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Santa Cruz County PEACE & JUSTICE CALENDAR

by Grant Wilson and Paul Franklin

More details at www.peacejusticenews.org

Daily (weekdays)

Democracy Now in Exile, War and Peace Report, with Amy Goodman, on FRSC
96.3 FM, Mondays 1:00 PM and Tuesday through Friday 12:00 Noon

1:00 PM Public Affairs on KUSP- Latino USA, Free Speech News, Making
Contact, Beyond Headlines, Counterspin

5:00 PM Free Speech Radio News on FRSC and www.microradio.net/frsc

6:30 PM Talk of the Bay on KUSP, 88.9 FM



Weekly

Mondays 5:00 PM - The Penny University at Calvary Episcopal Church

Tuesdays 5:00 PM - Youth Coalition SC, 515 Broadway

Tuesdays 7:00 PM - Peace Coalition, 515 Broadway

Thursdays 4:30 PM - Witness for Peace & Meditation Vigil at Mission
Plaza Park - Bring pad and warm clothing. Sponsored by Santa Cruz Zen
Center

Fridays 5:00 PM - Peace Vigil at Watsonville Plaza facing Main Street.
Bring signs if you wish. Sponsored by Pajaro branch of the Women�s
International League for Peace and Freedom and the Ad Hoc Committee for
Peace in the Middle East

Fridays 5:00 PM - Human Billboarding for Peace at intersection of Ocean
and Water Streets



Thursday 2/14/2002

Nationwide Day of Action against See�s Candies - Petition See�s to Buy
Certified Fair Trade Chocolate, at See�s Candies Headquarters, 210 El
Camino Real, South San Francisco and local outlets across the nation, by
Global Exchange

2:00 PM UCSC Workers Rally Valentine�s Day To Urge UC Regents To �Have A
Heart�, at UC Santa Cruz campus, Communications Building front steps

4:00 PM �Bombing the Savages in International Law and Military Practice�
with Sven Lindqvist, at Oakes Mural Room, UCSC, more info. 459-1274

5:30 PM Association of Monterey Bay Area Governments meeting, at Marina
Municipal Airport, Marina

7:00 PM Colloquium Series - Globalization In Crisis? Hegemony, Islam And
Governance, Speaker: Richard Falk, Albert G. Milbank Professor of
International Law and Practice at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public
and International Affairs at Princeton University, at Classroom II, UCSC

7:00 PM City Council meeting - Capitola, at Capitola City Council
Chambers, 420 Capitola Ave.



Friday 2/15/2002

Student Peace Action Network Youth Summit, at Claremont Colleges
(outside Los Angeles)

2:00 PM Rally: No to Torture in Guantanamo! at Office of Senator Dianne
Feinstein, Market Street at Montgomery Street, San Francisco

4:00 PM Author: Sven Lindqvist �A History of Bombing�, at Oakes Mural
Room, UCSC, more info. 459-1274



Saturday 2/16/2002

National Student Conference Of The Palestinian Solidarity Movement, at
Berkeley, California, hosted by Students for Justice in Palestine,
justiceinpalestine@yahoo.com, (510) 496-1269 x1948

12:00 PM WAR TIMES launch party, at Mandela Village/Youth Empowerment
Center, 1357 Fifth Street, West Oakland



Sunday 2/17/2002 9:30 AM

Nonviolent Communication For Peace Activists: Creating The World We
Want, $20-$120, 510-654-7113 or jsiva@california.com

6:00 PM Peacemakers meeting, at Resource Center for Nonviolence, 515
Broadway

7:00 PM Performance: Getting Real, San Francisco Mime Troupe, at Mission
Cultural Center, Mission Street at 25th. See www.sfmt.org for more
information.

Sunday 2/17/2002 7:30 PM

San Francisco Black Independent Film Festival - �Ricco� - Feature Length
Film, Mystery/Suspense about police brutality and corruption, at Buriel
Clay Memorial Theater, African American Art and Culture Complex, 762
Fulton Street, San Francisco, by Contact: Sumiko California,
scalifornia@iconoclastsf.org, 415-668-5712, www.iconoclastsf.org



Monday 2/18/2002 4:00 PM

Crash Course in Grantwriting, at African American Multimedia Conference,
762 Fulton Street, San Francisco

7:00 PM Film: �Noam Chomsky: 9-11� and Denny Riley: �The War on
Terrorism�, at Fellowship of Humanity, 390 27th Street (between
Telegraph and Broadway), Oakland



Tuesday 2/19/2002

Last day to register to vote for March elections

6:00 PM Angela Davis, Diane Clemens, Jennifer Terry: �21st Century
McCarthyism and the Rise of the Global Police State�, at UC Berkeley,
Wheeler Auditorium



7:00 PM Video: THE GOOD WAR - & THOSE WHO REFUSED TO FIGHT IT; a
dramatic documentary about Conscientious Objectors who refused to fight
in WWII, at Quaker Meetinghouse, 223 Rooney Street



7:00 PM WILPF meeting: �Slides and Stories from Israel and Palestine�,
at Cayuga Vault, 1100 Soquel Ave. (corner of Cayuga)

7:00 PM The Sleeping Ban and Rent Control, at Veteran�s Memorial Hall,
846 Front Street

7:00 PM Energy Action Coalition meeting, at Ecology Action Center



Wednesday 2/20/2002 6:30 AM

Free Breakfast for Bicyclists, at Simpkins Swim Center, 17th Ave.

