Community Calendar, 2003

7-9pm,
Globalization Series:
Commanding Heights - The Battle for the World Economy Episode Three: The New Rules of the Game (part 1),
First Unitarian Church of San Jose

Sunday, September 28th, 12 Noon
End the Occupation!

[ Full page flyer, 291 KB ]

Sunday, Sept. 28th, San Francisco No to Colonialism in Iraq, Palestine, and everywhere Bring the Troops Home Now! 12 Noon Gather at Dolores Park (19th & Dolores St, 16th St. Bart) 1 pm March 2 pm Rally at Civic Center (Grove & Larkin, Civic Center Bart) Bus & Car Pooling to San Francisco Meet 10:30 am at County Parking Lot across from 70 West Hedding St, San Jose

Buy Your Bus Tickets in Advance ($10 each):
Call SBM at (408) 998-8504, or
Buy Your Bus Tickets now on-line using Pay Pal...

The people of Iraq, Palestine, Afghanistan, Philippines and Colombia continue to resist empire and colonial rule.

Bush built his case for war against Iraq on a foundation of lies and racism. Now, Iraqi people and U.S. soldiers are dying daily. While millions are jobless, with education, healthcare, and children in crisis, the Pentagon is spending $150 million/day on the occupation of Iraq! This year the U.S. is sending more than $10 billion to Israel - while an Israeli Apartheid Wall is institutionalizing colonial Bantustans and imprisoning an entire population with our money. The Pentagon is fighting in Afghanistan, the Philippines
and Colombia, and threatening new wars against Korea, Syria, and Cuba. "Regime Change" is being proposed for Iran and Zimbabwe.

It seems there is never enough money to meet human needs, but no shortage of funds for war and the propagation of hate.

With every military occupation, resistance mounts - and working people in the U.S. end up paying the price. As we are pitted against the people of the world, we pay with our lives and taxes. Not every one is suffering of course: Bechtel, Halliburton, Big Oil and military contractors stand to make billions from colonizing Iraq. How many children of politicians or corporate executives are fighting in Iraq? While pretending to “support the troops,” Bush and Congress are slashing veterans’ benefits. Secure in the White House, Bush proclaimed “bring ‘em on,” inviting Iraqi resistance fighters to U.S. troops. We say, “Bring the Troops
Home Now!”

Sept. 25-28, people around the world will join in International Days of Protest Against War,
Occupation and Empire on the third anniversary of the Palestinian Intifada (uprising). Join us.

Protest initiated by International A.N.S.W.E.R. Coalition

www.southbaymobilization.org
For more information, call (408) 998-8504
Educate, Involve & Mobilize for Peace & Justice

Thursday, September 25th, 7:00 pm - Double Feature !
"We Interrupt this Empire", and "Shut Down Downtown Fogtown"

[ Half page flyer, 225 KB ]

[ More information on these films from www.videoactivism.org... ]

Location:
Hattie Porter Hall, First Unitarian Church
160 N. 3rd St. in Downtown San Jose
Suggested Donation: $5.00

We Interrupt This Empire…
Dirs: The San Francisco Video Activist Network
2003, 52 minutes, video, color, English

What happens when a trigger-happy cowboy with a pocket full of loot aims his guns on an oil-rich, people-poor nation? The San Francisco Bay Area Video Activist Network presents the story you won't see on Fox News: an eye-popping, jaw-dropping look at the Bay Area's radical resistance to an illegal war.

"We Interrupt This Empire..." is a collaborative work by many of the Bay Area's independent video activists which documents the direct actions that shut down the financial district of San Francisco in the weeks following the United States' invasion of Iraq. With the audio backdrop including live broadcasts of Enemy Combatant Radio from the SF Independent Media, the documentary takes a look at the diverse show of resistance from the streets of San Francisco as well as providing a critique of the corporate media coverage of the war and exploring such issues as the Military Industrial Complex, attack on civil liberties, and the United States' current imperialist drive.

The Video Activist Network is an informal association of activists and politically conscious artists using video to support social, economic and environmental justice campaigns.

Contact Information:
Whispered Media
Call: (415) 789-8484
or contact them at these email addresses:
info@videoactivism.org
wm@whisperedmedia.org

http://www.videoactivism.org

Shut Down Downtown Fogtown
2003, 87 minutes, video, color, English

Getting tired of the "embedded" perspective of corporate owned media and the thin gruel that is served up as "news" by the like's of our local news mannequins? Shut Down Downtown Fogtown is a 87 minute compilation of short videos that were produced during the United States' invasion of Iraq. Many of them were screened at the free outdoor screenings at Dolores Park in San Francisco while the massive anti-war protests and disruptions were ongoing in the streets.

