Mn-prog-events Mailing List: WAMM Peace Calendar May 7 - June 18| Why Walk Against Weapons?

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EVENT TONIGHT!

Islamophobia: a presentation by [1]Sami Rasouli

Thursday, May 7, 2015, 7pm

Macalester Plymouth United Church, 1658 Lincoln Av, St. Paul

Live outside the Twin Cities?  Check Sami's schedule below for

one of his talks near you.

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WAMM EVENTS

1. Islamophobia: a presentation by Sami Rasouli  5/7

2. WAMM Friday Vigil for Free Palestine  5/8

3. 2nd Monday Movies at WAMM:  " Legalize Democracy"   5/11

4. WAMM Weekly Vigil for Peace 5/13

5. WAMM Book Club: All the Shah's Men  5/16

6. Fly Kites, Not Drones!  5/23

7. WAMM 8th Annual Walk Against Weapons  5/30

[2]Download your Sponsor Sheet Now[3]! Or [4]Donate to support a
Walker.

8. Tackling Torture at the Top Video Contest Ends June 1st!

COALITION EVENTS

9. AI Nakba Protest: Say No to U.S. Aid to Isreal! 5/15

ALSO OF INTEREST / Looking Ahead

10. A National Antiwar & Social Justice Conference:  Stop the Wars at Home
& Abroad!  5/8

11. The Path to Nonviolence: One Man's Journey with Steve McKeown

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WAMM Spring II Newsletter is [5]here!

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WAMM EVENTS

1. Islamophobia:  A Presentation by Sami Rasouli

Thursday, May 7th, 7 pm.  Macalester Plymouth United Church, 1658 Lincoln
Av, St. Paul.  [6]Sami Rasouli is an Iraqi-American who grew up in Iraq and
lived in MN as an adult until 2004. For the past 11 years, Sami has worked
with the Muslim Peacemaker Teams (MPT) in Iraq, a group dedicated to the
principles of nonviolence.  Sami will speak about the history of Islam,
what it means to be Muslim, sectarianism in the Middle East, recent origins
of Islamophobia both in the US and around the world and whether it makes US
military involvement more likely in the Middle East.  Q&A to follow.
Sponsored by [7]End War Committee of WAMM and Macalester Plymouth United
Church Peacemakers.  FFI:  612-275-2720, 612-827-5364 or 651-633-2743.

You can catch Sami all around MN before he leaves, again, for Iraq:

May 10th:  10:00 am, Walker United Meth. Church, 3104 16th Av. S., Mpls.

May 10th:  7:00 pm, St. Scholastica Convent, 1845 20th Av. SE, St. Cloud

May 12th:  7:00 pm, UCC Fellowship Hall, 415 Juniper St., Brainerd, MN

May 13th:  1:00 pm, Northern Lights Charter School, Warba, MN

May 13th:  7:00 pm, Community Presbyterian Church, 703 Pokegama Av., Grand
Rapids, MN

On May 16th, Sami will be speaking at [8]Echo Valley Farm, Ontario, WI with
WAMM's Marie Braun.  Directions and details at the Echo Valley website.

2. WAMM Friday Vigil for Free Palestine.

Friday, May 8, 4:30 – 5:30 p.m.  Intersection of Snelling & Summit,

St. Paul.  Join us to say No to US aid to Israel, Let Gaza Live, End the
Siege, End the Violence.  Sponsored by the [9]WAMM Middle East Committee.
FFI: Call 612-827-5364

3. Second Monday Movies - "Legalize Democracy", a National Grassroots
Movement from Move to Amend

Monday, May 11, 7:00 p.m. On the BIG SCREEN at 4200 Cedar Ave. So., Mpls.
Lively discussion.  Open and free to the public. The prison system along
with the education system and the healthcare system are three things among
many others that should never have a profit motive attached. The democratic
self-government experiment that started in the United States over 200 years
ago has gotten completely corrupted. It’s time for the people to take our
democracy back! Representativecs from St. Paul Move to Amend will join us.
Sponsored by [10]WAMM[11] Movie Committee.  FFI: 612-827-5364 [4200 Cedar
is a Coke-free zone. #BoycottCoke.]

4. WAMM Weekly Vigil for Peace

Wednesday, May 13, Lake St/Marshall Ave Peace Bridge over Mississippi, 5:00
- 6:00 pm.  For just an hour of your time, you can be part of one of the
longest running peace vigils in the US! Rain, sleet, snow or the beautiful
weather of our MN spring and summer, we'll have a sign and a pat on the
back ready for you!  Sponsored by Women Against Military Madness and Twin
Cities Peace Campaign.  FFI: 612-275-2720 or 612-827-5364.

5. WAMM Book Club - Great reads and discussions with good people!
Saturday, May 16,10:00 to 11:30 a.m. Afro Deli, 1939 S 5th Street,
Minneapolis. The WAMM Book Club meets every third Saturday of the month.
The Book Club is reading [12]All the Shah's Men, by Stephen Kinzer. Check
out MayDay Books for your own copy. Sponsored by: The WAMM Book Club. FFI:
Call 612-827-5364

6. [13]Fly Kites, Not Drones!
Saturday, May 23 (rain day May 24), 1:00-3:00p  at Lake Calhoun near
concessions & boat launch.  Bring the kids, we'll bring the kites.
Decorate and fly kites, have fun and remind people our beautiful, open
skies should not be filled with killer drones. Sponsored by WAMM [14]Ground
All Drones Committee.  FFI: 612-827-5364 and [15]website.

