San Jose Peace and Justice Center

Experience the power! Come add your voice to the growing cries for peace and justice -- in song!

Friday, May, 9, 2008

6 p.m. International dinner
7 p.m. Film: "Pete Seeger: the Power of Song"
8:30 p.m. Sing-along of Pete Seeger favorites led by Annie and the Vets

Teamsters Hall, 1452 N. 4th St., San Jose (north of Gish Road) ample parking, wheelchair access

Suggested donation $15-25 benefits San José Peace & Justice Center and the San Jose Labor Party Local Organizing Committee.
See San Francisco Chronicle review of film here.

For reservations and information, call San José Peace & Justice Center
408-297-2299.

This May, the San Jose Peace & Justice Center kicks off its new book discussion series with Naomi Klein’s The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, where Klein deconstructs the economic history of the last 50 years and the free market and the apparently voluntary embrace of capitalism globally. The group will meet three times, once every two weeks starting May 2. Each meeting will feature a guest discussion leader, and questions, reviews, and other aids to discussion will be provided.

All meetings will begin at 7 p.m. at SJPJC, 48 S. 7th St.. For more information, email sjpc@sanjosepeace.org

Friday, May 2: Introduction to “Disaster Capitalism”
Discussion leader: Max Elbaum, editor, War Times/Tiempo de Guerras, author of Revolution in the Air: Sixties Radicals Turn to Lenin, Mao and Che.

Friday, May 16: Shock Doctrine in Latin America
Discussion leader: Roger Burbach, director of the Center for the Study of the Americas and a visiting scholar at the Institute of International Studies, University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of The Pinochet Affair: State Terrorism and Global Justice.

Friday, May 30: Disaster Capitalism and the Reconstruction of the Gulf Coast
Discussion leader: Dr. Scott Myers-Lipton, associate professor of sociology, San Jose State University, lead organizer of Gulf Coast Civic Works Project, and author of Social Solutions to Poverty: America’s Struggle to Build a Just Society.

On 5th anniversary of U.S. invasion, South Bay demands end to Iraq war

IndyBay, 3 April 2008

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/04/03/18490325.php

San Jose protests 4000 U.S. war dead … and a million Iraqis killed

IndyBay, 3 April 2008

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/04/03/18490339.php

California Democratic Convention identifies problems, not solutions

IndyBay, 3 April 2008

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/04/03/18490439.php

Los Angeles Independent Media Center, 4 April 2008

http://la.indymedia.org/news/2008/04/216376.php

Note: A short video of the first two days of the California Democratic
Party Convention in San Jose, produced by high school students,
was shown immediately before Bill Clinton's keynote speech on
March 30. It included that George W. "Impeach Me" Bush in the
orange jumpsuit, and was seen by Clinton and all 2000+ delegates!

IndyBay, 5 April 2008

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/04/05/18490668.php

Thanks to Sharat Lin for sharing this links.

Bad captalists or a bad system: Hollywood
comes to blows with Upton Sinclair
commentary by David Bacon
I was disappointed that Daniel Day-Lewis won an Oscar for
There Will Be Blood, not because he’s not a great actor (he is),
but because the movie was such a betrayal of the book on which
it was based. Movies don’t have to follow books. Many don’t. But
in this case, what we missed were the things that made Upton
Sinclair’s Oil a politically courageous book for its time. For our time,
it unearths a crucial part of the hidden history of our own working
class movement. .
To read the entire review/commentary, see

http://dbacon.igc.org/Art/2008uptonsinclair.html

See photos of this successful event here, plus news coverage worth watching.

"The insurgency in Iraq is primarily an armed resistance
to U.S. occupation, not sectarian violence." (From "How to
Get Out of Iraq" by Sharat Lin.)

Download flyers and posters here.

Americans speak out against illegal spying and telecom immunity — watch the video!

PASS IT ON! Digg the video or share the petition using the button below.

Video produced in conjunction with the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

The Peace Essay Challenge is open to all students in the 9th to 12th grades in Santa Clara County.
The theme for the 2008 essay:

New quarterly edition of the Peace Times
has arrived. Now available for viewing
online or printing out to paper. Click on the
link to the right to get a PDF version (in color)
that you can print. You will need the Free
Software Foundation's GNU gv, Foolabs'
Xpdf, Adobe Corporation's Acrobat Reader,
or the KDE Project's KPDF to read the PDF
version.

Thanks to Anu's and Joan B.'s photography skills, you can view the
events on line!

Bill and Alice Cox accept their much
deserved recognition. Many others deserving
recognition that night will receive their due in
further celebrations of this momentous milestone.
See more photos at Picasa, and watch for a video
of the library event in the near future.