Los Angeles Community/Activist Event to End the War on Iraq, Bring All the Troops Home Now! (http://www.unitedforpeace.org/) Wednesday, March 15 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM Downtown UCLA Labor Center 675 S. Park View St. Los Angeles, CA 90057 $3 admissions, but no one will be turn away for lack of funds Fund Raiser to Support Fernando Suarez del Solar and Pablo Paredes’ Latino March For Peace Iraqi Woman Faiza Al-Araji Speak Out No to War! Global Exchange, Code Pink Co-Founder Medea Benjamin Community Mobilization to Support L.A. City Anti-War Resolution Host by: Sonali Kolhatkar, host and producer of "Uprising," Pacifica Radio, and Co-Director of Afghan Women's Mission
Sponsored by: ActionLA Coalition, Peace No War Network, Coalition for World Peace in support to United for Peace & Justice End the War on Iraq Bring All the Troops Home Now! Three Years Too Many! At the wake of the Third Anniversary of the Iraq War, this is a community event to highlight the local costs of the war and how we can involve for the up-coming local peace and justice movements. The Initial Programs: 6:00 -- 7:00 PM tabling and welcoming 7:00 -- 8:15 PM speakers and entertainment 8:30 PM – 9:00 PM community dialogue with speakers 1) Fernando Suarez del Solar and Pablo Paredes will made a stop on their coalition of the willing, a 241 mile quest for peace starting in Tijuana, Mexico, going through Marine Corps Depot Camp Pendleton to the Cesar Chavez burial site in La Paz, CA, and culminating in The Mission district of San Francisco with a memorial ceremony and blood drive. (web site: _http://www.guerreroazteca.org_ (http://www.guerreroazteca.org/) and _http://swiftsmartveterans.com/index.html_ (http://swiftsmartveterans.com/index.html) ) 2) Faiza Al-Araji: is a Iraqi civil engineer, a blogger(_http://afamilyinbaghdad.blogspot.com_ (http://afamilyinbaghdad.blogspot.com/) ), a religious Shia with a Sunni husband, and a mother of three. After one son was recently held as a political prisoner by the Ministry of the Interior, the family fled to Jordan. 3) Medea Benjamin: Co-Founder Global Exchange, Code Pink. 4) Josh Kamensky, Eric Garcetti's Communication's Director: he will address the issue of the city budget and funding of social programs vis-a-vis the enormous war spending by the federal government 5) Lee Siu Hin, National Immigrant Solidarity Network: He will focus on the impact of immigrant community at the war in Iraq. 6) Andy Griggs, LA US Labor Against the War: he'll focus on labor movement against the war. Music: Underground Economy $3 admissions, but no one will be turn away for lack of funds For more information, please call: Lee Siu Hin Tel: (213)403-0131 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) URL: _http://www.PeaceNowar.net_ (http://www.peacenowar.net/) _http://www.ActionLA.org_ (http://www.actionla.org/) _http://www.coalitionforworldpeace.org_ (http://www.coalitionforworldpeace.org/) [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Digest: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Help: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive1: <http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive2: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
