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October 28 (Saturday) - Protest / Demonstration
Vote With Your Feet to Stop the War!
A nationally coordinated local day of action against the war in Iraq. The rally in Seattle will take place Saturday, October 28 at noon at the Federal Building on 2nd and Marion downtown, and will be followed by a march at 1 p.m.
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October 28 (Saturday) - Protest / Demonstration
Protest of "Bodies: The Exhibiton"
Protest / Demonstrate against the exhibit "Bodies: The Exhibition" for using unconsenting Chinese cadavers and exploiting the Chinese for profit. more...
October 27 (Friday) - Music / Entertainment
La Pena: The Path of the Spirit
This gathering will celebrate indigenous culture, complete with storytelling, dancing, drumming and song. more...
October 27 (Friday) - Film / Video
Friday Night at the Meaningful Movies: “MICHAEL PARENTI: THE STRUGGLE FOR HISTORY”
Film: “MICHAEL PARENTI: THE STRUGGLE FOR HISTORY” (86 min, Maria Gilardin) -
Michael Parenti's acclaimed lecture regarding the manipulation of the past to control the present. Parenti asks all of us to consider the historical context of what is happening today and to understand how our own consciousness about current events is formed by the struggle to define, understand and describe what has happened historically. In short: almost everything you thought you knew about historical events has been manipulated, distorted and regurgitated to accomplish a particular class, social and political agenda. - Following the film, we will be joined in discussion by MARIA GILARDIN of TUC RADIO/San Francisco (www.tucradio.org). TUC is an aeronautical term that stands for "Time of Useful Consciousness". TUC Radios broadcast on over 60 radio stations and on the web. Maria Gilardin and TUC radio can be heard in the Seattle listening area on "Mind Over Matters", Sunday mornings at 8:00 AM on KEXP-90.3 FM. A very special thanks to Maria Gilardin for collecting, archiving and distributing the works of Michael Parenti. -
(Event is FREE and open to the public! ..but Donations are kindly accepted).
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October 25 (Wednesday) - Panel / Forum
" Will the Democrats Ever Fight for What's Right?
With Bush's falling populartiy, continuous Republican scandals and the unpopular war in Iraq, the Democrats have a golden opportunity to step forward as a strong opposition party. Why don't they? When if ever will they really oppose the Bush Agenda? more...
October 24 (Tuesday) - Film / Video
The Motherhood Manifesto
In recognition of Take Back Your Time Day (October 24), 911 Media Arts Center, Take Back Your Time and MomsRising.org present a screening of THE MOTHERHOOD MANIFESTO documentary more...
October 23 (Monday) - Other
NARAL Volunteer Phone Banking
NARAL needs volunteers for phone banking. Help is needed to elect pro-choice candidates this November. more...
October 23 (Monday) - Meeting
The Conversations Project at The Panama Hotel
Come to the Panama Hotel and have a conversation about the erosion of civil rights in this country and let's try to generate ideas together for things we can do locally to create change...over some wonderful tea. Tonight's conversation will focus on Detention Issues.
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October 22 (Sunday) -
Take Back Your Time Day Celebration
Join us for a tea and cookie potluck to celebrate Take Back Your Time Day(www.timeday.org), an annual national event to raise awareness about time poverty and what we can do about it. Take Back Your Time Board member Cecile Andrews will speak about her new book "Slow is Beautiful" and lead a discussion about ways we can take back our time. more...
October 22 (Sunday) - Lecture / Talk
Candidates Forum!!!
There will be a candidates forum with Hot State and Federal Races. more...
October 22 (Sunday) - Music / Entertainment
Benefit Hip Hop Show for The Organization
Benefit concert for a new nonprofit (The Organization) featuring:
2Mex, Boom Bap Project, & Cancer Rising!
Come see the best hip hop that LA and Seattle have to offer. These three amazing, politically charged hip hop groups will be rocking the stage all night. Come see a great show, meet great people, get your drink on, and learn more about how to get involved in The Organization! more...
October 22 (Sunday) - Protest / Demonstration
11th Annual National Day of Protest to Stop Police Brutality, Repression and the Criminalization of a Generation
Warrantless searches? Indefinite detention? TASERing pregnant women? Shoot-to-kill orders against flood survivors? 800+ people killed by police in the U.S. each year, manipulated juries always finding the killings "justified"? Wear Black! Fight Back! more...
