Dec 1 Rosa Parks Day Activities and Organizing Centers

Rally from 2 to 6pm at Wall Street and Broadway, NYC
March at 6 pm to Federal Building - 26 Federal Plaza and the African Burial Ground.
(Student Walk-outs starting at 11 am and gathering at Union Square, then at 2 pm to Wall Street)
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list in formation (updated 11/29/05)

California

Los Angeles

Troops Out Now Coalition(TONC)-Los Angeles
5274 W. Pico Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90019
Telephone: 323-936-7266
www.iacenterla.org
Email:iacenterla@action-mail.org
Rosa Parks Day Activity Details: RALLY Against Poverty, Racism & War On the 50th Anniversary of Rosa Parks' Arrest Thursday, Dec. 1, noon, at Downtown Federal Building in Los Angeles - Shut Down the War! No Work, School or Shopping
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First Unitarian Church of Los Angeles
2936 W. 8th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90005
Contact: Aire Norell
Telephone: (213)389-1356
Email:info@uula.org
Rosa Parks Day Activity Details: Sunday, Dec. 4th at 11:00am - Roberto Flores, civil rights activist, will be the guest speaker during our Unitarian-Universalist worship service: "From Rosa to Ramona: Beyond Civil Rights to Self-Determination Through Autonomy." The new movement for another world, inspired by the Zapatistas and their struggle for autonomy, goes beyond demanding civil rights from the government. Rather, we can exercise our right to determine our own lives through autonomy. Ramona, a Zapatista comandante, eloquently expressed the true meaning of Rosa Parks' idea of civil rights and equality when she said, "We don't have to ask permision to be free."

Healdsburg

Healdsburg Peace Project
Contact: Laura Beach
Email:laurabethbeach@hotmail.com
Rosa Parks Day Activity Details: Thurs. Dec. 1, 7-9:30pm: "WAR: Eyewitnesses Tell the Untold", featuring Dahr Jamail, unembedded photojournalist covering Iraq; Jeff Paterson, first US Marine to refuse to fight in 1990 Gulf War; and Leuren Moet, expert on depleted uranium featured in documentary "Beyond Treason." Healdsburg High School Cafeteria, 1024 Prince St., Healdsburg, Ca. General admission $10, free to draft age youth. Co-sponsors: Healdsburg High School Progressive Club and Healdsburg Peace Project.

Oakland-San Francisco

Troops Out Now Coalition(TONC)-Northern California
2940 16th St, #207
San Francisco, CA 94103-3682
Email:actioncenter-sf@action-mail.org
Rosa Parks Day Activity Details: SPEAK OUT Against Poverty, Racism & War On the 50th Anniversary of Rosa Parks' Arrest Sat., Dec. 3, noon, Frank Ogawa Plaza, (near the 12th Street BART station) Oakland, California. In addition to the national demands put out by TONC, locally we are including: End the Death Penalty & immediately stop the execution of Stan Tookie Williams! Stop police brutality & killings of working & poor people in our communities!
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San Diego

Groundwork Political Collective - UCSC
San Diego, CA
Telephone: (858)452-9625
Rosa Parks Day Activity Details: Thursday, Dec 1 - STUDENT WALKOUT Rosa Parks Anniversary Nationwide Strike Against Poverty, Racism and War - No School - No Shopping - No Work - Shut the War Down!
Forum at 12 Noon - Meet at Groundwork Books (Old Student Center, UCSD) End the colonial occupation of Iraq! Capitalism = War
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San Diego International Action Center (IAC)
3930 Oregon St, Suite 230
San Diego, CA 92104
Email:iacsandiego@global.net
Rosa Parks Day Activity Details: Rally, Sat Dec 3rd,12noon on the corner of Euclid and Imperial. March to the Malcolm X Library for a meeting focusing on building the struggle against poverty, racism, and war. The program will include a feature-length film: The Rosa Parks Story. Program at Malcolm X is from 1:30 to 4:30pm. Endorsers List in Formation...

