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Let's start treating the world's 6 billion non-Americans as equals.
By Helena Cobban, Christian Science Monitor

Washington - What kind of relationship do Americans want to build with the world's 6 billion other people in the years ahead? This question is urgent, since the past seven years have seen an unprecedented drop in our country's global favorability rating. In today's hyper-connected world, that has huge consequences for Washington's ability to protect American interests.

The Fall & Rise of American Liberalism
Media, Race, Religion & Bruce Springsteen

WEDNESDAY, April 30, 2008
12 Noon - 1:30pm (book signing to follow)
Harrison Institute Auditorium
Small Special Collections Library at the University of Virginia

American 20th-century liberalism may be poised for a comeback. Attacks from aggressive conservatives and trenchant criticism from the multicultural left have rendered consensus liberalism a shell of a political movement and a label that liberal candidates tend to shun. But is all this changing? This panel discussion will ask the following questions: What aspects of 20th-century American liberalism are inappropriate for the 21st century? Is the United States a fundamentally conservative nation? Can our fractured and hyperactive media environment foster a sense of common purpose or tolerate the deliberate temperament of liberalism? Can liberalism thrive in an increasingly diverse United States - i.e., can it contain multitudes?

Panelists:

* Angela Dillard is an associate professor of Afro-American and African Studies at the University of Michigan and author of Faith in the City: Preaching Radical Social Change in Detroit (University of Michigan Press, 2007) and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner Now?: Multicultural Conservatism in America (NYU Press, 2001).

* Eric Alterman is a Distinguished Professor of English and Journalism at Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. He is the media columnist for The Nation and the author of seven books, most recently Why We're Liberals: A Political Handbook for Post-Bush America (Viking, 2008).

* Todd Gitlin, professor of journalism and sociology and chair of the Ph. D. program in communications at Columbia University, is a sociologist, cultural analyst, and award-winning novelist. He is the author of 12 books, most recently The Bulldozer and the Big Tent: Blind Republicans, Lame Democrats, and the Recovery of American Ideals (John Wiley and Sons, 2007).

Moderated by Bruce A. Williams, professor of Media Studies at the University of Virginia and the co-author (with Michael X. Delli Carpini) of the forthcoming book, And the Walls Came Tumbling Down: The Eroding Boundaries Between News and Entertainment and What They Mean for Mediated Politics in The 21st Century

CCPJ marched in the Dogwood Parade on Saturday and was enthusiastically cheered by onlookers.

Here is a list of the sponsors of this Virginia sporting event. Is this OK with you?

Peace Studies
By 16 Blocks

The future of Norris Hall as the home of Virginia Tech's new center for peace studies and violence prevention.

Professor Jocelyne Couture-Nowak was one of the 32. Her daughter's inspired reaction to a question from the press helped change the fate of Norris Hall.

"The history was very simple. Our middle daughter, Francine, arrived from the University of British Columbia. She handled the press," said Professor Couture-Nowak's husband, Dr. Jerzy Nowak of the Department of Horticulture at Virginia Tech.

Come march with CCPJ in the Dogwood Festival Parade!

Join the fun! And march for peace and justice. It is a unique opportunity to take our message out to people who do not attend our events.

EVERYONE WELCOME. Bring your family, kids, friends, pets for peace, bicycles, tricycles, signs, balloons, drums, flags. We will have signs.

We are near the beginning of the parade: #13, so we must be ready early. Please find us and join us by 10:15 am. The parade starts at the intersection of Preston and McIntire (the corner with the County Office Building). Come to that intersection and ask a parade official where we are to be found. Last year there were many officials with clipboards in the area who had location
info.

Swami Beyondananda says he is not out to change the world. He intends to toilet train the world and never have to change it again. According to the Swami, if it's an abomination for two men to lie together, a bunch of them lying together to bomb a nation should be worse. And wait till you hear about the guy who consumes no liquids, named - of course - Pierre. Puns always intended. The Swami performed in Charlottesville recently and had them rolling in the aisles. Check him out: http://www.wakeuplaughing.com

Subcommittee on International Organizations, Human Rights, and Oversight
Bill Delahunt (D-MA), Chairman
You are respectfully requested to attend the following OPEN hearing of the Subcommittee on International Organizations, Human Rights, and Oversight, to be held in Room 2172 of the Rayburn House Office Building.
Date: Thursday, April 24, 2008
Time: 2:00 PM
Subject: War Powers for the 21st Century: The Executive Branch Perspective
witnesses:
The Honorable Brian Atwood
Dean
Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs
University of Minnesota
(Former Administrator for U.S. Agency for International Development)

The Honorable Stephen G. Rademaker
Vice President
BGR International
(Former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Arms Control)

Robert F. Turner, Esq.
Professor, General Faculty
Associate Director, Center for National Security Law
University of Virginia School of Law

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You can print the PDF flyer and post it around town!

US Congress passes new Tibet legislation, condemns China's crackdown in Tibet
International Campaign for Tibet
April 9th, 2008

At http://www.thebridgepai.com

Check it out! And check out the other work of The Bridge.

The Charlottesville, Va., City Council has passed a resolution supporting a bill in Congress that would establish a cabinet-level Department of Peace.

The campaign encouraging passage of these resolutions across the country is based at http://www.thepeacealliance.org

The Charlottesville Center for Peace and Justice supports the work of the Peace Alliance and the creation of a Department of Peace.

The Virginia Antiwar Network is encouraging everyone to stay home from work on May 1, 2008, in solidarity with the International Longshoremen's and Warehouse Workers Union's plan to shut down west coast ports in protest of the occupation of Iraq, and plans for immigrants rights demonstrations in Washington, D.C., and elsewere. Please plan to not work, and if possible join us in DC. More details to come.

