Women Against Military Madness

United Nations Commission on the Status of Women Workshop
2024-03-13 17:30 - 18:30 (America/Chicago) | Online Event
Wednesday, March 13, 2024, 5:30 PM, Online, Click to register
Ending the US Government Blockade: The Road to Full Equality for Cuban Women. Join us virtually to celebrate the 68th session of the commission on the status of women. Meet with The Federation of Cuban Women to join our work to end the US blockade now!

Witness for Peace Virtual Recruitment
2024-03-14 18:30 - 19:30 | Online Event
Thursday, March 14, 2024, 6:30 PM, Online, Click to register
Join our Havana-based team to answer questions about traveling to Cuba on a Witness for Peace delegation. Learn how you can build solidarity with the Cuban people and help end the US blockade.

Protest Outside DFL Dinner!
2024-03-15 17:30 - 19:00 | St Paul Rivercentre, 175 Kellogg Blvd, St Paul, MN, 55102, United States
🚨 PROTEST OUTSIDE THE DFL DINNER 🚨
The DFL will be holding a fundraising dinner THIS FRIDAY (3/15), which will feature genocide apologists Amy Klobuchar, Tina Smith, among other high profile Democrat Party leaders!
Bring your noisemakers, instruments, and voices and join us for a protest to say NO to the slaughter of Gaza! 📣
📆 Friday, March 15th
🕜 5:30-7 PM
📍 St. Paul rivercentre (175 Kellogg Blvd, St. Paul, MN)
🥪 *The protest will conclude by 7 PM to accommodate folks fasting for Ramadan, but we will also have refreshments for protestors to break their fasts with if they choose to stay late.

Gaza in Context: Past, Present and Future
2024-03-16 10:00 - 11:30 | Online Event
Saturday, March 16, 2024, 10:00 AM, Online, Click here to register

Nathan will discuss Gaza and its context in the present war with Israel. He will talk about the political parties in Palestine and their role in Palestinian governance. He has a wealth of personal experience from his time living and working in Gaza during the second intifada. Nathan Stock is a non-resident scholar at the Middle East Institute. Prior to joining MEI he spent nine years working for former President Carter’s organization, The Carter Center. He then moved to Jerusalem to run the Center’s Israel-Palestine Field Office. Stock led Carter Center efforts to facilitate the reunification of the Palestinian political system and designed and managed projects targeting the Fatah-Hamas conflict. During the Al-Aqsa Intifada, he lived in the Gaza Strip, working with a Palestinian NGO to design and fundraise for conflict resolution programs targeting the Palestinian community.

Please email mepn@mepn.org with any questions.

Teach-In on Cuba
2024-03-16 11:00 - 13:00 | Online Event
Saturday, March 16, 2024, 11:00 AM CST, Online, Click here for webinar ZOOM link
A Delegation of dynamic Cuban speakers from the Federation of Cuban Women (FMC). the National Union of Cuban Jurists (UNJC) , and the Cuban Institute of Friendship With the Peoples (ICAP) who are in NYC for the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women — CSW68 (2024) — from March 11 through March 21.
Organized by International US-Cuba Normalization Conference Coalition, More info on the program at https://us-cubanormalization.org/nyc-fmc/

General Dynamics: End Complicity in Genocide!
2024-03-16 13:00 - 14:30 | 8800 Penn Ave S, 8800 Penn Ave S, Bloomington, MN, 55431, United States
Saturday, March 16, 2024, 1:00 pm, 8800 Penn Ave S, Bloomington, MN
General Dynamics is one of the world’s largest weapons companies. According to @afsc_org, “General Dynamics supplies the Israeli military with a wide variety of weapons, including various bombs. The company’s technologies are also integrated into Israel’s main weapon systems, including fighter jets and armored combat vehicles.”General Dynamics’s facility in Bloomington, MN develops weapons guidance systems as well as what it calls “information dominance” technology. The State of Minnesota has over $30 million in public pension funds invested in General Dynamics.Organized by @mnpeaceaction (MPAC), Normandale Students for Palestine, and @bloomingtonforpalestine

