[AntiWarMN] upcoming events

Demand a People's Bailout! Protest on Tax Day!
Wednesday, April 15th @ noon @ State Capitol, St. Paul
Protest on Tax Day for a People's Bailout. Organized by the Coalition for a People's Bailout (http://sites.google.com/site/mncrisis/). Endorsed by the Anti-War Committee.

Civil disobedience training for upcoming immigrant rights action
Wednesday, April 15 @ 7:30pm @ Bethany Lutheran Church @ 2511 East Franklin Avenue, Minneapolis
Three CD trainings building up to an action at ICE headquarters in Bloomington, Minnesota this spring. For 3 years now people have been marching, petitioning, lobbying for change. We have heard hopeful words from the Obama administration, yet as we write, more national guard are being sent to the border, families are being torn apart, our communities are being terrorized, and workers are sitting in detention centers, where documented human rights abuses have occurred.May 1st will mark the 100th day of the Obama administration. In the first days of his administration, Obama signed an executive order to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay. There is no reason he can’t do a similar executive order to immediately stop the wave of immigration raids and deportations that are tearing apart families and communities around the country. We will not wait for justice, we will not wait as mothers and fathers are torn from their children. We will not be silent while community members live in fear. We will not tolerate workers being exploited. OUR DEMAND IS SIMPLE: We demand that President Obama sign an executive order declaring an immediate moratorium on raids and deportations until a JUST immigration law is passed.

Know your Rights training for upcoming anti-war actions
Thursday, April 16th @ 6 pm @ AWC office at 1313 5th St. SE, Mpls, room 112 C (Feel free to stay for our AWC weekly meeting at 7:30)
Interested in taking a stand for peace with justice? Want to do civil disobedience or direct action. Learn how from Anti-War Committee activists. Discuss when, why and how to use creative tactics in your organizing.

Dinner to Support Immigrant Rights!
Saturday, April 18 @ Dinner from 6:00pm - 8:30pm, Music from 8:30pm - 12:00am @ Waite House Community Center, 2529 13th Avenue S, Mpls
Come and enjoy a delicious dinner to benefit the campaign to support Mujures en Liderazgo to win Drivers Licenses for All! Donations will go to support the legislative campaign to win drivers licenses for undocumented immigrants in Minnesota. Drivers licenses for all will mean safety in the streets and safety for all families. SI SE PUEDE! Dinner will share cultural diversity with the immigrant rights movements. Suggested Donation $10-15. For more info: (612) 721 – 1681

Repression and Resistance, Then and Now: Lecture and Reception with Ramona Africa of the MOVE Organization
April 19, 2009 @ 2:00 p.m. @ Hallie Q Brown/Martin Luther King Community Center, 270 N Kent Street, St. Paul
Ramona Africa is international spokesperson for the MOVE organization, a revolutionary back-to-nature organization whose main belief is in life. This organization has experienced violent repression at the hands of the government, with nine members--known as the MOVE 9--incarcerated for a crime it is obvious they did not commit. In 1985, Philadelphia police dropped a military-grade bomb on MOVE headquarters, killing six adults and five children. Ramona is the only adult survivor of that attack.
Ramona will speak about the nature of political repression and resistance as experienced by members of the MOVE family, including Mumia Abu-Jamal, and how these threads run to the prosecution of the RNC 8 and others. A reception will follow. Endorsed by the AWC.

Don’t Enlist! Resist! A day of actions to stop recruitment
Thursday, April 23rd President Obama has failed to keep his promise of ending the war in Iraq. His plan to keep 50,000 troops in Iraq through 2011 will continue an unjustified military occupation for almost 3 more years. An escalation is planned for Afghanistan, where Obama just deployed 17,000 additional troops. Maintaining these wars and occupations requires military recruiters to entice young people with false promises. Recruiters, who already disproportionately target low income people, will use the economic crisis to intensify pressure on vulnerable youth. We have to shatter the illusion that the war is ending and that new soldiers won’t have to fight. On April 23, 2009, different actions, using a diversity of tactics, will occur simultaneously at recruiting centers across Minnesota. All will have the shared goal of opposing the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and preventing military recruiting that day. Join us, to help make this day a success. Join a picket: Various groups will stand in front of different stations that day. Check here to find one of these actions, and join us! Organize an action: Work with your friends, or a group at your school, your church or in your neighborhood. "Adopt" a recruiting center and plan an action there. Contact us to coordinate, and we'll list your plans on this site. Call in day: If you can't take the day off, use your break to call a recruiter. Check here soon for a listing of numbers, and suggested talking points. If they're talking to you, they're not recruiting someone else! Initiated by the Anti-War Committee

The Suppression of Dissent
Friday, April 24, 1-3pm @ the U of M, Minneapolis
Jules Boykoff, author of Beyond Bullets: The Suppression of Dissent in the
United States (AK Press) speaks at the University of Minnesota. Organized to support the RNC 8. http://rnc8.org/2009/04/boykoff/

Palestine Day
Sunday April 26, 2009, from 4pm-8pm @ Robbinsdale Middle School. 3730 Toledo Ave N, Robbinsdale.
Directions: From Hwy 100, take 36th Ave E, turn right onto Regent Ave, turn left onto 38th Ave then turn left onto Toledo Ave. The school will be on your left hand side.
Featuring: Allah Made Me Funny, Sanabil-Alquds Dabka Group (Dance troupe from Milwaukee)m & Speaker: Br. Hussein Khatib. Refreshments and light meals will be served.


Learn about the RNC 8 Case
Wednesday, April 29, 7pm @ Coffman Union 324 @ U of M, Minneapolis
Defend the RNC 8! Meet the RNC 8, family and friends, plus watch videos about the case. Sponsored by Socialist Alternative and Friends of the RNC 8. Details coming soon at http://rnc8.org

Protest for Immigrant Rights
Friday, May 1st @ 4pm @ Lake St. & 13th Ave., Festival from 5- 8 pm @ Nicollet Ave & 29th
We demand: Stop the raids & deportations! Legalization for all now! Pass employee free choice act! Drivers licenses for all! For more info: tcmay1solidarity@gmail.com or 612 389 9174. Organized by the MN Immigrant Rights Action Coalition (Mn.ImmigrantRights.net). Endorsed by the AWC.

Powderhorn Park May Day Parade
Sunday, May 3rd, Parade from 24th & Cedar over to Bloomington Ave and up to Powderhorn Park, Festival @ Powerhorn Park, S. Minneapolis
We'll post details later about where to meet us for the parade and/or where to find our table. This is a fun festival for the whole family, and a great chance to bring our anti-war message out into the community. Plan to join us!

Work a Day for Peace: Dinner Event
Tuesday, May 19 @ 6:30 – 8:30 pm @ Walker Church basement, 3104 16th Ave S, Minneapolis
Want Peace? Work for Justice! The Anti-War Committee is asking supporters (and hungry people in general) to work a day for peace, and join us for a family-friendly thank you dinner event. Supporters will enjoy a delicious dinner of pasta, salad & dessert. We request that supporters donate a day's wages (or an hour's wage -depending on what you can afford) to cover dinner and support the Anti-War Committee. There will be a brief political and cultural program at the event. Money will go to support local peace organizing. For more information: antiwarcommittee.org, 612.379.3899, info@antiwarcommittee.org



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Meredith Aby
antiwarcommittee.org
colombiasolidarity.org