Oakland Events for Peace & Justice on March 24th

 

Congresswoman Barbara Lee's Town Hall Meeting on Iraq

10am-Noon

Grand Lake Theater

 

 

March to City Hall

Noon @ Lake Merritt (Grand & MacArthur)

Rally @ City Hall

Speakers:
Congresswoman Lee, Assembly Members Sandre Swanson & Loni Hancock, Office of the Mayor, Council President Ignacio DeLaFuente, Council Member Jean Quan, School Board President David Kakashiba, Vice President of the Oakland Education Association Trish Gorham, Alameda Labor Council Secretary Treasurer Sharon Cornu, speakers from the Oakland Community Organizations, Oakland Coalition of Congregations, Youth Together, and other Community Organizations

 

 

 

Other Events:

Envisioning Peace Concert, music and spoken word to inspire peace, 7 pm at Fruitvale Presbyterian Church, 2735 MacArthur Blvd at Coolidge. Music by Damond Moodie, the Apple Pie Hopes, Phoenix & Luke Thomas of After Buffalo, and the Renaissance School Chorus. Donations $5-10, youth free. 530-0915.

 

I knew that America would never invest the necessary funds or energies in rehabilitation of its poor so long as adventures like Vietnam continued to draw men and skills and money like some demonic destructive suction tube. So I was increasingly compelled to see the war as an enemy of the poor and to attack it as such.
Martin Luther King, Jr., "Beyond Vietnam," 1967