Events
Events listed are not necessarily endorsed or organized by UFPJ. This calendar is maintained as a resource for the entire peace and justice movement. For further information about any event listed, please click on the event listing and contact the person and/or email address listed as the contact for the specific event.
When looking at events in a particular category, please note that states appear in alphabetical order according to their postal code, not their name. E.g. North Carolina is listed before New Jersey, because "NC" comes before "NJ.
Phoenix, ArizonaRSVP • Afghanistan No Escalation
4:30
Multi-Day Event
Emergency Community Response
The Day After President Obama Announces a Troop Escalation in Afghanistan!!!
(except if the announcement is on a Saturday, for which we will respond the following Monday)
Time: Beginning at 4:30 p.m. the day after the announcement (or on Monday, if it is announced on Saturday.)
If a Friday annoucement beginning at 10:00 a.m Saturday. IT HAS BEEN REPORTED THAT THE ANNOUNCEMENT WILL TAKE PLACE TUESDAY SO BE PREPARED TO JOIN US THIS WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 2.
Where: The intersection of 24th Street and Camelback Road Phoenix
What: A Tug of Warfare (at a cost of one million dollars per year to keep one soldier or 30 billion for 30,000 more solders in Afghanistan for a year) versus Healthcare in the intersection. Bannering. amelback.
Candlelight Vigil starting around 5:30 p.m.
Bring: candles, signs opposing the Afghanistan escalation and where you believe our money could be better used, drums and other musical instruments. If you have one, wear your "War is Costly, Peacs is Priceless" t-shirt.
Why: It is anticipated that on Tuesday night President Obama will be announcing a significant escalation of more troops sent to Afghanistan. Is that what you want? Is that in the national interest? Is that what our country needs? If he announces a withdrawal we will have a community celebration. We have to help make the change we want in the world. Below is an alternative "no more trooops to Afghanistan" announcement, drafted by Tom Englehartdt, that we would like President Obama to make.
For more information contact endthewarcoalition@cox.net call (480).894.2024, or go to www.azpeace.tk
Tucson, ArizonaPeace Rally
Thursday, December 3rd 2009 5PM
Join our rally to oppose the escalation of the Afghanistan war. Bring our troops home now!
Bring flags, candles, signs and your voices.
Hollywood, CaliforniaMarch to Stop the Wars
Saturday, March 20th 2010 12:00
People from all over Southern California and surrounding states are organizing to converge on Los Angeles on Saturday, March 20, 12 noon, Hollywood and Vine. That day, there will also be a national march on Washington, D.C., and a regional action in San Francisco. We will march together to say “No Colonial-type Wars and Occupations in Afghanistan, Iraq, Palestine!" We will march together to say "Reparations for the people of Haiti!” Instead of war and occupation, we will demand funds so that every person can have a job, free and universal health care, decent schools, and affordable housing.
March 20 is the seventh anniversary of the criminal war of aggression launched by Bush and Cheney against Iraq. One million or more Iraqis have died. Tens of thousands of U.S. troops have lost their lives or been maimed, and continue to suffer a whole host of enduring problems from this terrible war. Now, the Obama administration has continued the war and escalated the war on Afghanistan.
This is the time for united action. The slogans on banners may differ, but all those who carry them should be marching shoulder to shoulder.
Mountain View, CaliforniaRSVP • Mountain View protests escalation
Friday, December 4th 2009 6:00 pm
Streetcorner protest with signs and candles
San Francisco, CaliforniaRSVP • Sunrise CodePINK (RE)Commitment Ceremony
Friday, January 1st 2010 6:30 am
Let’s begin our new year, our new decade, with an inspirational CodePINK: Women for Peace Sunrise (RE)Commitment Ceremony New Year’s Day. We will build a bonfire on the beach, sing, talk, chant, and revive our wills, fine tune our commitments, stoke our determination.
Upland, California Afghanistan No Escalation 2009
Saturday, December 5th 2009 4:30pm
Gathering of local individuals against war near Upland,CA. Greet and Meet and Viewing of Rethink Afghanistan Documentary by Robert Greenwald.
