{news} AFSC Community Calendar 6-24-05--immigrant rights actions, and lots more
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Subject: Community Calendar 6-24-05
American Friends Service Committee Connecticut
In This Issue: Connecticut Peace and Justice Calendar 6-24-05
. Immigrants' Rights Rally and Forum - Saturday, June 25th
. Community Calendar 6-24-05
Immigrants' Rights Rally and Forum - Saturday, June 25th
Friends, we will be gathering for immigrants rights in Hartford tomorrow (Saturday). There will be a rally and press conference for immigrants' rights in the morning and a Forum on How to Defend the Rights of the Immigrant Community in the evening. I hope you can join us.
Please find our regular calendar below.
Anti-immigrant forces led by Connecticut Citizens for Immigration Control have called a demonstration for Saturday at 9:30 a.m. in front of the offices of Sen. Joseph Lieberman. They intend to protest his views on immigration and demand that he support their barbaric policy recommendations, which include withholding driver's licenses and workmen's compensation from undocumented immigrants, denying in-state college tuition to their children, and deputizing police with the authority to deport them. (You can view their website by clicking the link below)
We will hold a peaceful counter-demonstration at a reasonable distance from CCIC. We do not defend nor endorse the immigration views of Sen. Lieberman. Rather we protest actions taken by vigilante groups and federal authorities that victimize immigrants and create a climate of fear in their communities. We join together in defense of immigrant rights.
How To Defend The Rights Of The Immigrant Community
Forum
Saturday, June 25th
6-8pm
Charter Oak Cultural Center,
21 Charter Oak Ave. Hartford CT
* We'll give a Report Back on recent successful
mobilizations against anti-immigrant forces in CT
* Speaker to discuss U.S. immigration policy since
9/11
* Speaker will give explanation of the rights of
immigrants living in the U.S.
sponsored by Latinos Contra La Guerra (Hartford) and Unidad Latina en Accion (New Haven) for more info. please contact Marela Zacarias at (860) 538-3921 or email us at latinoscontralaguerra at yahoo.com
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In Spanish:
Latinos Contra La Guerra los invita a que atienda a un foro en cómo defender a los derechos de los Inmigrantes el 25 de junio de 2005 6-8pm en El Charter Oak Cultural Center en Hartford, CT
* Daremos un reporte sobre las movilizaciones acertadas
recientes encontra de el grupo anti-inmigrante en CT.
* Discutiremos la política de la inmigración en los
Estados Unidos desde 9/11.
* Daremos explicaciónes sobre los derechos de los
inmigrantes que viven en los Estados Unidos.
Este Foro sera auspiciado por Latinos Contra La Guerra
(Hartford) y Unidad Latina En Accion (New Haven).
Para más informacion por favor llame a Marela Zacarias al (860) 538-3921 o envianos un correo electronico a latinoscontralaguerra at yahoo.com
Read the Connecticut Citizens for Immigration Control's statement to Lieberman
Community Calendar 6-24-05
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Friday, June 24, 2005
Al Rowwad Children's Theater presents
"WE ARE THE CHILDREN OF THE CAMP"
8pm
. Housatonic Valley Regional High School, Warren Turnpike & Rt. 7, Town of Canaan (Falls Village), CT,
Performance of the play We Are the Children of the Camp (tickets $10)
(see below- June 26th - for more information)
Saturday, June 25
Dabka (Palestinian Folk Dances), at 16th annual Grove Festival,
Town Grove, Lakeville/Salisbury, CT
5:30 p.m. Free
***
Saturday, June 25th
9:00am
Rally and Press Conference
One Constitution Plaza (State and Market streets) Hartford
NO HUMAN BEING
IS ILLEGAL!
EQUAL RIGHTS
FOR IMMIGRANTS!
UNITE AND FIGHT
FOR JOBS AND JUSTICE!
Anti-immigrant forces led by Connecticut Citizens for Immigration Control have called a demonstration for Saturday at 9:30 a.m. in front of the offices of Sen. Joseph Lieberman. They intend to protest his views on immigration and demand that he support their barbaric policy recommendations, which include withholding driver's licenses and workmen's compensation from undocumented immigrants, denying in-state college tuition to their children, and deputizing police with the authority to deport them.
