Community Calendar, 2003

Friday, June 27th, 11:00am
Protest Bush !
at his Bay Area Fundraiser

Did you know Bush went AWOL ?

Protest Bush ! at his Bay Area Fundraiser S.F. Airport Marriott in Burlingame Jobs & Education, NOT War & Occupation Friday, June 27th, 11:00 AM Download the "Expose the Big Lie" Flyer We Want the Truth !

[Analysis]: Click here to see how, in his speeches, Bush uses the
5 easy steps to manipulate the public to accept totalitarian rule...

End Colonial Occupation
from Iraq to Palestine
Defend Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
No Patriot Act II

On Friday, June 27th, Bush will be appearing at a $2000 a head fundraising
lunch at the Airport Marriot in Burlingame, a stopover on his 2004 campaign
tour. Protest colonial occupation from Iraq to Palestine. Join all those
resisting the empire and demand money for jobs, education, and health care,
not for war.

Click Here to Download the Flyer...

Location: Click Here for map...
San Francisco Airport Marriott
1800 Old Bayshore Hwy, Burlingame

Directions:
US-101 to Millbrae Ave East. Turn right on
Old Bayshore Hwy to Airport Marriott

Car Pool from San Jose:
Car pool from SBM Office, Friday at 9:45 am
480 North First St, Suite 205
San Jose, CA

For more information call South Bay Mobilization at: 408-998-8504.

Click Here to Download the Flyer from International ANSWER...
Initiated by International ANSWER Coalition (Act Now to Stop War & Racism)
Endorsed by American Arab Anti-Discrimination Comm.-SF, California NOW (Nat'l Organization for Women), South Bay Mobilization, Global Exchange, Al Awda-SF, Pat Gray for Congress Campaign, Peninsula Peace and Justice Center, Not in Our Name Project.
Call or email to endorse (415) 821-6545, answer@actionsf.org

Tuesday, June 24th, 7:30pm
Movie: "NEW RULERS OF THE WORLD" -- Palo Alto

Movie directed and presented by John Pilger, 53 mins, 2002
7:30 p.m.
222 High Street (downtown Palo Alto)

Who are the real beneficiaries of the globalized economy? Who really rules the world now? Governments or a handful of huge corporations? The film looks at the new rulers of the world - great multinationals and the governments and institutions that back them - the IMF and the World Bank. The reality behind much of modern shopping and the famous brands is the loss of millions of jobs, and a sweatshop economy duplicated in country after country.

Silver Hugo Award, Chicago International TV Competition.

Tickets are $3-$5, based on ability to pay. A discussion will follow the screening.

The Foundation for Global Community presents a weekly series of award-winning documentaries looking at the issues challenging all the Earth's residents today -- poverty, globalization, environmental degradation, war, human rights and alternative economics.

Sunday, June 22nd, 4:30pm - 9:00pm
An Evening in Solidarity with Cuba
If you did not believe what they said about Iraq,
why would you believe what they're saying about Cuba ?

Come hear the truth spoken by:

Andres Gomez, Director, Antonio Maceo Brigade, Areito Magazine Digital; Dolores Huerta, Co-Founder, United Farmworkers Union; others

Featuring: Banda Flexible - Orquesta timbalero Band

Donation: $7 - $14 (sliding scale)
No one turned away for lack of funds

Funds will benefit:
- The Cuban Five.
- Pastors for Peace - Friendship Caravan providing humanitarian aid to Cuba.

Endorsers:
- Venceremos Brigade
- Carribean Medical Transport
- SF Bay Area Cuban Alliance Groups
- Bay Area Friendshipment Caravan
- National Committee to Free the Five
- Brigada 21 de Marzo
- Escuela Cultural de las America
- SEIU Local
- S.F. Socialist Workers Party

Individuals:
- Tina Flores
- Carol Cross
- Dave Wald
- Karen Wald
- Alicia Carvahal
- Raul "Curly" Estremera
- Sierra Thai Binh
- Mark Glass
- David Ledesma

Produced by:
South Bay Mobilization, Committee in Solidarity with Cuba and Latin America

[Note that a similar event is happening in San Francisco Saturday evening, June 21. See www.actionsf.org for details.]

Friday, June 20th to Wednesday, June 25th
MOBILIZE IN SACRAMENTO, CA, CONVERGE JUNE 20-25, 2003

June 20-25: Peace, Global Justice and Democracy Movements Unite in Sacramento to Confront the Corporate Take-Over of Food, Communities and the Future
Protest the Sacramento Corporate Agriculture Ministerial!

