Join peace actions near you: INTERNATIONAL: www.unitedforpeace.org; MILITARY: www.mfso.org; SEATTLE area: www.snowCoalition.org/contact.php. Jean Buskin's Puget Sound Activism Calendar: www.scn.org/activism/calendar or text version: www.scn.org/activism/PJ-cal.txt. PUGET SOUND: Women in Black Vigils: Gig Harbor, Bellevue, Bainbridge Island, Edmonds, Seattle: www.scn.org/~wibnw.

WEDNESDAY APRIL 23

7:30-9:00 PM. "Survival of Tibetan Culture: An Insider's Perspective" with Nawang Dorjee, who fled Tibet with the Dalai Lama. Tickets $10. Bellevue Community College, 3000 Landerholm Circle SE, bus #271. Info: www.bcc.ctc.edu/liberalarts/lectures.html or 425-564-2042.

7:30 PM. "Poets Against the War" with activist W.S. Merwin; introduction by Sam Hamill. Benefits Copper Canyon Press. Tickets $10/$5 at Copper Canyon Press, Elliott Bay Books. Town Hall, Seneca & 8th Ave., bus #2. Info: 360-385-4925x106 or poetry@coppercanyonpress.org.

THURSDAY APRIL 24

6-9 PM Thursdays. Media training/production, Independent Media Center. 1415 3rd Ave. between Pike & Union. Info: 206-262-0721 or http://seattle.indymedia.org/.

FRIDAY APRIL 25

"Voices of the Village," multi-racial discussion of racism and community. POCAAN, 2200 Rainier Ave. S., bus #7, 9, 42, 48. Info: 206-322- 7061, ext: 225 or vanessa@pocaan.org.

6:30-8 Fridays. Majority Visibility Project Buzz Sessions, social/work party. 2152 5th Ave. W. at W. McGraw St., bus #2. Info: 206-285-3219 or www.mvp-seattle.org.

7-9 PM Fridays through May 2. "A Force More Powerful," videos on nonviolent action. April 25: "Poland 1980." Keystone Congregational Church, 5019 Keystone Pl., bus #16. Info: http://groups.msn.com/wallingfordneighbors.

7 PM. "Paint It Black," part of the Anarchy Film Series. IMC, 1415 3rd Ave. between Pike and Union. Info: 206-309-8646 or sarahjeandragon@yahoo.com.

SATURDAY APRIL 26

"Building Bridges" workshop on eliminating prejudice/ending oppression. $30- $80 sliding scale. Registraion: www.scn.org/ncbisea/. Info: 206-323-5427.

1-4 PM. "Nonviolent Communication and Mindfulness." Free. Rainier Community Center, 4600 38th Ave. S. at Alaska St., bus #7, 39. Info: freedom_project@hotmail.com.

SUNDAY APRIL 27

Car Free Sunday - continue the spirit of Earth Day. Info: 206-632-2426 or www.earthministry.org.

MONDAY APRIL 28

7 PM. SNOW Coalition meeting. Help plan the May 31st SNOW neighborhood event. First Congregational Church, 108th Ave. at NE 8th St., near Bellevue Transit Center. Info: www.SnowCoalition.org.

WEDNESDAY APRIL 30

5:30-8 PM. First Nations School Teach-Out/Learn from Local Elders. For Native youth 14+, parents, others interested in Native American cultures. YWCA, 2820 E. Cherry @ MLK Way S., bus #3, 8. Info/registration: 206-720-0285.

THURSDAY MAY 1

May Day! Also... International Day of Poetry Against the War! Info: http://poetsagainstthewar.org/createreading.asp.

Through May 4. "The Right to Organize: Civil Liberties, Democracy, and the Labor Movement," Pacific NW Labor History Association conference. WA State History Museum, Tacoma and UW Mary Gates Hall 389. Info: 206-524-0346.

FRIDAY MAY 2

And May 3. "Peace and War in the Age of Globalization" conference. $75. Seattle U., Broadway & Madison, bus #9, 12, 60. Info: 206-296-5320 or www.seattleu.edu/go/peaceconf.

5:30 PM. Westlake Park. This month's Critical Mass bike ride (last Friday of every month) will be a Fuck the War ride potentially with a tour of corps (in Seattle) that have vested interests in war. Info: www.oz.net/~nic/cm.html.

Rabbi Arik Ascherman, of Rabbis for Human Rights, speaks on safeguarding everyone's human rights in Israel & the Occupied Territories. Temple De Hirsch-Sinai, 1441 16th Ave., bus # 10, 11. Info: 206-323-8486 or radbam@tdhs-nw.org.

7-9 PM. "A Force More Powerful: Chile 1983" video showing. See Friday April 25 listing.

7-9:30 PM. "Men's Work: How to Stop Violence in Our Homes and Communities," with Victor Lewis and Paul Kivel. Also see Sat. May 3 listing. Presented by Tools for Change Institute and Seattle Men Organizing Against Violence. University Methodist Church, 1415 NE 43rd St. Info: 206-464-9129 or www.toolsforchange.org/men.

SATURDAY MAY 3

9 AM-5 PM. "Rainbow Bookfest: Celebrating Authors of Color." Free book fair, workshops/reception $20-$30. Info: 206-223-0623 or www.rainbowbookfest.com.

2-5 PM. "Building a Men's Movement Against Male Violence in Seattle," strategy session with Victor Lewis and Paul Kivel. Help grow a multi-cultural men's movement against violence. East Cherry YWCA, 2820 E. Cherry St., bus #3, 8. Info: 206-464-9129 or www.toolsforchange.org/men.

Rabbi Arik Ascherman (see May 2 listing.) Congregation Beth Shalom, 6800 35th NE, bus #71. Info: rainer@onemain.com.

6:30 PM. "A Poetics of Peace: An Evening of Poems, Stories, and Song," with mythopoet guru Michael Meade and special guests. Donations appreciated. Nippon Kan Theater, 628 S. Washington Street. Info: 206-935-3665; 800-233-6984; www.mosaicvoices.org.

SUNDAY MAY 4

10 am. Rabbi Arik Ascherman (see May 2 listing.) Temple Beth Am, 2632 NE 80th St., bus #72. Info: 206-447-9301 or JRothschild@qwest.net.

2-4 PM. "Bridges of Hope: Overcoming Racism and Anti-Semitism from the Perspective of an African American," with Dr. Leon Bass of the Interfaith Council on the Holocaust. Dr. Bass was a soldier present at the liberation of Buchenwald. Free. Temple De Hirsch Sinai, 1441 16th Ave., bus #2. Info: 206-441-5747 or infor@wsherc.org.

7 PM. "Celebrating Our Witness for Peace" with city councilmember Nick Licata, activist Jean Buskin, music, public reflections. We're in this for the long haul! Trinity United Methodist Church, 6512 23rd Ave. NW. Info: 206-784-2227 or oddrev@yahoo.com.

MONDAY MAY 5

7-8:30 PM. Citizens' Campaign for Commercial-Free Schools meeting. Info: 206-523-4922 or www.scn.org/cccs/newslet.html.

7:30 PM. "World on the Edge - Root Causes of Anti-Americanism" with Dr. Robert Fuller. Town Hall, downstairs, enter on Seneca at 8th Ave. $5. Info: 206-652-4255.

For an excellent and much, much longer compilation of upcoming and ongoing progressive events in Seattle, check out Jean Buskin's Peace Calendar: http://www.scn.org/activism/calendar/ or e-mail her at bb369@scn.org.

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