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 Latin Film Night "Violeta Went to Heaven"
Friday, November 15 2013 @ 6:30 PM
San Jose Peace and Justice Center
48 S 7th St
Violeta Went to Heaven is a 2011 Chilean biopic about singer and folklorist Violeta Parra, directed by Andr�s Wood. The film is based on a biography, written by �ngel Parra, Violeta's son with Luis Cereceda Arenas.
Violeta Parra's revival of Chilean traditional music galvanized a socially and politically committed pan-Latin American folk music movement, the "nueva canci�n," and became a reference for other Latin American artists committed to their national legacies.
Winner of the Sundance Film Festival World Cinema Jury Prize in 2012 and a New York Times Critic's Pick.
Suggested Donation $10
6:30 PM Food Gathering
7:00 PM Presentation by Michelle Cordova President of SJPJC, Writer for La Oferta Newspaper and Director of YouArt
7:15 PM Film
Sponsored by Spanish For Activists at San Jose Peace & Justice Center
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The Meaning of Mondragon
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Stress Management Workshop
Vinh Phan will be leading this workshop. He is currently a lecturer at Mission College and a Behavioral Health Instructor at Kaiser Permanente in which he teaches anxiety management, depression management, pathways to stress reduction, and mind body approach to stress management.
Suggested Donation $5-10, no one turned away
Sponsored by San Jose Peace & Justice Center
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Ill Mentalities: Raising Awareness of Mental Illness
Thursday, November 14 2013 @ 6 PM
MOSAIC Cross Cultural Center (mod a)
San Jose State University
The stigma set against those who suffer from mental illnesses demonstrate the great misunderstanding society has of mental illness. In this program, stigma and taboos clouding perceptions of mental illness will be cleared, and the truths about what it means to be a person with mentally illness will be brought to light.
There will be free food as usual provided by Cafe Pomegranate.
Sponsored by MOSAIC Cross Cultural Center
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Peoples Thanksgiving
 Friday, November 15 2013 @ 12:30 PM Silicon Valley Independent Living Center
2202 N. First Street
San Jose You're invited to a People's Thanksgiving
Come and enjoy a bountiful offering of turkey and traditional
Thanksgiving feast side dishes, along with fun and camaraderie of the SVILC community.
BE A SPONSOR of our 4th Annual People's Thanksgiving. It takes $500 to provide a traditional Thanksgiving Day dinner to 100 consumers, along with their caregivers, friends and family. Volunteers needed too.
REGISTRATION: To have accurate attendance and be properly prepared, an RSVP registration confirmation is strongly recommended and appreciated. To register to attend, go online to our website, or contact Marcia at 408.894.9041 or marciah@svilc.org.
Note: SVILC practices ACCESS for ALL. Please contact us within 3 business days of the event date for accessibility or accommodation requests. Also, SVILC is a scent-free environment. Please refrain from wearing scented products.
This event is sponsored by Silicon Valley Independent Living Center
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Mercy Killers- A Play by Michael Milligan
 Saturday, November 16 2013
7 PM
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
2125 Canoas Garden Avenue
San Jose
"Raw, emotional, and devastatingly honest. Broadway actor Michael Milligan's solo show gives an insight into the destructive personal impact of the American healthcare system. It makes public the private stories of thousands of Americans and shows an urgent need for change in a system failing so many. His performance is incredibly powerful and passionate, sweeping the audience up in Joe's story; making them laugh sometimes and bringing them to the edge of tears at others. Milligan has written a beautifully moving and thought-provoking piece . . . " (Anita Magee, ThreeWeeks) tickets $10.00 - no one will be turned away for lack of funds To reserve your seats please visit www,healthycaliforniacampaign.org email brogregm@sbcglobal.net or call 408-834-9165 For more info about the play visit www.mercykillerstheplay.com
This event is sponsored by Campaign for a Healthy California
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Urge for Going - A Play About a Palestinian Refugee
 Saturday, November 16 2013 @ 8 PM
Z Below
470 Florida Street
San Francisco
Sometimes the only way to live is to leave
What do you do when the only way to live is to leave? Jamila, a studious 17-year-old Palestinian girl growing up in a Lebanese refugee camp, feverishly prepares for the university exam that is her only way out of the impoverished world she calls home. By Mona Monsour
Winner of the 2012 Whiting Writers' Prize and Middle East America honorable mention, Mansour offers a feast of personalities and juicy dialogue in this searing and funny family story.
