Albuquerque Center for Peace and Justice 202 Harvard SE Albuquerque, NM 87106 505-268-9557   Updated: 26 January 2010 Special Events Calendar January 2010
Special Events Calendar -- January 2010	E-mail calendar events to MonthlyCalendar@abqpeaceandjustice.org by the 20th of the month (for the following month's print edition of our newsletter). Please limit submissions to a maximum of 60 words and follow the format below to make it easier on our volunteer! E-mail calendar events to Web@abqPeaceAndJustice.org at any time for the Web site calendar. Event notices are appreciated at least ten (10) days before the event takes place. Thank you. Also, please check calendar posted at the Peace Center for additional events not listed here. Events are held at the Peace Center unless otherwise noted. Recent additions and recent changes to the calendar (made this month) are shown in green. Thursday, January 7, 6:30pm Paula Flores, Ciudad Juárez resident with whom we have worked in the past, and mother of one of the victims of femicide killed in 1998, will be in Albuquerque to share information about the Fundación María Sagrario's new projects: a community center, a library, and work with youth in the area. This is a fundraiser to help continue the work that the Fundación has been doing for years. We will also hear from Irma Monrreal, who last April went to the InterAmerican Court held in Santiago, Chile. Irma's daughter Esmeralda Herrera was one of the victims of the cotton field murders in 2001. In Santiago, three mothers from Juárez gave testimony about their daughters' cases. Subsequently, the court ruled that Mexico was negligent in these femicides. Please call Cecilia for details at 268-9557.
Saturday, January 9, 3:00pm A Book Study Group of Wobblies and Zapatistas: Conversations on Anarchism, Marxism, and Radical Historyis taking place at the Albuquerque Downtown Public Library. Information: http://abqleftyouth.blogspot.com . Recent Addition! Saturday, January 9, 9:00pm A benefit for the US Social Forum featuring hip hop artists along with a number of New Mexico-based artists including Say Whu?!, Def-I, spoken word performers Hakim Bellamy and Carlos Contreras. It will take place at the Launchpad (7th and Central - Albuquerque). Cost: $10 The event is being co-sponsored by SouthWest Organizing Project and the USSF National Planning Committee. Information: 505-247-8832. Recent Addition! Thursday, January 14, 5:30 - 7:30pm A public meeting about radioactive, toxic and hazardous pollutants from Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) impacting Santa Fe's drinking water will take place in the Jemez Room at Santa Fe Community College (Santa Fe). The meeting will discuss the independent peer review of available information by ChemRisk (hired by the Buckman Direct Diversion Project Board). This is the first of three public meetings to be held by ChemRisk to discuss the review and obtain public input. Information: http://www.bddproject.org . Recent Addition! Friday, January 15, 5:00 - 8:30pm Rainbow Artists 20th Anniversary celebration exhibition Opening Reception with music by guitarist Abel Lemus will take place at OFFCenter (808 Park Ave SW - Albuquerque). Friday, January 15 Remembrance -- Martin Luther King, Jr., African-American clergyman who advocated social change through non-violent means was born on this date. A powerful speaker and a man of great spiritual strength, he shaped the American civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. Please see Jan. 17 entry below. Friday-Monday, January 15-18 IVAW National Strategy Retreat is being hosted by Iraq Veterans Against the War. About 50 members from around the country will spend the weekend in Albuquerque to attend organizing workshops, practice teamwork, and plan for the future of IVAW. Your monetary contribution will help facilitate this retreat, and we also need volunteers to help with transportation for visiting members, food donations, and general logistical support. Please make donation checks payable to Iraq Veterans Against the War and mail to the Peace Center. Information: zkjcallan@IVAW.org . Saturday, January 16, 10:00am - 12:00pm Dialogue - We will start with: After the holidays....your vision for the year ahead as we practice deep listening andappreciation of each person's viewpoint. Encouraged by physicist David Bohm, the dialogue process