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Mar 12 2021

Sunday March 21st, 2021 THE COLD WAR TRUTH COMMISSION: A Day of Education, Testimonials and Action

Witness For Peace Southwest Invites You To Join The:

COLD WAR TRUTH COMMISSION

A Day of Education, Testimonials & Action

Come Spend The Day While We Put: “THE COLD WAR ON TRIAL” 

Sunday, March 21st – 1:00 PM to 7:00 PM (PST)

Here Are The Speakers We Have So Far:

Medea Benjamin, Daniel Ellsberg, Kathy Kelly, S. Brian Willson, David Swanson, Norman Solomon, Peter Phillips, Jeff Cohen,

Ann Wright, Peter Kuznick,  Roy Bourgeois, Bruce Gagnon, Joel Andreas, Gerald Horne, Matthew Hoh,

David Vine, Mickey Huff, Eric Mann, Jodie Evans, Gerry Condon, Carl Boggs, Jim Lafferty, John Parker, Ron Kovic 

Marcy Winograd, Jeremy Kuzmarov, Alice Slater, Michael Novick, Carley Towne, Ed Rampell & Others.

Please contact us if you are interested in co-organizing, endorsing, or in providing citizen testimonial at: sojournerrb@yahoo.com  

I think it’s a great idea! Ideologically, it’s right on.”
–Oliver Stone on the Cold War Truth Commission

 WHEN

March 21, 2021 at 1:00pm – 7:00pm (PDT)

 WHERE

Zoom

 CONTACT

Rachel Bruhnke · sojournerrb@yahoo.com

Register online at : Codepink.org

Nov 18 2019

Two Webinars on Border Imperialism and the Border-Industrial Complex

Witness for Peace Southwest in partnership with the Alliance for Global Justice and No More Deaths presented two educational webinars on the current state of private profiteering on the US/ Mexico border and border imperialism. If you missed the chance to catch them live, you can watch the recording below!

More Than A Wall Webinar:

Featuring acclaimed author and journalist Todd Miller and media coordinator for No More Deaths, Paige Corich-Kleim. In this webinar Paige and Todd discuss the report More Than A Wall in order to examine the role of the world’s largest arms, security and information technology in shaping and profiting from the militarization of US borders.

Empire of Borders Webinar:

In this second webinar Todd Miller spoke on his new book Empire of Borders, about the expansion and imperialism of the US border regime, along with Nellie Jo David J.D., an activist and educator and  co-founder of the O’odham Anti-Border Collective who spoke to the ways this ongoing colonialism is playing out in the traditional Tohono O’odham lands of the US/Mexico border.

Sep 26 2017

“Por las Américas: Un kit de herramientas para la transformación” – Evento de Acción Permanente por la Paz – 4 de noviembre

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2:00pm – 6:00pm, talleres y presentaciones
6:00pm – 8:00pm, cena y música
Sábdo 4 de noviembre 2017

La Casa Roja – 1251 S. St. Andrews Place – Los Angeles, CA 90019

Está listx para una revolución? Quiere aprender de otros movimientos a nivel local e internacional? Acción Permamente por la Paz estará organizando un día de actividades, talleres, intercambios y foros sobre las luchas populares por las Américas. Nuestros equipos internacionales, miebros de la mesa directiva y aliadxs presentarán sobre las luchas de los pueblos indígenas, afro-descendientes, mujeres, jovenes, trabajadorxs, campesinxs y otros movimientos en Cuba, Colombia, Haití, Honduras, México y Venezuela entre otros. 

Analizaremos como nuestras comunidades en Los Ángeles y la región (California, Arizona y Nuevo México) están moblizandose en diferentes frentes desde la lucha para enfrentar el cambio climático, la lucha por los derechos migrantes, la violencia del estado y la brutalidad policiaca. Aprenderemos de las luchas a favor de las dietas saludables y decoloniales, recuperación de tierras y derechos humanos. 

