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Arizona's books-to-prisoners program, Read Between the Bars, will be celebrating its five-year anniversary at La Cocina, 201 North Court Avenue, on Tuesday, June 12. The hours are 5:00 to 10:00 p.m. To kick off the evening, Nowhere Man and A Whiskey Girl will perform from 6:00 to 7:00 p.m., followed by other musicians to be announced. There will also be a raffle for prizes, with tickets available for a suggested donation.

La Cocina will donate 10% of its net profits that evening to Read Between the Bars, so make plans to dine out if you'd like to support the many people affected by mass incarceration in Arizona.

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On a totally unrelated note, there's a petition on Change.org if you want to tell the city_of_tucson to make more downtown parking free during the Modern Streetcar construction.

(This has been cross-posted to tucson.)

Big announcement tomorrow at 1:30 for Counter Culture. Press conference with the Mayor of Tempe and City Council. 6th & Mill. Be there!!!

There is a very real possibility that Counter Culture will be reopening in the near future. This time on Mill Avenue in a 6100 square feet location with a full kitchen. We will also be a full venue with a real stage and sound system, a bar and a retail location specializing in locally produced art music and fashion. It's time for us freaks to take back Mill! Think positive thoughts, help us generate some buzz and spread the good word!

ps: We have an amazing opportunity here and are currently negotiating free rent for our first year, but we need help: partners, sponsors and investors. Even small amounts of capital will help, and while there is no such thing as a risk-free investment, free rent for a year, complete commercial kitchen, in between a large parking garage and the MADCAP Theaters, at the base of two (currently under construction) condo towers and walking distance from the nation's largest public research university (asu) makes this a no-brainer! please spread the word and contact andres.yuhnke@gmail.com with any interest. thanks!

An appeal to Peltier Supporters in the Vicinity of Tempe, AZ

President Obama will be speaking at the ASU commencement ceremony at Sun Devil
Stadium at 7:00 p.m., Wednesday, May 13.

Peltier supporters should gather only at the SE end of the stadium around 5:00
p.m. Supporters won’t be allowed access to the ceremony itself. Instead, they
will line Packard Boulevard, the route Obama is expected to take to the stadium.
Break out those Peltier t-shirts and don’t come empty handed. Bring signs,
banners, etc., expressing support for freedom for Leonard Peltier.

TONIGHT!!! Free Sushi Records Label Launch Party!!!

with Greenwich, Sister Cities, Win the Scene

and DJ William F'ing Reed!!!

All Ages Show - 9pm - $8

at The Trunk Space - 1506 NW Grand Ave.,

Phoenix, AZ - 602-256-6006

http://www.FreeSushiRecords.com/

Protest Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff
Protest the Border Wall

Friday, Nov. 14; 10:30am to 12:30pm
University of Arizona Law School, 1201 East Speedway
Meet on SW corner of Mountain & Helen St.
Parking available at the Park Avenue Garage, SE corner of Park and Helen St.
 
As Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, Michael Chertoff has:

***Waived over 30 federal laws to build walls and infrastructure along the border***Expanded policies that have resulted in the deaths of thousands of men, women and children***Devastated the beautiful and fragile borderlands environment***Violated Indigenous rights of mobility and passage***Spent $2.7 billion in taxpayer money for fencing that Chertoff himself says won’t work***

“A wall across the border would be phenomenally expensive; it wouldn't be particularly effective… In the desert, fencing doesn't make any sense at all.”  Press Conference with Secretary Michael Chertoff on the Secure Border Initiative, December 1, 2005.

No on Prop 102 Rally *TONIGHT*

We have just confirmed that Phoenix Mayor Phil Gordon and District 4 Phoenix Councilman Tom Simplot will be speaking at the event. They have a previous commitment at 6 p.m. so if you want to be there to listen to their encouraging words please arrive before 5:30 pm. Other special speakers will include Equality Arizona Executive Director Barbara McCullough-Jones, activist and former Arizona congressional candidate for District 3 Annie Loyd, Seven Straight Nights coordinator Susan Hurley, Body Positive founder Kirk Baxter and allies from the faith community.

See you all there!

When: This Wednesday, October 29th, 2008 | 5:30 7:30 pm
Where: SW Corner of Central Ave. and Camelback Rd.

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 ARIZONA DIVORCES MCCAIN!

WE DEMAND CHANGE!
RALLY AND MARCH

 Join us at Madison  #1 School parking lot
5525 N. 16th Street (16th Street & Missouri)  Phoenix
 11 a.m. – 2 p.m. Saturday, November 1, 2008

Join us for live music, speakers and a symbolic divorce. 
Speakers, hosted by activist/talk show host Jeff Farias, include:

 U.S. Army Colonel Ann Wright  -  resigned from the State Department in protest of Iraq invasion

 Rebekah Friend - Executive Director Arizona AFL-CIO

 Raquel Teran  -  Maricopa Citizens for Safety and Accountability

 Tim Carpenter  - Executive Director Progressive Democrats of America

 Tupac Acosta - Director of Tonatierra  (Indigenous Peoples' Human Rights)

 Hari Nam Khalsa    -  Arizona Representative of Iraq Veterans Against the War

 Steve Brittle  - President of the environmental group Don't Waste Arizona
 
Russell Crawford - Student Leader Northern Arizona University Peace & Justice
 
 Randy Parraz -  Political Organizer Laborers' International Union
 
Liz Hourican - Arizona's CODE PINK representatative Washington
 
 
Skits by the Tucson Raging Grannies
(wild hats, cheeky songs and witty actions for a better world)
 
MARCH to MCCAIN’S OFFICE
and DELIVER the DIVORCE DECREE!
 
For more information 

go to www.azpeace.org

“Getting Real about Russia and Medvedev”

Time:  2 pm Saturday, October 18 
 
Place: Friends Meeting House, 931 N. 5th Ave.

Speaker: Dr. Pat Willerton, Associate Professor of Political Science at
the U of A with a focus on the politics of Russia and other former Soviet Union countries.
 
He will discuss our general (mis)perceptions relevant to the Russia-Georgia conflict.

The meeting is free.  The public is invited.  Refreshments provided

Sponsored by the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom