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Return to Top of PagePEACE & JUSTICE EVENTS SEATTLE AREA starting June 30, 2008
JUNE IS PRIDE MONTH - celebrate LESBIAN GAY BISEXUAL TRANSGENDER INTERSEX pride. On June 27, 1969, the New York City police raided the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar. For the first time in history, the patrons of the bar - many of whom were drag queens, young people of color - fought back, igniting days of rioting in Greenwich Village. Those riots, now referred to as The Stonewall Rebellion or The Stonewall Riots, are commemorated today in parades and festivals all over the world, usually in late June. They weren't the start of a GLBTI civil rights movement (it had been brewing for years with small, peaceful demonstrations) but they were the match that lit a fire for generations to come. Read first person accounts about the riots from people who were there and more http://www.workers.org/ww/1998/sylvia0702.html and http://www.stonewallvets.org/photos/NYCPD-mugshot.htm and http://www.glsenco.org/Resources/GLBT%20History/stonewall_r iots.htm and http://www.trikkx.com/history2.html, see Washington state proclamation at http://www.safeschoolscoalition.org/pride_proclaimation.pdf , info about parades and other events http://gaylife.about.com/od/gaypride/a/2008parade.htm
JUNE 30 - JULY 24 AND JULY 28 - AUG 21, 2 - 5 pm, Mon - Thurs, at Wing Luke Asian Museum, 719 South King Street, Seattle; YouthCAN SUMMER CULTURAL ARTS EXPERIENCE! The Wing Luke Asian Museum is accepting applications from youth ages 15-19 who want to participate. The Experience is an opportunity to channel your creative energy into designing an arts and cultural exhibit and take action on an ISSUE AFFECTING THE ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN COMMUNITY. The Academy offers a fun and safe space to explore individual ideas and identity, exercise creative talents, and develop community leadership skills within a group setting. Participating youth will: Meet New Friends; Design & Build an Exhibit; Earn Service Learning Hours; Contribute to our Community in Creative Ways. Fields trips, opportunities to create original art, and community service throughout the sessions will give participating youth new insights into how to be both an artist and a leader within our dynamic community! Applications are due on Weds June 3. Download an application from http://www.wingluke.org/youthcan/summer.html, info Joshua Heim 206-623-5124 x 115 or jheim@wingluke.org or http://www.wingluke.org
JUNE 30 - JULY 3, 8 am - noon & 1 - 4:30 pm, at Seattle University; The 2008 Summer Institute: Multicultural Education "ANTI-RACISM EDUCATION: Critical Pedagogy in Action." 3 Graduate or 3 Continuing Education credits. Instructor Pamela A. Taylor, Ph.D. taylorpa@seattleu.edu, Featured Presenter G. Pritchy Smith, Ed.D. The challenges posed by anti-racism education will be considered through a critical examination of both the theory and practice of what anti-racism education entails and the strategies for its implementation. The theory and practice of anti-racism education is a proactive, process-oriented approach to helping teachers and students negotiate and gain insight into the racial and ethno cultural differences they may bring to the classroom. This course will provide a basic introduction to the historical, social, and philosophical tenets of anti-racism education. Target Audience: Educators, Principals, Not-for-Profit Organizations. Graduate Credit Fees: Master's $1,634, Doctor (EDLR) $1934, Continuing Education Fees $380. Coffee, Lunch, Lemonade, and Cookies Provided. info and to register: http://www.seattleu.edu/coe/ce/
**MON JUNE 30, and subsequent Mondays, noon - 1, on SCAN TV, Public Access cable TV , channel 29/77 in King County or streaming live at http://www.scantv.org Pirate TV CHALLENGES THE MEDIA BLOCKADE by bringing you access to people and information unavailable on the Corporate Sponsor-ship. This show: The fourth installment of the NW Winter Soldier hearings organized by the IRAQ VETERANS AGAINST THE WAR contains the last panel entitled: Breaking Ranks the Future of G.I. Resistance and opens with a video: "Voices of US War Resisters in Canada" followed by an update on recent events in Canada, commentary by Seth Manzel of the G.I. Voice Project, and Col. Ann Wright. Plus Dr. Norman Finkelstein on The Fake Controversy. The political scientist and dean of CRITICS OF ISRAELI FOREIGN POLICY gave this talk May 8th. Finkelstein was denied tenure at DePaul in June 2007, and placed on administrative leave for the 2007-2008 academic year. Last month Finkelstein was denied entry to Israel because, according to unnamed Israeli security officials, of suspicions that "he had contact with elements 'hostile' to Israel'. info Ed Mays http://www.edmaysproductions.net or 206-782-7605 or get on schedule list-serve via PirateTV@clearwire.net [updated 5/12//08]
**MON JUNE 30, 2 pm, at City Hall, Council Chambers, 601 Fifth Ave between Cherry and James Streets, downtown Seattle; info from Nick Licata: City Council will vote on changes that the Mayor has recently proposed changes to an important AFFORDABLE HOUSING PROGRAM that would greatly UNDERMINE ITS EFFECTIVENESS. This program, the Multi- Family Tax Exemption (MFTE) has helped produce 763 units of long-term, low-income housing since 2004. Should you wish to let Councilmembers know your thoughts about this bill you may speak at the public hearing at the start of Monday's meeting, or you may contact them at Tim.Burgess@seattle.gov, Sally.Clark@seattle.gov, Richard.Conlin@seattle.gov, Jan.Drago@seattle.gov, Jean.Godden@seattle.gov, Bruce.Harrell@seattle.gov, Nick.Licata@seattle.gov, Richard.McIver@seattle.gov, Tom.Rasmussen@seattle.gov Citizens are directed to the following website to complete a form to send an email to the Mayor's Office http://www.cityofseattle.net/mayor/citizen_response.htm, contact City Copuncil 206-684-8888
*MON JUNE 30, 7 - 8:30 p.m., at the Mandolin Café, 3923 S 12th St, Tacoma; Digging Deeper: 1st of 2 discussions (see also July 7) on Philip Bobbitt's TERROR AND CONSENT: The Wars for the Twenty-First Century (Alfred A. Knopf, 2008). Bobbitt is also the author of The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace, and the Course of History (Alfred A. Knopf, 2002). There is no charge for participation and sessions are open to the public. info http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/
**MON JUNE 30, and subsequent Mondays, 8 - 9 pm, on SCAN TV, Public Access cable TV , channel 29/77 in King County or streaming live at http://www.scantv.org Pirate TV CHALLENGES THE MEDIA BLOCKADE by bringing you access to people and information unavailable on the Corporate Sponsor-ship. This show Steven T. Wax on Kafka Comes to America. "OUR GOVERNMENT CAN MAKE YOU DISAPPEAR." Those were words Steven T. Wax never imagined he would hear himself say. In his thirty-four years as a lawyer, Wax didn't have to warn a client that he or she might be taken away to a military brig, or worse, a "black site," one of our country's dreaded secret prisons. So how had we come to this? The disappearance of people happens in places ruled by tyrants, military juntas, fascist strongmen- governments with such contempt for the rule of law that they strip their citizens of all rights. But in America? Steven T. Wax is in his seventh term as the Federal Public Defender for the District of Oregon. Wax and his team are representing seven men held as "enemy combatants" in Guantánamo. info Ed Mays http://www.edmaysproductions.net or 206-782-7605 or get on schedule list-serve via PirateTV@clearwire.net [updated 5/12//08]
JUNE 12, Loving Day is a day in June that we honor the Loving v. Virginia Decision of the Supreme court, a Civil Rights victory for the constitutional Right to Privacy decided on June 12, 1967. Richard and Mildred Loving tried to live in their home state of Virginia and were punished as criminals and thrown in jail. To get out of jail they had to move out of the State of Virginia. For many years they lived as exiles until their case was championed by the ACLU. Then on that date, all of the remaining STATE LAWS AGAINST INTERRACIAL MARRIAGE WERE STRUCK DOWN.
JUNE 19, Juneteenth has become a worldwide CELEBRATION OF THE END OF SLAVERY. It commemorates the 1865 emancipation of all the slaves in Texas by General Gordon Grange. African-American men, women and children who had remained enslaved for two and a half years after Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, because there weren't enough Union troops to enforce the order. It is a holiday that reminds us that laws and policies aren't enough without enforcement, that education and information saves lives, and that freedom is precious and hard to come by. Read more about Juneteenth at http://www.juneteenth.com/history.htm
THROUGH JUNE 30, DEATH WITH DIGNITY/ YES! on I-1000 campaign to advance compassionate end-of-life choices. More volunteers are needed throughout Washington state to help gather signatures of registered voters. Based on Oregon's Death with Dignity Act, this initiative would give mentally competent terminally ill patients the legal freedom to access life-ending medication with the voluntary choice to self-administer in their final days. To receive petitions and training, contact the campaign office at 206-633-2008, campaign@yeson1000.org, http://www.yeson1000.org
Updated on Sunday, June 29, 2008