Join peace actions near you: INTERNATIONAL: www.unitedforpeace.org; MILITARY: www.mfso.org; SEATTLE area: www.snowCoalition.org/contact.php. Jean Buskin's Puget Sound Activism Calendar: www.scn.org/activism/calendar or text version: www.scn.org/activism/PJ-cal.txt. PUGET SOUND: Women in Black Vigils: Gig Harbor, Bellevue, Bainbridge Island, Edmonds, Seattle: www.scn.org/womeninblack.

WEDNESDAY MAY 7

7:30 PM. "The Hidden Faces of AIDS: Greatest Humanitarian Crisis of Our Time" with Kasune Zulu, one of over one million people living with HIV/AIDS in Zambia (a country of nine million). Tickets $5. Town Hall, Seneca at 8th Ave. Info: 206-652-4255 or www.townhallseattle.org/calendar.cfm.

THURSDAY MAY 8

6:30-9, Speakers' training for opponents of estate tax abolition, with United for a Fair Economy co-founder Chuck Collins & local organizer Lois Canright. Wash. Assn. of Churches, 419 Occidental Ave. S., Ste. 201. $5 donation, noone turned away. Info & RSVP: 206-332-0200, UFENW@aol.com.

7 PM. Raja Shehadeh reads from "Strangers in the House: Coming of Age in Occupied Palestine." University United Church of Christ, 4515 16th Ave. NE. Info: 206-524-2322.

7 PM. Edward Said speaks on "US Foreign Policy in the Middle East." SOLD OUT. Kane Hall, Room 130. Info: 206-634-3400x256 or www.bookstore.washington.edu/ubs/main.

7:30 PM. "Is the US Becoming a Surveillance Society?" with ACLU's Barry Steinhardt. Tickets $5. Town Hall, Seneca at 8th Ave. Info: 206-624-2184 or www.townhallseattle.org/calendar.cfm.

FRIDAY MAY 9

11:30 AM-4 PM. "Evolution of First Nations in the US." With Elouise Cobell, Blackfeet tribal member. Carlson Theatre, Bellevue Community College, bus #271. Info: www.indiantrust.com.

6 PM, Prisoners Art Show Opening; 7 PM, film screening of "The Selling of a Serial Killer: The Aileen Wuornos Story." Part of Wimmin & Prison film series & art show. Independent Media Center, 1415 3rd Ave. Info: www.seattle.indymedia.org.

7-9:30 PM. "Are We Risking Democracy?--Election 2004" Bev Harris, author of "Black Box Voting: Ballot-Tampering in the 21st Century." Also, screening of the Greg Palast film "Counting on Democracy." Keystone Church, 5019 Keystone Pl. N. Free or donation. Info: Wallingford Neighbors For Peace, bridging@attbi.com.

SATURDAY MAY 10

6-10 PM. Mother's Day Auction: "Mother Work, Raising the Future of Our World." Benefits the Welfare Rights Organizing Committee. Capitol Hill Arts Center, 1621 12th Ave., bus #10, 11. Info: 206-324-3063 or wrocsea@wroc.org.

SUNDAY MAY 11

9:30 AM. Mother's Day Action for Peace. Nonviolence training, witness against nuclear weapons/Trident submarines. Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action, 16159 Clear Creek Rd. NW, Poulsbo. Info: 206-365-7865 or www.gzcenter.org.

10 AM-4 PM. "What Mainstream Media Isn't Telling Us About the War." Co-sponsored by Not In Our Name and the Muslim Student Association. Free. UW HUB. Info: 206-322-3813 or seattle_notinourname@hotmail.com.

MONDAY MAY 12

7-9 PM Mondays. Codepink meeting: the creative power of women for peace! Group Health Cooperative, South Bldg., 15th Ave. E. & Denny Way, Rm. A6, bus #8, 10, 43. Info: codepink4seattle@hotmail.com.