Voices from the Holy Land Online Film Salon: "Israeli Apartheid in Action: Water Control"
2024-03-17 14:00 - 15:00 | Online Event
Sunday, March 17, 2024, 2:00 pm, Online, Click here to register
Controlling the supply, distribution, and cost of water to an occupied people is apartheid in action. Israel, through legal and illegal means, maintains near-complete control over the region’s freshwater aquifers, severely restricting Palestinians’ abilities to drill wells, install pumps, build water tanks, or even collect rainwater. The average Israeli consumes over 3 times the water used by each Palestinian on the water grid in the West Bank (9 times the water used by those off the grid). West Bank Palestinians pay 1/3 or more of their income to Israeli companies for drinking water. Meanwhile, Gazans are now consuming less than 3 liters per day—hardly enough for survival.
VFHL offers three short videos describing the “hydropolitics” and structural water apartheid in the Holy Land. Our panel discussion will explore designed inequalities in water distribution; the physical, economic and regulatory controls; as well as the ecological problems of pollution and over-extraction.
Register below and join us on March 17 at 2:00 PM Central for a discussion of the water crisis throughout Palestine, with:
– Nancy Murray – Co-founder of Alliance for Water Justice in Palestine
– Mazin Qumsiyeh – Director of the Palestine Institute for Biodiversity and Sustainability
– Eyal Hareuveni – Author of “Parched: Israel’s Policy of Water Deprivation in the West Bank”
Our moderator will be Jeff Halper, Israeli-American anthropologist, author, lecturer, and political activist; founder of Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD) and a co-founder of The One Democratic State Campaign (ODSC)(invited).
NOTE: After you register, you will immediately get an Approved response – BUT then look in your email for an email From: Zoom with the word “Confirmation” at the end of the subject line…there you’ll find the link and password to watch the film in advance of the Salon event. Watch the “Parched” trailer: http://tinyurl.com/VFHL-March2024Trailer

Amy Klobuchar, come share the PEACE our faith demands
2024-03-18 17:00 - 18:00 | Senator Amy Klobuchar’s Minneapolis Office, 1200 S Washington Ave, Minneapolis, 55415-1227, United States
Monday, March 18, 2024, 5:00 PM, 1200 Washington Ave S, MPLS
Christians for a Free Palestine is calling for a day of Christian-led actions at the offices of elected officials who continue to fund this genocide. We in Minneapolis are proud to participate! On March 18, we will use our public voice and our collective power to advocate for peace and demand an immediate ceasefire at the office of Amy Klobuchar. We will gather in community, sing loudly, reflect together about what our spirituality demands of us in this moment, and invite our political leaders to do the same. Bring your signs, your broken heart, and your singing voice!
In the face of Christian Zionism, using our faith to cheer on this genocide, Christians have a responsibility to use our voices as powerfully as possible for the cause of peace and justice. During this Lenten season, we are taking public action as Christians to grieve the ongoing violence, challenge Christian Zionism, and advocate for a ceasefire and an end to Israeli Apartheid.
https://actionnetwork.org/events/amy-klobuchar-come-share-the-peace-our-faith-demands?source=direct_link&

