2005
Wednesday November 16th
In cooperation with the Tompkins County Workers' Rights Center, we will show Walmart - the High cost of Low Price at the Trumansburg High School auditorium.
Thursday October 6th
We will host a question & answer session with Democratic District Attorney Candidate Gwen Wilkinson. This is an opportunity to not only ask questions, but to inform her of our concerns-so please come & bring any registered voter who is interested.
Monday September 26th
MILITARY RECRUITING. Speaker Jim Murphy, a VietNam vet who has been working fin the schools doing counter-recruiting and who has been a peace activist for years. He was featured in USA Today earlier this year.
Saturday August 6
Hiroshima Day event in conjunction with the Perry City Friends monthly Peace Pot Luck. There will be a dish-to-pass dinner at 5:30pm with the program to follow at 7 pm. The meeting will start the program with a greeting & then a moment of silence, and time to honor those who perished and suffered in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. There may be a speaker on the issue of depleted uranium.
Monday June 27
WHAT CAN WE DO TO SHUT DOWN GUANTANAMO?! A powerful video of the New York session of the World Tribunal on Iraq held on May 8, 2004 will be shown by Back to Democracy. The World Tribunal on Iraq is the final segment of Deep Dish TV's 13 part Shocking and Awful series on the U.S. led invasion and occupation of Iraq. Graphic footage of the war and its effects and eyewitness testimony of military and medical personnel are presented as well as testimony by experts in international law. After the film Back to Democracy member and lawyer Howard Engelskirchen will facilitate a discussion on War Crimes in Iraq, international law, our obligations, and our response.The meeting coincides with the last day of the final session of the worldwide World Tribunal on Iraq to be held at Istanbul from June 23 to June 27. Modeled on the Russell Tribunal on the War in Vietnam, preparatory sessions of the World Tribunal have been held across the world, beginning with London in 11/2003, Mumbai 1/2004, Brussels 4/2004, Barcelona and NYC 5/2004, Tokyo and South Korea 12/2004, and Rome 2/2005. The jury for the final session includes Ara Guler, Arundhati Roy, Chandra Muzaffar, Francois Houtart and others and the panel of advocates and witnesses includes Dennis Halliday, Dahr Jamail, Richard Falk, Samir Amin, Scott Ritter, Joel Kovel, Haifa Zangana and others.From the WTI Webpage: "The World Tribunal on Iraq (WTI) is a worldwide undertaking to reclaim justice. It aims to record the severe wrongs, crimes and violations that were committed in the process leading up to the aggression against Iraq, during the war and throughout the ensuing occupation, that continue to be widespread to this day. It is our intention to also record the social, political, environmental and cultural devastation. In the end, the evidence gathered and presented will serve as a historical record that breaks the web of lies promulgated by the war coalition and its embedded press." WTI is a horizontal network of local groups and individuals worldwide that work together in a non-hierarchical system. The project consists of commissions of inquiry and sessions held around the world investigating various issues related to the war on Iraq, such as the legality of the war, the role of the United Nations, war crimes and the role of the media.
Monday May 23
Can American Democracy Survive the Corporate Media? We will watch Bill Moyers' keynote address at the first ever national conference on media reform: On Reforming the Nation's Media and Restoring Democracy. Discussion will follow.
Monday April 25: The Future of Food
We will watch the video, The Future of Food, a documentary which offers "an in-depth investigation into the disturbing truth behind unlabeld, patented, genetically engineered foods that have quietly filled U.S. grocery store shelves for the past decade." It also offers viable alternatives to large-scale industrial agriculture. There will be people present who are working in providing alternatives in this area able to speak with us after the video.
Monday March 28
Fair Trade vs. Free Trade. Meaghan Sheehan from CUSLAR and Risa Sokolsky will be presenting information on the general topic and specifically on the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) which Congress will vote on in the next few months. Discussion will follow. Click here for resources and iformation about what you can do.
Saturday March 19 10:00 AM
Peace March in Trumansburg. We will meet at the T-CAT bus stop in front of T-Burg Schools on Main St. (Park on Main St.) The theme will revolve around messages such as "war is not the answer", the "human and financial costs of war", and "love thy enemies." After marching through downtown, we will gather in a circle for silence to honor those dead or wounded in the Iraq War. Then there will be time to speak out from the silence. This is the date two years ago that the US began this war, and the toll to humanity has been devastating. We must keep pressure on to insist that we do not want this bloodshed to continue in our name.
Monday February 28: The Control Room
The War in Iraq will be the focus of the meeting. We will plan for a march in Trumansburg on the second anniversary of the invasion of Iraq. There will be a screening of the documentary, The Control Room which looks at the "controversial and often dangerous operations of the seven year old Al Jazeera news network...which has become the most accepted informational resource in the Arab community."
Friday January 28
"Are you tired of working for peace & paying?" We hold power that government officials can understand in our wallets. Join us for a presentation on boycotts as a political strategy by Linda Finlay and Mary Loehr, both long-time activists, with a discussion ot follow. Ongoing and potential boycotts will be addressed. 7pm at the Trumansburg Firehouse, Rt. 96, just north of downtown.