Noon Friday Nov. 16 to 5 pm Sunday Nov. 18
Join us to call for closure of the School of the Americas and an end to torture as we gather at Camp Bolio again in solidarity with the vigil outside Ft. Benning Georgia. Attend all three days, or just part of the time.
You're welcome to drop in for coffee and conversation anytime.
Contact: 643-2705 or 277-0949
Schedule
Protesters on site at Ft. Benning, Georgia, will be calling us with live updates on the SOA Watch protest throughout the weekend
Friday, November 16
12 noon Opening of Camp Bolio
On-going vigil and demonstration
3pm Mishka Chudilowsky – Peace Crane workshop
4:30 Joyce Vandevere, "Getting to Yes; The Effort Toward Consensus"
5-7pm Monterey Peace and Justice Center Social gathering and candlelight vigil to include ribbon cutting and groundbreaking for Monthly Camp Bolio Coffee House
Music: Rhythm and Rouge
7:30pm The Pleasant Revolution Bicycle Music Tour, featuring the Ginger Ninjas and SHAKE YOUR PEACE
9:00 (approx.) Film: "The Torture Question" followed by discussion
Ongoing coffee house, information table
Saturday, November 17
Ongoing vigil and demonstration
9:45am Live hook-up with John Waller at Fort Benning, Georgia, protest ( SOA Watch ). Many of the Camp Bolio
activists have become acquainted with John Waller through his work with Pastors for Peace and their
Caravan to Cuba work which delivers medical aid to Cuba to be distributed through the churches
10am Reverend Greg Ward – Monterey Peninsula Unitarian Universalist Church. He has lead youth groups
on three trips to School of the Americas protests. He will share his thoughts and experiences with
us for 30 min with a time for Q and A.
11am Bill Monning – “International Law and U.S. Law Prohibit Torture” with a focus on Geneva Conventions
and Conventions against torture, and how the use of torture constitutes a war crime. Professor Monning
is a member of the National Lawyers Guild and a professor of International Negotiation and Conflict
Resolution at MIIS.
http://www.billmonning.com ,
http://www.billmonning.org and
http://www.nlg.org 12pm History of torture of "The Other," religious origins
1 pm Sound Out -- music by our very own local singing group
2 pm Phil Butler, Ph.D. – A former U.S. Navy pilot shot down in Vietnam and held almost 8 years as a
Prisoner of War. Phil is an outstanding motivational speaker. He will share his personal experiences
of torture as a POW, with an analysis of the moral and legal issues for our nation.
3pm Sue Hubbard – an informal group discussion on the stages a protest movement goes through and
what activities are appropriate at each stage. Patterned after a Bill Moyer workshop.
3:30 Michael Wheatley – folksongs with guitar
4pm Music: Nancy Raven, folksinger and guitarist
7pm Drumming session with Jean Moritz (with 15 drums)
8pm Film: "Ghosts of Abu Ghraib" and/or "The Road to Guantanamo"
Ongoing Coffee House, singing, information
Sunday, November 18
Ongoing vigil and demonstration
10am Alicia Jrapko – Co-coordinator of the International Committee to Free the Cuban 5
11am David Henderson, Ph.D. – Associate Professor at the Navel Postgraduate School.
“The Economics of War” Talk and Q&A
Noon "Your Voice Counts Here," Free Speech corner (open mic?) sign up with Hanan Shawar
1pm Friends/Quaker silent Meeting for Worship – all welcome! Led by Monterey Peninsula Society of Friends pro-tem clerk
2pm Macgregor Eddy – "Your Civic Duty to Stop Torture" followed by discussion
2:30 Karen Araujo – more games for children followed by “How Can I Keep from Singing?”
3pm Helene Constant -- Stories for Grownups
3-5pm Peace Coalition Steering Committee meeting
(only for designated representatives of PCMC member organizations)
3:30pm Film – HOPE and reading some of the hopes and wishes from the Imagine Peace Tree
3-5pm Final Coffee House, vigil, demonstration
Gathering to celebrate our time together
CAMP BOLIO ONGOING EVENTS
Display of crosses representing US soldiers killed in Iraq
Display of Walk in Their Shoes representing Iraqi civilians killed
A chance to write a note and/or record yourself telling GW what you personally think of him and his policies on torture and stick it to him
Information table
Give away pocket sized constitutions
Graveyard mourning the death of the Bill of Rights and Habeas Corpus
Detention cell
Orange jump suits
Anti war and peace songs
Origami Peace Crane strings
Imagine Peace Tree – make a wish, write it down, tie it around a branch on the wish tree until the branches are covered with wishes.
Arm bands
Films – Ghosts of Abu Ghraib, The Road to Guantanamo, The Torture Question
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