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DESCRIPTION:CODEPINK and Global Exchange \npresent \n\nHumor, Heart & Song\nBringing 
 Peace to the Peace Movement \nwith\nAnne Lamott, best-selling Author of 
 Bird by Bird, Operating Instructions, and Traveling Mercies\n\nMaria 
 Muldaur, vocalist who combines blues, jazz and R&B. \n\nMedea Benjamin, 
 cofounder of CODEPINK Women for Peace & Global Exchange\n\nThursday May 8, 
 2008, 7:30pm\nBerkeley Fellowship for Unitarian Universalists\n1924 Cedar 
 St (at Bonita Ave)\nBerkeley, California 94709\nTickets $10-$20.00.\n\nJoin 
 CODEPINK and Global Exchange in an inspiring and unforgettable Pre-Mother's 
 Day event filled music and peacemaking with author Anne Lamott, singer 
 Maria Muldaur, and CODEPINK & Global Exchange cofounder Medea Benjamin. 
 \n\nTickets available at: www.globalexchange.org/annelamott\n\nPhone Order: 
 415-575-5543 \n\nAnne Lamott, writes and speaks about subjects that begin 
 with capital letters: Alcoholism, Motherhood, Jesus.  But armed with 
 self-effacing humor – she is laugh out-loud funny – and ruthless 
 honesty, Lamott converts her subjects into enchantment.  Actually, she 
 writes about what most of us don’t like to think about.  She wrote her 
 first novel for her father, the writer Kenneth Lamott, when he was 
 diagnosed with brain cancer.  She has said that the book was “a present 
 to someone I loved who was going to die.”  In all her novels, Anne Lamott 
 writes about loss – loss of loved ones and loss of personal control.  She 
 doesn’t try to sugar-coat the sadness, frustration and disappointment, 
 but tells her stories with honesty, compassion and a pureness of voice.  
 Anne Lamott says, “I have a lot of hope and a lot of faith and I struggle 
 to communicate that.”  Anne Lamott does communicate her faith; in her 
 books and in person, she lifts, comforts, and inspires, all the while 
 keeping us laughing.\n\nMaria Muldaur's roots are in the folk revival of 
 the early '60s, a time when figures like Pete Seeger and Bob Dylan were 
 making bold statements about the civil rights movement, Vietnam, and other 
 burning issues of the day. More than four decades later, in the face of 
 political and social issues in which the stakes are equally high, Muldaur 
 has assembled a group of legendary female performers to lend their voices 
 in a critical examination of where we are as a nation and where we're 
 going. Songs include "Yes, We Can," "John Brown" and "Pray for the U.S.A." 
 \n\nMedea Benjamin, Founding Director of the human rights group Global 
 Exchange, has struggled for social justice and human rights in Asia, the 
 Americas, and Africa for over 25 years. She helped shine the national 
 spotlight on US sweatshops overseas, derail the plans of the World Trade 
 Organization and promote "fair trade" over "free trade." Ever since the 
 tragic events of 9/11, Medea has been organizing against a violent 
 response. She traveled several times to Afghanistan, including with a 
 delegation of 9/11 families, to highlight civilian casualties caused by the 
 US invasion. She is a leading activist in the peace movement and helped 
 bring together the groups forming the coalition United for Peace and 
 Justice. After the invasion, Medea traveled several times to Iraq to 
 organize the Occupation Watch International Center in Baghdad. Medea also 
 co-founded Code Pink, a women's peace group that has been organizing 
 creative actions against the occupation of Iraq. In 2005, Medea organized a 
 delegation of US military families who lost loved ones in Iraq to the 
 Iraqi/Jordanian border to bring a shipment of humanitarian aid for the 
 people of Falluja. In 2005 Medea was nominated as one of 1,000 exceptional 
 women from around the world to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. She is also 
 the author/editor of several books, including Stop the Next War 
 Now.\n\nBenefits: CODEPINK Women for Peace\n\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/04/15/18493035.php
SUMMARY:CODEPINK: Humor, Heart & Song: Bringing Peace to the Peace Movement
LOCATION:Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists\n1924 Cedar St.\nBerkeley, 
 CA 94709
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/04/15/18493035.php
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