Saturday, March 8, 2008 Meeting Notes

MEETING NOTES FOR PEOPLE FOR PEACE, JUSTICE, AND HEALING
March 8, 2008

People for Peace, Justice, and Healing met at 10:00 a.m. on Saturday, March 8, 2008, at Associated Ministries. Present for check-in: Rob, Sallie S., Nancy, Mark, and Vivi.

AGENDA

1. "OUR DINNER WITH 'MY DINNER WITH ANDRÉ'" DEBRIEF (Group)
Discussion of PPJH's successful Mar. 1 event. A few disliked the film, but the great majority enjoyed the evening.

2. ETHNIC FEST (Sallie S.)
Ethnic Fest in Tacoma's Wright Park is scheduled for July 26 & 27, 2008. A table has been reserved to be shared by PPJH, United for Peace of Pierce County, Veterans for Peace, and the South Sound Peace & Justice Center.

3. GLOBAL EXCHANGE (Sallie S.)
Sallie has received an inquiry about Mar. 31 and Apr. 1 as possible dates to bring to town speakers who are part of Global Exchange's trinational tour on trade and immigration issues. Consensus was that time appears to be too short to realize this project.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

1. DAVID BACON (Mark)
David Bacon, the noted photographer, journalist, and author, will appear in the 2007-2008 UFPPC Speaker Series at 7:00 p.m. on Mon., Mar. 10, at King’s Books in Tacoma. -- Bacon is the author of The Children of NAFTA and Communities without Borders. -- His new book, Illegal -- How Globalization Creates Migration and Criminalizes Immigrants, will be published by Beacon Press in the fall of 2008. This talk is free and open to the public.

2. KEN JONES'S LAST SERMON (Rob)
The Rev. Ken Jones, who announced some time back his resignation from the Tahoma Unitarian Universalist Congregation (formerly Unitarian Universalist Association of Tacoma [UUAT]), is scheduled to give his final sermon at the service beginning 10:30 a.m. on Sun., Mar. 16. Since Ken and Ken's wife Amy participated actively in PPJH in its early years, this is an opportunity for PPJHers to bid them farewell: 1115 South 56th St., Tacoma WA 98408, (253) 474-4646.

3. DIGGING DEEPER XLIII: ELECTIONS, POLITICS, AND PROPAGANDA (Mark)
On two successive Mondays, March 17 & 24, 2008, Digging Deeper XLIII will examine two books on elections, politics, and propaganda: Spencer Overton's Stealing Democracy: The New Politics of Voter Suppression (W.W. Norton, 2006; paperback 2007) and a collection edited by Andras Szántó entitled What Orwell Didn't Know: Propaganda and the New Face of American Politics (PublicAffairs, 2007). More information about the books, see here. There is no charge for participation and anyone interested is welcome. Digging Deeper has been meeting since July 2004 on Mondays from 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the Mandolin Café in Tacoma (but will not meet on Mar. 10 due to the UFPPC-sponsored appearance by antiglobalization author and photojournalist David Bacon at King's Books [see first announcement above]). There is no charge for participation and anyone interested is welcome.

4. SHOWING OF "WAR MADE EASY" AT WASH. ST. HIST. MUSEUM (Mark)
"War Made Easy," the documentary film based on Norman Solomon's 2005 book of the same name, will be shown free of charge in the auditorium of the Washington State History Museum, 1911 Pacific Ave., Tacoma, at 7:00 p.m. on Thurs., March 20, 2008.

Respectfully submitted,
Mark