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(event) Wheels of Justice Tour to Speak About Occupations of Iraq and Palestine Start: 9:00 pm End: 9:59 pm WHEELS OF JUSTICE TOUR TO VISIT PORTLAND AREA TO SPEAK ABOUT THE OCCUPATIONS OF IRAQ AND PALESTINE Eyewitness speakers will roll into Portland and Vancouver on a peace-painted, biodiesel bus to show and talk about the occupation of Iraq and Palestine as part of the Wheels of Justice Spring 2008 Tour. The public talks and bus open houses focus on nonviolent education, justice and human rights and will take place February 28 through March 2 at various colleges and churches in the area. The major public events will be 11 AM Friday, February 29 at Terry Schrunk Plaza (across from the Federal Building), 7 PM Saturday, March 1 at First Unitarian Church, and 9 AM Sunday, March 2 at Central Lutheran Church. The bus drives across the nation and the eyewitnesses share their accounts from Iraq and Palestine to challenge and educate Americans about the repercussions of war and occupation on people abroad and Americans at home. Having seen and lived with war, terror and occupation in Iraq and Palestine, the tour's featured speakers, Mazin Qumsiyeh and Mike Miles, say that justice and human rights are the only real roadmap for peace. They will offer firsthand experience irrespective of partisan politics. Qumiyeh is Palestinian American and former Professor of Genetics Yale University School of Medicine. He is author of the widely acclaimed book "Sharing the Land of Canaan: Human Rights and the Israeli-Palestinian Struggle" and appears in national media, interviews and print. Miles is a catholic worker and founder of Anathoth Community Farm, a center for the study of nonviolence, community, and sustainable living in Wisconsin. He holds a masters degree from North Park Seminary in Chicago and has been arrested numerous times while practicing active nonviolence over the past 25 years. He has spent time as a human rights observer in both Iraq and Palestine. The mobile peace center has made over a thousand stops at campuses, peace groups, and faith communities promoting non violent solutions to war and occupation. The public is invited to attend the following free speaking events and bus open houses in our region: Friday (Feb. 29): 11:00 am - 1:00 pm at Terry Schrunk Plaza, SW 3rd and Madison, Portland Women in Black vigil 503-288-8958 Saturday (Mar. 1): 7:00 - 9:00 pm at First Unitarian Church, 1011 SW 12th Ave, Portland, Public presentation 503-228-6389 Sunday (Mar. 2): 9:00-10:00 am speakers, 11:30 am-12:30 pm bus open house and refreshments, and 12:30-1:30 pm speakers at Central Lutheran Church, 1850 NE 21st, Portland, 503-284-2331 The Wheels of Justice bus will also be on the campuses of Clark College and Washington State University in Vancouver on Thursday (Feb. 28) and Reed College in Portland on Friday (Feb. 29). A Saturday (March 1) visit at Portland State University is also being planned. At some campuses the eyewitnesses will also be guest speakers at various classes. Nationally the tour is supported and hosted by a number of organizations including Fellowship of Reconciliation and Jews Against the Occupation. Local endorsers include Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, Americans United for Palestinian Human Rights, Peace and Justice Works Iraq Affinity Group, Friends of Sabeel - North America, and Lutherans for Justice in the Holy Land - A Ministry of Central Lutheran Church. For more information on the bus, see www.JusticeWheels.org. For local information call Women in Black at 503-288-8958 or visit the Peace and Justice Works website at http://www.pjw.info. (event) Art for Social Change Workshop Start: 11:00 am End: 4:00 pm Presented by Puppet Farm Arts of Minneapolis and the Backbone Campaign This workshop will focus on the use of spectacle imagery to communicate a message and attract earned media. We will demonstrate a variety of building techniques from inflatables, to backpack puppets, and more. During the music for demonstrations we'll teach multi-part rhythms, and instrument building. This will end with a rehearsal for manipulating the many icons to be deployed on March 4th. Join the Procession for the Future at PSU! Location TBA. (event) Procession for the Future Kick-Off Event Start: 11:00 am End: 10:00 pm Procession for the Future Kick-Off Event at PSU March 2, 3, & 4 Join the Backbone Campaign and its partners* for three days of activism, training and fun on the streets of Portland. Join us to excite, unify and celebrate a growing progressive movement for the future! Sunday, March 2: Arts for Social Change Workshop, 11 am – 4 pm Monday, March 3: Panel Discussion, 7 pm We the People - Building a Movement for the Future We Want*Featuring: Antonia Juhasz, Rev. Lennox Yearwood, David Cobb and more. Tuesday, March 4: Parade, Theme Park, Activist Trainings** Detailed Schedule coming soon! All locations TBA. The Backbone Campaign and our movement partners present the Procession for the Future, a creative organizing tool to inspire, educate and train youth and concerned citizens to be more effective activists in this crucial election year AND beyond. The Procession for the Future is a touring parade, using high production value art and spectacle to animate our aspirations and deliver a compelling progressive vision for the country. Following each Procession, these festival art pieces will transform into a theme park for education and activist training. Students and community members drawn by the creative imagery will be guided through a theme park for a progressive agenda, collecting a bird-dogging platform to hold candidates accountable to progressive policy priorities. Following the tour through these progressive issue stations participants will have the opportunity to attend free trainings on the most exciting tactics used by some of the nation's leading activist organizations. For more info contact: Brad Vehafric, ASPSU VP, vehafric@gmail.com. Partners - Organic Consumers Association, Corporate Accountability International, Ruckus Society, Puppet Farm Arts (event) [Repeat]Youth Led Peace March every Sunday 1:30 Start: 1:30 pm End: 2:30 pm The weekly peace march, open to all, is led and organized by a 13 year old and has been going strong for a year. We meet at SE Taylor and 35 street (Sunnyside Environmental School playground).* (Note: no peace march on Sunday February 24,2008 due to PeaceJam at OSU that weekend) In the words of the organizer: I am a politically active 13 years old, turning 14 February. I began organizing weekly peace marches protesting the Iraq war and have continued to organize them since January 28th 2007. We have marched in the sun, in the pouring rain, in the wind and in hail. Nothing will stop the us from telling every one we pass that there are people dying every day. We have had up to 23 people on one march, and at least 300 honks. Cars, fire trucks, buses and police cars have all honked (or sounded sirens) in support. I have been trying to reach kids, like me, specifically because we need to make our voices heard. We will inherit this country and the planet, along with its rich, and sometimes great, sometimes dreadful, history. We can't let our international credibility be tarnished, dragged in the mud and ripped to shreds. We need to stand up for our credibility, for our brave men and women in uniform shipped off to a country on the other side of the planet and for the Iraqi people who have been slaughtered in the name of "Democracy" and "Freedom." If you would like to stand up and say "ENOUGH", if you would like to stand up for peace, then show up on Sundays. We meet at 1:30 behind Sunnyside Environmental School, on 35th and Taylor. The march goes on for about 45 minutes to an hour.

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