KNOW EVENTS

This is a special invitation for you to attend our upcoming benefit concert with Charlie King and Karen Brandow. Charlie and Karen are nationally known, legendary folk artists who sing passionately about the extraordinary lives of ordinary people. If you have seen them before, you know you are in for a wonderful evening.

This is our major fund-raiser for the year. Our work in promoting peace and justice though speakers, films, bus trips to protests, web site, vigils, letters, and signs, is all done with volunteers, but we need funds as well.

We are being hosted by the WMU Peace Center, and a portion of the proceeds will also benefit Ministry with Community, a local organization which offers meals, services, dignity, and hope to people in need in our community.

Date: Thursday, April 8th, 7:00 pm
Place: Bernhard Center West Ballroom at WMU
Tickets: $15, $5 for students

Please come and show your support.
Email daniel_b_smith@yahoo.com if you can take some tickets to sell.

We need your help to stop the insanity of endless war, and to make the needs of our people a priority.

Free! Be-in-the-KNOW Film Series.
“Life in Occupied Palestine: Eyewitness Stories and Photos”
Award-winning video on the conflict in the Middle East.

Anna Baltzer, a young Fulbright scholar and author, and granddaughter of Holocaust refugees, narrates a powerful and personal story of her experiences in Israel and Palestine. She reports on the joint Palestinian and Israeli nonviolent resistance which is not covered in the US media.

Tuesday, January 26, 2010 at 7 PM
First Presbyterian Church
321 W. South St., Kalamazoo
Park and enter in the rear of the building. The film will be shown on the third floor. Elevator available.

Enjoy fellowship, refreshments, and do some holiday gift shopping at the same time!

KNOW is sponsoring an Art Hop venue at the First Presbyterian Church on Bronson Park. The date is Friday, December 4th, from 5:00 pm until 8:00 pm.

We will have a variety of fair trade items from around the world, as well as locally produced products offered by Kalamazoo charitable organizations. Free refreshments.

Please stop by, hopefully our new KNOW t-shirts and an assortment of books will also be available!

WHAT: Kalamazoo, Michigan screening of Movie: Rethink Afghanistan
WHEN: Tuesday, October 27 2009 07:00 PM
TICKET PRICE: FREE

Learn why the United States should not be increasing the number of troops in Afghanistan, but should be withdrawing troops instead. Sponsored by Be-in-the-KNOW film committee.

WHERE: First Presbyterian Church
321 West South Street
Kalamazoo, Michigan

DIRECTIONS: Next to Civic Theater, across from Bronson Park Enter in rear.

Hello Friends,

The Peace Center at WMU and KNOW are sponsoring an evening with Phyllis Bennis. Ms. Bennis is an expert on the Middle East and is renowned for her ability to help us get behind the hype and the headlines.

FREE ADMISSION
7:30 pm, Thursday, Oct. 22, Fetzer Center at Western Michigan University

More info: 327-6400 or 345-0835

Hello friends,

Please join us at a vigil for peace in Afghanistan on Wednesday, Oct. 7, 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm. Location is the Federal Building, corner of Michigan and Park.

With our presence we will call for US troops to come home, and a world wide effort to help the Afghan people recover from decades of war.

Please join us.

Friends, we will be honored with a visit and presentation by Phyllis Bennis at Western Michigan University on October 22. Sponsored by the WMU Peace Center and KNOW, Ms. Bennis will share her insightful analysis of the Middle East with us. As you will see, we are in for a remarkable evening of reasoned and thoughtful perspectives which are not reflected in the main stream media.

Phyllis Bennis is a senior analyst with the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington DC, and fellow of the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam. She is a writer, policy analyst and activist on US foreign Policy and the United Nations. She is author of Calling the Shots: How Washington Dominates Today’s UN (Interlink Publishing, 2000), Before and After: US Foreign Policy and the September 11th Crisis (Olive Branch Press (September, 2002)), and Understanding the Palestinian-Israeli conflict: A primer (Trans-Arab Research Institute, (2002). Bennis helped found the U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation, and she works closely with the anti-war coalition, United for Peace and Justice.

Some videos with Phyllis Bennis:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4667069945811649502#docid=4869304688668627410
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4667069945811649502#docid=-8784812599821812088
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4667069945811649502#

KNOW is having a fundraiser picnic on June 19th in Milham Park. We aim to have a lot of fun with games and good food. Our featured guest will be Kathy Kelly, who will share her experiences and thoughts on opposing the war in Afghanistan.

We are asking for a $10 donation ($5 students) to raise money for our peace initiatives this year.

For info: daniel_b_smith@yahoo.com

Where: India Cuisine at Saffron on West Main
What: eat a great buffet dinner(10.95) and then watch a movie(free)
When: Tuesday, April 14, eat at 6 pm, movie at 7:00 pm

Scarred Lands, Wounded Lives is a documentary which explores the environmental impact of war. Come and spend a wonderful Tuesday evening enjoying delicious Indian food at 6:00 pm, and stay for the movie, which is no charge.

Sponsored by the Be-in-the-KNOW film series and the Peace Center.

Of course, you can just come for the film if you like.

6 years of destruction for Iraq, 6 years of sorrow for US. A war based on lies, for the benefit of the oil companies and defense contractors. Its time to bring all the troops home, close all the bases and provide for the reconstruction of Iraq by Iraqis.

Please join in marking the 6th anniversary of the Iraq war and occupation. In Kalamazoo, on Thursday March 19th, we will march starting at 5:00 pm from the flagpoles in the middle of WMU campus. We will pick up a contingent of K-college students, and march downtown to the Federal Building at Park and Michigan. We will have some remarks there, then proceed to the Bronson Park.
At 7:00 pm there will be an interfaith service with speaker Bert DeVries, to be held at United Methodist Church on the Bronson Park. Refreshments before at the park, and afterwards at the church.