Twin Cities Gaza Ceasefire Pilgrimage
2024-03-23 06:00 - 20:00 | Brooklyn Park River Park, 101 83rd Ave. N., Brooklyn Park, MN, 55444, United States
Saturday, March 23, 2024, 6:00 AM – 8:00 PM, Starting point at Brooklyn Park River Park
This Lent, a global movement is walking in prayerful solidarity with the people of Gaza.
On Saturday, March 23rd, come walk, pray, and sing with us as we journey along the Mississippi.
View the full event page here: https://www.peacecatalyst.org/gcpilgrimage
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Want to walk with us? Register here: https://forms.gle/N6jM4GJa281DRuFr5
Want to volunteer? Sign up here: https://forms.gle/pTfbHhAxFSLKGkhj7
Does your church or organization want to sponsor? Sign up here: https://forms.gle/DREX9aSC5N3y75SJ9
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The Pilgrimage Route:
Map of route from Brooklyn Park River Park to Savage Nature Center near Bdote: https://maps.app.goo.gl/VgbagWAdHUBR3z627
The Twin Cities Gaza Ceasefire Pilgrimage will begin at sunrise at Brooklyn Park River Park and head south along the Mississippi River. Our prayerful, nonviolent walk will follow paved, accessible paths along River Road, making stops at Kroening Nature Center, Boom Island Park, Minnehaha Falls, and churches along the route. At times the route will cross over the Mississippi, staying near the river as a reminder of the Gazan coast.
The pilgrimage will end near Bdote, the confluence of the Mississippi and Minnesota Rivers. This site is not only sacred to the Dakota people as the location of the Dakota creation story; it is also a site of historic trauma, where many Dakota were interned and died in a concentration camp following the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862. The sacred Indigenous sites along the route are a reminder that our pilgrimage takes place against a backdrop of violent settler colonialism perpetrated by European Americans in the United States. As we journey in solidarity with Gaza, we also recommit ourselves to the work of healing justice with the Indigenous people of Mni Sota Makoce.
The full Twin Cities pilgrimage route approximates the mere 22 miles from Gaza City in the north of Gaza, to Rafah in the south. Hundreds of thousands of Gazan civilians were forced to navigate this distance last fall, fleeing violence and following Israel’s false promise of safety from bombardment and combat. Our pilgrimage will take the full day until sunset to allow time for breaks, prayer and song, meals, and the inclusion of people of all abilities and ages.
This route brings home the geography of the horror taking place in Gaza, where only the distance between Brooklyn Park and Fort Snelling encompasses the entire geographic area of Gaza. In a single day, our pilgrimage and our bodies will map the reality that no place within Gaza is safe for the 2 million displaced civilians surviving without shelter from aggression and deprivation for the past 140+ days.
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Schedule (subject to change):
– 6am — Gather
– 6:30am-7am — Sunrise Service at Brooklyn Park River Park
– 7am-9am — Brooklyn Park River Park to Carl W. Kroening Nature Center (4.7 miles)
– 9:30am-11:30am — Kroening Nature Center to Boom Island Park (4.2 miles)
– 11:45am-1:30pm — Boom Island Park to Faith Mennonite Church (4 miles)
– 1:30pm-2:30pm — Singing and Lunch for Pilgrims at Faith Mennonite Church
– 2:30pm-3:30pm — Faith Mennonite Church to 176 N Mississippi River Blvd, St. Paul (2.1 miles)
– 3:30pm-3:45pm — Activity at 176 N Mississippi River Blvd
– 3:45pm-5:15pm — 176 N Mississippi River Blvd to Minnehaha Falls (3.3 miles)
– 5:45pm-7pm — Minnehaha Falls to Thomas C. Savage Visitor Center, Ft. Snelling (2.7 miles)
– 7pm-8pm — Closing Ceremony and Food — Thomas C. Savage Visitor Center, Ft. Snelling
Join us for the whole journey, a section of the journey, or at stops along the way!
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What do we want:
1. Enduring and Sustained Ceasefire.
2. Immediate flow of life saving food, water, aid, fuel and humanitarian assistance.
3. Release of all hostages – both the Israeli hostages held by Hamas – and the Palestinian hostages held in the Israeli prison system.
4. End of occupation so a just-peace can begin.
For more information on the global movement, visit https://www.gazaceasefirepilgrimage.com/

WAMM 2024 Annual Meeting
2024-03-23 09:30 - 12:00 | New City Center, 3104 16th Ave So, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Mark your calendars for our Annual Meeting!
WAMM 2024 Annual Meeting: March 23, 9:30 AM – 12:00 PM, Walker Community Church, 3104 16th Ave S, Minneapolis, MN
Free and open to the public! Our program this year will include a light breakfast at 9:30 AM, guest speakers from American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) and Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP), and our Annual Business Meeting to elect/re-elect Board members. Come to the Annual Meeting to visit action group tables, catch up with old friends and make new friends!
Volunteer opportunities available, contact us if you’re interested!

Interfaith Vigil + Rally for Palestine
2024-03-23 15:00 - 17:00 | Eastcliff, 176 N Mississippi River Blvd, St Paul, MN, 55104, United States
Saturday, March 23, 2024, 3:15 pm, Eastcliff Mansion, 176 N Mississippi River Blvd, St Paul
THIS SATURDAY! Christians and friends are walking 22 miles along the Mississippi in prayerful solidarity with the people of Gaza.
Meet them on their way outside Gov. Walz’s current residence for an interfaith vigil + rally at 3:15 pm this Saturday, March 23, in collaboration with the Free Palestine Coalition. #gcpilgrimages

In Support of Palestinian Liberation Lecture
2024-03-29 15:00 - 17:00 | Willey Hall, 225 S 19th Ave, Minneapolis, MN, 55455, United States
Friday, March 29, 2024, 3:00 – 5:00 PM, Room 125 in Wiley Hall, 225 S 19th Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55455
UMN Educators for Justice in Palestine (EJP) in collaboration with the National Lawyers Guild and the MN Free Palestine Coalition has organized a lecture by the Palestinian-Amnerican attorney and human rights activist, Huwaida Arraf.

