This category is for any post that has a call to do something in it. This can be to call your elected person, to sign a petition, to attend a rally, and so on.
This is the Friday Peace Vigil 5pm to 6pm at 4th & San Fernando (NOT the Peace Corner, which is Stevens Creek + Winchester!) We will be at the Peace Corner (Stevens Creek and Winchester Blvds ) on Saturday March 20, at noon. Make your own signs or use ours!…
$2 billion a day. $23 million an hour. $23,000 a second. That’s the amount that the US “forever wars” are gobbling up from our national budget. According to the National Priorities Project, military spending accounted for more than 53% percent of the federal discretionary budget.
By Grace T., SJPJC Volunteer On Sunday, February 14, the Nihonmachi Outreach Committee of San José hosted a livestream through YouTube in remembrance of the 41st anniversary of the Executive Order 9066 that placed 120,000 Japanese Americans in internment camps and separated them from their families during World War II.…
March 5, 2003 -- Anti-war protesters line Stevens Creek Blvd in front of Valley Fair Mall On March 20 2003, the US launched the criminal invasion and occupation of Iraq. Since late 2001, peace activists in the South Bay had been organizing to protest the drive to war by the…
Please read the letter that Jewish Voice for Peace Deputy Director Rabbi Allisa Wise sent to the national JVP lists a few days ago. Then click on the link to sign your name to the global petition to tell Facebook that the word "Zionist" is not the same as "Jew" and "anti-Zionist" is not the same as "antisemitic".
Come show your support and join Laurie, Sharon, Corina, and Regina to remember Rudy Cardenas, Antonio Guzman Lopez, and Phillip Watkins. These families continue to be impacted by the loss of their loved ones at the hands of police officers in San José. This event will be held in front of San José City Hall on Thursday, February 18th at 4:45pm. Say their names! Know their stories!
The San José Peace and Justice Center joins in solidarity with the San Francisco Bay Area chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations as they urge the Commonwealth Club to cancel an upcoming event featuring two speakers who both have "a shameful track record of propagating Islamophobia, which exacerbates ongoing intolerance and hate towards Muslims, immigrants, and others."
My name is Lucy Geever-Conroy, I’m your neighbor living here in San José CA. I need your help in making Medicare for all, single-payer healthcare, a reality. Did you know that the USA is the only rich country in the world to not provide full medical coverage to everyone? In…
by Charlotte Casey, SJPJC Coordinating Council member At this perilous moment in history, Democratic Party leaders are citing Trump’s easy access to nuclear weapons as a reason to remove him from office. It should not have taken the president’s obvious derangement to remind us of the existential threat posed by…
Please sign the petition asking Governor Newsom to Lead on Medicare for All! We want to gather as many signatures as possible by January 20, 2021.