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Friday, Jan. 5th,
6:30pm JWJ Health
Care Committee, 6025 E. Burnside |
Jan. 8 - 2nd
Monday
New Oregon Legislative session, the Iraq
and how Martin Luther King Jr. might see these issues in
terms of how they impact working families.
Mark Schwebke
(AFT Oregon President)
will be hosting today..
along with
Bill Z and Tim F, he will
consider and provide insight on
these and other
local and global issues |
Celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King's Legacy
of Service
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said that "Everyone
can be great, because everyone can serve."
The
Hands On Greater
Portland Martin Luther King Weekend of Service
is January 12 - 15, 2007, in Multnomah and Washington
Counties.
Choose from a wide variety of projects and make it a
weekend on, not a weekend off! |
 Jan. 15 - Martin
Luther King,
Jr.
and his legacy
Kevin Card hosts show
3rd Monday:
Kevin Card will host (legislative
liaison, editor of Satchel,member of
National
Association of Letter Carriers Branch 82.)
Martin Luther
King, Jr. was about faith, working people, justice, and
equity... |
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January 15, 2007
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Celebration.
- 2pm, Monday January 15, 2007 people can begin
gathering for the march at Sisters (133 NW 6th Ave). There
will be some snacks for people to munch on before they begin
marching.
- At 3pm, the march will leave from Sisters and
follow West Broadway to a rally at 1615 SW 5th, St. Mary’s
Academy, who have generously donated their building - thank
you SO MUCH, St. Mary’s!
- At 4pm the rally at St. Mary’s Academy’s begins:
If you don’t want to participate in the march, feel free to
meet us at St. Mary’s for an hour-long rally featuring
Willie Baptist.
January 18, 2006
Third Thursday Poets. New location and time:
Blue Pepper Gallery and Coffee House, Salem. 7pm. "Although
there will no longer be 'hosted' wine and hors d’oeuvres, The
Blue Pepper has a variety of good wine, good beer, and good
munchies...enough to please everyone." A microphone will be used
so everyone can hear. Come and support the continuation of Third
Thursday Poets at its new site! For more information:
maureen@thirdthursdaypoets.org.
Event: MLK 2007: Living the Legacy
starting January 18, 2007 Starts: 7:00pm
Charles Johnson, nationally recognized novelist, short
story writer, essayist and cartoonist, will deliver the
keynote address at PSU's annual community-wide event
celebrating the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King,
Jr. The event is sponsored by Portland State University and
Oregon Public Broadcasting.
Charles Johnson, a scholar of African-American literature,
first came to prominence as a political cartoonist. In 1970,
he published a collection of cartoons that led to a
television series on PBS. Johnson won the National Book
Award in 1990 for Middle Passage, which embodies his
provocative version of black literature and in 2003
published Turning the Wheel, a collection of essays about
his experiences as an African-American Buddhist. He is
currently the S. Wilson and Grace M. Pollock Endowed
Professor of English at the University of Washington and is
a MacArthur Fellow. He is also the recipient of a Guggenheim
Fellowship.
When: Thursday, January 18, 2007, at 7 p.m.
Where: Smith Memorial Student Union Ballroom (SMSU)
room 355 (1825 SW Broadway)
January 19, 2006
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Celebration:
Ladysmith Black
Mambazo. Willamette University, Smith Auditorium.
7-9pm. $5. Tickets for public will go on sale at Jan. 17 at 5pm
at the University Center Info Desk. For more information:
503.370.6265.
www.willamette.edu/dept/oma/events/
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Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration & Celebration
"If not me, then who? If not now, then when?"
10:30 AM
- 2:30 PM: Service Projects
http://www.lclark.edu/dept/service/mlkday.html |
January 22-Working
Family Issues Maribeth Healey and Ken Allen host-
 KBOO
4th Monday:
Ken Allen, executive director of
AFSCME Council 75
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Ken and Maribeth Healey.
executive director of
Oregonians for Health Security
host a discussion of Union concerns
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January 25th...
Thursday Night at 6:45-7:45pm,
at Beaverton Library upstairs in the Historic Collections
Room.
The Wordsmith C ollection,
Inc.
&
ActiveResource.org
will sponsor a meeting for
Volunteers
(and paid interns)
who are interested in civic engagement! We will be getting
together for snacks, conversation, editing assignments, computer
server committees, and
the initiation of the bookmobile art project.
Come join us Thursday,
January 25th,,, There will be food!
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 Peace
and Impeachment in DC
January 27 - 29, 2007
Peace
and Impeachment in DC |
January 29, 2007 KBOO Fifth
Monday Labor Radio 6-7pm Immigration CommunicationJan. 29 -
5th Monday:
Immigration Communication
Many union members don't fully understand this issue.
How can we communicate the issue, and how would Martin
respond to building walls instead of bridges?
Lane Poncy and Tim Flanagan host
and a representative of
Jobs With Justice
will join us in the
studio.
Lane is with the Oregon Alliance
for Retired Americans,
CWA Local 7901
Tim is a Vice-President
for Part-Timers at
Portland Community College
FacultyFederation /
AFT-Oregon -
Oregon AFL-CIO
-- Local 2277 |
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Occupation Project Feb. 5, 2007
- lasting 8 weeks |
March Forth! March 4, 2007
MARCH
FORTH!
A National
Day of Dialogue and Action
“We the People” as the
authors of the progressive
story that is America, will
gather under the mandate to
“create a more perfect
union” and chart an
aspirational course towards
greater justice, domestic
tranquility, the common
defense, and liberty for
all.
March 4, 1789, was the day
that the US Constitution
went into effect. |
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3 DAYS OF ACTION TO END THE WAR
March 17-19, 2007
3 DAYS OF ACTION TO END THE WAR
Cities for Peace (Ongoing) |
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WRITER'S CALENDAR for the
Pacific Northwest ...
Eugene Oregon Peace Events |
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