Old-Time Anti-War Square Dance Benefit for Military Resisters and IVAW

Benefit for Military Resisters and Iraq Veterans Against the War

Old-Time Square Dance with LIVE Music!

Saturday, April 30, 2005
Potrero Hill Neighborhood House
953 De Haro St., San Francisco
(at 22nd St. overlooking SF General Hospital)

Social & Introductions: 6 pm - 7:30 pm
Dance: 7:30 pm - 11 pm
$10-$30 sliding scale / $5 students

FEATURING

The Stairwell Sisters
http://www.stairwellsisters.com
with calling by Evie Ladin
"wild, hard dance music...infectious" - Oakland Tribune

AND

The Squirrelly Stringband
http://www.spectacularopticals.com/SQUIRRELLY.swf

The Bernal Hill Stringband and other special guests!

All dances taught! Beginners welcome!
The most fun you could have for the best cause!

All proceeds to benefit the defense of Pablo Paredes (swiftsmartveterans.com) and Iraq Veterans Against the War (www.ivaw.net). To protest the Iraq War, Petty Officer Third Class Pablo Paredes publicly refused to deploy to the Middle East and is now facing military courts martial. IVAW is a newly formed organization of recent Iraq veterans opposed to the ongoing war and occupation.

Benefit hosted by: Not in Our Name, Code Pink, Iraq Veterans Against the War, International Socialist Organization, College Not Combat, Courage to Resist, Freedom Socialist Party, Queers for Peace and Justice/SF, Radical Women, Musicians & Fine Artists for World Peace, Bay Area United Against War.

Public transit: Muni 19 bus from Civic Center BART (8th Street) - outbound toward Hunters Point.

"Combine this band's vocal prowess with skilled multi-instrumental chops and a hellbent-for-leather attitude, and you have a wild funky recording... Brittle, hard-edged, exciting ensemble singing... in which the Stairwell Sisters rocket into the high lonesome stratosphere." - Old-Time Herald

For more information and leaflets:
http://bayarea.notinourname.net
510-601-8000