SCROLL DOWN FOR MORE DETAILS IN SEPARATE POSTS FOR THESE EVENTS. If you don’t see details on this page for an event, click on “previous entries” at the bottom of this page.

COMING EVENTS:

*Monday, July 12: 2010 Pastors for Peace Cuba Caravan Send Off Party: Bus painting, presentation and film showing.

*Thursday July 22:   Gaza Teach-in! The Peace Flotilla: What Happened & What’s Next?  See details in separate post below.

*Tuesday August 17th & August 19: 2010 Cuba Caravan
Report-Back and Slideshow

*Save the Date: September 26: Robert Fisk: “Lies, Misreporting and Catastrophe in the Middle East” at the Rio

*Oct. 31 – Nov. 13: Olive Harvest Delegation to Israel & Palestine.

*We need DONATIONS of items, services, or gift certificates for our upcoming ONLINE AUCTION. If you can donate, or know of a business that might consider a donation, please contact Shirley, shirleyfly@yahoo.com or call Anita at RCNV: 831-423-1626×101.Thanks for your support!

*OFFICE EQUIPMENT NEEDED: Quality color printer; preferably a laser printer that can network, but an ink-jet printer would be considered. Must work with Mac 10.4.11or Windows. Quality black & white Laser printer: preferably networkable. Must work with MAC system 10.4.11. Sturdy office staplers. Contact Anita, 831-423-1626×101 or anitaheckman@gmail.com

*THREE OFFICES now available for rental: 509 Broadway, downstairs. Includes common meeting space. Two offices $225 each; One office $250. Utilities shared. Call Woody: 831-459-9569.

*ONGOING:  *GI Rights Hotline: 877-447-4487 or 831-359-0202 for direct line to counseling.  *Protest the Escalation of the War in Afghanistan: see letter you can sign- scroll back in “previous entries at bottom of page. *TUESDAYS - Youth Coalition Santa Cruz (YCSC) meets, 5-6:30p.m. at RCNV. For young people from 14 to 23 who are interested in social change and environmental activism. *BOOKSTORE – Palestinian Fair Trade, NEW:  sundried, handrolled,couscous (with recipe), tree-ripened olives, dried, salted and smothered in olive oil. olive oil in bottles and tins, pottery, keffiyehs and Za’Atar (thyme, & roasted sesame seeds). Hours: M-TH 12-5:00;  Call 423-1626 for more information.

Title: Thursday, July 12: 2010 Pastors for Peace Cuba Caravan Send Off Party
Location: Brown Beret Bike Shack, 555 Main St., Watsonville
Description: 3p.m.- Bus Painting Party. Decorate a bus going to Cuba!
5p.m.- Presentation and Q and A with Brown Berets and Cuba Caravan speaker. 6:30p.m.- Potluck Dinner, Bring a dish to share! 7p.m.- Film Showing of “People to People!,” a new documentary about the Cuba Caravan.
Join us for a fun afternoon of solidarity, action, education, and fundraising as we send off two Brown Beret women to the 2010 Pastors for Peace Cuba Caravan. The caravan is a nonviolent direct action against the illegal, immoral, and failed foreign policy the U.S. Government has waged against the island nation for almost 50 years. Learn how you can help break the blockade and get involved locally. www.pastorsforpeace.org or call Rob Ehrlich, 831-431-3554.
Date: 2010-07-12

Title: Thursday, July 22: Gaza Teach-in! The Peace Flotilla: What Happened & What’s Next?
Location: Louden Nelson Center 301 Center Street, Santa Cruz
Description: 6:00 p.m. Soups and bread
6:30 – 9:00 p.m. Teach-In. $5.00 – $25.00 suggested donation (no one turned away for lack of funds)
Speakers include:
Paul Larudee, co-founder of the Free Gaza Movement to Break the Israeli siege of Gaza; kidnapped and beaten by Israeli forces in May 2010 assault on the Gaza Peace Flotilla. Spokespersons from Jewish Voice for Peace on the growing movement for boycott, divestment and sanctions to end the Israeli occupation. Dr. Amer Araim, former Iraqi diplomat & former UN Secretariat Official, professor at Diablo Valley College on diplomatic options to lift the siege. Scott Kennedy, Coordinator of Middle East Program, Resource Center for Nonviolence.
All proceeds beyond costs of event will support nonviolent actions to break the siege of Gaza. Sponsored by the Resource Center for Nonviolence & the Palestine Israel Action Committee. For more information, call 831-423-1626.

Title: Tuesday August 17 and Thursday, August 19: 2010 Cuba Caravan Report-Back and Slideshow
Location: RCNV, 515 Broadway, Santa Cruz
Description: Two dates:
Tuesday August 17th, 6:30 p.m.
RCNV, 515 Broadway, Santa Cruz
and Thursday August 19th, 7p.m.
Brown Beret Bike Shack, 555 Main St., Watsonville

See photos and hear a presentation by recent Caravanistas from the July Pastors for Peace Cuba Caravan. Find out what they learned about Cuba’s amazing medical, educational, and agricultural systems as well as the captivating Cuban culture and music. Learn more about Cuba and this incredible act of international solidarity. Donations will be accepted at the door to support RCNV and Pastors for Peace. For more info www.pastorsforpeace.org or locally contact Sandino Gomez at 831 423-1626xt 103.

7:30 p.m., Rio Theater, Santa Cruz:  “Lies, Misreporting and Catastrophe
in the Middle East” with Robert Fisk, renown author and war reporter for “The Independent”. $10.00 -$20.00 sliding scale General Seating ($5.00 for unemployed, seniors, & students available in advance from RCNV). $25.00 – $50.00 Preferred Seating.

5:30 p.m. Dinner, Special Book-Signing and Preferred seating
at the 7:30 program: One person- $75.00 – $100.00 sliding-scale donation, or Two people- $125.00 – $175.00. Includes one book. Choose either: “The Age of the Warrior: Selected Essays by Robert Fisk” (2008); “The Great War for Civilization: the Conquest of the Middle East” (2007); or “Pity the Nation: The Abduction of Lebanon” (2002).

For tickets contact the Resource Center for Nonviolence
831-423-1626, www.rcnv.org or robertfiskinsantacruz@gmail.com

Robert Fisk is a war reporter for the Independent and author of  “The Great War for Civilization: The Conquest of the Middle East,” “Pity the Nation: the Abduction of Lebanon,” and “The Age of the Warrior.” Fisk brings incomparable insight, encyclopedic knowledge of history and current events, keen analysis,  engaging story-telling and razor-sharp wit to bear on events in the Middle East. Robert Fisk is the winner of numerous journalism and human rights awards, including the 2006 Lifetime Achievement Prize from the Lannan Foundation. Sponsored by the Resource Center for Nonviolence and Palestine Israel Action Committee. FMI: 831-423-1626.