UC Berkeley Calendar Of Progressive Events - July 18

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UC BERKELEY CALENDAR OF PROGRESSIVE EVENTS - JULY
http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~alliance
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CORRECTION
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The Post 9-11 organizing meeting reported in the last
calendar has been postponed to August.

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Friday, July 19
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Women in Black Vigil
12 pm-1 pm
UC Berkeley, Bancroft at Telegraph

They began standing in November of 1988 in solidarity
with Women in Black in Jerusalem to end the
occupation. For more information, contact: Women in
Black, wibberkeley [at] yahoo.com, 510-548-6310 or
510-845-1143

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Friday, July 19, 2002 - Sunday, July 21, 2002
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Another World is Possible Conference
9 am - 9 pm
First Unitarian Church, 685 14th Street, Oakland.

Come network and exchange your stories about what's
really happening to build just and healthy communities
where you live. Participant-led dialogues on food
systems, housing, energy and transportation, community
living, local economy, social justice, education,
health, environmental politics, soul and spirit,
ecological politics. Friday council-dialogue with
Ana Maria Murillo (U'Wa Defense Project), Anna Marie
Carter (urban gardening advocate), Antonia Juhasz
(Int'l Forum on Globalization), Mexica activist
Queuhtemoc Mendoza, and Van Jones (Ella Baker Center
for Human Rights); facilitated by Malaika Edwards,
co-founder of The People's Grocery. Cost: Sliding
Scale: $45 - $300. Info: 707/874-2347, ide [at] igc.org,
http://www.deep-ecology.org.

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Friday, July 21, 2002
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Join the UC Team at AIDS Walk San Francisco
10:30am Walk Begins
Golden Gate Park, SF

Join the campus and hundreds of other corporate,
government, school and community teams and individuals
for Northern California's largest and most successful
AIDS fundraising event. The walk has become an
essential part of the community's response to the AIDS
pandemic, benefiting AIDS education and service
providers throughout the Bay Area. You can read more
about the Berkeley team agenda at
http://www.uhs.berkeley.edu/ (See AIDS Walk under
"Updates"). Register for the walk online at
http://www.aidswalk.net/ and enter the Berkeley team
number: 0087. Let campus team leaders, Daniel
Dominguez and Marybeth Darusmont know that
you have registered by emailing them at
aidswalk [at] uhs.berkeley.edu.

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Tuesday, July 23
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"UPROOTED: Refugees of the Global Economy"
7-845pm
Berkeley Community Media, 2239 Martin Luther King Jr
Way, Berkeley

Join us for a screening of a production of the
national network for immigrant and refugee rights.
"UPROOTED presents three stories of immigrants who
left their homes in Bolivia, Haiti and the Philipines
after global economic powers devastated their
countries, only to face new challenges in the United
States. These powerful stories raise critical
questions about U.S immigration policy in an era when
corporations cross borders at will." The screening
will be followed by a panel discussion on the
intersections between the rise in anti-immigrant
policies and the expansion of the prison-industrial
complex.

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Friday, July 26
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Women in Black Vigil
12 pm-1 pm
UC Berkeley, Bancroft at Telegraph

See Above for info.

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Thursday, August 1st
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CLAREMONT WORKERS FIRST MARCH
4:30 gather at Rockridge BART, 5pm March up College
Ave. to College and Ashby
Final Gathering at Oak Park on Domingo Ave

Many of you helped us win a fair contract at the
Hilton last October, and have been fighting by our
side to win justice at the Claremont. Now we are
uniting the struggle of over 1000 HERE Local 2850
Union members from the Claremont, the Holiday Inn-Bay
Bridge, the Holiday Inn-Oakland, and the Oakland City
Center Marriott who have been fighting for a new
contract since LAST JULY! Hundreds of these workers
have been without a contract for months and these
companies are STILL offering ZERO cent, 2.5 cent, and
5 cent raises to workers who have been with them for
years. Across the board, these hotels are proposing
huge monthly co-payments up to approximately
$300/month. This is a REPREHENSIBLE offer, and
on August 1st we must stand together and march
for workers rights.

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Saturday, August 3rd
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RALLY and MARCH to LIVERMORE NUCLEAR WEAPONS LAB
Nonviolent direct action at the gate (optional)
Rally 11am march to Lab at 2pm
Rally at Carnegie Park then march along East Ave. to
Lawrence Livermore National Lab, Livermore

A day of SPEAKERS and MUSIC including:
Thomas Tanemori, Hiroshima Survivor; Medea Benjamin,
Global Exchange; Laura Wells, Green Party candidate
for State Controller; Angana Chatterji, California
Institute of Integral Studies; Zulfiqar Ahmad,
Nautilus Insitute for Security and Sustainable
Development; Barbara Lubin, Middle East Children's
Alliance. Contact Information: Livermore Conversion
Project, Sherry Larsen-Beville (510) 663-8065,
Tri-Valley CAREs, Tara Dorabji (925) 443-7148
http://www.trivalleycares.org, or Western States Legal
Foundation (510) 839-5877 http://www.wslfweb.org. *FREE
SHUTTLE SERVICE from Dublin/Pleasanton BART station
starting at 10:15 am

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NEWS:
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Berkeley Decries Waste Transfer From Lab

Residents are working to stop the transfer of
potentially hazardous and radioactive material from
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. The lab began
the seven-year project to dismantle the Bevatron, an
outdated particle accelerator. A resolution stopping
the waste transfer presented to the Berkeley City
Council calls for a "cessation of all demolition of
Bevatron and all handling ... until an Environmental
Impact Report".

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Immigration Policy to Bar Canadian and Mexican
Part-Time Students

Government efforts to enforce immigration laws
strictly since last year's terrorist attacks will bar
thousands of Canadian and Mexican college students
from returning to school in the fall and cost colleges
and universities near the borders millions of dollars,
college officials say. By the fall semester The
Immigration and Naturalization Service plans to
broadly enforce the policy that a foreign student
must study full time to be granted a visa.

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Military Recruiters Gain Access To Personal Student
Info

Nearly all public schools receiving federal funding
must now hand over personal student information to
U.S. military recruiters upon request or risk losing
all subsidies. The No Child Left Behind Act, requires
districts to disclose names, addresses, and telephone
numbers of high school students upon request by
military recruiters and institutions of higher
learning, unless individual students or their parents
request that the information not be released without
prior written parental consent. Read more at the New
York Post:
http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/52710.htm

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INFO
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To submit events to the online calendar, and for full
details of listings, go to http://www.protest.net/psa.
Much more information, including a directory of
student groups and a discussion board, can be found at
our website: http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~alliance

A calendar of student group meetings is also available
at http://www.protest.net/calmeetings. We are asking
all progressive groups to go there and fill out their
Spring 2002 meeting times as soon as you know them.

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