Mar 20 & 21 -- A Weekend of Protest & Song

Saturday, March 20, 11:00 AM
San Francisco Civic Center Plaza
McAllister between Larkin and Polk San Francisco

Take the Peace Bus to the March and Rally in San Francisco, more information here

Street Rally at Peace Crossroads

Saturday, March 20 11:30 AM - - 2:00PM
corner of Stevens Creek Blvd. & Winchester, Santa Clara/San José,

Sunday, March 21: Speak Out / Sing Out Against War

 Sunday: 3:00 PM - - 6:00PM, Teamsters Hall, 1452 N. 4th St, San Jose

Also featuring spoken word and hip hop performances by Melissa Lozano (the queen of spoken word in San Jose), Kalizay, Yosimar Reyes & Adriana Garcia.  Teamsters Hall is near the Gish Light Rail Stop. ~ Wheelchair Accessible

$10-20 suggested donation. Call 408-297-2299 or
email sjpjc@sanjosepeace.org to reserve tickets.

Mainstreaming Peace & Justice

by Sharat G. Lin, president of the Coordinating Council of the San Jose Peace & Justice Center

Since the beginning of 2010, several initiatives have been taken to "break out of the box" of our traditional peace and justice activism.

MLK Celebrations
We have joined in the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. birthday celebrations, spearheaded by the MLK Library and the African American Faculty and Staff Association (AAFSA).  This was possible by recognizing that we must rediscover the true Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.  To honor him for advocating "non-violence" is to vastly understate and misunderstand his true contribution to social justice and peace.  Our involvement in these activities has intruduced us another realm of local social justice activism in the African American community.

Drones, the US War in Pakistan, and What's Missing in the Narrative - A reportback on a talk by Dr. Nosheen Ali, at SJSU

by Ramkumar Sridharan, San Jose
On Tuesday Feb 9,  around 60 San Jose State University students and members of the community gathered at the Martin Luther King Jr. Library in San Jose to hear Dr. Nosheen Ali, a Pakistani sociologist, speak on the war in Pakistan. The talk provided a very different perspective than the normal discourse on the war in the US media, and raised interesting questions.