This June the Bush administration, USAID, USDA, and the State Department are hosting government ministers from 180 nations and transnational corporate reps in a meeting to pave the way for ‘free trade,’ privatization of water, genetic engineering and factory farming. This ministerial is one of the key stepping stones for the Bush administration and their corporate backers to push through their agenda in the lead up to the next World Trade Organization meeting in Cancun in September. This is why millions of small farmers around the world have called for protests at the Sacramento ministerial to denounce the corporate take over of the global food supply.

JOIN US in the streets of Sacramento, California for a five-day festival of diverse resistance to biotech, bioimperialism, the Bush Administration's "Pax Americana" and ‘free trade’. We will be confronting the corporate agenda of ‘free trade’ and war on the earth with non-violent direct action, marches, rallies, teach-ins, an alternative expo, and more...

For more information, visit the following web site, or call: 916-497-1111
www.sacmobilization.org

Thursday, June 19th, 12 Noon
END THE STARBUCKS SWEATSHOPS! -- San Jose

Join UNITE! garment workers union and the South Bay Labor Council in a National Day of Action.

12 noon in front of Starbucks at San Pedro Square
145 W. Santa Clara St.

The money you spend at Starbucks, they hand over to Cintas -- an unsafe, sweatshop-running, union-busting uniform distributor.

Demand an end to this partership! Demand an end to dangerous work!

For the dirt on Cintas and their workers' struggle for justice, see http://www.uniformjustice.org, or contact Rigo Valdez at (415) 292-1400.

For more information on this event, contact Andrea Wilson at 408-266-3790.

Wednesday, June 18th, 7:00pm-9:00pm
Silicon Valley for Civil Rights, General Meeting

It's no secret that since September 11th, the federal government has engaged in a massive crackdown on civil liberties. Muslims, Arabs, and South-Asians have been rounded up for interrogations, detentions, and deportations. FBI agents have been authorized to spy on political and religious gatherings. And the Patriot Act threatens all of us with its provisions for expanded surveillance and invasions of privacy.

75 cities and counties nationwide have passed resolutions opposed to the Patriot Act and this crackdown on civil liberties. With the Bush Administration about to introduce "Patriot Act II", it is important for Congress to know that there is local opposition. That is why it is critical that Santa Clara County take a stand for civil liberties and pass a resolution against the Patriot Act. We've been meeting regularly, and our next meeting in on Wednesday, June 18th as described above.

Location: 2nd Floor Conference Room
South Bay Mobilization
480 North First St, Suite 205 in downtown San Jose

Wednesday, June 11th, 7:00pm
"Eyewitness to War"
An Eyewitness Lecture by April Hurley, MD

April Hurley, MD is a family physician in Santa Rosa, California, who joined the Iraq Peace Team in Baghdad on March 13 and stayed through the bombing and invasion. IPT was the project of Voices in the Wilderness, a volunteer independent organization giving voice, since 1996, to the suffering of Iraqi families under crippling UN sanctions and depleted uranium radiation since the first Gulf War. April will be sharing her impressions prior to the assault, her experiences with civilians during the bombing and invasion by our Marines, conversations with Iraqi and American soldiers, and photos taken by the team. Come and hear an on-the-ground eyewitness account and bring your questions!

$5 to $15 sliding scale admission - No one turned away for lack of funds

Download the Flyer (106 KB)

Location:
First Unitarian Church
160 North 3rd St., downtown San Jose

For more information call South Bay Mobilization at: 408-998-8504

Saturday, June 7th, Noon-2:00pm
NO MORE BLOOD FOR OIL !
Call on Ford to Help Break Our Addiction to Oil
National Day of Action

Location: Ford Dealership
3701 Stevens Creek Blvd.
Santa Clara, CA 95051
(Click here for a map to the dealership)

For more information about the National Campaign to put pressure on Ford, visit this very interesting web site: http://www.jumpstartford.com/action/. This web site has lots of facts about Ford, top 10 reasons why Ford needs to change its business practices and stop fueling America's oil addiction, suggestions for protests, dealership locations, flyers, protest signs, and lots more.

Our addiction to oil is deadly. Our primitive vehicles fuel the global warming crisis, rainforest destruction, human rights abuses, the loss of good-paying union jobs, and severe air pollution that chokes our children and the elderly. And of course our oil addiction is also largely responsible for the senseless war in Iraq: If broccoli were the number one export from the Middle East, we never would have invaded Iraq.

It’s time to take the slogan “No Blood for Oil” straight to Detroit. This June, Ford Motor Company is going to celebrate its 100th anniversary. Ford likes to think of itself as an innovator. But in fact this is a dinosaur company that produces old-fashioned, gas-guzzling vehicles. Many Ford vehicles on the road today get fewer miles per gallon than did the Model-T 80 years ago!