fosters skills needed to understand and resolve the complex issues that divide us. Information: www.dialogue4peace.com . Recent Addition! Saturday, January 16, 3:00 - 4:00pm "Ethics Reform in New Mexico - This is the Year For Getting It Right!" is the subject of a talk being given by Fred Nathan of "Think New Mexico" and is taking place at Unitarian Universalist Westside Congregation (1650 Abrazo Road NE - Rio Rancho). The talk is sponsored by Westside Forum (sponsored by Unitarian Universalist Westside Congregation's Social Action Committee) Information: westsideforum.org . Sunday, January 17, 1:00pm 2010 Martin Luther King Jr. parade and march begins at University and MLK Boulevard NE (Albuquerque). Sponsored by the NM Martin Luther King, Jr. Commission. Commemorative ceremony to follow at the Civic Plaza (1 Civic Plaza NW - Albuquerque). Information: 505-222-6466. Sunday, January 17, 3:00pm Booksigning featuring Richard Becker for his book "Palestine, Israel and the U.S. Empire," and reading from "A Glass of Water" by the author, Jimmy Santiago Baca will take place at Bookworks (4022 Rio Grande Boulevard NW - Albuquerque). Information: 323-559-1959. Recent Addition! Sunday, January 17, 7:00pm The film "Gaza Strip" with Ken Mayers (just back from Gaza Freedom March) are featured in a benefit for Gaza at Warehouse 21 (1614 Paseo De Peralta - Santa Fe). Information: 505-466-3184. Recent Addition! Sunday-Monday, January 17-18 A free conference, "Choose Your Weapon: Fighting Nonviolently", with lots of workshops, trainings, entertainment and more is co-sponsored by the Rio Gallinas School, the United World College, and the Las Vegas Peace & Justice Center (all in the las Vegas area). Information: http://www.uwc-usa.org/ . Recent Addition! Monday, January 18 In honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Albuquerque Center for Peace and Justice offices are closed. Recent Addition! Wednesday-Friday, January 20-22, 12:00 - 1:00pm In response to the humanitarian crisis in Haiti, UNM faculty will read works of Haitian literature while students collect donations, sell raffle tickets for items donated by local businesses, and urge people to give on-line or by texting "Haiti" to 90999 to donate $10 to the Red Cross. Information: pcheek@unm.edu or 505-980-1401. Wednesday, January 20, 2:00pm Darfur Project meets to talk about their goals for 2010. Come and review the past year's work, and help plan for the future. Information: 505-255-3986. Thursday, January 21, 6:30 - 9:00pm People Before Profit Film & Lecture Series and Central America Solidarity Network present Crossing Over (7:00pm), a film about immigrants living in the US. The film presents many different sides to the immigration "issue". Before the film (6:30pm), there will be a report back from the CASN delegation to the Mexican border to work at the Migrant Resource Center in Agua Prieta. Information: 505-341-9146. Recent Addition! Thursday, January 21, 7:00 - 9:00pm "Transforming Fear Into Compassion - A New Perspective on the Israel-Palestine Conflict" - is the title of a talk being presented by author Rich Forer at Nahalat Shalom (3606 Rio Grande Boulevard NW - Albuquerque). Admission free, but donations accepted. This even is sponsored by Jewish Voices on Peace in the Middle East Lecture/Discussion Series. Information: 1robins@swcp.com or 505-341-2306. Recent Addition! Thursday, January 21, 7:00pm Come to the Roundtable Discussion on the legacy of New Mexico Land Grants, Reies Tijerina and Martin Luther King taking place at Trinity House (1925 Five Points Road SW - Albuquerque). Information: 505-242 0497. Recent Addition! Friday, January 22, 6:00 - 8:00pm From The Studio To The Street, a photo exhibit, opening with a public reception in Working Classroom's Visiones Gallery (115 Gold SW - Albuquerque). The reception will now be a fundraising event for Haitian survivors with live music, Haitian food and drinks, and a silent auction of Haitian art. Proceeds from sales and donations will benefit Doctors Without Borders and The International Red Cross. Recent Addition! Saturday, January 23, 10:00am - 5:00pm "Fill the Bus/ Haiti or Bust" is a fundraiser for Haiti with Haitian food and coffee, music, and silent auction. Please bring dry, shippable, non-perishable goods to be placed on the Bus and sent to a community called Cabaret, outside of Port au Prince, that