7. WAMM 8th Annual Walk Against Weapons - Stop Militarizing US Society!
Saturday, May 30th, 10:30 am, rain or shine.

Meet up at Perkins, Riverside and I-94, Mpls.  WAMM has, for decades, been
vigilant against US war on peoples anywhere.  We are alarmed that the same
[16]weapons of war we deplore, yet pay for, [17]have come home to be used
in the US by federal, state, county and local law enforcement.  We will
walk against all weapons, including the use of drones for surveillance, and
for an [18]end to war profiteering.  If you can't walk with us [19]visit
our website to donate or sponsor.  FFI: 612-827-5364. [20]Download
flyer/pledge sheets.

8. Tackling Torture at the Top Video Contest

WAMM’s [21]Tackling Torture at the Top (T3) committee announces a video
contest on the subject of torture and torture accountability. The jury
consists of international experts on film and on the torture issue,
including Prof. Peter Kuznick, American University, co-writer of the 10
part TV series “The Untold History of the United States” (2012), Sebastian
Doggart, director of the critically acclaimed documentary “American Faust:
>From Condi to Neo-Condi” (2009), longtime peace activist, Andy Worthington,
and Joseph Jolton, Minneapolis filmmaker and instructor video arts at
Minneapolis College of Art and Design and the Blake School. Winners will be
feted at Twin Cities events on June 26th, the UN-designated Torture
Awareness Day. Deadline: June 1, 2015. FFI: Visit [22]Tackling Torture.

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May 30th is WAMM's 8th Annual Walk Against Weapons.

Longtime peacemaker Marie Braun really walks her talk, year after year.  If
you can't be out there with her and WAMM May 30th, [23]help us out with
this major annual fundraiser and the necessary work of peacemaking.  Here's
some of the reasons Marie walks:

WHY DO I WALK?

I WALK to end the scourge of war

I WALK to say “no” to the arms race and the squandering of scarce dollars
on the weapons of war

I WALK for the children and for women who are always the first victims of
war

And, for those who live under the shadow of U.S. militarism and U.S.
predator drones with their hellfire missiles

I WALK for the children of military families who suffer the blowback of war
when their parents come home

I WALK so our children can have a roof over their heads, good schools,
health care, clean air

And, I WALK so all children may experience the joy of peace, the wonder of
connecting with peoples and cultures around the world, and for the survival
of our amazing planet earth.

[24]WILL YOU WALK WITH ME?

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COALITION EVENTS

9. Al Nakba Protest: Say No to U.S. Aid to Israel!

Friday, May 15, 4:30 p.m. outside the office of Senator Klobuchar, 1200
Washington Ave S., Mpls. May 15, 1948, marked the end of British Mandate
over Palestine, and the establishment of the state of Israel on Palestinian
land. This day is marked as Al Nakba, Arabic for The Catastrophe. During
the 1948 war, at least 750,000 Palestinian men, women, and children were
ruthlessly attacked, massacred, and driven from their homes into refugee
camps, and have never been allowed to return, in violation of international
law. From 1948 through 2013, Israel had received $233.7 billion in U.S.
aid, which is used to occupy Palestine. That number compounds every day, as
2015 marks 67 years of US-backed Israeli occupation. Show your solidarity
with Palestine, say NO to U.S. aid to Israel. Sponsored by Anti-War
Committee, endorsed by the [25]Middle East Committee of WAMM.

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ALSO OF INTEREST  / L O O K I N G   A H E A D

10.  A National Antiwar & Social Justice Conference:  Stop the Wars at Home
& Abroad!

Friday, May 8 to Sunday, May 10 Empire Meadows (Clarion) Hotel in Secaucus,
New Jersey (30 minutes from New York City). To register for a hotel room at
the conference reduced rate, call 201-348-6900 and say it is for the UNAC
Antiwar Coalition conference.  Sponsored by: UNAC - United National Antiwar
Coalition 
 Conference info - [26]Online  or [27]UNACpeace [at] gmail.com, or
call 518-227-6947

11. The Path to Nonviolence:  One Man's Journey, with Steve McKeown

Monday, May 18th, 6:30 pm.  St. Joan of Arc Catholic Church, 4537 3rd Ave.
S., Mpls.  Steve McKeown is a Vietnam War Vet, long-time peace activist and
founding member of Veterans for Peace, Chapter 27.  Coming from a faith
perspective, he has worked on a number of issues, including disarmament of
conventional and nuclear weapons; has been involved in the movement to
close the School of the Americas; promoted Armistice Day remembrances and
has educated others about the [28]Kellogg-Briand Pact which outlaws war.
In his talk, Steve will share stories about certain people who have had a
profound and spiritual influence on him in his peace work.  Sponsored by
Every Church a Peace Church.  FFI:  [29]website

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Please Note: The preceding are events sponsored or endorsed by WAMM
committees or
coalitions. We regret that we cannot accommodate all the many wonderful
peace and justice
events occurring in the Twin Cities. For more WAMM events or ongoing peace
vigils,
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