Essential Information: School of Assassins/Americas

"We're always going to need peacemakers in the world. There's a difference between keeping the peace for truly peaceful means and preemptive strikes on sovereign nations because you've created boogiemen." - Stephen Schweitzer in a December 2007 interview with Jack Gilroy and special thanks to essentialdissent.blogspot.com

Stand up for justice and human rights from November 21-23, during the annual November vigil to close the SOA/WHINSEC at the gates of Fort Benning, Georgia. Thousands travel from around the country and Latin America to take part in a historic gathering where torture survivors, social movement leaders, civil rights activists, grandmothers, anti-war veterans, students, presidential candidates and members of Congress have all come together to take a stand against the violence and racism that the SOA/WHINSEC represents. For more information, go to SOAW.ORG

Gogol Bordello Non Stop Film Trailer - PARTY!

GOGOL BORDELLO NON STOP FILM TRAILER
by Guespa

REQUIRED VIEWING: The Boy With Green Hair (1948)

A bit of green helped her it did. It's the color of spring. It meant hope and a promise of new life.

Skull-A-Day For A Year

2008 Pax Christi Film Series

This film series on peace and justice themes, now beginning its third year, is sponsored by Pax Christi El Paso and the Peace and Justice Ministry of the Catholic Diocese of El Paso. Admission is free. Donations are accepted but not required. Light refreshments are served, and there is time for discussion after each film. Movies have been scheduled at 3:00 p. m. on the second Sunday of each month through the end of 2008.

November 9, 2008 “On the Line: Dissent in an Age of Terrorism” tells of a young graduate student who is among those arrested for nonviolent acts of civil disobedience during a protest of alleged human-rights violations by graduates of School of the Americas (also known as WHINSEC), This event introduces a discussion of the clash between civil liberties and maintaining security since 9/11.

For more information, call (915)217-8190 or (915)874-8422
Show time: 3:00 p. m.
Martyrs Room of St. Charles Seminary
8330 Park Haven Ave.
El Paso, TX
(Just off of St. Matthews Street, near North Loop Drive. From North Loop Drive, turn south onto St. Matthews Street. Then turn right on Park Haven Avenue. The Martyrs Room is the central building between the two wings of the seminary complex.)
Show time: 3:00 p. m.

Tentative Schedule for 2009
January 11 - THE INVISIBLE CHAPEL
February 8 - WAR DANCE
March 8 - DOROTHY DAY: DON'T CALL ME A SAINT
April 19 - THIRST
May 17 - THE CORPORATION
June - SALT OF THE EARTH
July - PEACE IS EVERY STEP (Thich Nhat Hanh)

Fly By - Tom Noble

"My paintings are of an imaginary world, a pre-industrial Arcadia, a time when Northern New Mexico was nothing but rural villages, usually with a church in the center. Life was based on agriculture, and living in harmony with the changing seasons."
Tom Noble

Early October Morning In Taos, NM

Sagebrush Inn

REQUIRED LISTENING: ANTI-FLAG

Anti-Flag's Blog No War Without Warriors
Anti-Flag's Website

Alex Langenstein

"I spent 5 days remaking my film and this is the result."
Alex Langenstein