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 URGENT ACTION ALERT   House postpones vote on war funding.  Vote will be next  this week.  Keep phoning and emailing your Reps!  Details, background and contact info here.

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Peace and Justice Movie Night


SCARRED LANDS and
WOUNDED LIVES
The Environmental Footprint of War

Tuesday, May 13 - This film is prompted by a recognition of our deep dependence on the natural world and the significant threat to that world posed by war and preparations for war . . . Read more.

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Economic Peace Stimulus Package
When you receive your tax rebate, do something that will really help our economy.

Use it to end the war.
Click for details

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Hanan Awwad is a Palestinian poet and President of the Palestine Branch of Women's International League for Peace and Freedom..  Ms. Awwad will be speaking on June 16, 7:30 pm, Fellowship Hall, First Presbyterian Church, 1140 Cowper Street, Palo Alto.  More details coming soon.

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Meaningful television . . . for a change

Other Voices TV is PPJC's award-winning monthly television program and free monthly forum.  Broadcast live on the first Tuesday of every month, it is rebroadcast throughout the month on Mid-Peninsula cable TV channel 27.  Click here for the schedule.

Next program is June 3, 7:00 pm at Community Media Center, 900 San Antonio Road, Palo Alto.  Topic and guests to be announced.

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NEW Other Voices TV: The Global Food Crisis (Recorded May 6, 2008) The hidden struggle for the world food system, with Raj Patel.  View video

 Democracy in Cuba?! Author Arnold August  talks about Cuba's electoral systems.  Recorded April 17.  1 hour 25 min.  View video 

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Other Voices TV: Economy in Crisis. Who pays? Who profits? (Recorded 4/1/08) What's behind the economic downturn? What roles have deregulation and globalization played in the current crisis? And what about the cost of the Iraq War? View video

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Click here to list all available online videos.

Article of the Day
5/12/08 Domestic spying far outpaces terrorism prosecutions  As more Americans are watched, fewer cases are made. The trend concerns civil liberties groups as well as some lawmakers and legal experts.   Read more

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Orwell Was An Optimist
A Video Blog

Episode 25:  Live from the Pentagon . . . It's Joseph Goebbels!  (4/27/08) Here's the independent, unbiased, expert opinion:  Our democratically-elected US government doesn't do propaganda.  Or torture.  Or illegal detention.  Or extraordinary rendition.  Or aggressive war.  You can take the experts' well-compensated word for it.  View video

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Peace Rant

PPJC director Paul George's blog.

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PH Yang's gallery of PPJC events. PH Yang Photography