WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 13

7 PM. Monthly Business/Editorial Meeting for Eat the State! Come opine, meet, volunteer. How do we do it every other week? People like you! Come be one of them! NE 47th and 12th Ave. NE, info: 206-903-9461 or ets@scn.org

THURSDAY, AUGUST 14

5-6 PM. Peace vigil to protest US policy in Afghanistan, Palestine/Israel, and Iraq. Silent, visible presence by Women in Black, Women wear black; men welcome to leaflet, too. Westlake Park, 4th & Pine, info: seattlewomeninblack@speakeasy.net or 206-208-9715.

6 PM. Candidate's Night, a forum for all Seattle SNOW (Sound Nonviolent Opponents of War) members, peace advocates, and other interested Seattle voters. 425 NE 95th Street, Seattle.

7 PM. ACLU presentation on the King County Resolution Against the Patriot Act. Learn how to collect signatures for the Resolution. 5019 Keystone N at 50th St.

FRIDAY, AUGUST 15

6:30 PM. Queen Anne Neighbors for Peace, informal potluck and work party followed by boogie. Get some hands-on work done, then unwind and dance! 1622 2nd Ave. W. Info: www.mvp-seattle.org/.

SATURDAY, AUGUST 16

Thru 17. Seattle Hempfest at Myrtle Edwards Park.

11 AM-2:30 PM. Queen Anne Neighbors for Peace, weekly tabling, leaflets, and signs. Queen Anne Ave. & Boston. Also holding signs at 1:30 PM at Queen Anne Ave. & McGraw St. Info: John & Sheila Morris at queenanne@snowcoalition.org or 206-284-4872.

SATURDAY, AUGUST 16

and Sun. Aug. 17, 10 AM-8 PM. Hempfest! Myrtle Edwards Park. Info: 206- 781-5734 or hempfest.org.

2 PM. The Saturday Bush Shout Out. (You know, we don't actually shout.) Pier 70/Myrtle Edwards Park, at the elbow of Alaskan Way and Broad Street. Info: http://www.mvp- seattle.org/html/calendar.html.

SUNDAY, AUGUST 17

2 PM. Newly invigorated peace vigil, standing to demand an investigation of the intelligence invoked to justify the Iraq War with new signs "America Wants the Truth!" or bring your own. Greenlake, 63rd Street and E Greenlake Way. Info: greenlakepeacevigil@hotmail.com or http://www.greenlakepeacevigil.org.

4:30 PM. University Friends Center presents teen program on war and peace, nationalism, pacifism, patriotism, and the media, for ages 14 to 18. Films, food, conversation. 4001 9th Ave. NE, Seattle. If interested in attending, please e-mail quaker_lawyer@attbi.com.

4-7 PM. Seattle Chapter Fellowship of Reconciliation annual summer picnic, shelter number 6 in lower Woodland Park. Info: 206-789-5565.

MONDAY, AUGUST 18

6 PM. Families of Color United in Support (FOCUS) Monthly Meeting. For families of color with gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender children. POCAAN, 2200 Rainier Ave. S at Walker. Info: Jeff at 206-583-2110.

7 PM. General meeting of Sound Nonviolent Opponents of War (SNOW Coalition). Alki Congregational Church, 6115 SW Hinds St., info: 206-789 2684 or http://www.snowcoalition.org.

7 PM. Codepink Seattle weekly meeting. Women creating peace by working for justice. Group Health South Building, 15th Ave. & Denny, Room A6. Info: http://www.codepinkseattle.org.

TUESDAY, AUGUST 19

7 PM. White Women organizing against racism, a place for white women to get support from one another in doing anti-racist work. For location and info: Kristyn Joy at 206-860-7371.

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20

6:30 PM. Meeting of Amnesty International Group 4, working to protect human rights worldwide. Greenlake Community Center, 7201 East Green Lake Drive N, info: www.scn.org/amnesty or 206- 622-6741.

7:30 PM. Djelimady Tounkara, the "guitar hero" of modern Malian music and winner of the BBC3's World Music Award for Africa will play at Meany Hall, Univ. of WA. Proceeds benefit Real Change Newspaper. Tickets: $25 at Ticketweb.com, Real Change, and Wall of Sound.

THURSDAY, AUGUST 21

7:30 AM. Seattle Monorail Project finance committee meeting, open to the public. 1913 4th Avenue, downtown. Info: www.elevated.org or Info@elevated.org.

7 PM. Poets Against the War meeting, short business meeting and discussion followed by poetry reading (of course!) All poets and friends of poets welcome. Third Place Books, 20th NE and NE 65th, Seattle. Info: Beth Coyote at beth@poetsagainstthewar.org.

7:30 PM. "Food and Film in the Park," discussion and film 9 PM. "Strong Roots (Raiz Forte)," portrait of Brazil's Landless Workers Movement (MST). At the small park at Interlaken Blvd & and 24th Ave. E., Montlake. Sliding scale 0- $25, benefits Community Alliance for Global Justice. RSVP/info: CAGJ@riseup.net, 206-405-4600.

FRIDAY, August 22

George W. Bush will be in Bellevue. For info on responses and planning, see www.stopbushseattle.com or www.mvp-seattle.org/.

SATURDAY, AUGUST 23

George W. Bush will be in Seattle. Noon rally & march leaving from Myrtle Edwards Park. For info on responses and planning, see www.stopbushseattle.com or www.mvp-seattle.org/.

Noon. Sidewalk education for Palestinian Human Rights. Sponsored by Palestine Solidarity Committee. At corner of Queen Anne Ave. N and Boston St. Some folks may also be at Westlake Park. Info: palestinejustice@aol.com, 206 633-1086.

Noon-5 PM. The Nat Turner Teach-In, a chance for people of color to explore histories of black resistance in honor of the Nat Turner slave rebellion; open only to people of color. Evening program 7:30-10 open to entire public. East Cherry YWCA, 2820 E Cherry St. To register or for info: www.cara-seattle.org, or theryn@cara-seattle.org.

SUNDAY, AUGUST 24

9 AM-6 PM. Simplicity Conference. Take back your time, live more simply and in harmony with the world. Speakers include Cecile Andrews, Wanda Urbanska, John de Graaf, others. $25, bring lunch. Seattle Univ. Ballroom. Info: www.seedsofsimplicity.org or Cecile Andrews at 206-783 1152.

TUESDAY, AUGUST 26

7 PM. Meeting of Puget Sound Chapter of COLAGE (Children Of Lesbians And Gays Everywhere), a group for youth ages 12-18. Basement below Lifelong AIDS Alliance Thrift Store, 1017 E Union St. Info: Robert Raketty at 206-444-8780.

7:30 PM. Elliott Bay Press and Seattle Thunder presents radio and print commentator Jim Hightower, instigator of the Rolling Thunder Down Home Democracy Tour. 6512 23rd Ave. NW, Ballard. Tickets: $5, students free, available at Elliott Bay Books. Info: http://www.seattlethunder.net or Elliott Bay 206-624-6600.

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.

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