Intro to Independent Media from Subcommandante Marcos of the Zapatistas
Trailer for Politics of Fear (Crazy Jeff Taylor)
M14 Pacific Stock Exchange (Whispered Media)
M20 Dialogues from the Street (Whispered Media)
M20 The War Stops Here… And So Do You (Passionbomb Motion Pictures)
M20 Police Family Values (Camera by Jay Finneburgh)
War Signs (Erik Waterman)
M20 Stay Strong, War’s Wrong (Crazy Jeff Taylor)
M20 Bechtel Action (Whispered Media)
M20 Bikes Not Bombs (Jason Meggs)
M27 Shock and Awe: Bring The Gore Home (Passionbomb Motion Pictures)
M28 Corporate Media Is Not the News / Critical Mass(Whispered Media)
Take It To The Bridge (1991-2003) (Agitspin Productions)
Iraq Campaign 1991 (Phil Patiris)

Contact Information:
Whispered Media
Call: (415) 789-8484
or contact them at these email addresses:
info@videoactivism.org
wm@whisperedmedia.org

http://www.videoactivism.org

Wednesday, September 24th, 7:00pm-9:00pm
Silicon Valley for Civil Rights, General Meeting

It's no secret that since September 11th, the federal government has engaged in a massive crackdown on civil liberties. Muslims, Arabs, and South-Asians have been rounded up for interrogations, detentions, and deportations. FBI agents have been authorized to spy on political and religious gatherings. And the Patriot Act threatens all of us with its provisions for expanded surveillance and invasions of privacy.

178 cities and counties nationwide have passed resolutions opposed to the Patriot Act and this crackdown on civil liberties. With the Bush Administration about to introduce "PATRIOT Act II", it is important for Congress to know that there is local opposition. That is why it is critical that Santa Clara County take a stand for civil liberties and pass a resolution against the PATRIOT Act.

Location:
South Bay Mobilization
2nd Floor Conference Room
480 North First St, in downtown San Jose

Tuesday, September 23rd
San Jose City Council Passes
Resolution Against the PATRIOT Act

Anti-Patriot Act Resolution
Passes in San Jose!

On September 23rd, 2003, the San Jose City Council voted 8-1 to pass a Resolution Against the PATRIOT Act, affirming its strong support for fundamental civil liberties.

The driving force behind the resolution was a coalition called Silicon Valley for Civil Rights. Congratulations to Silicon Valley for Civil Rights, the South Bay Mobilization, and all the other member organizations and individuals for all their hard work to make this happen! We also want to thank the San Jose City Council for taking a stand for civil liberties and against the PATRIOT Act!

[ See the actual resolution that was passed here... ]

"I am very happy today," said Samina Faheem, Executive Director of American Muslim Voice, and member of Silicon Valley For Civil Rights. "This is the Miracle I have been talking about. I truly believe that our fellow Americans are open minded, kind, generous and fair people..."

For more information, call:
South Bay Mobilization at: (408) 998-8504

Wednesday-Sunday, September 10th-14th
Support Mexican Farmers Protest the WTO in Cancun, Mexico!

Help Peasant Farmers Get to Cancún for the WTO Protests!

Do you want to go to Cancún to protest the WTO? Send your representative instead!

-- UPDATE: THE WTO HAS COLLAPSED !! --

NOTE: Thanks to your support, the South Bay Mobilization and you have sent more than 130 Mexican farmers to protest the WTO in Cancún!

The farmers, peasants and indigenous people of UNORCA will protest on your behalf. South Bay Mobilization will send 132 people to participate in the WTO protest in Cancún, Mexico on Sept 10th with your help. Our goal is to send 3 buses (44 people per bus, 132 protesters) to the protest site on Sept. 10th, 2003. The cost of sending one person locally by bus is only $15. We need your donations by Sept 15th. The WTO Ministerial goes from Sept. 10th through the 14th in Cancún.

[ Download the WTO Cancún flyer here... ]

For more information on this project, visit this web site: www.foodfirst.org

www.southbaymobilization.org
For more information, call (408) 998-8504
Educate, Involve & Mobilize for Peace & Justice

Wednesday, September 10th, 4:30pm-6:00pm
Protest Lockheed Martin for Attacking Our Free Speech!

Protest Lockheed Martin for Attacking Our Free Speech

Wednesday, Sept. 10th at 4:30 - 6:00 PM
Lockheed Martin @ Mathilda & 3rd St., Sunnyvale

Bush is lying, GIs and Iraqi's are dying. American people are losing their jobs and healthcare, while Lockheed Martin profits. The CEO of Lockheed Martin's compensation from this illegal war increased by a factor of 5, from $5,000,000 in 2000 to $25,000,000 in 2003.

