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Sacramento Area Peace Action events calendar: Feb 2004

by dan elliott (cuibono [at] rcip.com)
While we like to send out the whole monthly calendar at the beginning of the month (followed by weekly updates), this month there are too many events! Below is the first half of Feb, 2004; please check http://www.sacpeace.org for more events. For bus tickets to the March 20 demonstration in San Francisco (see below), call 916 448-7157; sypeaceact [at] jps.net
MARK YOUR Calendar:
Saturday, Mar 20, March and Rally, San Francisco:

BRING THE TROOPS HOME NOW! Stop the War, End the Occupation! Money for People's Needs, not for Halliburton!

Rally starts 11 am, Dolores Park (18th & Dolores St.) followed by march to Civic Center. For info re busses from Sacramento and Davis: 916 448-7157, http://www.sacpeace.org; email to:sypeaceact [at] jps.net


February 2004 (1st half)

Sunday, Feb 1, 10am & 1pm, Carol Cross from Pastors for Peace will speak about Cuba. http://www.cubasolidarity.net/pastors 10am: The work of Pastors for Peace in Cuba. 1pm: Democracy in Cuba. Davis Community Church, Fellowship Hall, 412 C St., Davis. Info: (530) 756-0864.

Monday, Feb 2, Devastation, Faith, Rebuilding: A Report from Palestine/Israel. Methodist minister Sandra Olewine, who has been serving in Jerusalem and Bethlehem for the past 6 years, will share first hand information, photos and important stories from her experience. 12noon-2pm AND 7pm. Sacramento First United Methodist Church, 2100 J St, Sacramento. Info: 916-446-5025, ext 104; or 916-296-6064; lgeorgepomo [at] comcast.net.

Monday, Feb 2, 6pm, Women of the Arab World Film Series: Wild Flowers, Women of South Lebanon Women of the resistance, a drama of courage, resistance and hope (1986, Jean Khalil Chamoun & Mai Masri). 202 Wellman Hall, UC Davis.

Monday, Feb 2, 7pm, Davis Peace Coalition monthly meeting. Davis Public Library, 315 E. 14th St., Davis. Info: 530-758-8575.

Tuesday, Feb 3, Devastation, Faith, Rebuilding: (See 2-2 description). 6pm potluck; 7pm program. Rancho Cordova Methodist Church, 2101 Zinfandel Drive, Rancho Cordova. Info: 916-635-4242; begood [at] avantac.com

Tuesday, Feb 3, Defending the Defender, Lynne Stewart, the attorney targeted & wiretapped by John Ashcroft & falsely charged with aiding and abetting terrorism (http://www.lynnestewart). 12noon Moot Court Room, King Hall Law School, UC Davis; 4pm Room C, McGeorge Law School, 3200 5th Ave. Sacramento; 7pm Unitarian Universalist Society, 2425 Sierra Blvd, Sacramento. Info: 916-444-1215; 530-756-1900.

Tuesday, Feb 3, 12noon - 1ppm, Rally to Stop Execution of Kevin Cooper, State Capitol North Steps. Info: Death Penalty Focus(916)452-3806. http://www.deathpenalty.org; http://www.savekevincooper.org

Tuesday, Feb 3, 4pm - 6pm, Weekly Call for Peace Vigil, 16th & J St. Sacramento. (916) 448-7157.

Tuesday, Feb 3, 6pm, Sacramento Area Peace Action Board of directors meeting. 909 12th St. Sacramento. (916) 448-7157.

Tuesday, Feb 3, 7:30pm, Racial Profiling in the Wen Ho Lee Case. Presentation by Alberta Lee, daughter of Wen Ho Lee and a first year student at the UC Davis School of Law. Her father, a computer scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory, was fired from his job in March 1999 and indicted on 59 counts of mishandling nuclear secrets. Davis Unitarian Church, 27074 Patwin Rd, Davis. Info: (530) 756-6904.

