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Please join Cleveland Jobs with Justice for a special screening of “A Union Man: The Life and Work of Julius Margolin,” a film by George Mann. *Q&A and discussion after the film with Julius and George, followed by a performance of labor and folk classics.* When: Sunday, July 27th at 7:00 pm Where: Unitarian Universalist Society of Cleveland 2728 Lancashire Road, Cleveland Heights Julius Margolin, at 91, is a living legend in the New York City labor movement. He’s been active since the 1930s in the CIO, the National Maritime Union and Local 52 of the International Alliance of Theatrical and Stage Employees, which he has represented in the NYC Central Labor Council for 32 years. A tireless fighter for justice, equality, and against war, Julius embarked on a new career in 1999, making music and CDs with George Mann while still hitting picket lines and organizing workers in New York and around the United States. "A Union Man” is the story of his life through his eyes as well as those he’s met along the way. Featuring guest appearances by Utah Phillips, Faith Petric and former NMU Vice President Joe Stack, as well as concert performances, it's an affectionate portrait of a rank-and-file activist still fighting for justice in his tenth decade on this planet. More information can be found at: www.georgeandjulius.com Suggested donation of $5-$10 to offset the cost of Julius & George’s travel, however, all are welcome regardless of donation. This event is hosted by Cleveland Jobs with Justice. For more information, contact us at 440.333.7007, or visit www.clevelandjwj.org

Cleveland Jobs with Justice is pleased to invite peace and labor activists Julius Margolin and George Mann to the Cleveland area! Please join us for a special screening of “A Union Man: The Life and Work of Julius Margolin,” a film by George Mann. *Q&A and discussion after the film with Julius and George, followed by a performance of labor and folk classics.* When: Sunday, July 27th at 7:00 pm Where: Unitarian Universalist Society of Cleveland 2728 Lancashire Road, Cleveland Heights Julius Margolin, at 91, is a living legend in the New York City labor movement. He’s been active since the 1930s in the CIO, the National Maritime Union and Local 52 of the International Alliance of Theatrical and Stage Employees, which he has represented in the NYC Central Labor Council for 32 years. A tireless fighter for justice, equality, and against war, Julius embarked on a new career in 1999, making music and CDs with George Mann while still hitting picket lines and organizing workers in New York and around the United States. "A Union Man” is the story of his life through his eyes as well as those he’s met along the way. Featuring guest appearances by Utah Phillips, Faith Petric and former NMU Vice President Joe Stack, as well as concert performances, it's an affectionate portrait of a rank-and-file activist still fighting for justice in his tenth decade on this planet. More information can be found at: www.georgeandjulius.com Suggested donation of $5-$10 to offset the cost of Julius & George’s travel, however, all are welcome regardless of donation. This event is hosted by Cleveland Jobs with Justice. For more information, contact us at 440.333.7007, or visit www.clevelandjwj.org

join me for a free yoga practice to promote world peace. we will practice at 10 am on mall B, 06.29.08, weather permitting. beginner friendly.

There is a war going in Iraq, Afghanistan and Cleveland....... Over 1 million people are dead and millions remain homeless. As the casualties of war continue soar and foreclosure rates continue to climb, our government continues to allocate more funding for bombs and one penny for the people. The cost of one day in war could be used to feed the hungry, educate the youth, heal the sick, raise the workers wages, and house the homeless. Instead our tax money is used on torture, murder, rape, and destruction. We demand a complete moratorium on military spending. We demand reparations for the victims of war. We demand jobs, food, homes, education and health care!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

There is a war going in Iraq, Afghanistan and Cleveland....... Over 1 million people are dead and millions remain homeless. As the casualties of war continue soar and foreclosure rates continue to climb, our government continues to allocate more funding for bombs and one penny for the people. The cost of one day in war could be used to feed the hungry, educate the youth, heal the sick, raise the workers wages, and house the homeless. Instead our tax money is used on torture, murder, rape, and destruction. We demand a complete moratorium on military spending. We demand reparations for the victims of war. We demand jobs, food, homes, education and health care!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It took a long-ass time, but our big Cleveland STUDENTS FOR A DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY meeting is here! After being ignored by the library and going through its stupid beauracracy we found a meeting spot at the Cleveland Peace House, associated with Cleveland Peace Action. It will go down as follows: The time: 4:30 PM The Date: Saturday June, 21 The spot: Cleveland Peace House 10916 Magnolia Drive Cleveland, OH 44106 Contact: Drew n0mad000@hotmail.com Libby libertyandonions@gmail.com Josh davidsonjosh@sbcglobal.net Hopefully, this will lead to the formation of a big Cleveland-wide SDS. We will also discuss: - How we can expand into more colleges and highschools in the Cleveland area - How we will maintain participatory democracy within Cleveland SDS and what that means - The nuts and bolts organizing of a Cleveland SDS (constitution, structure, dues if any at all, ect.) - What campaigns we’re gonna do this summer like anti-war, poor people’s campaign, ect. - What we’re gonna do at the Cleveland anti-war conference this summer - What we plan to bring to the national SDS convention this summer - Blah, blah, blah This will be a general brainstorming thing. Non-partisan facilitators, and moderators will be there to help the meeting run smoothly. There will be cookies and snacks. All your dreams will come true. Please bring your proposals, ideas, and thoughts. The Cleveland anti-war conference will be the following weekend; June 28 -29, at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Cleveland.

