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            ACT   OUT   MUSICAL   THEATRE

                                                              Presents


                              KIDZ  ROCK  BROADWAY!

                                     A musical cabaret

Sunday,    March 4, 2007

2 shows:  11:00 am   and    2:00 pm          All  tickets   $8.00

 YMCA Boulton Center for the Performing Arts

37 West Main Street   Bay Shore NY 11706


for tickets and information please call 631-665-4255, ext 148

or visit www.boultoncenter.org <http://www.boultoncenter.org/>;   - education

 

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PEACE    NEWS     &      DEMONSTRATIONS

Saturday demonstrations at various military recruiting stations. 
Join NCPG at the corner of Bennets Rd. and Rte. 25A in Setauket.
The group has been meeting resistance and threats from pro-war folks
who have labeled the corner "Coward's Corner." We will
reclaim the street, naming it "Resistance Row" or
"Bring the Troops Home Blvd." (kudos to Brian O.).
Bring your signs, bring your friends.

Note: The Bellport Women In Black will also be holding
their vigil on Saturday from 11-11:45 a.m. on the
corner of Station Rd. and S. Country Road. This group
has been harassed by a local fire dept. member,

Please come out in solidarity with either of these
groups. The occupation in Iraq is becoming such an
obvious failure it is hard to hide it even from the
corporate news. This appears to be making die-hard
bush followers as defensive as possible. Your support
is needed and appreciated.

See you Saturdays...


In Peace,
Karen
631-875-8647
www spv dot active dot ws

When I was in the military they gave me a medal for killing two men and a
discharge for loving one.  ~Epitaph of Leonard P. Matlovich, 1988
 

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News,  events,  &  workshops   in  the  poetry  community  from   Barbara Reiher-Meyers

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NO NUKES! NO WARS!
End War Profiteering! Support Indigenous Rights!


ACTION IDEAS
Based on your group's capacity and background, you could organize anything:

    * marches
    * civil disobedience
    * citizen’s inspections
    * events that promote the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Commitments Act
(H. Res. 373) (http://www.august6.org/hr_373)
    * teach-ins
    * educational events
    * outreach.

You might want to organize a bus trip to one of the larger regional events, or a
protest at a nuclear power plant that Bechtel built
(http://www.august6.org/whereis_bechtel) or at another nuclear profiteer’s
facility or office (http://www.august6.org/war_profiteers), such as BWX
Technologies, Lockheed Martin or Raytheon.

We especially encourage civil disobedience and nonviolent direct action. Let’s
use our people power to confront key pillars of war and empire -- including
corporations like Bechtel. Be sure to list the activities that you are planning
on the august6.org calendar: http://www.august6.org/add_event.

At the 2004 World Social Forum, Arundhati Roy called on people to identify and
locate the offices of Iraq war profiteers “in every city and every country across
the world” and “go after them.”
(http://www.forumsocialmundial.org.br/dinamic.php?pagina=arundhati_2004_ing) She
continued, “We could shut them down. It’s a question of bringing our collective
wisdom and experience of past struggles to bear on a single target. It’s a
question of the desire to win.”

WE CAN WIN
Recently, the Western Shoshone Nation and its supporters helped to postpone
indefinitely the “Divine Strake” simulated nuclear test explosion at the Nevada
Test Site that could have exposed people who live downwind from a dust cloud of
radioactive particulates. Indigenous resistance in Cochabamba, Bolivia, forced
that government to cancel Bechtel’s contract after the company privatized
Cochabamba’s water systems and sent prices skyrocketing. In San Francisco,
activists helped to defeat Bechtel’s plans to privatize water in their hometown.

WHO WE ARE
This call was initiated by the UFPJ Nuclear Disarmament/Redefining Security
Working Group in collaboration with an ad hoc coalition of local and regional
groups organizing August 6-9 actions.