has not received aid as of yet. This community event takes place at the Peace Center. Organized by Albuquerque's Haitian dance group Racine Kreyol. Information: conscioustlinget1@hotmail.com (Cecelia Coriander). Saturday, January 23, 6:00pm Peña cultural (coffeehouse) - FREE ADMISSION. Lovely social justice music and poetry from throughout the Americas, featuring L@SOTR@S, Cuicani, Cíhuatl González, and many more, and introducing a new bilingual children's music hour, 6 -7, and children's activities! Bring the whole family, and sign up for the open mic if you'd like! It takes place at Bandido's Restaurant (2128 Central, SE - Albuquerque). See you there! Information: somoslasotras@hotmail.com or 505-268-0014 or 505-934-2419. Saturday-Sunday, January 23-24, 12:00 and 1:45pm The film "The Good Soldier" (80 minutes), previously shown on Bill Moyers' Journal, follows the journeys of five combat veterans (now VFP members) from different generations of American wars as they sign up, go into battle, and eventually change their minds about what it means to be a good soldier.The showings are being co-sponsored by the Albuquerque Chapter of Veterans For Peace and Iraq Veterans Against the War. The feature is scheduled at the Guild Cinema (Albuquerque). Information: 505-271-9274. Tuesday, January 26, 5:30pm Bi-annual Peace And Justice Organizations Linking Arms (PAJOLA) potluck. This is a great opportunity to find out what groups in our community are doing at the grassroots level. All are welcome. Time for sharing and networking. It is a potluck, so please bring a dish to share. Meeting begins promptly at 6pm. Information: 505-268-9557. Recent Addition! Wednesday, January 27, 7:00pm Private for-profit immigrant detention centers in New Mexico is the subject of a talk being given by Si Kahn (author of Creating Community Organizing) at the Peace Center. Strategy session and music. Information: http://www.grassrootsleadership.org . Recent Addition! Thursday, January 28, 9:00am - 3:00pm An all day public meeting about the Los Alamos Historical Document Retrieval and Assessment (LAHDRA) Project is taking place at the Ohkay Owingeh Casino Hotel Conference Center. This meeting is in response to a request by Las Mujeres Hablan, and is being hosted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The LAHDRA Project Team (initiated in 1999) has reviewed over 40,000 boxes of documents, reports and microfiche in order to compile the most complete historical record of releases of pollutants from Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) to people located beyond the boundaries of the nuclear weapons facility. The meeting will focus on the draft final report for the Project, which was issued last June. There will be discussion groups about explosives testing, the release of chemicals and specific radionuclides, such as plutonium, uranium, beryllium, and tritium, over the past 67 years, and the 1945 Trinity Test, which was the dropping of the first atomic bomb on New Mexico. Information: http://www.lahdra.org . Recent Addition! Friday-Saturday, January 29-30, 10:00am - 10:00pm (each day) Riofest Environmental Film Festival will be held at Macey Center (Socorro). Tickets (by mail only - see Web site below) are $25 for full festival pass, $15 for a day pass and $5 for feature film only. The theme for this years festival is "Promoting Solutions". Our feature films are Food, Inc. and The Music Tree. Other films to be shown are Meatrix, Arribada, Chapparri, Going Green, Design a Great Neighborhood, Grandma Builds an Earthship and many others. There will be vendors on hand to help you "Go Green". Films will be shown all day Friday and Saturday. Entries may vary from shorts to full length films. In keeping with Riofest's mission to create awareness and share information, the festival will provide an opportunity for green groups to disseminate information and display products that promote environmental solutions. Information (including film descriptions): http://www.riofilmfest.com . Recent Addition! Saturday, January 30, 9:00 - 10:00am The Children's Hour on KUNM 89.9 FM producer Katie Stone will discuss the Anne Frank Exhibit (see February special events calendar) with representatives from New Mexico Human Rights Projects. Please send calendar items, comments, and questions concerning this Web document to Web@abqPeaceAndJustice.org .