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PHILADELPHIA, PA — 12:00pm Bubbas and Zaydas for Peace in the Middle East – 19th & JFK
3:00pm From South Africa to Palestine – Boycott Divestments and Sanctions past and present – Anderson Hall, Temple University
7:00pm Peace Center of Delaware County Film Series – Waltz with Bashir – Peace Center of Delware County – 1001 Old Springfield Rd –
Springfield, PA

November 2nd, 3pm – From South Africa to Palestine – Boycott Divestments and Sanctions past and present – Anderson Hall, Temple
University – In 2005, Palestinian civil society called for the boycott divestment and sanctions against Israel until it Complies with
International Law and Universal Principles of Human Rights. Philly Boycott Divestment and Sanctions members Nathaniel Miller and Susan Landau will speak about their organizations BDS campaign against Sabra and Tribe.

November 2nd, 7pm – We may forget the past, but the past won’t forget us WALTZ with BASHIR @First-Friday Free Large Screen Film Series at the Peace Center of Delaware County, 1001 Old Sproul Road, Springfield, PA 19064 – (WALTZ with BASHIR, 2008, 86 mins., Rated R for disturbing images of atrocities, strong violence, brief nudity and a scene of graphic sexual content. Written and directed by Ari Folman. Hebrew with English subtitles.) Israeli director Ari Folman’s animated, quasi-documentary film which follows the filmmaker’s attempt to recall his long submerged memories from the Lebanon War when his Israeli army unit enabled allied the Christian militia, in the heart of Beirut, to massacre more than 3,000 Palestinians in the Sabra-Shatila refugee camps. A haunting film that explores the unending psychological trauma of war, with a message that resonates long after the final fadeout. Doors open at 6:30p.m. for light refreshments. Peace Center is located at the Springfield Friends Meeting that has adjacent parking lot. After film discussion. For directions and more information including film trailer, visit  www.delcopeacecenter.org, or call 610-544-1818. Co-sponsored by the Brandywine Peace Community.

Philly Debtors’ Assembly – bring your stories! Sunday, November 11, 2012 2:00pm. Wooden Shoe, 704 South St. YOU ARE NOT A LOAN! We are in debt – student debt, credit card debt, medical debt, in foreclosure, and much more. This is not because of some personal failing, but the failings of mafia capitalism as a whole – a system which profits from our pain to line the pockets of Wall St. We are fed up! We gather to share our stories and offer support, to sing and play music, to break bread and make friends. Please join Strike Debt Philly and together let’s build a movement to abolish exploitation and debt! For those interested: the next meeting for Strike Debt Philly will be Sunday, Nov. 4 at 2pm at the Wooden Shoe, 704 South St.

For those of you who didn’t attend last year’s Women’s Day GA at which Selma spoke — or haven’t had a chance to meet her elsewhere — I highly recommend you attend. I guarantee that she will ignite your activism, revolutionize your thinking, and show you simply and clearly how sex, race & class connect to your life and our movement for change. Sex, Race & Class Study Group with Selma James. All welcome! Monday, November  5th at The Friends Center 1501 Cherry St. 6pm Potluck reception, 6:30pm reading from Sex, Race and Class – The Perspective of  Winning: A Selection of Writings 1952-2011 by Selma James. (Childcare available). Two members of the Study Group will report on “Striving for Clarity and Influence – The Political Legacy of CLR James (2001-2012)”, pp 283-296. Followed by discussion and comments from Selma. Childcare provided by Philadelphia Childcare Collective.

November 5th,, 6:30pm – Friends Center – 1501 Cherry St – Movie Mondays hosted by the Envision Peace Museum. Movies will the first Monday of Each month from October – December. The second in the series will the short film “The Story of Change”, followed by the feature film “Economics of Happiness”. This feature length documentary illustrates how people around the world are resisting the policies of globalization and corporate power.

UPDATE – For those of you planning on showing up at court Monday morning to support Shawn McMonigle, the trial has been continued,
which means IT WILL NOT BE MONDAY MORNING! A new date and time will be posted soon. Thanks for your support!

According to reports (see caav.org web site), the NYC administration is not distributing food or water to people who could not/did not go to public shelters. This failure of public officials (and ultimately the profit-driven system) means many, many people are in dire need. Occupy Wall Street, Food Not Bombs and CAAAV (a pan-Asian community organization) are trying to meet these needs. See for more information: http://caaav.org/update-on-caaavs-efforts-post-hurricane-sandy-volunteer-and-donate Update on CAAAV’s Efforts Post-Hurricane Sandy!  Volunteer and Donate!

Events listed here include Occupy Philly related events as well as other social justice events. For more updates be sure to check the Occupy Philadelphia Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/OccupyPhiladelphia. Your support is greatly appreciated!

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Sunday Oct 28th
1:00pm  The People’s Protest Against the Fraternal Order of Police! – 1336 Spring Garden St
2:00pm  PHARE/Wells Fargo working group – 1706 Race St.
2:00pm  SAVE YOUR POST OFFICE & YOUR JOB – SOLIDARITY RALLY & MARCH – Baltimore Main Post Office 900 E. Fayette Street Baltimore, MD
2:00pm  Strike Debt Planning Meeting – Wooden Shoe Books – 704 South St
5:00pm  Long Term Organizing MDU working group – Ethical Humanist Society, Rittenhouse Square
7:00pm  Loving This Planet: An Evening with Dr. Helen Caldicott – Ethical Socety – 1906 S Rittenhouse Square

Arch Street United Methodist Church is starting their overnight mission in November.  There is a microwave, and lots of clothes and other things in Room C downstairs.  They need to empty that room to store cots, etc. for the mission.  These items are left over from eviction night! If these are your belongings please go to Arch Street UMC to collect these items between 10 & 3, Monday through Friday or call 215-568-6250 to make other arrangements.  They will begin disposing of things the first week of November and take things to Purple Heart or a thrift store.

