Wednesday, July 2 at 6 p.m. The Fresno Center for Nonviolence will hold its monthly Board meeting. For more information call the Center at 559-237-3223 Mon-Fri 11-3.
Wednesday, July 9 – 3:30 p.m.on KFCF 88.1 The Center for Nonviolence monthly radio show will be hosted by Angela Price. Her guests will be Richard Stone and Maria Telesco talking about their prison ministry work. For more information call 559-237-3223 Mon-Fri 11-3. This is prerecorded, so sorry no call-ins this month.
Wednesday, July 9at 12 noon and at 7 p.m. (potluck at 6:30), at the Center for Nonviolence, 1584 N. Van Ness Ave (SE Corner McKinley and Van Ness) Our 2nd Wednesday video will be “HAPPY”. Yes, this is a movie about Happiness! Does money make you HAPPY? Kids and family? Your work? Do you live in a world that values and promotes happiness and well-being? Are we in the midst of a happiness revolution? Roko Belic, director of the Academy Award® nominated “Genghis Blues” now brings us HAPPY, a film that sets out to answer these questions and more. Taking us from the bayous of Louisiana to the deserts of Namibia, from the beaches of Brazil to the villages of Okinawa, HAPPY explores the secrets behind our most valued emotion. This video is 74 minutes long.
www.TheHappyMovie.com Free and open to the public. Wheelchair accessible. For more information call the Center 559-237-3223 Mon-Fri 11-3.
Tuesday, July 15th, Annual Pastors for Peace Cuba Caravan event and potluck at the EcoGarden, 6:30 p.m. 2231 W Dakota, (just west of the police substation and FastTrip Gas at the SW corner of Dakota
and Hughes.) Present and past Caravanistas will talk about their experiences, we’ll have some music by Patricia and some of the Generaciones group and good potluck food. And, as a bonus, you’ll get to meet the residents of the EcoGarden Project and see what they are up to. Below is the bio of our route speaker, Manola De Los Santos. For more information call the Center at 559-237-3223 Mon-Fri 11-3.
Manolo De Los Santos has worked for Pastors for Peace in coordinating caravans to Cuba since 2008 and was also the coordinator of our work to send emergency relief to Haiti after the 2010 earthquake. He is currently the IFCO/Pastors for Peace liaison in Cuba with the US students of the Latin American School of Medicine.
Manolo was born in the Dominican Republic and currently lives in Matanzas, Cuba where he is working on his Masters in Divinity at seminary. He is a young Christian student activist involved in the struggles for peace with social justice across the world. He graduated from John Jay College of Criminal Justice-CUNY with a major in Deviant Behavior and Social Control.
During his first year in college he helped to organize the 1st John Jay College Student Work Brigade to New Orleans during the spring break of 2007 and a subsequent colloquium at John Jay College.
From an early age Manolo has been involved in Solidarity work with oppressed people across the world and involved in organizing projects in the United States with grassroots organizations. For the past two years Manolo has also been a member of the parochial board of Iglesia San Romero de Las Americas-UCC. Inside San Romero de Las Americas he has been working alongside former pastor Fr. Luis Barrios and current pastor Claudia De La Cruz among many others in the construction of religious rituals that promote personal and community liberation.
As the then secretary of the Church he represented San Romero at international events and conferences such as the 16th World Festival of Youth and Students held in Caracas, Venezuela 2005 and the 54th anniversary of the Moncada Attacks held in Camaguey, Cuba 2007. He has participated in over five US-Cuba Friendshipment Caravans. Manolo has also been in representation of San Romero de las Americas in both local and regional events of our denomination the United Church of Christ.
