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PEACE CENTER ACTIVIST ALERT
DECEMBER 8th, 2025
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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 9th, 4 PM
1010 STANLEY DOLLAR DR.
FAIRWAY ROOM, CREEKSIDE
(ROSSMOOR) WALNUT CREEK
Voices for Justice in Palestine
hosts Rabbi David Cooper,
co-founder of the East Bay's Kehilla Community Synagogue
speaking on
"Zionism and Its Jewish Discontents"
During the 20th century, the creation of a Jewish state was never a consensus position among leading Jews. There were many Israeli, European, and Israeli Jews who opposed the formation of a Jewish
nation-state as a solution to antisemitism.
Albert Einstein and Hannah Arendt were among those prominent Jewish leaders opposed to a "Jewish state". They sought a binational state with equality between Arabs and Jews. Even some Jews who regarded themselves as Zionists (but who might not be regarded as such today) opposed the formation of a Jewish state within Palestine. While this history is mostly disregarded today, the ominous warnings of these dissenters have proven accurate, as seen in the continuing inhumane treatment of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank.
For more information, contact Bruce Poster at bruce.poster@gmail.com.
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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 9th - 13th
Join the Free Global Film Premiere
& Live 5-Day Online Event
with Indigenous Elders, Healers, & Activists
If An Owl Calls Your Name
is part of Wisdom of the Ancestors—a twelve-film series spanning five continents, made in collaboration with Indigenous communities reclaiming land, language, and spirit in the wake of colonization.
→ Watch the Trailer and Register for the Global Premiere
Central Voice in the Film
Patricia June Vickers is a trauma therapist, artist, and healer from the Eagle clan of the village of Gitxaala, British Columbia. Her healing practice weaves Western neuroscience with Indigenous law, ceremony, and language—creating a path that honors both clinical precision and ancestral knowing. “Healing isn’t something we do. It’s something we return to.”
Registration is by donation, any amount, including $0. Half of all proceeds go directly to the Indigenous communities featured in the film.
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DECEMBER, JANUARY, ONGOING....
IYAS SARTAWI, LOCAL PALESTINIAN ACTIVIST/ORGANIZER SEEKS DONATIONS FOR GAZA
more info go to: IG projecthopepalestine
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TUESDAY EVENINGS
NOTE EARLIER START 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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Suggested readings/videos/podcasts (not found in MSM!)
PAUL KRUGMAN interviews Paul Kedrosky, MIT researcher on AI
As I say at the beginning of this interview, it’s annoying for economic analysts that two huge things are happening at the same time: a radical change in U.S. trade policy and a giant AI boom. Worse, while I think I know something about tariffs, the more I think about AI the less I believe I understand. So I talked to Paul Kedrosky, investor, tech expert and research fellow at MIT, for some enlightenment. Lots in here that I found startling.
AMY GOODMAN interviews Attorney Dan Kovalik regarding Colombian Fisherman’s Family Files Claim Against U.S. over Boat Strike
"The U.S. military said Thursday that it blew up another boat of suspected drug smugglers, this time killing four people in the eastern Pacific. The U.S. has now killed at least 87 people in 22 strikes since September. The U.S. has not provided proof as to the vessels’ activities or the identities of those on board who were targeted, but now the family of a fisherman from Colombia has filed the first legal challenge to the military strikes. In a petition filed with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, the family says a strike on September 15 killed 42-year-old Alejandro Andres Carranza Medina, a fisherman from Santa Marta and father of four. His family says he was fishing for tuna and marlin off Colombia’s Caribbean coast when his boat was bombed, and was not smuggling drugs."
FROM PREVIOUS WEEKS:
| | ADDITIONAL ONLINE SOURCES FOR ACTIONS and INFORMATION ON PALESTINE/GAZA and other MILITARY ACTIONS WORLDWIDE | | |
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!
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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
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This website provides comprehensive information including events & campaigns
CHECK HERE FOR LINKS TO REACH OUT TO YOUR REPRESENTATIVES!
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Includes a frequently updated
calendar of local events
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Peace work in the Quaker tradition
American Friends Service Committee
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BOYCOTT
DIVESTMENT and SANCTIONS!
CHECK OUT THIS HANDY APP!
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Peace is Possible!
Mt. Diablo Peace and Justice Center
at Creekside Commons
1035 Carol Lane
Lafayette, CA 94549
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