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Thursday,
May 26th, 7:00 pm
"Life After
Debt!" An Evening with Dennis Brutus
Discussing the Movement for Global Debt Cancellation |
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Life
After Debt!
An
Evening with
Dennis Brutus
Discussing
the Movement for
Global Debt Cancellation
“It is crucial
for us to up the ante against
the system we might term global apartheid.
The World Bank is at the nerve center of that system,
and will now become a 'War Bank.'”
-- D. Brutus
- In Person! -
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Dennis
Brutus has long been involved in the South African freedom
movement. He was almost single-handedly responsible
for the successful sports boycott of South Africa. Beaten
and shot by the regime, he was sentenced to hard labor
on Robben Island where he broke rocks with Nelson Mandela.
He was sent into exile in 1966 and after a long legal
struggle, came to the US as a political refugee. He
has recently been focusing on the injustices of the
IMF and World Bank policies in Third World countries.
Dennis
Brutus is a South African poet, activist and Professor
Emeritus in the Dept. of Africana Studies at the University
of Pittsburgh.
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Thursday,
May 26th, 7:00 PM
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RECEPTION:
6:30 pm
TALK:
7:00 pm
Suggested
Donation: $5-$15
Students are FREE!
(no one turned away for lack of funds)
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For
more information, contact:
South Bay Mobilization: (408) 998-8504
Americans
Uniting America: (408) 608-5084
Presented
by:
Americans Uniting America, Priority Africa Network,
Bay Area Jubilee Debt Cancellation Coalition,
and South Bay Mobilization
Dennis
Brutus was born in Rhodesia now Zimbabwe in 1924
but was raised in South Africa. He became active
in opposing South Africa's and Rhodesia's participation
in the Olympic games and was successful in having
the two nations banned from Olympic sport for forty
two years. Because of his political activities,
he was jailed on Robben Island for eighteen months
where he underwent torture and was forced to break
stones with Nelson Mandela.
He
went to England and then settled in the U.S. In
1987 Brutus became the first non African American
to receive the Langston Hughes Award and was later
honored with the first Paul Robeson Award in 1989
for artistic excellence, political consciousness
and integrity. He is also the founder of the African
Literature Association and co-founder of the Union
of Writers of African Descent along with Chinua
Achebe and Wole Soyinka.
Brutus
is the author of twelve books of poetry and has
recently published a new work, Leafdrift. He is
professor Emeritus of the Africana Studies Department
at the University of Pittsburgh and spends his time
writing poetry and opposing the policies of the
International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and
the World Trade Organization. |
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Tuesday,
May 24th, 7:00 pm
"Other Lands
Have Dreams: From Baghdad to Pekin Prison"
An Evening With Kathy Kelly |
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Supporting
Our Real Heroes Series
"Other
Lands Have Dreams:
From Baghdad to Pekin Prison"
Kathy Kelly established Voices in the Wilderness
in 1996, which has delivered more than $1 million
worth of medicines for Iraqi hospitals and other
humanitarian purposes.
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In Person! -
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An
evening with...
Kathy Kelly
Other
Lands Have Dreams: From Baghdad to Pekin Prison
is three-time Nobel Peace Prize nominee Kathy Kelly's
gripping account of her time in Iraq, from the first
Gulf War, through the misery of 12 years of sanctions
to the U.S. invasion that began with Operation Shock
and Awe and continues with the bloody occupation.
Kelly,
a founder of Voices in the Wilderness, returned to
the US to face a federal prison sentence for protesting
at the School of the Americas, the torture and assassin
training-ground at Ft. Benning, Georgia. From her
cell, Kelly recounts in vivid and harrowing detail
the miserable conditions in U.S. prisons, where young
mothers are sealed away in the name of the merciless
war on drugs.
A stunning book by a true American hero. |
Tuesday,
May 24th, 7:00 PM
First
Unitarian Church
160 N. Third St.
San José, CA
(Wheelchair
accessible)
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RECEPTION:
6:00 pm
Reception & Talk: $25-$50
Ticket required for Reception.
Reception Ticket includes Talk.
(must buy ticket by 5/22/05) |
TALK:
7:00 pm
Suggested
Donation: $5-$15
Students are FREE!
(no one turned away for lack of funds) |
Presented
by:
South Bay Mobilization (408) 998-8504
First
Unitarian Church Peace & Justice Committee
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Sunday,
May 1st, 2:00 pm
"Camilo Mejia:
The Real Heroes are War Resisters" |
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Supporting
Our Real Heroes Series
"The
Real Heroes Are War Resisters"
"Behind
these bars I sit a free man
because I listened to a higher power,
the voice of my conscience."
-- Camilo Mejia
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Come
Hear...
Camilo Mejia
On May 21, 2004, 28-year-old Sgt. Camilo
Mejia was sentenced to one year in prison for refusing
to return to fight in Iraq. Camilo spent six months
in combat in Iraq, then returned for a 2-week furlough
to the US. During that time he reflected on what he
had seen, including the abuse of prisoners and the
killing of civilians. He concluded that the war was
illegal and immoral, and decided that he would not
return. In March, 2004 he turned himself in to the
US military and filed an application for conscientious
objector status.
www.freecamilo.org
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"By
putting my weapon down,
I chose to reassert myself as a human being."
-- Camilo Mejia
Music
by Annie & the Vets!
Sunday,
May 1st, 2:00 PM
St.
Paul's United Methodist Church
405 South Tenth St
San Jose
(Wheelchair
accessible)
Suggested
Donation: $5 - $15 Sliding Scale
(Students FREE! No one turned away for lack of funds)
Event
Sponsored by:
Veterans for Peace / South Bay Mobilization
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