Screening of New Film “LEAVE NO SOLDIER” ~ Thursday, May 22nd, 7:30 PM - Unitarian Universalist Community Church of Santa Monica - Presented by The OOA & The Peace & Civil Liberties Committee

The Office of the Americas & The Peace & Civil Liberties Committee  
 Invites You to a Screening of the New Film  
 "LEAVE NO SOLDIER"   
 Thursday, May 22nd, 7:30 PM   
 At the Unitarian Universalist Community Church of Santa Monica 
 1260 18th Street, Santa Monica
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Office of the Americas and the Peace and Civil Liberties Committee

invite you to a screening of the new film

Leave No Soldier

  Q and A with director/producer Donna Bassin 

The grief of war comes home when veterans pledge to "leave no fallen soldier behind."  Leave No Soldier follows two groups of veterans, divided by their politics, but united in their move from mourning to activism, as they respond to war abroad and domestic disaster on the Gulf Coast.  In 2006, echoing the sounds of combat, Rolling Thunder gathered on motorcycles by the thousands in the nation’s capitol to remember their fallen comrades and remind the government of its debt to those alive. Veterans for Peace marched from Mobile to New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina to repair houses and lives and to demonstrate their opposition to the war in Iraq. We come to know intimately eight of these men and women who reveal their passage from grief and rage to agency and solidarity. 

May 22 at 7:30pm

Unitarian Universalist Community Church

1260 18th Street, Santa Monica

               NW corner of 18th and Arizona - enter Forbes Hall on 18th Street side. Parking Available in the  7th Day Adventist Church Parking lot on NW side of 19th St. Parking is also on Wilshire Blvd, 1 block North or Santa Monica Blvd. 1 block South

 

Rsvp by May 20 to nchollander@ca.rr.com

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Ongoing Events:

Arlington West Memorial
Sundays from 7:15am to Sunset
Located in the sand just north of the pier at Santa Monica Beach in Los Angeles, California.  Erected by the local chapter of Veterans for Peace (VFP) and other volunteers. arlingtonwestsantamonica.org.  Volunteers are welcome!!

Peace is the Answer - Weekly Vigils
Various Times and Locations
Join us - greater numbers create more response for peace!!
For a list of vigil locations visit the Coalition for World Peace website.

Other Organizations:
Code Pink
Arlington West
Save Darfur
AFSC
Iraq Memorial


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Office of the Americas Peace Calendar - Both Noam Chomsky & John Perkins will be on World Focus with Blase Bonpane this coming Sunday: 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM on KPFK 90.7 FM Radio

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World Focus with Blase BonpaneEarth

Listen in:
Every Sunday 10 AM - 11 AM

This week’s guests:
Noam Chomsky
and
John Perkins, author of "The Secret History Of The American Empire", "The Truth About Economic Hit Men, Jackals And How To Change the World."
 
World Focus is now automatically archived on the KPFK website, under "audio archives", or listen to the live broadcast at 90.7 FM Los Angeles and 98.7 FM Santa Barbara.

BLASE BONPANE ON "YouTube"
Go to YouTube and enter Blase Bonpane in the search criteria.

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KPFK Invites You to “A Day at the Beach with Heroes of Peace” - Sunday, May 25th, 12:30-3:00 PM ~ At ARLINGTON WEST MEMORIAL in Santa Monica ~ With Ed Asner, Col. Ann Wright, Ron Kovic, Blase Bonpane & others

A Day at the Beach with Heroes of Peace

 

 Special Live KPFK/Pacifica Broadcast at Arlington West in Santa Monica 

Sunday, May 25th, 12:30-3:00 PM 

   

 KPFK invites you to join us at the Arlington West Memorial at the Santa Monica Beach Pier for a tribute to   

"Heroes of Peace"


Over 4000 crosses and other religious symbols replicate the real Arlington Cemetery in West Virginia, symbolizing our fallen in this criminal war.  This is a tribute to them, to those who fought and came to oppose it, and to those who opposed it from the beginning…all HEROES OF PEACE.   

We Will Be Joined By:     

 (alphabetically….partial list)
Ed Asner     

 Blase Bonpane, KPFK Broadcaster
Jodie Evans of CODE PINK  
MikeFarrell (by remote)          

 Arlene Inouye of CAMS 
Kevin McKeown, Santa Monica City Council Member
Ron Kovic, Vietnam Veteran for Peace
Congressman Dennis Kucinich (in person or by remote)
City Councilman Bill Rosendahl
Marcy Winograd, Chair PDLA 
Col. Ann Wright (Ret)
           and              
KPFK’S Lila Garrett (moderator)


 plus
The brilliant OOA SINGERS !!!

Most importantly, IRAQ VETERANS AGAINST THE WAR will relate to us, as they just did to a shocked Congressional hearing, how their personal experiences turned them from support for this war to a passion for peace. They grieve not just for themselves, but for the thousands if not millions of innocent Iraqis who have died needlessly, often at the hands of our remorseful vets. 

Join these HEROES OF PEACE as they tell us what continues to be the shocking truth about this tragic war.  

 It’s a story we’ll never forget.  Nor should we. 

 

That’s Sunday, May 25th, from 12:30 to 3:00 PM at Arlington West in Santa Monica at the north side of the Santa Monica Pier (easy parking $8).   Sun block and hat recommended.

 

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