Sorry folks, don’t know what happened to our December calendar, but here is out January one.
Saturday, January 4 at Angela Price’s house: Center for Nonviolence Board meeting and retreat. 10 a.m. for the Board meeting, a potluck lunch at 12 noon, and the retreat at 1 p.m. For those who would like to come to the retreat, please call our Center and get Angela’s address or email her at angela.price41@comcast.net. . Angela makes a wicked Black Bean Soup so you may want to come to the potluck at noon! For more information call the Center at 559-237-3223 Mon-Fri 11 – 3 p.m.
Wednesday, January 8 at 3-3:30 p.m. The Center’s “Stir it Up” monthly radio program on KFCF 88.1 FM. Richard Gomez will host and his guest will be a member of Centro Binacional Para El Desarrollo Indígena Oaxaqueño of Fresno. The discussion will be about Rigoberta Menchù Tam’s recent visit and more. Call-ins are at (559)266-8888. For more info call at (559)237-3223
Wednesday, January 8at 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 film will be “Granito: How to Nail a Dictator”. It tells the extraordinary story of how a film, aiding a new generation of human rights activists, became a granito — a tiny grain of sand — that helped tip the scales of justice. In a stunning milestone for justice in Central America, a Guatemalan court recently charged former dictator Efraín Rios Montt with genocide for his brutal war against the country’s Mayan people in the 1980s — and Pamela Yates’ 1983 documentary, When the Mountains Tremble, provided key evidence for bringing the indictment. This video is 90 minutes long. It is wheelchair accessible and open to the public.
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Currently Gen Rios Montt, 87, was convicted of genocide and war crimes in May 2013 and sentenced to 80 years in jail. But the conviction was overturned by the constitutional court, which argued Rios Montt had been denied due process. A court official said that the judges were busy with other cases in 2014, but would resume the trial in January 2015.
