Annual Peacemaker Awards Celebration

Submitted by Susan Lamont
on Thu, 10/25/2012 - 9:38pm

 

Purchase online at pjcsonoma.org -

click “Support PJC” –

go to “Program Designation” –

select “Awards Celebration 2012”

Tickets are $40 in advance, $45 at the door,

$15 low-income available

Annual Peacemaker Awards Celebration

Submitted by Susan Lamont
on Sat, 10/20/2012 - 12:41am

 

Annual Peacemaker Awards Celebration

& Silent Auction

 

The 99% Awakens

 

Peacemaker Award

Healdsburg Peace Project

Courage of Commitment Award

Jesus Guzman

Community Organization Award

North Bay Organizing Project

Unsung Hero Award

Dave Foote

 

Sunday, November 11, 2012

5:00 to 9:30 p.m.

Sebastopol Community Center

390 Morris St., Sebastopol

 

Music, Food, Auction, Dancing

$40 advance, $250 sponsorship (2 tickets)

Purchase online at pjcsonoma.org -

click “Support PJC” –

go to “Program Designation” –

select “Awards Celebration 2012”

 

For more information call

Difficulties of Getting From Here to There

Submitted by Susan Lamont
on Wed, 10/17/2012 - 10:01pm

 

Getting Centered
by Susan Lamont

          "There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and    
                          still be counted as warriors." –
Adrienne Rich

A friend and I were in the middle of a disagreement – I’m left and he’s
more left – when I began to understand one of our fundamental differences.
We both know what we don’t like – what we believe is not working in this
world – but he’s very secure in his solutions. I’m not.

I don’t know if I’m in the minority or not. People are very uncomfortable
with uncertainty. That’s why we avoid it so assiduously.

The Lily-Pad Strategy

Submitted by Susan Lamont
on Tue, 10/16/2012 - 8:48pm

 

 

 
How the Pentagon Is Quietly Transforming Its Overseas Base Empire and Creating a Dangerous New Way of War
By David Vine
http://www.tomdispatch.com/archive/1755681
The first thing I saw last month when I walked into the belly of the dark grey C-17 Air Force cargo plane was a void -- something missing. A missing left arm, to be exact, severed at the shoulder, temporarily patched and held together.  Thick, pale flesh, flecked with bright red at the edges. It looked like meat sliced open.

Oct. 10th - Day Against the Death Penalty

Submitted by Susan Lamont
on Wed, 10/10/2012 - 10:17pm

 

TODAY 10th Oct, is being observed as the World Day against the Death Penalty. There is no logic for killing a person for the same crime he has committed. You cant eliminate evil deed by repeating the same deed yourself.
Today, 141 countries have abolished the death penalty either in law or in practice. And the number of countries still retaining the death penalty is dwindling every year.
The death penalty is a blunt instrument that can also be misused against political foes.

First Anniversary of Occupy in Sonoma County!

Submitted by Susan Lamont
on Tue, 10/02/2012 - 11:57pm

United Farmer Workers' reaction to Jerry Brown's vetoes - please add your voice to theirs at http://action.ufw.org/page/speakout/vetoreaction

Submitted by Susan Lamont
on Tue, 10/02/2012 - 10:05pm

 

Join community's outraged reaction to CA Gov.'s vetoes

To get started, Click the "Participate" button.

Take action today and join groups uniting around the vetoes of Trust Act, Domestic Workers’ Bill of Rights and farm workers’ heat protection bills

Farm workers, domestic workers, and DREAM students gathed in front of the Ronald Reagan State Building alongside several labor and community organizations to unite against the governor’s vetoes of key legislation to extend protections to the Latino community: the Trust Act, the Domestic Workers’ Bill of Rights and the farm workers’ heat

Healdsburg Peace Project - 10th Anniversary Vigil

Submitted by Susan Lamont
on Fri, 09/21/2012 - 8:59pm

Thank you to the Healdsburg Peace Project for 10 years of weekly peace vigils! Some of us went up to celebrate with them.

They will receive the Center's Peacemaker of the Year award at the annual celebration on Sunday, November 11, 2012.

International Day of Peace - Sustainable Peace for a Sustainable World

Submitted by Susan Lamont
on Fri, 09/21/2012 - 7:08am

 

Friday, September 21st is the U.N.'s International Day of Peace. The theme for 2012 is "Sustainable Peace for a Sustainable World." The Peace & Justice Center will hold a vigil in Courthouse Square, 3rd and Mendocino, Santa Rosa from 5:00 to 6:30 p.m. Please bring a sign, a flower, or just yourself to express your commitment to working for a peaceful world.

There is also a vigil at noon at College and Mendocino in Santa Rosa, a vigil at noon at Bodega Ave. and Main in Sebastopol, and in the Plaza in Sonoma at 5:00 p.m.

Growth Is the Problem

Submitted by Susan Lamont
on Tue, 09/11/2012 - 9:16pm

 

By Chris Hedges

The ceaseless expansion of economic exploitation, the engine of global capitalism, has come to an end. The futile and myopic effort to resurrect this expansion—a fallacy embraced by most economists—means that we respond to illusion rather than reality. We invest our efforts into bringing back what is gone forever. This strange twilight moment, in which our experts and systems managers squander resources in attempting to re-create an expanding economic system that is moribund, will inevitably lead to systems collapse.

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