Showing November 14 - December 8, 2013
Thursdays, Fridays & Saturdays at 8pm, Sundays at 3pm
Pay What You Can Previews: November 14 & 15
OPENING NIGHT: Saturday, November 16
General Admission: $25 - $45
Students, Seniors & TBA Members: $20 - $40
Pay What You Can Thursdays ($10 in Advance)
This event is sponsored by National Endowment for the Arts Art Works, Walter and Elise Haas Fund, Zellerbach Family Foundation
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Free Film! "Terms and Conditions May Apply"
 Sunday, November 17 2013 @ 2 PM
ONLINE! at Demand Progress TV
RSVP at http://www.demandprogress.tv/
Join us for an online screening and internet town hall!
Demand Progress and allies in the fight for Internet privacy are hosting our first-ever online "movie night." Join us on Sunday, November 17th at 5:00 pm EST (2PM PST) for a screening of the feature film, "Terms and Conditions May Apply," an eye-opening presentation of how corporations and the government are tracking your every move on the Internet. The screening is free for the first 3,000 visitors on 11/17 (first come, first served and $3 admission after all the free seats are filled).
After the screening, we'll forward viewers directly into an Internet Town Hall with Cullen Hoback, filmmaker, Ben Wizner, Director of ACLU Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project and legal advisor to Edward Snowden, Tim Karr, Senior Director of Strategy at Free Press along with Demand Progress staff. Stick around after the movie and ask us anything on reddit.com! Don't forget to bring your own popcorn!
We'd like to get a rough headcount for our movie night, so please RSVP to let us know you'll join. We'll send you a reminder to login as we get closer to the date of the screening.
Winner of Best Documentary and Best of Hot Docs 2013.
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South Bay International Workers of the World Mtg
 Monday, November 18 2013 @ 7 PM
San Jose Peace and Justice Center 48 S. 7th Street
General meeting of the South Bay IWW. All are welcome!
This event is sponsored by Southbay IWW
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Build Democracy, End Corporate Rule
 Tuesday, November 19 2013 @ 6:45 PM
Laborers Union Local 270 Hall
509 Emory Street
San Jose
CAMPAIGN KICKOFF Build Democracy, End Corporate Rule A Santa Clara County Ballot Initiative for November 2014 Join MTA National Spokesperson David Cobb, California State Senator Jim Beall, and San Jose City Councilmember Ash Kalra 1. Move To Amend (MTA) is a national movement to pass a 28th Constitutional Amendment so that only human beings, not corporations, be endowed with constitutional rights and so that money not be considered equivalent to free speech 2. This ballot initiative will send a strong message from Silicon Valley that our democracy and our economy exist for We the People 3. In addition to an advisory vote on the 28th Amendment, the local ordinance will establish an annual Democracy Day 4. We need your volunteer and financial support to gather 75,000 signatures to lead our Nation in a new direction 5. Hundreds of initiatives and resolutions have already passed around the country, usually garnering 70-80% of the vote. For More Info: Eitan Fenson at eitan@scc-mta.org or 650-302-8760, or Richard Hobbs at richhobbs@msn.com or 408-460-2999 Sponsored by Move to Amend
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Egyptian Revolution: Stalled Transition and Future Prospects
Tuesday, November 19 2013 @ 7 PM
Martin Luther King Jr. Library,
Room 225-257
150 E. San Fernando Street (at 4th St.)
San Jose
From military rule to elections to military rule, has the Egyptian Revolution come full circle?
What now are the prospects for political activism, news coverage, democracy, and system change?
Dr. Sharat G. Lin writes on global political economy, the Middle East, and labor migration. He was in Tahrir Square during the initial uprising in January 2011 and afterwards. He is a research fellow at the San Jos� Peace and Justice Center.
