6-10am @ 310 S. Ashley Second Ward Public Bldg.
Progressive memorial to september eleven.
Breakfast discussion. Begin 8am, before workers first shift, 24 hours,
the day before tragedy. workers and
middle people are the ones most hurt in war. What happened september 11,
and what can we learn?
If we had 24 hours, figuratively, before calamity, what would we do? Paul
Spence, local carpenter will speak, and others.
Remembrance, Reconciliation andPeace
Ann Arbor Ad Hoc Committee for Peace
Candlelight vigil for remembrance, reconciliation and peace. more info...
BLUE
GOLD:
Great Lakes Diversions and Water
as a common good
Blue Gold: Water commodification and Great Lakes Water Security. A Discussion with Maude Barlow about The World Conference on Sustainable Development - Maude has just returned from Johannesburg . (link to Blue Gold publication).
Blue
Gold: Water commodification and Great Lakes Water Security. A Discussion
with Maude
Barlow (link
to Blue Gold publication)about Perriers incursion in to Mecosta County.
Download
Flyer.
Inter-Cooperative Council - ICC
Brown bag lunch and discussion of how cooperatives in your community can shape the economy.
Interfaith Council for Peace and Justice (ICPJ)
Nonviolence workshop in preparation for the upcoming demonstrations at the Perrier Plant in Mecosta County and in Washington DC. Call Monica to register 332.8006
Workshop on Detroit Summer, a land reclamation project in Detroit started by the Boggs Center.
AA Human Chain for Peace @ Jeruselam Garden: Join AA Peace activists in creating a human chain around the Federal Building.
Ice Mountain/Perrier Picket/Rally w/Sweetwater Alliance
This will be the second time community activists will gather to protest permits given to Perrier allowing them to pump Great Lakes water and sell it outside the Great Lakes Basin. To top it off Michigan taxpayers gave Perrier $9.6 million dollars to do this and they are paying nothing besides the cost of the land for the water they are pumping.
Please e-mail Ann Arbor Mobilization for Global Justice to arrange for carpool - aamgj@umich.edu
Womens Int'l League for Peace and Freedom
Peace Concert celebrating peace initiatives in the Ann Arbor Community with: Maruga - the Global Villiage Ceremonial Band, The Beatnick Hippies, The Long Hairs Collective, Sacred Song and various other poets and musicians!!
Ann Arbor Mobilization for Global Justice (AAMGJ)
Anarchist Soccer Game: Regional game - Ann Arbor vs. Kalamazoo vs. Detroit.
12-2 pm @ the U of M DIAG
Ann Arbor Mobilization for Global Justice (AAMGJ)
Digital projector showing of "Another World is Possible" and "This is Democracy Looks Like." Leafletting.
Socially Konsious Info Theatre Troupe (SKITT ) - Guerilla & Forum Theatre
Theatre of the Oppressed workshop: Learn theatre techniques used at various demonstrations and practice up for the WB/IMF protests at the end of the month!Radical Cheerleaders of Detroit
Radical Cheerleading workshop - learn radical cheers from demonstrations all over US & Canada on the WTO, WB & IMF.
Program on Corporations Law & Democracy - POCLAD
Dinner/Potluck: Thirteen activists who have spent the last several years researching corporate, labor and legal histories, rethinking our past organizing strategies and talking with people about democracy movements. We work in the tradition of people's struggles to replace illegitimate and tyrannical institutions with democratic ones that disperse, rather than concentrate, wealth and power.
Ann Arbor Mobilization for Global Justice (AAMGJ)
Creating Solidarity: Panel discussion about Linking Students, Labor and Community. Speakers from Labor Notes, Jobs With Justice, POCLAD, Students Organized for Labor & Economic Equality, United Students Against Sweatshops, Graduate Employees Union.
7-10 pm @ Wedge Room, West Quad
Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC), Muslim Students Association (MSA), and Students Allied for Freedom and Equality (SAFE)
7 pm - Viewing of
BBC documentary on the massacre, "The Accused"
8 pm - Prayer, break, refreshments
8:15 pm - Speaker to lecture on Israeli war on Lebanon,
and massacre. Humanitarian worker who was present at the time will give
a short reflection of the site at ground zero, and the utter destruction
and devastation.
8:45 pm Viewing of award-winning Mai Masri film, "Frontiers
of Dreams and Fears"
9:45 pm - Reflection on tragedy, the status of Palestinian
refugees today, and the bond that bridges all humanity together.
School of Americas (SOA) & Globalization:
How the US Trains the Latin
American Enforcers of Corporate Globalization. Film clips about the SOA,
sweatshops, debt, etc.
and have time for discussion. Call 663-1870 for more info.
50 Years is Enough & Jubilee USA
End Corporate Rule:
Global Struggles Against the IMF & World Bank
A Teach-In Tour on the Impact of -- and the
Resistance to -- the IMF, World Bank, & Corporate Domination
Detroit Teach-In and speakout on Global
Justice: Facilitated by Professor Mike Whitty at The Greenhouse in Ferndale
at this symposia a Call for a 2003 World Peace Convention in Detroit will
be discussed .....call Mike Whitty at 248 594 7596 for directions and
details.
