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Past
Events
Pastors
For Peace - Cuba Caravan
Friday
June 20
6
pm Potluck - 7
pm Presentation
Terrace
Park shelter on the
WEST side of Covell Lake—entrance
at Madison St. and Covell Ave—2 blocks east of West Ave.
Bring
a dish to share.
The US embargo of Cuba causes shortages of food, medicine and
other important supplies for eleven million people. The embargo is
an immoral policy that uses hunger and disease as political
weapons.
Friendshipments, humanitarian aid shipments, mitigate the
impact of the embargo and mobilize thousands of US citizens in
favor of an alternative. We call for an end to the embargo and
normalization of relations between our two countries.
As a matter of principle, the Friendshipments refuse to apply
for a license under the terms of the embargo, since to do so would
be a de facto recognition of an immoral policy. From 1992 to 2006,
IFCO/Pastors for Peace has delivered seventeen Friendshipments to
Cuba. These provide proof of the power that people can have when
they are organized, motivated and determined. Speaking truth to
power and standing firm in the face of injustice are central to
the work of IFCO/ Pastors for Peace.
Visit Pastors
for Peace for more information on their work.
Pastors
for Peace would appreciate any donations in the form of money,
instead of medical supplies.
Hosted
by South Dakota ANSWER
South
Dakota Peace and Justice
PAX
Christi - SE South Dakota
South Dakota ANSWER Film Series
"Welcome to
New Orleans"
Thursday,
May 29 - 6
PM
Black Sheep
Coffee House
1007
West 11th St., Sioux Falls
For more information:
SoDak@ANSWERcoalition.org
Join
us for a discussion after the movie.
New
Orleans
the first year after Katrina ...
About violence and racism against the poor in
America
.
About
a society on its own.
And
about hope despite the odds ...
We
have all seen the news pictures from
New Orleans
.
This
movie goes further and tells the story about the major breakdown
through the eyes of a local activist, a 58 year old former member
of the Black Panthers who stayed during the hurricane. He became a
local hero in the days after the flooding and is now running a
grassroots organization, Common Ground Collective.
South Dakota ANSWER Middle East
Forum
Wheels of Justice Tour
Wednesday, April 23rd, 7 PM
Oak View Library
3700 East 3rd Street
Come
hear an ANSWER speaker and the activist group Wheels of
Justice speak about Palestine and the Middle East.
For more information:
http://justicewheels.org/
www.SoDakAnswer.org
 South
Dakota ANSWER Film Series
"Mission
Against Terror"
A movie about the Cuban 5, political prisoners in
U.S. jails
Sunday, April 20 - 2 pm
Zandbroz Variety
209 S. Phillips Ave., Sioux Falls
For more info contact SoDak@ANSWERcoalition.org
Join us for a
discussion after the movie
MISSION AGAINST
TERROR is a critically acclaimed Cuban Irish co-production
written and directed by Roberto Ruiz from Cuba and Bernie Dwyer.
The film raises the question: why are people who fight terrorism
imprisoned in the U.S. while known terrorists are allowed to walk
the streets of Miami freely? It follows the case of the five
Cubans currently serving long sentences in U.S. jails for trying
to prevent terrorist attacks on Cuba. It also depicts the long
history of violence against innocent Cubans by right-wing groups
based in Miami that are supported by the U.S. government. The film
shows historical footage of terrorism against Cuba and provides a
moving depiction of the case of the Cuban Five. It features
interviews with Cuban National Assembly president Ricardo Alarcón,
former CIA agent Philip Agee, attorney Leonard Weinglass, Cuban
activist from Miami, Andrés Gómez, and family members of the
Cuban Five. 48 minutes, 2004
Sioux
Falls, SD
Thursday, April 10, 6 pm
Ronning Branch
Library
3100 E. 49th St
Hanover,
IN
Tuesday, April 8, 7 pm
Hanover College, Science Center Room
137
517 Ball Drive
Iowa
City, IA
Friday, April 11, 7 pm
Iowa Memorial
Union
Northwestern Room 345
Chicago,
IL
Saturday, April 12, 6 pm
ANSWER Chicago
Office
3334 W. Lawrence #202
(Brown Line - Kimball Stop)
Monday, April 14, 2:30 pm
Harper College, Room
J143
Tuesday, April 15, 12 noon
Harold Washington College
Milwaukee,
WI
Tuesday, April 15, 7 pm
UW-Milwaukee Union, Room 280
2200 E. Kenwood Blvd.
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A.N.S.W.E.R. (Act Now to Stop War & End Racism) has organized numerous mass protests from hundreds to hundreds of thousands of people against
the war in Iraq, since
2002. Becker has been a central organizer and keynote speaker at, many West Coast mass mobilizations in San Francisco and Los
Angeles.
