Friday and Saturday, March 22nd and 23rd: Environmental Guardianship Workshop.
The workshop begins at CSUF on Friday, March 22 at 5:30 p.m. with the CineCulture screening of the spectacular film, Chasing Ice in the Peters Education Center auditorium, west of Save Mart Center in the Student Recreation Center Building. There will be a film discussion and workshop introduction following the film. Part 2 of the workshop takes place on Saturday, March 23 9 AM-1:30 PM at Arte Americas, 1630 Van Ness. Participants may order lunch after the workshop and stay for a guided tour of The Green Art Project at Arte Americas. For more information call 559-439-0180 or email skyhorse3593@sbcglobal.net
Wednesday, April 3 at 6 p.m. Center for Nonviolence Board meeting. Please call the Center for more information at 559-237-3223 Mon-Fri 11-3.
Wednesday, April 10, 3 – 3:30 p.m. on KFCF 88.1 FM. Our host will be Richard Gomez discussing immigration guests from the Immigration March. Calls are welcome at 559-266-8888. For more information call 559-237-3223.
Wednesday, April 10 at 12 noon and at 7 p.m. (potluck at 6:30) Center for Nonviolence, 1584 N. Van Ness (SE corner Van Ness and McKinley). The Center’s 2ndWednesday Video will be “HARVEST of EMPIRE” – very timely with the heated and divisive debate over immigration. This feature-length documentary examines the direct connection between the long history of U.S. intervention in Latin America and the immigration crisis we face today. Based on the groundbreaking book by award-winning journalist Juan González, Harvest of Empire takes an unflinching look at the role that U.S. economic and military interests played in triggering an unprecedented wave of migration that is transforming our nation’s cultural and economic landscape.
From the wars for territorial expansion that gave the U.S. control of Puerto Rico, Cuba and more than half of Mexico, to the covert operations that imposed oppressive military regimes in the Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Nicaragua and El Salvador, Harvest of Empire unveils a moving human story that is largely unknown to the great majority of citizens in the U.S. “They never teach us in school that the huge Latino presence here is a direct result of our own government’s actions in Mexico, the Caribbean and Central America over many decades — actions that forced millions from that region to leave their homeland and journey north,” says Juan González at the beginning of the film.
Harvest of Empire provides a rare and powerful glimpse into the enormous sacrifices and rarely-noted triumphs of our nation’s growing Latino community. The film features present day immigrant stories, rarely seen archival material, as well as interviews with such respected figures as Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Rigoberta Menchú, the Reverend Jesse Jackson, ACLU Executive Director Anthony Romero, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Junot Díaz, Mexican historian Dr. Lorenzo Meyer, journalists Maria Hinojosa and Geraldo Rivera, Grammy award-winning singer Luis Enrique, and poet Martín Espada. Video is 90 minutes long. Free to the public. Wheelchair accessible. For more information call 559-237-3223.
Saturday, April 20 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. – Earth Day! Center for Nonviolence will have a booth at this year’s Earth Day which will be in Courthouse Park in Downtown Fresno, on Van Ness between Fresno and Tulare. We will have our Equal Exchange Fair Trade and Organic items for sale, which include coffees, hot chocolate and teas grown by small farmers from Africa, South and Central America. Try our new Sister’s Blend and Ugandan coffees.
Wednesday, April 24 noon to 3 p.m. “A Sidewalk Book Sale: A creative alternative to our Annual Book Sale: We are trying a new fundraising idea – a sidewalk sale in front of the Center! It will include used books donated to us in the past few months, some donated eBay items not yet listed, and we’ll have our Equal Exchange Fair Trade and Organic coffee, tea, drinking and baking cocoa for sale too. To welcome you, coffee or tea will be brewing inside; maybe even some brownies made from our baking cocoa. It will be fun hanging out with friends and making some money for our Center at the same time.
For more information call (559)237-3223.
A reminder here: we are always glad to accept items that Gioia Frank (a Center volunteer) can sell on eBay or Etsy. Gioia tells us that she hasn’t received any for a long time. Yard sale items are great too as she can sell them in the Clovis Yard Sale thus avoiding packaging and shipping. Contact her at center.for.nonviolence@gmail.com.
