PROTEST EVENTS
FRIDAY, MARCH 16
Remembering Rachel Corrie
At this third annual memorial, celebrate the life of Rachel Corrie, a 23-year-old International Solidarity Movement volunteer who was killed by an Israeli soldier while nonviolently resisting the demolition of a Palestinian home in the Gaza Strip.
7 p.m., $10–$20 suggested donation
Malonga Casquelourd Center for the Arts
1428 Alice, Oakl.
www.norcalism.org/events.htm
SATURDAY, MARCH 17
Starve War, Feed Peace
Participate in a march and rally sponsored by the Mt. Diablo Peace and Justice Center. The march goes through downtown Walnut Creek, and continues to Civic Park for a rally at noon with speakers and music.
11 a.m.
Walnut Creek BART station
200 Ygnacio Blvd., Walnut Creek
Civic Park
1375 Civic Drive, Walnut Creek
www.mtdpc.org
SUNDAY, MARCH 18
March and rally in San Francisco
Marchers will assemble at Justin Herman Plaza and go to the Civic Center.
Noon
Justin Herman Plaza
One Market, SF
(415) 821-6545, answer@actionsf.org, www.actionsf.org/#local4
MONDAY, MARCH 19
Protest, rally, and nonviolent direct action at Chevron headquarters
End Chevron’s oil crimes from Richmond to Iraq. It’s a short ride to the Chevron headquarters from the Walnut Creek BART station; take County Connection shuttle 121. Vans will be shuttling protesters too.
7–11 a.m.
Chevron headquarters
6001 Bollinger Canyon, San Ramon
www.MySpace.com/ProtestChevron
Stop Funding the War
Join us at Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco district office to urge her and her fellow representatives to deny the White House its war funding requests and to support HR 508, the Bring Our Troops Home and Sovereignty of Iraq Restoration Act.
Noon
San Francisco Federal Bldg.
450 Golden Gate, SF
www.stopfundingthewar.com/home
Die-in on Market Street
The protest is a die-in designed to highlight the war’s death toll by showing what the heart of San Francisco would look like strewn with dead bodies.
Noon
Meet-up points:
Spear and Market, SF
Montgomery and Market, SF
Powell and Market, SF
Market and Seventh St., SF
www.dieinmarch19.org, www.ActAgainstTorture.org *