20COME PROTEST Donald Rumsfeld
Starts: 7:00 pm
Ends: 05/20/2013 - 8:30 pm
Location: 18001 Yorba Linda Blvd., Yorba Linda, Ca 92886
Description: COME PROTEST RUMMY
Donald Rumsfeld Returns to the Nixon Library to Talk New Book “Rumsfeld’s Rules”
WHEN
Monday, May 20 at 7:00 p.m.
WHERE
Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum
18001 Yorba Linda Blvd.
Yorba Linda, Ca 92886
Donald Rumsfeld was one of the primary architects of the Iraq war.
He sanctioned the use of torture and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment. He lied to world costing over 100,000 lives. He is a war criminal who must be brought to justice.
“Donald Rumsfeld may be out of sight, but he will not be out of mind. the chickens have come home to roost.”
Bring your pots and pans to bang loudly
***SPONSORED BY CODE PINK***
| 21Lectures on Social Issues
Starts: 10:00 am
Ends: 05/21/2013 - 12:00 pm
Location: Emaculate Heart Church, 1100 S. Center Dr. (Center & McFadden)
Description: Lectures given weekly about different topics, from inequality to human trafficking. In need of Spanish-speaking translators.
Peace Vigil by MFSO and Code Pink
Starts: 5:30 pm
Ends: 05/21/2013 - 7:00 pm
Location: Orange Circle, Glassell & Chapman, Orange
Description: The OC chapter of Military Families Speak Out has resumed the monthly Code
Pink peace vigils at the Orange Circle in the city of Orange! These vigils
will be held on the 3rd Tuesdays of each month from 5:30-7:00 pm- that's
this week already. The Orange Circle is at the intersection of Glassell St
and Chapman Ave in Orange. Come one - come all. Bring your friends. We need
to remind everyone that the war rages on in Afghanistan and the current
Administration has the power to bring them out of that quagmire now! See
you Tuesday night at the Traffic Circle.
Pat Alviso & Jeff Merrick
Military Families Speak Out
Orange County & South Bay Chapter
http://www.mfsooc.org
562-833-8035
Support Our Troops
Bring Them Home Now!
Take Care of Them After They Get Home
Dear OC Code Pink Activists & Supporters,
I am happy to report that our friends from the
OC chapter of Military Families Speak Out
have resumed monthly peace vigils at the Circle!
These vigils will be held on the 3rd Tuesdays
of each month from 5:30-7:00 pm.
In peaceful solidarity,
Kathy (Code Pink OC)
| 22 | 23OC Labor Federation Delegates Meeting
Starts: 6:00 pm
Ends: 05/23/2013 - 7:30 pm
Location: Int'l Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Office, 309 N Rampart St # M, Orange
Description: Monthly meeting of union delegates from all union in all sectors around OC.
| 24Santa Ana Primary GA @ Civic Center
Starts: 7:30 pm
Ends: 05/24/2013 - 9:00 pm
Location: Necessity Village (Ross & Civic Center) in Santa Ana
Description: Occupy Santa Ana General Assembly Meeting, located on Ross and Civic center across the street from the library in grassy area. Newcomers welcomed!
| 25Council Practice
Starts: 2:00 pm
Ends: 05/25/2013 - 3:30 pm
Location: Liberation Plaza, Civic Center
Description: Even the simplest, most unsophisticated council practices are experienced
as revolutionary by people who've known little more than the hectic, banal,
adversarial or repressed communication modes typical of our mainstream
culture. *
*What is Council?*
We sit in silence. A stick (or some other object) sits in the middle of our
circle. Then for example, a woman who feels moved to speak picks up the
stick. She holds it as she speaks, and we all listen to what she says. No
one speaks unless they have the stick. We engage in no cross-talk or
conversation in the usual sense. When the speaker is done, she passes the
stick to the man on her left who ponders it for a moment before speaking.
After a few minutes he passes the stick to the person on his left and so it
goes. The stick continues around the circle, with each of us speaking in
turn and the rest of us listening. When our scheduled council time is up --
or when we pass the stick around the whole circle with none of us speaking
-- the stick is returned to the center and our circle is done.
That is the whole process. At its heart, it is that simple.
It helps to remember that the essence of council is listening and speaking
from the heart. Therefore, head-tripping, pronouncements, chatter,
posturing and run-on monologues of the sort that make up so much of
ordinary conversation only serve to disrupt the atmosphere of the circle.
On the other hand, *silence* -- so avoided in ordinary conversation --
often helps deepen the atmosphere.
*The main effect of council practice is in learning how to listen and share
from the heart.*
Speaking from the heart beings with being grounded in our experience of
what is -- especially being grounded in our feelings, values and in things
that are truly important to us. It means being honest, taking risks, being
real, allowing the vitality and emotion we feel to find its way into our
voice when we speak. It means finding ourselves saying things we have not
said before -- sometimes things we didn't even realize we thought or felt.
Industrial culture seldom welcomes this kind of openness and honesty, so
most of us need a safe space in order to speak from our hearts.