Willits

Open Circle, Inc.
1250 Blosser Lane
Willits, CA 95490
Email:abweller@pacific.net
Telephone: 707-459-2418
Rosa Parks Day Activity Details: Standing for Peace and Freedom - 5-6PM - We will gather on the major hwy that runs thru our town - holding signs, candles and banners proclaiming our desire for bringing the troops home and the 50th anniversary of Rosa Parks' arrest

Colorado

Denver

Denver International Action Center
Email:denveriac@action-mail.org
Rosa Parks Day Activity Details: March and Rally in Denver

Fort Collins

Fort Collins Peace Vigil
421 S. Howes #701, Fort Collins, CO
Contact: Joe Stern
Telephone: 970-493-7030
Email:joesternfc@yahoo.com
Rosa Parks Day Activity Details: Peace Vigil Dec 3 (and every Saturday)
12-1PM

NWC College and Mulberry

Connecticut

Waterbury

Brass Valley Education and Resource Center
Waterbury, CT
Contact: Steve Schrag
Telephone: 203-574-7966
Email:Schrags@worldnet.att.net
Rosa Parks Day Activity Details: What is the connection between the government “response” to Hurricane Katrina and the public show of respect for Rosa Parks? What should we be doing to help the Gulf Coast residents fight despair and to create hope to rebuild their lives and communities? How are the answers to these questions connected to rebuilding our own community? Come join a discussion and strategy session on the 50th anniversary of Rosa Parks’ refusal to leave her seat on the segregated bus, which helped sparked the civil rights movement. Thursday December 1, 2005 7-9 pm Elton Hotel 30 West Main Street Waterbury, CT

Florida

Lake Worth

Palm Beach County Green Party
Little 5 Points Community Center
11443 Key Deer Cir
Lake Worth, FL 33467
Contact Echo Steiner
Telephone: 561-389-2844
Email:echo@greenparty.org
Rosa Parks Day Activity Details: The Green Party invites social justice and peace activists to join us for A Candle Light Demonstration 6 PM City Hall Lake Worth, Florida (7 N. Dixie Highway) To call for a National holiday Honoring Rosa Parks every December 1st. In honor of Rosa Parks, we will also be calling for an end of Occupation of Iraq.
Meeting details: The Green Party of Palm Beach County meets the second Tuesday of the month at 7 PM at the Lake Worth Chocolate Factory Lake Ave. and L Streets Lake Worth, FL. Involved in Peace, Global Justice, Animal Rights, Gender rights, sustainable development.

Georgia

Atlanta

Atlanta International Action Center
Little 5 Points Community Center
1083 Austin Ave. NE, Rm. 203
Atlanta, GA 30306
Contact Dianne Mathiowetz
Telephone: 770-989-2536
Email:atlantaiac@aol.com
Rosa Parks Day Activity Details: Dec. 3 "Shut the War Down" protest, assemble 11:30am, intersection of Peachtree and Lenox Rd (Lenox Mall) We will be lining the streets with huge banners calling for an end to the war, bring the troops home now, justice at home -- jobs, housing, healthcare now. Until 1pm. Dec. 2, street theater, Bush-Cheney Chain Gang will be delivering press releases to local media about Dec. 3 protest. Dec. 1, Rosa Parks memorial event at Spelman College.
Local meeting details: The IAC meets every Sunday night at 7pm, Rm 203 of the Little 5 Points Community Center, 1083 Austin Ave. NE (corner of Euclid and Austin). Parking is available behind the building. Please use the rear entrance. Agenda items include mobilizing for Rosa Parks Day and other ongoing campaigns against racism and homelessness.

Illinois

Chicago

Troops Out Now Coalition - Chicago
Telephone: (773) 381-5839
Email:Chicago1201@sbcglobal.net
Rosa Parks Day Activity Details: Dec. 1 – 4 PM – Protest/leaflet at the Federal Building, Jackson & Dearborn.
– 5 PM – Street meeting / leafleting at State & Madison
Dec 2 – 7 PM – Public meeting, New World Resource Center, 1300 N. Western
(speakers’ list in formation)
1 block north of Division; 6 blocks south of Blue Line stop at Western Ave. Street parking generally available.
Bring the troops home now! - Money for jobs, education, healthcare, housing, food, heat, and human needs – not war! - Say no to militarized schools! - Fight racism – defend affirmative action! - No deportations! Defend immigrant rights! - Justice for Katrina evacuees! Defend the “right of return”! Community control of money, contracts and jobs! Stop the evictions!
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Iowa

Cedar Falls

Contact Anne Johnson
Telephone: 319-266-4611
Email:ajl2833@yahoo.com
Rosa Parks Day Activity Details: On December 1, from 1:00 until 5:00 pm in classroom A at the Waterloo Public Library, 415 Commercial Street in Waterloo, Iowa, will be a memorial to Rosa Parks. Poetry readings, book displays, documentary showing, etc. Still in the planning stages, we could use all the help we could get.
Please contact Anne Johnson at ajl2833@yahoo.com for more information and if you want to volunteer.