An internationally-known activist, Huwaida has been involved in a number of legal and grassroots initiatives for Palestinian rights in the past two decades. In 2001, she co-founded the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), a Palestinian-led non-violent resistance movement, which has twice been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. From 2007-2008, Huwaida helped build the first accredited clinical legal education program in the Arab world, based at Al-Quds University. She was one of the initiators and organizers of the first delegation of lawyers to enter Gaza following Operation Cast Lead (2008-2009), and co-authored the report on their findings, “Onslaught: Israel’s Attack on Gaza and the Rule of Law.” Huwaida is the former Chairperson of the Free Gaza Movement, and from August to December 2008, led 5 successful sea voyages to the Gaza Strip to confront and challenge Israel’s illegal blockade on the 2 million Palestinians living there. She was one of the primary organizers of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla and was traveling with it when it was lethally attacked by Israeli forces on 31 May 2010. In 2011, she was one of the six Palestinian Freedom Riders, who, inspired by the U.S. Civil Rights Movement’s Freedom Rides of the 1960s, attempted to ride segregated Israeli settler public transport, for which they were harassed then violently arrested.
Huwaida is currently based in Michigan where she practices civil rights law and continues to devote much of her time to activism on Palestine and other human rights and social justice issues. She is the co-chair of the National Lawyers Guild Palestine Subcommittee, and sits on a number of organizational boards, including New Generation for Palestine, Eyewitness Palestine and the Advisory Board of the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights. In 2020 she served as a Bernie Sanders delegate to the Democratic National Convention.

Land Day Protest & March
2024-03-30 14:00 - 16:00 | Dean Parkway, 2707 W Lake St, Minneapolis, MN, 55416, United States
📣 LAND DAY PROTEST AND MARCH, Saturday, March 30, 2024, 2:00 pm, Dean Parkway across from 2707 West Lake St, Minneapolis (Bde Maka Ska Playground)
On March 30, 1976 Israeli police shot and killed six Palestinians as they were protesting the Israeli government’s stealing of their land. Since then, March 30 has been known as Land Day, a day symbolizing the Palestinian fight for reclamation of their home ✊🇵🇸
🗝️ Then, on Land Day in 2018, hundreds of Gazans marched along the border of Gaza in what became the Great March of Return, and over 5,000 were shot and injured by IDF snipers.
Join us for a powerful march to demand land back, an end of apartheid, and commemorate the march of return. 🔥🙏
📍Dean Parkway across from 2707 West Lake St, Minneapolis (Bde Maka Ska Playground)
📅 Saturday, March 30th
🕜 2 PM
🎤 SPECIAL GUEST SPEAKER: Huwaida Arraf!
Huwaida is a Palestinian-American activist, lawyer and co-founder of the International Solidarity Movement. 🇵🇸🇵🇸

Should the Leaky Monticello reactor on the Mississippi run for 80 Years?
2024-03-30 15:00 - 16:00 | Mayday Bookstore, 301 Cedar Ave S., Minneapolis, MN, 55454
Saturday, March 30, 2024, 3:00 PM, MayDay Books, 301 Cedar Ave
Presentation at Mayday Books (301 Cedar Ave., Mpls., MN 55454)

SATURDAY, MARCH 30, 3 P.M. Should the Leaky Monticello reactor on the Mississippi run for 80 Years?

Nukewatch co-director John LaForge discusses Monticello’s radioactive groundwater contamination,and Xcel’s current appeal for a 20-year license extension.

Endorsed by End War Committee

2024 National Lawyers Guild Social Justice Dinner
2024-03-30 18:00 - 21:00 | New City Center, 3104 16th Ave So, Minneapolis, Minnesota
2024 National Lawyers Guild Social Justice Dinner
“Defending the People’s Movements – From George Floyd Square, to the Gichi Ziibi, to Palestine”
Saturday March 30, 2024 – 6:00 – 9:00 p.m.
Walker Community Church – 3104 16th Ave S, Mpls MN 55407
𝑲𝒆𝒚𝒏𝒐𝒕𝒆 𝑺𝒑𝒆𝒂𝒌𝒆𝒓: Huwaida Arraf – Palestinian-American activist and lawyer; co-founder of International Solidarity Movement
𝑪𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒖𝒏𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝑱𝒖𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒆 𝑨𝒘𝒂𝒓𝒅: East Phillips Neighborhood Institute and the Roof Depot Movement
𝑷𝒂𝒖𝒍 𝑴𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒐 𝑷𝒆𝒐𝒑𝒍𝒆’𝒔 𝑳𝒂𝒘𝒚𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝑨𝒘𝒂𝒓𝒅: Mass Defense Legal Workers and Attorneys
Join us for an evening of sumptuous Palestinian food, inspiring speakers and recognition for those doing crucial social justice work. Come together to celebrate our commitment to fighting “in the service of the people, to the end that human rights shall be regarded as more sacred than property interests.”