Ventura, CaliforniaRSVP • Peaceful Resolutions for Afghanistan: War is not the answer
2 PM
Weekly Event
Every Saturday
March and Rally to end the war in Afghanistan and pursue the progressive social, economic and environmental agenda here at home.
denver, ColoradoAFSC vigil
Thursday, December 3rd 2009 4:30
come to the state capital on the sidewalk. WAR IS NOT THE ANWSER
afsc is sponcer. Come peacefully express your disappointment
Washington DC, District of ColumbiaRSVP • Emergency Anti-Escalation Rally
Saturday, December 12th 2009 11
Mass Protest against Escalation and warning to Obama of reprisals if escalation is announced. Speakers Chris Hedges, David Swanson, Mike Gravel, Betty Hall, Granny D, Cynthia McKinney, others
Miami Gardens, FloridaRSVP • No to Escalation! Peace Now!
Friday, December 4th 2009 4 p.m.
First Friday of every month until the wars and occupations in Afghanistan and Iraq are over.
Honk-and-wave in rush hour traffic.
Out of Iraq!
Out of Afghanistan!
Cut the military budget!
Peace Now!
Athens, GeorgiaStop the Escalation! Troops out of Afghanistan Now!
Saturday, December 12th 2009 2:00
Join us Saturday, December 12th at 2:00pm to protest against President Obama's decision to send 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan. We elected Obama to end this war, so everybody come out and demand that we bring the troops home now, not in 2011!!!
We will have some signs and posters available, but it wouldn't hurt to bring your own either. Make colorful slogans!
Oak Park, IllinoisRSVP • Season of Peace Vigil
7PM
Weekly Event
Every Friday 7PM to 8PM
Peace Vigil -- front steps of First United Church of Oak Park -- we will pray, sing, light candles and discuss Peace
Salem, MassachusettsVigil - No Funding Wars & Occupations
Saturday, March 20th 2010 10:00 A.M.
Come join us in our Vigil for Peace -
U.S. In Iraq 8 Years
U.S. In Afghanistan - 9th year
No funding for Wars and Occupations
"Yes" to funding people's needs: Housing, Health, Food Education, Jobs, Clean Elections, Peace
Saturday, March 20, 2010 - 10:00 AM-11:00 AM Riley Plaza (Front of Post Office) Salem, MA.
Bronxville, New York"War Is Not The Answer"
Wednesday, March 3rd 2010 7:00 PM
Strategies on how to engage Congress and end the war in Afghanistan. Talk given by Matt Southworth, an Iraqi War Veteran just out of college and now working with the Friends Committee on National Legislation. Hear his experiences and how they relate to his work on the “War Is Not the Answer” Campaign. Hear about what the FCNL sees happening on Capitol Hill as it relates to the war in Afghanistan; and how together we can bring this war to an end.
Hastings-on-Hudson, New YorkRSVP • Demo against escalation
noon
Multi-Day Event
A vigil/demo against escalation in Afghanistan.
Cincinnati, OhioHealthcare Not Warfare Candlelight Vigil
Friday, December 4th 2009 4:45pm
Healthcare, not Warfare Candlelight Vigil at University Hospital Friday
Friday evening (December 4) Join us at the corner of Martin Luther King Drive and Highland Ave in front of University Hospital in a “Healthcare, not Warfare Candlelight Vigil.” We will create a unified voice in favor of healing the wounds of war, not creating more; and to stop spending on destruction so we can support healthcare. The vigil will take place from 4:45-6pm. Sponsored by IJPC. Contact by email or call 513-579-8547 for more info!
Kent, OhioRSVP • No Escalation! End the Wars!
Sunday, December 6th 2009 6:00pm
Escalation is not an exit strategy! Protest at 6pm Sunday Dec 6 at the
corner of Main & Franklin,downtown kent. Bring noise makers, candles,
signs, drums, voices, friends.....
We have been gathering on the corner every sunday for 8 years and will continue to do so.. if you can't make it this week, join us in the future.
Logan, UtahCandle-light Peace Vigil
Friday, December 4th 2009 5 pm
All are invited to attend a special candle-light Peace Vigil to protest the escalation of the war in Afghanistan this Friday, December 4th from 5pm - 6pm on the east side of Main Street between Center Street and 100 N, Logan. This non-violent public event has been on-going every Friday since September 2005 and is sponsored by Cache Valley Peace Works, Logan Friends Meeting (Quakers), Cache Valley Unitarian Universalists, and Mormons for Equality and Social Justice, Cache Valley Chapter. E-mail info@loganpeace.org if you have questions
Salt Lake City, UtahAfghanistan: No Escalation Vigil
Thursday, December 3rd 2009 5:30pm
Sidewalk Vigil on southeast corner of 100 South State Street in Salt Lake City!
Demand to bring our troops home - not to put more troops in!
Bring signs!
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