THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 16

5:30-8 PM, Office of People for Fair Trade & Network Opposed to the WTO, 1914 4th Ave. Opening Reception for the Fall Semester of the Urban Action School. Info: 206-464-9129 or waal@toolsforchange.org or http://www.endgame.org/uas.html

7-9 PM, Unitarian Church, 6556 35th Ave NE, bus # 40, 64, 71, 76. North Seattle for Fair Trade neighborhood meeting on the WTO. Info: 206-528-8067 or tennican@halcyon.com or 877-786-7986.

7:15, The Ballard/Fremont Fair Trade Committee is a group of local citizens alarmed by the effects of the World Trade Organization, and is preparing a "teach-in" on the WTO and other neighborhood educational events. It meets every Thursday in Ballard. For directions or more information, please call 378-5780.

7:30 PM, New Freeway Hall, 5018 Rainier Ave. S., bus #7, 9. Mexican Independence Day Celebration with Radical Women, including video "Que Viva Mexico" by Russian director Sergei Eisenstien. Info: 206-722-6057.

SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 18

Planning meeting for the October 22nd Coalition/National Day of Protest to Stop Police Brutality, Repression. Info: 206-264-5527 or 1-888-NO-BRUTALITY.

3 PM, University Baptist Church, 4554 12th Ave NE. Citizens Concerned for the People of Iraq meeting. Info: 206-789-5565.

7:30 PM, University Baptist Church, 12th NE & NE 47th. Poet/songwriter Michael Stern, benefit performance for Seattle Habitat For Humanity. Info: 206-633-3647.

SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 19

11 AM, 3842 NE 90th St., bus # 71. Brunch with Sally Soriano, discussing "WTO--Danger to Human Rights." Info: 206-523-1127.

3 PM, Ballard Oddfellows, 1706 NW Market Street (17th and Market in downtown Ballard), Teach-in on "The Dangers of the World Trade Organization." Speakers include Ballard residents Dan Norton, a candidate for City Council, and Sally Soriano, leader of Washington Fair Trade Campaign. Sponsored by the Ballard/Fremont Fair Trade Committee. For more information or for directions, please contact Devin at 378-5780.

5 PM, Woodland Park Presbyterian Church, 225 N. 70th, bus #5. Potluck meeting, Fellowship of Reconciliation, focus on "Life Today in Bosnia And Kosovo: Prospects For Peace." Info: 206-789-5565.

MONDAY SEPTEMBER 20

7 PM, University Baptist Church, 4554 12th Ave NE. Nonviolent Action Community of Cascadia monthly action planning meeting. Info: 206-547-0952.

TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 21

7 PM, NO to WTO Office, 1914 4th Ave. Help the National Lawyers Guild prepare legal observers for anti-WTO actions.

WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 22

LOVE YOUR BODY DAY, 2nd Annual day of Action, National Organization for Women Foundation's Women's Health Project. Info: 206-632-8547.

6 - 8:30 PM, Casa Latina 2217 4th Ave. (call to confirm location). "Visualizing the Global Predicament," an Urban Action School class with cartoonist Leonard Rifas. Info: 206-464-9129, waal@toolsforchange.org, or http://www.endgame.org/uas.html.

THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 23

7 PM, Seattle Central Community College, Portable Building, rm. 108, Broadway at Pine. "How Can We Stop The Multi-National Corporations?" anti-WTO forum with the International Socialist Organization. Info: 206-292-8809.

FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 24

7 PM, Hi*Score Arcade, Bellevue Ave, E, @ E. Pike St., bus #7, 10, 14. All Ages benefit show for North Seattle Grassroots Radio. Music by Yearoftheboar, 1848, Sweetback. Info: nsgr@hotmail.com.

SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 25

And Sunday Sept. 26. Volunteer training for Lambert House, center for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender & Questioning Youth. People of Color especially needed. Info: 206-322-2515.

9:30 AM-1 PM, King County Labor Temple, 2800 1st Ave at Broad. Meeting of People For Fair Trade/Network Opposed to WTO. Info: 206-782-8292 or 1-877-STOPWTO or http://www.peopleforfairtrade.org.

SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 26

3-5 PM, University Temple United Methodist Church, 15th Ave. NE at NE 43rd St., north entrance. Interfaith Network Concerned for the People of Iraq. Info: 206-522-4934.

7 PM, PRAG House, 747 16th Ave. E. "Social Change and Human Rights In Mexico," update on Chiapas. Info: rlevine@igc.org or 206-328-2812.

TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 28

7-9 PM, Good Shepherd Center, 4649 Sunnyside Ave. N. rm 221. "Sexual Assault in King County: The Future of Services For Survivors" with Seattle National Organization for Women. Info: 206-632-8547.

THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 30

Through Sat. Oct. 2, St. Mark's Episcopal Cathedral, 1245 10th Ave. E., bus #7, 9. "What does God require of Us?," Global Economic Justice conference. Speakers include David Korten, author of "When Corporations Rule the World"; Anuradha Mittal, Institute for Food and Development Policy. Info: 206-625-9790 or http://www.econjustice.org.

FRIDAY OCTOBER 1

6-9 PM, Phinney Neighborhood Center Community Hall, 6532 Phinney Ave. N., lower parking lot, bus #5. "Neighborhood Communities: Best of the Old, Best of the New!" Explore models for restoring community to neighborhoods: barter networks, block watches, cohousing, community councils, community gardens, etc. Info: habib@thegarden.net or 206-721-0217 or http://www.neighbornets.org.

7-9 PM, Casa Latina, 2217 4th Ave. (call to confirm location). "Yugoslavia: War, Dissolution, & Human Rights," an Urban Action School class with Peter Lippman. Info: 206- 464-9129, waal@toolsforchange.org, or http://www.endgame.org/uas.html.

EARLY ALERT: CHOMSKYTHON! 2 Nights Of Intellectual Self-Defense With Noam Chomsky (on video). November 12 & 13, 911 Media Arts Center, Yale @ Stewart. Benefit for Eat the State! Friday Nov. 12, 7 PM "Politics, Media and Free Trade"; 9 PM, "Population Control." Saturday Nov. 13, 8 PM, "Manufacturing Consent." Info: 206-903-9461.

For an excellent and much, much longer compilation of upcoming and ongoing progressive events in Seattle, check out Jean Buskin's Peace Calendar: http://www.scn.org/activism/calendar/ or e-mail her at bb369@scn.org.