The Truth about Greenfield and King City: Multi-cultural Working Class Struggles on the Central Coast.

Location: RCNV 515 Broadway SC, CA 95060
Description: On Thursday September 15 at 7 PM, Latino and Indigenous activists and community leaders from Greenfield and King City will offer another perspective on controversies that have been labeled \”Latinos versus indigenous\” in recent media reports. Join us for a dialogue with Latino and Indigenous activists on the front lines of the movement for social justice and the rights of working people in rural California. Guests will include Mayor John Huerta, school board candidates Ana Vargas and Laura Caballero, as well as youth organizers and indigenous community leaders. Hosts include Council Member Tony Madrigal, UCSC Professor Jon Fox, the Resource Center for Nonviolence and Paul Johnston of Organizing for Santa Cruz. The event will take place at the Resource Center for Non Violence 515 Broadway, Santa Cruz. Tax exempt donations will be requested: this is a fundraiser for immigrant youth leadership development in the south Salinas Valley.

A private reception will also occur at 5:30 at a nearby private residence.  Call for more information at (831) 239-2068.

Study Group based on Chris Hedges’ (Pulitzer Prize winner) book “The World As It Is, Dispatches of the Myth of Human Progress” Led by Al Wasserman At the Resource Center for Nonviolence 515 Broadway, Santa Cruz. Dates and Time to be determined by what works for those interested. Call Al: 831-338-4233 to register.

Al Wasserman is a retired psychologist and political activist who wants to facilitate this study group focusing on Chris Hedges (Pulitzer Prize winner) book “The World As It Is, Dispatches of the Myth of Human Progress.”

“I have never sought to be objective about death squads in El Salvador, massacres in Iraq, or Serbian sniper fire that gunned down unarmed civilians, including children, in Sarajevo. How can you be neutral about the masters and profiteers who lie and disassemble to hide the crimes they commit and the profits they make? And finally, how can you be objective about those who are responsible for this suffering?” –Chris Hedges

This book is a compiliation of 51 essays written by Hedges over the past 8 years. These are superb writings that clearly state the personal observations and participation of the author as a foreign correspondent of 20 years, 15 of which were for the N.Y. times. Hedges is the author of the best sellers “Amercian Fascists,” “Death of the Liberal Class” and “Empire of Illusion.”

Please call Al: 831-338-4233 to register for this study group. Books will be provided for those short of funds.

People for a Nuclear Free Future REUNION*

*Santa Cruz People for a Nuclear Free Future was/is a member of the statewide Abalone Alliance.

Were you there at Diablo Canyon protesting the building of a nuclear power plant thirty plus years ago? Well then, it is time for a look back and a look forward.

POTLUCK PICNIC, Sunday, August 7, 2011, 12 noon

Brommer St. Park at Brommer & 30th Ave., Santa Cruz

Download a PNFF Reunion flier

An Indybay link with more info.

Thursday June 9th at 7:30 p.m. at Holy Cross Parish Hall in Santa Cruz.

Robert Ellsberg, son of “The Most Dangerous Man in America” Daniel Ellsberg, will share “for the first time” his personal story about growing up within the U.S. peace movement:  “One Candle Lights Another – The Pentagon Papers, Gandhi, Dorothy Day, and My Life with the Saints.”

A 13-year-old, Ellsberg helped his father photocopy thousand of pages of classified Pentagon Papers that disclosed the U.S. government conscious pursuit of a losing War on Vietnam.  A 2009 Academy Awards nominated film documentary about these disclosures features Daniel Ellsberg as “The Most Dangerous Man in America” and includes an interview with son Robert Ellsberg.

Influenced by Mahatma Gandhi, Robert Ellsberg dropped out of college at age 19 to join the Catholic Worker, a pacifist movement that participates in nonviolent direct action and provides food and shelter to the poor and homeless.

He became managing editor of The Catholic Worker newspaper and came to know and, work closely for five years with Dorothy Day (1897-1980), co-founder of the Catholic Worker movement. Day’s cause for canonization (Sainthood), as one of the most inspiring figures of recent history, is open in the Catholic Church.

As official Editor of Day’s Personal Papers he has published The Duty of Delight: The Diaries of Dorothy Day (2008) and All the Way to Heaven: Selected Letters of Dorothy Day. Ellsberg is Publisher of Orbis Books.

He has also edited writings by Gandhi, Flannery O’Connor, Thich Nhat Hanh, Charles de Foucauld, Fritz Eichenberg, and Carlo Carretto.

The event is hosted by Pax Christi, the social justice mission of Holy Cross Parish, and the Resource Center for Nonviolence (RCNV). There is no charge for the event. A free will donation will benefit the St. Francisco Soup Kitchen and Food Pantry in Santa Cruz. For more information: 831 423 1626

Host Committee: Bob Fitch, Photographer;  Scott Kennedy, Resource Center for Nonviolence;  Sheilah Lynch, Director of Family Life & Social Concerns, Monterey Diocese;  Fr. Mike Marini, former pastor at Holy Cross;  Ellen & Brian Murtha;  Mel Nunez, Pax Christi Social Justice Ministry of Holy Cross, Rev. Herb Schmidt;  UCSC Campus Pastor Emeriti.

Join the MONTHLY VIGILS FOR PEACE:

Bring home our Fathers Day:  Saturday June 18th,

from 10a.m. to Noon, at the Military Recruitment Center, Capitola.  Honor all the fathers forced to serve in unjust wars instead of being home with their families celebrating their day.  Or all the fathers forced to deal with the loss of children because of war. Bring our troops home now!

Let us honor those losses and the very difficult feelings they create.
Let’s stop the wars now!
Bring signs, banners, flags, and extras will be provided!

Independence from War Day:  Monday, July 4th,

from 10a.m. to Noon, at the corner of Ocean and Water St., Santa Cruz.  Celebrate our country’s Independence from Tyranny by celebrating your own Independence from the war machine and its accompanying propaganda by making an little of your own and demonstrating with us!

Thousands of people will be coming into Santa Cruz on July 4th, down the Ocean Street corridor. This is our chance to share with them a message of Peace and Justice. Come on out before going to that barbecue, the beach, or where ever…..

Bring signs, banners, flags, and extras will be provided!

Remember the Dead, Fight for the Living, Sunday August 7th:

Candlelight vigil in remembrance of the countless victims of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, at the Santa Cruz Town Clock/ Collateral Damage Sculpture.  A special acknowledgment of the victims of Japans most recent nuclear disaster will also occur.

Please bring a wind shielded candle (we will have extras), and remember that the evening may get cold! Flags, banners, and signs of hope and understanding are also welcome.

Co-sponsored by a growing list including: People United for Peace (PUP), the New Priorities Campaign, the United Nations Association of SC (UNA), the Resource Center for Nonviolence (RCNV), the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom of SC (WILPF), the Truth in Recruiting Network ( TIRN), Families Against War (FAW) ….

For more info: meadowwolf (at) baymoon.com