Women's Int'l League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF)
Ian Robinson & Jackie Cabasso: The Connection between Globalization and Militarization - lecture illustrating the necessary connection between corporate globalization, the military and paramilitary that corporations use to protect their interests. The Dirty Dozen
Ann Arbor Ad Hoc Committee for Peace and American Friends Service Committee
Working for Peace: WAR is not inevitable. 761-8283 for more info.
Michigan Coalition for Human Rights & Jubilee USA
Sister Susan Rakoczy I.H.M. will be speaking about "The Human Face of AIDS: Women and Children of South Africa"
Association for India’s Development (AID)
Neoliberalization: A case from the
Third World. Sangeeta
Kamat , author of "Development Hegemony: NGOs and the State in
India"
and professor of Educational Policy at the University of Massachusetts
- Amherst will be speaking on how policy decisions in the United States
affect
people in the third world.
Association for India’s Development (AID)
Global Struggles and Local Activism:
Members of the Ann Arbor chapter of the Association for India‚s
Developmen(AID)
will be discussing AID‚s work in India and its relevance to the
local community.
Association for India’s Development (AID)
Globalized India:
This panel discussion will center around the social, economic, and political
impact of globalization in India today. Panelists include Sangeeta
Kamat, Rohini
Somanathan, and Irfan
Nooruddin.
The “Access to Essential Medicines
EXPO” Exhibit:
An interactive exhibit housed in a 48-foot tractor-trailer. Using photographs
and multimedia, the exhibit highlights the need for more research and
development into treatments for diseases that affect the world’s
poor.
Judy Gorman - History of Women and Music: Reclaiming our voices lecture.
Peoples Progressive Network (PPN) & Voices in the Wilderness (VITW)
"The Cost of War." U-M
psychology professor Bill Thomson, who has traveled
several times to Iraq and Palestine, will speak on the
devastating impact of US policy on Iraq. Kathy
Kelly will be speaking from VITW.
AA Critical Mass
Bikes as Politics: a workshop by AA Critical Mass. Come and learn what rights AA Critical Mass is fighting for. Participate in a critical mass bikeride later this month.
Ann Arbor Mobilization for Global Justice (AAMGJ)
Art and social revolution & DIY Art Show by Holly Wren and Jessica Raye. Learn Do it Yourself (DIY) methods and participate in puppet making for the IMF/WB demonstrations.
The “Access to Essential Medicines
EXPO” Exhibit:
An interactive exhibit housed in a 48-foot tractor-trailer. Using photographs
and multimedia, the exhibit highlights the need for more research and
development into treatments for diseases that affect the world’s
poor.
AA Human Chain for Peace @ Jeruselam Garden: Join AA Peace activists in creating a human chain around the Federal Building.
Organic Consumers Association (OCA)
Direct Action @ Starbucks on Main St. For the past 18 months, thousands of activists in the US, Canada, New Zealand, Israel and England have protested and leafleted outside of 800 Starbucks cafes and demanded that the company remove GE ingredients from their food and dairy products and brew and seriously promote fair trade coffee in all of their cafes. Starbucks is definitely feeling the pressure and the company has already agreed to some our demands! With continued pressure, we can ensure they will offer safe food for their customers and a living wage to poverty stricken coffee growers.
National Organization for Women (NOW)
Workshop on Wal-Mart campaign with Beverly Fish & Mike Stout.
UofM Student Greens & AAMGJ
Concert with the Rebel Grrls from the Neutral Zone and Judy Gormand.
The “Access to Essential Medicines
EXPO” Exhibit:
An interactive exhibit housed in a 48-foot tractor-trailer. Using photographs
and multimedia, the exhibit highlights the need for more research and
development into treatments for diseases that affect the world’s
poor.
Critical Mass bike rides occur the last Friday of every month. This particular Friday is the 10th Anniversary of Critical Mass in San Fransisco. Join us!
2-4 pm @ Wal-Mart on 2535 Ellsworth Rd. in Ypsi Township
1:15 to carpool from ICPJ
(730 Tappan, off Hill)
Interfaith Council for Peace and Justice
Anti-Wal-Mart Rally:
People can get there on their own, or meet at ICPJ
(730 Tappan, off Hill) at 1:15 to carpool. A product of the Wall-Mart
Discussion from the 21rst.
Mobilization for Global Justice
Sept 21-22: People's
Summit--Education and cultural events for local DC communities
Sept 25-29: Organizers and activists CONVERGE. Trainings,
teach-ins, coordination for Fall and beyond
Sept 25-27: End
Corporate Rule Teach-In: Global Struggles Against the IMF & World
Bank
Sept. 25-27: CEO Summit, Ritz Carlton Hotel
Sept. 26: Power for the People / Clean Energy Rally (day)
Interfaith Vigil (evening)
Sept. 27: Anti-Capitalist
Convergence Action
Sept. 28-29: IMF & World Bank Group Annual meetings
Sept. 28: Mobilization for Global
Justice Rally&March (day) QUARANTINE ACTIONS! (evening)
The demands of the Mobilization for Global Justice envision another world where the World Bank and IMF are open to scrutiny, poor countries are debt-free, the Bank and IMF policies no longer hinder access to basic human needs and rights and an end to socially and environmentally destructive policies. Read the full demands or endorse the demands of the Mobilization.