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Albuquerque Center for Peace and Justice 202 Harvard SE Albuquerque, NM 87106 505-268-9557		Updated: 27 July 2009
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August 2009
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Keepers of the Red & Black Ink: A Memoir Workshop
with Demetria Martinez & Susan Sherman
Please see events calendar, August 1st.

The Aztecs revered their scribes as the keepers of the red and black ink. Working in that sacred tradition, you will learn simple techniques for writing with passion and precision about people, places, events, and struggles that have forged your unique identity.

Through in-class writing explorations you will see how description and dialogue can bring your story to life. You will learn to play with time, to break with linear plotting that can make for tedious, predictable writing. The fragments of your life's journey will come together in a whole that will surprise you and delight readers.

Demetria Martinez is a columnist, poet, and novelist. Her book of autobiographical essays, Confessions of a Berlitz-Tape Chicana won the 2006 International Latino Book Award. Susan Sherman is a poet, editor and playwright. Her memoir, America's Child: A Woman's Journey Through the Radical Sixties, has received critical reviews in the New York Times Book Review.

Kathy Kelly in Albuquerque on Monday, August 17.
Please see events calendar, August 17th.
Peace activist and author, three-time Nobel Peace Prize nominee, one of the founding members of Voices in The Wilderness, and currently a co-coordinator of Voices for Creative Non-Violence, Kathy has been described as "probably the most respected leader in the American peace movement." As part of peace team work in several countries, she has traveled to Iraq 26 times, notably remaining in combat zones during the early days of both U.S.-Iraq wars. She traveled to Gaza during the recent war by Israel in January; she has also recently been in Pakistan. Kathy has been arrested more than 60 times at home and abroad --including recently at Creech Air Force Base, protesting the drones that are flown from there that kill children in Pakistan -- and has written movingly of her experiences among both targets of U.S. military bombardment and inmates of U.S. prisons. She is the author of "Other Lands Have Dreams Too" published by AK Press.

Report from Nogales
¡Mil gracias! for your generous donations to the Central America Solidarity Network delegation to Nogales, Mexico. We spent three days at the comedor that serves immigrants--providing meals twice a day, clothing and medicines as needed. Since there was a new group of volunteer cooks from Monterrey, Mexico, they didn't need our culinary expertise, so we spent our time talking with immigrants, documenting migrant abuses while in U.S. custody for No More Deaths.Thanks to you, we brought a carload of clothing and medicine with us and were able to supply the comedor and women's shelter with food, women's clothing, and body care items that we purchased there.They are most grateful to each one of you.

Check out the nomoredeaths.org website for latest info on ticketing and prosecuting of volunteers for "littering" (leaving bottles of water for migrants in the desert), photos of volunteer efforts, and ways you can be involved. Humanitarian aid is never a crime!

Mujeras sin fronteras, Nell Burrus, Carol Sullivan, and Renee Wolters

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