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URGENT ACTION ALERT House postpones vote on war funding. Vote will be next this week. Keep phoning and emailing your Reps! Details, background and contact info here.

Upcoming Events

Online Videos

Specials

Hanan Awwad is a Palestinian poet and President of the Palestine Branch of Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.. Ms. Awwad will be speaking on June 16, 7:30 p.m. at the Fellowship Hall of First Presbyterian Church, 1140 Cowper St., Palo Alto.  More details coming soon.

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Economic Peace Stimulus Package
When you receive your tax rebate, do something that will really help our economy.

Use it to end the war.
Click for details

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Meaningful television . . . for a change

Other Voices TV is PPJC's award-winning monthly television program and free monthly forum. Broadcast live on the first Tuesday of every month, it is rebroadcast throughout the month on Mid-Peninsula cable TV channel 27. Click here for the schedule.

Next program is June 3, 7:00 p.m. at Community Media Center, 900 San Antonio Road, Palo Alto. Topic and guests to be announced.

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NEW Other Voices TV: The Global Food Crisis (Recorded May 6, 2008) The hidden struggle for the world food system, with Raj Patel. View video

Democracy in Cuba?! Author Arnold August talks about Cuba's electoral systems. Recorded April 17. 1 hour 25 min. View video

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Other Voices TV: Economy in Crisis. Who pays? Who profits? (Recorded 4/1/08) What's behind the economic downturn? What roles have deregulation and globalization played in the current crisis? And what about the cost of the Iraq War? View video

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Click here to list all available online videos.

Article of the Day
5/14/08
Is Who Becomes the Next President All That Matters? We just don’t have the power to impose our will even as we still suffer from “the USA is No. 1” syndrome and think that we can kick ass and take names if anyone stands in our way. Read more

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Orwell Was An Optimist
A Video Blog

Episode 25: Live from the Pentagon . . . It's Joseph Goebbels! (4/27/08) Here's the independent, unbiased, expert opinion: Our democratically-elected US government doesn't do propaganda. Or torture. Or illegal detention. Or extraordinary rendition. Or aggressive war. You can take the experts' well-compensated word for it. View video

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Peace Rant

PPJC director Paul George's blog.

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PH Yang's gallery of PPJC events. PH Yang Photography