Peace calendar
From: Charles Underwood (peacecalendarvisi.com)
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 21:38:54 -0700 (PDT)
PERSONAL NOTE FROM THE EDITOR:  I had a very brief run for the U.S. Senate
at the DFL convention in Rochester last weekend.  You can hear the speech at
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2006/06/09/conventionrecap/
The speech is about 12 minutes and the questions and answers run about 25
minutes.

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Peace Calendar for June 15, 2006

4/15 to 7/4, museum hours, Exhibit: Nazi Olympics, Berlin 1936, showing use
of Games for military training, pageantry, propaganda, MN Historical
Society. 345 Kellogg Blvd, St Paul.  651-296-6126.

6/2 to 6/18, Bedlam Theatre presents "West Bank Story" featuring the 1898
time of Bohemian flats, the 1972 time of the Co-op movement and the 2006
time of Little Africa and tall bikes, all at Mixed Blood Theater, 1502 S 4th
St, Mpls.  jfb [at] bedlamtheatre.org or 612-327-6089.

6/16 to 6/22, Al Gore's well-reviewed documentary on global warming "An
Inconvenient Truth," LagoonTheater, Mpls.  www.landmarktheatres.com

Friday, 6/16, 8 am to 5 pm, conference and ceremony for communities of color
to support each other with grassroots environmental issues, Mpls American
Indian Center, 1530 Franklin Ave, Mpls.  www.chalchiutlicue.org

Friday, 6/16, 2 to 6 pm, community peace celebration, with food, games,
music, speakers, Ober Community Center, 357 St Anthony Ave, St Paul.
651-209-6512.

Friday, 6/16, 5 pm, protest vigil to mark the 2500th US military death in
Iraq, in front of Sen. Norm Coleman's office, 2550 University Ave W, St
Paul.  612-827-5364.

Friday, 6/16, 6 pm, film "In America," about Irish immigrants in NYC and
their struggles, Resource Center of the Americas, 3019 Minnehaha, Mpls.
www.americas.org

Friday, 6/16, 6 pm, Veterans for Peace dinner and canoe raffle drawing, Day
by Day Cafe, 477 W 7th St, St Paul.  612-821-9141.

6/16 and 6/17, 8 pm, Pangea World Theater presents a staged reading of The
Partition Project (about the 1947 division of Pakistan and India), 711W Lake
St, Mpls.  aleksandra [at] pangeaworldtheater.org or 612-822-0015.

Saturday, 6/17, Juneteenth festival with parade starting 9 am at Penn Ave N
& Plymouth Ave N and continuing to Theodore Wirth Park.  Booth open in the
park from 11 am to 7 pm.

Saturday, 6/17, 9 to 11 am, Haiti Justice Committee meeting, Resource Center
of the Americas, 3019 Minnehaha, Mpls.  www.americas.org

Saturday, 6/17, 10 to 11:30 am, report back from Witness for Peace team
recently returned from Tucson, Nogales etc, Resource Center of the Americas,
3019 Minnehaha Ave, Mpls.  www.americas.org

Saturday, 6/17, 3 pm, general planning meeting of Youth Against War and
Racism (followed by BBQ at Powderhorn Park), Walker Community Church, 3104 -
16th Ave S, Mpls.  against.war [at] gmail.com

Saturday, 6/17, 7 pm, German film "Rosa Luxemburg," about anti-war socialist
(ultimately murdered in 1919), May Day Books, 301 Cedar Ave S, Mpls.
www.maydaybookstore.org

Saturday, 6/17, 7:30 to 10:30 pm, "Start Seeing Haiti" fundraiser to benefit
Fr. Jean-Juste's feeding program in Port-au-Prince, The Jungle Red Salon,
1362 LaSalle Ave, Mpls.  $5 cover.  Caribbean food from Victor's Cafe,
Ellen_Seagren [at] yahoo.com or 612-388-2542.

Sunday, 6/18, 3 pm, IMPACT shows 2 films, "Corporate Agriculture" (about
factory farming) and "Alternative Agriculture" (the other side), Acadia
Cafe, Franklin & Nicollet Aves, Mpls.  eric-angell [at] riseup.net

Sunday, 6/18, 2 to 5 pm, rally for justice for Maria Inamagua, an Ecuadorian
immigrant to died in Ramsey Cty jail due to lack of medical attention, State
Capitol Bldg, St. Paul.  www.antiwarcommittee.org

Sunday, 6/18, 3 to 5 pm, Sigrid Bachmann, recently returned from Witness for
Peace trip to Venezuela, speaks to Amnesty International monthly meeting,
Center for Victims of Torture, 717 E River Rd SE, Mpls.  gabeo [at] 
bitstream.net

Monday, 6/19, 7 to 9 pm, Passport to Peace, wine and dine fundraiser ($25
suggested) to support continuing work of Antiwar Committee, home of Fadia
Abdul-Hajj, 1716 Dupont Ave S, Mpls  www.antiwarcommittee.org

Monday, 6/19, 6:30 pm, free film "Paradise Now" about possible last 2 days
of Palestinian suicide bombers, St Joah of Arc Church Hospility Hall, 4537 -
3rd Ave. S, Mpls.  www.worldwidewamm.org

Tuesday, 6/20, 6:30 to 8:30 pm, Jeff Nygard of Nygard Notes talks to the
conversational salon about the labels of Left and Right, Mad Hatter's Tea
House, 943 W 7th, St. Paul 651-227-2511.

Wednesday, 6/21, 5 to 6 pm, special vigil to say No to war with Iran,
Lake/Marshall bridge over the Mississippi.  www.worldwidewamm.org

Wednesday, 6/21, 7 to 11 pm, celebrate Somali independence and see film "The
Letter," about race, culture and community, at Cinema and Civics at Stevens
Square Park, 1801 Stevens Ave, Mpls.  lisafink [at] hotmail.com

Thursday, 6/22, 6 pm, Pastors for Peace president Rev. Thomas E Smith speaks
as Cuba Pastors for Peace caravan passes through, St Albert the Great
Church, 2836 - 33rd Ave S, Mpls.  $10 (no one turned away).
mncuba [at] usfamily.net or 651-983-3981.

Thursday, 6/22, 7 pm, the War Plays Project presents "Letters to, Letters
from...Letters Never Written" play from letters of soldiers from Civil War
to present, Hamline-Midway Library, 1558 W Minnehaha Ave, St Paul.  $5 (no
one turned away).  www.mnneighbors4peace.org

Thursday, 6/22, 8 pm, Hamline forensic scientist Susan Thurston Myster talks
about The Innocence Project, followed by film, Arise Bookstore, 2441 Lyndale
Ave S, Mpls.  www.arisebookstore.org

6/23 to 6/28, Global Network: World Peace Forum in Vancouver, British
Columbia, Canada.  www.worldpeaceforum.ca

Saturday, 6/24, 10 to 11:30 am, Mary Kost talks about "Comida Para Vida," a
nutrition program in Guatemala, Resource Center of the Americas, 3019
Minnehaha, Mpls.  www.americas.org

Saturday, 6/24, 10 am to midafternoon, Women's Intl League for Peace and
Freedom retreat, home of Paul and Rhoda Redleaf, 1015 Sibley Memorial Hwy
(Hwy 130, St Paul.  vegan14ever [at] riseup.net  (RSVP by June 13).

6/24 and 6/25, GLBT Pride Festival, Loring Park, just west of downtown Mpls.
Antiwar Committee has games and a lit table Saturday from 8:30 to 6 and
Sunday from 10 to 6.  March with AWC in using circus theme, assembly at 10
am downtown.  FFI: www.antiwarcommittee.org

Saturday, 6/24, 6 pm, Stephen Macek reads from book "Urban Nightmares: The
Media, the Right and the Moral Panic Over the City," Mayday Books, 301 Cedar
Ave, West Bank, Mpls.  www.maydaybookstore.org

Monday, 6/26, 11:30 am, Center for Victims of Torture marks UN Intl Day in
Support of Victims of Torture, State Capitol Rotunda, St Paul.  www.cvt.org

Tuesday, 6/27, 6:30 pm, UMD McKnight prof James Fetzer speaks at
Conversational Salon on need for an independent study of the 9/11 tragedy,
Mad Hatter's Tea/Coffee House, 943 W 7th, St Paul.  pattypax [at] earthlink.net

Wednesday, 6/28, 7 to 11 pm, celebrate Pride with film "Call Me Malcolm,"
about transgender seminary student, at Cinema and Civics at Stevens Square
Park, 1801 Stevens Ave, Mpls.  lisafink [at] hotmail.com

Wednesday, 6/28, 7 pm, Come Out Against the War! where Anti-War Committee
invites the GLBT community to speak out against the war with poems, guitar,
whatever, Betsy's Backporch Cafe, 5447 Nicollet Ave S, Mpls.
www.antiwarcommittee.org

Saturday, 7/1, 10 to 11:30 am, homeless Veterans for Peace meeting,
Peacehouse, 510 E Franklin, Mpls.  Wayne at 651-774-4008.

Wednesday, 7/5, 7 to 11 pm, film "Tiny Explosions," about conflict between
hope and status quo in Mpls, at Cinema and Civics at Stevens Square Park,
1801 Stevens Ave, Mpls.  lisafink [at] hotmail.com

Wednesdays, 7/5 and 7/12, plus Thursday, 7/27, 7 pm, living legend activist
Marv Davidov presents "One son sits in the streets, the other cleans them"
1-man show of comedy and drama, Bryant Lake Bowl, Bryant & Lake St, Mpls.
The wonderful McDonald sisters opens the first show.  $12.  Reservations at
612-825-8949.

