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Required reading:
The Constitution of the United States of America
read here or here (with explanations)
Visit our Peace Booth Wednesday nights at the
Whittier Street Fair and Farmer's Market
Join our Monthly Peace Vigil every 4th Sunday
corner of Whittier Blvd & Painter Ave
JUN 28, JUL 26, AUG 23, SEP 27, OCT 25
Join us for Free Movie Night
Thursday, July 2nd at 7PM
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RELIGULOUS
RELIGULOUS follows political humorist Bill Maher as he travels around the globe interviewing people about God and religion. Known for his astute analytical skills, irreverent wit and commitment to never pulling a punch, Maher brings his characteristic honesty to an unusual spiritual journey.
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Location:
St. Matthias Episcopal Church
7056 Washington Ave., Whittier, CA 90602
N/E corner of Wardman St. and Washington Ave.
Washington Ave (not Blvd) runs north and south two short blocks east of Greenleaf
Park on Washington (there is additional parking in the back of the church)
Walk through the second gate north of Wardman
MAPQUEST directions
printable PDF flyer for this event
Visit our www.BraveNewTheaters.com webpage
Consider clicking the "Join this group" button
The Whittier Area Peace & Justice Coalition
invites you to our
"4th Thursday" Film Series
Continuing July 23rd at 7PM
The BBC Documentaries
of Adam Curtis If you couldn't attend the first part click here to watch what you've missed online So far we've shown Episodes One and Two of Century of the Self
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CENTURY OF THE SELF
The acclaimed series examines the rise of the all-consuming self against the backdrop of the Freud dynasty. To many in politics and business, the triumph of the self is the ultimate expression of democracy, where power has finally moved to the people... or has it? This is the untold story of the growth of the mass-consumer society in Britain and the United States. How was the all-consuming self created, by whom, and in whose interests?
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THE POWER OF NIGHTMARES
In the past our politicians offered us dreams of a better world. Now they promise to protect us from nightmares. The most frightening of these is the threat of an international terror network. But just as the dreams were not true, neither are these nightmares. The Power of Nightmares explores how the idea that we are threatened by a hidden and organised terrorist network is an illusion.
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THE TRAP:
WHAT HAPPENED TO OUR DREAM OF FREEDOM
This series explores how a simplistic model of human beings as self-seeking, almost robotic, creatures led to today's idea of freedom. This model was derived from ideas and techniques developed by nuclear strategists during the Cold War to control the behaviour of the Soviet enemy. Mathematicians such as John Nash (perhaps NOT such a Beautiful Mind) developed paranoid game theories whose equations required people to be seen as selfish and isolated creatures, constantly monitoring each other suspiciously always intent on their own advantage.
We are, says Curtis, in a trap of our own making that controls us, deprives us of meaning and causes death and chaos abroad.
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Location:
St. Matthias Episcopal Church
7056 Washington Ave., Whittier, CA 90602
N/E corner of Wardman St. and Washington Ave.
Washington Ave (not Blvd) runs north and south two short blocks east of Greenleaf
Park on Washington (there is additional parking in the back of the church)
Walk through the second gate north of Wardman
MAPQUEST directions
For more information call:
562-233-8579
Join us for Free Movie Night
Thursday, August 6th at 7PM
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The Future of Food
THE FUTURE OF FOOD examines the complex web of market and political forces that are changing what we eat as huge multinational corporations seek to control the world's food system. The film also explores alternatives to large-scale industrial agriculture, placing organic and sustainable agriculture as real solutions to the farm crisis today.
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Location:
St. Matthias Episcopal Church
7056 Washington Ave., Whittier, CA 90602
N/E corner of Wardman St. and Washington Ave.
Washington Ave (not Blvd) runs north and south two short blocks east of Greenleaf
Park on Washington (there is additional parking in the back of the church)
Walk through the second gate north of Wardman
MAPQUEST directions
Visit our www.BraveNewTheaters.com webpage
Consider clicking the "Join this group" button
NOT ONE MORE CENT FOR THIS WAR!
Call your Congress Members at:
(202) 224-3121
Demand that they Stop Funding the U.S. Occupation of Iraq
IF YOU ARE IN THE MILITARY
click here Appeal for Redress
Whittier Area Peace & Justice Coalition
See a Slideshow of our January 4th 2007 Meeting
(with sound!) produced by
The Whittier Daily News
watch here (6 minutes)
MLK Parade Videos! CLICK HERE
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WAPJC Mission Statement
The Whittier Area Peace and Justice Coalition is a broadly based group of local community members whose purpose is to share a vision for peace, justice and environmental well-being. This vision is grounded in the beliefs that all life is sacred; that differences between people and nations can be resolved in non-violent ways; and that peace is more than the absence of war or the denial of conflict.
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"Peace hath higher tests of manhood than battle ever knew." ~ John Greenleaf Whittier
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"I criticize America because I love her and because
I want to see her to stand as the moral example of the world.
War anywhere intensifies the possibility of war everywhere.
When major world powers flaunt the authority of the United Nations
and embark on unilateral courses of action they open the door
to similar actions on the part of other nations."
~ Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."
~ Theodore Roosevelt
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"We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty, we must remember always that accusation is not proof, and that conviction depends upon evidence and due process of law.
We will not walk in fearone, of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of un-reason, if we dig deep in our history and our doctrine, and remember that we are not descended from fearful men;
Not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate, and to defend causes that werefor the momentunpopular."
~ Edward R. Murrow
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"A little patience, and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their spells dissolve, and the people, recovering their true sight, restore their government to its true principles. It is true that in the meantime we are suffering deeply in spirit, and incurring the horrors of a war and long oppressions of enormous public debt
If the game runs sometimes against us at home we must have patience till luck turns, and then we shall have an opportunity of winning back the principles we have lost, for this is a game where principles are at stake."
~ Thomas Jefferson
commenting on the Alien and Sedition acts in 1798
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Pity the Nation ~ Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Pity the nation whose people are sheep,
and whose shepherds mislead them.
Pity the nation whose leaders are liars,
whose sages are silenced,
and whose bigots haunt the airwaves.
Pity the nation that raises not its voice,
except to praise conquerors and acclaim the bully as hero
and aims to rule the world with force and by torture.
Pity the nation that knows no other language but its own
and no other culture but its own.
Pity the nation whose breath is money
and sleeps the sleep of the too well fed.
Pity the nation
oh, pity the people who allow their rights to erode
and their freedoms to be washed away.
My country, tears of thee, sweet land of liberty.
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THE BEST PROGRESSIVE TALK IS ON THE INTERNET!
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