THURSDAY, JUNE 12

10 AM-2:30 PM. Enmegahbowh celebration. A celebration for Enmegabowh, the first Indian ordained in the Episcopal Church. The 10 AM Eucharistic Service will include Native prayers, music and a community Talking Circle for group listening and reflection. The noon Lunch in Bloedel Hall will feature favorite native foods. Saint Mark's Cathedral, 1245 10th Ave E, Seattle. Info: http://www.saintmarks.org or http://www.ecww.org or Carla Robinson 206-325-4200 x2017.

1-4 PM. Peace for the Streets by Kids in the Streets is sponsoring a Summit for Homeless People. We will have youth/young adult and older adult groups and will report out in a public forum. There are a lot of chronically homeless adults showing up at our center lately and part of this is to investigate this trend. Please R.S.V.P. Elaine Simons, e_simons@psks.org

FRIDAY, JUNE 13

7-9:30 PM. Film: Iraq in Fragments. Followed by discussion. Free and open to the public but donations are kindly accepted. Keystone Church, 5019 Keystone Pl., Seattle. Info: http://www.meaningfulmovies.org

SATURDAY, JUNE 14

5-8 PM. Green Party presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney. Cafe Vega, 1918 E. Yesler Way. Info: McKinney.Wash08@gmail.com, 206-426-3076.

MONDAY, JUNE 16

7:30 PM. Ahmed Rashid: "Descent into Chaos." Rashid, a Pakistani journalist and correspondent for the Far Eastern Economic Review and the Daily Telegraph, has covered Afghanistan and its changing fortunes since the 1978 Soviet invasion, the Taliban, and the rise of militant Islam. In Descent into Chaos he explores the failure by the US to combat Islamic extremism and to rebuild the nations of Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia. Tickets $5 at the door only. Town Hall Seattle, 1119 8th Avenue at Seneca Street, downstairs, enter on Seneca, Seattle. Info: http://www.townhallseattle.org

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18

6:30-9 PM. Crooked Trails, a non-profit Seattle based travel company, is hosting its annual fundraiser, Faces of Hope, to combat child sex slavery. The night will include a movie screening of The Day My God Died (a feature-length documentary that presents the stories of young girls whose lives have been shattered by the child sex trade) and a photo exhibition by local photographer, Jeff Speigner, highlighting similar events occurring in Thailand. $15. 911 Media Arts Center, 402 9th Ave N, Seattle. Register at http://www.Crookedtrails.com, 206-383-9828, or Brittany@crookedtrails.com

7:15 PM. Film: Go West. Perpetual student Milan, a Serb from a patriarchal community, and Kenan, a Muslim cellist, are a homosexual couple living in Sarajevo. Their lives, intimate and public, are shaken up by the aggression in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Not Rated. Free. Saint Mark's Cathedral, Leffler House, 1245 10th Ave E, Seattle. Info: http://www.saintmarks.org or Paul McDonald paulmcdonald.sea@gmail.com

7 PM. Interfaith Book Group. American Gospel: God, The Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation by Jon Meacham. In this book, Jon Meacham tells the human story of how the Founding Fathers viewed faith, and how they ultimately created a nation in which belief in God is a matter of choice. 932 11th Avenue E., Capitol Hill, Seattle. Info: penelope_koven@yahoo.com

7:30 PM. Jeremy Scahill on Blackwater USA. Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army tells the story of the rise of the fastest-growing private army in the world. Journalist Jeremy Scahill traces Blackwater's founding in 1997 by Erik Prince, an ex-Navy seal and scion of a wealthy conservative family, its military operations in Iraq, Afghanistan and inside the US, and its close ties to the Bush administration. Tickets are $5 at the door only. Town Hall Seattle, 1119 8th Avenue at Seneca Street, Downstairs, enter on Seneca Street, Seattle. Info: http://www.townhallseattle.org or 206-652- 4255 or http://www.blackwaterbook.com/

THURSDAY, JUNE 19

7 PM. Eat the State! gathering. Business meeting and mailing party, to talk about gossip, the state of the world, and ETS! content, fundraising, and, well, business; all are welcome. 3rd floor, University Baptist Church, 4554 12th Ave. NE in the University District.

