Dunedin Peace Cornering Attracting Counter-Protesters
Our weekly peace cornering in Dunedin has attracted a large group of counter-protesters in recent months. While we continue to get honks, peace signs and a great deal of support, we encourage more in the peace community to contribute to our numbers. The St. Pete for Peace, Dunedin Peace Cornering has taken place for about 3 years every Wednesday from 4:30-6:00pm at the corner of Main Street and Edgewater Drive in Dunedin
(MAP). For more information contact
Melissa or
Kim.
Eyes Wide Open
MEMORIAL DAY, Monday, May 26, 9am to 2pm
Largo Central Park, 101 East Bay Drive, Largo
(MAP)
The American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) in cooperation with 5 Years of War.com will commemorate Memorial Day by counting the cost of the war; honoring fallen U.S. military personnel and Iraqi civilians with the traveling exhibition: Eyes Wide Open: The Cost of War to Florida, which will be on display at Largo Central Park on March 26th from 9:00am-2:00pm.
Eyes Wide Open: The Cost of War to Florida focuses on the specific costs of war to this state. The exhibit includes 170+ pairs of boots representing fallen servicemen and women from Florida, and a visual representation of the Iraqi civilian casualties.
This exhibit can only be successful with your help. It is a very moving memorial and can have a critical impact on how the war in Iraq is framed in the mind of the public. We can probably use some help getting the exhibit set up and torn down, we need people mingling with visitors and watching over the exhibit, but what we (and U.S. troops and the Iraqi's) really need are witnesses to their reality. Please come to the exhibit, bring your family, bring your friends, and blast this invitation to everyone on your email list.
Details: Monday March 26, 2008, Largo Central Park, 101 Central Park Dr. (SE intersection of East Bay Dr. and Seminole Blvd -
MAP), Largo FL, 9:00am-2:00pm.
For more information go to
http://5yearsofwar.com/, Email
info@5yearsofwar.com or call Mike at 727-320-4502.
Free Film, This Wednesday, May 21, 8:30pm
Our Own Private Bin Laden
(2006, 63 minutes)
The film highlights the historical background that led to the fatal link between post-Cold War politics and the emergence of new forms of terrorism that succeeded in establishing their own economy. It traces the connection between privatization, deregulation and free market and the globalization of terrorism. The film examines the complicity between economic structures of "terror" and "the war on terror," their interdependencies, and the creation of the Bin Laden industry as a consequence.The film explains why the world after September 11, 2001 is less the result of a stray act of terror but the consequence of a series of fatal decisions made from 1945 onwards.
More film info. Shown in the outdoor courtyard of Cafe Bohemia, 937 Central Avenue in St. Petersburg. Wednesday's forecast: low-80's, 10% chance of rain. The film is free and open to the public.
St. Pete to Elderly: Get out!
Residents of Graham-Rogall complex have to find new homes in the next year
Published 05.14.08 By Alex Pickett, Creative Loafing
http://tampa.creativeloafing.com/gyrobase/st_pete_to_elderly_get_out_/Content?oid=445821
If you are interested in learning more about this inhumane action on the part of the St. Petersburg Housing Authority and the City of St. Petersburg, and supporting the residents contact: Dwight Lawton, Save Graham-Rogall,
dlawton2@tampabay.rr.com, (727) 864-1535.
Florida Set to Re-Start Executions
From Floridians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty
Florida's next execution has now been set for July 1st. With almost 400 people in our Death House, Florida has the second largest Death Row in the U.S. For a complete list, see:
http://www.dc.state.fl.us/activeinmates/deathrowroster.asp. The stay of execution for Mark Schwab has been lifted. After 18 months without an execution, the State of Florida is about to re-start the killing of captive prisoners. Death Warrants do not expire. It is not necessary for the governor to sign a new warrant for this execution, just set a date and leave it up to the D.O.C. to carry out the killing in the name of the "People of the State of Florida." More and more Floridians are speaking up and demanding a better way to help the victims of violent crime and their families...a better way to protect the people of Florida...a better way to a safer, more humane and less violent Florida.
Please help in any way you can. Join a group. Make a donation. Plan an awareness event. Take action by writing letters-to-the-editor and contacting Governor Crist and your elected Florida representatives. Sign on the to the Florida campaign. Please speak up and speak out. For more info go to:
www.fadp.org, or Mark Elliot at
melliott3@aol.com.
Florida Peace Action Network
Weekly Peace Vigil
7:30am-8:30am at the intersection of US19 and Ridge Rd. Port Richey. Large presence, excellent visuals and a responsive traffic flow. After the vigil we meet for breakfast. Join us! We are there every Friday.
www.flpan.org.
Peace