Wonder what's happening at RCNV? Seven 1/2 time staff (3.5
full time equivalent staff) plan, develop, raise funds
and administer an enormous program. This is a list of
some of
RCNV's activities during 2002.
ONGOING:
Year-round Youth Soccer Leagues in Lower Ocean & Beach
Flats; Weekly Peace Vigils ¶ Santa Cruz Peacemakers Meetings
¶ Death Penalty Focus ¶ Iraq Action Network ¶
Draft and Military Counseling ¶ Santa Cruz Art &
Revolution ¶ Web Site Management ¶ Management of
11 low cost rental units ¶ Management of the New Society
Book Store ¶ Special Productions -- Martin Luther King
Posters, audio and video tapes of speakers, event calendars,
Earth Flags, 80 Theses for Israeli Palestinian Peace, "Yes
to Coexistence No to Violence" Bumper Stickers, "No
War Agains Iraq" posters.
JANUARY:
John McCutcheon in Concert ¶ Nonviolence study Group
focus on Dr.Martin Luther King, Jr. ¶ Storytellers for
Peace, Stories and Poetry ofRumi and Hafiz ¶
FEBRUARY:
Booktalk with Michael Nagler author of "Is There No Other
Way? The Search for a Nonviolent Future" ¶ David
Barsamian "Radio Interviewing" Workshop ¶ Nonviolence
Reading & Discussion Group Focus on Michael Nagler's book
¶ Panel Discussion: A Two State Solution: Israel and
Palestine ¶ Booktalk with Sasha Abramsky: "Hard
Time Blues: HowPolitics Built a Prison Nation" ¶
"A Moral Response to Terrorism: Conscience in a Time
of War" Study Series ¶ Booktalk with John Stauber:
"Trust Us, We're Experts: How Industry Manipulates Science
and Gambles with Your Future" ¶ Film Premiere, "The
Good War - and Those Who Refused to Fight It" ¶
Booktalk with Randy Schutt: "Inciting Democracy: A Practical
Proposal for Creating a Good Society" ¶
MARCH: Video/talk "Who Bombed
Judi Bari" ¶ Interfaith Prayer Vigil for Peace &
Justice ¶ Economic Stations of the Cross
APRIL: Dr. Helen Caldicott: The
New Nuclear Danger- Why We Can't Let the Military-Industrial
Complex Determine Foreign Policy ¶ Earth Day ¶ Wisdom
of the Rainforest Discussion Group on Nonviolence¶ Everybody
Dance for Peace Benefit for RCNV ¶ Interfaith Peace Builders
Delegation to Israel & Palestine ¶ Imagine Festival
¶ Conscience in a Time of War Study Group
MAY: The Ethics of War &
Peace in an Age of Globalization ¶ Charlie King &
Karen Brandow in concert ¶ Cesar Chavez 2002 Peace Essay
Contest ¶ James Gilligan's "On Violence" Reading/Discussion
Group ¶ Palestine/Israel Delegation Report ¶ Nonviolent
Resistance Actions at Vandenberg Air Force Base ¶ Peacemakers
Potluck and Social ¶ Peacemakers Celebration Poetry Reading
by Guarionex Delgado ¶ Critique of RCNV Middle East Program
¶ Endorse the Peace Action Campaign Ad
JUNE:
Congresswoman Barbara Lee
SEPTEMBER:
Forum: The War on Terrorism: a Just War or Just More War?
Is Iraq Next and Why? ¶ "Right to a Home and a Homeland"
House Meetings ¶ Interfaith Vigil of Remembrance &
Peace ¶ Fall Study Series: Afghanistan's Place on the
Grand Chessboard ¶ Lessons from the Peace Accords with
Bronagh Hines, Northern Ireland Women's Coalition, & Barbara
Ferris, founder of International Women's Democracy Center
¶ Eyewitness Reports from the Jenin Refugee Camp in Palestine
¶ MidEast Film
Series ¶ Forum: After September 11: Will the Patriot
Act Make Us Safer? ¶ Peace Workers: a Nonviolent Communication
Workshop for You ¶ Zé Manel
Benefit Concert for RCNV ¶ Study Group on The War on
Terrorism ¶ Video on the Patriot Act ¶ Iraq Peace
Pledge and "Iraq Pledge of Resistance" to oppose
a US attack on Iraq ¶ Iraq Action Network tabling, media
work, letters, demonstrations, congressional delegations ¶
OCTOBER:
Booksigning with Stephen Zunes: "Tinderbox: U.S. Middle
East Policy and the Roots of Terrorism" ¶ Delegation
to the Middle East ¶ Pat Humphries/ Sandy Opatow House
Concert ¶ Fireworks and Apple Pie RCNV Benefit; Free
Trade vs. Fair Trade Public Forum ¶ People's History
of U.S. Study Group ¶ San Francisco International Mobilization
& Opposition to War Against the People of Iraq-Rally &
March ¶ People of Faith Talk About Iraq ¶ Mid-East
Update
NOVEMBER: War in the Middle East
Forum with Medea Benjamin, Barbara Lubin, Stephen Zunes ¶
UCSC/Israeli/ Palestinian Dialog ¶ RCNV Annual Dinner
with Kevin Danaher ¶ Family Sing along with Peter Blood
and Annie Patterson of Rise Up Singing fame ¶ Campaign
to Halt Plans for War, End the Sanctions, Respect Ramadan
¶ Visit by Palestine General Federation of Trade Unions
¶
DECEMBER: Very
popular Web posting of Anti-Corporate And other mischievous
political Holiday Carols ¶ Israel/Palestine crisis update
with Husam & Jumanah Jubran ¶ support for development
of regional peace action involvement by organized labor ¶
participate in Iraq Action Network planning for emergency
action in the case of War on Iraq ¶ A True Change of
Regime present to Trinity Presbyterian Church by Steering
Committee member Rev. Darrell Darling ¶ Trading Freedom
-- The Secret Life of the Free Trade Area of Americas (the
Oxygen Collective, an activist network from So. Oregon) ¶
RCNV New Society Book Store Annual Birthday & Holiday
Sale ¶
