PEACE CENTER ACTIVIST ALERT

NOVEMBER 17th, 2025

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 18th, 1 PM

YERBA BUENA GARDENS

NEAR MISSION ST. SAN FRANCISCO

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21st, 5 - 8 PM

3340 INTERNATIONAL BLVD., OAKLAND

COMMUNITY CELEBRATION AND FUNDRAISER!

AROC/ ARAB RESOURCE & ORGANIZING CENTER

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22nd, 5:30—8:30 PM

CREEKSIDE COMMONS, 1035 CAROL LANE, LAFAYETTE

(Main Hall - Lower Level)

Mt. Diablo Peace & Justice Center’s 

17th ANNUAL PEACE & JUSTICE

AWARDS DINNER

THIS YEAR WE HONOR:

JULIE TANG

San Francisco Superior Court Judge (retired) for her tireless work defending the Asian community when under attack and promoting a US foreign policy of peace and diplomacy.  

CARLA SCHICK

Social justice activist, longtime teacher (retired), poet, and mentor. Carla sought to create learning environments that engaged students by encouraging inquiry, advocated for ethnic studies and LGBTQ curriculums, and currently continues some 40 years of working in solidarity with the free Palestine movement.

 CONTRA COSTA IMMIGRANT RIGHTS ALLIANCE

A coalition of community, faith, advocacy, and immigrant-led organizations that seek to welcome and protect immigrant residents of Contra Costa County. SERGIO JAIME LOPEZ will represent CCIRA at the event.

PLEASE JOIN US AT THIS COMMUNITY EVENT!

LIVE MUSIC provided by

LA PENA CHORUS

of Berkeley



FULL-COURSE PALESTINIAN DINNER

provided by AMALFI FUSION

RESTAURANT of Dublin

 (https://amalfifusion.com)

TICKETS GOING FAST!:

$70 pp - General Admission

$60 pp - Peace Center Members

$400 - reserved table for 8

(members or non-members)

Purchase and/or reserve online:

CLICK HERE or use the QR code

More info? (925) 933-7850 or info@ourpeacecenter.org

CLICK HERE FOR A PRINTABLE FLYER TO SHARE!

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 23rd, 2 PM

VETERANS WAR MEMORIAL BUILDING

401 VAN NESS AVE. #110 SAN FRANCISCO

NO WAR ON VENEZUELA!

ONGOING WEEKLY LOCAL PROTESTS

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TUESDAY EVENINGS

NOTE AN EVEN EARLIER TIME!!!

4:00 - 5:00 PM

Corners of Mt. Diablo Blvd. and Moraga Road, Lafayette

A PEACEFUL DEMONSTRATION FOR COMMUNITY BUILDING - THE WORK CONTINUES!

Meet Local Activists, Bring your own signs or make one when you arrive.

AND A MESSAGE FROM THE ORGANIZERS OF THIS WEEKLY EVENT:

We are concerned with safety and have a monitor at each corner wearing an orange vest. They will help keep the crosswalks and sidewalks clear for pedestrians. If you have any questions or concerns, please let one of them or Gordon Lake, our main event organizer, know.  

Our mission statement and some norms for our group: .

Mission:

We are meeting to collectively defend democracy and support and protect the institutions which are vital to the wellbeing of all of us, and which are now under attack. Our goals are to meet every week to express our values and ideas, to promote solidarity and mutual support within our protest community, and to encourage other like-minded citizens to join us.

Norms:

We are non-violent in word and deed. We will follow all laws and act in ways that ensure personal safety. We will not block crosswalks or walkways.

We will not respond to those in cars or on the street who express different views. We will contact monitors in orange vests if we have questions or concerns.

LAMORINDA PEACE & JUSTICE GROUP

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WE THE PEOPLE PROTESTS

taking place on various days

WALNUT CREEK, LAFAYETTE,

MARTINEZ and OAKLAND!

CHECK THE SCHEDULE HERE

Organized by Indivisible ReSisters Contra Costa!

Join us for a rousing honk and wave visibility action.

Bring your signs and raise your voice for democracy and to protect our rights!

This is a nonviolent event. Stay within your rights, don’t break laws, stay safe, stay peaceful, and avoid any risk you don’t feel comfortable with. Don’t obstruct traffic, impede pedestrians, or commit any acts of property damage.

If counter-protestors appear, do your best to ignore them. When people shout from cars, just remember that we are standing for their rights, too. They just don't know it.

