BURLESON / FORT WORTH TX Bus will leave Burleson area at 10AM on Friday Oct 1, arriving D.C. on
Sat morning, Oct 2. Bus will take you from rally to Dulles Worldgate
Marriot. The evening will be yours. We will leave at 9 AM Sunday
morning Oct 3, and arrive back in Burleson around 6 AM Monday morning
Oct 4. The price for this will be $275 double occupancy and $321
single. Coolers are allowed on the bus but NO GLASS. Lets have some
fun and show America that the Tea Party isn’t anything but a Pee
Party!! Sorry I just coudn’t hold it!! LOL gordie6221@gmail or
817-832-5931
Contact Gordie for payment info.
JOIN A NATIONWIDE MOVEMENT TO END THE WARS AND BRING OUR WAR $$ HOME
RALLY ON SATURDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2:00 – 4:00 PM at
ST. LUKE “COMMUNITY” UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
5710 E. R.L. THORNTON, DALLAS
Sponsors: Dallas Peace Center, Jobs with Justice, Fair Budget Campaign, St. Luke’s United Methodist Church, Reform Immigration for Texas Alliance, NAACP Dallas, Code Pink, Social Action Council–First Unitarian Universalist Church (and growing)
On Saturday, October 2, 2010, hundreds of thousands of people from across America will gather at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. to demonstrate our re-commitment to change. The One Nation March will feature human and civil rights leaders, labor leaders, environmental and peace activists, faith leaders, celebrities and sports figures – all marching together to help Put America Back to Work and to Pull America Back Together. And to help reorder our national priorities so that investments in people come first.
When is the March?
Saturday, October 2, 2010. Our official program will begin at 12:00 pm and end at 4:00 pm. The event site will open for our guests at 6:00 am, and our pre-program will kick off at 11 am. We anticipate tens of thousands of people from across the country for this march. Please plan on arriving in the morning to allow sufficient time to get to the Lincoln Memorial.
Where is the March?
The March takes place on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial located on the National Mall in Washington DC.
Is the event open to the public?
Yes, this event is open to the public. No tickets or pre-registration is required. Please note that all buses traveling to the event are required to register with March organizers.
The Esperanza Center’s annual Mercado de Paz/Peace Market is the Friday and Saturday of Thanksgiving weekend of each year. The day after Thanksgiving is known as the busiest shopping day of the year, when throngs of holiday shoppers overrun a retail landscape dotted with corporate clones. As an alternative to crowded malls filled with crazed consumers and mass-produced goods, the Esperanza’s Peace Market features unique, handmade gifts and artesania centered around themes of peace, social justice, cultural diversity, and ecological concerns. Shoppers can wield their economic power by spending their time and money supporting individuals and groups that are fighting for a better world.
A diverse array of gifts are offered each year from artists like: Oscar Alvarado, mosaic-tile artist and found-object furniture designer; Veronica Castillo, internationally-renowned ceramic artist from Izucar de Matamoros, Mexico; Martha Prentiss, silversmith and owner of Prentiss Jewelry; Barrio Beat/Alma de la Raza, a company that seeks to carry on Chicana/o culture through community-based business enterprise, and to reflect and include voices of the pueblo in its operations; and Colores del Pueblo (formerly Pueblo to People), a Houston-based nonprofit organization that buys merchandise from over 200 grassroots craft and agricultural co-ops throughout Latin America—paying much better prices than for-profit corporations—and then resells directly to consumers in the U.S., thereby eliminating unfair profit and providing artists in developing countries a larger market for their work.
RIVETING VIDEO!!! by Jeff Zavala: Direct action at Fort Hood and resistence against deployment of 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment to Iraq, by veterans and military family members, Aug. 22, 2010.
The Iraq Debacle As corporate media heralds the end of combat forces in Iraq, Fort Hood is deploying 3,000 troops to Iraq from the 3rd Armored Calvary Regiment. Many of them have been deemed “undeployable” due to Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and other conditions resulting from previous deployments during this decade of warfare in Iraq and Afghanistan. Several upcoming events are aimed at peeling back the mass deception surrounding “the end of combat operations.”
5:00 pm, Sunday, August 29th, 1700 South First, Austin, Texas. Iraqi-American doctor, Dahlia Wasfi will speak in Austin about the U.S. Policy in Iraq: A Humanitarian Catastrophe. This event is co-sponsored by Texas Labor Against the War and CodePink Austin and will take place at the Texas State Employees Union meeting hall. (TSEU is on S. 1st St. near Annie, across from Freddie’s Restaurant.)
10:00 am, Monday, August 30th, Under the Hood, 17 S. College, Killeen, Texas. A press conference will highlight the Iraq debacle – its impact on US. soldiers, Iraqis, and funding to meet domestic needs. Dahlia Wasfi, Iraqi-American doctor and Rep. Lon Burnam from Fort Worth, Texas will join representatives from many groups including Iraq Veterans Against the War, Veterans for Peace, CodePink and Texas Labor Against the War.
WikiLeaks, Backlash, and the Future of Open-Source Journalism
Thursday, August 26 7:00 pm (NOTE TIME CHANGE FROM 7:30)
*MonkeyWrench Books, 110 E. North Loop*
WikiLeaks’ recent posting of more than 90,000 documents detailing the war in
Afghanistan was perhaps the most important such disclosure since the
Pentagon Papers. The Afghan War Logs, combined with leaked footage of U.S.
personnel killing civilians and reporters in Iraq, has made WikiLeaks an
important source for unfiltered information on the U.S.’s ongoing wars.
Backlash to the leaks has been swift, with top administration officials
implying that WikiLeaks founders have “blood on their hands.”
**Join University of Texas journalism professor Robert Jensen, Texas
Observer managing editor and former AP war correspondent Chris Tomlinson,
and members of the newly revived Austin Indymedia for a discussion on the
importance of the WikiLeaks documents, backlash, and open-source
journalism. **
Texas State Employees Union sponsors a report back from the USSF with a labor perspective.
In June, thousands of social justice activists met in Detroit at the USSF to discuss, plan, and organize the struggle for a more just, equitable, and sustainable world. It was the second of these vibrant, cross-issue social change gatherings. Those of us from TSEU were inspired by seeing so many labor union groups all through the event–UAW, Teamsters, Steelworkers, AFSCME, United Electrical Workers, AFT, etc., etc.
In what we hope will be one of many USSF programs, members of the Texas State Employees Union, CWA Local 6186, will host a gathering to hear reports from Austinites who attended this important and inspiring event. Our presenters will focus on labor in various ways. There will also be a slide show and video clips.
Anne Lewis, a TSEU activist, who will show clips from a presentation she made to the US Social Forum about Anne Braden, a most dedicated fighter against racism and political repression.
Josefina Castillo and Judith Rosenberg of Austin Tan Cerca de la Frontera, which organizes solidarity and support for workers in Mexico organizing inside and outside of unions
Leslie Cunningham, a TSEU activist, who will report on the role of labor unions in the social justice movement
Maribel Falcon of Workers Defense Project/Proyecto Defensa Laboral, which is having great success on wage theft and construction safety issues in Austin as part of the labor movement which is larger than unions alone.
Carmen Llanes with PODER in East Austin, who will report on environmental justice organizing.
For more information, contact Will Rogers at 280-7549 or [email protected]
Friday from 4 to 6 p.m., Under the Hood will demonstrate opposition to the
upcoming deployment of the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment from Fort Hood,
Texas, scheduled to occur sometime next month.
After gathering at the Under the Hood Cafe, located at 17 S. College St. in
Killeen, we will march to the East Gate of Fort Hood to hold a rally in
support of the Troops being forced needlessly to suffer as a result of the
illegitimate and unwinnable occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan.
The 3rd ACR is notorious for repeatedly deploying wounded warriors. In
addition to demanding an end to the occupations, we are demanding an end to
the 3rd ACR’s policy of deploying Soldiers with PTSD (post-traumatic stress
disorder), TBI (traumatic brain disorder), MST (military sexual trauma) and
physical trauma. Soldiers suffering from such issues SHOULD NOT BE DEPLOYED
NOW OR EVER!!!
The military’s hold over its Soldiers is at the breaking point. More and
more, Soldiers are turning away from the lies of Empire and discovering what
real democracy and service looks like. Each time we publicly demonstrate in
the Fort Hood community, we see a surge of troops and family members in the
coffeehouse asking questions and making themselves a part of the
international struggle for peace. Visible resistance is a MUST if we are to
continue building support to end the occupations and secure justice for the
people of Iraq and Afghanistan, as well our own troops.
Come be a part of this exciting demonstration, and help the Under the Hood
community continue to support Soldiers removing their support for the wars!
For more information, call the coffeehouse at 254-449-8811, write to [email protected], or visit underthehoodcafe.org.
Bus will leave Burleson area at 10AM on Friday Oct 1, arriving D.C. on
Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) and other conditions resulting from previous deployments during this decade of warfare in Iraq and Afghanistan. Several upcoming events are aimed at peeling back the mass deception surrounding “the end of combat operations.”
