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Veterans For Peace Chapter 72
Tuesday, August 9th, 6:00pm
Friends Meeting House, 4312 SE Stark
Phone Contact (503) 282-5015
Veterans for Peace, Inc. (VFP) is a non-profit 501(c)(3) educational and humanitarian organization dedicated to the abolishment of war. Veterans, and friends and family of veterans, are welcome to join VFP Chapter 72 on the second Tuesday of each month at 6:00pm.
Are You Working for Peace -
and Paying for War??
August 15th, 7:00pm - 8:00pm
Laughing Horse Books, 3652 SE Division
Portland War Resisters League (503) 238-0605
So: you've realized that your federal taxes buy carnage and fuel the war machine - and you aren't really sure what you can do about it? This workshop will outline several options to resisting and redirecting federal war taxes. All reference materials provided are free (but spare change donations to the ever-generous Laughing Horse Books accepted.).
www.nwtrcc.org
End Corporate Personhood
Tuesday, August 2nd, 16th, 6:00pm
First Unitarian Church, SW 12th & Salmon
Phone Contact: Marcia Meyers, (503) 665-3957
We are a Portland-based group, part of a national movement dedicated to ending corporate personhood and returning democracy to We the People. Please join us at our General Meetings where we discuss alternatives to the current economic system, draft and help implement legislation redefining personhood, educate the public on the subject, and more! -End Corporate Personhood Oregon
Multnomah Co. Democrats Health Care Working Group
Friday, August 26th 2005, 7:00pm
232 N.E. 9th Ave., Dem. Party of OR office
Sponsor Mult Co.Democrats (503) 774-4667
Rep. Mitch Greenlick will speak about his health care ballot intiative at the monthly meeting of the Multnomah County Democrats' Health Care Working Group. Join us every 4th Tuesday of the month.
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Hiroshima Day 1945-2005
Gather and March for the End of Nuclear Weapons
Friday, August 5, 4:30pm - 6:00pm
Pioneer Courthouse Square, Broadway & SW Yamhill
Several peace organizations will be marking the 60th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan with an educational campaign and a gathering and march. Portland Peaceful Response Coalition (PPRC) will gather at 4:30 PM for an early "Friday Rally" at Pioneer Courthouse Square, marching at about 5:20 PM to the Japanese-American Historical Plaza at SW Front and Davis. The groups will be calling for an end to all nuclear weapons, including "depleted uranium" used in every major US military action since 1990, and doing an educational campaign around the effects of an atomic bomb if one were dropped on Portland.
On August 6 and 9, 1945, US warplanes dropped the only two nuclear bombs ever used by any country in the history of mankind in warfare on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan. Over 100,000, mostly civlians, died instantly with thousands more dying later of radiation sickness and cancer. The Zones Project points out other symptoms experienced by people depending on how close they were to ground zero. PJW's Iraq Affinity Group will remind the public that the bombs dropped in 1945 were miniscule compared to today's "payloads," and that the use of radioactive materials in Iraq, Afghanistan, and former Yugoslavia are wreaking unknown amounts of disease and death both on the people of those countries and American soldiers.
As the world debates the entry of North Korea and Iran into the "club" of countries with atomic weapons, these peace groups urge the US to set an example by ending all of its nuclear weapons programs.
The Friday event is being cosponsored with the Portland Peaceful Response Coalition. The early 4:30 PM start time is to allow for more people to participate and to share information with commuters prior to the march.
The Iraq Affinity Group cosponsors a noon gathering, which will expand the Women in Black's weekly vigil at Terry Schrunk Plaza, SW 3rd and Madison, across from the Federal Building. That gathering will also hold a march to the Memorial Plaza, beginning at about 12:45, ending by 1:30 PM. Women in Black will provide signs for this event, whose theme will be "Unspeakable Grief."
For more information, contact Peace and Justice Works at (503) 236-3065, pjw@pjw.info or see http://www.pjw.info, or Portland Peaceful Response Coalition at (503) 344-5078, pprcnews@yahoo.com or see http://www.pprc-news.org.
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