Planning Meeting Friday Feb 8
Posted: Tuesday January 22nd, 2008
Upcoming Event: Friday February 8th, 2008.
Planning Meeting Friday Feb 8
at 7:00 pm at Trinity Presbyterian Church, 2200 N. Bell, Denton.
To plan action for 5th year anniversary of Iraq invasion and occupation on Wednesday, March 19 at Representative Burgess Office in Lewisville
We are rapidly approaching the 5 year anniversary of the occupation of Iraq. Peace Action Denton has marked the passage of each year with a public event. We must keep this issue on the front pages of the news and in the fore front of people's minds.
Peace Action Denton has just begun the planning stages for this event. We invite you to assist with ideas and energy. Let’s take our message and our questions to the office of Rep Burgess.
There are many steps to organizing and event like this and we need your help and support.
* signs and banners
* publicity
* candles for sunset vigil
* audio amplification
We extend a special invitations to both past and present candidates for public office.
If you have any ideas, thoughts or energy to help organize please join us Friday Feb 8 or contact Dan
New Books of Interest
Posted: Tuesday January 22nd, 2008
Peace Action Denton has hosted many important speakers in the past and Three of these speakers have new books out.
Ann Wright -- DISSENT: Voices of Conscience: Government Insiders Speak Out Against the War in Iraq
Foreword by Daniel Ellsberg
ISBN: 978-097733384-4; List Price: $17.95
For more info, see Voices of Conscience
Joe Bageant -- Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War.
ISBN: 030733936X, List price $25.00
More info at: Joe Bageant
David Barsamian -- Targeting Iran:
Interviews with Noam Chomsky,
Ervand Abrahamian & Nahid Mozaffari.
ISBN: 9780872864580; List price $11.95
More info at Alternative Radio
Demonstration to Shut Down Guantanamo
Posted: Thursday December 27th, 2007
Upcoming Event: Friday January 11th, 2008. Demonstration to Shut Down Guantanamo Friday, January 11, 3:00 – 6:00 p.m. On the sixth anniversary of the first prisoners being brought to Guantánamo, join other human rights activists in Dallas and throughout the nation in demanding that the prison be shut down. A demonstration will take place in front of the Earle Cabell Federal Building, 1100 Commerce St. in Dallas. (visit www.DallasPeaceCenter.org/Gitmo to sign up if you are willing to wear an orange jumpsuit and a black hood.) Sponsored by the End the Occupation of Iraq Committee. Endorsed by Peace Action Denton and many other organizations.
Planning Meeting Wed Jan 9
Posted: Wednesday December 19th, 2007
Upcoming Event: Wednesday January 9th, 2008.
Planning meeting will be Wed, Jan 9, 2008, at 7:30 pm at Trinity Presbyterian Church, 2200 N. Bell, Denton.
To plan action for 5th year anniversary of Iraq invasion and occupation.
Planned action Wednesday, March 19 at Representative Burgess Office in Lewisville
It is with deep regret that I remind us, we are rapidly approaching the 5 year anniversary of the occupation of Iraq. Peace Action Denton has marked the passage of each year with a public event. We must keep this issue on the front pages of the news and in the fore front of people's minds.
Peace Action Denton has just begun the planning stages for this event. We invite you to assist with ideas and energy. Let’s take our message and our questions to the office of Rep Burgess. We all know he has
been stead fast in his support for war and all the evil that this current administration represents.
There are many steps to organizing and event like this and we need your help and support.
We extend a special invitations to both past and present candidates for public office. If you have any ideas, thoughts or energy to help organize please join us Wed., Jan 9 or contact Dan.
Life in Occupied Palestine
Eyewitness Stories & Photos
Posted: Wednesday October 3rd, 2007
Upcoming Event: Monday October 29th, 2007.
Life in Occupied Palestine: Eyewitness Stories & Photos
Monday, October 29, 7:00 pm
Held at: Trinity Presbyterian, 2200 N. Bell (at Sherman), Denton
Sponsored by Peace Action Denton, UNT Peace Studies Department, and Trinity Presbyterian Church
Free admission.
Anna Baltzer is coming back to Texas with her new talk and a new book!
Anna, a Jewish American Columbia graduate, Fulbright scholar, and volunteer with the International Women's Peace Service, is touring the country with two presentations and a new book describing her experiences documenting human rights abuses in the West Bank and supporting nonviolent resistance to the Occupation.
Anna' will present "Life in Occupied Palestine: Eyewitness Stories & Photos," which covers checkpoints, settlements, demonstrations, Israeli activism, censorship, the Separation Wall, and more. Providing photographic documentation and critical information often misrepresented or ignored in the Western media.
Anna will be selling and signing copies of her new book: Witness in Palestine: A Jewish American Woman in the Occupied Territories
Anna will also be appearing at Brookline College in Dallas at noon, Monday, Oct. 29 and at the Dallas Peace Center at noon, Tuesday, Oct. 30. For further information about Anna's work and tour, please visit
www.AnnaInTheMiddleEast.com
To see our other events, visit our website at:
PeaceActionDenton.org
To contact us, email:
PeaceActionDenton@gmail.com
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