Todxs saldarán del evento con más información y más “herramientas” para construir un movimiento dinamico e inovador en contra de las violaciones de derechos humanos que estamos enfrentando en todas nuestras comunidades. 

Donación sugerida para la conferencia: $10, para la cena: $10, para ambas actividades $15. Nadie será rechazadx por falta de fondos. 

Habrá cuidado de ninxs por pedido. Evento bilingue. 

Rifa, libros y artesanía a la venta!!!!

Para más información: jeanette@witnessforpeace.org o southwestwfp@gmail.com or call 805-669- VIVA (8482)

Website: http://www.wfpsw.org Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/WFPSW

Sep 26 2017

Join WFPSW for “Across the Americas: A Toolkit for Change” this November 4th

 

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2:00pm – 6:00pm, Workshops
6:00pm – 8:00pm, Dinner and Music
Saturday November 4th, 2017
The Red House
1251 S. St. Andrews Place
Los Angeles, CA 90019

Ready for a revolution? Want to learn from other movements organizing locally and internationally? Join Witness for Peace Southwest for an afternoon of discussions, presentations and engaging workshops on grassroots organizing across the Americas. Our international teams, board members and allies will present on current issues facing Indigenous, African-Descendants, women, youth, workers, farmers and other communities in Colombia, Cuba, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Venezuela and more.

We will also look at how our communities in Los Angeles and the greater region (California, Arizona and New Mexico) are organizing in the areas of climate change, immigration rights, against state sanctioned violence ad police brutality, and in favor of decolonial and healthy diets, farming and land rights among others. Everyone will leave with more information, more “tools” to build a dynamic and innovative movement against the onslaught of human rights violations being committed against our communities across borders.

Witness for Peace (WFP) is a politically independent, nationwide grassroots organization of people committed to nonviolence and led by faith and conscience. Witness for Peace’s mission is to support peace, justice and sustainable economies in the Americas by changing U.S. policies and corporate practices that contribute to poverty and oppression in Latin America and the Caribbean. WFP was founded in 1983 as the US backed Contra War in Nicaragua was underway.

WFP organizes: international delegations to document human rights abuses ties to US government funding and US corporate practices; speaker’s tours across the country with grassroots voices from Latin America and the Caribbean; hosts local events and solidarity gatherings and, collaborates on congressional work to shape US policy in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Suggested donation $10 for conference, $10 Dinner or $15 for both. No one turned away for lack of funds.

Child care available upon request. Bilingual event.

Raffle, books and artesania for sale!

For more information and to rsvp email: jeanette@witnessforpeace.org or southwestwfp@gmail.com or call 805-669- VIVA (8482)

Website: http://www.wfpsw.org Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/WFPSW

 

 

 

May 15 2017

Welcome Oscar López Rivera to the California Bay Area – May 31st

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Welcome Oscar López Rivera to the Bay Area 

Wednesday, May 31st
St John’s Presbyterian Church*
2727 College Ave, Berkeley
Wheelchair Accessible

Buy tickets on-line!
Limited tickets at the door.
welcomeoscar.brownpapertickets.com
Tickets are sliding scale as shown below.
All proceeds go directly to Oscar.

5:30 Reception $75-250

Sponsored by
the National Lawyers Guild   nlgsf.org
(Cost includes program ticket.)

A unique opportunity to meet and talk to Oscar!

Food and drinks will be provided.

Posters by local artist Doug Minkler and signed by Oscar will be for sale. 

7:00 Program $20-50

José López
Oscar López Rivera
John Santos, Rico Pabón, Quenepas

Arrive early, limited seating available.
No one will be turned away for lack of funds.

Note on Brown Paper Tickets: Reception tickets appear first. Scroll down on the “date” field to select the 7:00 Program tickets. 
Make a donation to help Oscar set up his new life in Puerto Rico: gofundme.com/welcomeoscar
LIke Oscar on Facebook!    facebook.com/WelcomeOscartotheBayArea
For more information:          freeoscarnow@gmail.com
*Public Transportation to event: AC Transit 51B (on College) or 6 (on Telegraph). BART stops: Ashby, Rockridge or Berkeley then walk or transfer to  51B or 6.
Partial List of Endorsers:
AIM-WEST, All of Us Or None, Altruvistas, ANSWER, Arab Resource & Organizing Center, Bay Area Anti-Repression Committee, Center for Political Education, Critical Resistance of Oakland, Emory Douglas, Freedom Archives, Global Exchange, Haiti Action Committee, Int’l Committee for Peace, Justice and Dignity, International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network, LAGAI Queer Insurrection, La Raza Resource Center, La Tertulia Boricua, Legal Services for Prisoners with Children, Lynne Stewart Organization, Making Contact, Malcom X Grassroots Movement, Mobilization to Free Mumia Abu Jamal, National Network on Cuba (NNOC), Prison Activist Resource Center, Prison Radio/Redwood Justice Fund, QUIT, Socialist Action, Socialist Workers Party, Task Force on the Americas, Veterans for Peace #69 (San Francisco), Workers World Party
Apr 11 2017

Bay Area Honors Berta Cáceres’ Legacy w/ “13 Colors of the Honduran Resistance” Book Tour

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Join us for two nights of art and resistance, May 3 in San Francisco and May 4 in Oakland, as we honor the legacy of Berta Cáceres with music, poetry, theater and dialogue, connecting the struggles between Honduras and the US.

Melissa Cardoza, an Afro-Indigenous feminist poet and journalist, and Karla Lara, whose songs are the soundtrack of Honduran’s popular struggle, will perform stories of women resisting brutal repression and finding unyielding hope. They will be in the Bay for two nights of their national tour.

We will be joined in solidarity by Alicia Garza, Pennie Opal Plant, immigrant women poets and theater artists from MUA and Teatro Familias Unidas of San Jose.  These events will be bilingual in English and Spanish.

Signed copies of 13 Colors of the Honduran Resistance will be available in a bilingual edition.

For more information and to RSVP for these events click on the links below. These events are $10-25 donation, no one turned away.

Wed, May 3, 2017 7:00 PM – 10:00 Redstone Building 2926 16th Street, San Francisco, CA

Thu, May 4, 2017 7:00 PM – 10:00 PM SoleSpace 1714 Telegraph Avenue, Oakland, CA

Co-sponsored by EcoViva, Friends of the Earth, the Honduras Solidarity Network, Grassroots Global Justice, CISPES, Mujeres Unidas y Activas and friends.

Están invitados a dos eventos: el 3 de mayo en San Francisco y el 4 de mayo en Oakland

Vamos a honrar el legado de Berta Cáceres con música, poesía, teatro y diálogo, uniendo las luchas para la justicia social en Honduras y Estados Unidos.

Melissa Cardoza, poeta y periodista feminista afro-indígena, y Karla Lara, cuyas canciones son la banda sonora de la lucha popular hondureña, interpretarán historias de mujeres resistiendo la represión y encontrando la esperanza.

Alicia Garza, Pennie Opal Plant, mujeres inmigrantes poetas y artistas de teatro de MUA y de San José también participarán.

Estos eventos serán bilingües en inglés y español.

Copias firmadas del libro 13 Colores de la Resistencia Hondureña estarán disponibles en una edición bilingüe.

Para más información y para reservar su entrada, haga clic en los enlaces a continuación.

Se pide una donación de $10-25. No se pierda este evento inspirador y por favor comparta ampliamente con sus amistades.

Wed, May 3, 2017
7:00 PM – 10:00
Redstone Building
2926 16th Street,
San Francisco, CA

Thu, May 4, 2017
7:00 PM – 10:00 PM
SoleSpace
1714 Telegraph Avenue,
Oakland, CA