In October 2006, Becker was a presenter at the fourth In Defense of Humanity Conference in Rome, speaking on the subject of The Lebanon War and the “New Middle East.” In December 2005, Becker traveled to Damascus, Syria to address a conference on Palestinian Refugees and the Right of Return. Becker co-authored the book, NATO in the Balkans (1998) and traveled to the former Yugoslavia on a fact-finding mission following the 1999 NATO war. In September 1998 he, along with Ramsey Clark, comprised the first U.S. delegation to investigate the U.S. bombing of the
Al-Shifa pharmaceutical plant in Sudan, and produced the video, Eyewitness Sudan. Becker was a long-time member of the Bay Area Anti-Apartheid Network Steering Committee in the 1980s and
1990s.
Becker has represented the U.S. anti-war movement at many national and international events. Among these were the Gensuikin annual conference commemorating the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings in Japan in 1991, the Fete L'Humanite in Paris, France in 1993, the European Yugoslavia War Crimes Tribunal in Berlin in 2000, the Japan Peace Forum in 2002, and the Asia Wide Coalition Anti-War Conference in Tokyo in November 2003. In Aug. 1995, Becker attended and was a founding member of the International Commission of Inquiry on Economic Sanctions in London. Becker writes regularly on U.S. policy in the Middle East and other subjects for the journal Socialism and Liberation.
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 South
Dakota ANSWER Film Series
"Sir,
No Sir!"
Film
About The GI Movement Against The War
In Vietnam
Wednesday,
March 26 - 6PM
Black Sheep Coffee
House
1007
West 11th St.,
Sioux Falls
For more information:
SoDak@ANSWERcoalition.org
This
is the story of one of the most vibrant and widespread upheavals
of the 1960's—one that had profound impact on
American society, yet has been virtually obliterated from
the collective memory of that time.
In
the 1960’s an anti-war movement emerged that altered the course
of history. It was a movement no one expected, least of all those
in it. Hundreds went to prison and thousands into exile. And by
1971 it had, in the words of one colonel, infested the entire
armed services. Yet today few people know about the GI movement
against the war in
Vietnam
.
Yet
few today know of these history-changing events.
Sir!
No Sir! will change all that. The film does four things:
1)
Brings to life the history of the GI movement through the stories
of those who were in
it;
2)
Reveals the defiance that the movement gave birth to with
never-seen archival material;
3)
Explores the profound impact that movement had on the military and
the war itself; and
4) Tells how and why the GI Movement has been erased from the
public memory.
Sir! No Sir! reveals how, thirty years later, the poem by Bertolt
Brecht that became an anthem of the GI Movement still resonates:
General,
man is very useful.
He can fly and he can kill.
But he has one defect: He
can think.
 South
Dakota ANSWER Film Series
"Posada Carriles: Terrorism
Made in the USA"
Wednesday,
Jan. 30 - 6PM
Black Sheep Coffee
House
1007
West 11th St.,
Sioux Falls
For more information:
SoDak@ANSWERcoalition.org
Luis
Posada Carriles was recently judged by a U.S. court for violating
immigration laws, instead of being prosecuted for the numerous
terrorist acts for which he is responsible. In May, all
indictment charges were dropped and he was released from prison,
free to walk the streets of Miami.
Twenty
years ago, Posada escaped from a Venezuelan prison where he was
being tried for his involvement in the bombing of Cubana airplane
killing all 73 passengers on board. The Venezuelan government has
filed a petition before U.S. authorities asking for his
extradition. However, the Bush administration has failed to
respond to this demand for justice.
The
Venezuelan documentary film “Posada Carriles: Made in USA”, a
Telesur and PanaFilms co-production. It is the result of two years
of meticulous research of an investigative team that examined
declassified documents and criminal files, and interviewed
witnesses and survivors from several Latin American countries.
The
network of terror that the CIA established in Latin America—in
which Posada Carriles (alias “Bambi”, alias
“Basilio”)
acted as one of the key figures— is exposed step-by-step through
the courageous testimonies of victims whose family members were
killed by him or under his orders. It also includes the findings
of anti-terrorist specialists and investigative journalists, and
the experience of counter-intelligence agents.
90
minutes, 2007
South
Dakota ANSWER Film Series
"Sicko"
Wednesday,
Nov. 28 - 6PM
Black Sheep Coffee
House
1007
West 11th St.,
Sioux Falls
For more information:
SoDak@ANSWERcoalition.org
Join us to watch this
new film by Michael Moore and discuss the health care system in
the United States.
ANSWER South Dakota Supports Jena
6
November 7, 2007
On November 7, six people made
a valiant effort to inform the public and garner support for
the Jena 6. The Jena 6 are six African American high school
students from Jena, Louisiana, who had been falsely charged with
second degree attempted murder and other similar charges for
allegedly roughing up a white racist classmate in December 2006.
Even with the chilly and windy weather, many
signatures were gathered and information handed out. During
the following week, ANSWER Coalition members gathered more signatures wherever they
could.
Many people questioned why South Dakotans would be circulating a
petition for something in Louisiana,
but if injustice is happening in one state, it is definitely
happening everywhere in the country. If anyone has heard
of any local injustices, feel free to email us information.
Others asked how the petitioners heard about the case and came to
care enough about the Six to go to the trouble of telling the
story and having people sign. But that is what the A.N.S.W.E.R.
Coalition is about. We do not only protest the war, but we
also fight racism and injustice here at home and throughout the world.
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