TUESDAY MAY 13

7:30 PM. Jonathon Schell reads from "Unconquerable World: Power, Nonviolence and the Will of the People." (See review this issue.) Tickets $5 from Elliot Bay Book Co. or at the door. Town Hall, 8th & Seneca, bus #2. Info: 206-624-6600 or www.townhallseattle.org/calendar.cfm.

WEDNESDAY MAY 14

Noon-2 PM. "Purple Rose Campaign," workshop on the trafficking of women, & globalization's impact on the Philippines. RSVP/Info: Gabriela Network, 206-587-3735 or sam2kj@aol.com.

7 PM. Monthly meeting for Eat the State! Enjoying your meal? Help plan the menu! University Baptist Church, NE 47th & 12th Ave. NE, 3rd Floor. Info: 206-903-9461 or ets@scn.org.

THURSDAY MAY 15

& May 16, 9 AM-5 PM. "Undoing Racism Workshop," with the People's Institute for Survival & Beyond. Registration $300. Freedom Church of Seattle 7551 35th Avenue SW. Info: 206-938-1023 or pinwseattle@yahoo.com.

6-9 PM. Children's Alliance 20th Anniversary Celebration. Dinner, program, silent auction. Rain Forest Pavilion, Woodland Park Zoo, West entrance on Phinney Ave. N. Tickets $75. Info: 206-324-0340x18, www.childrensalliance.org

7 PM. Public hearing on plans to ship the country's low-level nuclear waste to Hanford. Stop Hanford from becoming a National Radioactive Waste Dump! Woodland Park Zoo Auditorium, 50th St. & Fremont Ave. N. Info: Hear of America NW, 206-382-1014 or stacey@heartofamericanorthwest.org.

7 PM. Margaret Atwood reads from "Oryx and Crake." UW, Kane Hall 130. Free, tickets required, available at all U. Bookstore locations. Info: www.bookstore.washington.edu/ubs/.

FRIDAY MAY 16

7-9 PM. Edmonds Peace Action monthly meeting. 23010 84th Ave. W., Community Transit bus #118. Info: PeaceAction98020@aol.com or http://hometown.aol.com/peaceaction98020.

7 PM. "Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin." Film screening, with director Nancy Kates. Seattle Art Museum, 100 University St. Rustin, a gay anti-war pacifist, was a leading civil rights organizer and MLK advisor until a 1964 arrest for solicitation of gay sex destroyed his career. Tickets $8, students $5. Info: 206-682-1770, www.humanities.org.

7 PN. Screening of "Bandit Queen," Independent Media Center, 1415 3rd Ave. Part of Wimmin & Prison film series & art show. Info: www.seattle.indymedia.org.

SATURDAY MAY 17

9 AM-4 PM. "Ending Violence" workshop, hosted by the National Coalition Building Institute. $30-$80 sliding scale. Registration: www.scn.org/ncbisea/, SCCC Rm. 3115, Broadway & Pine, bus #7, 10, 11, 60. Info: 206-323-5427 or www.scn.org/ncbisea/.

"Anti-Racism Primer," using "Theater of the Oppressed" techniques. Hosted by RESYST/Gay City University. Location, info, & registration: www.gaycity.org.

6 PM. Cesar Chavez Solidarity Celebration. Benefits United Farmworkers Union. Aerospace Machinist's Hall, 9125 15th Pl. S., bus #132. Info: 206-789-1947 or rsaldana@ufwmail.com.

TUESDAY MAY 20

10-11 AM. "Gay Asian Male Experience." Paul Chen & Chong-Suk Han. SCCC Rm. 1110/1111, Broadway & Pine, bus #7, 9, 10, 60. Info: 206-587-6335 or sam2kj@aol.com.

7:30-9 PM. "At the Feet of Our Elders: Community Building." Including Vi Hilbert, Skagit elder and storyteller; moderated by Robert L. Jeffrey, Jr., publisher, Colors NW magazine. Tickets $10. Carlson Theater, Bellevue Community College, 3000 Landerholm Circle SE, bus #271. Tickets/info: 425-564-2042.

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