Free and open to the public
Sponsored by the Middle East Studies Program at SJSU, Global Studies, Mosaic Cross Cultural Center, the San Jos� Peace and Justice Center, and the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library
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Spanish For Activists Class
Spanish for Activists meets every Wednesday at 6:30 PM at the San Jose Peace & Justice Center. Beginners and all levels of speaking welcome! 48 South 7th St., San Jose
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Green Party of Santa Clara County Meeting
Thursday, November 21 2013 @ 7 PM San Jos� Peace & Justice Center
48 South 7th St. regular monthly meeting. Sometimes we have a speaker at 7. If not, we gather informally at that time to share conversation and perhaps dinner. The meeting starts at 7:30 and runs until 9:30.
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Understanding Language Usage for Beginning Writers
 Thursday, November 21 2013 @ 7 PM
Martin Luther King Library Room 225/257
4th and San Fernando Streets
San Jose This presentation will help beginning writers to understand the linguistic concepts and definitions of language, dialect, idiolect, slang, and code switching. It will be explained how these concepts and definition relate to writing fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or screenplays.
About the Presenter:
Charley Trujillo is a local award-winning Author of Soldados, which was made into a PBS documentary which he produced.
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WILPF Annual Membership Meeting & Update
 Friday, November 22 2013 @ 5:30 PM First Presbyterian Church
49 N 4th Street
Program will include updates of International, National and Regional WILPF activities.
Come and join us in our annual pot luck dinner. Moving towards more peaceful and environmentally sustainable food, we will provide both a traditional turkey and a plant-based alternative entree. Please bring a dish to share (include a card listing all the ingredients). Plant-based dishes are encouraged.
Guests are welcome. For information call Lois at 408 294-0981.
This event is sponsored by WILPF Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, San Jose Branch, and San Jose Peace & Justice Center
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Film: Gasland Part II, with Guest Speakers
 Friday, November 22 2013 @ 7 PM San Jose Peace and Justice Center
48 S. Seventh St.
San Jose With guest speakers Lance Simmens, California State Director of Gasland Grassroots, and Bill Hunter of Aromas Cares. GASLAND PART II, which premiered at the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival, shows how the stakes have been raised on all sides in one of the most important environmental issues facing our nation today. The film argues that the gas industry's portrayal of natural gas as a clean and safe alternative to oil is a myth and that fracked wells inevitably leak over time, contaminating water and air, hurting families, and endangering the earth's climate with the potent greenhouse gas, methane. In addition the film looks at how the powerful oil and gas industries are in Fox's words "contaminating our democracy".
This event is sponsored by Economic Justice Film Series
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Regularly Scheduled Peace Vigils
Mondays, 5-6 p.m. in San Jose: Corner of Market & San Carlos Streets, south end of Cesar Chavez Park (near Convention Center Light Rail Station). Justice for Palestinians weekly protest against Apartheid Israeli occupation, aggression & terror.
Wednesdays, 4:45-6 p.m. in Palo Alto: Peace vigil at the corner of Embarcadero and El Camino Real.
Thursday, 4- 5 p.m. in Hayward: Sidewalk at the park being renovated at Foothill Blvd & E St. You are invited to attend a weekly Palestine Vigil. South Alameda County Peace and Justice Coalition's signs call to Americans: "End the Occupation of Palestine & Iraq", "No Apartheid Wall in Palestine", "Stop Aid to Israel"
Fourth Fridays and every Friday in Advent at 12:10- 12:50 pm in Sunnyvale: At the corner of Mathilda Avenue and 3rd Avenue in front of the Lockheed Martin main gate. Please join the Pacific Life Community for a monthly vigil against nuclear weapons.
Fridays, 5-6 p.m. in San Jose: In front of the Martin Luther King Library, 150 E. San Fernando Street. Please join us at the Friday Peace Vigil.
Saturdays, 11:30 a.m. - 2 p.m. in San Jose: Winchester and Stevens Creek, near Valley Fair and Santana Row.
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