To break our oil addiction, Global Exchange and the Rainforest Action Network are asking communities to target Ford Motor Company to demand that the corporation increase the fuel efficiency of its vehicles to 50 miles per gallon by 2010 and to completely eliminate tailpipe emissions by 2020. By dramatically reducing our outdated cars’ demand for oil, we can take a huge step toward getting the petroleum monkey off our backs.

On Saturday, June 7th - four days before Ford’s centennial celebration-people around the U.S. will be holding rallies and protests in front of Ford dealerships to send a loud and clear message that we will not longer tolerate the production of primitive gas-guzzling vehicles that put us all at risk.

For more information, call South Bay Mobilization (408) 998-8504
www.southbaymobilization.org

Thursday, June 5th (both morning and afternoon actions)
International Day of Action for Justice in Palestine

Local Actions:

Co-sponsored by the South Bay Mobilization and Justice for Palestinians.

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From the Organizers:

Call to Action:

International Day of Action for Justice in Palestine
June 5, 2003

On June 5, 2003, the thirty-sixth anniversary of the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, we call for linked actions by Palestinian, international, and Israeli peace groups to protest the escalating violence against the Palestinian community and international human rights workers in the occupied territories. We demand protection for Palestinian civilians and for internationals, a moratorium on construction of the apartheid wall and its associated land confiscations and home demolitions, and an end to the occupation.

I. Who is Initiating this Call?

United for Peace and Justice is initiating this call together with Palestinian based, Israeli, and other international peace groups. Committed convening groups include the Peace and Justice Studies Association (PJSA), the International Women¹s Peace Service, and the International Solidarity (ISM) Movement, which attempts to protect civilians and supports the nonviolent resistance within Palestine, We seek and welcome endorsements by all groups and individuals that support our points of unity.

II. What Would Happen on and around June 5?

... Demonstrations and acts of nonviolent resistance by Palestinians and
internationals within the occupied territories of Palestine.

... Sister demonstrations, vigils and nonviolent direct actions by Israeli
... peace groups within the pre-1967 borders of Israel.

... A massive campaign of lobbying at the United Nations and of the U.S.
Congress culminating on June 5.

... Teach-ins and educational programs in communities around the world.

... Demonstrations, vigils, and nonviolent occupations of Israeli embassies
... and consulates worldwide, and at offices of corporations that profit from the occupation.

Thursday, June 5th, 7:00am
Shut Down Bechtel's World Headquarters in San Francisco

Unplugging the War Machine ! Four Days of Action Against Bechtel and the Corporate Invasion of Iraq June 1st - June 5th, 2003 Join Us in San Francisco, Washington, DC, or Host Actions in Your Community In San Francisco, we'll peacefully shutdown Bechtel's offices. Around the nation and the world, non-violent direct actions will take place at other Bechtel locations. Each of these events will advance the following goals:

1. Expose Bechtel's record of human rights, environmental, health and safety and tax-payer abuses and links to the ongoing community campaigns against Bechtel.

2. Stop the Bush Administration's system of awarding contracts in Iraq that put the profits of U.S. corporations over the humanitarian needs and self-determination of the people of Iraq.

3. Explore and support positive alternative rebuilding proposals put forward by Iraqis, the United Nations and Members of Congress.

4. Stop the flow of billions of dollars from our schools and communities to subsidize the corporate invasion of Iraq, starting with the $680 million for Bechtel.

5. Stop the Bush Administration from using a military invasion to impose an economic globalization agenda on Iraq without the consent of the Iraqi people.

6. Stop the Bush Administration's Empire-Building agenda, and

7. Build on the powerful Global Resistance to these abuses and support the positive alternatives that already exist !

Location: (click below for map)
50 Beale Street (Montgomery BART off of Market St. in San Francisco)

For more information see the web site of Direct Action to Stop the War at:
www.actagainstwar.org
or call 415-820-9649.

Tuesday, June 3rd, 7:00pm
SBM Movie Night: "People and the Land", by Tom Hayes

Winner of the Silver Screen Award at the International Film & Video Festival Followed by 10 minute speeches & a panel discussion. Fadi Saba - Palestinian American with family in Israel and Palestine Robin and Barry Wagar - Returned from the West Bank earlier this month Donna Wallach - A peace activist who lived in Israel

Location:
2nd Floor Conference Room
South Bay Mobilization
480 North First St, Suite 205 in downtown San Jose

For more information call South Bay Mobilization at: 408-998-8504