[Imc-saltlake-discussion] Weekly Peace Calendar

[weeklycalendar at utahpeace.org]

This calendar is a service provided by People for Peace and Justice of Utah
www.utahpeace.org - With these activities every

Thursday:

Weekly sidewalk vigil:

Thursdays, 5-7 pm Federal Building, 125 South State Street, SLC Bring signs!
(Some signs provided)
(NOTE:  In case of inclement weather, please bring your own signs if you decide
to vigil in rain or snow.)

www.utahpeace.org info at utahpeace.org


Please visit www.utahpeace.org/calendar.html to view events happening in our
community.

Here are other events calendars of events in our community:

Utah Activist Calendar:http://cal.uarc.com/display.pl
Our Community Connection online
calendar:http://www.ourcommunityconnection.com/events.php
CATALYST online calendar at www.catalystmagazine.net/events Amnesty
International Events

Calendar:www.amnestyutah.org/events.htm
Middle East Center, U of U, Calendar:www.mec.utah.edu/Calendar/calendar.html
Women's Resource Calendar, U of U: www.sa.utah.edu/women/calendar/jan2005.html
Salt Lake City Film Center Events: www.slcfilmcenter.org Diversity
Utah:www.diversity.utah.edu/annualevents.html
Progressive Utah Discussion
Forum:http://www.livejournal.com/community/progressiveutah/
Utah Policy:  www.utahpolicy.com
Utah Events:  www.utah.com/database/events

News Sources:
www.commondreams.org - Common Dreams
www.truthout.org - Truthout
www.zmag.org - ZNet
www.democracynow.org - Democracy Now!

Have a great week!
(Please send questions/calendar items to weeklycalendar at utahpeace.org)

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Highlighted Announcements and Events:

- Memorial Sidewalk Vigil for 2,000th Fallen Soldier in Iraq
  Join People for Peace and Justice of Utah us as we gather in memoriam in the
event that it is reported that 2,000 soldiers

 have died in Iraq.

  Gather on the sidewalk in front of the Federal Building in Salt Lake,
  125 South State Street
  5pm - 10pm on the day that the morning newspapers report the 2,000th fallen
soldier.

  Info: 502-8556 or info at utahpeace.org

- National Stand Down Day on November 18 (anti-recruitment) - see the notice
below the events listing.
- Week of October 24 is fourth anniversary of the Patriot Act - see the notice
below the events listing.
- Poetry slam events:
open mics:
cup of joes, 353 west 200 south, 8 pm, saturdays city lights (at the library),
400 south 200 east, around 7 on wednesdays

slams:
cup of joes, 353 west 200 south, third saturdays, 8 pm barnes and noble (in
sugarhouse), 1300 east 2100 south, around 7 first

fridays

other events:
2006 SLAM OFF!!! last saturday of january at cup of joe!!! (jan 28) we're
getting this started off early this year! be there

for your chance to compete for a place on the 2006 slc slam team, we will be
competeing in austin tx this year, in august!
cup of joes high school open mic, second saturdays!

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Events:


Mon October 17, 7pm
Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) meeting
slc library 214 e 400 s
room A

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Thursday, October 20, 7pm
Free Film Screening - "License to Kill"
Main City Library Auditorium 200 East 400 South, SLC
Shown in conjunction with the YWCA's Week Without Violence and the Salt Lake
Film Center, this documentary by award winning

independent film maker Arthur Dong in an uncompromising investigation into the
roots of anti-gay violence.  As seen through

the eyes of murderers, the film examines the social, political and cultural
cultural environments of these men, and questions

whether society had given them a "license to kill".
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Friday, October 21
First Annual Fundraiser
Benefitting the Anti-Hunger Action Committee
6:00 - 7:30 pm
First United Methodist Church
203 South 200 East
Come meet the artists of our Open
Arts project, mingle with other
supporters of AHAC
and have a good time!
Questions? Call Elizabeth at 364-7765
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Fri October 21, 7pm
Anarchist REader's Collective
Big Ed's Grill 210 S University
 Discuss "The Right ot BE Lazy" by Paul LeFargue
November book:  "Joe HIll" by Gibbs SMith
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Saturday, October 22, Noon to 8pm,
Campaign to End Aids Memorial and Rally
8500 people die from complications of AIDS every day.

8500 pairs of shoes will be displayed in Library Square to honor the 8500 people
a day who die from AIDS globally.

At 6:30 there will be a rally to kicking off the campaign to ask Utah
Legislators for on-going funding to pay for HIV/AIDS

medication for people in Utah living with HIV/AIDS. Please come to the rally and
make sure your legislators hear your voices.

Please donate one pair of shoes to represent one of these people. Donate one
dollar to support the Campaign 2 End AIDS

caravan that is traveling to Washington DC to demand that our political leaders
give the support and resources we need to end

this epidemic.