October 21 (Saturday) -
Dixon for Senate Out of War Rally @ Doc Maynard's
Join leftists, progressives, radicals, antiwar activists, musicians, spoken word artists, environmentalists, veterans, educators and more at the Out of War Rally at Doc Maynards 10/21. more...
October 20 (Friday) - Film / Video
Friday Night at the Meaningful Movies: “THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND”
Film: “THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND” (82 min, Lori Cheatle and Daisy Wright, 2004) with Attorney Jacqui Brown Miller with the Alliance For Democracy
THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND is a startling and often hilarious new film exploring corporate personhood and the overwhelming corporate takeover of American life - branding and consumerism, media conglomeration, political kickbacks and the largest economic gap between the rich and the poor in the United States since the 1920’s. Over the course of three years, the filmmakers traveled across the U.S., interviewing award-winning authors, historians, media commentators and ordinary citizens about the wide range of ways individuals and society at large experience this impact. The film is a moving and powerful exposé of the current state of democracy and a wry look at the myth of the American Dream. It proves that every individual can make a difference, even when pitted against the enormous powers of big business. Interviews with Tom Hartmann, Naomi Klein, Jim Hightower and others. -
Attorney JACQUI BROWN MILLER with the Alliance For Democracy will discuss the opportunities, benefits, and importance for advocacy groups to dedicate energy and resources to working together in fixing our broken democracy. This is a great opportunity to explore and build common strategies. Cosponsored by both the South Puget Sound and Seattle chapters of Alliance For Democracy, www.sounddemocracy.org. Facilitated discussion follows.
(Event is FREE and open to the public! ..but Donations are kindly accepted).
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October 18 (Wednesday) - Panel / Forum
A Student's Guide to Advocating for Community Health
A Student's Guide to Advocating for Community Health follows on the heels of last month's threatened public health clinic closures. A panel of speakers with various backgrounds in sociopolitical advocacy will share concrete ways to get involved followed by an interactive Q&A more...
October 18 (Wednesday) - Panel / Forum
Defending Democracy: Protecting Immigrant Rights and Strengthening Our Communities (a community immigration hearing)
Deeply disappointed by legislation stripping non-citizens of fundamental constitutional protections, as well as the House’s passage of other anti-immigrant legislation, a coalition of concerned Washington state groups will hold a community immigration hearing entitled Defending Democracy: Protecting Immigrant Rights and Strengthening Our Communities. The hearing will highlight the drastic impact on communities of our unjust immigration system and draconian enforcement policies, as well as the need for real immigration reform that protects civil rights, offers a path to citizenship and worker protections, and reunites families.
The forum will feature voices from the faith, labor, immigrant, and other perspectives. There will also be a blue-ribbon commission featuring King County Executive Ron Sims, Assistant US Attorney Bruce Miyake, Karen Yoshitomi of the Japanese American Citizens’ League, Rev. Monica Corsaro of the University of Washington, and Renee Radcliff Sinclair of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
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October 14 (Saturday) - Other
Family Health & Kidney Expo
Northwest Kidney Centers presents the Family Health & Kidney Expo. "Knowledge is Power"
Free admission and free health screenings.
Everyone is invited! more...
October 14 (Saturday) - Other
Family Health & Kidney Expo
Northwest Kidney Centers presents the Family Health & Kidney Expo. "Knowledge is Power"
Free admission and free health screenings.
Everyone is invited! more...
October 14 (Saturday) - Music / Entertainment
Antiwar Party Fundraiser
A benefit for the October 28th National Day of Action against the War and the national speaking tour of Chris Loughlin, an antiwar organizer from Britain. Socialist Alternative is collaborating with ANSWER and other organizations to mobilize people to protests all across the country on the eve of the Congressional elections to show whichever corporate pro-war party wins control of Congress on November 7th that we need money for jobs and education, not war!!! more...
October 13 (Friday) - Film / Video
The Take, A documentary by Naomi Klein (author of No Logo)
In late 2001, the dramatic collapse of Argentina's economy robbed millions of their life savings while major investors were allowed to pull out just in time. Thousands of factories shut down, leaving millions unemployed. But some workers decided to "fire the boss", break into their padlocked former workplaces, and restart production themselves. Hundreds of worker-run, democratically-run factories have now joined this Movement of Recovered Companies. Come see this powerful, ongoing example of oppressed people taking control over the western corporations that exploited them for decades. And join Socialist Alternative for an after-movie discussion about the resurgence of socialist movements in Latin America and how to build a true democracy--workers' democracy! more...
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