Past events

Eugene PeaceWorks Past Events:

"Toxic Sludge Is Good for You:
The Public Relations Industry Unspun"
Narrated by Amy Goodman

Monday, April 25th
Cozmic Pizza
(199W. 8th Ave. in Eugene)
7:30 pm

This engaging film focuses on the sleazy methods used to cynically shift our perceptions,
including the campaign to sneak genetically engineered produce past public scrutiny
and on to your family's dinner table.

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Where Do Your Tax Dollars Go?

“Tax Day Demonstration
and Noontime Redirection of Taxes”

Tuesday, April 15th
11am-5pm
Eugene Post Office, 5th and Willamette St.

Click on our calendar for details.

(Graphic from the
War Resister's League Pie Chart Handout)

On The Fifth Anniversary Of The Invasion Of Iraq:
"Sow Seeds Of Peace."

March 16, 2008

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Get involved by clicking here for upcoming events and links
to many local groups sponsoring this day of events.

From the new book by authors David Solnit and Aimee Allison,

Army of None:
Strategies for Countering Military Recruitment,
Ending War, and Building a Better World

http://www.myspace.com/armyofnonebook

Global justice and antiwar organizer - David Solnit
Iraq war veteran, president Seattle IVAW - Chanan Suarez Diaz

Address: The “Military Recruitment Complex”
& how to Counter it's Slick Media

Sunday, January 20th, Cozmic Pizza, 3-5 PM

Come and learn how to be part of the solution-
The Committee for Countering Military Recruitment

THE IRAN AGENDA:
The Real Story of U.S. Policy and the Middle East Crisis

Tuesday, November 27th, 2007

Harris Hall (8th and Oak.), 7 PM
&
LCC Forum Room #309 at 1 PM.

Includes a sneak preview of:
"REEL BAD ARABS - How Hollywood Vilifies a People."

Free admission, Donations encouraged!

Organized by Eugene Media Action, a committee of Eugene PeaceWorks.

Sponsors: Eugene Middle East Peace Group, UO Concerned Faculty for Peace and Justice, Lane Peace Center, SDS Lane Chapter, ASLCC and Eugene Weekly.

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Sunday, August 5th: Eugene, 6:30-9:30 p.m
Hiroshima-Nagasaki Commemoration.

Join us at the 2007 Hiroshima-Nagasaki commemoration at Alton Baker Park's small shelter,
located near the park entrance and the Duck Pond.
The event will start at 6:30 pm with a community potluck. People are urged to bring their own plates, cups & utensils.
At 7:30 pm there will be a program with speakers and music. The keynote speaker will be Lt. Ehren Watada's father, Bob Watada.
The event will close at 8:30 pm with the floating of candle lanterns on the Duck Pond.
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Wed., Aug. 8th, 2007, 5 PM
Gratitude for Peace Tour
Wayne Morse Free Speech Plaza, 125 E. 8th Ave., Eugene

SELECTED YOUTH FROM THE NONVIOLENCE LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE
Learn what others are doing to create peace in our families, our communities and in our domestic and foreign policy.
Refreshments provided.
Sponsored by the Institute for Community Leadership and the Martin Luther King Jr. Freedom Center
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March 17th, 2007 - March & Rally - Eugene, OR

Take Back Our America...
a coalition of peace, justice & environmental groups, invites the community to join thousands of Americans yearning for peace, economic justice and social equity as we march and rally for an end to the Iraq war and occupation and to bring our troops home.

March in the Streets
Gather at Lane County Fairgrounds, 13th and Monroe at 10:30 am
& March to the old Federal Bldg. 7th and Pearl for a noon rally.

See pictures of the Rally
Read Lt. Watada's Speech

Political Hip Hop Video of Ari Lesser

Speakers:
Eugene Mayor Kitty Piercy
Juan Stewart, Colorado student involved in the Iraq Body Count Exhibit
Joann Bowman, Oregon Action
Adele Kubein, Military Families Speak Out
Lt. Ehren Watada

Entertainers:
Ari Lesser, political rap artist
Keyboardist/Singer Scotty Perey and Friends
Eugene Diva Joanne Broh

Emcees:
Community activists Johnny Lake & Carmen Urbina

Sponsors:
Eugene-Springfield Solidarity Network, Community Alliance of Lane County (CALC), Justice Not War Coalition, Women’s Action for New Directions (WAND), CAUSA Immigrant Rights Coalition, Code Pink, Democratic Party of Lane County, Neighborhoods for Peace, Friendly Neighbors for Peace, Committee in Solidarity with Central American People (CISCAP), Pan Asian Community Alliance, Eugene PeaceWorks (EPW), Whiteaker Neighbors for Peace & Justice, Taxes for Peace Not War, Military Families Speak Out, Million Mom March, Oregon Action, Faith in Action, Springfield Peace Action Network (SPAN), Springfield Alliance for Equality and Respect (SAfER), Veterans Against Torture, Eugene Middle East Peace Group, Committee for Countering Military Recruitment, American Friends Service Committee, Oregon Toxics Alliance, O So Delicioso.
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RESISTING MINDLESS CONSUMPTION
AND THE CULTURE OF TOTAL WORK
- Curtis White

March 17th, 2007
Downtown Initiative for the Visual Arts (DIVA)

* Showing of the ground breaking film “Affluenza”

* Discussion led by Curtis White, Jan Spencer and other local advocates
for sustainable lifestyles, voluntary simplicity and community cohesion.

Dubbed “the most inspiringly wicked social critic of the moment,” novelist and essayist Curtis White is touring the Northwest this month with his new book, The Spirit of Disobedience: Resisting the Charms of Fake Politics, Mindless Consumption, and the Culture of Total Work (PoliPointPress.)
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The Freetones & More!