It took a long-ass time, but our big Cleveland STUDENTS FOR A DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY meeting is here! After being ignored by the library and going through its stupid beauracracy we found a meeting spot at the Cleveland Peace House, associated with Cleveland Peace Action. It will go down as follows: The time: 4:30 PM The Date: Saturday June, 21 The spot: Cleveland Peace House 10916 Magnolia Drive Cleveland, OH 44106 Contact: Drew n0mad000@hotmail.com Libby libertyandonions@gmail.com Josh davidsonjosh@sbcglobal.net Hopefully, this will lead to the formation of a big Cleveland-wide SDS. We will also discuss: - How we can expand into more colleges and highschools in the Cleveland area - How we will maintain participatory democracy within Cleveland SDS and what that means - The nuts and bolts organizing of a Cleveland SDS (constitution, structure, dues if any at all, ect.) - What campaigns we’re gonna do this summer like anti-war, poor people’s campaign, ect. - What we’re gonna do at the Cleveland anti-war conference this summer - What we plan to bring to the national SDS convention this summer - Blah, blah, blah This will be a general brainstorming thing. Non-partisan facilitators, and moderators will be there to help the meeting run smoothly. There will be cookies and snacks. All your dreams will come true. Please bring your proposals, ideas, and thoughts. The Cleveland anti-war conference will be the following weekend; June 28 -29, at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Cleveland.

STONEWALL WAS A RIOT: remember, don't deny it! Radicalize Pride! Radical Queers Unite! Challenge the Capitalist Pride Parade! Thousands of people go to Pride, and it tis covered extensively by the media, so we.....party. This year, let's assemble a group of radical queers, pissed off with the way everything is in America, and ready to show it! Individual marchers need not register. We'll go in that space. Oh, and they have a "good taste" policy, if you care at all. It's a "family event"! WHAT to do: Wear pink and black, carry radical signs, and express yourself! Some sign ideas: -Stonewall was a riot! Remember don't deny it! -P®IDE FO® $ALE! -Queer Liberation will NOT be sponsored! -Radical Queers Resist! -STOP POLICE BRUTALITY! -Queers Bash Back! -Free NJ4! (New Jersey 4) -Smash homophobia! or anything else you come up with More info/contact@: http://altqueercleveland.blogspot.com

Join us for a rally to urge the Cuyahoga Commissioners to support a Living Wage in our community. The rally will begin at 9:15 am on Thursday, June 19th, 2008 outside of the Lakeside Entrance to the County Commissioners Building. Following the rally, we will attend the Commissioners meeting scheduled to begin at 10:00 am. For background information on the Cuyahoga County Living Wage Campaign, please visit: www.clevelandjwj.org/livingwage.html Questions? Contact us at 440-333-7007 Organized by Cleveland Jobs with Justice

