[SDCPJ] ACTIVIST EVENT ALERTS - Sunday SINGLE PAYER 4; 30 PM; Mon@ 7 ASD Gen. Meeting - Assessing Obama; Fri. = Poems from Guantanamo

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                           ACTIVIST EVENT ALERTS
    
           Sun, May 17, 4:30pm ;  SINGLE PAYER Health Reform

          Mon, May 18, 7PM: Round Table -- Obama's First 100 Day's
                     ASD GENERAL MEETING - ALL WELCOME

                  Thurs May 21, 5pm  "The Great Turning"

            Fri, May 22, 7:30 pm "Poems from Guantanamo"

                www.ActivistSanDiego.org  619-528-8383

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Sunday, May 17, 4:30 - 6:30 pm ;  Health Care Reform on the Agenda?

                     - Socialist Salon -
Discussions with Lefties on Burning Issues
For the first time in many years health care reform is being discussed seriously in the U.S. Congress. There is even a good chance that legislation providing some form of near-universal health insurance will pass and be signed by the President. The question is what will this reform look like? Almost everyone on the Left supports Single Payer health insurance.

Location: 6142 Romany Drive, SD 92120
Home of Herb Shore & Virginia Franco 619-287-5535
http://www.activistsandiego.org/wwwboard/viewtopic.php?t=19011

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           ACTIVIST SAN DIEGO GENERAL MEETING - ALL WELCOME
Monday, May 18, 7PM: ASD Round Table Discussion -- Obama's First 100 Day's

Just as quick as it has begun, the grassroots activism driving the Obama Campaign quieted into idle observance. Yet, the need for an organized and vigilante citizenry has never been more important.

Join us for a critical analysis of President Obama's early record and discussion of how to ensure a true peoples' agenda triumphs over corporate-centrism.
Joyce Beers Community Center 1220 Cleveland Street, Hillcrest, San Diego.  
http://www.activistsandiego.org/wwwboard/viewtopic.php?t=19001

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Thursday – May 21, 2009  5:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. "The Great Turning",

Where:  UCSD, Muir College, La Jolla
Biology Room 1103 -9500,  9500 Gilman Drive San Diego, California

Beth Johnson will lecture on, "The Great Turning", a movement toward a Life-Sustaining Global Community. Beth Johnson, has been involved in numerous social justice activities, including peace actions, immigration rights, marriage equality, and animal rights.

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Poems from Guantanamo — the Detainees Speak
Closing Guantanamo: Problems and Prospects

Since 2002, at least 775 men have been held in the U.S. detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. According to Department of Defense data, fewer than half of them are accused of committing any hostile act against the United States or its allies. In hundreds of cases, even the circumstances of their initial detainment are questionable.

Friday, May 22,  2009 7:30 pm.  "Poems from Guantanamo" is a collection of poems that gives voice to the men held at Guantánamo. Available only because of the tireless efforts of pro bono attorneys who submitted each line to Pentagon scrutiny, Poems from Guantanamo brings together twenty-two poems by seventeen detainees, most still at Guantanamo, in legal limbo.   The collection was arranged by Marc Falkoff, an assistant professor at the Northern Illinois University College of Law and attorney for several Guantanamo prisoners.

WHO     
    * Performance of selected poems by actors from "Write Out Loud."

    * A discussion by Professor Marjorie Cohn and Attorney Shereen Charlick, evaluating what must be done going forward to close Guantanamo, end torture, and secure justice for its victims.

      Marjorie Cohn is president of the National Lawyers Guild and a professor at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, where she teaches criminal law and procedure, evidence, and international human rights law. She lectures throughout the world on human rights and US foreign policy.

      Shereen Charlick is Chief Trial Attorney at Federal Defenders of San Diego.  Federal Defenders of San Diego currently represents two Guantanamo prisoners.

WHEN   * Friday, May 22,  2009 7:30 pm

WHERE  * First Unitarian Universalist Church
      4190 Front Street,Hillcrest,San Diego
      (opposite UCSD Medical Center)
      limited free parking in church ACE parking lot
Sponsored by
    * International Museum of Human Rights at San Diego
    * Amnesty International
    * Peace and Democracy Action Group. First Unitarian Universalist Church
    * National Lawyers Guild
Questions: 619.223.8074 or ahoiberg@aol.com
http://www.activistsandiego.org/wwwboard/viewtopic.php?t=19025

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