Please Join Us on November 4th at 6 pm at the RCNV, 515 Broadway for an evening of People Powered Poetry. We’ll have refreshments, a pedal powered sound system and the creative energy of you and your friends. The event is free, donations accepted, and we seek to build a new community of artists/musicians/poets etc to promote nonviolent direct actions and campaigns for a more just and peaceful world.  For more information please call Sandino at 831 750 8687

In an effort to reinvigorate the Resource Center with youth involvement   the ReGeneration Project seeks to provide a space for Santa Cruz youth and students of all ages to engage in critical and creative thinking about our society, and the resources to address those issues through creative and nonvi0lent means. We believe that the arts are the vehicle through which social change and creative cultural resistance can occur!

This project is still in its beginning stages, so if you would like to get on board,donate your time, talent or ideas, or just want more information, please contact us at rcnvinfo@gmail. com or call 831-423-1626×101!

We are planning at benefit show/Fall Festival, so if you are an artist, musician, performer, or have other ideas on how we can fund raise, let us know!

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

Be Present Inc. invites you to…  A Dialogue with author Clare Holzman:

“I’ve Always Known I’m Jewish, but How Am I Jewish?”

in the book: A Minyan of Women: Family Dynamics, Jewish Identity, and Psychotherapy Practice, a special issue of Women & Therapy: A Feminist Quarterly.

Saturday, June 25th 5pm
at the Resource Center of Nonviolence
515 Broadway

Click Here to Download a Flyer for the event.

Clare will discuss her article as well as how her own journey with the help of Be Present, Inc. led her to a deeper understanding of herself as a non-believing, non-practicing Jew, still claiming Judaism.

The book, A Minyan of Women: Family Dynamics, Jewish Identity, and Psychotherapy Practice, explores the diverse manner in which family dynamics shaped Jewish identities in ways that were unique and directly connected to their experiences within their families of origin. Highlighted is the diversity of experience of ethnic identity within members of a group of women who are similar in many respects and who belong to an ethnic group that is often invisible. Jewish people, like members of other ethnic groups are often treated as if their identities were homogeneous. However, gender, social class, sexual orientation, factors surrounding immigration status, proximity of family members to the holocaust or pogroms, the number of generations one’s family has been in the US and other salient aspects of experience and identities transform and inform the meaning and experience by group members.

This book was published as a special issue of Women and Therapy. Women & Therapy is the only professional journal that focuses entirely on the complex interrelationship between women and the therapeutic experience. Devoted to descriptive, theoretical, clinical, and empirical perspectives on the topic of women and therapy, the journal is intended for feminist practitioners as well as for individuals interested in the practice of feminist therapy.