In recognition of Ramadan, dinner will be served after sunset.

Vigil to End War
2024-04-03 17:00 - 18:00 | Lake Street/Marshall Avenue Bridge over the Mississippi River, 4998-4800 E Lake Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55407, United States
The Vigil to End War is sponsored by the WAMM End War Committee (EWC).
The EWC is dedicated to ending U.S. involvement in war, the threats of war, and the production, sale and use of the weapons of war.
Please wear a mask and maintain social distance!
Every Wednesday at the the Lake Street/Marshall Avenue Bridge
4:00 pm – 5:00 pm (After April 3, 2024 – 5:00-6:00 PM)
Signs provided or bring your own. Check the WAMM calendar and Facebook events pages for special themes for the day!
Sponsored by the End War Committee
In 1999, WAMM’s End War Committee partnered with other local activist groups to initiate a weekly vigil on the Lake Street and Marshal Avenue bridge in St.Paul. Originally in response to the U.S. and NATO bombings in Yugoslavia, the vigil has continued weekly with different U.S. sanctions, interventions, and wars to protest. Every Wednesday for over 20 years—rain, shine or below zero temps—activists in the Twin Cities have gathered to stand in solidarity with all those affected by U.S. militarism and to call for peace.

RALLY: WEAPONS COMPANIES OUT OF MAPLE GROVE!
2024-04-04 17:30 - 19:00 | 11915 Elm Creek Blvd, 11915 Elm Creek Blvd, Maple Grove, MN, 55369, United States
🇵🇸Rally: Weapons companies out of Maple Grove!🇵🇸
🚫BAE Systems not welcome here!
⏰Thursday, April 4 at 5:30 p.m.
📍11915 Elm Creek Blvd, Maple Grove – park at BMO Bank, rally outside of “The Shoppes at Arbor Lakes” sign.
Organized by the Free Palestine Coalition.ne

UNAC Conference 2024: “Decolonization & The Fight Against Imperialism”
2024-04-05 - 2024-04-07 | InterContinental St Paul Riverfront, 11 E Kellogg Blvd, St Paul, MN, 55101, United States
Friday April 5 – Sunday April 7, 2024, InterContinental Saint Paul Riverfront Hotel, 11 E Kellogg Blvd, St Paul, MN 55101
The United National Antiwar Coalition (UNAC) invites progressive & anti-war forces to come together as a movement to assess the period we are in and plan for the future. The horrific events in Gaza, the imperialist debacle in Ukraine, & the threats aimed at China show us that the U.S. targets any country that will not accept its domination. We must organize to fight back.
UNAC Conference 2024: “Decolonization & The Fight Against Imperialism”
🗓️April 5-7
📍St. Paul, Minnesota
Click here for the registration link at UNACconference2024.org
Participants include (partial list):
Black Alliance for Peace @blackallianceforpeace
U.S. Palestinian Community Network @uspcn
BAYAN-USA @bayan_usa
Popular Resistance @popularresistance
International Action Center @international_action_center
Veterans for Peace @veteransforpeace
CODEPINK @codepinkalert
Black is Back Coalition for Social Justice @blackisbackcoalition
Students for a Democratic Society @nationalsds
Ban Killer Drones @bankillerdrones
Sanctions Kill Campaign @sanctions_kill
International League of People’s Struggle @ilps.us
Women Against Military Madness @wamm_mn
MN Anti-War Committee @antiwarmn
Margaret Kimberley/Black Agenda Report @margaretfreedom
Bronx Antiwar Coalition @bxantiwar
AND MANY MORE!

A Life on Our Planet Film Screening
2024-04-08 19:00 - 21:00 | 4200 Cedar Ave S, Minneapolis MN 55407, 4200 Cedar Ave S, Minneapolis, MN, 55407, United States
WAMM SECOND MONDAY MOVIES PRESENTS…
David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet
Monday, April 8, 2024, 7:00 pm, 4200 Cedar Ave S

In 2020, world-renowned naturalist David Attenborough released a new film: A Life on Our Planet, which he calls his “witness statement” for the environment. The film traces his 60 year career, outlining how steeply the health of the planet has declined in his lifetime. It also makes grim predictions for the future should humanity continue on its current path…However, Attenborough describes actions which could prevent these effects and combat climate change and biodiversity loss. He asserts that the solution has been “staring us in the face all along”.