Our efforts are intended to complement the United Nations’ International Day of
the World’s Indigenous People (Aug. 9 -- 
http://www.un.org/depts/dhl/indigenous/); Global Call Iraq’s call for civil
resistance to end the Iraq occupation (Aug. 6-9 --
http://www.globalcalliraq.org/); the War Resisters League’s “Stop the Merchants
of Death” campaign and its upcoming conference on war profiteering (Sept. 29-Oct.
2 -- http://www.warresisters.org/smod/smod_hp.shtml), United for Peace and
Justice’s Nuclear Disarmament Campaign
(http://unitedforpeace.org/article.php?type=71&list=type) and No War on Iran
Campaign (http://www.unitedforpeace.org/iran), and growing efforts to link the
anti-nuclear, anti-war, anti-corporate globalization and indigenous rights
movements around common themes. We also hope to build momentum for the September
21-28 week of resistance to end the occupation of Iraq:
http://www.declarationofpeace.org/.

THAW      Theaters  Against  War  
  

For friends of THAW in the NYC area, please join us for two events to benefit the Al Rowwad Children’s Theatre.  Al Rowwad is a theatre and cultural center the Aida Refugee Camp, Bethlehem that is attempting to provide a safe and healthy environment to help children develop their creativity and discharge the stress of the war conditions they are forced to live in.  Back in 2005, THAW hosted a benefit for Al Rowwad which featured Tony Kushner, as well as other noted theatre personalities.  During their subsequent tour of the United States, individual THAW members formed a working relationship with Al Rowwad.  For more information on the center, please see the descriptions at the bottom of this email.


 Event In NYC…
 Beautiful Resistance: an evening of film to support the Al Rowwad Children’sTheatre.
 Featuring the documentary film “Visit Palestine” by Henry Chalfant, and two short films,  “Nakba” and “The Exam”  by Dr. Abdelfattah Abusrour.  The filmmakers will join us for a post-film discussion.
 
 Thursday, January 25, 2007
 7:30 @ The Brecht Forum, 451 West St. between Bank and Bethune*
 (7:30 Wine and cheese reception, screening starts at 8:00)
 Sliding Scale Admission $6-10-15
 
 Henry Chalfant is a documentary filmmaker and photographer well known for his work on urban culture and graffiti art and his seminal film “Style Wars.” His most recent film “From Mambo to Hip Hop” was featured at Lincoln Center’s “Dance on Film” Festival and on PBS.   “Visit Palestine” chronicles a visit he made with the human rights group MADRE just prior to the second Intifada.
 Dr. Abdelfattah Abusrour is the Director of Al Rowwad Children’s Theatre and the first Palestinian recipient of an Ashoka Fellowship (2006-2009) acknowledging “system-changing solutions for the world’s most urgent problems.”
 *For directions to the Brecht Forum go to  www.brechtforum.org
 
 Just North of NYC…

Friday, January 26th @ 7:30


Join Tony-nominated actress Kathleen Chalfant, acclaimed

Palestinian-American playwright Betty Shamieh, and

accomplished Israeli-American jazz pianist Liz Magnes for

an evening of culture and performance to benefit the children of Al Rowwad.


Live in Chappaqua, New York at the Horace Greeley Auditorium

For more info go to www.wespac.org

 Al-Rowwad Cultural and Theatre Center is dedicated to the training of children in Aida Camp-Bethlehem to help them overcome the repercussions of military occupation.  As an independent, non-governmental organization, the center also offers educational and cultural programs which promote human rights.

In addition to their work in Palestine, Al Rowwad has toured theatres in Europe and North America.  These tours bring to the confined children the invaluable experience of traveling to foreign lands, while educating international audiences about the realities of life in the occupied territories.


 "Theater is a powerful tool of expression. It allows the children to manage and release all the anger, frustration, and pressure they live under, and to deliver their message in a peaceful, nonviolent, and civilized way. It also shows them how educating themselves in different fields is vital, and that they can't build their country by fighting in the streets."
                                                                                               
 -Abdelfattah Abu-Srour,
Director of Al-Rowwad and the first Palestinian recipient of an Ashoka Fellowship (2006-2009) acknowledging “system changing solutions for the world’s most urgent problems.”

For more information visit www.alrowwad.virtualactivism.net
 
 These events are  sponsored by Theaters Against War and WESPAC Foundation.

 
THAW is an international network of theater artists
responding to the United States' ongoing
"War on Terror," aggressive and unilateral foreign
policies, and escalating attacks on civil liberties
in the US and throughout the world.
THAW seeks to encourage the growth of a
pro-peace culture.

 Last day of the tally is the last day December 2006.