Presentation by Art Roche
Dubuque School of Americas(SOA) Watch http://www.soaw.org

8:00 PM, Thursday, November 16, 2006
Hiawatha Public Library Free Lecture & Discussion Open to the Public

November 17-19, 2006: Three Days for Justice, Peace and Accountability. Three Days Against the Racist System of Violence and Domination

Art Roche of Dubuque SOA Watch will report on the November 17-19, 2006 Vigil and Action to close the SOA/WHINSEC at Fort Benning, Georgia. The November Vigil and Action has grown into a major convergence point for people from across the Americas. This year’s gathering at the gates is shaping up to become the biggest demonstration at a U.S. military base since the Vietnam war. The vigil features amazing musicians like Emily Saliers from the Indigo Girls, percussionists from Colombia and HipHop artists from Chicago and New York. Among the speakers are high-profile figures like Charles Steele, Jr., national President of SCLC(Southern Christian Leadership Conference), Linda Chavez-Thompson, executive vice president of the AFL-CIO and torture survivors and social movement activists from Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala and Haiti.

Workshops, teach-ins, trainings, organizing meetings and benefit concerts will take place in the Columbus Convention Center and Howard Johnson Hotel, covering topics such as Ending Impunity in Argentina, Alternative Security, Counter-Recruitment, Theatre of the Oppressed and more.

For more information on the November Vigil and Action go to http://www.soaw.org

CEDAR RAPIDS PEACE CENTER
ART CINEMA: FREE FRIDAY NIGHT FLICKS
Documentary by Cathy Zheutlin

Friday, November 10, 2006, 7:00pm
Cedar Rapids Peace Center
1029 3rd Street SE, Cedar Rapids
Free Admission & Discussion

Twenty years ago, a group of 500 people walked across America for nine
months in a mobile community known as “Peace City”. With her betacam, Cathy Zheutlin, Producer and Director, videotaped their journey, and created an hour long documentary called “Just One Step.”

It is a film about persistence, commitment, passion, counter-cultural
behavior, and mainstream America. People from all walks of life–grandparents, children, doctors, veterans, computer programmers–many of whom had never marched for anything before–gathered from all over the United States in a historic effort to affect the politics of a nation. “Just One Step” chronicles not only the logistical, emotional, and spiritual trials of the marchers as they crossed the country–living in tents, walking through every conceivable terrain and weather–but also their interaction with thousands of Americans in rural and urban communities along the way: farmers,
unemployed steelworkers, housewives, and school children, who welcomed the marchers into their churches and schools and even their homes.

The film delivers an emotional experience that inspires and renews an audience, empowering them with the feeling that “ordinary” people can make a real substantive difference. At the same time, there are celebrity guest appearances by Jesse Jackson, Pat Schroeder, Yoko One, Pete Seeger, Studs Turkel, Ron Howard, Betty Thomas and others.

“Just One Step” was screened in 1987, by invitation of the Union of Cinematographers in Moscow. The film won a CINE Golden Eagle, as well as a Bronze Apple for the National Film and Video Festival, and first prize for social issue films at the Anthropos Film Festival in Los Angeles. The Great Peace March itself was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize in 1986.

For more information, call John at #319-247-2612.