THURSDAY, APRIL 26

6:30-9:30 PM, Peace Cafe, 5828 Roosevelt NE, bus #66. Monthly letter writing party to end sanctions against Iraq. Info: jeffgu@hotmail.com or 425-936-0441 or www.endiraqsanctions.org.

6:30-8:45 PM, New Hope Baptist Church, 124-21st St., 1 block N of Yesler, bus #27, 48. Green Party of Seattle meeting. Info: 206-264-5110 or sgreens@boutell.com or www.seattlegreens.org.

FRIDAY, APRIL 27

7 PM, UW Kane Hall, rm. 130. "Race Matters" with Cornel West, Professor of Afro-American Studies, Harvard. Free, ticket required. Info: 206-543-5896 or www.grad.washington.edu.

SATURDAY, APRIL 28

8:30 AM-4 PM, St. Mark's Episcopal Cathedral, 1245-10th Ave E, bus #7. Creating the Political Will to end homelessness. Info: 206-323-0300.

10 AM-2 PM, Victor Steinbrueck Park, north of Pike Place Market. Seattle Sustainable Coffee Campaign-support organically/shade-grown, Fair Trade Certified coffee. Info: 206-770-0990 or jeremy.simer@transfairusa.org.

7 PM, Columbia-Lakewood Community Church, 5005 S. Ferdinand, bus #7. Concert with folksinger/storyteller/activist Tom Rawson; benefits Fellowship of Reconciliation. Info: 206-789-5565.

7:30 PM, Speakeasy Cafe 2304-2nd Ave near Battery. "pickAxe", documentary on citizen blockade protecting 9,000 acre old growth forest. Sponsored by Pacific Crest Biodiversity Project. Info: 206-545-3734 ext. 11.

SUNDAY, APRIL 29

9 PM, KCTS TV ch 9. Anna Deavere Smith's Twilight: Los Angeles theater piece on the 1991 Rodney King beating and the lasting impact of the L.A. riots on America's conscience. Info: 206-443-6799 or tjones@kcts.org or www.pbs.org/wnet/stageonscreen.

TUESDAY, MAY 1

2-8 PM, Victor Steinbrueck Park, north of Pike market. May Day 2001, Music Art & Youth Day. Political Rally: Teen Dance Ordinance, Poster Ban. Info: 206-442-9404 or http://seattlemusicweb.com/mayday/.

THURSDAY, MAY 3

6-8:30 PM, Bellevue Regional Library, 1111-110th Ave. NE., Bellevue, bus # 234, 249, 550. "Diversity Training and Recruitment Under a Microscope" with Az Carmen, Coordinator, Native American Enrollment Services, University of Oregon. Info: 425-452-7922, or hhartman@ci.bellevue.wa.us.

6:30-8 PM, A.M.E. Zion Church, 1716-23rd at Olive, bus #2, 48. Michael Randall Ealy Social Justice meeting, working to bring justice for the death of Michael Randall Ealy and others, killed in custody of Seattle Police. Info: 206-320-7069 or opealy@uswest.net.

SATURDAY, MAY 5

Aerospace Machinists' Hall, 9125-15th PL S, bus #60, 130. Cesar Chavez Solidarity Celebration; Celebrate "Cinco de Mayo" with the United Farmworkers of America. Info: romero.g@att.net.

9:30 AM-4 PM, Seattle area. "From Violence to Wholeness: the Creative Power of Nonviolence" workshop. Info: 206-625-9790, x12.

1 PM, UW School of Law, Condon Hall, 1100 NE Campus Pkwy. Injustice in the Justice System/Devastating Impacts of the War on Drugs, part of the ACLU of Washington annual meeting. Info: 206-624-2184 or www.aclu-wa.org.

2 PM, WA State History Museum, 1911 Pacific Ave, Tacoma, bus # 570. Children's show with labor activist/folksinger Charlie King, Karen Brandow. Info: mhoney@u.washington.edu.

3-5 PM, Kent Regional Library, Meeting Room, 212-2nd Avenue N., near Kent Transit Center. Green Party of S. King County Meeting. Info: 253-941-9364 or http://communities.msn.com/GreenPartyofSouthKingCounty.

4 PM, Keystone Congregational Church, 5019 Keystone PL N, bus # 16. Scott Ritter, former US weapons inspector with the UN team in Iraq, self- described ".. marine, republican and patriot" and outspoken critic of sanctions against Iraq. Info: 206-522-4934 or www.endiraqsanctions.org.

SUNDAY, MAY 6

2:30 PM, New Freeway Hall, 5018 Rainier Ave S, bus #7. Tear Down the Walls: May Day Protest Celebration For Political Prisoners. Music, poetry readings from prisoners. Info: 206-722-2453 or FSPseattle@mindspring.com.

TUESDAY, MAY 8

10 AM, Westin Hotel, 1900-5th Ave @ Olive. 2001 Asia Pacific Cities Summit/Protest partnerships between our local municipalities and the World Bank, IMF and WTO. Info: APC Summit website www.apsummit.org or 206-329-7413 or mtc2000_usa@yahoo.com.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 9

7 PM, Eat the State! Office, Independent Media Center, 1415-3rd Ave near Pike St. Monthly Business Meeting for Eat the State! Come opine, meet, volunteer. Info: 206-215-1156.

FRIDAY, MAY 11

Through May 13, Camp Indianola, Olympic Peninsula. "Compassionate Listening: Healing Our World from the Inside Out" with Leah Green, founder of MidEast Citizen Diplomacy. Info: 360-297-2280 or office@mideastdiplomacy.org or www.mideastdiplomacy.org.

7-10 PM, Independent Media Center, 1415 -3rd Ave. Seattle premiere of "Tree-Sit-The Art of Resistance", & discussion with the filmmakers. Info: 707-925-0012 or earthfilms@havc.org or www.earthfilms.org.

SATURDAY, MAY 12

10 AM-3 PM, Seattle Center, Center House. "Safe Kids Rally" with the Million Mom March movement. Music, activities, a common goal of common sense gun laws, honoring the day before Mother's Day! Info: 206-878-1231 or handlerklein@uswest.net.

SUNDAY, MAY 13

10 AM-3 PM, Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action, 16159 Clear Creek Rd, Poulsbo. Mother's Day Action to abolish nuclear weapons. Info: 360-377-2586 or info@gzcenter.org.

TUESDAY, MAY 15

7-9 PM, Lesbian Resource Center, 23rd & Jackson, bus #8, 14, 48. White Women Organizing Against Racism meeting. Info: 206-323-2396 or stemple@ywcaworks.org.

7 PM, University Unitarian Church, 6556-35th Ave. NE, bus #40, 64, 65, 71. "Poverty, Racism And Economic Injustice-Global to Local" with David Korten, author of 'When Corporations Rule the World'. Info: 206-522-9384.

CONTINUING

Thurs. May 3-Sat. May 5 (also May 10-12 & 17-19). 7400 Sand Point Way NE, the May shows of ETS! enthusiasts (they'll be selling our brand new t-shirts, too) Circus Contraption! A socially conscious art circus wild ride, like nothing you've ever (probably) seen--check them out. Twice. $10 door. Info &reservations: info@CircusContraption.com, www.CircusContraption.com, 206-442-2004.

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.