Actions

29 Oct 01: Protest the Israeli Assault on Palestinians & the American War on Afghanistan!
29 Oct 01: Protest Papa Bush!
9 Apr 02: Remembering Deir Yassin
14 June 02: Turn Your Back on Bush! (Press Release) (Flyers 1 & 2)
6 August 02: Hiroshima & Nagasaki Commemoration (Flyer; Handbill; "The Decision to Use Atomic Bombs"; & "Atomic Veterans and Nuclear Waste Transport to Yucca Mountain")
9 Nov 02: Ohio Anti-War Rally -- Stop the War on Iraq!
10 Nov 02: Not In Our Name National Day of Action
10 Dec 02: Human Rights Day Demonstration
20 Jan 03: Silence Is Betrayal -- A Peace March to Honor MLK (Flyer; Handbill; & Excerpts from MLK's "Beyond Vietnam" Speech)
27 Jan 03: Not In Our Name -- the National Hour of Non-Compliance
1 Feb 03: An Anti-War Day of Awareness & a Walk for Peace/a Dance of the Dead
15 Feb 03: Protest Empty Warheads in Washington! (in solidarity with United for Peace and Justice)
15 Mar. 03: Statewide Anti-War Rally in Columbus, Ohio (assemble at the Blackburn Park near the Mt. Zion Church on Bryden Rd.)
18 Mar. 03: An Anti-War Die-in at the Ohio State Univeristy (15th Ave. and High St.)
21 Mar 03: Protest against the US Invasion of Iraq (at the Federal Building)
24 Mar. 03: A Townhall Meeting on the War on Iraq
31 Mar. 03: Commit to Peace (making a giant peace sign at the Statehouse)
9 Apr 03: Remembering Deir Yassin (15th Ave. and High St.)
13 Apr 03: Candlelight Vigil & Peace Walk
10 May 03: End the US Occupation of Iraq -- Bring the Troops Home Now!
28 June 03: Come Out for Peace Pride!
6 August 03: Commemorate Hiroshima & Nagasaki (with Dave Hawkins, Is Said, Imam Emile Bashir, Harvey Wasserman, et al.)
9 August 03: End the Occupation of Iraq Now (United for Peace and Justice National Day of Action)!
23 August 03: Poor People's March for Economic Human Rights on Washington, D.C.
27 August 03: Press Conf./Lobby against the Occupations: Bring the Troops Home Now!
29 August 03: Banners against the Occupations (Grant Avenue Walk Bridge)
26 September 03: Rally to End the Occupations NOW! (15th Ave. and High St.)
29-30 September 03: Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride
25 October 03: Mass March on the White House & Pentagon: End the Occupation of Iraq!  Bring the Troops Home Now! (co-sponsored by International ANSWER and United for Peace and Justice)
19 January 04: Honor the Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. & March for Peace and Social Justice
19 March 04: Commemorate Rachel Corrie: Stop Caterpillar, End the Occupation (15th Ave. and High St.)
20 March 04: Central Ohio Peace Rally: End the Occupations of Iraq and Palestine Now! (Program)
30 March 04: Cities for Peace Townhall Forum Planning the Peoples Platform 2004
11 April 04: End the Occupation of Iraq NOW! (15th Ave. and High St.)
13-15 April 04: 2 ENCUENTRO MUNDIAL DE SOLIDARIDAD CON LA REVOLUCION BOLIVARIANA (our delegate Graciela Rennella in attendance)
4 June 04: Columbus Rally for Peace in the Middle East (at the Federal Building)
5 June 04: Speak Truth to Power (from the White House to Rumsfeld's House in D.C., sponsored by International ANSWER)
26 June 04: Peace Pride!
21 July 04: Operation Equal Protection: Justice for Ashraf Al-Jailani
6 August 04: Annual Hiroshima & Nagasaki Commemoration
12 September 04: Nader Comes to Ohio (Athens and Cleveland)
17 October 04: Million Worker March (D.C.)
21 October 04: The Wheels of Justice Tour Comes to OSU
3 November 04: The Movement for Peace & Justice Continues, Whoever Gets Elected! (at the Federal Building, sponsored by the Central Ohio Peace Network)
19 March 05: March and Rally to End the Iraq War (at the Statehouse)

Central Ohio Peace Network

PEACE!
March and Rally
Ohio Statehouse
Saturday 19th March
End the Iraq War
Assemble 12 Noon at Ninth and Broad
Youth March assembles at noon at Goodale Park
Rally 1 p.m. – 3 p.m.

