Teach-in on Single-Payer "Medicare for all" Healthcare, Anaheim, Oct 9th (tags)
Richard Gingery, M.D, a member of "Physicians for a National Health Program," a non-profit research and education organization composed of 17,000 physicians, medical students and health professionals, will do a "teach-in" showing how a single-payer "Medicare for All"-type system is the best public option for solving the healthcare crisis here in the United States.
"Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People," Anaheim, Friday, March 13th @ (tags)
We will be screening the groundbreaking documentary, "Reel Bad Arabs: How Hollywood Vilifies a People," which dissects a slanderous aspect of cinematic history that has run virtually unchallenged from the earliest days of silent film to today's biggest Hollywood blockbusters.
Invitation to watch a documentary on the effects of Free Trade in the world and to discuss issues related to it. Sept. 15, 2007 at El Centro 6:30 pm.
Campaign for justice in Bhopal (tags)
On December 3, 1984 the world's worst industrial disaster attacked the Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal. Twenty-one years later, the death toll has risen to more than twenty thousand, with thirty people still dying every month due to exposure-related illnesses and more than 150,000 living with them. Dow bought Union Carbide in 2001, purchasing its assets as well as its liabilities. Dow set aside $2.2 billion to pay off former Union Carbide asbestos workers in United States but refuses to pay the liabilities in India. University of Texas students are protesting against this apartheid.
Conference and open forum for multi-racial intensive organizing. South Central l.a 8/21 (tags)
ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! CONFERENCE AND OPEN FORUM FOR MULTI-RACIAL INTENSIVE ORGANIZING in South Central LA SUNDAY AUG 21, 3:30PM @ the Southern California Library 6120 South Vermont Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90044
Two Editorial Structures (tags)
Another view on editing and their operational qualities in these darkening times.
OPEN FORUM FOR LISTENERS TO VOICE IDEAS AND QUESTIONS
"Chavez, Venezuela, & the New Latin America", Unitarian Church, Anaheim, Friday, (tags)
The Orange County delegation to the upcoming 16th World Festival of Youth & Students in Caracas, Venezuela will present a special screening of the film, "CHAVEZ, VENEZUELA & THE NEW LATIN AMERICA", by Aleida Guevara (eldest daughter of Che Guevara)
25th Anniversary of Massacre at the Spanish Embassy in Guatemala, Friday, Jan. 28th (tags)
Julio Fernando Revolorio Illescas, organizer and co-founder of Asociacion Tierra y Paz, a Guatemalan-based group organized to defend the land rights of indigenous peoples, will speak about the 1980 massacre of peasants and others who peacefully occupied the Spanish Embassy to draw attention to their issues.
Update on the USA Patriot Act, Unitarian Church, Anaheim, Friday, August 20th, 6:30 pm (tags)
RICHARD GILLOCK, board member of the Orange County Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, will give us an update on the USA Patriot Act and other pending legislation that threatens civil rights and liberties.
Amending California's "Three Strikes" Law, Unitarian Church, Anaheim, Friday, Ju (tags)
Amending California's notorious "Three Strikes" Law
Report from Cuba, Unitarian Church, Anaheim, Friday, June 4th @ 6:30 pm (tags)
Several UCI students and local activists who traveled to Cuba in March to attend a youth conference (as part of a delegation sponsored by The Los Angeles Coalition in Solidarity with Cuba) will deliver reports about their visit to that island nation.
Report from Cuba, Unitarian Church, Anaheim, Friday, June 4th @ 6:30 pm (tags)
Several UCI students and local activists who traveled to Cuba in March to attend a youth conference (as part of a delegation sponsored by The Los Angeles Coalition in Solidarity with Cuba) will deliver reports about their visit to that island nation.
Clean Money Campaign Reform, Unitarian Church, Anaheim, Friday, May 7th @ 6:30 pm (tags)
SUSAN LERNER, Executive Director of the California Clean Money Campaign, will talk about the concept of publicly financing elections as a way of reducing the powerful influence that wealthy individuals and big business interests currently have upon the electoral process.
Report from El Salvador, Unitarian Church, Anaheim, Friday, April 2nd @ 6:30 pm (tags)
HENRY H. DUKE, an Orange County healthcare professional and member of CISPES (Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador), will deliver a slideshow presentation about his recent visit to El Salvador.
The History of Free Speech in San Diego, or Can't Jail the Spirit! (tags)
In 1912, the IWW (the Wobblies) were brutally suppressed in a struggle to maintain a freespeech area in downtown San Diego.