Resource Center for Nonviolence
ANNUAL DINNER AND PROGRAM
featuring JEFF HALPER
Friday, June 27, 2008
First Methodist Church,
250 California St., Santa Cruz

5:30p.m. Hors d’oeuvres and Silent Auction.

6:00p.m. Dinner served. 7:00p.m. Program
- Dinner Catered by Michael Hernandez - .
- Silent Auction -

General reservations:
$35-100 per person sliding scale for the Dinner and Program.
PROGRAM ONLY:$7-25 sliding scale

$250 - $1000 Sponsor: reserves a table for 8.
$100 - $235 “Host” reserved seating for 2 people
$50 “Supporter” reserved seating for one person;
(If you cannot attend: consider giving a scholarship for young people
or families.)

If possible, please make Reservations by June 20 by calling 831-423-1626. Send payment to: Resource Center for Nonviolence, 515
Broadway, Santa Cruz, CA 95060 or pay at the door.

Palestinian Human Rights Lawyer Jonathan Kuttab is unable to attend. We are pleased that JEFF HALPER will be our featured speaker. Jeff is an Israeli Professor of Anthropology, and has been a leading figure within the Israeli peace movement for over thirty years. He has been head of the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) for the last ten years. Halper was nominated for the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize by the American Friends Service Committee, and is author of “An Israeli in Palestine: Resisting Dispossession, Redeeming Israel.”
There will not be tickets for this event– only reservations.
Please make reservations by June 20.

For more info: 831-423-1626.

Monday May 12 7:00 - 8:00 p.m.
in the parking lot behind the
Resource Center for Nonviolence
515 Broadway (near Ocean) in Santa Cruz
For info: 423-1626

Marciano Cruz has been named to receive one of three national awards of the “Most Caring Coach Award” by the USA Weekend, a magazine distributed in 600 newspapers to 23 million households each week. (Watch for the article featuring Marciano in the May 11 edition of USA Weekend in the San Jose Mercury and Santa Cruz Sentinel).

Marciano is being honored for his work as founder, chief organizer and president of La Liga de La Comunidad, a countywide soccer league.

Please join us in celebration this great honor for Resource Center staff member Marciano Cruz. For more info call: 423-1626 or 457-8003.

For more info check out these links
USA Weekend’s Most Caring Coaches awards

Santa Cruz Sentinel coverage of Marciano’s award

An Evening with
Jim Douglass
Activist, Advocate and Author
discusses his New Book
“JFK and the Unspeakable:
Why He Died & Why it Matters”

Sunday, May 4, 7:30p.m.
Resource Center for Nonviolence, 515 Broadway, Santa Cruz

In “a stunning mix of political thriller and meticulous scholarship” Jim Douglass presents a compelling, persuasive account of why President John F. Kennedy was assassinated and why the unmasking of this truth remains crucial for the future of our country and the world.

Jim Douglass is the co-founder of the Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action (near the nuclear-armed submarine base in Washington) and author of many books on nonviolent theory and practice, including Lightning East & West and Resistance & Contemplation. He was a human shield in Baghdad during the launch of “Shock and Awe” bombings. He currently lives in a Catholic Workers house in Alabama with his wife, Shelley, and guests who need free housing while supporting hospitalized family members.

For more information,visit IndyMedia Santa Cruz, call 423.1626 or 335.1861

“The goodness of the world is incontestable… nevertheless, one of the awful facts of our age is the evidence that the world is stricken to the very core of its being by the Unspeakable.”
— Thomas Merton

“In JFK and the Unspeakable Jim Douglass steadily guides us toward a strategy of peace. Douglass holds forth hope for current generations to dismantle our addiction to war.”
— Kathy Kelly

“This is the most thoroughly researched and documented book ever written about President Kennedy’s determination to prevent a nuclear war and how his success in that struggle cost him his life.” — Don Mosely

Tuesday, April 29, 7:30p.m.
The Mill Gallery, 131 Front Street, Santa Cruz

An evening of comedy and political provocation
with America’s most-wanted political cartoonist &
the First Muslim Presidential Candidate
KHALIL BENDIB
sponsored by the Resource Center for Nonviolence
and the Santa Cruz Comic News

$6-$20 suggested donation (no one turned away for lack of funds)
Khalil Bendib’s award- winning cartoons are distributed nationwide. His tongue-in-cheek presentation, including his political cartoons, touches on how Islamophobia and the “War on Terror” are used to justify increased violence, militarism and repression. He advances
nonviolence, peace and love as the only true remedies to what ails us. Copies of “Mission Accomplished,” Bendib’s recent book of cartoons, will be available for purchase. “Bendib is an Equal opportunity skewer. The more a subject or victim is ignored by the mass
media, the more he infuriates, informs and intensifies the reader’s attention. Cartoons need to jolt. Bendib obliges page after page.” — RALPH NADER. “Khalil Bendib, with a few ingenious strokes of his pen, gets to the heart of the issues of our time. His cartoons are in the greatest tradition of American political humor, with that
combination of wit and intelligence so needed in the struggle for justice.” — HOWARD ZINN

For more information, call 423-1626 or www.rcnv.org