For details: http://www.cpanews.org/copn/rally.html

Teach-ins

John Quigley, "Legal & Political Contexts of the Afghanistan War" (Flyers 1 & 2)
Bob Fitrakis, "America's Bio/Chemical Weapons"
Barry Landeros-Thomas, "When Colors Bleed: US Policies toward Indigenous Peoples"
Bert Sacks, "Iraq: U.S. Sanctions and Middle East Anger"
Jim McNamara, "Fighting for Freedom Here at Home: Civil Liberties after 911"
Pejmaan Fallah, "Politics & Human Rights in Iran"
Dan Cahill & Ida Strong, "The Prison-Industrial Complex in Ohio: Race, Class, & Profit"
John Quigley, "Palestine, Human Rights, & International Law"
Harvey Wasserman, "Nuclear Plants=Ticking Time Bombs"
Sarah Clark & Sean Luse, "'The War on Drugs': Uncle Sam Wants YOU -- in the Dark"
Mary Hershberger, "Plan Colombia, Plan of Death / Plan Colombia, Plan de Muerte"
Ikechukwu Okafor-Newsum, "Against the Empire: Frantz Fanon & Pan-Africanism"
Julie Davis & Ron Khasawneh, ACLU, "Immigration after 911: Know Your Rights! -- ¡Conozca Sus Derechos!"
Walter Davis, "Death's Dream Kingdom: the American Psyche after 911"
Edmund Hanauer, "Search for Justice & Equality in Palestine/Israel"
Connie Hammond, "Sanction on Iraq: Children Are Still Dying"
Graciela Rennella, "Surviving Terror: Remembering Argentina's Dirty War"
Dan La Botz, "Global Sweatshops, Global Solidarity: USA, Mexico, & Indonesia"
Eric Swank, "Peace Activism during the 'War on Terrorism'"
Sohrab Behdad, "Iran & Fundamentalism: A Secularist Perspective"
Bob Brown, "From Indian Wars to Slave Codes to COINTELPRO to Homeland Security: 500-Years of Political Repression in the United States"
Margaret Mills, "Women in Afghanistan"
Sanho Tree, "A War without End?: Plan Colombia and Beyond"
Samer Suleiman, "Living through the Intifada: A Palestinian Perspective"
James Devine, "War, US Hegemony, & Economic Crisis"
Norman G. Finkelstein, "Israel and Palestine, Images and Reality"
Yucel Demirer, "Popular Memories and Official History: Kurds in Turkey"
Connie Hammond, "Mobilizing against the War on Iraq" (10 October 2002)
Kevin Danaher, "Justice, Not War" (16 October 2002)
Marie Trigona, "Argentina: Alternative Media and Social Movements" (17 October 2002)
Palestine Truth Tour 2002 (24 October 2002)
Arthur Gish, Christian Peacemaker Team (17 November 2002)
Abril Trigo, "The Hours of the Furnaces/La Hora de Los Hornos" (13 February 2003)
Toan Tzu, "Race and Privilege"; and Kevin Tucker, "The Environment and Civilization's Effect on It" (16 February 2003)
