WAMM Calendar-Feb 19-Apr 2
From: Women Against Military Madness (wammmtn.org)
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2015 16:05:27 -0800 (PST)
Stand tall with brave spirits at our Weekly Peace Vigils!

(Its going to warm soon).

Hey, WAMM is hiring!

Work for peace and get paid!

Please send your cover letter and resume to apply for the Office Manager
position by March 6, 2015, to WAMMhiringcommittee2014 [at] gmail.com -- or
forward this announcement to someone you know will be suitable.

For more details [1]visit our website.

WAMM EVENTS

1. WAMM Weekly Solidarity with Palestine Vigil (Fridays)

2. WAMM Weekly Bridge Vigil for Peace (Wednesdays)

3. WAMM Book Club: Pay Any Price: Greed, Power and Endless War by

James Risen   2/21

4. WAMM Annual Meeting: The Price of Drone Warfare   3/7

5. Second Monday Movies 3/9

6. Tackling Torture at the Top Video Contest Ends June 1st!

COALITION EVENTS

7. Rock for Rasmea, Rally Against the Injustice System 2/21

8. HAPPY HOUR FOR PEACE! 2/28

9.  MN Break the Bonds petition and MN SBI Meeting 3/4

10. Rally to Stop U.S. WARS and Drone Killings!3/21

11.  Are the United States and Russia Getting Ready for Nuclear War? 3/28

ALSO OF INTEREST

12. Storytelling and the Struggle for Justice   2/21

13. Confronting Slavery Today   2/24
14. Women and Native Struggles: Toward Ecological Transformation   3/10

15.  "Urban Waters" Pax Salon Discussion 3/3

16. A National Antiwar & Social Justice Conference:  Stop the Wars at Home
& Abroad!   5/8

WAMM EVENTS

1.  WAMM Weekly Solidarity with Palestine Vigil

Friday, February 20, 4:30 – 5:30 p.m.  Intersection of Snelling & Summit,

St. Paul. FFI:  Call 612-827-5364

2.  WAMM Weekly Bridge Vigil for Peace

Wednesday, February 25, 4:30 - 5:30, Lake St/Marshall Av Peace Bridge,
Mississippi River joining Mpls and St Paul. Since 1999.  Sponsored by Twin
Cities Peace Campaign and WAMM.  FFI: Call WAMM at 612-827-5364

3. WAMM Book Club: Pay Any Price: Greed, Power and Endless War by James
Risen

Saturday, February 21, 10:00 to 11:30 a.m. Afro Deli, 1939 S 5th Street,
Minneapolis. The WAMM Book Club meets every third Saturday of the month.
The Book Club is discussing Pay Any Price: Greed, Power and Endless War by
James Risen. Check out MayDay Books for your own copy. Sponsored by: The
WAMM Book Club. FFI: Call 612-827-5364.

4. WAMM Annual Meeting: The Price of Drone Warfare

Saturday, March 7, 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Community of Saint Stephens,
2201 1st Avenue South, Minneapolis. Featuring interdisciplinary artist
[2]Sha Cage, one of the Star Tribune's Best of 2014 Movers and Makers.
Renew your membership, enjoy a light brunch, elect new board members, and
network with other WAMM members! The program is free and open to the
public. Sponsored by: Women Against Military Madness. FFI: Call
612-827-5364 [3]Join and Share on Facebook and [4]WAMM.

5. Second Monday Movies

Monday, March 9, 7:00 p.m. On the BIG SCREEN at 4200 Cedar Ave. So., Mpls.
Wag the Dog. "A dark comedy about psychological manipulation of the public
to support a meaningless war.  Has a 1997 satire become reality?"  Lively
discussion.  Open and free to the public.  Sponsored by [5]WAMM Movie
Committee.  FFI:  612-827-5364

6. Tackling Torture at the Top Video Contest

WAMM’s Tackling Torture at the Top (T3) committee announces a video contest
on the subject of torture and torture accountability. The jury consists of
international experts on film and on the torture issue, including Prof.
Peter Kuznick, American University, co-writer of the 10 part TV series “The
Untold History of the United States” (2012), Sebastian Doggart, director of
the critically acclaimed documentary “American Faust: From Condi to
Neo-Condi” (2009), longtime peace activist, Andy Worthington, and Joseph
Jolton, Minneapolis filmmaker and instructor video arts at Minneapolis
College of Art and Design and the Blake School. Winners will be feted at
Twin Cities events on June 26th, the UN-designated Torture Awareness Day.
Deadline extended to June 1, 2015. FFI: Visit [6]Tackling Torture.

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Tackling  Torture  at  the  Top  Video  Contest

WAMM’s Tackling Torture at the Top (T3) committee announces their
2nd Annual video contest on the subject of torture
and torture accountability.

