[Imc-saltlake-discussion] Weekly Community 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.)

Weekly public meeting ~** 1st and 3rd** Thursdays, 7:30 p.m.
Committee meetings ~ **2nd and 4th** Thursdays, 7:30pm.
Jubilee Center Library - 300 East 100 South502-8556 - www.utahpeace.org
info at utahpeace.org
(NOTE:  There will be no meetings during this summer.)

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

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

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Highlighted Announcements and Events:

- Hurricane Katrina Relief Efforts:
>From Dalton Sherwood:  "My School and Society class at the University of Utah is
organizing a fund for those who would like

to contribute to the education of those students whose schools and homes have
been destroyed. We are collecting money which

we will allocate to those school districts which need help. This will be a large
scale and long term project yet we are

trying to take full advantage of the media coverage and emotion that has
enveloped us all right now. Please contact the

University College of Education if you would like to be a part of our efforts,
or you can email me,

dalton_sherwood at hotmail.com or Professor Kristina Gibby-Wachter at
wachter_k at ed.utah.edu.  We need people willing to help us

out so offer us your skills and your time, if you have neither we will gladly
collect a donation."

- September 24:  NATIONAL CALL TO ACTION:  Each Thursday at 7:30 pm (NOTE TIME
CHANGE) there is a plannng meeting to help

plan a big SLC action for September 24 - in solidarity with organizations
nationwide to demand U.S. withdrawl from Iraq.

Everyone is encouraged and welcome to come help plan this event.  Meetings are
held at Free Speech Zone, 2144 South Highland

Drive, Suite 130.  Please call 487-2295 for more information.
Current plans call for a march from Pioneer Park to the City County Building,
where there will be a rally with socializing

and networking, entertainment, and speakers.  Visit www.utahpeace.org for more
details.

- Need a ride to D.C. or San Francisco for the September 24th rallies there? 
Visit the  Rideboard at:

www.gput.org/BB/viewforum.php?f=66

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Events:
Thursday, Sept. 8th, 11:15 am to12:45 pm

Stephen Zunes in the Saltair room of the University of Utah Union; the topic
will be "Democracy, Nuclear Non-Proliferation,

and US Policy in the Middle East."  On Friday the 9th, from 10:30 am to 12:45
pm, also in the Saltair Room, I will be one of

four panelists speaking on the topic "New Directions for Authoritarianism and
Democracy in the Middle East & Central Asia."

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Friday and Saturday, September 9 and 10 2005
The Middle East... is Peace possible?
Speaker-Ambassador Phillip Wilcox, U.S. Ambassador at Large to the Middle East
Friday, September 9, 7:00 p.m.
Calvary Chapel Assembly Room
2024 Sidewinder Drive, Park City, Utah
(in Prospector Square above Creative Beginings)

Saturday, September 10, 2:30 p.m.
Salt Lake City Public Library, Main Auditorium
210 East 400 South, Salt Lake City, Utah
(underground parking available, enter off 4th South heading east)
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Friday, September 9, 8pm
Plan-B Theatre Company's Opening of the production, "PATIENT"
Thursdays-Saturdays at 8; Sundays at 2 & 7
story of Kimberly Bergalis, whose case marked the first alleged instance of HIV
transmission from a health-care worker to a

patient. Issues of testing, discrimination and personal responsibility are
examined against the larger backdrop of the AIDS

epidemic in America.

During the run of PATIENT A, artwork by HIV+/HIV-affected artists will be on
display in the corridor leading to the Studio

Theatre in partnership with Art Access/VSA Arts of Utah's Art Positive program,
Utah AIDS Foundation and Julie Brizzee/Your

Lender For Life. Written by Lee Blessing.
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Saturday, September 10, 7:00pm
FREE FILM:
"Hijacking Catastrophe - 9/11, Fear and the Selling of the American Empire"

Free Speech Zone
2144 South Highland Drive, Suite 130

This film examines how a radical fringe of the Republican Party used the trauma
of the 9/11 terror attacks to advance a

pre-existing agenda to radically transform American foreign policy while rolling
back civil liberties and social programs at

home. The documentary places the Bush administration’s false justifications for
war in Iraq within the larger context of a

two-decade struggle by neoconservatives to dramatically increase military
spending in the wake of the cold war, and to expand

American power globally by means of military force. At the same time, the
documentary argues that the Bush administration has

sold this radical and controversial plan for aggressive American military
intervention by deliberately manipulating

intelligence, political imagery, and the fears of the American people after
9/11.

