COMMON AGENDA REGIONAL NETWORK meeting

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COMMON AGENDA REGIONAL NETWORK

reordering federal priorities from the military to human and environmental needs

44 Beverly Rd., Kensington, Ca. 94707



WILL MEET Saturday, July 11, 2009 at 2pm

1403 Addison St. at the Gray Panthers’ Office, adjacent the back entrance of the Andronico’s Grocery, Berkeley, Ca., USA

wheel chair accessible
call for transportation assistance 524-6071

Tentative agenda:
*Participating organizations’ activities
*Update on the California budget crisis, Bill Balderston.
*U.N. Durban Review Conference in Geneva by Vickie Sawiki, MCLI Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute board secretary.
*Resolution by Alameda County Coalition for Alternatives to the Death Penalty.
*Update re authors of torture memos, e.g. J. Yoo.

Please consider including yourself/your organization. We self-appoint as well as are voted to represent our organizations, to bring together organizations with which we organize, and which we support.

Local neighborhood people as well as our electeds are also strongly urge to come.

Common Agenda Network still strongly involves stalwart activists who search the improvements necessary to serve us all. Like many organizations suffering the many causes of our retreats, though, it has not only shrunk but has become unrepresentative of the wide array of activism around us – of young people, of the varied gender-identities, of people variously physically/mentally abled, of the many colors, nationalities, religions whose banners we fly in the attempt to build our unity for common goals.

You are encouraged to expand the agenda. Tell me, Norma, 510-527-9584, or Betty at 510-524-6071, or come to the meeting.

Present membership:
Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists, Social Justice Committee
Berkeley Gray Panthers
Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism of Northern California
East Bay Peace Action
Ecumenical Peace Institute
El Cerrito Democratic Club
Grandmothers For Peace Hayward Chapter
Green Party of Alameda County
Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute
Mt. Diablo Peace and Justice Center
Peace and Freedom Party
Social Justice Center of Marin
Tri-Valley C.A.R.E.S.
Women for Peace
WILPF Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, Berkeley/East Bay Branch; San Francisco Branch