Mobilize for Peace

The Greens and others in the coalition had been mobilized to protest the World Bank/IMF in Washington next week. Now that energy is being redirected into peace meetings.

In Washington, there will be antiwar activity on the weekend of Sept 29 - 30, with a new organizing coalition coming together with the Washington Peace Center, among others. The DC Statehood Green Party is a co-sponsor of a public teach-in, “Don’t Turn Tragedy into War.” That will be held on Thursday, the 20th at 7 pm at Meridian Hill Baptist Church, 16th and Lamont Street NW. The Mobilization for Global Justice will be holding a peoples summit.

In San Francisco, this Thursday, 9/20/01 at 7:00 P.M. there will be a town hall meeting against hate and war… that will address, amongst other issues, “…the rising tide of hate crimes against our brothers and sisters in the Arab, Middle Eastern and Muslim communities at home and what we can do about it …”; this will be at the Women’s Building on 3543 18th St.

[sub]As I get more information, I will post it here. Please share your information on the peace effort.[/sub]

This site is great for coordinating nonviolent actions worldwide, check it out:
http://pax.protest.net/

Upcoming events in Washington include:

Monday 9/24: Justice Without Violence
Rally for Restraint: Prevent Further Bloodshed
12 noon-2 PM, Farragut Square
Questions/support: tothetable@hotmail.com
(202) 271-2869

September 27-28
People’s Summit to Globalize Justice & Peace
Panel: Globalizing Justice & Peace
6:30 pm Friday, September 28
St. Stephen’s Church 1525 Newton Street, NW
Washington, DC

People’s Summit Workshops September 27 & 28
9:00 am-6:00 pm
Luther Place Memorial Church
1226 Vermont Avenue NW
Noam Chomsky will be one of the featured speakers at these events.

e-mail peoplessummit@hotmail.com
(202) 265-7714

Saturday September 29:
War & Racism Are NOT the Answer!
National Rally, Washington, DC
11 a.m. at the White House
Coordinated activities around the world
International Act Now to Stop War & End Racism (A.N.S.W.E.R.)

e-mail: iacenterddc@yahoo.com
Washington phone # (202) 543-2777
NY phone # (212) 633-6646

Sunday, September 30:
Peace March coordinated by the Washington Peace Center
http://www.washingtonpeacecenter.org/
http://www.washingtonpeacecenter.org/html/calendar.html
details to follow.

Washington, DC
Community Peace March
Sunday, September 30th

Assemble 11 am at Meridian Hill Park (aka Malcolm X Park) at 16th and Euclid St. NW

March at noon, followed by a community gathering to celebrate the principles of peace, social and economic justice, protection of civil liberties and respect and dignity for all people.
http://www.washingtonpeacecenter.org/

THE PEOPLE’s SUMMIT: TO GLOBALIZE JUSTICE AND PEACE
Thursday, September 27 and Friday, September 28

“The People’s Summit: To Globalize Justice and Peace” was
organized to coincide with the annual meetings of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund to create alternative spaces for dialogue and education, to bring together and strengthen the many strands of the Global Justice movement. In light of the tragic events of September 11, 2001, the Summit has adjusted to fit a changed local and global reality. We mourn the most recent victims of a global culture of violence, and pledge our efforts towards preventing the continued loss of life. We still believe Another World is Possible! Join us on September 27-28, in dialogue, reflection and exchange as we continue to build another world together.

PEOPLE’S SUMMIT WORKSHOPS (see below for detailed list)
SEPTEMBER 27 & 28
9:00am - 6:00pm
Luther Place Memorial Church
1226 Vermont Avenue NW
(14th and N St., NW, Closest Metro Orange/Blue line:
McPherson Square)
Thursday, September 27:

10:30 - 11:45

a… Economic Democracy, Decentralization, Bio-regions,
and Co-ops
b… Capitalist Globalization and the Bush Program
c… Global Enforcement: fighting the Military Industrial
Complex
d… World Bank and IMF for Beginners
12:00 – 1:15

a… Inner and Outer Ecology
b… Fighting the Global Trend on Water Privatization
1:30 – 2:45

a… The Effects of Corporate Globalization on People’s
Food
b… Iraq Sanctions
c… World Bank Bond Boycott
d… The Threat to Basic Services: The WB‚Äôs New Approach
to Private
Sector
Development
3:00 – 4:15

a… Anatomy of a Movement: the Zapatista
Rebellion/Lessons Learned for
Movement Building
b… Israel-Palestine Crisis
c… Charleston Five
a… Education and Globalization: Strategies for
Pre-University Students
4:30 – 5:45

a… Washington, D.C.: Neo-colonialism in the Nation’s
Capitol
b… Agriculture, Community, and Food Security in 2001
c… The Case for Socialism
Friday, September 28:

9:00 – 10:15

a… Intergenerational Discussion for Men on the Sexism in
the Movement
b… Strategic Direct Action
c… Globalization and Arab Workers
d… Women’s Intergenerational Dialogue on Sexism
e… The 21st Century: What Kind of World Will it be?
10:30 - 11:45

a… A Practical Alternative: Citizen Policies
b… Anti-Arab Racism and Anti-Semitism in Europe and the
US
c… Corporate Power: The Perversion of the Constitutional
Promise of
Democracy
d… Fighting Sexism: Dialogue between the Sexes and
Generations
12:00 – 1:15

a… Bigger and Badder than the Bank: Export Credit
Agencies and
Corporate-led Globalization
b… Organizing Against the Plan Puebla Panama
c… Transforming US Democracy: Global Justice Starts at
Home
d… Participatory Economic Vision
1:30-5:45

a… JUSTICE DIALOGUE: Where do we go from here?
b… Anti-racism for Global Justice: A workshop on
Confronting Racism
Within
the Movement
1:30 – 2:45

a… Realizing Democracy: Visions and Models for
Decentralized
Political and
Economic Democracy
b… International Solidarity With Oscar Olivera
c… Islam is Not the Enemy, War is Not the Answer:
Fighting for
Justice in
the Middle East
3:00 – 4:15

a… The World Bank’s Destruction of the African
University System
b… Indigenous Sovereignty and Globalism
c… The Indian Resistance to Corporate-Centered
Globalization: The
Narmada
River Valley Movement
4:30 – 5:45

a… Organizing against Police Brutality Locally and
Globally
b… Columbia Heights: Gentrification and Alternatives
Militarization of Space: the Enforcement Arm for
Globalization

PANEL: GLOBALIZING JUSTICE AND PEACE
6:30pm, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28
ST. STEPHEN’S CHURCH 1525 Newton St, NW
( 16th and Newton, Near Green Line Metro: Columbia Heights)

Invited Speakers:
Rabab Abdulhadi, Professor American University, Cairo
Michael Albert, Z Magazine
Molly Dhlamini, Student Union for Christian Action, South Africa
Vanessa Dixon, Healthcare Now!
Michael Hardt, author of Empire
Gloria La Riva, Media Workers Union, San Francisco
Chronicle and IAC
Ahmed Shawki, Editor, International Socialist Review
Michele Tingling-Clemmons, National Welfare Rights Union and League of Revolutionaries for a New America
Clemente (Ibe) Wilson, Kuna Youth Movement, Panama/Colombia
Musical Performance by David Rovics
For more information and a complete schedule of workshops,
go to
http://www.globalizethis.org,
e-mail peoplessummit@hotmail.com or call 202-265-7714
Free and Open to the Public
Sponsored by the Mobilization for Global Justice