We will hold a peaceful counter-demonstration at a reasonable distance from CCIC. We do not defend nor endorse the immigration views of Sen. Lieberman. Rather we protest actions taken by vigilante groups and federal authorities that victimize immigrants and create a climate of fear in their communities. We join together in defense of immigrant rights.
Sponsored by the Ad Hoc Coalition for Immigrant Rights.
For more information, call Marela Zacarias at 860-538-3920.
Organizers ask all participants to park their cars on the street. Pearl Street is recommended.
****
Saturday, June 25th
6-8pm
Charter Oak Cultural Center,
21 Charter Oak Ave. Hartford CT
How To Defend The Rights Of The Immigrant Community
Forum
* We'll give a Report Back on recent successful
mobilizations against anti-immigrant forces in CT
* Speaker to discuss U.S. immigration policy since
9/11
* Speaker will give explanation of the rights of
immigrants living in the U.S.
sponsored by Latinos Contra La Guerra (Hartford) and Unidad Latina en Accion (New Haven) for more info.
please contact Marela Zacarias at (860) 538-3921 or email us at latinoscontralaguerra at yahoo.com
_________________________________________________
In Spanish:
Latinos Contra La Guerra los invita a que atienda a un foro en cómo defender a los derechos de los Inmigrantes el 25 de junio de 2005 6-8pm en El Charter Oak Cultural Center en Hartford, CT
* Daremos un reporte sobre las movilizaciones acertadas
recientes encontra de el grupo anti-inmigrante en CT.
* Discutiremos la política de la inmigración en los
Estados Unidos desde 9/11.
* Daremos explicaciónes sobre los derechos de los
inmigrantes que viven en los Estados Unidos.
Este Foro sera auspiciado por Latinos Contra La Guerra
(Hartford) y Unidad Latina En Accion (New Haven).
Para más informacion por favor llame a Marela Zacarias al (860) 538-3921 o envianos un correo electronico a latinoscontralaguerra at yahoo.com
***
Saturday, June 25
"TOUGH GUISE: Violence, Media & the Crisis in Masculinity"
8pm
ArtSpace, Hartford
555 Asylum St.
HIMC benefit screening-
from the director of "Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire":
Directed by Sut Jhally
Talkback facilitated by Melinda Miceli, sociology professor at the University of Hartford
Suggested donation $5-10
No one ever turned away for lack of funds
Proceeds benefit the Hartford Undercurrent newspaper- new issue out this week!
For more information call the Hartford Independent Media Center 246-HIMC
***
Saturday & Sunday, June 25th & 26th
La Paloma Sabanera
Quixote Read-a-thon!
9:00am-9:00pm each day
405 Capitol Avenue
Hartford, CT 06106
Tel 860.548.1670
(on the corner of Babcock St & Capitol)
In the opening of "Don Quixote," the main character doesn't sleep, but reads so much he eventually goes mad. La Paloma Sabanera, along with Miguel de Cervantes enthusiasts, will imitate art as they attempt a marathon reading of "Don Quixote." on Saturday & Sunday, June 25th and 26th.
Cervantes aficionados will read part one of the novel from 9 a.m. through 9 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.
This is part of our year-long celebration to Don Quixote and the 400th anniversary of it's printing.
Join La Paloma Sabanera in our yearlong celebration to Cervantes' timeless classic about a haphazardly put together knight and his quest for his true love dulcinea. We will read the entire first book this weekend and everyone is encouraged to come read in and participate in the Northeast's only such celebration to the best novel of all time.
To secure a specific time slot, please email Luis Edgardo Cotto. Readers are encouraged to be as dramatic as one can imagine!!
***
Sunday, June 26
Al Rowwad Children's Theater presents
"WE ARE THE CHILDREN OF THE CAMP"
2:30 p.m.