FRIDAY, JUNE 20

Through Sun. June 22. The Seattle Central Area Chamber of Commerce proudly announces the 2008 Juneteenth Festival for the 35th Year. On June 19th, 1865, two and a half years after President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, General Gordon Granger reached Galveston, Texas with the news that those enslaved were now free. Juneteeth, the Celebration of Freedom, commemorates the end of slavery by enforcing the Emancipation Proclamation: this is a time for the community to reflect and rejoice with celebration. Entertainment from 12:30 to 8:30 PM all three days. Friday: Hip Hop--Rap--Spoken Word. Saturday: R&B to Jazz. Sunday: Gospel. Pratt Park in Seattle. Info: 206-325-2864 or http://www.scacc2108.org

7-9:30 PM. Film: Arid Lands Arid Lands is a documentary feature about the land and people of the Columbia Basin in southeastern Washington State. Sixty years ago, the Hanford Nuclear Site produced plutonium for the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, and today the area is the focus of the largest environmental cleanup in history. Free and open to the public but donations are kindly accepted. Keystone Church, 5019 Keystone Pl., Seattle. Info: http://www.meaningfulmovies.org

7 PM. Film: King Corn In Aaron Woolf's thought-provoking documentary, friends Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis move back to America's Corn Belt to plant an acre of the nation's most-grown and most-subsidized grain in an attempt to follow their crop into the US food supply. What they discover about genetically modified seeds, powerful herbicides and the realities of modern farming calls into question government subsidies, our fast-food lifestyle and the quality of our food. $1 suggested donation. Saint Mark's Cathedral, Leffler House, 1245 10th Ave E, Seattle. Info: FilmNight@saintmarks.org or http://fridaysatseven.blogspot.com/

7:30 PM. Robert Scheer on "Pornography of Power." Long-time journalist Robert Scheer examines the expansion of America's military presence throughout the world in The Pornography of Power. Tickets are $5 at the door only. Town Hall Seattle, 1119 8th Avenue at Seneca Street, Seattle. Info: http://www.townhallseattle.org

SATURDAY, JUNE 21

10 AM to 8 PM & Sunday, June 22, 11 AM to 7 PM. Celebrate the Summer Solstice at the Fremont Fair! In its 37th year. Fremont neighborhood, Seattle. Info: http://www.fremontfair.com or sean@workshopevents.com

9 AM-4 PM. Washington Good, Green Jobs Conference. With Keynote Luncheon Speaker Governor Christine Gregoire. The economy is in trouble and off track, leaving too many middle class Americans behind. We can recharge our economy and lead the world into a stronger economic future by investing in a clean, efficient energy economy that creates jobs here at home, saves regular families and businesses money, and makes America energy independent. Mary Gates Hall, University of Washington, Seattle. Info: Jessica.Eagle@sierraclub.org

1 PM. March for Youth. March against violence, march in prayer, march in silence. March to get your voice heard, march in protest, march in remembrance. March in reconciliation, just be sure to come out and march on. The plan is to march south from Franklin High School and north from Rainer Beach High School at the same time, moving along Rainier Ave S. and then meeting in the middle at Aki Kurose Middle School for food, entertainment, inspirational speeches, resource tables, and "what next." We need help with everything. Call today. March from Franklin High School and from Rainier Beach High School, Seattle. Info: Denise Gloster 206-723-4637 or 206-795-5824 or denisegloster@yahoo.com

SUNDAY, JUNE 22

6:30 AM to 6:30 PM. Arlington Northwest Memorial Display. We will have a marker or cross set out for the nearly 4100 US servicepersons killed in Iraq. People are invited to come help us set up or take down the display. The information table will have books listing the names of the US fallen. Passersby are invited to choose a name, write it on a card and affix it to a marker or cross. Green Lake Park, on the southeast side of Green Lake near 63rd St, spreading northward, Seattle. Info: http://www.arlingtonnw.org

MONDAY, JUNE 23

7-8:30 PM. Sierra Club's Cool State Forum. Climate change is real, it's here, and it is quickly becoming the greatest environmental challenge of our time. Free. REI Seattle, 222 Yale Av N., Seattle. Info: 206-378-0114 Ext 308

TUESDAY, JUNE 24

7:30 PM. Philip Pan on "Out of Mao's Shadow." Award-winning journalist Philip Pan has served as the Beijing bureau chief for the Washington Post since 2000. In Out of Mao's Shadow, Pan presents a picture of a quiet revolution being fought by a incongruous collection of lawyers, journalists, entrepreneurs, activists, hustlers, and dreamers who risk their freedom and lives to challenge the political system in order to build a more tolerant, open, and democratic China. Tickets $5 at the door only. Info: http://www.townhallseattle.org

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25

7-8:30 PM. Book Club: Rebel Reading Circles. Share ideas as you study Viva la Raza: A History of Chicano Identity and Resistance, by Yolanda Alaniz and Megan Cornish. Discover a wealth of little-known information about campus, farmworker and Chicana feminist organizing at the University of Washington, in the Yakima Valley, and in the Seattle community. Free. Jefferson Community Center, 3801 Beacon Ave. S., Seattle. Info: 206-722-2453, FSPseattle@mindspring.com, or http://www.socialism.com

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. Also, check out http://www.seattleactivism.org.

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