Dorothy Day, Martin Luther King Jr., Cesear Chavez, A.J. Muste, Helen Keller, Ghandi, Oscar Romero, Eugene Debs, Angela Davis, Nelson Mandela, Dolores Huerta, Abbie Hoffman, Malcom X, Frederick Douglass, Mother Jones, Rosa Parks, Desmond Tutu, Steve Biko, Aung San Suu Kyi, Emma Goldman, Judi Bari... and all the ordinary people who struggle every day for dignity and justice without recognition.
About me: Found in 2002, theBergen Peace and Justice Coalition (BPJCO) is a grassroots coalition in Bergen County, New Jersey comprised of local student, faith-based and community organizations and individuals united in opposition to the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq; the prospect of endless war; militaristic and imperial foreign policy; and unjust domestic policies in the name of the war against terrorism.
Who I'd like to meet: Progressive peace and justice activists and organizations in the Bergen County, New Jersey area as well as new people interested in becoming active in the peace movement.
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Celebrate Black History Month - Free Screening of "Lumumba"
Liberation Film Series - Free Movie Screening Lumumba (2000), Raoul Peck, dir.
Celebrate Black History month with a free screening of Raoul Peck's poignant film Lumumba (2000). The movie documents the life and death of the brilliant African politician Patrice Lumumba. Lumumba was the shining star of a generation of post-independence African left-wing leaders interested in charting a course away from Western dependency and imperialism. Peck's Lumumba is a tragic figure whose demise raises questions about the possibilities for the liberation of Africa in the 21st century.
DIRECTIONS: Take #6 train to Bleecker Street or B, D, F, V train to Broadway/Lafayette or R, W to Prince. (B, V, W are weekday-only.) BUSES: M21 Avenue C/Houston St. bus or Centre St. or Broadway bus; NYC suggests BIKING: Broadway, Lafayette, Houston, East River path, Hudson Greenway.
Lenape was the original language of the first peoples in all of what is now also known as New Jersey (NJ), southeast New York (including NYC), eastern Pennsylvania (PA), northern Delaware (DE); the whole area is also known to first peoples and progressive peoples as Lenapehoking
Please join healthcare activists from the Bergen county area on Thursday September 25th as we show our support for a quality, national, single-payer, guaranteed, healthcare system for everybody in this country, and call on Rep. Steve Rothman to co-sponsor the United States National Health Insurance Act (HR676).
This event will be part of a week of actions for healthcare justice called by Health care Now!, a national campaign for a quality guaranteed non-profit single payer healthcare system in the United States.
Logistics: 6:00 pm outside in front of Rep. Steve Rothmans’s office. His office is located at 25 Main St. in Hackensack, NJ.
We will have information on HR 676 and ways you can help support the struggle for a national, single-payer healthcare system for everybody in this country.
We hope this can be the first of many, growing actions for single-payer and to support HR676 and we hope you will join us.
For information/ directions call Greg Pason at 201-803-7574 or e-mail gpason@bergenjustice.net
3-DAY INTENSIVE INTRODUCTION TO MARXISM JULY 11-13 2008 NYC "Them belly full, but we hungry" The Global Food Crisis & What Capitalism Has To Do With It
As global warming, soaring food prices, war and racism wrack the planet, resistance movements from Nepal to the Niger Delta to Chiapas are linking the looming global crisis to one source: capitalism. But questions remain: Why is the most productive social system humanity has ever created also so destructive? What are the alternatives to capitalism? How do we get there from here?
Using the global food crisis as a starting point, "Them Belly Full, But We Hungry" is a three-day introduction to marxism that seeks to unpack how capitalism works—to get behind surface appearances and see why capitalism must put profit before basic human needs. It will also examine the intersections of revolutionary movements and people's struggles against the ravages of capitalism and its three pillars, homophobia, racism, and sexism. The intensive is designed for workers, students, artists and activists who are interested in not only understanding the world, but changing it.
Marx brought a dialectical approach to participating in social change. He recognized that an understanding of the world cannot come from passive contemplation alone, that active struggle is necessary. Yet he also insisted that analysis, critical reflection--learning from our own experience as well as those of others--and struggle to make our concepts and ways of seeing both clear and accessible are as important as political engagement in the streets.
As Bob Marley’s song goes: "Them belly full, but we hungry… Now the weak must get strong" Sliding scale: $75-$125 Free for Brecht Forum Subscribers
CALLING ALL SOCIAL JUSTICE ACTIVISTS IN THE BERGEN COUNTY AREA.
Residents Against Racism and North Jersey Metro Anti-Racist Action invites you to:
STAND IN SOLIDARITY WITH IMMIGRANT WORKERS ON MAY 17TH Photobucket
For over two years, Residents Against Racism and North Jersey Metro Anti-Racist Action have been protesting the xenophobic harassment of immigrant workers by groups like the United “Patriots” of America (i.e Minutemen). We stand in solidarity with the workers who gather in Bergenfield because they deserve respect and solidarity- NOT HARRASSMENT. THE UNITED “PATRIOTS” DO NOT REPRESENT BERGEN COUNTY.
On May 17th, the United “Patriots” will be holding a celebration of their two-year anniversary of xenophobic harassment in Bergenfield. We ask that you join us so that they are not allowed to do so without opposition.
Please join us on May 17th and stand up for the rights of immigrant workers in Bergenfield. Bring pro-immigrant signs and banners.
What: Immigrant solidarity rally When: Saturday May 17, 2008- 8:00 to 10:00 am Where: Corner of Washington & Columbia Aves. , Bergenfield NJ
Directions (driving from NYC area): Take Rt. 4 West to the Teaneck Rd. Exit toward Bergenfield. Teaneck Rd. becomes Washington Ave. in Bergenfield. Take a left at Columbia Ave. (Bergenfield/ Dumont border) and park in the Stop ‘n Shop parking lot.
Bus: (from NYC- Port Authority & stops in between) NJ Transit bus 167. (from GWB) take NJ Transit 175. 171 or “dollar vans” to Teaneck Rd. and contact us for local bus info. or to get a ride.
More info: e-mail Greg at info@residentsagainstracis.net or Konrad at konrad@anti-racist.org En Espanol: briandisturbance@riseup.net
A flier can be downloaded from: www. residentsagainstracism. net
Thanks for adding me. ¶ People hear only what they want, so facts alone won't wake them; they need inspiration too. ¶ This world's evils have a common root: Bullies, liars, thieves, & murderers — whether in school, home, government, or elsewhere — believe we're all separate, motivated only by self-interest, by greed & fear. They want us to share that belief; they use it to justify themselves and to discourage us from uniting. They use it to shape the world's political & economic systems that perpetuate war & poverty. Their real power comes not so much from secret conspiracies as from propaganda that we all hear every day and that we hardly notice. ¶ But you & I have found something better inside ourselves & our friends. It's in everyone, if we can just wake them; we're all one flesh & blood. Let's spread that vision, for until we do our other advances will be minor & temporary. ¶ The outcome of the ideological struggle is not yet determined, so no one can afford to be just a spectator. Join the movement, if you haven't already: get involved in whatever way feels right for you. Question authority. Keep fighting, loving, hoping, singing. Hand in hand, we may still be able to heal this world. ¶ I'm impressed with ideas of Lakoff & Waldman about *how* to spread the vision, so I'm trying to promote their ideas via comments like this one and the essay on my MySpace page. It's free (I'm not selling anything). ¶ The real war is between classes, not nations; so I'll picnic on July 14, not July 4. CLOSE GUANTANAMO BY BASTILLE DAY; PASS IT ON. ¶ Peace, love, hope, and revolution — Eric
