[Imc-saltlake-discussion] Weekly Peace Calendar

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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
March - October:
5-7 pm

November - February:
5:30-6:30

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.)

Next Public Meeting:
Thursday, May 4, 7:30pm
Free Speech Zone, 2144 South Highland Drive, SLC

www.utahpeace.org, info at utahpeace.org, or 502-8556

Other weekly vigils:
Logan - 5-6pm
in front of the Tabernacle in downtown Logan
Info:  435-797-5237 or rachelc at ext.usu.edu

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:

See photos of the April 29 <a href="Peace and Justice Rally</a>
See photos of the April 29 debate/discussion:  <a
href="http://www.gput.org/http://www.gput.org/pastevents.shtml">Leaving

Iraq:  Pros and Cons</a>, with U.S. Senate Candidates

The Bureau of Land Management is accepting public comments until May 8th on
whether or not Private Fuel Storage should be

allowed a right-of-way to transport high-level nuclear waste across public lands
into Skull Valley.  See the letter below the

events listing for details on how you can participate.
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Events:

TODAY:

Sunday, April 30, 2006
Save Darfur Rally - 3-4pm
City County Building at Washington Square, 451 South State Street
581-0098
STOP THE GENOCIDE
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TODAY:

Sunday, April 30, 2006
*Contemporary Music Consortium*
Presents:  “Season 2006”

20th anniversary season - “Season Finale”
Sunday, April 30 at 3:00 pm
Salt Lake City Library Auditorium~200 E. 400 S., SLC

PROGRAM:
Phillip Bimstein - Golden Duel for flute & clarinet (2004)
Jeff Manookian - Capriccios for flute quartet (2005)
Leo Kraft - Partita No.5 & Air for flute & guitar (1987/1993)
Carson P. Cooman - Dawn Rituals for flute quartet, Op. 610 (2005)
Dr. Ann Hankinson - Seven Sonic Haiku for flute quartet (2006)
Steve Lyman - Raga for solo guitar (2005)


PERFORMERS:
Laurel Ann Maurer, Dr. April Clayton, Sally Humphreys, Nancy Toone, Katherine
Wojnowski: flutes
Russell Harlow, clarinet
Steve Lyman, Kazu Kamai: guitar

Utah Premiere  - World Premiere

Admission is Free

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SLC FILM CENTER - Please call 801-746-7000 with questions
SLC FILM CENTER AND NATIONAL ABILIITY CENTER HOST
May 1, Monday – 7PM - City Library Auditorium - 210 East 400 South , SLC
May 2, Tuesday – 7PM - Jim Santy Auditorium in Park City, 1255 Park Ave., PC
EMMANUEL’S GIFT - Director: Lisa Lax, Narrated by Oprah Winfrey  – Rated G – 80
Minutes – Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah, the film’s

subject and 2005 ESPY (Excellence in Sports Performance) will be at both
screenings – Presented in partnership with National

Ability Center, Contender Bicycle, the Summit County Healthcare Foundation and
the Park City Municipal Corporation.
SLCFC:The New Face of Africa Series
If you are born disabled in Ghana, West Africa you are likely to be poisoned, or
left to die by your family; and if you are

not poisoned or left for dead, you're likely to be hidden away in a room; and if
you're not hidden, you are destined to spend

your lifetime begging on the streets. Of the twenty million people in Ghana, two
million are disabled. This is the story of

one disabled man whose mission-and purpose- is to change all that forever. In
Emmanuel's Gift, filmmakers Lisa Lax and Nancy

Stern have uncovered a story as compelling as it is important. Narrated by Oprah
Winfrey, the film chronicles the life of

Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah, a young Ghanaian man born with a severely deformed right
leg, who today, against incalculable odds, is

opening minds, hearts and doors-and effecting social and political change
throughout his country. While Emmanuel's message is

vital: people with disabilities are valuable contributors to any society, his
method is inspirational. Emmanuel begins his

quest with a bicycle ride, over 600 kilometers, across Ghana with one leg-and
continues to spread his vision with grit and

resolve. Lisa Lax and Nancy Stern have been documenting Emmanuel's plight for
over a year, having shot over 100 hours of

powerful imagery. The film includes original footage shot in Ghana, California,
Oregon and New York, as well as photographs

and other acquired film/video of Emmanuel's early years. Through it all, they
have created an intimate insight into the mind

and heart of a visionary whose unforgettable journey transcends continents and
cultures and becomes each of ours to share.
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SLC FILM CENTER - Please call 801-746-7000 with questions
May 3, Wednesday – 7PM – H5N1 KILLER FLU – Director: Elliot Halpern
Not Rated – 53 Minutes
After the film join us for a panel discussion with:
Robert Roth - State Epidemiologist
Rosemary Mc Farland - Division of Natural Resources
Adi Grundlapalu - Medical Director of the 4th Street Clinic
City Library Auditorium - 210 East 400 South – SLCFC: Health Series – Presented
with Friends of Great Salt Lake as part of

their 2006 Great Salt Lake Issues Forum
The next global human flu epidemic may begin with a sick duck in Vietnam's
Mekong River Delta, now the epicenter of a deadly

bird flu outbreak. The World Health Organization estimates that the H5N1 virus
-- which already has jumped species from birds

to humans -- could kill tens of millions of people worldwide. WIDE ANGLE travels
to Vietnam to investigate the threat of a

global pandemic, portraying Vietnam's response to outbreaks in its cities,
provinces and villages, where doctors,

epidemiologists and veterinarians are battling the virus. As the government
tries to contain the disease and educate its

people, there is growing evidence that the virus is evolving and already may
have begun to spread via human-to-human contact

for the first time, dramatically increasing the risk of a worldwide catastrophe.
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Friday, May 5, 2006