Tuesday, Feb 3, 7pm, Film: Senorita Extraviada. Documentary of the search for truth about why women are being murdered in Juarez, Mexico. Christ Unity Church, 9249 Folsom Blvd, Sacramento. Info: 916 967-0203. Suggested donation $10-$20; proceeds to support delegates to the Feb 13-14 demonstration in Juarez and to benefit organizations working to stop the killings.

Wednesday, Feb 4, 5pm, Video about the Pastors for Peace 2003 Fall Caravan to Chiapas and Central America & the issues of the indigenous people who live there (film by Rebecca Vaden). Birthing Project, 1900 T St, Sacramento. Info: 916-558-4837; beckyvbp [at] yahoo.com

Wednesday, Feb 4, 7pm, Living with the Consequences of U.S. Policy: Personal Histories from Nicaragua. Slides by Paul Dix. Loomis Methodist Church, 6414 Brace Road, Loomis. Info. 916-784-3475, jaghome [at] fastmail.fm

Wednesday, Feb 4, 7pm, Interfaith Peace Service, Sacramento Friends Society, Meeting House, 890 57th St., Sacramento. (916) 457-3998

Friday, Feb 6, Devastation, Faith, Rebuilding: (See 2-2 description). 6pm potluck; 7pm program; Davis Methodist Church, 1620 Anderson Rd., Davis. Info: 530-756-2170; ehlindsay [at] davisumc.org.

Saturday, Feb 7, 11:30am - 1:30pm, Peace & Justice Vigil: The Road To Peace Is Paved With Justice, Fair Trade, & Human Rights. Arden & Heritage, Sacramento (916) 448-7157.

Saturday, Feb 7, 2pm & 7pm, Film: Senorita Extraviada. (See 2-3 description). Francis House, 1422 C St., Sacramento. Info 916 967-0203. Suggested donation $10-$20; proceeds to support delegates to the Feb 13-14 demonstration in Juarez and to benefit organizations working to stop the killings.

Sunday, Feb 8, 5pm - 8pm, Peace & Sustainability Potluck. A community gathering to provide for learning, discussion and taking actions which promote sustainability and peace. Unitarian Universalist Society, 2425 Sierra Blvd. Sacramento. Info. & about carpooliing to the event: 916-448-7157; 916-444-1215.

Monday, Feb 9, 6pm, Women of the Arab World Film Series: A Female Cabby in Sidi Bel-Abbes Struggles of Algerian women of today, few resources and many obstacles (2000, Belkacem Hadjadj). 202 Wellman Hall, UC Davis.

Monday, Feb 9, 7pm, Senorita Extraviada: (See 2-3 description). 2550 Sycamore Ln, #6J, Davis. Info: 530-756-1900.

Tuesday, Feb 10, 4pm - 6pm, Weekly Call for Peace Vigil, 16th & J St. Sacramento; (916) 448-7157.

Tuesday, Feb 10, 7pm, Global War and Corporate Empire; renowned writer and lecturer Michael Parenti. Redwood Room, CSUS Student Union. Campus Peace Action, 916-799-3943, or john [at] csuspeace.org.

Thursday, Feb 12, 12noon - 1:30pm, The New Latin America Rejects Globalization. Speaker: Arie School, recently in Argentina, Uruguay, and Brazil. 909 12th St. Sacramento. (916) 448-7157.

Saturday, Feb 14, 10:30am - 12:30pm, Ongoing foreign policy and nuclear weapons seminar, Hart Center, 915 27th St., Sacramento; (916) 448-7157.

Saturday, Feb 14, 6pm - 9pm, Against the Tide art exhibit opening. Works by activist artists, Peace Arts Xchange (http://www.peacearts.net). Time Bandits, 920 12th St., Sacramento; 916-393-7676. The exhibit will run from February 14-28.

MARK YOUR Calendar:
Saturday, Mar 20, End the Occupations, Bring the troops home: March and rally, San Francisco. For info. about buses from Sacramento and Davis: 916 448-7157, sypeaceact [at] jps.net. Rally starts at 11 am at Dolores Park (18th & Dolores St.) followed by march to Civic Center. Info: 415-821-6545


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