To add insult to injury, Lockheed Martin is now attacking our free speech. Working with the Santa Clara County District Attorney, Lockheed Martin seeks an unprecedented legal penalty: Restitution to reimburse them for $15,000. They're charging a small group of protesters, the Lockheed 52, for the cost of alleged "additional security" on April 22nd during a non-violent, peaceful protest and demonstration in Sunnyvale.

Come support the Lockheed 52, the protesters that Lockheed is charging for the cost of their so-called, "additional security". Protest appearances also will be made by Mrs. Dick Cheney and Lockheed Martin's mascot "Smarty Marty, the Intelligent Bomb", both are members of the talented Bay Area guerrilla theater group the Ronald Reagan Home for the Criminally Insane.

Join us and take a stand for what makes our country truly great -- our fundamental freedoms, our right to peaceful protest and free speech.

Bring your own signs, raise your voice again to make them hear:

Stop the War Profiteer's Attack on Free Speech!

Location:
Mathilda Ave. and 3rd St,
Sunnyvale, CA

For more information on the Lockheed 52, Lockheed Martin, and Lockheed's attack on free speech, visit this web site: www.stoplockheed.org

Read a related press release about Mrs. Dick Cheney's (former board member of Lockheed Martin) visit to Mountain View on 9/6/03 (Real Wired SBM News)

www.southbaymobilization.org
For more information, call (408) 998-8504
Educate, Involve & Mobilize for Peace & Justice

Friday, September 5th, 7:30pm
Movie Night: "1953 CIA Coup in Iran"

Friday, Sept. 5th at 7:30 pm
First Unitarian Church
160 North 3rd St., San Jose

We will be showing two documentaries, one made in the US, and the other by the British. Come and see for yourself how the US and British Foreign Policy in Middle East conspired to destroy democracy in Iran for oil, resulting in 50 years of dictatorship in Iran.

For more Information, call 408-998-8855
Check www.DemocracyforIran.org

Working Together for Democracy in Iran
No to Foreign Intervention
No to Theocracy

"For nearly five decades, America's role in the military coup that ousted Iran's elected prime minister and returned the shah to power has been lost to history, the subject of fierce debate in Iran and stony silence in the United States. One by one, participants have retired or died without revealing key details, and the Central Intelligence Agency said a number of records of the operation — its first successful overthrow of a foreign government — had been destroyed. But a copy of the agency's secret history of the coup has surfaced, revealing the inner workings of a plot that set the stage for the Islamic revolution in 1979, and for a generation of anti-American hatred in one of the Middle East's most powerful countries. ... The operation, code-named TP-Ajax, was the blueprint for a succession of C.I.A. plots to foment coups and destabilize governments during the cold war — including the agency's successful coup in Guatemala in 1954 and the disastrous Cuban intervention known as the Bay of Pigs in 1961. In more than one instance, such operations led to the same kind of long-term animosity toward the United States that occurred in Iran." ...

"... The Shah requires special preparation. By nature, a creature of indecision, beset by formless doubts and fears, he must be induced to play this role..." TP-AJAX Plan of the CIA. Corbis/ Bettmann The Shah of Iran and his wife, the Empress Soraya, arrive at Rome airport from Bagdad August 18, 1953 after the unsuccessful royalist attempt to oust Premier Mohammed Mossadegh.

"The secret history, along with operational assessments written by coup planners, was provided to The Times by a former official who kept a copy.

It was written in March 1954 by Dr. Donald N. Wilber, an expert in Persian architecture, who as one of the leading planners believed that covert operatives had much to learn from history." [ Read the complete details on the New York Times web site ]

- Read the CIA secret document describing Project "TP-AJAX", the CIA's actual plan to overthrow the democratically elected government of Iran (written in 1954).

50th Anniversary of the CIA Coup that Overthrew the Democratically Elected leader of Iran, Prime Minister Dr. Mohammed Mossadegh

Related Articles:

The Associated Press, 1953 Dr. Mohammed Mossadegh was democratically elected Prime Minister of Iran in March, 1951.

On August 15th, 1953, the CIA Implemented a Coup, Overthrowing the Democratically Elected Leader of Iran, Prime Minister Dr. Mohammed Mossadegh.

The Associated Press, 1953 Former Iranian Premier Mohammed Mossadegh is helped along as he entered court in Tehran November 8, 1953 where a military tribunal was trying him as a traitor.