Directors: Alastair Fothergill, Jonnie Hughes, Keith Scholey
Narrator: David Attenborough
Altitude Film Entertainment, Netflix, Silverback Films | UK | 2020

Connecting the dots…discussion
Always FREE and open to the public
ALL ARE WELCOME! Free refreshments!
Sponsored by the WAMM Movie Committee

Tell Walz to Shut Down Smith Foundry
2024-04-11 17:30 - 18:30 | Eastcliff, 176 N Mississippi River Blvd, St Paul, MN, 55104, United States
Thursday, April 11, 2024, 5:30 pm, Eastcliff, 176 N Mississippi River Blvd , St Paul, MN
Rally and Press Conference at the governor’s residence
Smith has been polluting East Philips for decades. It’s blatant environmental racism: foundries would never be allowed in affluent white neighborhoods. Walz could put his weight behind shutting down Smith at any time through bills like HF 4231 + SF 4316 that would kill the grandfathered permits for polluters like Smith & St Paul Brass, but he believes avoiding controversy in an election year is more important than the health of our communities. Tell Walz that he and the MN Pollution Control Agency need to do their jobs and SHUT DOWN SMITH FOUNDRY
Organized by Climate Justice Committee, Sponsored by EMMAE

WAMM Art Build - Banner + Sign Making for Gaza
2024-04-14 14:00 - 16:00 | 4200 Cedar Ave S, Minneapolis MN 55407, 4200 Cedar Ave S, Minneapolis, MN, 55407, United States
Sunday, April 14, 2024, 2:00 – 4:00 PM, 4200 Cedar Ave S, MPLS
To follow up with new WAMM members and volunteers from our New Members Meeting, we encourage all of you as well as your friends/family/interested strangers to join us for an art build! The fight for Gaza’s freedom is not slowing down anytime soon, and being prepared for future emergency protests is always important. We are planning to lay out a banner or two to paint in the main room, as well as make signs. Snacks will be provided as well as all materials, so no need to bring anything except yourself and a buddy!
Organized by the WAMM Membership Committee

25th Anniversary Bridge Vigil
2024-04-17 17:00 - 20:00 | Lake Street/Marshall Avenue Bridge over the Mississippi River, 4998-4800 E Lake Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55407, United States
Wednesday, April 17th, 2024
5:00 – 6:00 pm: At the Lake St/Marshall Ave bridge
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm: St. Albert the Great Church, 3216 29th St. E., Minneapolis
Join us for the 25th Anniversary of the Lake Street/Marshall Ave. Peace Bridge Vigil! Organized by the End War Committee, saying no to militarism for 25 years!
Wednesday April 17, 2024
Bridge time 5 to 6 pm, followed by music and program at St. Albert the Great Church, 3216 29th St. E., Minneapolis

Pizza will be provided.

Senator Klobuchar: Take Cuba off the U.S. State Sponsors of Terrorism List!
2024-04-18 16:00 - 17:00 | Senator Amy Klobuchar’s Minneapolis Office, 1200 S Washington Ave, Minneapolis, 55415-1227, United States
DEMAND! Senator Klobuchar: Take Cuba off the U.S. State Sponsors of Terrorism List!

Protest at Klobuchar’s office!
Thursday, April 18, 2024, 4:00 PM to 5:00 pm, 1200 Washington Avenue South Minneapolis, MN 55415

We are gathering at Senator Amy Klobuchar’s office to call on her to advocate with President Biden to take Cuba off the list of U.S. State Sponsors of Terrorism list.
This listing and sanctions on Cubans causes pain and suffering to the Cuban people. We need to normalize relations with our neighboring country.
>>>>Join us to deliver petitions to Senator Klobuchar’s office.<<<<
The United States under Trump put Cuba on a list of few countries that are designated as State Sponsors of Terrorism. This was after the Obama administration took Cuba off the list because it did not meet the criteria and was an impediment to diplomatic normalization.
The list is used as a way for the US to punish countries that it is in conflict with. Cuba was put on the list by Trump without providing any reasonable justification for doing this.
This designation has harmed the people of Cuba by international financial restrictions that prevent it from rebooting its economy especially after the pandemic, Biden has continued this policy, but he can remove Cuba from the list by a stroke of his pen via an Executive Order.
Initiated by: Solidarity Committee on the Americas (SCOTA), Minnesota Cuba Committee, Witness for Peace Solidarity Collective

Live Freedom Flotilla Update from Nonviolence International
2024-04-20 13:00 - 14:00 | Online Event
ATTENTION: Twin Cities Activists Departing to Gaza in days with Freedom Flotilla
Live Zoom TOMORROW with updates!

