In Recognition of Torture Awareness Month,
Amnesty International USA and the American Civil Liberties Union invite you to attend a special showing of The Response, a 30- minute, critically acclaimed courtroom drama based on the actual transcripts of the Guantanamo Bay military tribunals.

Thursday, June 18, 6:00 - 8:00 PM
Unitarian Universalist Church
Archdale Street, Charleston
The Response will be shown at 6:30 PM
Refreshments will be provided.

For more information, call 404-876-5661 x 11

Please print and distribute the synopsis and the flyer about the Charleston showing .

The Role of Armed Resistance and Voting Rights in Mississippi

Please join the College of Charleston's African American Studies Program for a
guest lecture by Dr. Akinyele Umoja of Georgia State University.

Wednesday, March 11, 2009, 4:00pm
Addlestone Library (corner of Calhoun and Coming Streets), room 227

For more information, contact Conseula Francis at francisc(at)cofc.edu or 953-7738.

The Beehive Collective is coming to the College of Charleston campus Tuesday evening, March 10, 2009 to present the huge graphic that been years in the making, Mesoamérica Resiste.

There will be a meeting about the closing of Fraser Elementary on Monday, February 23, at 5:00p.m. in the Board Room at 75 Calhoun Street (corner of Calhoun and Alexander St., across from the Charleston county library).

 Background on School Closings   (Also please note that Fraser Elementary is within safe, easy walking distance from public housing areas on Columbus Street, and Sanders Clyde, where its students woud be sent, is many blocks away.)

Agenda of school board meeting (use public comment period)  

For more information, email reclaimcharleston(at)riseup.net

 Sunday, Feb.8, 3:00p.m. SCSU, Orangeburg

Monday, Feb. 9, 7p.m., Burke High School, Charleston

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I have said repeatedly that I intend to close
Guantánamo, and I will follow through on that. I have said repeatedly that America doesn't torture, and I'm going to make sure that we don't torture.
President-Elect Barack Obama, November 1, 2008

Help make sure the promise is kept. For our local support action, we need fasters and people to hand out information. To help, please contact anna(at)charlestonpeace.net

The Chestnut Tree Collective is having another Really Really Free Market on Saturday, March 7 at noon under the overpass on King Street, next to the Recovery Room. Click here for an old flyer with a map . Free food, courtesy of FoodNotBombs.

For more information and if you have donations, contact the Chestnut Tree Collective at RRFM(at)blackflag.org.

The School of the Americas (SOA) in Fort Benning, GA has trained over 60,000 Latin American soldiers in interrogation tactics, psychological warfare, and counterinsurgency techniques, and its graduates have tortured, raped and killed union and student organizers, teachers, clergy and others working for human rights in Latin America.

The movement to close the SOA is gaining strength. Read abou the history of the movement to close the SOA and about legislative actions, and see the photos from the November 22-23, 2008 vigil.

Show the Chinese government that the Olympics can’t
whitewash its human rights abuses

Saturday August 9, 2008
1:00 - 3:00 pm
5th Ave. East & Arctic Ave., Folly Beach

More information: http://aicharleston.com/

Pentagon Forced to Release Information to SOA Watch - On to the Senate!

Thanks to your efforts and hard work in defense of human rights, the culture of secrecy and lack of accountability surrounding Defense Department policies suffered a severe blow today when the U.S. House of Representatives approved the McGovern-Sestak-Bishop (GA) amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act for FY 2009. The amendment forces the public release of names, rank, country of origin, courses and dates of attendance of WHINSEC's graduates and instructors to the public.  Please read about the "School of Assassins" and look for information about the vote in the Senate on the SOA Watch website. In Charleston, contact anna(at)charlestonpeace.net for more information.

Ryan Jackson

War objector PFC Ryan Jackson, who has been held in the Charleston Naval Brig, has just been moved to Fort Gordon, Georgia, where he has been charged with multiple counts of AWOL. His court martial is scheduled for Friday, May 30 in Fort Gordon, which is about ten miles west of  Augusta, Georgia. If you can attend the court martial, please contact the Fort Gordon Public Affairs office at 706-791-7003 and check Courage to Resist for updates and more information. Plan to be at the main gate by 7:30a.m. If you want to carpool from Charleston or need a ride, contact anna(at)charlestonpeace.net.

Courage to Resists also asks that people write to Ryan to show their support, and if you are planning to visit him, please contact anna(at)charlestonpeace.net so that we can coordinate our visits.

 Commemorating the Abolition of the International Slave Trade

  Wednesday at noon in Arnold Hall, Jewish Studies Center--Lawrence Hill, award-winning Afro-Canadian author reads from Someone Knows My Name.

Wednesday at 7pm in Charleston County Public Library--"This Ambiguous Anniversary"--five of the world's leading scholars on the history of the slave trade will lead a public panel discussion on the significance of the bicentenary of the banning of the international slave trade. (co-sponsored by Charleston School of law, Humanities Council SC, and Wachovia).

Thursday at 3:15 pm Stern Center Ballroom--Theme day panel discussion on Brenda Marie Osbey and her book All Saints

Thursday at 7:30 pm- -Alumni Hall--public reading by Brenda Marie Osbey .

Check out the photos from Saturday's (March 15, 2008) march .
(If you would like updates about future actions and events and are not on our email list, please contact anna(at)charlestonpeace.net.)

 Wednesday, March 19, 7:30 p.m.: Vigil in Marion Square, sponsored by MoveOn. (contact info will be posted ASAP.)

Thursday, March 20, 2:15 p.m.: CofC Walkout, meet in Marion Square. Sponsored by CofC SDS. For information, contact mbcarpen(at)edisto.cofc.edu.

The International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU)
has passed a resolution for a Workers Action to Stop the War, "calling on unions and working people in the U. S. and internationally to mobilize for a “No Peace No Work Holiday” May 1, 2008 for 8 hours to demand an immediate end to the war and occupation in Iraq and Afghanistan and the withdrawal of U. S. troops from the Middle East." Let's join them! Please read the resolution, contact the union to voice your support, and email us to help us plan local support actions for Mayday! - Come to our meetings, or  contact anna(at)charlestonpeace.net, 843-312-9741.