Saturday October 27th, 11am – 2901 Germantown Ave – Historic Fair Hill Orchard Day Workparty & Potluck – Help to put the 3 gardens around 9th & Indiana Streets to bed for the winter, bring food & share in our first attempt at a community-wide potluck, & join us for the 2nd annual Philadelphia Orchard Project Orchard Day within Historic Fair Hill Burial Ground where we’ll be eating apples, drinking cider, roasting marshmallows, painting pumpkins, & enjoying the beautiful fall weather with the neighborhood. – https://www.facebook.com/events/160584604086112/

Sunday October 28th 1:00pm – The Fraternal Order of Police is organizing a fund-raiser party in honor of Jonathan D. Josey, the cop who bashed Aida Guzman in the face at the recent Puerto Rican Day parade. There is a rally and speak-out in front of the FOP office during the duration of the party inside. We want to make it uncompromisingly clear that it is unacceptable that the FOP is celebrating this policeman’s actions. Not that we expected anything different. The fact that this was a black cop does not change the fact that he was engaging in racist violence and acting in the interests of white supremacy.  Mayor Nutter’s apology is not justice. The firing of Josey is not justice. Any ordinary person caught doing this on tape would be receiving criminal charges. But because Josey is a cop, he is above the law. We can’t rely on the police for justice. We can’t rely on the politicians either. We can only rely on ourselves and our capacity for collective action. Philly FOP office number: (215) 629-3600 – https://www.facebook.com/events/188074867994875/

Sunday, October 28, 2012 2:00pm  ALL UNIONS – ALL ORGANIZATIONS – ALL CITIZENS The Postal Service is moving forward with closings way ahead of schedule, literally destroying itself and causing a severe delay of mail. SOLIDARITY RALLY Baltimore Main Post Office 900 E. Fayette Street Baltimore, Maryland 2:45PM – MARCH from MPO thru the Baltimore Inner Harbor & back to MPO PLENTY OF FREE PARKING at the Baltimore Main Post Office –  For more information go to
http://cpwunited.com/home or https://www.facebook.com/events/292951954142007/. For those from Philadelphia wishing to attend the Baltimore event: please contact Joe Piette at 610-931-2615 or  jpiette660@hotmail.com

Women Activist Artists in Conversation: Please join us for a series of dinner party conversation during fall 2012. Our dinners are intended to engage young women in the Philadelphia area making activist art in public spaces. Whether you are a performance artist, DIY zine maker, muralist, or dancer, you’re encouraged to attend and speak about your
practice. Aspiring as well as established activist artists are welcome. Please contact Phoebe Bachman for more information at activistart@phoebebachman.com, or check out http://wmaaps.blogspot.com/p/dinner-parties.html The first dinner will be held this Sunday the 28th of October, with the subsequent dinners on the 12th and 23rd of November.

Strike Debt Philly Planning Meeting Sunday, October 28, 2012 2:00pm Wooden Shoe Books and Records 704 South Street. Join us on Sunday to meet, greet, and brainstorm how to launch a Philly chapter of Strike Debt! Debt assemblies, debt burnings, and debt workshops are just a few of our ideas, but we need yours as well. Strike Debt is a new movement for the refusal of payment of debts to Wall St., whether student debt, credit card debt, medical debt, municipal debt, or whatever you got! Strike Debt (NYC) recently released the Debt
Resistors’ Operations Manual, which provides strategies for how to avoid and resist debts, a s well as historical and political context for why it is that so many of us are trapped in this unfair system to begin with. The Manual is free for download! Hope to see you on Sunday to launch the next phase of the movement against Wall St. http://strikedebt.org/ Debt Resistors’ Operations Manual: http://strikedebt.org/initiatives/the-debt-resistors-operations-manual/

Monday October 29th, 6:30pm – UPenn 3620 Locust Walk – Steinberg Hall-Dietrich Hall, Room 109 – “Living Under Drones! Report from Pakistan”  A first-hand report by the U.S. anti-war/anti-drone delegation to Pakistan. The speakers will be:  Joe Lombardo,  National Co-coordinator, United National Antiwar Coalition,  www.nationalpeaceconference.org,
and a participant in the delegation to Pakistan; Peter Lems,  American Friends Service Committee, www.afsc.org,  providing information on the geo-political situation of  southern Asia and the use of drone warfare; and  Marjorie Van Cleef,  Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, www.wilpfus.org, speaking about war research and development at Penn an Drexel universities. Other speakers, including student members of the Penn Pakistan Society, will be announced. Sponsored by Philly Against War, www.phillyagainstwar.org,
and the Penn Pakistan Society, www.dolphin.upenn.edu/paksoc/.  Endorsers: Penn for Palestine; Brandywine Peace Community, www.brandywinepeace.com; Temple Students for Justice in Palestine; Philadelphia International Action Center, www.iacenter.org/philly-iac; Socialist Action; Green Party of Philadelphia, www.gpop.org,
and Women’s International League for Peace & Freedom, www.wilpfus.org. For more information, please contact 215-243-7103 and gpop@gpop.org

Events listed here include Occupy Philly related events as well as other social justice events. For more updates be sure to check the Occupy Philadelphia Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/OccupyPhiladelphia. Your support is greatly appreciated!