4:30 PM National Day of Solidarity with Arabs, Muslims and South Asian
Immigrants, at Federal Building, 450 Golden Gate Avenue, San Francisco

7:00 PM Study Group on Nonviolence - Michael Nagler �Is There No Other
Way? The Search for a Nonviolent Future� - Video excerpts, at 404 King
Street, Santa Cruz , by Scott Kennedy

7:00 PM Direct Actions Network (Dan) Planning Meeting For Vandenberg, at
Resource Center for Nonviolence, 515 Broadway

7:30 PM David Barsamian, founder and director of Alternative Radio, and
author of the new highly-acclaimed book: The Decline And Fall Of Public
Broadcasting, at Louden Nelson Center, 301 Center Street



Thursday 2/21/2002 7:00 PM

Critical Resistance Film Festival, at Kresge Town Hall, UCSC, Sponsored
by: Kresge College, Kresge Multicultural Committee, Cowell College &
Stevenson College.

7:30 PM Author: Ronald C. White Jr.: Lincoln�s Greatest Speech: The
Second Inaugural, at Capitola Book Cafe, 1475 41st Avenue



Friday 2/22/2002 4:00 PM

Rally: Know Justice, Know Peace, at West Steps of the Capitol Building,
Sacramento

7:00 PM Critical Resistance Film Festival, at Oakes Rm. 105, UCSC,
Sponsored by: Kresge College, Kresge Multicultural Committee, Cowell &
Stevenson Colleges.

7:00 PM Kevin Danaher: Sustainable Alternatives for the Global Economy,
at Lafayette Veterans Hall, Mt Diablo Boulevard (at 1st Street),
Lafayette

Saturday 2/23/2002 10:00 AM

Assertiveness and verbal skills workshop, at Louden Nelson Center, 301
Center Street, by City of Santa Cruz Commission for the Prevention of
Violence Against Women - 420-5250, 420-6298 as soon as possible to
reserve childcare



11:00 AM Antiwar Demonstration, at Dolores Park, SF



Sunday 2/24/2002 2:00 PM

Roy Bourgeois: �Colombia: A Study in US Terrorism�, at Calvin Simmons
Theatre, 10 Tenth Street, Oakland



Monday 2/25/2002 3:00 PM

Colloquium Series - Globalization In Crisis? Hegemony, Islam And
Governance, Speaker: Princeton Lyman, Executive Director, The Global
Interdependence Initiative, The Aspen Institute, at Conference Room D,
above the Bay Tree Bookstore



Tuesday 2/26/2002 12:00 PM

Corporate Walk of Shame non-violent demonstration against Starbucks, the
GAP, Borders Books and other rapcious corporations, at Pacific Avenue,
meet at Saturn Cafe parking lot

3:00 PM City Council meeting - Santa Cruz, at Santa Cruz City Council
Chambers, 809 Center Street

4:15 PM City Council meeting - Watsonville, at Watsonville City Council
Chambers, 215 Union

7:00 PM Free Mumia, Leonard and all Political Prisoners, at Veteran�s
Memorial Hall, 846 Front Street



Wednesday 2/27/2002 7:00 PM

Intersections of Race and War: Women in Resistance, at Kresge Town Hall,
UCSC with Linda Evans, former political prisoner. Has worked as a strong
organizer for women�s and lesbian liberation, opposing US imperialism,
and building white anti-racist activism. Also Elisabeth 'Betita'
Martinez, founder and director of the Institute for Multiracial Justice
in the Bay Area.

7:30 PM �Is There No Other Way? The Search for a Nonviolent Future� Book
Talk by Michael Nagler, at Capitola Book Cafe, 1475 41st Avenue



Thursday 2/28/2002 7:00 PM

City Council meeting - Capitola, at Capitola City Council Chambers, 420
Capitola Ave.

7:30 PM Author: Joseph A. Palermo: In His Own Right: The Political
Odyssey of Senator Robert F. Kennedy, at Capitola Book Cafe, 1475 41st
Avenue



Friday 3/1/2002 4:00 PM

Deborah Letourneau, Professor, Environmental Studies, UCSC �Assessing
the environmental and human health effects of genetically engineered
organisms�, at Crown Senior Commons Room, UCSC, by The Center for
Justice, Tolerance, and Community�s Science, Medicine, Technology, and
Justice Research Cluster. Note: check reading materials at eres.ucsc.edu
- title is: "SMTJ colloquium" and the password is: "smtj".



Saturday 3/2/2002

Weekend voting - 8:00 - 5:00 PM at 701 Ocean Street

1:00 PM Self-Defense Taught In Spanish, at Louden Nelson Center, 301
Center Street, by City of Santa Cruz Commission for the Prevention of
Violence Against Women - 420-5250, 420-6298 as soon as possible to
reserve childcare

7:00 PM Juan Gonzalez - �Mass Media and The Future of Democracy�, at New
College Theater 777 Valencia Street San Francisco



Sunday 3/3/2002 12:00 PM

Valley Women�s Club�s Annual General Meeting, at Boulder Creek Fire Hall

Send your calendar items to paul@peacejusticenews.org or 832 Riverside,
Santa Cruz, 95060 or 426-2292