The Green Party of Utah is serving as a drop-off center and accepting donations
of shoes at this drop-off point:

Free Speech Zone
2144 South Highland Drive, Suite 130
Salt Lake City, UT
Info: 801-502-8556 or gpu at gput.org

Info at:
www.gput.org/events.shtml

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Wednesday, October 26, 6:30pm SLC Library
"Berkley in the 60's" film about free speech
Room C, downstairs
Sponsored by the SLC Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
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Thursday, October 27, 12:30pm
"Lies My Teacher Told Me"-Everything Your High
Salt Lake Community College
Grand Theatre, South City Campus, 1575 South State Street
Autograph Session will follow.
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Friday, October 28
Salt Lake Critical Mass Bicycle Ride
5:30pm Gallivan Center
Dress up in your Halloween costumes!
www.slccriticalmass.org
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Friday, November 11
Chapter 118 Veterans for Peace is holding a rally and march from the city/county
building  at 2:00 p.m.  The march will end

at the tower theater where chapter 118 is sponsoring the visit of winter soldier
Scott Camile from Florida for the premiere

of the film WINTER SOLDIER at 400 p.m.
www.wintersoldierfilm.com
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"National Stand Down Day"
End The Iraq War - Demonstrations and Nonviolent Resistance at
Recruiting Stations Across the Country

November 18, 2005

Young Americans sign on to go into harm's way to defend their
country if necessary, but instead they are being turned into harm's
ministers in a war that has claimed more then 100,000 Iraqi lives
and nearly 2,000  Americans. The President and Congress have
breached a sacred trust with our soldiers and abused their oath to
defend the Constitution by leading young Americans to kill and die
in a war based on lies.

As the Bush Administration refuses to make plans to bring our troops
home, join us for "National Stand Down Day," as we halt the
machinery that takes young Americans off to this illegal and endless
war in Iraq.

We welcome, and will provide coordination and support as possible,
for all manner of protests and demonstrations at recruiting centers.
We want to especially encourage and assist nonviolent resistance
actions, such as civil resistance or civil disobedience. As we
recognize and support soldiers who take great risks to refuse
fighting in this unjust war, so it is our moral responsibility to
share that risk to the extent that we can, by preventing even more
young Americans from being placed in such jeopardy – particularly in
light of the lies and abusive practices being used in the recruiting
process.

Our violation of these unjust practices is undertaken in a spirit of
nonviolence and love, with compassion and respect for all we
encounter. But our nonviolence will not be mistaken for lack of
resolve: we cannot stand by while our schools and communities are
militarized by the "No Child Left Behind Act," or as potential
recruits are deceived by clauses that allow the armed forces to
disregard the terms of their contract.

This call is also made in support of the "National `Not Your
Soldier' Youth and Student Day
of Action" call for a youth and student led counter-recruitment day
of action on Thursday, November 17. We encourage everyone who will
participate in National Stand Down Day on November 18 to support the
efforts of local students as well - you can find out more by going to
http://www.nyspc.net/home.php

Please join us as we say NO the war in Iraq, and NO to the
recruitment of our fellow Americans into this war.

If you are interested in joining this nationally coordinated day of
nonviolent action to end the war,
please contact us at www.iraqpledge.org



National Stand Down Day is a project of the Iraq Pledge of
Resistance's National Campaign for Nonviolent Resistance.

Endorsers (list in formation):

Code Pink Women for Peace
National Call for Nonviolent Resistance
Progressive Democrats of America
Iraq Pledge of Resistance

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Fourth anniversary of the Patriot Act:

Friends,

The fourth anniversary of the PATRIOT Act is quickly approaching, as is
reauthorization of the 16 sections that were

scheduled to sunset at the end of this year.  The House-Senate conference
committee is expected to meet next week to create,

and possibly vote on, a compromise bill.

Community groups across the country are planning local events during the week of
October 24 to draw attention to the

inadequate changes that will be made by the reauthorization bill, and to
publicly renew our opposition to the degradation of

civil liberties since September 11, 2001.

If you haven't already, please begin organizing an event in your community. 
BORDC has created some resources to assist your

efforts, including a list of possible actions, a sample press release, and
several fliers:

http://www.bordc.org/involved/4thanniversary.php.

NEW RESOURCE:  BORDC Board member Chip Pitts has created a 900+ word op-ed,
which is now posted on our web site.  Please feel

free to submit it to your local papers with Chip's byline.  Chip has generously
given his permission for you to use it to

create your own op-ed or letter to the editor as well. (Check your paper's rules
regarding maximum word length first.)

Please let us know about your plans so we can keep track of participating cities
and include your information in our press

materials.

Thanks for all you do,

Jessie Baugher
Eastern Region Organizer

Bill of Rights Defense Committee
phone: 413-582-0110
www.bordc.org



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