Day of Remembrance -- Commemoration of Japanese Internment (19 February 2003)
Gerard Ungerman, "Plan Colombia: Cashing-in on the Drug-War Failure" (24 February 2003)
All-African People's Revolutionary Party, "Kuwame Ture Speaks: His Life, Ideas, and Strategy for Liberation" (February 26, 2003)
Jim McNamara, "In the Name of Security" (27 February 2003)
Roger Calero and Kenneth J. Robinson, "The INS and Attacks on Freedom of the Press, Immigrant Rights, and Civil Liberties: Fighting to Stop Exclusion Proceedings of Roger Calero" (6 March 2003)
ISM Palestine Truth Tour (Susan Barclay, Flo Razowsky, Liv Leader, and Garrick Ruiz ) (14 April 2003)
Theresa El-Amin, "Fighting Racism, Defending Freedom: An Injury to One Is an Injury to All!" (22 April 2003)
Howard Zinn, "Terrorism and War (24 April 2003)
Max Elbaum, "Resisting Empire" (1 May 2003)
John Quigley, "War Crimes in Iraq" (8 May 2003)
Howard Crane, Joy McCorriston, Assistant Professor, and Esra Akin, "Iraq Year Zero: A Panel Discussion on Cultural Destruction of Iraq" (9 May 2003)
Palestine Awareness Week (Al-PHAN Art Installation; Betty Shamieh; Ora Wise; and Adam Shapiro) (10 May 2003)
Christopher Phelps, "Race and Revolution: African Americans and the Anti-Stalinist Left" (16 May 2003)
Palestine Labor/Stop the Wall 2003 Tour (Abdel Raheem Saleh Abdel Latif Khatib, Palestine General Federation of Trade Unions; Nasser Ai-Faqih, Palestinian Agricultural Development Association [PARC]/"Stop the Wall" Campaign; Fayez Audeh "Al-Taneeb," Farmers Union/"Stop the Wall" Campaign) (24 September 2003)
Symposium to Commemorate the Life and Work of Edward W. Said (1935-2003) (7 October 2003)
Marie Trigona, "Argentina’s Alternative Media & Social Movements" (16 October 2003)
"Jerusalem Women Speak: Three Women, Three Faiths, One Shared Vision" (Yehudit Keshet, Jewish Israeli, Age 60, Founder of Checkpoint Watch; Zleikha Muhtaseb, Muslim Palestinian, Age 41, Education and Human Rights Activist; Mai Nassar, Christian Palestinian, Age 43, Professor of English at Bethlehem University) (21 October 2003)
Michael Moore, "Dude, Where's My Country?" (30 October 2003)
Dan La Botz, "An Injury to One" (30 October 2003)
Tim Shorrock, "Selling (Off) Iraq" (13 November 2003)
Dozthor Zurlent, "Venezuela: Democracy & Development in a Globalized World" (26 February 2004)
Dahr Jamail, "Unembedded Reporting from Occupied Iraq" (26 March 2004)

