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"No pitifully small picket line, no poorly
attended meeting, no tossing out of an idea
to an audience and even to an individual,
should be scorned as insignificant.
The power of a bold idea uttered publicly
in defiance of dominant opinion cannot be
easily measured. Those special people who
speak out in such a way as to shake up not
only the self-assurance of their enemies
but the complacency of their friends are
precious catalysts for change.
-> From You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train
Tuesday, February 2nd
Thursday, February 18th
Monday, February 22nd
Friday, February 26th
Thursday, March 4th
Thursday, March 11th
Yesterday in the Portland AFSC office, an employee got a call from Homeland Security cautioning the organizer to let AFSC members know that all relief funds to Haiti should go through the White House. What?!
Meanwhile, the treasury just approved a $102 million LOAN towards redeveloping the island nation. Distaster relief will not help in Haiti if incur more debt. Haiti has suffocated under debt since its first days of freedom paying reparations to the French and later through US imposed austerity measures.
Homeland Security has no business telling us how or when to send material aid to our brothers and sisters in Haiti. In fact, we should be telling THEM what to do. Jubilee has a action alert to cancel Haiti's debt burden.
Waiting in the Wing
"The parallels between Honduras and Haiti are striking;
each country has been saddled by a history of undeserved
debt—an enduring legacy of colonialism—and in each
country’s case (after over a century of often U.S.-installed
dictatorships) an elected president who was responsibly
engaged with bringing social justice to its citizens, was
evicted from office."
Haiti:
How the US Impoverished Haiti
Honduras:
Trade Watch:
Honduras Withdraws from ALBA:
On Jan. 26, a day before his term as de facto president came to a close, Roberto Micheletti signed Honduras’ official exit from the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA), the Venezuela-led trade accord—promoted by former President Manuel Zelaya—to which he had, as congressional president a year earlier, signed on.
Get Plugged In: Meetings and Volunteer Opportunites
The next PCASC general meeting is Wed, Feb 17th at 7pm @ 2249 E Burnside.
New volunteer orientation at 6pm preceding meeting. RSVP to info@pcasc.net.
The next PCASC planning retreat is Saturday, Feb 20th from 10a-4p.
Visioning, Strategy, Programming, oh my! RSVP to megan@pcasc.net
PCASC Coffee offer: Café Solidaridad
As an ongoing fundraiser for PCASC in collaboration with Just Coffee, we are carrying 12oz bags of whole bean or ground fair trade coffee from a LaFem women's cooperative in Nicaragua. For just $12 dollars a bag you can support PCASC, Just Coffee (a union shop), and organizing in Nicaragua. Click for more info.
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