48 South 7th St, San Jose, CA 95112 (408) 297-2299
Sing
Out for Peace and Justice in San José!
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.
SJPJC study group to explore
disaster capitalism
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.
Independent Media
Coverage of Recent Events
On 5th anniversary of U.S.
invasion, South Bay demands end to Iraq war
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!
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
Peace Essay Awards - Wednesday,
May 7th, 7:00
p.m., Le Petit Trianon, 72 N. 5th St., San Jose
The
Twentieth Annual Peace Essay Challenge
Sponsored by the San Jose Peace Center and the Collins 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:
How has the war in Iraq affected you personally?
First Place Prize: $1000
Two Runners Up Awards of $300
Three Awards of $100
Four Awards of $50
Ten Awards of $25
Submit a completed entry form along with two (2) copies of
your entry.Deadline is
Friday, March 15th.
Applications may be obtained from the San Jose Peace Center,
or the Collins
Foundation, 48 S. 7th St., San Jose, CA 95112. To copy this notice and
distribute it,
see www.sanjosepeace.org/flyers_facts.php
to download a pdf version, including
an application and details.
Winter 2008 Peace Times is
Here!
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.
Didn't get to attend anniversary
events?
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.