Rape Recovery auction
      The Rape Recovery Center of Utah will hold its annual benefit auction at
the Emma Eccles Jones Conservatory at

Westminster College on Friday, May 5, at 6 p.m.
      The event includes a live and silent auction of artwork donated by
businesses and Utah artists. The Saliva Sisters and

Robert Kirby will perform.
      Last year, more than 1,300 victims of sexual violence were assisted by the
program. It is Utah's only no-fee sexual

assault service agency in the state.
      Tickets for the event are $50. All proceeds from the event go directly to
client services, such as a 24-hour crisis

hotline, and to community education programs, including the training of
law-enforcement officers.
      More information can be found at www.raperecoverycenter.org or by calling
the center at 801-467-7282.
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Saturday, May 6, 2006
FREE FILM:
Kent State:  The Day the War Came Home
Free Speech Zone
2144 South Highland Drive

The Kent State shootings, also known as May 4 or the Kent State Massacre,
occurred at Kent State University in the city of

Kent, Ohio, and involved the shooting of students by the Ohio National Guard on
Monday, May 4, 1970. The altercation killed

four students and wounded nine others.

The shootings were the culmination of four days of increasingly agitated
demonstrations by members of the student body. The

students were protesting the American invasion of Cambodia which President
Richard Nixon launched on April 25, and announced

in a television address five days later.

This documentary film includes interview with students and National Guardsmen
who were there.

Info:  502-8556, info at utahpeace.org
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SLC FILM CENTER - Please call 801-746-7000 with questions
May 10, Wednesday – 7PM – MO AND ME – with Salim Amin, filmmaker and Managing
Director of Camerapix and the Chairman of the

Mohamed Amin Foundation – Westminster College 1840 South 1300 East – Vieve Gore
Concert Hall SLCFC: The New Africa Series
Long acknowledged Africa's greatest photographer-cameraman, Mohamed Amin has
been photographing and filming the major events

of Africa, Asia and the Middle East since the 1950's. He is also the author and
publisher of more than forty high quality

illustrated books. He was born in Nairobi, Kenya in 1943, and was chief
executive of the Camerapix group of television and

publishing companies. He died in 1996 Salim Amin is the son of the late Mohamed
Amin, the Managing Director of Camerapix and

the Chairman of the Mohamed Amin Foundation.  Salim Amin was thrust into the
role of Managing Director of Camerapix

Publishers at the young age of 26 when in 1996 when his father died in a
hijacked Ethipoian aircraft.
No one captured Africa’s pain and passion more incisively than Mohamed Amin.  He
was the most famous photojournalist in the

world, making the news as often as he covered it.  ‘Mo’ trained his unwavering
lens on every aspect of African life, never

shying from the tragedy, never ailing to revel in the success.  Through the gaze
of his camera lens, he showed the world what

some were afraid to see and what most people wished they could ignore.

Salim held onto his father’s dreams and ideals of training and developing local
African talent to tell the African Stories

with competence.  He will introduce the film and discuss the work that he is
doing to carry on his father's vision about

media courage of and about Africa.
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Saturday, May 13, 2006
3rd annual Sustainable Living Festival “LIVE GREEN”,
8:00am-6:00pm in downtown Salt Lake City’s Pierpont Avenue, from West Temple to
200 W.
http://www.downtownslc.org/events/live-green.htm
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Saturday, May 13, 2006
FREE FILM:  Shocking and Awful:A Grassroots Response to War and Occupation, Part
3
Free Speech Zone
2144 South Highland Drive

“Shocking and awful” is the way many people view the current situation (2004) in
Iraq and the United States. The war

continues to take its toll on Iraqi civilians, international aid workers,
journalists and U.S. troops. Here at home we are

seeing how waging a “perpetual war” is affecting our own lives as well.
# Globalization at Gunpoint
# The World Says NO to War
# Empire and Oil

Info:  502-8556, info at utahpeace.org
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Thursday, May 18, 2006
Legendary labor folk singer, Utah Phillips will perform a benefit concert for
UTJwJ on Thursday, May 18, 8:00 PM in the

Jeanne Wagner Theater located at 138 W Broadway.  Doors open at 7:30 PM. 
Tickets are $15 in advance and $17 on the day of

the show.  Tickets are available at Capitol Theater, Abravanel Hall, Rose Wagner
Center and ArtTix Outlets or call 355-ARTS.
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The Bureau of Land Management is accepting public comments until May 8th on
whether or not Private Fuel Storage should be

allowed a right-of-way to transport high-level nuclear waste across public lands
into Skull Valley.  Please take a minute to

submit your comments (click here to take action), then forward this email to
your friends and family.

The recent creation of the Cedar Mountain Wilderness Area prevents PFS from
building a rail-line into Skull Valley.  The

company is now proposing to construct a waste transfer station along I-80 to
transfer high-level nuclear waste from train

cars onto trucks.  PFS needs approval from the BLM to go through with this plan,
but the BLM wants to hear from you first!

For more information and to send your comments, click here
http://www.healutah.org/PFSalert.html.

Thanks for taking action,

John Urgo
Outreach Director
HEAL Utah
68 S Main St, Suite 400
SLC, UT 84101
(801) 355-5055
john at healutah.org

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