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SATURDAYS, 11:30 AM - 12:30 (sometimes 1 PM)

November 22, 2025 Immigration Court, 1855 Gateway Blvd., CONCORD. Honk & Wave. Meet on the sidewalk on Clayton Road side.

November 29, 2025 Ygnacio Valley Rd & Civic Rd, WALNUT CREEK. Overpass visibility plus Honk & Wave at intersection.

HANDS OFF PEOPLE POWER PROTESTS

CENTRAL CONTRA COSTA COUNTY INFO HERE

This is a nonviolent event. Each of us is responsible for our own conduct. Stay within your rights, don’t break laws, stay safe, stay peaceful, and avoid any risk you don’t feel comfortable with. Don’t obstruct traffic, protest inside any business, impede people from entering or exiting any property, or commit any acts of property damage. Ignore any counter protestors and stay focused on peacefully delivering our message. If you need help or see something troubling, tell a uniformed police officer or call 911. If you can safely do so, record troublesome behavior with your phone, as this is often a strong deterrent to bad behavior.

Organized by: ReSisters Indivisible Group, Contra Costa County

Suggested readings/videos/podcasts (not found in MSM!)

BILL MCKIBBEN: The World Turned Upside Down

"In a rational world, it would have made sense for the rich countries to take the lead in fighting climate change. After all, it was rich countries got that way precisely by burning fossil fuel in the two centuries since the Industrial Revolution, and it’s the global south that is paying most of the price in terms of drought, flood and fire."

THE CHRIS HEDGES REPORT PODCAST: The Member States Complicit in GENOCIDE (w/ Francesca Albanese)

Francesca Albanese’s new report examines how 60+ countries are complicit in Israel’s war crimes — and how their contributions will come back to haunt their own citizens.

from last week:

JOHN MECKLIN: A conversation with Kathryn Bigelow, director of ‘A House of Dynamite,’ and screenwriter Noah Oppenheim

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JEFFREY D. SACHS and SYBIL FARES: Venezuelan Oil — American Gangster Politics

PROF. GLENN DIESEN: Interviews George Beebe: US-Russia Agreement to End NATO Expansionism or Accept an Ugly Russian Victory

ADDITIONAL ONLINE SOURCES FOR ACTIONS and INFORMATION ON PALESTINE/GAZA and other MILITARY ACTIONS WORLDWIDE

ACTIONS TO TAKE!

Continue contacting Congress to

demand they pass these resolutions: 

Block the Bombs – Support H.R. 3565

Call on your member of Congress to support the

Block the Bombs Act (H.R. 3565), introduced by

Rep. Delia Ramirez, to stop U.S. weapons transfers to Israel.

https://actionnetwork.org/letters/block-the-bombs-act

 Urge Support for Humanitarian Aid to Gaza – Senate Resolution 224

Tell your senators to support S. Res. 224, introduced by

Senator Peter Welch, calling for the immediate delivery

of humanitarian aid to Gaza. 

https://anewpolicy.org/urge-your-representatives-to-support-immediate-delivery-of-humanitarian-aid-to-gaza/

RECENTLY RELEASED!

2025 edition of Mapping Militarism

24 interactive maps to highlight

the state of war and peace on our planet.

Each map allows the viewer to spin the globe,

zoom in and out, scroll the timeline back through the years,

or switch from map view to list view. 

TRY IT HERE!

World BEYOND War has

a DIVESTMENT campaign!

About the Campaign

Grassroots-led war divestment campaigns are springing up all over the world, from students organizing to divest university endowments, to municipalities and states coming together to divest public pension funds. Divestment means organizing to remove public and private assets from weapons manufacturers, military contractors, and war profiteers.

Public pension and retirement funds especially are often invested, directly and indirectly, in weapons companies. Teachers and other public servants whose interests lie with promoting human needs have their retirement security tied up with maintaining or enlarging the war industry. Every dollar currently invested in weapons and war is a dollar that could be better spent on job creation, education, housing, healthcare, food security, and so much more.

War profiteering is largely normalized today. We’re working to stigmatize the war machine. World BEYOND War assists divestment campaigns led by our chapters, affiliates, other coalitions, and individuals around the world.

FIND OUT MORE ABOUT THE CAMPAIGN HERE

This website provides comprehensive information including events & campaigns

CHECK HERE FOR LINKS TO REACH OUT TO YOUR REPRESENTATIVES!

Includes a frequently updated

calendar of local events

Peace work in the Quaker tradition

American Friends Service Committee

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