Title: Caravan to Cuba – send off and bus painting party!
Location: Brown Beret Bike Shak 555 Main St. Watsonville, CA
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Description: 4-6pm: Cuba filmfest inside and bus painting outside

8pm: Presentation, Q&A , and Potluck

3 Good reasons to attend!

1. This is your opportunity to meet the Caravanistas who will challenge the ban on travel to Cuba this year. They will carry the tools and medical supplies we’ve donated across the border in defiance of the inhumane and out-dated blockade of Cuba by our government.

2. You can send a message of friendship to the Cuban people by adding your artistic touch to the painting of the bus.

3. You can learn more about the Brown Berets, the Bicycle Shak, and what they’re doing to educate and empower youth in their community.
Start Time: 16:00
Date: 2009-07-09
End Time: 21:00

Title: Amnesty International Spaghetti Feed and Raffle
Location: Live Oak Senior Center, 1777 Capitola Rd.
Description: 24th Annual Amnesty International Spaghetti Dinner and Silent Auction and Raffle Fundraiser on Saturday, February 21 at 6 pm at the Live Oak Senior Center.

(The Cold Porters will be playing again this year- With Hood Chatham on guitar, Wendy Wilkins on piano, and David Sierra on stand up bass, they play mostly great old jazz standards and are quite good and lots of fun to listen to.)
Please pass it on to anyone that you think might be interested in joining in the fun this year.
All the money we make goes to support the local or national Human Rights work of Amnesty International

Start Time: 18:00
Date: 2009-02-21

Title: A Pulse on Palestine
Location: Stevenson College Event Center, UCSC
Description:
This event begins with a screening of Occupation 101, a powerful and thought-provoking documentary about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
A panel discussion will follow featuring journalist Nora Barrows-Friedman and Scott Kennedy, moderated by UCSC Professor Terry Burke.

Cosponsored by PAX – Peace at the Crossroads, the Santa Cruz Resource Center for Nonviolence, and the Committee for Justice in Palestine.

Donations accepted to support MECA (Middle East Children\’s Alliance); no one will be turned away for lack of funds.
Parking permits required ($2 evening permits available at the parking kiosk near the base of campus).
Please contact Debra Ellis (ellis@ucsc.edu, 831-459-1289) for more information or to request accommodation.
Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2009-01-28

Title: Film Primere: “Shades of Youth”
Location: Inner Light Ministries 5630 Soquel Dr. Aptos
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Description: This film showing and workshop is a community wide event supporting multi-generational dialogue on racism and privilege. Come for an evening with the film maker Lauren Parker Kucera, spoken word artists from the film and conversation exploring the core challenges of our time. Be inspired by the brilliance of youth! Friday, January 23rd 7 to 9:30pm, Inner Light Ministries, 5630 Soquel Drive, Soquel. Sliding scale tickets for Friday night from $10 to $25. No one turned away from the lack of funds. FREE FOR YOUTH 14 to 22. For more information, http://www.antiracism.com. Continuing discussion of these topics, Unmasking Privilege, is an all day Diversity training led by Reverend Deborah Johnson, Saturday, January 24th 9am to 5pm. For more information on this event visit http://www.innerlightministries.com
Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2009-01-23

Tuesday September 16, 12:00 noon AND 7:30 p.m.
Resource Center for Nonviolence, 515 Broadway, Santa Cruz
“An Israeli in Palestine” Santa Cruz Community TV dvd of Jeff Halper’s June, 2008 Resource Center Annual Dinner presentation will be shown. Halper begins with a summation of Naomi Klein’s treatment of Israel and Palestine in her recent book “Shock Doctrine: the Rise of Disaster Capitalism.” For more information, call 423-1626.