Live Freedom Flotilla Update from Nonviolence International
Host: Mubarak Awad, from the US
Co-Host, Sami Awad from Bethlehem, Palestine
Time: Apr 20, 2024, 2pm Eastern Time, 1pm Central Time (US and Canada), 9pm Istanbul Time
Join us to hear a live update from Istanbul on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla which is leaving in a few days to break the siege of Gaza with humanitarian aid! Join us with speakers such as Medea Benjamin, Ann Wright and others who will be speaking from Istanbul before they get on the boats to go to Gaza.

Register and we will send you a zoom link.
Link to Register

Interview clips with Coleen Rowley of WAMM and Barry Riesch of Veterans for Palestine Chapter 27:

KARE11: https://www.kare11.com/article/news/local/minnesotans-heading-to-gaza-help-deliver-food-water-medical-supplies/89-842a6f68-591a-4fa1-9c6f-991ffc7a9aba

https://www.kare11.com/video/news/nation-world/twin-cities-activists-travel-to-bring-aid-to-gaza-civilians/89-cd8bbedd-8d4d-4261-bab0-eae37b1e9a37

The Katie Halper Show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNmIDR3szeA
Barry Riesch begins discussion on Vets for Peace and the Flotilla at 53:30

CONTEXT: Coleen Rowley of Apple Valley, who is a member of @wamm_mn Women Against Military Madness, and Barry Riesch of St. Paul, who is a member of @veteransforpeace, (bios below) are scheduled to leave the Twin Cities on Wednesday, April 17 to travel to the Mediterranean to join the International Freedom Flotilla this spring. This civilian aid mission will set sail in late April bringing life-saving aid to the people of Gaza to challenge Israel’s unlawful and murderous siege.

The flotilla consists of multiple ships carrying over 5,500 tons of urgently needed food and medicine for the Palestinian people who are being deliberately starved and experiencing disease and death. Rowley and Riesch will be among several hundred participants on this non-violent mission. With multiple aid groups suspending their operations in Gaza after Israel’s latest murder of aid workers, the flotilla’s mission is more critical than ever.
You can find information on the Freedom Flotilla Coalition at: https://freedomflotilla.org/

If you want to help out please call your Senators and Congress members and ask them to demand that Israel respect international law and allow the flotilla to enter Gaza to distribute aid without delay, disruption or harm, and protect their rights, security, and safety during this humanitarian aid mission.

From Palestine to Turtle Island: Sumud Across Generations
2024-04-20 13:00 - 15:00 | Bryant Square Park, 3101 Bryant Ave S, Minneapolis, MN, 55408, United States
Saturday, April 20, 2024, 1:00 pm, Bryant Square Park, 3101 Bryant Ave S, MPLS
‼️PROTEST AND MARCH‼️
We are calling on ALL people around Minnesota and encouraging ALL students across Universities and high schools to join us in the largest MN student led protest to March for Palestine!🇵🇸🇵🇸 Wear Black
Your voice matters and gives Gaza hope and strengthens their sumud and resilience. So show up this Saturday and stand with Gaza‼️🙏🏼
Organized by Students for Justice in Palestine at UMN and Arab Student Association at UMN