A call for Poets, volunteers and activist types... On Sunday May 18th, Cleveland Food Not Bombs will be holding the first Daniel Thompson Memorial Bread Run to honor the spirit of the poet Daniel Thompson and that which he stood for. Daniel was a voice and advocate for the homeless in Cleveland and was active in helping impoverished people in the downtown and Public Square area. He was a mentor of CLEFNB and to this day our organization still operates one of the Bread Runs that we inherited from him. We hope, on this day in a communal manner to honor this man and help raise Daniel's spirit once again over Public Square and amongst those in need. The event will consist of two actions: On Sunday at 11am, we will gather together in two groups, one in the Eastern suburbs and another group in the West Suburbs. The groups will travel around collecting donated bread and food. Poets with us will be reading Daniel's poems as we go along. The two groups will meet in Public Square at Daniel's Way (West 2nd and Rockside). Then at 2pm, on the lawn of the NW quadrant of Public Sq, next to Daniel's Way...the bread and food will be honored in ceremonial fashion and packed up for distribution to areas "outside of the permitted area allocated to us on Public Square." An open poetry reading to honor Daniel will lead and reverberate amongst us as we work to get things ready for distribution. Anyone wishing to bring a dish or food to offer up to others would be appreciated. Everyone in attendance of the ceremony will be given some of the food to distribute or be welcomed in helping to distribute food with CLEFNB as a larger group effort in and around the downtown area. Every Sunday, CLEFNB serves food in communal fashion to all interested at a site near Public Square...we have done so for the last twelve years and intend to continue doing so within the Public Spaces of downtown Cleveland. This action on Sunday will culminate with the initial rolling out of our FNB mobile distribution wagon. So we could really use some help making sure all goes well as we attempt to change the way in which we distribute food to those who need it. If you would be interested in helping us gather food at 11am on Sunday, please contact us directly at 216-220-0590 or Glowbawl@netscape.net. We would really appreciate an audience at 2pm while we prepare to distribute the food and would urge poets interested in helping us to attend. Although it's not required, please contact us if you intend to read or can volunteer their time that afternoon. Recently, Cleveland and Public Square has witnessed the return of overly dramatic mean-spirited public initiatives against the homeless who find themselves once again being isolated and subjected to unnecessarily harsh conditions. The Downtown Cleveland Alliance has for more than a year fronted a public relations campaign against the homeless that touts "don't give where it doesn't help". They have singled out panhandlers as a scourge to be eliminated and the homeless to be moved from view, while mistakenly creating an unwelcome zone for the impoverished poor in an area that historically they had chosen as refuge because of the public space and nearby public amenities. The City of Cleveland has imposed a night time curfew on the public spaces of Public Square to keep the homeless from sleeping there. In addition the City has tagged Food groups serving the homeless within Public Square with the notion that they are illegally feeding rats and as such are a health nuisance. The groups have been restricted from serving in public spaces under the City's jurisdiction and banned them under police order from serving food from within the public spaces of Public Square. In addition, youth under 18 have been banned from Tower City after 2:30 PM, under the most retaliative and harsh shopping maul regulations in the nation which is being enforced by Cleveland police (the PIP program is billed as a way to protect children and instead it results in youth being arrested). This at a time in which statistics indicate that many Clevelanders are having a more difficult time getting by statistically with necessities such as food, utilities, rent/mortgages, and employment. Contact: Cleveland Food Not Bombs Glowbawl@netscape.net 216-220-0590

http://altqueercleveland.blogspot.com first meeting to plan a community-based, activist alternative to the established Cleveland Pride this year. Ideas could include workshops, actions, movie-screening and more, to correspond with the mainstream festival and Stonewall's anniversary.

Protest the illegal occupation of Palestine and 60 years of the Naq'ba. Join our "Free Speech Occupation" at the federal building plaza. Background: May 15, 1948, the Naq'ba (the "catastrophe") was the initial displacement of Palestinians from their homes and taking of their property to make way for the creation of the state of Israel. To this day ,no Palestinian has received compensation for this injustice and the brutal, deadly Occupation of Palestine continues. New Israeli settlements continue to encroach on Palestinian land. An israeli built separation wall winds through Palestine keeping farmers from their fields and families and friends from visiting each other. A network of Israeli checkpoints keep Palestinians waiting for hours to move through their own territory. Palestinian homes are destroyed continually to make way fro new Israeli settlements. US taxpayers need to know that it is our money that funds this international crime, so deemed by the United Nations and Geneva Conventions

OCCUPATION 101 is an award-winning video documentary about the Palestinian and Israeli conflict, Discussion will follow the movie. Sponsored by the The Middle East Peace Forum www.mepforum.org