Kentucky

Louisville

Kentucky Alliance Against Racist & Political Repression
3208 W Broadway
Louisville, KY 40211
Contact Alice Wade / Kris Philipp
Telephone: 502.778-8130
Email:kyall@bellsouth.net
Rosa Parks Day Activity details: being planned

Maine

Penobscot
Peninsula Peace & Justice
347-804-6504
widesea@hypernet
Rosa Parks Day Activity Details: We are having a strike at noon on 12/2 and a "speak out" in the evening at 6:00 on poverty racism & war

Maryland

Baltimore
Baltimore & Maryland Coordinating Committee for December 1st Rosa Parks Anniversary Day of Absence
telephone: 410-235-7040
email: APCBaltimore@pipeline.com
Address: 426 E 31st St., Baltimore, 21218

Rosa Parks Day Activity detail:
Baltimore Rally & March
Dec 1, 12 noon at City Hall, 100 Holiday St.
march to UNITE-HERE union hall at 7-9 Mulberry St.
against POVERTY, RACISM AND WAR!
Evening "People's Dinner & Tribute to Rosa Parks"
7 P.M. to 9 P.M.
For more information call
All Peoples Congress (410)235-7040 or
Baltimore Branch NAACP (410) 366-3300
Sponsored by a coalition of community, student, anti-war, union and civil rights groups
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Massachusetts

Boston
Boston Rosa Parks Human Rights Day Committee
rosaparksday@brphrd.com
www.bostonrosaparkshumanrightsday.com
www.brphrd.com
c/o USWA 8751 Boston School Bus Union 617-524-3507
www.bostonschoolbusunion.org
Boston City Councilor Chuck Turner, District 7: 617-427-8100
The Cultural Cafe, 617-373-3910
and Troops Out Now Coalition 617-522-6626 iacboston@iacboston.org
www.iacboston.org
Rosa Parks Day Activity Details: Gather 11 am Dec 1 Dudley Common (Blue Hill Ave and Dudley St)
March to Boston City Hall
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Western Massachussetts
Western Mass IAC/Troops Out Now coalition
PO Box 2733, Springfield, MA 01101
Contact: Nick Camerota
Phone:413-896-5219
Email:wmassiac@hotmail.com
Rosa Parks Day Activity: Call or email for details!

Michigan

Detroit
Michigan Emergency Committee Against War & Injustice
5922 Second Ave, Detroit MI 48201
Telephone: 313-680-5508
www.mecawi.org
Rosa Parks Day Activity Details: No Business As Usual No School * No Work * No Shopping Peace and Justice Teach-in 1-8 pm Central United Methodist church Woodward Ave. and Adams St., downtown ).
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Weekly meetings: Every Wednesday at 7 PM at 5920 Second Ave, Detroit (cross street Antoinette).

Muskegon
Activate Muskegon!
289 E. Larch, Muskegon, MI 49442
Contact Faith Groesbeck
Telephone: 231-726-4161
email: sacredsuds@gmail.com
Rosa Parks Day Activity Details: "ROSA: Remembering Our Sister Always" Event will be held at Bethany Church, 1105 Terrace, on the corner of Hartford and Terrace, from 3:30 to 8:30. Call 726-4161 for more details.
"ROSA: Remembering Our Sister Always" will celebrate and remember the life of Rosa Parks. Workshops on Non-violent Civil Disobedience and Local Community Development Opportunities, as well as a workshop for children, will be held from 3:30 to 5:30. A local teen choir, led by David Rucks, will perform at 5:30, and will be followed by an international buffet which will celebrate the many ethnic tastes and traditions of people in Muskegon. This will be followed by a brief slideshow presentation on the life of Rosa Parks and an awards presentation that recognizes some of the community activists in our own neighborhoods. Muskegon area youth will decorate the event room with paintings and drawings that represent justice/diversity/Rosa Parks, and there will be an essay contest on "Someone who inspired you to confront injustice." The evening will conclude with "Tabletalk," a time for guests to visit the many booths of local resources, projects, and programs that are locally working for positive change.

New York

Buffalo
Buffalo/WNY International Action Center
367 Delaware Ave
Buffalo, NY 14202
Phone:716-604-9515
Email:iacbuffalo@action-mail.org
Rosa Parks Day Activity Details: THURSDAY DEC 1 ? 4:00 PM COMMEMORATING ROSA PARKS WITH PROTEST Against Poverty, Racism & War IN FRONT OF BUFFALO CITY HALL RING NIAGARA SQUARE WITH SIGNS AND BANNERS!
Meeting Details: Bring your own signs & banners, or join in a big sign-making session the night before-- Wednesday Nov 30, 7:00pm, at 367 Delaware Ave, Buffalo

New York City
TROOPS OUT NOW COALITION - NYC
212-633-6646
39 West 14th Street, #206, NY, NY, 10011
Email:info@troopsoutnow.org
Rosa Parks Day Activity Details: DEC 1 MASS MARCH ON WALL STREET!
Rally from 2 to 6pm at Wall Street and Broadway
March at 6 pm to Federal Building - 26 Federal Plaza and the African Burial Ground.
(Student Walk-outs starting at 11 am and gathering at Union Square, then at 2 pm to Wall Street)
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Meetings: Get involved in building for December 1 every Tuesday evening at 7pm. Weekly Activists Meetings, anti-war updates, speakers, videos. Air conditioned and refreshments are served. Come by the office any day or evening and pick up stacks of Dec 1 posters, stickers and leaflets.

Ossining
Peace Train Coalition
87 Ferris Pl, Ossining, NY 10562
Contact: Don Debar
914 945-0815
Email:dondebar@yahoo.com
Rosa Parks Day Activity Details: Get people into NYC via mass transit; organize coordinate local actions at transport centers in the region.

North Carolina

Charlotte
Action Center For Justice
http://www.geocities.com/nomorevictims/nowar
Charlotte, NC
Contact David Dixon
Telephone: 704-492-8527
Email:ActForJustice@yahoo.com
Rosa Parks Day Activity Details: Rally at 11:00am at Marshall Park, 2nd St & S. McDowell St followed by a march through downtown.

Durham
Contact Theresa El Amin
Telephone: 919-824-0659
Email:TheresaElAmin@aol.com
Rosa Parks Day Activity Details: Durham Main Library, 7 PM. There will be a City of Durham proclamation presented by the Mayor Pro Tem, Cora Cole McFadden. She will offer her remembrance of Rosa Parks in Durham in 1980. Speakers from: NAACP Millions More Movement Fight Imperialism-Stand Together (FIST) UE Local 150, and others.
Durham Main Library: try 919-403-8229 first. If no answer, 919-824-0659

Raleigh
Raleigh F.I.S.T. (Fight Imperialism! Stand Together!)
2619 Mayview Road
Raleigh, NC 27607
Contact Yolanda Carrington
Telephone: 919-784-9301
Email:yolandamarie@bellsouth.net
Rosa Parks Day Activity Details: Ralleigh F.I.S.T. urges everyone to particpate in the event at 7 pm at the Durham Main Library in Durham (see above).

Ohio

Cleveland
Peoples Fightback Center
pfcenter@aol.com
216-531-4004
Rosa Parks Day Activity Details: Dec 1 Community Speakout
3:30 PM, in front of Tower City on Public Square, Cleveland
For more info contact pfcenter@aol.com or 216-531-4004

Columbus
contact: Jane Hubbard
JMH1512@yahoo.com
Rosa Parks Day Activity Details: December 1st, 2005 Columbus Ohio EVents:
11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Protest March. Gather at SW corner of Broad Street and S. Third--from there we will march to Broad and High Street (state house)
Bring noisemakers and signs to hit the lunch crowd.
3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Protest at the State House (Broad and High) ..will try to have speakers on poverty, racism, and war if possible. bring chair, two signs, noisemakers, friends, or JUST COME! Having it late to accommodate workers and get people leaving work. More details to follow later if possible.
7:00 to 9:00
Candlelight vigil / march
We will meet at the Department of Human Services parking lot (location symbolic of poverty) on the west side. This is located at the NE section of Great Western Shopping Center at Valleyview and Wilson. From here we will march down Wilson to Wilson and West Broad which is a busy corner located between two shopping centers. Bring candle and sign.
Also NO work, No school, and NO shopping on this day.

Oregon

Cottage Grove
Stand for Peace
7th and Main, Cottage Grove, OR, 97424
Contact: Scott Burgwin
541-767-0770
Rosa Parks Day Activity Details: December 2nd- marking 3 years of weekly vigils (5-6pm); "commemoration" event with Gold Star Families for Peace members Michelle and Steve DeFord
Meeting Details: meet 2nd Monday of every month- call for details

Pennsylvania

Philadelphia
Philadelphia IAC
813 South 48th St
Philadelphia, PA 19143
215-724-1618
Contact Betsey Piette
phillyiac@action-mail.org
Rosa Parks Day Activity Details: On Thursday DECEMBER 1, Gather 2:30pm at
Philadelphia City Hall
15th & Market Sts.

For a Rally & March to say:

Bring the troops home now
Justice for Katrina evacuees
Military recruiters out of our schools
Jobs at living wages
Cut the war budget, not healthcare, education & housing
Roll back the PGW & PECO rate hikes!