Film Series

Hearts and Minds (Dir. Peter Davis)
The Panama Deception (Dir. Barbara Trent)
The Myth of the Liberal Media (Prod. The Media Education Foundation)
Jerusalem: An Occupation Set in Stone? (Dir. Marty Rosenbluth)
People and the Land (Dir. Tom Hayes)
Children of the Camps (Dir. Stephen Holsapple/Project Dir. Satsuki Ina)
People and the Land at OSU Newark Campus| Poster | Handbill
The Battle of Algiers (Dir. Gillo Pontecorvo)
Lumumba (Dir. Raoul Peck)
Burn! (Dir. Gillo Pontecorvo) | Poster 1 | Poster 2
Tale of the Three Jewels (Dir. Michel Khleifi)
Hidden Wars of Desert Storm (Dirs. Audrey Brohy & Gerard Ungerman) | Poster 1 | Poster 2
Frontiers of Dreams and Fears (Dir. Mai Masri)
Bethlehem Diary (Dir. Antonia Caccia)
Good Kurds, Bad Kurds (Dir. Kevin McKiernan)
Gaza Strip (Dir. James Longley)
SOA: Guns & Greed / The New Patriots (Dir. Robert Richter)
500 Dunam on the Moon (Dir. Rachel Leah Jones)
Project Censored (Dir. Steve Keller)
The Myth of the Liberal Media (Prod. The Media Education Foundation)
Jenin Jenin (Dir. Mohamed Bakri)
Camp Arirang (Dir. Grace Yoon Kyung Lee) & Vieques: An Island Forging Its Future/Un Pueblo Forjando Futuros (Dir. Johanna Bermúdez Ruiz) | Flyer
Echando Raices/Taking Root (Dir. JT Takagi)
Hour of the Furnaces/La Hora de los Hornos (Dirs. Fernando Solanas & Octavio Getino)
Plan Colombia: Cashing-in on the Drug-War Failure (Dirs. Gerard Ungerman & Audrey Brohy)
In the Name of Security (Dirs. Emily Kunstler & Sarah Kunstler)
Hearts and Minds (Dir. Peter Davis): Apr. 10, 2003
Afghan Massacre: The Convoy of Death (Dir. Jamie Doran): Apr. 17, 2003
Divine Intervention (Dir. Elia Suleiman): May 29-31, 2003
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (Dirs. Kim Bartley & Donnacha O'Briain): June 5, 2003
Bowling for Columbine
(Dir. Michael Moore): Oct. 2, 2003
The Spirit of Crazy Horse (Dir. James Locker): Oct. 9, 2003
The Face of Dignity: A Memory of MTD (Unemployed Workers Movement) of Solano and Crónicas de Libertad (organizando la resistencia) [Chronicles of Freedom (organizing resistance)]: Oct. 16, 2003
Lumumba (Dir. Raoul Peck): Oct. 23, 2003
An Injury to One (Dir. Travis Wilkerson): Oct. 30, 2003
500 Dunam on the Moon (Dir. Rachel Leah Jones): Nov. 6, 2003
Life and Debt (Dir. Stephanie Black): Nov. 20, 2003
"Dance of Death" and "Erasing Memory" (Prod. Deep Dish TV): Oct. 25, 2004
"National Insecurities" and "Art of Resistance" (Prod. Deep Dish TV): Nov. 1, 2004

Calendar of Events
Critical Perspectives on Wars, Classes, & Empires (Jan. 13-31, 2002)
Critical Perspectives on Wars, Classes, & Empires (Jan. 15-21, 2002)
Critical Perspectives on Wars, Classes, & Empires (Jan.20-Feb. 7, 2002)
Critical Perspectives on Wars, Classes, & Empires (Jan. 27-Feb. 19, 2002)
Critical Perspectives on Wars, Classes, & Empires (Feb. 7-28, 2002)
Critical Perspectives on Wars, Classes, & Empires (Feb. 21-Mar. 14, 2002)
Critical Perspectives on Wars, Classes, & Empires (Feb. 28-Mar. 5, 2002)
Critical Perspectives on Wars, Classes, & Empires (Mar.7-Apr. 18, 2002)
Critical Perspectives on Wars, Classes, & Empires (Mar. 10-Apr. 18, 2002)
Critical Perspectives on Wars, Classes, & Empires (Apr.9-May 21, 2002)
Critical Perspectives on Wars, Classes, & Empires (Apr. 18-May 23, 2002)
Critical Perspectives on Wars, Classes, & Empires (May 5-June 14, 2002)
Critical Perspectives on Wars, Classes, & Empires (May 8-June 14, 2002)
Critical Perspectives on Wars, Classes, & Empires (Oct. 16-Nov. 14, 2002)
Critical Perspectives on Wars, Classes, & Empires (Oct. 19-Nov. 21, 2002)
Critical Perspectives on Wars, Classes, & Empires (Nov. 3-Nov. 21, 2002)
Critical Perspectives on Wars, Classes, & Empires (Autumn 2003)

Poetry & Music
"And when the flames touched her throat, there was no color for her keening...."
"Building Peace: The Art of Protest/the Protest of Art"
"Pat Humphries & Sandy O: Powerful, Passionate Songs about the Lives of Real People"

Roundtable
The Interfaith Center for Peace: "Facing the Future: Community Dialogues on Life after 9/11"
Defending Hate With Hate: The Impact of 9/11 on Arab Americans and South Asian Americans
Destroying Freedom to "Save" It: Implications of the USA PATRIOT Act (Flyers a, b, & c)
Peace and Justice Summit (sponsored by the Central Ohio Peace Network): Nov. 6, 2004

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