Tacoma SDS

Tacoma SDS presents Radical Film Night each Friday at 7:30 PM at 808 N. Union (across from the University of Puget Sound).

Showing October 12, Berkeley in the Sixties (1990)

This fast-paced documentary captures the decade's major events -- the birth of the Free Speech Movement, civil rights marches, anti-Vietnam War protests, the women's movement, and the rise of the Black Panthers -- with their full immediacy and passion. Dramatic archival footage and music is interwoven with present-day interviews with the people who gave the 60s its radical reputation.

If you support a woman's right to choose and/or Planned Parenthood, please come out for the

Visibility and Support Rally
Saturday October 13 (tomorrow)
in front of Tacoma Planned Parenthood
813 MLK Jr Blvd (9th and MLK)
9:30 AM - 11:30 AM

**Expect anti-choice folks to be present, vocal, and inane.**

Planned Parenthood workers, clients, and allies will be outside the building in support of the education, health care, safe and legal abortion services, and advocacy Planned Parenthood provides.

So'Just 07
Saturday, October 13
Evergreen State College, Tacoma Campus
1212 6th Ave. Tacoma, WA
11am-3pm
free.

To declare a day of social justice through art, music, and dance. There will be a food and coat drive so please bring items to donate if possible. Tables by the Industrial Worker's of the World, Students for a Democratic Society, Planned Parenthood, and more.

Featuring performances by:
2012, Steve & Kristi Nebel, Kusikia, Bolero, D.A.S.H., and Patrick Edelbacher.

sojust2007@hotmail.com
myspace.com/sojustfestival

This is an invitation to a film viewing this Friday, October 19th, at Tacoma Little Theatre. It is a one-hour documentary film that tells the stories of three immigrant youth and their journeys to the U.S. It will be followed by a discussion with the film maker. Please share this opportunity with others.
PHONE

(253) 272-2281 {for c omplete information}

*******SHOWING IS CANCELED. CHECK US OUT NEXT WEEK FRIDAY OCT 26.******

Industrial Workers of the World business meeting. All are welcome.

We will meet in the McCormick Room, on the third floor of Collins Memorial Library on the University of Puget Sound campus.

If using an electronic mapping program, the best intersection to map to is "N Union Ave & N 18th St, Tacoma". Going North on Union, turn right on to N 18th St. Turn right into a small university parking lot (technically N Warner St.). Park and walk around to the front of the Library. There is a small map attached.

The October 22nd Coalition to Stop Police Brutality, Repression and the Criminalization of a Generation has been mobilizing every year since 1996 for a National Day of Protest on October 22nd, bringing together those under the gun and those not under the gun as a powerful voice to expose the epidemic of police brutality. http://october22.org/index.html

Monday October 22nd SDS will be meeting at 8:00pm in the lounge of the Student Union Building at the University of Puget Sound instead of the Library due to fall break building schedules. See you all there!

Rebels With a Cause: film showing and discussion with the filmmakers.
On October 25, 2007
from 6pm-9pm
University of Puget Sound
Tacoma, WA
Jones Hall Room 202

A feature documentary about the hopes, rebellions, and repression of the 1960s as told by members of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). 110 minutes.

"It isn't the rebels who cause the troubles of the world,
it's the troubles that cause the rebels."
-- Carl Oglesby, SDS

THURSDAY, Oct 26- 6:30pm at Kilworth Chapel on the UPS Campus (adjacent to Collins library, N 18th & Warner)

From West Point grads to drill sergeants, from Abu Ghraib interrogators to low ranking reservist-mechanics; soldiers in the US Army today reveal their deepest moral concerns about what they are asked to do in war.

Their message: every soldier wrestles with his conscience over killing. Although most decide to kill, some refuse. Soldiers of Conscience reveals that far more soldiers refuse to kill than we might expect.

WHAT: "The War on Terror and Academic Freedom," a lecture with discussion
WHO: Dr. David Price, St. Martin's University
WHEN: Friday, October 26, 2007, at 7:00 p.m.
WHERE: King's Books, (http://www.kingsbookstore.com/) 218 St. Helens
Ave., Tacoma, WA 98402 (253-272-8801)

David H. Price will discuss the ways the war on terror is limiting
academic freedom and harnessing the production of knowledge for use by
military and intelligence agencies. Many attacks on academic freedom
are undertaken by groups, such as the American Council of Trustees of

Tacoma SDS presents Radical Film Night each Friday at 7:30 PM at 808 N. Union (across from the University of Puget Sound).

Showing October 26: Manufacturing Consent; Noam Chomsky and the Media (1992)

Winner of Fifteen National Awards, explores the work of linguist, intellectual, and activist Noam Chomsky. Biography, archival footage, graphics, and illustrations show Chomsky's critique of the mass media and the bad work behind the daily news.

For more information, contact facilitator@tacomasds.org

October 27th: "END THE WAR NOW" March & Rally in Seattle

Saturday, October 27, 2007
Noon Assembly at Judkins Park (near 23rd and Jackson)
March to Occidental Park (in Pioneer Square)

This event is sponsored by The October 27 Coalition To End The War