We've all heard our friend Uriah J. Field's beautiful singing voice, but have you read his meditations?

CCPJ is supporting and funding the Cuba Caravan 2008. Learn more and get involved.

The Virginia Antiwar Network is meeting in Charlottesville!
2-4:30 p.m. at 609 E. Market St
Come join us in making plans for peace work in the coming months.

CCPJ has its monthly meeting:
5:45 p.m. potluck
7:00 p.m. meeting
Trinity Episcopal Church, 1042 Preston Ave
Either you're with us or you're . . . still OK, but you should come!

Learn more and sign up here:
http://www.wpaconference.org

May 22-25, 2008 Radford University, Radford, Virginia

Speakers include:

Cindy Sheehan (writer and activist; anti-war leader known as the "Peace Mom")
William Blum (blogger of "The Anti-Empire Report; author of "Rogue State" and "Killing Hope")
Kathy Kelly (of Voices in the Wilderness & Voices for Creative Non-Violence)
Michael Parenti (educator; lecturer; author of 20 books; board of judges for Project Censored; Fellow, Institute for Policy Studies, D.C.)
Medea Benjamin (Green candidate for California's U.S. Senate seat, 2000; co-founder, Code Pink and NGO Global Exchange)
Daniel Sunjata (Tony Award Nominated Actor, who stars as the Firefighter, Franco Rivera, on FOX's hit TV show "Rescue Me," and outspoken advocate of a new 9/11 investigation)
Gareth Porter (journalist for I.P.S.; Huffington Post blogger; author, "Perils of Dominance")
Alice Lovelace (poet; and organizer of the U.S. Social Forum, Atlanta, Georgia)
Mike Whitney (progressive economics web journalist)
Antonia Juhasz (author of "The Bush Agenda: Invading the World, One Economy at a Time")
Kevin Zeese (Green candidate for Maryland's U.S. Senate seat, 2006)
Reggie Cervantes (WTC Survivor Rescue Worker; nurse in Michael Moore's "Sicko")
David Rubinson (Political activist and co-founder, Stop-LossCongress.org, Music and film producer: Produced music for "Apocalypse Now," produced the film "Sugihara: Conspiracy of Kindness")
Robert Jensen (professor; University of Texas at Austin; author, "Citizens of the Empire: The Struggle to Claim our Humanity")
Michael Richards (founder of Sustainable Ecological Economic Development (S.E.E.D.) author of Sustainable Operating Systems/The Post Petrol Paradigm)
Olivia Burlingame Goumbri (of the Venezuela Information Office, Washington, D.C.)
David Swanson (Washington Director of Democrats.com and ImpeachPAC.org; co-founder, AfterDowningStreet.org).
Dahlia Wasfi (Iraqi American M.D. and anti-war activist)
Gary Corseri (poet, teacher, dramatist, novelist, editor, journalist, activist)
William E. Douglas (Founder of the National 911Visibility Project, past National Outreach Director of 911Truth.org, Columnist & Author of The Amateur Parent - A Book on Life, Death, War & Peace ...)
Gordon Soderberg (founding member of New Orleans Voices for Peace)
Sunsara Taylor (Writer, Revolution Newspaper; Advisory Board, The World Can't Wait -- Drive Out the Bush Regime!)
Bruce Gagnon (Co-founder and Coordinator of the Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space)
Rev. Lennox Yearwood (minister; activist; CEO of the Hip Hop Caucus; former White House intern)
Cathy Garger (freelance writer, anti-war activist, and anti-Depleted Uranium activist)
Adam Kokesh (leader of Iraq Veterans Against War and co-organizer, Winter Soldier)
Ravi Batra (author of more than 20 books, including "The Crash of the Millennium: Surviving the Coming Inflationary Depression" and "Greenspan's Fraud." Professor of Economics, Southern Methodist University)
Farid Bitar (poet; musician; composer of "Fatoosh" CD.)
J.W. Smith (author of "Economic Democracy: The Political Struggle of the Twenty-first Century" and Director, Institute for Economic Democracy)
Father Roy Bourgeois (Founder / Director, SOA Watch)
George Wallace (poet; editor, poetrybay.com; essayist, "John Reed and the Poetry of Protest and Praise"; activist)
Freeman Wicklund (founder, Mercy for Animals)
Ramzy Baroud (author, "The Second Palestinian Intifada" and Editor, Palestine Chronicle.
Gideon Levy (Israeli journalist for "Ha'aretz" and other publications)
Max Kantar (freelance writer and public advocate)
Erin Williams (U.S. Humane Society and author)
Sara Thomsen (singer-songwriter, activist, community song rouser, composer of "Is It For Freedom")
Adam Engel (poet and web author)
David Ray Griffin (Primordial Truth and Postmodern Theology; Religion and Scientific Naturalism; Christian Faith and the Truth Behind 9/11: A Call to Reflection and Action; 9/11 Contradictions)
Joel Hirschhorn (author of "Delusional Democracy")
William Woodward (professor of psychology; 9/11 truth investigator; Quaker peace activist)
Susan Thomas (Professor of Political Science and Women's Studies, Hollins University; animal rights activist.
Mike Curtis (long-time teacher: Henry George theory; Trustee: Single Tax Village of Arden)
Glen Martin (professor, Radford University; Secretary-General of World Constitution and Parliament Association)
Garda Ghista (freelance journalist, author of "The Gujarat Genocide," and Founding President, World Prout Assembly)
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