Friday, January 5, 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Laughing Horse Books, 12 NE 10 (off Burnside)
Speaker:  John Zerzan
Phone Contact: (503) 892-8494
Sponsor:  Laughing Horse Books
John Zerzan, Green Anarchist and author of Future Primitive, Against Civilization, Running on Emptiness, and the forthcoming Twilight of the Machines will speak about The Path Ahead, as published in Green Anarchy: A Journal of Anti-Civilization Theory and Practice, which he has co-edited since 20001. Zerzan has been traveling and speaking in England, Spain, Greece, Italy, Turkey, Croatia, and Serbia during the last seven years. This event is a benefit for Laughing Horse Books. Donation $3-6 -- but no one turned away for lack of funds.

Saturday, January 6, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Pioneer Courthouse Square
Phone Contact  (503) 860-9394
Demonstration to Mark 3,000 U.S. Soldiers Killed in Iraq
Number exceeds lives lost at World Trade Center
People from all walks of life will mark the death of 3,000 American soldiers killed in Iraq by holding a Die-In at Pioneer Courthouse Square on Saturday, January 6th, 2007 at noon. The protestors will simply lie down on the ground and pretend to be dead. The idea is to bring attention to death toll in Iraq.
Organizers expects 100 to 300 people to show up for the demonstration, as opposition to the war is growing. Even Republican Senator Gordon Smith openly questioned the war on the floor of the US Senate, saying that the war strategy is a failure and that war itself might be "illegal."
The 3,000 mark is significant because it now outstrips the number of people killed in attacks on 9/11/2001 but the real death toll far exceeds that number. It doesn't include the deaths in Afghanistan, contractor deaths or deaths of people from outside the United States. A recent report published in the British medical journal the Lancet estimated the number of Iraqi deaths at over 600,000.
The theme of the protest is "No more deaths. No more dollars." The monetary cost of the war could be as high as $2 trillion according to a paper recently published by the Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz and Linda Blimes, a Harvard professor. Mr. Stiglitz told the British newspaper the Guardian that despite the staggering costs laid out in their paper the economists had erred on the side of caution. "Our estimates are very conservative, and it could be that the final costs will be much higher. And it should be noted they do not include the costs of the conflict to either Iraq or the UK."
Stiglitz said that one quarter of the war budget would have fixed Social Security for the next seventy-five years, "Or just think what we could have done to stop global warming if we had spent

those two trillion developing cheaper photovoltaic cells to convert solar energy into electricity."
http://www.afsc.org/3000

Sunday, January 7, 12:00pm - 4:00pm
Red and Black Cafe 2138 SE Division St.
Phone Contact: (503) 281-0482
Sponsors: books to oregon prisoners and blackrose collective bookstore
The purpose of the event is to increase our book count for prisoners and write letters to oppose the potential private prison being built in Northeast Portland. Come stock our shelves by purchasing quality political literature at cost from the Blackrose Collective bookstore! There will be vegan/vegetarian brunch, coffee and tea provided. We will have letter writing supplies and information about private prisons and the potential private prison being built. Let Multnomah County know that we don't want a private prison in our city!
http://www.bookstooregonprisoners.org

Monday, January 8, 7:30pm
Portland State University, Smith Memorial Student Union at 1825 SW Broadway Room #338.
Sponsored by the Middle East Studies Department at Portland State University and Palestine Lebanon Emergency Action.
For more information, call (503) 725-4074
Free Event. Parking free in PSU parking structures after 7pm
PSU's Middle East Studies Center (MESC) and Palestine Lebanon Emergency Action (PLEA) announce a 3rd forum in their Middle East educational series, featuring Charles D. Smith, a specialist in modern Middle East history, in the Department of Near Eastern Studies, at the University of Arizona. Professor Smith has lived and traveled widely in the Middle East. Professor Smith is the author of Islam and the Search for Social Order in Modern Egypt (1983) and Palestine and the Arab-Iraeli Conflict (1988), the sixth edition of which has just been published. He has just completed an article on "Israel and the Arab States" for a book on contemporary Israel that will be published by Fayard in Paris and recently contributed an op-ed on Palestinian-Israeli issues for the Jornao de Brasil in Rio de Janeiro.
MESC is committed to providing information about the Middle East in an open and objective atmosphere while providing an institutional bridge 
between the PSU campus and greater community. Palestine Lebanon Emergency Action (PLEA) is an alliance which formed in response to Israel's invasion of Lebanon. It consists of local human rights groups, faith organizations and individuals with family ties to the regions of Lebanon and Gaza. The group advocates international law and universal human rights.