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December 13 (Saturday) - Other
An Outrageously Anti-Capitalist Year End Party
Rejuvenate and rev-up for rebellion in 2004 at a relaxing alternative to corporate consumerism, featuring live music, a labor sing-a-long, a holiday craft bazaar and a festive potluck of hors d'ouevres and home baked goodies.  more...
Radical Women and the Freedom Socialist Party

December 13 (Saturday) - Protest / Demonstration
Celebrate a full year of weekly Saturday vigils for peace and justice
Bring your signs, your resolve, your hopes for the future and come stand with us at the corner of Bothell Way and Ballinger in Lake Forest Park. (Bothell Way is Hwy 522, also known as Lake City Way in Seattle. Just follow Lake City north across 145th in north Seattle and continue on for a couple of miles until you come to LFP town center mall).  more...
Lake Forest Park for Peace

December 12 (Friday) - Film / Video
"Hidden Wars of Desert Storm" (Friday Night at the Meaningful Movies)
Narrated by John Hurt, this award-winning documentary is a two-year investigation into Iraq and The Gulf War. It charts the U.S. and U.K. governments' relationship with Iraq from the Second World War. Essential viewing for anyone wanting to understand issues such as Oil, Weapons inspectors, Depleted Uranium, Gulf War Syndrome and the U.S. War on Terrorism. Two Iraqi Nationals with family now in Iraq will join us after the film to share their perspectives of current situations both here and at home.  more...
Wallingford Neighbors for Peace

December 11 (Thursday) - Lecture / Talk
Delegate Report Back - US Labor Assembly for Peace
Report back from the delegate Puget Sound Labor for Peace sent to the US Labor Against the War National Assembly for Peace held in Chicago recently.  more...
Puget Sound Labor for Peace

December 11 (Thursday) - Film / Video
Film: "Escape from Affluenza"
With stories ranging from America's simplicity capital - Seattle - to the Netherlands, ESCAPE FROM AFFLUENZA uses expert commentary, thought provoking vignettes and humor to show people how they can reduce their consumption and simplify their lives. ESCAPE FROM AFFLUENZA, the sequel to the PBS hit AFFLUENZA, is hosted by former Los Angles newspaper reporter Wanda Urbanska.  more...
Northwest Environmental Education Council

December 10 (Wednesday) - Film / Video
Film: "And Justice for All" (U.S. responses to September 11) - Premiere Showing
This is a new documentary film on U.S. responses to September 11 and their impact on immigrants, civil and human rights, and our character as a people. Find reasons for hope in a dialogue with the filmmaker Sandy Cioffi and Pramila Jayapal, Aziz Junejo, Mako Nakagawa, and Hardeep Rekhi, all featured in the movie. Francisco Herrera, San Francisco cultural artist, will lead a celebration of our unity.  more...
Hate Free Zone, Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride (Seattle) and the Sikh Coalition

December 10 (Wednesday) - Other
Seattle Human Rights Day Celebration
Seattle Human Rights Day commemorates the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which was adopted December 10, 1948. Author and activist Sherman Alexie is the featured guest at the 8th annual celebration of Seattle Human Rights Day. The 2003 recipients of the Distinguished Citizens for Human Rights Award also will be announced at the event.  more...
Seattle Office for Civil Rights, Seattle Human Rights Commission, and others

December 10 (Wednesday) - Panel / Forum
Barrier to Peace: The Failure of the Peace Process
Join us for a discussion about Israel and Palestine, the "peace process" yesterday and today, and how the "security wall" and US support of Israel are barriers to peace in the Middle East! Meeting highlights Brief History of the State of Israel, What is Zionism?, The Oslo Peace Accords, Why has the Peace Process Failed?, The Middle East and U.S. Imperialism, How can we help create peace in the Middle East.  more...
International Socialist Organization

December 10 (Wednesday) - Protest / Demonstration
Workers Rights = Human Rights
The law says you have the right to join a union. The law also says you have the right to make that decision free from intimidation, harassment and coercion by your employer. But those laws are not being enforced in America. Join us on Dec. 10 as we launch a campaign to restore the freedom to join unions.  more...
AFL-CIO

December 10 (Wednesday) - Other
Benefit Dinner for Boomtown Cafe
Boomtown Cafe is a non-profit restaurant that serves "meals with dignity" at affordable prices to homeless and very low-income customers in Pioneer Square. Each month, Boomtown Cafe hosts Evening at Boomtown, an elegant three-course gourmet dinner served at the café. These meals are donated and prepared by talented chefs from Seattle's top restaurants, and all proceeds from the event go directly to Boomtown meal programs.  more...
Boomtown Cafe

December 9 (Tuesday) - Panel / Forum
A Night To Honor First Nations
A panel discussion on the status of human rights in Indian Country. Food, drumming and dance performance. Part of the celebrations for the 8th annual Seattle Human Rights Day.  more...
Seattle Office for Civil Rights, Seattle Human Rights Commission, and others

December 9 (Tuesday) - Lecture / Talk
Land and Property: Implications in the Peace Process in the Middle East
Michael Fischbach, a professor of history at Randolph-Macon College in Virginia, focuses on the controversial question of the property left behind by the refugees during the first Arab-Israeli war in 1948. His book: "Records of Dispossession: Palestinian Refugee Property and the Arab-Israeli Conflict."  more...
World Affairs Council & Seattle University's International Development Internship Program

December 8 (Monday) - Panel / Forum
Washington's Water, Washington's Future
An opportunity to learn about the state of Washington's rivers and streams, and what we all can do to help protect our rivers and streams. Speakers will include several Seattle-area state legislators and water policy experts.  more...
Sierra Club, Washington Environmental Council, the Center for Environmental Law and Policy, and American Rivers

December 7 (Sunday) - Lecture / Talk
People's Weekly World Waffle Breakfast
The newspaper, People's Weekly World, is hosting a waffle breakfast featuring a speaker from Canada who is an RN to talk about the Canadian health care system. Speaker Hanne Gidora.  more...
People's Weekly World newspaper

December 6 (Saturday) - Lecture / Talk
Tariq Ali Lecture and Booksigning
Lecture and booksigning with Tariq Ali - author, speaker, playwright, filmmaker, and one of the leaders of the global antiwar movement. Discussing his timely and important book, "Bush in Babylon: The Recolonization of Iraq ", claiming that war profiteers close to President George W. Bush are now cashing in, and offering an in depth analysis of the extent of resistance to the United States occupation of Iraq.  more...
Seattle Thunder & Elliott Bay Bookstore

December 6 (Saturday) - Workshop / Training
Security Culture Workshop
In an event co-sponsored by the Northwest Animal Rights Network (NARN) and the UW animal rights group CARE, come learn about police interaction, how to handle the FBI and other aspects of dealing the authorities. We will discuss your rights as an activist in the wake of the the Patriot Act and other intrusions on our rights. Craig Rosebraugh will be running the discussion/lecture. George Hickey, local expert on police relations will also be in attendance.  more...
Northwest Animal Rights Network (NARN)

December 6 (Saturday) - Conference
Poverty Action Summit
More and more working families in Washington are struggling to make ends meet. Yet state policy-makers have not made fighting poverty a priority. Your voice is vital in fighting the ROOT CAUSES of poverty with REAL SOLUTIONS in Washington State. Join the Statewide Poverty Action Network in an all day summit to LEARN all you need to know about state policies and poverty and PLAN specific actions during the legislative session!  more...
Poverty Action Network

December 5 (Friday) - Lecture / Talk
"Resistance and Empire" - A Free Public Lecture by Tariq Ali
Presented by Tariq Ali, author of "The Clash of Fundamentalisms: Crusades, Jihads, and Modernity" (2002) and "Bush in Babylon: The Recolonisation of Iraq" (2003), and editor of "New Left Review." He was the keynote speaker at the historic February 15th, 2003 rally in London preceding the Iraq War.  more...
various organizations

December 3 (Wednesday) - Panel / Forum
Iraq and the Middle East: Witness to Occupation
Just back from Iraq, Jordan, Israel and Palestine, members of Another World Is Possible will share their insights on Occupation and Apartheid.  more...
Phinney Neighbors for Peace and Justice