Charter Oak Cultural Center
21 Charter Oak Avenue, Hartford, CT
Tickets: $15
Al Rowwad Children's Theater is a nonprofit, independent cultural center
in Aida Refugee Camp in Bethlehem, Palestine, a six-acre area where more than 6,000 people live. The children of Al Rowwad were born under military occupation and have lived their entire lives under military occupation. We Are the Children of the Camp is a powerful reflection through drama, dance and music of the violent reality of children's lives under military occupation and of their irrepressible and joyful hope for the future.
For reservations & information, call 860-824-7636 or 860-514-1544
Al Rowwad U.S. Summer Tour 2005 is sponsored in Connecticut by: The Palestine Right to Return Coalition,
***
Tuesday, June 28th
IWW - Hartford meeting
6:30pm
Friends Meeting House, 144 S. Quaker Lane, West Hartford, CT
Come to the newly formed Industrual Workers of the World - Hartford area meeting. For more information contact Matt: circleamatt at riseup.net
***
Wednesday, July 6th
Friendship Caravan to Cuba Comes to Hartford
Fundraising event
6-8:30pm
Central Baptist Church
457 Main St., Hartford, CT
Come to a special evening of food, music, fun, solidarity and fellowship as the Greater Hartford Coalition on Cuba welcomes the 16th Friendshipment Caravanistas on their trip from Canada to Mexico, and then on to Cuba. The US embargo of Cuba causes shortages of food, medicine and other important supplies for eleven million people. This embargo is an immoral policy that uses hunger and disease as political weapons. This will be the sixteenth time that Pastors for Peace has organized a Friendshipment challenge to this attack upon the people of Cuba.
Admission: $10/ children $5
$25 sponsor/$100 patron/$400 caravanista
Material aid will be collected at the event. Please consider bringing school supplies, vitamins, or powdered milk. For more information call: 860.688.5418 or email: ecoalitiononcuba at yahoo.com
***
Attention Parents:
Hartbeat Ensemble: Hartford's Theater For Active Change Presents:
Middle School
Summer Theater Program
For Youth
Ages 11-13
This five-day summer program will teach youth the exciting art of playmaking in the spirit of Augusto Boal's "Forum" and "Playback" Theater.
Two Sessions
Session One: July 11th - 15th
Session Two: August 22nd - 26th
Scholarships Available
Call for more information 860-548-9144
Also -
Overnight Summer Theater Program
For Youth
Ages 14-19
This five-day program is designed to give teenagers the best theatrical training available
through ensemble building games, movement exercises, and improvisation. Participants will live on a 56-acre farm in Voluntown, CT while creating and producing a one-act
play, in the spirit of Augusto Boal's social change theater.
August 1st - 5th
Scholarships Available
Call for more information 860-548-9144
***
SAVE THE DATE:
Saturday, August 6th
Hiroshima and Nagasaki Remembrance Day
5:00pm Potluck Picnic
7:00pm Speakers and Vigil
This August join us to support an end to nuclear war in honor of those who suffered from U.S. nuclear attacks sixty years ago.
This remembrance will take place the evening of August 6th, at Riverside Park, off of Jennings road. More detailed information to come soon.
For more information contact: Joseph Wasserman: 860.561.1897
***
September 11th
Hope Out Loud
1pm at Bushnell Park
Hartford, CT
Share your convictions of peace in our community and world. There will be music, celebration, and kids events. Join us in supporting a more peaceful Hartford.
For more information, or to reserve a table call AFSC, 860.523.1534
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SEPTEMBER 24-26, 2005
END THE WAR ON IRAQ - BRING THE TROOPS HOME NOW!
Leave no bases behind - End the corporate occupation of Iraq
Stop bankrupting our communities - No military recruitment in our schools
Sat., 9/24 - Massive March, Rally & Festival
Sun., 9/25 - Interfaith Service, Grassroots Training
Mon., 9/26 - Lobby Day, Mass Nonviolent Direct Action and Civil Disobedience
Visit AFSC Connecticut online
AFSC Connecticut
56 Arbor Street
Hartford, CT 06106
tel: 860.523.1534
fax: 860.523.1705
kho at afsc.org Visit AFSC CT Online
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