Earth Day - From Little Earth to Palestine: Rally & March
2024-04-21 13:00 - 15:00 | East 28th Street and Longfellow Avenue, 2199 East 28th Street, Minneapolis, MN, 55407, United States
EARTH DAY RALLY AND MARCH, 4/21: From Little Earth to Palestine! 📣🇵🇸 Fight back against environmental racism! Divest MN from apartheid Israel! Shut down Smith Foundry! No greenwashing genocide! More info below 👇
🗓️Sunday April 21st
⏰1:00PM
📍Smith Foundry (28th and Longfellow Ave, MPLS)
HOW ISRAEL USES GREENWASHING:
Greenwashing: the act of framing one’s actions or policies as environmentally friendly — “green” — as a means of concealing some other harm.
Greenwashing is a tactic used by settler colonies that attempts to deceivingly characterize the genocidal and intrinsically capitalistic annexations of land by occupation forces as “environmentally progressive”.
Israel’s exploitation of Palestinian land and resources has locked Palestine into a captive market, effectively creating an economic relationship rooted in manufactured dependence and cyclical debt.
This is especially prevalent in the energy sector in Palestine where Gazans have two sources of electricity: the frequently bombed Gaza Power Plant which depends on fuel—a resource that Israel has substantially restricted access to due to its “dual purpose” categorization—and the Israel Electric Corporation (IEC).
Israeli green energy corporations like SolarEdge build solar fields on stolen and illegally occupied Palestinian land to sell to the IEC. Palestinians are forced to depend on Israel for access to their own resources and the global West is deceived into believing that renewable energy sources are being developed from a place of ethical benevolence.
The systemic dispossession and exploitation of Palestinian land with resources deemed profitable for the occupation’s endeavors contributes to the de-development of Palestine—worsening conditions for Palestinians and making it increasingly difficult for Palestinians to achieve sovereignty under Israel’s apartheid regime.
Initiated by Climate Justice Committee and Anti-War Committee. Endorsed by the Free Palestine Coalition, EPNI, WAMM, and others.

Autism Under Occupation
2024-04-21 13:00 - 15:30 | 4560 Victoria Street North, 4560 Victoria Street N, Shoreview, MN, 55126, United States
Sunday, April 21, 2024, 1:00 – 3:15 pm, Ramsey County Library Shoreview, 4560 Victoria Street North, Shoreview, MN 55126
UPCOMING EVENT 🇵🇸✊🏻
We invite you to join us on Sunday, April 21st, to learn about the impact of the Israeli occupation on Autistic Palestinians and their families.
From the martyrdom of Eyad Al Hallaq to the assaults against Muhammad Al-Ajlouni, Israel has deprived disabled Palestinians of their right to essential services, dignity, and life, taking advantage of their conditions to abuse them further. This event will focus specifically on Autistic Palestinians and their experiences. We will be joined by Nemeh Al-Sarraj, an experienced disability activist and Palestinian advocate. 🙏🏻🇵🇸
Limited seats, RSVP using this link: bit.ly/AutismPalestine
Nemeh Al-Sarraj will be presenting on the struggles, that autistic Palestinians and their families experience, living under the illegal Israeli occupation. Click here to register on Eventbrite!
Endorsed by WAMM, the Free Palestine Coalition, and Sukoon: Healing of the Minds

Earth Day Rally
2024-04-22 13:00 - 15:00 | Cleveland Avenue South and Ford Parkway, Cleveland Avenue South and Ford Parkway, St Paul, 55116, United States
Earth Day Rally
Monday, April 22, 2024, 1:00 – 3:00 pm, Ford Parkway & Cleveland in Highland Park, St. Paul
Sponsored by Veterans For Peace chapter 27
Stop the Wars! Save the Earth!

Teaching Palestine: A Workshop with Dr. Rabab Abdulhadi
2024-04-25 17:00 - 19:00 | Online Event
Thursday, April 25, 2024, 5:00 – 7:00 pm, Online, register here
Encampment watch party: McNamera Lawn area
Join us for an encampment watch party at the New encampment location— McNamara lawn area. March at 2 pm from Student Union to McNamara. 5 pm: Teaching Palestine workshop. @umnsds @sjpumn
Thank you for your interest in “Teaching Palestine”, a workshop with Dr. Rabab Abdulhadi. The purpose of this workshop is for Twin Cities faculty and graduate instructors (and non-academic members of the Twin Cities community) to learn about how to teach about Palestine. In particular, those who may not have taught about Palestine in their classes in the past would benefit from this teach-in. The goal is to learn how to integrate Palestine in our syllabi, and how to make Palestine a part of university curricula on an ongoing basis, and not just during the genocide.
Organized by UMN SDS and SJP UMN, Sponsored by WAMM

Women's Prison Book Project Pancake Breakfast
2024-04-27 08:00 - 12:00 | New City Center, 3104 16th Ave So, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Saturday, April 27, 2024, 8:00 am – 12:00 pm, Walker Church (New City Center), 3104 16th Ave S, MPLS
Join WPBP for our annual Pancake Breakfast and Book Sale! On April 27th from 8 AM – 12 PM we’ll be serving up delicious pancakes and welcoming community members to learn more, shop books, and share their love of WPBP together. Tickets can be purchased at the event using cash or card. $12 adults / $8 kids. Book sale will take place downstairs with options to shop merch and more. See you there!
