On Saturday, July 10, 2010, the CSRA Peace Alliance invites area activists to the Inaugural Peace Retreat.

Note that this event has been rescheduled from July 13 to August 10, 2010.

Come hear a presentation on how people in today’s United States are suffering in slavery and what you can do to help.

Chrissy White has been actively involved in doing advocacy work for Human Trafficking Awareness since 2006. She began doing volunteer work as a Public Relations Officer for Psalms, an advocacy group formerly Psalms Ministries, in Easley, SC. She then went on to host lectures, a film series, and presentations on Human Trafficking at Greenville Technical College where she also studied at. She received training on Human Trafficking from the Carolina Policing Institute and is now serving as the Assistant Organizer for the South Carolina Stop Human Trafficking meet up group, based in Greenville, SC. She currently works at a group home for abused, neglected, and exploited teens. Chrissy recently moved to Columbia, SC and is looking forward to continuing her advocacy work in the Midlands.

Ms. White will give an introduction to sex trafficking and labor trafficking, with their definitions and statistics revealing their extent. We will then watch a short film depicting human trafficking. Then we will have a short Q&A discussion about the film and closing remarks by Ms. White.

Ms. White will have a visual display of poster boards and literature from Rescue and Restore.

The goal of the presentation is to define and inform the audience on sex and labor trafficking, discuss local issues that relate to it, and inform the audience about how they can get involved in advocating against human trafficking.

The event begins at 7 pm on Tuesday, August 10, at the Wallace Library on Laney Walker Blvd in Augusta, GA.

CSRA Peace Alliance member Anibal Ibarra took some footage of Augusta Pride Day on June 19, 2010. The video is 7:27 minutes long. At about 1:40, there’s an interview with the mother of young man who was murdered in Greenville, SC in 2007 because he was gay. At the end of the video, Anibal has still shots which show the CSRA Peace Alliance booth.

Double feature!!!

Screening of documentary “Mesalla: Iraqi Activists for NonViolence.”

This documentary follows Iraqis in 2006 who organized under the banner of LaOnf, “nonviolence.”

This documentary is distributed in the United States by September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows.

The documentary is almost 50 minutes long.

The event begins at 7 pm on Tuesday, July 13, at the Wallace Library on Laney Walker Blvd in Augusta, GA.

2nd feature to begin immediately afterwards

The Response

“The Response” is a courtroom drama based upon the actual transcripts of the Guantanamo military tribunals - Combatant Status Review Tribunals (CSRTs). It stars Kate Mulgrew (Star Trek), Peter Riegert (Animal House), and Aasif Mandvi (The Daily Show). It has been screened at the Pentagon, the DoJ, West Point, at law schools and universities across the country, and most recently on Capitol Hill for members of Congress and their staffers.
It is 30 minutes long.

June 7, 2010, 7 pm, Aiken Unitarian Universalist Church

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Flier and handbill

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Pictures from the event:

More pictures from the event on the Think Outside the Bomb National Roadshow blog.

Video of the puppet show!

Think Outside the Bomb Puppet Show with Mr. Lab from CSRA Peace on Vimeo.

What: Screening of Film “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo”

When: Tuesday, June 8, 2010 7:00 PM

Where:
Inner Bean Cafe
139 Davis Rd
Augusta, GA 30907
(706) 364-3752

***Flash: Producer Andy Worthington is scheduled to call to give an update and answer questions at 8:30 pm after the screening. ***

The film is by Andy Worthington, a journalist and historian, based in London. He is the author of The Guantánamo Files, the first book to tell the stories of all the detainees in America’s illegal prison (published by Pluto Press/Palgrave Macmillan), and the co-director (with Polly Nash) of the new documentary film, Outside the Law: Stories from Guantanamo. For more information, visit his blog at http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/.

For information about the film, visit http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/outside-the-law-stories-from-guantanamo/.

Learn more here:
http://www.meetup.com/CSRA-Peace-Alliance/calendar/13582255/

Excellent presentation by Joey Traina on how the Peace in the Streets campaign can reduce violence.

Video courtesy of Anibal Ibarra

After losing her son Spec Darius Jennings in Iraq, Elaine Johnson became active with Gold Star Mothers for Peace and a vocal critic of the Iraq War. She founded the Darius Jennings Charitable Foundation to continue her son’s dream of working with youth. She is also active with TAPS (Tragedy Assistance Programs for Survivors) and plans to travel to Iraq with FUTURE (Families United Toward Universal Respect).

Free to the public. Donations benefiting Elaine Johnson’s trip to Iraq accepted.

Preceded by an Aiken Peace business meeting at 6:30 PM.

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Matthew Bosisio, Ayman Fadel, Anibal Ibarra and Denice Traina represented the CSRA Peace Alliance at the May 1 immigrants’ rights rally in Atlanta.

Here are some pictures, courtesy of Azita Ebrahimi.

Here are some pictures from Matthew Bosisio and Ayman Fadel.

Video courtesy of Anibal Ibarra: