Resource Center for Nonviolence

This event is being rescheduled. A new date and location will be announced soon.

Live music, belly dancers, wine tasting and a presentation by Scott Kennedy on the Peace Builders Delegation Program to Israel and Palestine and more.

Tuesday, June 30, 7:00 p.m.
Temple Beth El, 3055 Porter Gulch Rd, Aptos

Congressman Sam Farr will speak on US policies to advance peace in the Middle East. All are invited; questions are encouraged. Sponsored by the Middle East Dialogue Group.

An Intercontinental Ballistic missile will be launched June 28 at midnight. The target is an atoll in the Marshall Islands. The protest will be at the front gate of the Vandenberg Space Command, 6 miles north of Lompoc on Hiway One.

A chartered Green Tortoise bus leaves S.F. at 4pm Sunday, June 28, picking up people in towns along 101 South, arriving at the protest just before midnight.  If enough people sign up, the bus will stop in Santa Cruz! The bus will be back in S.F. by 8 a.m., dropping off participants in Salinas, San Jose and if enough people, Santa Cruz.  The bus has fold-down bunks for sleeping. Tickets are $50, $25 for students, free for the stony-broke. Music and food provided. To reserve a seat, call MacGregor Eddy, 831-206-5043 or macgregoreddy@gmail.com.

Summer Solidarity Spectacular
Dinner, live music, film and speakers
Monday June 22, 6 to 9 p.m.
Christ Lutheran Church, 10707 Soquel Dr., Aptos
(Freedom exit from Hiway 1, immediate right, above the Hiway Patrol office)
Tickets: students & recession affected $10, general $25, sponsor $50
Available at the Resource Center for Nonviolence, 515 Broadway, S.C.

Sponsored by the Community Coalition to Overcome Racism in Santa Cruz County, working to end the racism that is imbedded in all the institutions we live and work within. We invite you to come and learn more about us.

Reading from his latest book, “In Between: Memoir of an Integration Baby,” author and Unitarian Universalist minister Mark Morrison-Reed joins us from the east coast for an evening of inspiration and community dialogue.

Lauren Parker will show her film, ”Shades of Youth, Youth Speak on Racism, Power & Privilege,”  filmed at the White Privilege Conference, where 100 high school students gathered from across the U.S. to engage in issues of race, power, identity, oppression and social change.

Title: Can Obama Save the Two State Solution?
Location: Veteran’s Hall, 842 Front St., Santa Cruz
Description: Monday, June 8, 8:00p.m. Nadia Hijab is Senior Fellow at the Institute for Palestine. The Institute is an independent non-profit research organization whose flagship Journal of Palestine Studies, co-published with the University of California Press, is a leading resource on the Arab-Israeli conflict.
Hijab is a frequent commentator on the media, including BBC World, and has appeared on the Lehrer News hour. She is a regular public speaker and was recently the 2007 George F. Kennan co-panelist at the Wisconsin Institute for World Affairs. Hijab’s first book, “Womanpower: The Arab debate on women at work” (1988) was published by Cambridge University Press. She co-authored “Citizens Apart: A Portrait of Palestinians in Israel” (I. B. Tauris 1990).
She was Editor-in-Chief of the London-based Middle East magazine before moving to New York in 1989 to join the United Nations, where she served as a senior development officer. She resigned from the UN in 2000 to establish her own consulting business on human rights, human development, and gender, Development Analysis and Communication Services. She has served as co-chair of the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation and is a past president of the Association of Arab American University Graduates.
Suggested donation $10-25 sliding scale (no one turned away for lack of funds). For more information, call 423-1626.
Start Time: 8:00p.m.
Date: 2009-06-08