By "safe space" I mean a group that can really hear us, where we feel we
won't be judged or have to deal with negative consequences as a result of
our speaking our truth. Creating such a safe space is an important
challenge for most of us. Another important challenge is speaking from our
hearts even when we aren't sure how safe it is to do so. This courageous
act often opens the door for others to speak from their hearts.
*Council is a listening circle*
Sitting in a circle helps us to fully see each other as peers sharing
meaning, creativity, and a common center. I believe the most basic unit of
reflexive and intelligent social life is people sitting in a circle
listening deeply and speaking from the heart.
This is a different kind of meeting than most modern people are used to.
The focus is on dialogue -- on exploring and learning together -- not on
getting things done or completing an agenda.
*How to do a listening circle*
This form of dialogue is inspired by Native American councils. The
trademark quality of Council is in listening -- a deep listening to each
individual within the group, to the group mind and to Spirit, as well as to
each other. We can even listen deeply when we are talking: we can be aware
of the words we are saying as we say them, of the way our bodies feel, of
the stream of semi-formed thoughts and emotions out of which our words are
coming, and of the receptive group space into which we are sending them.
*Going around the circle*
To the extent we honor the stick (or other object) and its role, we don't
need chairpersons and facilitators; the stick, itself, in its journey
around the circle, shapes the structure and quality of our dialogue.
Sometimes, though, someone sets the tone and gets things started, and
someone signals the end of the meeting.
As the focus of our attention moves around and around the circle, it
spirals down into deeper shared understandings, richer shared meanings, and
a growing sense of a shared, evolving story. Although sometimes we go
around only once, our best circles result from going around at least 3 or 4
times, with people speaking briefly if necessary to permit more rounds.
Brevity can be very powerful. It is also important to sustain everyone's
attention. Sometimes we time our turns, often 1-3 minutes each, rarely as
long as 6-10 minutes. A well-functioning circle should help those who
usually speak a lot say less and those who usually don't speak up to say
more.
*In conclusion*
You don't have to do anything fancy to use the council process -- just get
together as a group and take turns speaking from the heart as best as you
can; use a stapler as a talking-stick if that's what's handy. The important
thing is to just doing it.
| 26Protest Against Police Brutality
Starts: 12:00 pm
Ends: 05/26/2013 - 2:00 pm
Location: Anaheim Police Department 425 S. Harbor Blvd., Anaheim, CA 92805
Description: every Sunday we gather at the Anaheim police Department 12 noon -2pm , to bring awareness to the community in Anaheim and the surrounding cities of Orange County. Anaheim Police Department has gotten away with their lies, brutality, excessive force, racial profiling, misconduct and MURDER for far too long..Their corruption and blatant disregard for our HUMAN/civil rights will NO LONGER BE TOLERATED!! join us .. stand up and let them here your voice... we want JUSTICE_CHANGE_ACCOUNTABILITY_AND TRANSPARENCY. recently the city manager of Anaheim has vocalized his intent to authorize a investigation into the excessive officer involved shootings.. This is a step in the right direction! We will remind the city manager every city council meeting about his solution..expecting the entire process be made fully public ! a press release and media coverage would be good! The (PEOPLE) deserve to know whats been going on their city!!The tourists deserve to know that Anaheim isn't as safe as they assume when they bring their entire families on vacation at the (happiest place on earth) Disneyland...
Food Not Bombs Santa Ana
Starts: 3:00 pm
Ends: 05/26/2013 - 4:00 pm
Location: 26 CIVIC CENTER PLAZA, SANTA ANA
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| 27 | 28Lectures on Social Issues
Starts: 10:00 am
Ends: 05/28/2013 - 12:00 pm
Location: Emaculate Heart Church, 1100 S. Center Dr. (Center & McFadden)
Description: Lectures given weekly about different topics, from inequality to human trafficking. In need of Spanish-speaking translators.
OC Peace Coalition General Meeting
Starts: 7:00 pm
Ends: 05/28/2013 - 9:00 pm
Location: Spires Restaurant, 13030 Goldenwest, Westminster
Description: OC Peace Coalition General Meeting
WHERE:
Spires Restaurant,
13030 Goldenwest,
Westminster
WHO:
Anyone interested in educating, organizing and changing US foreign policies promoting illegal invasions and occupations, as well as stopping the militarization of the U.S. (High School Military Recruitment, the brutal treatment of undocumented workers, and the criminalization of youth, especially those of color).
We do not support any specific party but do support anyone who is working for Peace and Justice.
Bring your ideas and enthusiasm!
web site: ocpeace.org
| 29 | 30 | 31Santa Ana Primary GA @ Civic Center
Starts: 7:30 pm
Ends: 05/31/2013 - 9:00 pm
Location: Necessity Village (Ross & Civic Center) in Santa Ana
Description: Occupy Santa Ana General Assembly Meeting, located on Ross and Civic center across the street from the library in grassy area. Newcomers welcomed!
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