April, 20 2007 a Benefit Concert for Eugene Peace Works & MEMA @ Wildish Theater
630 Main Street, Springfield, Oregon 97477
Cost : 15.00
Start Time: 8 PM

This is a benefit concert for Eugene Peace Works. The Freetones will be sharing the stage with Natural Proggresion, Bazil Rathbone, Normal Bean, Paul Biondi/Ken Petersen,
and Samba Ja...

This show will be on TV through the Normal Bean Show. It will be televised and webcast on 94.9 fm on location.

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Speak your Peace - Poetry Slam to End the War!

Friday March 16, 2007 6 - 9 pm
Morning Glory Cafe
450 Willamette St, Eugene 97401

$1 - $100Billion (if you're the Pentagon and want to do something diffrent with your 2007 supplemental
appropriation) sliding scale donations to Support Eugene PeaceWorks cut_the_funding campaign
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"IRAQ FOR SALE"

Sunday Nov. 12th - Door 6 PM, Film 6:30 PM
Unitarian Universalist Church - 477 E. 40th
$$ Donations $$
To Benefit: Suzanne Swift Legal Defense Fund
w/ her mother, Sara Rich - speaking
www.suzanneswift.org
Sponsored by: UU Social Concerns Committee. Committee for Countering Military Recruitment, CALC and Eugene PeaceWorks

Eugene PeaceWorks Hosts:

Screenings of two HOT NEW FILMS!

Friday, Oct. 13th, 2006

$6-10

Cozmic Pizza
199 West 8th Ave.

"IRAQ FOR SALE"
7:00 PM

The story of what happens to everyday Americans when corporations go to war.

"I KNOW I'M NOT ALONE"

Michael Franti's New Film
8:30 PM
A Musicians Journey Through War in the Middle East.

sir no sir

A Benefit for: the Committee for Countering Military Recruitment

SIR! NO SIR!

An intense and insightful film
by David Zeigler
documenting G.I. Resistance to Vietnam!

This Sunday, August 13th, 2006
Time: 11AM
Bijou Art Cinemas

Click to view movie trailer

the COUP!!
Not Your Soldier Tour!
Politically HOT HIP-HOP

at Sam Bond's Garage
July 31st , 2006

“Resisting the Green Scare-A Night of Solidarity
with Eco-Defense Prisoners”
7PM, Sunday June 11th, 2006
at Sam Bond’ s Garage, 407 Blair Blvd,

Will consist of speakers and music.
With award-winning author Derrick Jensen

December 7, 2005, marked the beginning of the largest roundup of environmental and animal rights activists in U.S. history. There have now been nearly 20 arrests and many Grand Jury subpoenas.
Environmental activist Jeff “Free” Luers received a disproportionately long sentence (22.8 years) after confessing to attempting to burn three SUVs at a Romania dealership in Eugene, OR.

For event details: click here
For more on the Green Scare: click here

First they came for the communists and I did not speak out - because I was not a communist.

Then they came for the Jews and I did not speak out - because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for the trade unionists and I did not speal out - because I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for me - and there was no one left to speak out for me.

-Pastor Martin Niemoller (Nazi concentration camp survivor)

RESIST THE GRAND JURY! RESIST THE LOSS OF OUR CIVIL LIBERTIES!
JAIL THE REAL ECO-TERRORISTS NOT ECO-DEFENDERS!
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DAVID BARSAMIAN

National Radio Producer, Author,
Founder/Director - Alternative Radio

“ Another World Is Possible: People Power in the Age of Empire.”

In Eugene on:
Monday 4/24/06 at the Fir Room, UO EMU (13th & Univ.); Noon to 2 PM
Harris Hall (8th & Oak) at 7:30 PM

FREE!
Donations encouraged.

GRIEF AND UNITY
IRAQ & AFGHANISTAN
A MEMORIAL GATHERING

WHERE: University of Oregon
13th, between Fenton and Friendly Bldings.

WHEN: APRIL 19TH, 2006 3:30PM-6:30PM

Volunteers needed day of event.

This is not a protest
and is not intended to promote any political agenda.
Grief and Unity

Speakers Clearinghouse and Eugene Media Action

Date: October 23, 2005
Time: 6:30-Doors Open,
7pm David Rovics followed by Norman Solomon
Location: First United Methodist Church (1376 Olive St.)

FEATURED SPEAKER - Norman Solomon

National columnist and media critic; Norman Solomon is a journalist whose accuracy and courage in revealing the media bias "behind the news" informs and inspires audiences around the country. Fall Book Tour for his new book War Made Easy

FEATURED PERFORMER-

David Rovics

is an indie singer/ songwriter described as one of the best in the English-speaking world today. His political songs are so effective because they are both politically sharp and contain beautiful poetry. He has shared the stage with the likes of Pete Seeger, Michael Moore, Billy Bragg, Howard Zinn and John McCutcheon.

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The Presidential Election, 2004 And Beyond:
WHAT'S AT STAKE
w/ Daniel Ellsberg, Medea Benjamin, Norman Solomon
Speaker Reception & Appreciation and Recognition Awards for
WWII Hero Dr. Eugene Lazowski & Vietnam War Hero Daniel Ellsberg
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An EPW Report Back From:
An International
Women's Consultation for Trainers
Chiang Mai, Thailand
Click here for report

The Benefit Calendar

You've been hearing about

Thanks to Gail and the staff at the Morning Glory Café for recognizing our financial needs and being willing to help “BARE” the burden with their 2005 Calendar, Power to the Peaceful. This risqué and humorous calendar goes beyond “skin-deep” support. Calendar sales will go to support Eugene PeaceWorks and ultimately the Committee for Countering Military Recruitment.