigil for Peace
Start: 12:00 pm
End: 1:00 pm

Every Wednesday.

Where:        Pioneer Courthouse Square, SW Broadway and Morrison.
Organization:     Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom.
Contact:        (503) 595-5390
Website:        http://portland.wilpf.org/

 

 

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[Repeat]Pioneer Courthouse Square Protest - SW Portland
Start: 5:00 pm
End: 6:30 pm

 

Every Friday.

Location: Pioneer Courthouse Square, SW Broadway and Morrison.

Organization: Portland Peaceful Response Coalition

Contact: (503) 344-5098

Website: http://www.pprc-news.org/

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Mark Braverman - Fatal Embrace: Christians, Jews, and the search for peace in the Holy Land
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm




Mark Braverman

Fatal Embrace: Christians, Jews, and the Search for Peace in the Holy Land




Friday, March 12, 7 p.m.

First Unitarian Church, Eliot Chapel

1011 SW 12th, Portland

 

Mark Braverman is a Jewish American
with deep family roots in the Holy Land. Trained as a clinical psychologist,
and a pioneer in crisis intervention and recovery from trauma, Mark now devotes
himself full-time to the cause for peace in historic Palestine. He focuses on
the role of religious beliefs and theology regarding Israel/Palestine and the
future of interfaith relations. Mark serves on the advisory board of Friends of
Sabeel North America and on the Board of the Israeli Committee Against House
Demolitions-USA. He is the author of Fatal Embrace: Christians, Jews, and
the Search for Peace in the Holy Land. Learn more about his work and his
writing at www.markbraverman.org.

 




 



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03 / 17
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[Repeat]Washington County Weekly Peace Vigil
Start: 6:30 pm
End: 7:30 pm

Location: Beaverton, across from Libary on Hall Blvd between 4th and 5th.

Contact: washcopeace@yahoo.com
03 / 18
03 / 19
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[Repeat]Pioneer Courthouse Square Protest - SW Portland
Start: 5:00 pm
End: 6:30 pm

 

Every Friday.

Location: Pioneer Courthouse Square, SW Broadway and Morrison.

Organization: Portland Peaceful Response Coalition

Contact: (503) 344-5098

Website: http://www.pprc-news.org/

03 / 20
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Iraq, Seven Years Later: Rally, March, and Teach-In
Start: 11:00 am

Portlanders to Protest 7 Years
Since Iraq Invasion with Rally, March and Teach-In
Saturday, March 20, 2010

 

11:00 am Student Feeder March & mini-rally at PSU Park Blocks
12:00 Noon at Terry Schrunk Plaza, SW 3rd and Madison
1:00 pm Teach-in at First Unitarian Church, SW 12th and Main

Details:

Rally and teach-in:
Iraq, Seven Years Later: Change US Foreign
Policy-Bring All the Troops Home!

With the uncertain outcome of the March 7 elections continuing to have the potential
to delay the withdrawal of US combat troops from Iraq, Portlanders are gearing up to
protest the ongoing presence of the US military and "contractors" on the
anniversary of the 2003 invasion. On Saturday, March 20, an event titled "Iraq,
Seven Years Later: Change US Foreign Policy--Bring All the Troops Home!" begins
with a rally at Terry Schrunk Plaza at 12 noon (SW 3rd and Madison), continues with
a march through downtown Portland at 12:30 PM, followed by a "teach-in"
at First Unitarian Church from 1:00 to 3:30 PM (SW 12th and Main).

The themes addressed throughout the day will include the expansion of US military
presence and US support for military occupations throughout the Middle East:

  • End the Occupations of Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine

  • Stop the Expanding Attacks in the Middle East: No Drone Strikes in Pakistan

  • No War on Iran

  • US Out of Latin America!

The day's events are being coordinated by Peace and Justice Works Iraq
Affinity Group and cosponsored or endorsed by at least 20 other organizations.

Cosponsors include: Women's International League for Peace and Freedom-Portland;
Portland Peaceful Response Coalition; Center for Intercultural Organizing;
American Iranian Friendship Council; Women in Black; American Friends
Service Committee; International Socialist Organization; Students
United for Palestinian Equal Rights (SUPER); Metanoia Peace
Community; Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility; Portland
Central America Solidarity Committee (PCASC); Crosstrade Solidarity;
War Resisters League-Portland; Americans United for Palestinian Human
Rights (AUPHR), and The Peace Project--New Directions for American
Foreign Policy.

Endorsers include Recruiter Watch
PDX, Freedom Socialist Party, IUPAT Painters Local 10; Workers
Action, and Portland Jobs with Justice.

For more information: Peace and Justice Works, 503-236-3065 or
iraq@pjw.info

 

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03 / 25
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"Jornaleros" Documentary Premier by VOZ Workers' Rights Education Project
Start: 7:00 pm
End: 9:00 pm

Film Screening: Jornaleros

VOZ Workers’ Rights Education Project will be premiering their new documentary “Jornaleros.” Through music, poetry, and art, "Jornaleros" documents the lives and creative work of five Portland day laborers.  The film humanizes the debates on immigration and immigrant labor in the US by showing these day laborers, first and foremost, as artists and activists in the community. The documentary will premier on March 25, 2010 at 7 PM at the Clinton Street Theatre located on 2522 SE Clinton Street. Tickets will be sold for $6 general admission/$5 Students/$4 Seniors and can be purchased at the theatre.

Jornaleros challenges prejudices, enhances understanding and gives an educational point of view of the Latin-American people and immigrants, as well as their many talents and cultural contributions. The objective is to enhance the sensitivity and awareness towards a local vulnerable group who is often used as scapegoats or deemed as “illegal” or criminals. This documentary portrays immigrants and day labors as survivors, active community members, and most importantly, humans. As humans they also form a valuable and productive workforce and have the right to a dignified life and humane working conditions.  This documentary will challenge the perception of and give positive media representation to a group who is often the back lash of anti-immigration groups. It will show the story of people’s lives, even if the rest of society condemns them for simply existing.

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04 / 2
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Historian Lawrence Wittner on Our peaceful fight against the Bomb
Start: 3:00 pm
End: 5:00 pm

Lawrence Wittner is the historian of the world's antinuclear movement with several academic and popular books available and hundreds of articles and analysis published. He will be speaking about grassroots opposition to nuclear weapons and how that opposition has stopped nuclear war. Please join us at Portland State University's Multicultural Center, Smith Memorial Union 228, 3 p.m.

 

Wittner's latest book, Confronting the Bomb, is now available from Stanford University Press and will be also available at Dr. Wittner's talk. FMI: pcwtom@gmail.com
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