Resource Center for Nonviolence

Join us for a Volunteer Workday at RCNV’s New Bldg.-612 Ocean
Location: 612 Ocean St.
Description: Volunteer Work Day
at 612 Ocean St., Santa Cruz
Saturday, October 15,
9:00 a.m.
RSVP: email rcnvinfo@gmail.com or call 831-423-1626×101
or just show up.
Let us know if you can bring these tools: garden clippers, hedge trimmers, branch cutters, tree saws,
shovels, spades, orchard ladders, extension ladders,
step ladders, screw guns,
hammers, wrenches,
pliers, trucks (to haul garden waste to the landfill), brooms (sweepers and push brooms), dustpans, buckets.

Title: Let Compassion Ring- Interfaith Commemoration of 9/11

Location: Town Clock & Holy Cross Church

Sunday, September 11, 2011

4:45p.m. Gather at the Town clock, Santa Cruz

5:00p.m. Opening Ceremony of lament and remembrance

5:15p.m. Silent procession along Pacific avenue to Holy Cross Church

6:00p.m. Interfaith Vigil, Holy Cross Church with Cyprian Consiglio OSB, Cam., Rabbi Paula Marcus, Lori Gitanjali Rivera, and more

7:00p.m. Launch of Charter for Compassion; Refreshments

All people, of all beliefs, cultures and ages are welcomed. You are invited to bring flower, meditation bell or bowl to ring, ribbon banners or sign identifying your group or community. Join in remembering the lives lost on 9/11/2001 and in launching the Cities of Compassion Campaign. For more information, call 831-427-1644.

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.

Nada Alwadi

Click Here for an audio recording of Nada’s talk on Sept. 22 2011 at the RCNV.

Detained journalist Nada Alwadi from Bahrain to Speak on the Popular Revolt for Democracy in Bahrain
Location: Resource Center for Nonviolence, 515 Broadway, Santa Cruz

Thursday September 22 at 7:30 p.m. Resource Center for Nonviolence, 515 Broadway, in Santa Cruz.

Nada Alwadi was a reporter for Alwasat, the most popular newspaper in Bahrain, a monarchy on a small island in the Persian Gulf. Alwadi covered the pro-democracy protests this spring against the Al Khalifi monarchy prior to government authorities closing the newspaper. US backed Saudi Arabia sent troops to help shore up the Bahraini monarchy and suppress the popular uprising. She was detained in April while reporting on the pro-democracy movement and was forced to sign a statement saying that she would not write on or engage in any political activities, and was fired from her job. A number of her fellow Bahraini journalists have been murdered, tortured, or sentenced to long prison terms by the regime. She has outspokenly criticized the government\’s suppression of reporting about what is happening on the streets of Bahrain.

According to Stephen Zunes, local resident and professor of political science at the University of San Francisco, \”Nada Alwadi exemplifies the new generation of educated, progressive, Arab Muslim women who are helping to re-shape the Middle East.\”    Nada Alwadi earned a BA from Kuwait University and an MA in Mass Communications from the Universiti Sains, Malaysia. She has served as a freelance journalist, writer and researcher for several media outlets, including Women Gateway in Arabic and English and USA Today. Ms. Alwadi is founder of the Bahrain Press Association, which seeks to defend journalists from government repression.

Ms. Alwadi attended the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in June at Tufts University. Her presentation will discuss the Bahraini experience of strategic nonviolence and the importance of active nonviolence and Bahrain in building a new Middle East.

A $5-$20 sliding-scale donation is asked at the door to support Nada Alwadi\’s work. For more information: contact Scott Kennedy at 831.457.8003 or kenncruz@pacbell.net

Click Here for an audio interview with Nada Alwadi, go to \”Nation Conversations: Nada Alwadi on Bahrain\’s Government Crackdown\”

Click here for a video she collaborated on for Narconews.com

For more info, call 831-423-1626, www.rcnv.org

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.