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[Repeat]Washington County Weekly Peace Vigil

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 22:46:43 -0700

Start: Mar 17 2010 - 6:30pm

End: Mar 17 2010 - 7:30pm

Location: Beaverton, across from Libary on Hall Blvd between 4th and 5th.

Contact: washcopeace@yahoo.com

[Repeat]Pioneer Courthouse Square Protest - SW Portland

Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:57:30 -0700

Start: Mar 19 2010 - 5:00pm

End: Mar 19 2010 - 6:30pm

Every Friday.

Location: Pioneer Courthouse Square, SW Broadway and Morrison.

Organization: Portland Peaceful Response Coalition

Contact: (503) 344-5098

Website: http://www.pprc-news.org/

"Jornaleros" Documentary Premier by VOZ Workers' Rights Education Project

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 11:33:37 -0700

Start: Mar 25 2010 - 7:00pm

End: Mar 25 2010 - 9:00pm

Film Screening: Jornaleros

VOZ Workers’ Rights Education Project will be premiering their new documentary “Jornaleros.” Through music, poetry, and art, "Jornaleros" documents the lives and creative work of five Portland day laborers. The film humanizes the debates on immigration and immigrant labor in the US by showing these day laborers, first and foremost, as artists and activists in the community. The documentary will premier on March 25, 2010 at 7 PM at the Clinton Street Theatre located on 2522 SE Clinton Street. Tickets will be sold for $6 general admission/$5 Students/$4 Seniors and can be purchased at the theatre.

Jornaleros challenges prejudices, enhances understanding and gives an educational point of view of the Latin-American people and immigrants, as well as their many talents and cultural contributions. The objective is to enhance the sensitivity and awareness towards a local vulnerable group who is often used as scapegoats or deemed as “illegal” or criminals. This documentary portrays immigrants and day labors as survivors, active community members, and most importantly, humans. As humans they also form a valuable and productive workforce and have the right to a dignified life and humane working conditions. This documentary will challenge the perception of and give positive media representation to a group who is often the back lash of anti-immigration groups. It will show the story of people’s lives, even if the rest of society condemns them for simply existing.

Historian Lawrence Wittner on Our peaceful fight against the Bomb

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 11:33:52 -0700

Start: Apr 2 2010 - 3:00pm

End: Apr 2 2010 - 5:00pm

Lawrence Wittner is the historian of the world's antinuclear movement with several academic and popular books available and hundreds of articles and analysis published. He will be speaking about grassroots opposition to nuclear weapons and how that opposition has stopped nuclear war. Please join us at Portland State University's Multicultural Center, Smith Memorial Union 228, 3 p.m.

Wittner's latest book, Confronting the Bomb, is now available from Stanford University Press and will be also available at Dr. Wittner's talk. FMI: pcwtom@gmail.com