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Past Events in 2010
Pastors for Peace - Cuban Caravan Thursday, July 8 - 6PM McKennan Park 26th St. and 2nd Ave, Sioux Falls
A small group will be coming through this year, so they are looking for cash donations instead of goods.
A year has passed and we have seen only small steps towards a new relationship with Cuba – new regulations to allow Cuban Americans to freely visit and send money to their families, and background talks about a few issues of mutual interest such as immigration. These are positive steps but progress has stalled and the fundamental mechanisms of the economic blockade remain in full vigor. Meanwhile in Congress there have been a number of bills introduced to end or ease aspects of the blockade, the most prominent of which is the one to end the travel ban for all US citizens. But none of these has yet come to a vote. The blockade has been in place almost 50 years and outlasted 10 US presidents. We have to step up the pressure to ensure that it finally ends under the current president. NOW is the time to completely end the blockade, travel ban and all the measures aimed at starving the Cuban people into submission and overthrowing their government. We intend to demonstrate that we will no longer tolerate it.
In July we will travel in school buses, trucks and cars on 14 different routes to visit more than 130 US and Canadian cities. At every stop we will educate people about the blockade while collecting building supplies and tools for hurricane reconstruction, as well as medical, educational and cultural supplies. Join the caravan as we pass through your community, to connect and stay with community activists across the country as you travel. Alternatively join us directly in Texas on July 18th. Protest Attack on Gaza
Saturday, June 5 - 1PM Corner of Minnesota and 14th St. Israel will not stop the attacks on Gaza and those trying to help Palestinians until the U.S. government tells them to. So let others know YOU will not accept Israel's inhumanity.
The Israeli government had previously announced that it would send ships to intercept the cargo and passenger ships attempting to bring humanitarian supplies to Gaza. Some 750 activists are on the boats, as well as Nobel peace laureate Mairead Corrigan Maguire, European legislators and a Holocaust survivor. The convoy, which left for Gaza May 30, is carrying desperately needed medical equipment, construction materials and school supplies that have become increasingly scarce in the face of the Israeli blockade. The inhumane blockade has been in place since 2007. “Israel destroyed 165 schools and more than 100 factories and destroyed tens of thousands of houses without enabling the Palestinians to rebuild their homes and their lives,” said Hanin Zoabi, who is a member of the Israeli parliament and a participant in the humanitarian mission. Israel has said that it will detain those on board the boats in the port of Ashdod. Members of the Israeli government have rationalized impeding the humanitarian mission, stating that due to their ongoing conflict with Hamas, which is the democratically elected government in Gaza, the blockade and seizure of supplies is justified. Officials also stated that they have offered to reroute the aid through official Israeli channels. The flotilla organizers, however, described Israel’s suggestion as “both ridiculous and offensive. Resistance forces in Gaza, such as Hamas, are struggling for Palestinian self-determination. Though they have fought for peaceful measures to be taken to gain liberation from Zionist oppression, the resistance groups are painted as “terrorists” for fighting back against Israeli rockets, tanks and targeted assassinations. Along with members of the Israeli government, leaders of Israel’s military have even gone so far as to claim that there is no humanitarian crisis in Gaza. Despite these claims, a United Nations Development Program report published May 23 revealed that 75 percent of the damage caused by Israel’s military offensive in the winter of 2008-2009 has not yet been repaired. A report by the United Nations humanitarian coordinator said the blockade is “suffocating” the agricultural sector in Gaza and that more than 60 percent of households have insufficient food. “I think the side that is breaking the law, international law, and breaking the human values is Israel and not anyone else,” Zoabi said. The hypocrisy and criminality of Zionism grows larger every day, as even humanitarian aid sent to assist the people of Gaza is restricted by the government of Israel and boats carrying the aid are brutally attacked. The criminal blockade of Gaza must be lifted, and Israel’s pursuit of inhumane policies towards the Palestinian people must end.
Seize
BP! Visibility Event
Wed., May 12 - 1PM Corner of 14th and Minnesota
Join us to protest Big Oil's greed and refusal to admit the danger of off shore oil rigs.
The government of the United States must seize BP and freeze its assets, and place those funds in trust to begin providing immediate relief to the working people throughout the Gulf states whose jobs, communities, homes and businesses are being harmed or destroyed by the criminally negligent actions of the CEO, Board of Directors and senior management of BP. 200,000 gallons of oil a day, or more, are gushing into the Gulf of Mexico with the flow of oil growing. The poisonous devastation to human beings, wildlife, natural habitat and fragile ecosystems will go on for decades. It constitutes an act of environmental violence, the consequences of which will be catastrophic.
Capitalism: A Love Story
Centers for Equality 3600 S. Minnesota Ave. Sioux Falls
On the 20-year anniversary of his groundbreaking masterpiece Roger & Me, Michael Moore's Capitalism: A Love Story comes home to the issue he's been examining throughout his career : the disastrous impact of corporate dominance on the everyday lives of Americans (and by default, the rest of the world).
But this time the culprit is much bigger than General Motors, and the crime scene far wider than Flint, Michigan.
From Middle America, to the halls of power in Washington, to the global financial epicenter in Manhattan, Michael Moore will once again take film goers into uncharted territory. With both humor and outrage, Michael Moore's Capitalism: A Love Story explores a taboo question: What is the price that America pays for its love of capitalism?
Years ago, that love seemed so innocent. Today, however, the American dream is looking more like a nightmare as families pay the price with their jobs, their homes and their savings.
Moore takes us into the homes of ordinary people whose lives have been turned upside down; and he goes looking for explanations in Washington, DC and elsewhere. What he finds are the all-too-familiar symptoms of a love affair gone astray: lies, abuse, betrayal...and 14,000 jobs being lost every day.
Capitalism: A Love Story is both a culmination of Moore's previous works and a look into what a more hopeful future could look like. It is Michael Moore's ultimate quest to answer the question he's posed throughout his illustrious filmmaking career : Who are we and why do we behave the way that we do?
March on Washington
Show
local support for the end of war
Saturday, March 20 - 12pm at the Battleship Memorial west of Kiwanis and 12th St. Sioux Falls, SD
When tens of thousands
march in Washington, D.C., San Francisco and Los Angeles on March 20 –
we are going to tie together the issue of endless war and
skyrocketing unemployment and poverty.
Take to streets. Tell every family and friend, co-worker and fellow student that it's time to get on the bus. It’s time for the people to speak out. It’s time to raise hell!
U.S.
OUT OF IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN!! FREE PALESTINE!!!
January 30 - 1pm corner of 14th and Minnesota Sioux Falls, SD
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