The resistance, Then & Now!

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Date:

Sunday, August 05, 2018

Time:

7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Event Type:

Panel Discussion

Organizer/Author:

Phoebe Sorgen & the BFUU Social Justice Com

Location Details:

1924 Cedar Street at Bonita in the Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists' legendary Hall, midway between downtown and north Berkeley BART stations

DOUG CHAMBERS kicks off the program with a few movement songs.
LIZ DeCOU, KARMA BENNET & NOHELYA ZAMBRANO report on Solidaridad Con los Niños. Nurse Liz was arrested in July at a detention center when delivering a doll to immigrant kids separated by ICE from their parents and is facing 6 years in prison.

PAULA FRIEDMAN discusses personal & political change during nonviolent actions against the Vietnam War and reads from her new novel The Change Chronicles: A Novel of the Sixties Antiwar Movement. Parallels & contrasts in nonviolent action & government response then & now will be discussed. http://www.paula-friedman.com

PHOEBE SORGEN & others give updates on The Poor People's Campaign, Move to Amend, and Families Belong Together big recent actions in D.C. & Sacramento.

Discussion follows re strategy for change moving forward.

Friedman's autographed books available for sale.
FREE but suggested donation $20-$5. No one turned away for lack of funds! After expenses, proceeds will assist Solidaridad Con los Niños (bail/bond for detainees, gas for caravans, etc.)

For more information: http://www.bfuu.org/events/

Added to the calendar on Mon, Jul 30, 2018 1:25AM

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