Vivel Le Resistance - A Celebration of Resistance!

Fri, May 26
7:00pm-11:00pm
$10-100.00

Please join CODEPINK Women for Peace and Ti Couz Restaurant

for A Celebration of Resistance

Friday May 26, 2006 7:00-11:00pm
Ti Couz Too

3108 16th Street (@ Valencia Street)
San Francisco, CA 94103

Vive Le Resistance!

Join us for an evening of food, drinks, music and dancing as we honor
those Bay Area residents who have led the way of resistance on
different fronts.


with
Medea Benjamin, Co-founder of Global Exchange and CODEPINK Women for
Peace

Music by Los Nadies along with traditional Mexican dancers.

Evening Recognitions

Hunger Strikers' for Immigrant Rights, a broad Bay Area Coalition
launched a seven-day hunger strike at the U.S. Federal Building in
San Francisco to protest the Anti-Immigrant Specter Bill pending in
Congress. They are calling for fair and just immigration reform, and
denouncing Senator Arlen Specter's bill that designates all
undocumented immigrants as aggravated felons.

San Francisco State University 10, Ten SFSU students protested
military recruitment at the university's career fair. Campus police
interrupted their protest and physically took the students from the
school's gymnasium where they were protesting. The police then
notified the students that they were banned from campus. They were
protesting the military's recruiting of university students into
careers that would foster death, destruction and injustice.

Clarence Thomas, is a long-time labor activist who has worked
consistently on a number of international issues. He travelled to
Iraq with a delegation from U.S. Labor Against the War. He is the
national co-chair of the Million Worker March Movement and a member
of International Longshore and Warehouse Union, Local 10.

Elizabeth "Betita" Martinez, A long-time activist, author and
educator, Martinez has published six books and many articles on
social justice movements in the Americas. Best known is her bilingual
volume 500 Years of Chicano History in Pictures, which became the
basis for a video she co-directed. In 1997 she co-founded and
currently directs the Institute for MultiRacial Justice in San
Francisco, and was one of a 1000 women nominated for a Nobel Peace
Prize in 2005.

Additional honorees TBA

Space is limited so please RSVP now to Nancy Mancias at


A request for donations of $10.00-100.00 sliding scale will be made
to Esteklal! Independence for Iraq! ad campaign.

With your help, we are sending a message of sorrow, friendship and
peace directly to the women of Iraq and their families by challenging
the free press in Iraq to print an advertisement calling on people of
both nations to work together to end the occupation. www.esteklal.org

Special thanks to Sylvie Le Mer and Ti Couz staff.

Venue:

Ti Couz Too Restaurant
3108 16th Street (@ Valencia Street)
San Francisco

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