Annual Fundraising Campaign
Friends of Peace and Justice,

It's 2010 and we are in the middle of momentous change. Global problems are trumpeted; solutions are muted. We have a great opportunity ahead of us - the mobilization of community action.
In many ways, solving our local problems through community mobilization builds our strength to tackle global problems and through the understanding built by working together can we discover the commonality of our future.
Today, information we receive has never been more plentiful - or more suspect. When scientific fact becomes equated by many to conservative religious beliefs (climate change and evolution, to name two), our media has been compromised. Balanced reporting has come to mean merely quoting two opposing views - with little context or background. And yet, decisions we make today in virtually every aspect of our lives - based on that media - will affect our very existence on this planet. Access to basic factual information will be vital in the coming years.
As part of the greater community for the past 30 years, the Peace & Justice Network of San Joaquin County has raised an awareness and understanding of important issues. Through sponsorship of our Connections newspaper, Talking It Through television program, the Peaceful Holiday Faire, PJN website and the Earth Day Festival (last year celebrating it's 21st birthday), we have been informing you on: Peace Issues - Environmental Concerns - Human Rights Violations - Local Issues - and - Access to Alternative Media. Now, we are launching a radio station - casting the net ever further. The consistent theme is education - the basis for all sustainable change.
We are asking for your involvement in our educational mission. The misinformation machine arrayed against our efforts is strong. Yet, in the age of an infinite Internet, we can remain informed by our own reliable and decentralized local media. Rather than relying on the single voice of outside "experts," we can look at multiple sources and decide for ourselves.
Your contribution in this effort is critical; it needs to be on-going and resilient. Our financial needs are small - our entire budget is less than $50,000 - and the loss of our voice to this community would be deeply felt. We all feel the current economic hard times; we need to pull together in strength. Your contribution of $35 - or more - or less - will help keep us alive.
We sink or swim together; let's keep on swimming.
Click on the donation button to the right give according to your ability. Thank you, in advance for your support.
Bruce Giudici
Editor, Connections
Treasurer, PJN Board of Directors

9/11 Truth Film Series
The Peace and Justice Network of San Joaquin is announcing the opening of our 9/11 Truth 2nd Wednesday film series. The series will open with 9/11 Blueprint for Truth: The Architecture of Destruction on Wednesday March 10th at 6:30 p.m. In this groundbreaking multimedia presentation, filmed professionally in a studio before a live audience, San Francisco Bay Area architect, Richard Gage, AIA, provides the overwhelming evidence of explosive controlled demolition of all 3 WTC high-rise buildings on September 11, 2001. (Runtime: 2 hours)
The series will continue on April 14 with a documentary about the 9/11 families campaign to get the 9/11 Commission to investigate the events of 9/11 entitled Press for Truth. On May 12 Loose Change Final Cut; June 9th 9/11 Mysteries; July 14th Seven Jones lecture on Nanothermite; August 11th David Ray Griffin lectures on the Psychology of Resistance to 9/11 Truth; and on Saturday, September 11 two films from opposing camps Fahrenheit 9/11 and the response to that film, FahrenHYPE 9/11.
All films will screen at the Peace and Justice Center 231 Bedford Rd. (behind SF Floral on the Miracle Mile). Films will begin at 6:30 p.m. and will be followed by a moderated dialogue and Q& A. For more information contact Jim Walsh (209) 981-0544.

Earth Day 2011
Join in on our annual Earth Day celebration. Our Earth Day Festival on Sunday, April 17th, 2011 from 11 am to 4 pm at Victory Park, behind Haggin Museum in Stockton. This is the premiere environmental event in all of San Joaquin County, and as always, the focus of the day long festival is to educate you about taking care of our natural resources - the earth, air and water. The Festival will have dozens of informative, interactive booths, displays and exhibits, plus there will be plenty of great food and exotic crafts. Begin the day with Yoga on the park green at 10 am. Join the hundreds of cyclists who will bike as part of the Family Fun Bike Ride and Parade. Registration is at 10:30 am. Or just come for the entertainment and the official start of the Festival at 11 am, which will feature colorful ethnic dance groups and great area bands. It is a fun day for families, and best of all, admission is free. For more information on how to be an exhibitor, vendor or volunteer, go to www.livegreensanjoaquin.org, email stocktonearthday@gmail.com or call (209) 937-8389.

Peaceful Holiday Gift Fair
1st weekend in December, 2010 United Central Methodist Church 3700 Pacific Ave. Stockton
FREE Admission, Food and Refreshments available,Live Entertainment. This annual event attracts holiday shoppers from throughout San Joaquin County. Download 2009 Fyler
Call Maria at 462-3489 for more information.
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