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Conference to explore:

· Consequences of Criminalization of Drug Use

· Increasing Healthcare Response to Drug Addiction

· Medicinal Marijuana & Prosecution of Patients

· Prohibition vs. Decriminalization or Legalization

KEYNOTE SPEAKER:

Ethan Nadelmann, PhD, JD

Ethan Nadelmann is the founder and executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance, the leading organization in the United States promoting alternatives to the war on drugs.

Dr. Nadelmann is widely regarded as the outstanding proponent of drug policy reform both in the United States and abroad. He is a former professor of politics at Princeton, and his speaking and writing on drug policy have attracted international attention.

Sponsored by A New PATH (Parents for Addiction Treatment & Healing),

St. Paul’s Cathedral of San Diego,

and the Drug Policy Alliance

***SPECIAL LADIES NIGHT***ALL FEMALE ARTISTS PERFOMING***

Javan L. Jackson aka NuExperience hosts LOVE VIBRATIONS! LOVE VIBRATIONS is a love-based spoken word and more "inspir-tainment" event, featuring work by local poets, vocalists, and musicians. This event is free and open to the public! Bring family and friends!

"Where the love of the arts and the love of all people come together to build a better, loving community."

www.lovevibrationsshow.shutterfly.com

[b]Matters of Controversy

Presents
The New GI Resistance
With Special Guest

Dahr Jamail

Independent Journalist & Author

Friday Nov 13, 2009 7:30pm

Join us for a heavy but hopeful presentation about the growing number of GIs who have laid down their weapons and turned their experiences into powerful testimony for non-violent alternatives to war.

"I was trained to blow shit up. We weren't there to rebuild anything."

-Drew Cameron, Iraq War Veteran

Soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan have tough truths to tell, and it has been well demonstrated that the establishment media does not want to broadcast these. Given the lack of an outlet for anti-war voices in the corporate media, many contemporary veterans and active-duty soldiers have embraced the arts as a tool for resistance, communication and healing. They have made use of a wide range of visual and performing arts - through theater, poetry, painting, writing, and other creative expression - to affirm their own opposition to the occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq.

We will present a short film about the Combat Paper Project, called "Iraq, Paper, Scissors," by filmmaker Sara Nesson.
Iraq as a Living Hell

In late 2003, weary of the overall failure of the US media to accurately report on the realities of the war in Iraq for the Iraqi people and US soldiers, Dahr Jamail went to the Middle East to report on the war himself. So began Dahr Jamail's Mideast Dispatches http://dahrjamailiraq.com

Since then, he has become world renowned for documenting the human cost of the Iraq war: the everyday violence and terror, the deterioration of the healthcare system, the shortages of clean water and the resulting rise in sickness, the lack of jobs and economic opportunity, the refugee crisis, and the detention and torture of civilians and resistance fighters. Through his uncompromised reporting and news photos, Dahr reveals a map of Iraq's misery and resistance, politics and everyday survival in the face of overwhelming military destruction. His website offers a forum where readers discover realities of the war not found in the conventional press.

Dahr has spent a total of nine months in occupied Iraq as one of only a few independent US journalists in the country. Dahr has also has reported from Syria, Lebanon and Jordan,. He has also reported extensively on veterans' resistance against the war. Dahr uses the DahrJamailIraq.com website and his popular mailing list to disseminate his dispatches.

Dahr currently writes for the Inter Press Service, Le Monde Diplomatique, and many other outlets. His stories have also been published with The Nation, The Sunday Herald in Scotland, Al-Jazeera, the Guardian, Foreign Policy in Focus, and the Independent to name just a few. Dahr's dispatches and hard news stories have been translated into French, Polish, German, Dutch, Spanish, Japanese, Portuguese, Chinese, Arabic and Turkish. On radio as well as television, Dahr reports for Democracy Now!, has appeared on the BBC and NPR, and numerous other stations around the globe. Dahr is also special correspondent for Flashpoints.

Dahr's reporting has earned him numerous awards, including the prestigious 2008 Martha Gellhorn Award for Journalism, The Lannan Foundation Writing Residency Fellowship, the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism, the Joe A. Callaway Award for Civic Courage, and four Project Censored awards.

Warrior Writers has created exhibits that showcase artwork by members, and photographs taken by soldiers in Iraq. It is a largely self-supporting endeavor wherein the funds generated from the sale of books and artwork help sponsor veterans to travel around the country, reading from and displaying their work, as well as funding other workshops. It has now grown into the Combat Paper Project. The project has had exhibitions around the country, in cities such as Minneapolis, Chicago and San Francisco, with many more.

Warrior Writers http://www.greendoorstudio. net/exhibits/remakingsense/ workshop/writers.html

Combat Paper Project http://www.combatpaper.org. - Book Signing -

Location: First Unitarian Universalist Church of San Diego

4190 Front Street, Hillcrest, San Diego (opposite UCSD Medical Center)

Parking: Church ACE parking lot (limited) / Street parking (within 2 blocks)

Directions: From Washington Street (Hillcrest): North on 1st St., 3 blocks / Left on Arbor, 1 block. Church parking lot is on your left / UCSD Medical Center is on your right.

Cost: Donation requested

Presented by: Peace & Democracy Action Group of the First Unitarian Universalist Church

More info: 858-459-4650 www.ActivistSanDiego.org

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“All of Us or None San Diego” in collaboration with other organizations our proposing a way to build a new civil rights movement to eliminate the many forms of discrimination faced by people with felony convictions. All of Us or None is an organization dedicated to building a grassroots movement, led by and for people who have spent time in prison, to ensure their human and civil rights. Current work includes the “Ban the Box” campaign to end discrimination against formerly incarcerated people seeking public employment. All of Us or None also provides training for its members on leadership and organizing skills, which emphasize public speaking and public policy advocacy.

Rarely are those engaged in debate and policy-making that impacts men and women in prison, the same people who have experienced prison first hand. All of Us or None is a MOVEMENT of formerly incarcerated men and women who are committed to participate in the discourse about the criminal justice system and related policy issues

This is our 3rd taping!!! That means after this session, we'll have more than enough episodes to get our weekly time slot! Everyone has helped out tremendously, but I want to send out a special THANK YOU to C-Tip this month. He pretty much got this entire show going for me, and without him, this wouldn't have happened. THANK YOU! (check his music out at http://www.myspace.com/thegoonofchrist)

The 21st is also a very special day, as it's Mr. Walter Davis's BIRTHDAY! Don't forget to wish him HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

This taping we will shoot 3 shows.

Show 1 will be an interview with an astounding young man who attends Lincoln High School. Beyonte is the acting President of ARSO (African Revolutionary Student Organization). He has been responsible for bringing Immortal Technique into the school, preventing the military recruiters from preying upon our youth, and SO MUCH MORE!!! It is an honor to have him on this show!

Show 2 I will teach you how to represent yourself in the court of Law. This is called representing yourself Pro Se (or Pro Per). Knowing the "Law," is a powerful way to not only stand up for yourself and your community, but to FIGHT BACK!

Show 3 we will showcase Socially Conscious musicians! So far we have Mark Lynn and Russ performing!!! 2 more guests T.B.A.

I hope you can make it to the show, and I just want to again THANK every single one of you who has volunteered your time to make this happen. THANK YOU! I'm looking forward to seeing you out there!

Sincerely,

Chad McKinney

Peace & Love!