7/6 to 7/9, Midwest Social Forum (previously known as RadFest), U of
W-Milwaukee Student Union, Milwaukee.  www.mwsocialforum.org

7/7 (starts 6 pm) to 7/9 ends 6 pm, basic level Alternatives to Violence
Workshop, which has been used to reduce violence in Rwanda, Bosnia, Kenya
and the U.S., Friends for a Nonviolent World, 1050 Selby Ave, St. Paul.
avp [at] fnvw.org


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            VIGILS

Every Sunday, noon to 1 pm, peace vigil at Summit and Snelling, St Paul.
651-699-8655.

Every Sunday, 4 to 5 pm, Peace vigil at 66th and York Ave. S, Edina.  FFI:
Vicki 952-835-8687.

Every Monday, 4:15 to 5:15 pm, Vigil in downtown White Bear Lake at
intersection of Highway 61 and 4th Street.  FFI: www.worldwidewamm.org

Every Tuesday, 4:30 to 5:30 pm, Peace vigil at 98th St. and Lyndale,
Bloomington.  952-831-4276.

Every Tuesday, 5 to 6 pm (all year), east end of Franklin bridge over the
Mississippi River, Mpls. carolynbelle [at] pressenter.com

Every Wednesday, 7 to 8 a.m., Vigil at Alliant Tech, 5050 Lincoln, Edina. 
FFI: www.circlevision.org/alliantaction.html

Every Wednesday, 4 to 5 pm, Peace walk, carrying signs in both directions
from the corner of Hwy 241 and Co Rd 19 (across from St. Michael's Church),
St. Michael.  FFI: regofam [at] earthlink.net

Every Wednesday, 4:45 to 5:45, Grandmothers for Peace vigil, 50th and
Halifax, Edina (just west of France). www.worldwidewamm.org

Every Wednesday, 5 to 6 pm (changes 5/31), Vigil to end the occupation of
Iraq, Lake/Marshall bridge over the Mississippi.  www.worldwidewamm.org

Every Wednesday, 4:30-5:30 pm, Peace vigil over footbridge at 85th Ave N and
Hwy 252, Brooklyn Park FFI 763-566-8255

Every Wednesday, 6 pm, peace vigil at signal light on Hwy 169, Belle Plaine.
JoAnne, 952-873-3315

Every Thursday, 4:30 to 5:30 p.m., Vigil in front of Lockheed Martin, NW
corner of Pilot Knob Road and Yankee Doodle Road in Eagan.  FFI:
skograce [at] mtn.org 

Every Thursday, 5 pm, Peace vigil at the SE corner, intersection Co. Hwy 10
and University Ave NE, Blaine (the SE corner).  EKalamboki [at] aol.com

Every Friday, noon to 1 pm, Anti-Recruitment vigil ³Our Children Are Not
Cannon Fodder,² off Oak St and Washington Ave, East Bank of U, Minneapolis,
612-379-4716. 

Every Friday, 4:15 to 5:15 p.m., Vigil to end the occupation of Palestine,
Snelling and Summit, St. Paul.  steichenfm [at] usfamily.net

Every Friday, 4:30, Red Wing Alliance for Peace sponsors a vigil at John
Rick park, Red Wing, followed by potluck and discussion on alternate weeks.
tuvecino [at] redwing.net

Every Friday, 5 to 6 pm, Chisago City gathering for peace (chat, sing, run
around with the kids, share food), Moberg Park, Chisago City.
AARONWOODJW [at] aol.com

Every Friday, 5 to 6 pm, peace vigil at Lagoon and Hennepin, Uptown Mpls. 
FFI: WAMM. 

Every Friday, J. Rich Park, 4:30 to 5:30 pm, Peace vigil, Hwy. 61 and West
Avenue, RedWing.  sherlev [at] redwing.net

Every Saturday, 9 am, Peace walk, Fern and Hwy. 95, Cambridge.  (8 block
walk) ytpsund [at] yahoo.com

Every Saturday, 10 to 11 am, peace vigil at corner of Bridge and River St,
Chippewa Falls, WI.  FFI: lagoclam [at] aol.com or 715-726-0365.

Every Saturday, 1 to 3 pm, Vigil at Barnes and Noble, highways 15 and 23
(Division Street), St. Cloud.  FFI: Mnolde [at] CSBSJU.edu

Every Saturday, noon to 12:15, Vigil at Bridge Square (Division and 4th),
Northfield.  mcgrath1 [at] rconnect.com

(More vigils are listed at www.worldwidewamm.org  ) 


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