FRIDAY, MAY,9TH 2008 7PM SPANISH AMERICAN COMMITTEE 4407 LORAIN AVE CLEVELAND,OHIO po box cleveland abc cleveland ohio 44102 clevelandabc@clevelandfoodnotbombs.org http://www.myspace.com/clevelandabc Crime Against Humanity Contents Crime Against Humanity Show Times and Locations The Actors Industry Opening: Video Special Acknowledgments Download press packet Articles on Crime Against Humanity -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Crime Against Humanity A play by poet and activist Michael Anthony Reyes Benavides and former Puerto Rican Political Prisoner Luis Rosa, directed by Michael Anthony Reyes Benavides A National Boricua Human Rights Network and Batey Urbano Production Imagine 27 years of your life living in a space 6 feet by 9 feet. Imagine being confined in isolation with no human contact. Imagine the shakedowns, the strip searches and the complete disregard for your humanity. Crime Against Humanity is a play based on the real life experiences of fourteen Puerto Rican political prisoners who spent more than two decades in prisons for seditious conspiracy—two of whom are still incarcerated. Crime Against Humanity brings us into the U.S. prison system in a way no other play has, focusing on the politically motivated use of isolation, selective punishment, sensory deprivation and disproportionate sentences. Written by poet and activist Michael Anthony Reyes Benavides and former Puerto Rican political prisoner Luis Rosa, the play confronts the physical and mental torture these prisoners endured for more than 27 years. We gaze into their cell and experience the loss of parents, the transition of children into adulthood and feel the physical brutality and torture of a government out to make an example of them. We see them as they refuse to be victimized and objectified, confronting their hardships and adversities while maintaining their dignity, and upholding their humanity. Reyes Benavides spent hours interviewing the former Puerto Rican political prisoners, and through extensive written correspondence, the two remaining political prisoners Oscar López Rivera and Carlos Alberto Torres. Through the play, we hear from their own mouths, their own words, exactly what it means to be a political prisoner in the United States. Crime Against Humanity is produced by the National Boricua Human Rights Network and Batey Urbano. These two organizations hope to use this performance piece to raise consciousness and gain support for the campaign to free the remaining Puerto Rican political prisoners. “By using theater as a tool of resistance, we hope to reach out to those sectors that are often ignored by traditional activist outreach. We want our families, our brothers and sisters and our community to come out and see what these prisoners endured, many of them for almost 20 years, two of them for more than 27″ (author and director Reyes Benavides). Crime Against Humanity will run from March 3rd, 2008 through March 3rd, 2009 as a part of the Puerto Rican Cultural Center’s”100 x 35″ campaign. This campaign will be celebrating the centennial of the birth of Puerto Rican national hero and poet Juan Antonio Corretjer and the 35th year of the founding of the Chicago-based Juan Antonio Corretjer Puerto Rican Cultural Center. As part of this celebration a national tour of the play will make stops in several U.S. cities: New York, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Hartford, Washington D.C., Boston, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. The production has plans to tour throughout Puerto Rico in the future as well. For more information contact Michael Anthony Reyes Benavides at reyespoetry@gmail.com or 773 606 4014. Download the Crime Against Humanity press packet ShareThis

Do you think war is played out?! Drop Beats! Not Bombs! Dance and Resist! Dont Enlist! Join the Students for a Democratic Society for an anti-war dance party! We will meet at the free stamp and dance all around town. Wear your most fresh dancing gear!!!!!!!

Kent Anti Racist Action is hosting a conference about sexism in the context of war for the weekend of May 4th. We are starting with a pot luck/party on Friday, May 2. Saturday there will be workshops all day ending with the annual May 3rd show featuring some of the Kent area's finest in local music. Sunday, May 4th is the commemoration of the shooting and killing of 4 students. To end the weekend right we will be forming a pink bloc at the anti war protest that takes place after the commemoration. Workshops, bands, times, locations, and many more details to be announced. ************************************************************************************* Kent Anti Racist Action is hosting a conference about sexism in the context of war for the weekend of May 4th. We are looking for people to give workshops and ideas for speakers. If you would like to participate in any way or have ideas for the conference, please contact Kent ARA. Email- KentAntiRacistAction@yahoo.com Address- Kent Anti Racist Action CSI Box 8 226 Kent Stu Ctr KSU Kent, OH 44242 Phone- Hench- (330) 703-3309 *feel free to share this with others who may be interested. <3 katie *********************************** Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of our lives to kings, priests, politicians, generals, and county commissioners (Edward Abbey)

Join Cleveland Jobs with Justice and West Shore Unitarian Universalist Church for a free screening of the Documentary, 'Salud!' "A timely examination of human values and the health issues that affect us all, 'Salud' looks at the curious case of Cuba, a cash strapped country with what the BBC calls 'one of the world's best health systems.' From the shores of Africa to the Americas, 'Salud' hits the road with some of the 28,000 Cuban health professionals serving 68 countries, and explores the hearts and minds of international medical students in Cuba -- now numbering 30,000, including nearly 100 from the USA. Their stories plus testimony from experts around the world bring home the competing agendas that mark the battle for global health -- and the complex realities confronting the movement to make healthcare everyone's birth right." For more information, visit: www.clevelandjwj.org

