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Protestors on site at Ft. Benning, Georgia, will be calling
us
with live updates on the SOA Watch protest throughout
the weekend
Friday, November 16
12 noon Opening of Camp Bolio
On-going vigil and demonstration
3pm Mishka Chudilowsky – Peace Crane workshop
4:30 Joyce Vandevere, "Getting to Yes; The Effort Toward Consensus"
5-7pm
Monterey Peace and Justice Center Social gathering and candlelight vigil
to
include ribbon cutting and groundbreaking for Monthly Camp Bolio Coffee
House
Music: Rhythm and Rouge
7:30pm
The Pleasant Revolution Bicycle Music Tour,
featuring the
Ginger Ninjas and
SHAKE YOUR PEACE
(scroll down for detailed information,
or click on links to their websites)
9:00 (approx.) Film: "The Torture Question" followed by discussion
Ongoing coffee house, information table
Saturday, November 17
Ongoing vigil and
demonstration
9:45am Live hook-up with John Waller
at Fort Benning, Georgia, protest (
SOA Watch ). Many of the Camp Bolio
activists have become acquainted with John Waller through his work with
Pastors for Peace and their
Caravan to Cuba work which delivers medical aid to Cuba to be
distributed through the churches
10am
Reverend Greg Ward – Monterey Peninsula Unitarian Universalist Church.
He has lead youth groups
on three trips to School of
the Americas protests. He will share his thoughts and experiences with
us for 30 min with a time for Q and A.
11am Bill
Monning – “International Law and U.S. Law Prohibit Torture” with a focus
on Geneva Conventions
and Conventions against torture, and how the use of torture constitutes
a war crime. Professor Monning
is a member of the National Lawyers Guild and a professor of
International Negotiation and Conflict
Resolution at MIIS.
www.billmonning.com ,
www.billmonning.org and www.nlg.org
12pm History of torture of "The Other," religious origins
1 pm Sound Out -- music by our very own local singing group
2 pm
Phil Butler, Ph.D. – A former U.S. Navy pilot shot down in Vietnam and
held almost 8 years as a
Prisoner of War. Phil is an outstanding motivational speaker.
He will share his personal experiences
of torture as a POW, with an analysis of the moral and legal
issues for our nation.
3pm Sue Hubbard – an informal group discussion on the stages a protest movement goes
through and
what activities are appropriate at each stage. Patterned
after a Bill Moyer workshop.
3:30 Michael Wheatley – folksongs with guitar
4pm Music: Nancy Raven, folksinger and guitarist
7pm Drumming session with Jean Moritz (with 15 drums)
8pm Film: "Ghosts of Abu Ghraib" and/or "The Road to Guantanamo"
Ongoing Coffee House, singing, information
Sunday, November 18
Ongoing vigil and demonstration
10am Alicia Jrapko – Co-coordinator of the International Committee to Free the Cuban 5
11am David Henderson, Ph.D. – Associate Professor at the Navel
Postgraduate School.
“The Economics of War” Talk and Q&A
Noon "Your Voice Counts Here," Free Speech corner (open mic?) sign up with Hanan Shawar
1pm Friends/Quaker silent Meeting for Worship – all welcome! Led by Monterey Peninsula Society of Friends pro-tem clerk
2pm Macgregor Eddy – "Your Civic Duty to Stop Torture" followed by discussion
2:30 Karen Araujo – more games for children followed by “How Can I Keep from Singing?”
3pm Helene Constant -- Stories for Grownups
3-5pm Peace Coalition Steering Committee meeting
(only for designated representatives of PCMC member organizations)
3:30pm Film – HOPE and reading some of the hopes and wishes from the Imagine Peace Tree
3-5pm Final Coffee House, vigil, demonstration
Gathering to celebrate our time together
CAMP BOLIO ONGOING EVENTS
Display of crosses representing US soldiers killed in Iraq
Display of Walk in Their Shoes representing Iraqi civilians killed
A
chance to write a note and/or record yourself telling GW what you
personally think of him
and his policies on torture and stick it to him
Information table
Give away pocket sized constitutions
Graveyard mourning the death of the Bill of Rights and Habeas Corpus
Detention cell
Orange jump suits
Anti war and peace songs
Origami Peace Crane strings
Imagine Peace Tree – make a wish, write it down, tie it around a branch
on the wish tree
until the branches are covered with wishes.
Arm bands
Films – Ghosts of Abu Ghraib, The Road to Guantanamo, The Torture Question
Details About the Pleasant Revolution Bicycle Music Tour
On Thursday,
November 1st, two bands,
The Ginger Ninjas and
SHAKE YOUR PEACE!, will launch the epic
"Pleasant
Revolution Bicycle Music Tour" from N.San Juan, California,
heading 5000 miles all the way down
to the Mexican Yucatan. There will be no sag-wagons, and no buses
hauling our gear. Everything, including
the 800 Watt human- and solar-powered PA System, will be hauled
entirely on bicycle! The tour comes in the
wake of SHAKE YOUR PEACE!'s 600-mile bicycle-music tour of Utah
(April-May '07), and the excitement at
San Francisco's Bicycle Music Festival, Aug. 11, 2007, which
announced the emerging bicycle-music movement
to the world like a piano dropped from a 24-story window in
downtown San Francisco: with life-altering
momentum, filled with music, and destroying the oft-trod paths of
old.
A project of
Worldbike, a 501c3 organization, the tour will be the subject of a
film, a blog, and a regular podcast.
Traditional and online tour publicity has been arranged with the help of
a generous grant from the Clif Bar
Family Foundation.
Since all we need is a few pairs of feisty legs to peddle our amp system,
we can make a show anywhere.
We will be arriving in Monterey on the Friday the 16th of November.
Recent show at the top of Bernal Heights:
Pictures from 9.15.07 - Bernal Heights, San Francisco.
Electronic Press Kit:
http://www.arielpublicity.net/band/show/2215
If you have any questions or suggestions, you can reach me by phone or
email.
Peace, Shannon
Shannon Whitnack
Tour Manager - The Pleasant Revolution
lolashion@gmail.com
(530) 575-5041
www.pleasantrevolution.net
www.gingerninjas.com
www.shakeyourpeace.com
www.worldbike.net
www.xtracycle.com
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