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Subject: Upcoming Connecticut Social Justice Events
American Friends Service Committee Connecticut
In This Issue: April 13 2009
• April 16: David Rovics Benefit Concert for Gaza
• April 25: CTSAW 2009 CONFERENCE EXPANDING THE ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT AND BUILDING STUDENT ACTIVIST SOLIDARITY
• April 16: From Bracero to Guest-Worker? A public forum on the struggle for immigrant rights.
• April 18: Sister Helen Prejean on Religious Organizing Program and the Death Penalty
April 16: David Rovics Benefit Concert for Gaza
Concert for Gaza
There will be a concert to benefit humanitarian relief in Gaza at the First Congregational Church of Old Lyme, 2 Ferry Rd., Old Lyme, CT 06371, on Thursday, April 16th from7:00-9:00 pm, featuring David Rovics and special guest Shawnee Kilgore.
A $15.00 donation will be collected at the door
All ticket sales will benefit Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA) (http://www.mecaforpeace.org) and Islamic Relief (http://www.irw.org)
For more information, e-mail us at concertforgaza at gmail.com
or call us at 860-303-3013
April 16: From Bracero to Guest-Worker? A public forum on the struggle for immigrant rights.
From Bracero to Guest-Worker? A public forum on the struggle for immigrant rights.
Thursday, April 16
7 PM
McCook Auditorium
Trinity College, Hartford CT
Felipe Muñoz Pavón was one of 4.6 million Mexican laborers imported to the U.S. in the Bracero Program from 1941-64. Felipe worked as a bracero in 1944, 1945 and 1963 and is co-founder of the National Assembly of Ex-Braceros. He will speak about the relevance of the Bracero program to the current immigration debate. He lives in Tlaxcala, Mexico.
Jorge Mujica is a principal organizer of the national immigrant rights movement and spokesman for the March 10th Coalition of Chicago, which drew more than 1 million people into the streets on May 1, 2006 marching to defeat a punitive immigration bill in Congress. A former journalist and union organizer, Mujica has worked for La Raza, Univision, and Telemundo.
Sponsored by Stop the Raids of Trinity College, American Friends Service Cmte, Hispanic Studies Dept, Office of Multicultural Affairs, International Studies Dept, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at UConn, Trinity Center for Urban and Global Studies, American Studies Dept, Trinfo Café, La Voz Latina, Asian American Student Association.
For information:
Sandra.Gonzalez at trincoll.edu or860-538-3920.
April 18: Sister Helen Prejean on Religious Organizing Program and the Death Penalty
Religious Organizing Program on the Death Penalty
Keynote Speaker – Sister Helen Prejean,
Author of “Dead Man Walking,” and “The Death of Innocents.”
Where: St. Joseph College, West Hartford
Learn how the religious community in Connecticut can organize and work to abolish the death penalty. Grassroots organizing is the key to abolition, and your faith community can play an important part of this process.
The goal of this program is to provide you with the tools you need to inform and mobilize your community so that you can support the work of the CNADP to educate and lobby at the Capitol.
Our Keynote Speaker, Nobel Peace Prize nominee, Sister Helen Prejean, will talk about her own experiences working to end the death penalty and will share with you her own strategies for reaching out to people of faith.
Following her talk, there will be a series of workshops organized by faith community to provide specific information and allow further discussion of the death penalty in Connecticut and what grassroots organizing looks like and what it can accomplish.
Lunch will be provided and admission is free. Informational and organizing materials will be distributed to each participant.
To insure that we have sufficient space and materials, please RSVP by April 1, 2009.
For more information, please contact:
Robert Nave – robertnave at cnadp.org or call him at 203.206.9854.
www.cnadp.org
http://www.cnadp.org
April 25: CTSAW 2009 CONFERENCE EXPANDING THE ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT AND BUILDING STUDENT ACTIVIST SOLIDARITY
On October 9th to 11th, students on several campuses demonstrated against the war and occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan. Major events occurred at Central Connecticut State University, Trinity College, and the University of Connecticut, forming the largest collective student actions in state since the invasion. Students followed up these demonstrations by bringing youth and energy to the December 7th Need Money? End the War! March at the Capitol Building in Hartford.
