28 March 2012 Global Network Coordinator Embarks on
30-Day West Coast Speaking Tour The Deadly Connection—Endless War and the
Ecological, Economic Crisis
Recognized by artist Robert Shetterly in his series
Americans Who Tell the Truth, Bruce Gagnon, an international peace
organizer and activist, will embark on a 30-day west coast speaking tour
that will take him from San Diego, California to Bellingham, Washington.
The 24-city trip will run from April 1-30.
Bruce, who coordinates the
Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space from Bath,
Maine, will help local communities explore and confront the reality of the
Pentagon’s drive for “full spectrum dominance.” He will discuss the impact
that our expanding militarism has on our natural ecosystems and our economic
crisis at home. From Maine to Jeju Island, South Korea his indefatigable
studying, traveling, and organizing has shown how the Pentagon’s intent to
control the planet on behalf of corporate globalization has moved from land
to sea to air to space pouring our natural and fiscal resources into
escalating war-making and violence.
Bruce’s assessment is: “The
Pentagon will send our kids off to foreign lands to suppress opposition to
corporate globalization. How will we ever end America’s addiction to war
and violence as long as our communities are dependent on military spending
for jobs? We must vigorously work to convert the military industrial
complex to decentralized sustainable technologies like wind-power, solar,
and mass transit.”
His talks will challenge
communities to discuss the strategies behind President Obama’s “pivot” and
expanding U.S. militarism in the Asia-Pacific region; current U.S. space
technology strategy; the need to promote the conversion of the military
industrial complex to sustainable production to mitigate climate change; the
2012 elections, and what Americans can do about corporate domination of
Congress.
Bruce concludes, “U.S.
foreign and military policy today is all about control of declining natural
resources around the world. The Pentagon is restarting the Cold War by
surrounding Russia and China with so-called ‘missile defense’ systems that
are actually key elements in U.S. first-strike planning. We do have a real
problem today and it is called climate change. We can’t afford the pay for
endless war that only benefits the mega-corporations and further pollutes
our planet. During this speaking tour I intend to share a spirit of
determination and non-violent resistance with people throughout the west
coast. We need to make a collective demand across this nation and around
the world. We are tired of war, tired of corporate domination, and
determined to take back our governments. The future generations depend on
our courage and our success.”
Bruce used Amtrak trains and buses for most of the west-coast travel during this tour.
April 1 Los Angeles,
CA (Overall L.A. coordinator) Randy
Ziglar 310-452-0362 & Cris 424-214-8096
April 2 San Diego Mariah Gayler
619-263-9301 Brethren Peace Campus, 3850 Westgate Place, 7:00 – 9:00 pm
April 3 Oceanside Oceanside
Public Library Community Room, 330 N. Coast Highway, 7:00 – 9:00 pm Carol
Jahnkow 619-263-9301
April 4 Los Angeles L.A.
Catholic Worker House, 10:30 am
April 4 Santa Monica Ocean Park
Library, Community Room, 601 Main Street, 7:00 – 8:30 pm
April 5 Santa Monica Day off
April 6 – Los Angeles Andy
Griggs (Interfaith Communities United for Justice and Peace) 7:00 am
310-704-3217 Immanuel Presbyterian Church, 3300 Wilshire Blvd. LA
(Entrance on Berendo)
April 6 – Anaheim Unitarian
Church in Orange County, 511 South Harbor Blvd at 6:45 pm Randy Ziglar;
Ruth Shapin 714-633-0922
April 7 – Ventura Cindy Piester
(VFP) 805-407-7997 Foster Library, 651 E. Main St., 3:00 pm talk (TV
interview also)
April 8 – Ventura
April 9 – San Luis Obispo
Henriette Groot 805-602-1539 San Luis Obispo Library Community Room, 995
Palm Street at 7:00 pm
April 11 – Sacramento Winnie
(Peace Action) 916-448-7157 cell 916-599-6635 and Riad Bahhur 916-650-2738
& cell is 916-471-8721
Sacramento City College on Wednesday 3:00 - 4:20cpm
Peace Action Sacramento, Community room at Colonial Heights Library,
4799 Stockton Blvd, 7:00 pm
April 12 – Santa Rosa Santa Rosa Junior College, 7:00 pm Lynda
Williams 415-350-8418, 415-350-8418
- KAOS Radio interview 12:30 pm
April 13 - Santa Rosa Peace &
Justice Center of Sonoma County (467 Sebastopol Ave), 6:00 pm Susan Lamont
707-575-8902
April 14 – Boonville Barbara &
John Lewallen 707-895-2996 Lauren’s Restaurant Noon, 12:00-3:30 pm
April 15 – Garberville John
Haynes Memorial Veterans Hall, Conger & Locust St, 7:00 pm Fredy Champagne
(VFP) 707-599-5378
April 16 – Day off
April 17 – Eugene,
OR Gordon Sturrock (Squadron13)
541-729-7760, Anti-John Bolton rally
April 18 – Corvallis Linda
Richards 541-740-3341 Oregon State Univ. Linus Pauling Science Center,
Room 125, 5:30 – 7:30 pm
April 19 – Hood River Corie
Lahr 909-215-4682 Riverside Community Church, 7:00 pm
April 20 – Portland Tom
Hastings (503-327-8250, Whitefeather House) and Celeste Howard
(503-648-7759 cell 503-946-6266), First Unitarian Church, 6:30 pm, Fuller
Hall
April 21 – Hillsboro UU
Community Church 10:00 – 2:00 pm Talk, potluck, conversation hour (Celeste
Howard); and Forest Grove Pacific University, Taylor Auditorium, 7:30 pm
Trelaine Ito (World Awareness Council)
ito7221@pacificu.edu
April 22 – Beaverton
Southminster Presbyterian Church, 11:45 am – 1:30 pm Mark Mullins
(503-648-0411); Portland Community Media interview with David Delk
(Alliance for Democracy) public access cable TV, 2 – 3 pm (503-232-5495) -
April 23 – Olympia, WA Holly
Gwinn Graham 360-866-0257 and Tim Russell (SPSCC & media)
April 24 – Olympia Traditions
Cafe, 6:30 pm, 300 5th Avenue Southwest
April 25 – Walla Walla Whitman
College, Olin Hall Room 130, 7:00 pm Jennifer Doering cell: (858) 945-2813
April 26 - Bellingham 4:00 PM
classroom presentation at Western Washington University (Arntzen Hall) and
an evening event at Mt Baker Theatre's Encore Room at 7:00 PM, Gene Marx (VFP)
253-653-4423
April 27 – Bellingham 7:00 PM,
Mt. Baker Theatre's Encore Room, 104 North Commercial Street, Gene Marx,
253-653-4423
April 28 – Seattle Leonard
Eiger/Tom Shea 425-445-2190 and Rebecca Wolfe (UNA) 425-774-6546 (Mike
McCormick KEXP radio Seattle, 7:15-8:00 a.m)
April 28 Redmond Soul Food
Books, 15748 Redmond Way, Talk at 1:00 pm
April 29 – Seattle 4:00 pm,
main Seattle speaking engagement at University Temple United Methodist
Church
April 30 – Tacoma 12:30 – 1:30
pm, University of Washington, Tacoma, Carwein Auditorium, 1551 Broadway,
Crawford, crawford@u.washington.edu
Recognized by artist Robert Shetterly in his series