No Business As Usual! No Work - No School - No Shopping!
Download 2sided flyer: front back Also on Dec 1 at 12 noon at 8th and Montgomery Sts, the Committee for Citywide Protests Against Outrageous Utility Bills is holding
"A Matter of Survival" -- Rally Against Rates - Roll Back the PGW & PECO Residential Rate Hikes!!!
for more information, call 215-235-6776 or email aafrl@verizon.net
Activists are urged to attend this important rally and then come to City Hall for the 2:30 Rally and March.
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Local meeting details: Philly IAC meets Tuesday nights, 7 pm at Calvary Church, 48th & Baltimore.

South Carolina

Greenville
The Jericho Movement for U.S. Political Prisoners
231 W Antrim Dr
Greenville, SC 29607
Telephone: 864-239-0470
Contact: Efia Nwangaza
enjericho@aol.com
Rosa Parks Day Activity Details: Film Festival: Eyes on the Prize
Tuesdays, 6:30 pm Weekly

Virginia

Portsmouth
Rosa Parks Tribute Committee
c/o Wesley Community Service Center
1701 Elm Ave, Portsmouth, VA 23704
757-335-DEC1
Rosa Parks Day Activity Details: 6:00 PM - Rally at Martin Luther King Jr Memorial, Brambleton Ave and Church St, Norfolk, VA. March to Historic First Baptist Church, Bute St.
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Washington, DC

Troops Out Now Coalition D.C.
Contact Pam Parker
202-232-0057
email: iacenterdc@yahoo.com
Rosa Parks Day Activity Details: December 1 March to the White House!
8:30 am gather @Franklin Sq Park, 13th & K NW
9:00 am March to the Military Recruiting Station, 13th & L NW
9:45 am Picket @ Bechtel, 1015 15th St. NW
10:15 am @ The Washington Post, 1150 15th St NW
11 am @ Halliburton, 1150 18th St NW, then
March to the White House for an 11:30 am picket and rally.
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D.C. Congressional Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton
Rosa Parks Day Activity Details: Thursday, 12/1:
Emergency Speak Out on the War & Our Priorities at Home
6:30-8:30p;
345 Cannon House Office Building (Cannon Caucus Room), 1st and C Streets SE.
Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton will hold an "Emergency Speak Out on the War & Our Priorities at Home," this Thursday, moderated by WAMU's Kojo Nnamdi and featuring Emory Kosh, a D.C. resident who served in Iraq. "The country may be at a turning point and I want to hear from D.C. residents," says Norton. "I want to hear residents who want the United States out of Iraq say how they think this should be accomplished. I want to hear why others believe the United States must remain as long as it takes. And I want to hear the priorities of residents for federal spending and for tax breaks and incentives in the present economic climate."
--from UNION CITY! 11/28/05 - eNewsletter of the Metro Washington Council, AFL-CIO

Washington State

Bremerton
Code Pink
6258 Sunset Ave NE
Bremerton, WA 98311
Contact Deymian Le Sar
(360) 766-6716
email: deymian@karmaplace.com
Rosa Parks Day Activity Details: Saturday, Dec 3rd Rosa Parks Vigil noon to 1:00pm at the corner of Riverside Drive and College Way, Mt. Vernon, Washington Help us honor Rosa Parks by fighting poverty, racism and war. Sponsored by People for a Peaceable Planet and Karma Place.
Meeting Details: People for a Peaceable Planet meet the 3rd Monday of each month from 7:00pm to 8:30pm at Fire Station #3, 4701 E. Division, Mt. Vernon, WA 98273 www.ppplanet.org

Mt. Vernon
People for a Peaceable Planet
310 Myrtle Street, Suite 101
Mt. Vernon, WA 98273
Contact Jennifer Cecere
360 475-0153
email: greytdogs@poeplepc.com
Rosa Parks Day Activity Details: 11 am December 1 - Demonstration at the ferry dock in downtown Bremerton.

Wisconsin

Rhinlander - Nicolet Area Technical College
Nicolet Peace Coalition
Nicolet Area Technical College
Rhinelander, WI 54501
email: nicoletpeaceco@gmail.com
Rosa Parks Day Activity Details: A day of education and awareness at the college. We will be having films and discussion with the theme of "Civil & Human Rights". We will be ending the day with the films "WalMart: The High Cost of Low Prices" followed by "Poison DUst: The Effects of Depleted Uranium in the Iraq War". These last two films will be open to the public.
Meeting Details: We are a small college-based peace activist group in northern Wisconsin committed to raising awareness in a very conservative area.

DEC 1 ROSA PARKS DAY OF ABSENCEAGAINST POVERTY, RACISM AND WAR

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