anti-war newspaper launch 2/16 Oakland

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See list of organizers and endorsers below
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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16th
NOON - 4pm
Mandela Village
1357 Fifth Street, West Oakland
(one block from west Oakland BART)

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For questions or directions, call 510-869-5156

The first casualty in any war is truth. In the 'War on Terrorism,' truth
was lost a long time ago. This event is about launching a bi-weekly
national newspaper that will bring it back. Now is the time to keep up our
protests and especially to take advantage of the 'educational moment' we
are in. It is a time when radicals, activists and organizers can use the
world events as a lab for talking to people about what's really goin' on.

Join us for discussions and presentations about how to take advantage of
this educational moment and for the release of War Times pilot issue. We
will strategize, theorize and discuss, and then hit the streets to
distribute thousands of copies of this free paper all across the Bay Area.

If you work with an organization that would be interested in distributing
copies of War Times to its membership or if you are an individual who would
volunteer to distribute copies, please contact us.

Childcare and translation will be provided at this event. Please contact us
ahead of time if possible about these services so we can plan accordingly.
The site is wheelchair accessible.

Hope to see you on the 16th,
War Times Organizing Committee (organizations listed for identification
purposes only):

Jan Adams, former associate director, Applied Research Center
Linda Burnham, executive director, Women of Color Resource Center
Jung-hee Choi, Women of Color Resource Center
Max Elbaum, former managing editor, CrossRoads magazine
Arnoldo Garcia, National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights
Adam Gold, STORM
Rebecca Gordon, Seminarians for Peace
Felicia Gustin, co-director, Speak Out
Van Jones, national executive director, Ella Baker Center for Human Rights
Elizabeth (Betita) Martinez, director, Institute for MultiRacial Justice
Steve Williams, executive director, POWER
Bob Wing, former executive editor, ColorLines magazine

Partial List of Endorsers (organizations listed for identification purposes
only)

Karin Aguilar-San Juan, author and professor, Macalester College
Michael Albert, Z/Znet
Michelle Alexander, ACLU of Northern California
American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, San Francisco Chapter
Jane Bai, executive director, CAAAV--Organizing Asian Communities
Frances Beal, national secretary, Black Radical Congress
Larry Bensky, KPFA
Blase Bonpane, director, Office of the Americas
Douglas Calvin, executive director, Youth Leadership Support Network
Sue Chan, M.D., medical director, Oakland Asian Health Services
Pamela Chiang, environmental justice activist
Robert Chlala, Students for Justice in Palestine
Noam Chomsky, professor, MIT
Kathleen Cleaver, co-director, Human Rights Research Fund
Joy Crocker, Church Women United
Malkia Cyril, We Interrupt This Message
Gary Delgado, executive director, Applied Research Center
Antonio Diaz, executive director, PODER
Junot Diaz, writer
Hari Dillon, president, Vanguard Foundation
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author and professor of women's and ethnic studies
James Early, board chair, Institute for Policy Studies
Michael Eisenscher, Labor Committee for Peace and Justice
Bob Forsberg, editor, Sequoia Interreligious Newsmagazine
Frances Fox-Piven, author and professor, CUNY Graduate School
Fred Goff, Data Center
Francisco Herrera, cultural worker, caminante
Phil Hutchings, racial justice activist
Joo-Hyun Kang, executive director, The Audre Lorde Project
Hany Khalil, New York labor and community organizer
Mel King, activist
Yuri Kochiyama, activist
Winona LaDuke, Indigenous Women's Network
Nomy Lamm, queer writer/performer
Gerald Lenoir, board member, HIV Education and Prevention Project of
Alameda County
Yolanda Lopez, visual artist
Miriam Ching Yoon Louie, activist and author of Sweatshop Warriors
Ying Lee, Peoples Non-Violent Response Coalition
Barbara Lubin, executive director, Middle East Childrens Alliance
Eric Mann, executive director, Labor Community Strategy Center
Esperanza Martell, ProLibertad
Sharon Martinas, Challenging White Supremacy Workshops
Richard Moore, executive director, Southwest Network for Economic and
Environmental Justice
Cherrie Moraga, author
Iris Morales, educator and filmmaker
Nancy Nadel, Oakland City Council
Gus Newport, former Mayor of Berkeley
Peter Olney, Institute for Labor and Employment
Samuel Orozco, Radio Bilingue
Richie Perez, Justice Committee/National Congress for Puerto Rican Rights
Eric Quezada, SF Mission District organizer
Colin Rajah, executive director, Just Act
Adrienne Rich, poet
Bruce Richard, vice president, 1199 SEIU
Wilson Riles, former City Councilperson and progressive Oakland Mayoral
candidate
David Roediger, labor historian
Loretta Ross, executive director, National Center for Human Rights Education
Andrea Smith, Incite! Women of Color Against Violence
Judy Talaugon, Chumash/Cebuano, Atajes Art & Cultural Resources
Makani Themba-Nixon, The Praxis Project
Anthony Thigpenn, Strategy Concepts in Organizing and Policy Education
Walter Turner, board president, Global Exchange
Tim Wise, anti-racism activist and writer
Helen Zia, writer and co-author of Wen Ho Lee's story
Howard Zinn, historian and author of A People's History of the United States



Tom Condit
tomcondit [at] igc.org

The Peace & Freedom Party needs to raise its registration to 86,212 to get
back on the California ballot.
http://www.peaceandfreedom.org