Events
Wednesday, June 2 at 6 p.m. (note change in day – we’re going to try the 1st Wednesday in every month for our Board meetings) at the Fresno Center for Nonviolence, 1584 N. Van Ness (S.E. corner McKinley and Van Ness). Fresno Center for Nonviolence Board meeting. The public is welcome to attend. Wheelchair accessible. For information call 237-3223 11-3 Mon-Fri.
Saturday, June 5 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. Look for the Fresno Center for Nonviolence’s booth at the Fresno Rainbow Pride in the Tower District. This is a fun, colorful event for all ages -- strollers, skateboards, wheelchairs, tricycles, little red wagons suitable for approx. half mile route through the Tower District. Parade starts 10am; Festival starts 11am For more information: http://www.fresnorainbowpride.com/
Wednesday, June 9 at 12 noon and 7 p.m. (potluck at 6:30 p.m.) The Second Wednesday Video will be “THE PEOPLE SPEAK”a beautiful and moving film inspired by Howard Zinn’s books A People’s History of the United States and Voices of a People’s History of the United States. The film features the actual words (in letters, songs, poems, speeches, and manifestos) of rebels, dissenters and visionaries from our past – and present – including Frederick Douglass, Susan B. Anthony, Bob Dylan, Langston Hughes, Chief Joseph, Muhammad Ali as well and unknown veterans, union workers, abolitionists, and many others never featured in high school textbooks. Features Matt Damon, Josh Brolin, Danny Glover, Morgan Freeman, Marisa Tomei and many others.
Like Howard Zinn’s work as a whole, THE PEOPLE SPEAK celebrates the extraordinary possibilities for creating social change that ordinary people have realized throughout the course of our nation’s rich but often ignored history of dissent and protest.
It is free to the public and wheelchair accessible.
Wednesday, June 9 3 - 3:30 p.m. Tune in to KFCF 88.1 for the Fresno Center for Nonviolence “Stir It Up” monthly radio show to hear host Richard Stone speaking to Paul Gilmore of Fresno City Collegeabout the legacy of Howard Zinn. Call-ins are welcome at 266-8888.
Sunday, June 13 at 3 p.m.
Israel/Palestine - Obstacles to Peace, Signs of Hope, a presentation by Lynn MacMichael will take place at the Woodward Park Library at 944 E Perrin Ave in Fresno. Lynn has recently returned from one of many trips with the Interfaith Peace Builders Delegation to Israel and the Occupied Territories. Free admission. For more information contact philiptraynor@sbcglobal.net or (559) 435-7520.
Saturday, June 5 10 a.m. - 3 p.m. Look for the Fresno Center for Nonviolence’s booth at the Fresno Rainbow Pride in the Tower District. This is a fun, colorful event for all ages -- strollers, skateboards, wheelchairs, tricycles, little red wagons suitable for approx. half mile route through the Tower District. Parade starts 10am; Festival starts 11am For more information: http://www.fresnorainbowpride.com/
Wednesday, June 9 at 12 noon and 7 p.m. (potluck at 6:30 p.m.) The Second Wednesday Video will be “THE PEOPLE SPEAK”a beautiful and moving film inspired by Howard Zinn’s books A People’s History of the United States and Voices of a People’s History of the United States. The film features the actual words (in letters, songs, poems, speeches, and manifestos) of rebels, dissenters and visionaries from our past – and present – including Frederick Douglass, Susan B. Anthony, Bob Dylan, Langston Hughes, Chief Joseph, Muhammad Ali as well and unknown veterans, union workers, abolitionists, and many others never featured in high school textbooks. Features Matt Damon, Josh Brolin, Danny Glover, Morgan Freeman, Marisa Tomei and many others.
Like Howard Zinn’s work as a whole, THE PEOPLE SPEAK celebrates the extraordinary possibilities for creating social change that ordinary people have realized throughout the course of our nation’s rich but often ignored history of dissent and protest.
It is free to the public and wheelchair accessible.
Wednesday, June 9 3 - 3:30 p.m. Tune in to KFCF 88.1 for the Fresno Center for Nonviolence “Stir It Up” monthly radio show to hear host Richard Stone speaking to Paul Gilmore of Fresno City Collegeabout the legacy of Howard Zinn. Call-ins are welcome at 266-8888.
Sunday, June 13 at 3 p.m.
Israel/Palestine - Obstacles to Peace, Signs of Hope, a presentation by Lynn MacMichael will take place at the Woodward Park Library at 944 E Perrin Ave in Fresno. Lynn has recently returned from one of many trips with the Interfaith Peace Builders Delegation to Israel and the Occupied Territories. Free admission. For more information contact philiptraynor@sbcglobal.net or (559) 435-7520.