Lynne Stewart @ the SF Gray Panthers

Civil Rights Lawyer Lynne STEWART is being prosecuted by the US government for aiding and abetting terrorism, just for providing legal counsel to her client ...
http://www.lynnestewart.org/

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Wed
Feb 6
12:30 PM Gray Panthers Board meets at the office. All members welcome to attend.
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Thurs
Feb 7
9:30 AM Next court date for SF-8, eight former Black Panthers on trial for the killing of a SF police officer 36 years ago. Several were tortured into confessions by New Orleans police shortly afterwards, as part of the FBI’s COINTELPRO program. Charges based on the forced confessions were quickly dropped, but were reinstated after 9/11, and they are now being tried in SF. Read more. Location: 855 Bryant St (betw 6th & 7th Sts, map, 27, 47, 19 buses go within a block) (Back to top)
Thurs
Feb 7
noon Gray Panthers Newsletter Committee meets at the office.
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Fri
Feb 8
2 PM First Meeting of 2007 People's Budget to fight the City budget cuts and protect our services and programs. We are facing a slash and burn budget this year. We need to get organized now to fight the proposed cuts and preserve services for Poor People and vulnerable populations. Location: St. Anthony's Poverello Room, 109 Golden Gate Ave (at Jones, map, Civic Center BART, 5, 9, 19 buses) More info: James at 415-703-0188 x304. (back to top)
Fri
Feb 8
7 PM Black History Month showing of artwork by Emory Douglas with talk by Mr. Douglas and SF-8 defendant Richard Brown. Emory Douglas did graphic art for and about the Black Panther Party through the 1970s. Location: Babylon Falling bookstore, 1017 Bush (at Jones, map, 2, 3, 4, 27 buses) (back to top)
Tues
Feb 12
11 AM Gray Panthers Mid-East Study Group meets at the office.
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Tues
Feb 12
1 PM Gray Panthers Health Committee meets at the office.
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Wed
Feb 13
3 -7 PM Save the Day! Save St. Luke's! Join the day of action being planned to save St. Luke's Hospital. California Pacific Medical Center and the Sutter Healthcare hospital chain (CPMC/Sutter) plan to convert St. Luke's Hospital to just outpatient clinics, and transfer hospital care to CPMC facilities in richer parts of town where it can make more money. St. Luke's has at least a 6-7 times higher proportion of poor and minority patients than CPMC's other facilities. Read more. Today, CPMC is closing its Newborn Intensive Care Unit, so babies born at St. Luke's with severe respiratory and other problems will have to be transported across town to other CPMC facilities. Closing St. Luke's as a hospital is a racist attack on the poor because it would leave South-East San Francisco, low-income, largely minority, and already without sufficient medical facilities, with only SF General Hospital, which is already over-crowded. Location: 3555 Cesar Chavez (at Valencia, map, 14, 26, 27 buses) Read more. Sign on-line petition. Join the community coalition to save St. Luke's Hospital. More information: Jane Martin, 415-206-2140 x 155. (back to top) 415-206-2140 x 155
Wed
Feb 13
7:30 PM Life in Occupied Palestine, Eyewitness stories and photos, with Anna Baltzer. Anna Baltzer, a Jewish American Columbia graduate, Fulbright scholar, author of "Witness in Palestine", and volunteer with the International Women's Peace Service, is touring the United States with a presentation and book describing her experiences documenting human rights abuses and supporting Palestinian-led nonviolent resistance to the Occupation. Anna's website. Location: Amnesty International, 1663 Mission St, Rm 604 (near 12th St, map, 9, 26, 47, 49 buses). Sponsored by Amnesty International, American Friends Service Committee, Global Exchange, and Jewish Voice for Peace. (back to top)
Thurs
Feb 14
10 AM Senior Action Network general membership meeting on housing.
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Tues
Feb 26
11 AM Gray Panthers Book Club meets at the office.
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Fri
Feb 29
5 PM Gray Panthers Night at the Movies. (Well, actually movie night at our office.) Michael Moore's Sicko, followed by discussion of the movie, its implications, and the future of health reform. Light refreshments. (back to top)
Wed
Mar 19
5 PM Demonstrate on the 5th anniversary of the current Iraq invasion. ANSWER Coaltion. Location: SF Civic Center, (Polk and Grove Streets, in front of City Hall, map, Civic Center BART. Market St, Van Ness Ave buses) News of other protest this day will be posted as they appear. (back to top)

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