Immigrant Support Network Secret Government and the Rule of Law - Talk at CSU law school Dr Christopher H. Pyle is also the keynote speaker at theCouncil on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) 6th AnnualFundraiser Banquet, April 20 (please scroll down) Secret Government and the Rule of Law:a Free Lecture by Mount Holyoke Professor of PoliticsDr. Christopher H. PyleSponsored by the Council on Islamic-American Relations, Ohioat Cleveland-Marshall College of LawApril 21, 2008; 5:00 p.m. Has the United States Government gone too far in its effortsto protect the country and its citizens against terroristattack? In books and articles, Mount Holyoke Professor of PoliticsDr. Christopher H. Pyle has questioned policies enactedunder the current President and the Congress in the name ofthe war on terrorism. On April 21, he will discuss hisconclusions in a free public lecture, "Government Secrecyand the Rule of Law," at 5:00 p.m. in the Moot Court Room ofthe law school on East 18th and Euclid Avenue. In the late 1960s, Dr. Pyle was an army captain teachingconstitutional law at the U.S. Army Intelligence School inFort Holabird, Maryland, when he learned about the army'sdomestic spying operation, which employed 1,500 plainclothesmilitary personnel spying on antiwar and civil rightsprotesters across the country. Dr. Pyle disclosed thesurveillance in 1970 in two award-winning articles and wenton to recruit 125 former intelligence agents to testifybefore Congress. In the 1970s, Dr. Pyle's Congressional testimony helpedlaunch U.S. Senator Sam Ervin's Subcommittee onConstitutional Rights and U.S. Senator Frank Church's SelectCommittee on Intelligence. As a result, the entire U.S.Army Intelligence Command was abolished, all its files ondissidents were burned and the Foreign IntelligenceSurveillance Act of 1978 (FISA) was created. Pyle is the author of The President, Congress, and theConstitution (1984), Military Surveillance of CivilianPolitics (1986), and Extradition, Politics, and Human Rights(2001), a work that analyzes our country's treatment ofpolitical fugitives throughout our history and has writtenextensively on freedom of expression, equal protection ofthe laws, rights of privacy, terrorism, and the detention ofaliens and citizens without trial. His articles and op-edshave appeared in hundreds of newspapers, including The NewYork Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal,The Nation, and many legal and political journals. **Details at or call 216/687-6886 Julia Julia A. ShearsonExecutive DirectorCAIR-Ohio, Cleveland ChapterCouncil on American Islamic-Relations2999 Payne Avenue, Suite 201Cleveland, Ohio 44114Tel: 216-830-2247 Fax: 216-830-2248 CAIR-Ohio, Cleveland Chapter has worked to protect civilliberties of citizens and residents in Northeast Ohio forthe past 5 years, and the organization has beeninstrumental in building communications among many segmentsof our community. CAIR-Ohio's mission is to enhanceunderstanding of Islam, encourage dialogue, protect civilliberties, empower American Muslims, and build coalitionsthat promote justice and mutual understanding. CAIR works onadvocacy, media relations and educational outreach topresent a positive image of Islam and Muslims and to helpcounter stereotypes. CAIR speakers have made presentationsto hundreds of groups and agencies including churches,temples, synagogues, hospitals, law enforcementorganizations, schools, colleges, etc.I urge you to attend the CAIR Banquet with the theme "Letthe Conversation Begin" and become part of the rich networkof Northeast Ohians working for human rights, civility anddiversity. Don Bryant, President, Greater Cleveland Immigrant SupportNetwork

The Council on American-Islamic RelationsCleveland ChapterInvites You to its 6th Annual Banquetat the ConversationEmbassy Suites Hotel, Cleveland-Rockside5800 Rockside Woods Blvd.Independence, OH 44131TICKETS$50 per person in advance, $60 at the door, $30 - studentsTo sponsor a table of 10, please call 216/830-2247Seating is limited. Please reserve early.Childcare available, $10/child 6 months - 12 yearsCall in advance to reserve. 216-830-2247SPEAKERSDr. Christopher PyleProfessor of Politics, Mt. Holyoke CollegeAward-winning teacher, historian, constitutional scholarand civil rights activistImam Johari Abdul MalikDirector of Community Outreach, Dar Al-Hijrah Islamic CenterSunday April 20, 2008Registration & Reception 4pm - 5pm | Dinner & Program 5 pm