Info and fliers:  www.utahpeace.org/NewsEvents.html, info at utahpeace.org or
801-502-8556

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Sunday, September 11, 9am
FIRST ANNUAL VETERANS FOR PEACE MARCH
STARTING AT THE GHANDI STATUE AT
JORDAN PARK(INTERNATIONAL PEACE GARDENS)
ROUTE: PAST VA HOSPITALENDING AT THE  FT. DOUGLAS CEMETARY
For information contact: 	Aaron Davis
				801-556-0599
				janrdavis at msn.com
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Tuesday Sep 13th, 7pm- Free Screening of TransGeneration. University Union
Theater

TransGeneration is a groundbreaking 8-part verite- documentary series that
captures a year in the life of four transgender

college students. The series follows four unique individuals, two
male-to-females and two female-to-males as they struggle to

transition from one gender to the other in the midst of a grueling school year.
>From working-class campuses to private

colleges steeped in tradition, we follow these four students as they juggle the
pressures of college life, academia and

family expectations with their own life-changing transitions. Idealistic and
empassioned, these four young adults embark on a

journey of self-discovery and in the process re-define gender for their
generation. Panel Discussion to follow the screening.

Free parking available in the University Union pay lot.  Map at www.map.utah.edu
  for more information visit

www.sa.utah.edu/lgbt or 587-7973.  This event is being co-hosted by the U of U
LGBT Resource Center,  The GLBT Community

Center, Equality Utah, and The Utah AIDS Foundation. For more information visit:

http://www.worldofwonder.net/productions/networks/sundance/transgeneration.wow
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Friday, September 16, 7pm
Barnes and Noble in Orem
Presented by by Ehab Abunuwara in connection of the release of his novel "Days
of the Messiah: Pharaoh,"

Ehab Abunuwara is a native of Nazareth, Israel and currently lives in Orem.  He
was born into a Christian Palestinian-Arab

family and grew up with regular association with Moslems and Jews.  Ehab is
fluent in both Arabic and Hebrew and has traveled

and worked extensively in the Middle East. He attended Hebrew University in
Jerusalem and he holds a Masters degree in

Psychology from Haifa University in Israel, and a Phd in Social Psychology from
Brigham Young University.  Ehab has published

articles on the Middle East in Dialogue: Journal of Mormon Thought, The Journal
of Book of Mormon Studies and the Salt Lake

Tribune.

Info: ehabsa at yahoo.com - www.daysofthemessiah
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Saturday, September 17, 12noon to 4pm - "Katrina Donation Day"
There are 1,000 hurricane refugees on their way to Utah.
There will be a Humanitarian Aid Drop-off and carwash - Help the Victims of
Hurrican Katrina.

For the drop-off, please consider donating these items:
Food:
Water
Personal hygiene items
Clothing
Toys & Books
Child Care Services
Medical Professionals
Counselors
Volunteer time
Families to take in hurricane refugees.

Services:
General Volunteer
Food preparation (must have food handler's permit)
Cook (must have food handler's permit)
Transportation
Child care
Languages (other than English)

Professionals:
Doctors
Nursers
Mental Health Counselors
Clergy
EMT
Law


City Academy will be holding this event at 1700 South 2416 East

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Saturday, September 17, 7:00pm
FREE FILM:
"wMD: Weapons of Mass Deception - the Film that the major media companies do NOT
want you to see."

Free Speech Zone
2144 South Highland Drive, Suite 130

There were two wars going on in Iraq - one was fought with armies of soldiers,
bombs and a fearsome military force. The other

was fought alongside it with cameras, satellites, armies of journalists and
propaganda techniques. One war was rationalized

as an effort to find and disarm WMDs - Weapons of Mass Destruction; the other
was carried out by even more powerful WMDs,

Weapons of Mass Deception.

This film explores this story with the findings of a gutsy, media
insider-turned-outsider, former network journalist who

"self-embedded" himself in his living room to monitor media coverage, by
fastidiously tracking the TV coverage on a daily

basis.

Info and fliers:  www.utahpeace.org/NewsEvents.html, info at utahpeace.org or
801-502-8556
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Wednesday, September 21
International Day of Peace
The story of the International Day of Peace is available on the website,
www.peaceoneday.org
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