Two prizes in each Serious and Satirical Categories:
Jury ($500) and Audience Favorite ($300).
Deadline for entries: June 1, 2015. FFI and details: Visit[7] ONLINE

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COALITION EVENTS

7. Rock for Rasmea, Rally Against the Injustice System

Saturday, February 21, 6:30 p.m. to Midnight. Intermedia Arts, 2822 Lyndale
Avenue South, Minneapolis. This inspiring multimedia arts event aims to
engage youth and raise awareness of Palestinian-American community leader
Rasmea Odeh and all political prisoners targeted by the FBI. Featuring
short films curated by MIZNA, spoken word poetry curated by local artist
Sarah Thamer, and sets by local musicians. This event is made possible
thanks to Intermedia Arts’ VERVE Grants for Spoken Word poets and 2012
grant winner Misty Rowan. Sponsored by: Anti-War Committee. FFI: Visit the
[8]website.

8. HAPPY HOUR FOR PEACE!



Saturday, February 28, 2015 
4:00 pm-6:00 pm
. MayDay Books
, 301 Cedar
Ave. South
, Minneapolis.  

Enjoy conversation and refreshments and raise
funds to build the March 21 "Stop U.S. Wars" protest in Minneapolis. We
will be raising funds to help get out the word on the March 21 event. Money
raised will be used primarily for flyers and placing ads in community
newspapers.

 We hope you will come and bring your friends to these
important events.

 FFI: 
Marie Braun
, Twin Cities Peace Campaign

612-275-2720 or [9]MN Peace Action Coalition or WAMM at 612-827-5364.

9. MN Break the Bonds petition and MN SBI Meeting

Wednesday, March 4, 10 a.m.  SBI Building, 60 Empire Drive, St. Paul.

This is a very critical moment in the campaign to divest the state of MN
from its holdings in Israel bonds. MN Break the Bonds, the statewide
divestment campaign targeting MN's investments in Israel bonds, has been
pushing the State Board of Investments to divest from its $10+ million
holdings in Israel bonds. What is critical is that these bonds mature at
the end of June, which means the state will receive the amount it invested
back, and have to decide where to reinvest these funds.  We are putting all
of our efforts into pushing the State Board of Investments to not reinvest
in Israel bonds. This is a critical point because if we can get them to not
reinvest, then the state will not at all hold any direct investments in
Israel - which is a huge victory for the global movement for boycott,
divestment, and sanctions as called for by Palestinian civil society. FFI:
[10]MN Break the Bonds

10. Rally to Stop U.S. WARS and Drone Killings!

Saturday March 21 at 1:00 pm Lake Street & Hiawatha Avenues, Minneapolis.

The Minneapolis March 21st protest will coincide with the spring anti-war
actions on March 18-21 in Washington DC. 

March 2015 will mark 12 years
since the 2003 "Shock & Awe" launch of the U.S. war in Iraq.

 STOP U.S.
WARS! 

No war in Iraq
! No bombing, troops, advisors, weapons, or
contractors. 

Stop bombing Syria.
Out of Afghanistan

. Say NO to drone
strikes & endless war. 

Say NO to Racism
. Stop targeting people of color.

Demilitarize the police
. Stop attacks on democratic rights

. Say NO to
Islamophobia. 

For a full employment peace economy!

Sponsored by MPAC (MN Peace Action Coalition). Endorsed by: AFSCME Local
3800, Alliant Action, Anti-War Committee, Committee for Palestinian Rights,
Community of St. Martin, Every Church a Peace Church, Faith Mennonite
Church, Freedom Road Socialist Organization, Grqndmothrs for Peace, Marxist
Student Federation, Mayday Books, Military Families Speak Out (MN chapter),
Minneapolis Green Party, Peace and Justice Committee of Sacred Heart
Catholic Church (St. Paul), St. Frances Cabrini Justice and Peace Cmmttee.,
Socialist Action, Students for a Democratic Society (UMN), St. Joan of
Arc/WAMM Peacemakers, St. Paul Eastside Neighbors for Peace, Twin Cities
Peace Campaign, Veterans for Peace, Welfare Rights Committee, Women Against
Military Madness, Workers International League. FFI: Marie at TC Peace
Campaign, 612-275-2720 or WAMM at 612-827-5364 or [11]MN Peace Action
Coalition.

11. Are the United States and Russia Getting Ready for Nuclear War?
Saturday, March 28, 1:30 p.m., MayDay Books, 301 Cedar Avenue S, Mpls.
Larry Wittner, former president of the Council on Peace Research in History
has written extensively on the history of peace movements, nuclear arms
control and disarmament, and U.S. foreign policy.  He has received major
fellowships or grants from the American Council of Learned Societies, the
MacArthur Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the
United States Institute of Peace. He is also on the natl. board of Peace
Action and plays banjo in Solidarity Singers.  Professor Wittner’s visit to
the Twin Cities is sponsored by Metropolitan State University as part of
the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum poster exhibit and programming taking
place on its St. Paul and Minneapolis campuses.  His appearance at MayDay
Books is cosponsored by WAMM, Metro State and Citizens for Global
Solutions, hosted by WAMM.  FFI: Call 612-827-5364

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Can Free Trade Agreements Be Stopped in Their Fast Tracks?

Fast Track is a procedure, rarely used, that allows executive branch
negotiators to skirt Congress and the public, rewriting trade policies that
affect our daily lives––from the stability of our jobs to the safety of our
food. Read about Fast Track and the newest trade agreements: the
Transpacific Partnership (TPP) and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment
Partnership (TTIP) in an article by Carol Masters in the [12]Spring I, 2015
WAMM newsletter.