Join these student leaders and activists at the 2009 CT Students Against the War Conference on April 25th at Wesleyan University in Middletown and help to build a new student movement in Connecticut and nationally. The 2009 CTSAW conference will put students in the driving seat in calling for future actions against the war, for economic and social justice, and against the many other problems that face us today or in the future. This is the founding conference of Connecticut Students Against the War, and it will become the starting point of many future actions. Students will have a chance to build the future of the Anti-War movement in developing a new period of democratic leadership and direct democratic participation. In a free, open, one voice-one vote fashion, students will declare a new shift in movement politics and become a strong force for change and progress in the movement.
The Conference Features:
Opening Session
Jason Ortiz - Welcome
John Olsen - President of CT AFL-CIO Mebmer of US Labor Against the War (USLAW)
Reportback on March 21st and Anniversary Actions, Our Spring Break, and April 4th Actions
Five Issue Panels - More Details
These panels will update students on developments in politics and will each individually develop point by point resolutions to later be developed and passed by the whole conference. Panel topics include:
The Occupation of Iraq
The Occupation in Afghanistan and the Expansion of the War on Terror
The Occupation of Palestine - The Crisis in Gaza
The Economic Crisis - The War at Home
US Backed Military Actions
Open Workshops:
These are workshops designed to develop skills, solidarity, and open political discussion in an aim to lighten the day’s serious political work. They include:
A History of Radical Art - Christopher Hutchinson
Direct Action - Matt SDS
The War & Occupation at Home: Solidarity with People in CT’s cities - Frank O’Gorman
We are All Immigrants: National Policy and Local Actions - A Panel with several CT Activists
-and more to come-
Plenary Session
In the plenary session, we will discuss and vote on the proposals developed during the issue panels. We will also entertain outside proposals that have been submitted to the group. We will vote on and adopt our Future Action Plan derived from the Unifying Proposals. We will also nominate and elect a steering committee which will be respnsible for continuing the business of the coalition and organizing the Future Action Plan. This will provide students with a democratic voice in the movement that will inspire and grow the Anti-War movement.
Food will be provided. The conference will be followed by an after party hosted by Wesleyan SDS.
Endorsers of the 2009 Conference: Iraq Veterans Against the War � CT Chapter, CCSU Progressive Student Alliance, CCSU Youth for Socialist Action, Wesleyan SDS, People of Faith � CT, WCSU Youth for Justice, Danbury Food Not Bombs, Socialist Party � CT, ANSWER - CT, Progressive Action Committee UCONN SSW, Connecticut College Left (CCLeft -SDS), National Lawyers Guild - CT, West Hartford Citizens for Peace and Justice (WHCPJ), American Friends Service Committee - CT, International Socialist Organization - New Haven, New Britain Food Not Bombs
Schedule
8:30AM Breakfast and Registrations
9:30AM to 10:30AM Opening Session
10:30 - 12:00 Issue + Proposal Building Panels
12:15 - 1:00PM Lunch + Break
There will be a hip hop performance by Chizzie Johnson and Zee Santiago during the lunch break
1:00 to 2:15 Open Workshop period
2:15 to 2:30 Break
2:30- 4:00PM Plenary Session
There is a possiblity of adding an action in to the end of the schedule, depending upon the length of the Plenary Session.
The conference will be followed up by an after party hosted by Wesleyan SDS. Details will be released when they are available.
Panels and Panelists
This list is of confirmed panelists, several others are pending. We still need help with Afghanistan, Iran/Pakistan, and US Backed Military Actions. Please contact us if you are interested.
Iraq
Jeff Bartos – IVAW-CT
Tristan Husby – CCLeft
Dr. Kathryn Libal - UCONN
James Circello - ANSWER Veterans and Service Members Task Force
Afghanistan and Future Wars in the Expansion of the conflict
Afghanistan
Chris Ghros - IVAW-CT
Chris Garraffa - ANSWER
The Occupation of Palestine / The Crisis in Gaza
Dr. Saeed Ahghari - CT Socialist Action
Stan Heller - MECC
Emad – QVCC
Dan Piper – CTUP
US Foreign Interventions - (US supported/guided economic and military actions - indirect conflicts)
Professor Scott Harding - UCONN
The War at Home: The Economic Crisis
Peter Goselin – People's Bailout CT
Jason Ortiz – Idealists United at UCONN
John Olsen - CT AFL-CIO and USLAW
http://cutsaw.pcriot.com/conference.html
American Friends Service Committee
Connecticut Area Office
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Hartford, CT 06106
Phone: 860.523.1534
Fax: 860.523.1705
Email: connecticut at afsc.org Visit AFSC CT Online
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