Solitary Confinement: Torture in Your Backyard

Torture.  It’s not just something that happened at Abu Ghraib or in secret prison sites tucked away in distant countries.  It’s happening now.  It’s happening in prisons on U.S. soil.  Prolonged solitary confinement is torture in your backyard.  … read more …

Join us for the National Religious Coalition Against Torture short film Solitary Confinement: Torture in Your Backyard and listen to a panel discussion on solitary confinement. Hear from an eyewitness to the effects of solitary confinement in the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay.

Come to the Hardy Room at the Jaguar Student Activities Center at the Georgia Regents University Summerville Campus on Tuesday, April 23, 5:30 pm. Admission is free.

Share our high- and low-resolution Adobe format flyers! Print the handbill and distribute! RSVP on Facebook and invite your friends!

Report From Expose AIPAC Conference, Mar 12, 6:30 pm

Lorraine Barlett, a CSRA Peace Alliance member, attended the Expose AIPAC conference last weekend. She will report back on the conference. Her report will have important implications for activism related to preventing war with Iran, achieving peace between Israel and Palestine and the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (“drones”) abroad and domestically.

Please come on time so that we can end by 8 pm.

The host has promised some snacks :-)

The location is near the Peach Orchard Rd exit at Bobby Jones (I-520). Directions

For more information on the Expose AIPAC conference, visit http://www.occupyaipac.org/

Event picture taken from https://twitter.com/ExposeAIPAC/status/257579788401795072

RSVP on Facebook and invite your friends.

Monthly Social Gathering – Sat, Apr 6, 6:30 pm

Cake Eaters for Peace

We’re starting a monthly social gathering. The date we’ve selected is the Saturday after the first Friday of each month. The location we’ve selected is The Boll Weevil restaurant at 10 Ninth Street, Augusta, GA 30901. Our time is 6:30 pm, late enough in the day for you to get your errands done and early enough for your to spend some time with us before your Saturday night soiree.

There’s no minimum food order or admission price, but consider ordering something and please leave a tip for the server proportional to the amount of time you stay.

You don’t have to be a member of our organization or agree with everything we’ve done. If you like peace and want to hang out for a while, just come and hang out.

So join us Saturday, April 6, at 6:30 pm! RSVP on Facebook and invite your friends

Upcoming Events, November 27 through January

November 27, 6:30 pm, Aiken Peace’s Annual Holiday Party

Please bring a potluck dish, enjoy food & discussion as we celebrate “Peace on Earth” and plan to do our small part in making that a reality! Share event on Facebook Unitarian Universalist Church, 115 Gregg Ave, Aiken, SC 29801

Aiken Peace Vigil, Monday December 3 & December 17

Regular vigil 1st & 3rd Mondays of each month from 4:30-6:00pm at Intersection of Hitchcock Dr and Whiskey Rd. Across the street from Moe’s Southwest Grill and near Bethlehem Lutheran Church.

Alternative New Year, December 30-January 1, St. Mary’s, Georgia

A gathering of the peace community featuring a New Year’s Eve midnight vigil at the gates of King’s Bay Trident ballistic missile submarine base. The Trident missile & sub is a budget-busting holdover from the Cold War that should be retired. Join us as we call for nuclear disarmament, remember the year past, and recreate & reenergize to work for peace & nonviolence in the new year! Complete details on Facebook
Lorraine Barlett to Speak on Human Rights, Dec 9, 11 am
Augusta resident and CSRA Peace Alliance Member Lorraine Barlett has first-hand experience with the military tribunals at Guantánamo Naval Base in Cuba. At the worship service of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Augusta, on December 9, Lorraine will share some of those experiences in the context of the value of human rights. It is open to the public. 3501 Walton Way Extension, Augusta, GA 30909
General Body Meeting of CSRA Peace Alliance, January 8, 2013, Wallace Branch Library, 7-9pm
Wallace Branch Library, 1237 Laney Walker Blvd., Augusta, GA 30901. More details to come, but mark your calendars. 1st part is a program, 2nd part is business meeting. On business meeting agenda are affiliation with Carolina Peace Resource Center and proposals for changing decision-making process within organization. Share on Facebook

Other events of interest in Augusta

December 1 Rally to Stop Violence in North Augusta, SC

December 6, Move to Amend Spokesperson David Cobb, 6:30pm
On Thursday, Dec 6, at the Augusta Richmond County Main Library, 823 Telfair St. , Augusta, Ga. 30901
MOVE TO AMEND spokesperson David Cobb will share the vision of the MOVE TO AMEND Coalition calling for reversal of the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision that allows corporations the same rights as human beings and defines the use of money to equal that of free speech. Join us for a discussion of this important ruling which affects all of us and our right to participate in our pursuit of a democracy. Contact- 706 364 7861. Share on Facebook

Help with Reading of Play Based on Trial of Peace Activists in Nevada

Ground the Drones is a “redacted and only slightly edited from the original courtroom transcripts of the trial of fourteen activists arrested at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada while protesting the use of robotic “unmanned aerial vehicles,” drones, for extrajudicial executions in Afghanistan and Pakistan.”

The CSRA Peace Alliance looks forward to presenting a reading of this play in Augusta. We need your help!

  • Can you help us secure a venue? Note that there is no need for a stage, and the set is simple. Nor are costumes necessary.
  • Are you a thespian? Would you like to be one of the readers performing?

Please contact CSRA Peace and help us bring this exciting story of peace activists upholding the law in an effort to stop the illegal drone killings.

Ann Wright Schedule on Nov 19 in CSRA

On the Monday before Thanksgiving, November 19, Col Ann Wright is scheduled to make two public appearances. Admission is free.

At 1:00 pm, come to the USC-Aiken Humanities & Social Sciences (H&SS) building, Room 116. Park in Lot B or Lot D, in the spaces with white lines. Printable Campus Map Share on Facebook

At 6:30 pm, Col Wright is scheduled to speak at the Headquarters Library at 823 Telfair St, Augusta, GA. Share on Facebook

At each event, copies of her 2008 book Voices of Conscience will be on sale for $20.

 

Nov 13 – The Costs of War: Iraqi Refugees in Jordan

The next meeting of the CSRA Peace Alliance is at the Wallace Branch Library at 1237 Laney-Walker Blvd, Augusta, GA on Tuesday, November 13, at 7 pm. Don’t go to the Headquarters Library on Telfair St!

At 7 pm, Ayman Fadel will present stories of Iraqi refugees in Jordan. A Japanese relief worker sends Ayman stories and pictures of Iraqi refugees in Amman, Jordan to put into a blog format.

This presentation should last about a half-hour. A business meeting of the organization immediately follows.

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