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ALSO OF INTEREST

12. Storytelling and the Struggle for Justice

Saturday, February 21, 1:00 p.m. The East Side Freedom Library, 1105
Greenbrier Street, St. Paul. A conversation with Naima Richmond of the
Black Storytellers’ Alliance. Sponsored by The East Side Freedom Library.
FFI: Email eastsidefreedomlibrary [at] gmail.com or Call 651-774-8687.

13. Confronting Slavery Today

Tuesday, February 24, 7:00 p.m. The East Side Freedom Library, 1105
Greenbrier Street, St. Paul. A presentation by Jim Stewart, founder of
Historians Against Slavery. Sponsored by The East Side Freedom Library.
FFI: Email eastsidefreedomlibrary [at] gmail.com or Call 651-774-8687.

14. "Urban Waters" Pax Salon Discussion

Tuesday, March 3, 2015, 6:30 - 8:30 p.m.  St. Paul Gallery (formerly Mad
Hatter's Tea House), 943 West 7th Street, St. Paul. Sage Passi, Watershed
Education Specialist for Ramsey-Washington Metro Watershed District since
2001 (specialties in public involvement, design and construction of rain
gardens, native restoration) and Susu Jeffrey, water activist, founder of
[13]www.FriendsofColdwater.org, will lead a discussion on our urban waters,
including the good news.  FFI: Call 651-227-3228

15. Women and Native Struggles: Toward Ecological Transformation

Tuesday, March 10, 7:30 to 9:00 p.m. O’Shaughnessy Education Center
Auditorium, 2115 Summit Avenue, St. Paul. Native American activist and
advocate for environmental, women's, and children's rights, Winona LaDuke
(Anishinaabe) is founder and co-chair of the Indigenous Women's Network.
She is also the founder and campaign director of the White Earth Land
Recovery Project, a reservation-based environmental organization. Sponsored
by: the University of St. Thomas. FFI: Visit [14]St. Thomas online

L O O K I N G   A H E A D

16. A National Antiwar & Social Justice Conference:  Stop the Wars at Home
& Abroad!

Friday, May 8 to Sunday, May 10 Empire Meadows (Clarion) Hotel in Secaucus,
New Jersey (30 minutes from New York City). To register for a hotel room at
the conference reduced rate, call 201-348-6900 and say it is for the UNAC
Antiwar Coalition conference.  Sponsored by: UNAC - United National Antiwar
Coalition 
 Conference info - [15]Online   or  [16]UNACpeace [at] gmail.com, or
call 518-227-6947

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Tackling Torture at the Top, also known as T-3, has a [24]Facebook page.

Ground All Drones Committee has a [25]blog and [26]Facebook group

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Please Note: The preceding are events sponsored or endorsed by WAMM
committees or
coalitions. We regret that we cannot accommodate all the many wonderful
peace and justice
events occurring in the Twin Cities. For more WAMM events or ongoing peace
vigils,
call WAMM at 612-827-5364 or see the WAMM calendar on
WomenAgainstMilitaryMadness.org

WAMM’s provision of information on other group’s events is not meant to
convey nor
endorse any action contrary to public policy that would be inconsistent
with exempt
purposes under Internal Revenue Code Section 501(c)(3) i.e., charitable
purposes.

References

1. http://womenagainstmilitarymadness.org/about/hire/om2015.html
2. http://www.talkinbroadway.com/regional/minn/minn278.html
3. https://www.facebook.com/events/1582243378677239/
4. http://womenagainstmilitarymadness.org/
5. http://womenagainstmilitarymadness.org/
6. http://tacklingtorturevideocontest.webs.com/
7. http://tacklingtorturevideocontest.webs.com/
8. http://rockforrasmea.com/
9. http://mapm.pjep.org/actions/March-21-Anti-war-Protest
10. http://mn.breakthebonds.org/
11. http://mapm.pjep.org/actions/March-21-Anti-war-Protest
12. http://womenagainstmilitarymadness.org/newsletter/newsletter.html
13. http://www.friendsofcoldwater.org/
14. 
http://www.stthomas.edu/ldcw/programs/upcomingfeaturedevents/2015-march-womens-history-month-speaker--winona-laduke.html
15. http://nepajac.org/UNAC_120314.html
16. mailto:UNACpeace [at] gmail.com
17. http://worldwidewamm.org/joinsupport/joinsupport.html
18. http://worldwidewamm.org/joinsupport/joinsupport.html
19. http://worldwidewamm.org/
20. 
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Women-Against-Military-Madness-WAMM/105317032831328?ref=search&v=wall
21. https://twitter.com/WAMMwoman
22. http://womenagainstmilitarymadness.org/
23. http://mec.worldwidewamm.org/home.html
24. https://www.facebook.com/pages/Tackling-Torture-at-the-Top/370422110962
25. http://groundalldrones.blogspot.com/
26. https://www.facebook.com/groups/wammgroundalldrones/

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