Upcoming Events

Affordable Housing Teach-In
Tuesday, May 13, 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM
3315 Airway Drive, Santa Rosa

Anyone interested in safe, healthy and affordable housing for everyone in our community should attend this event. Admission is FREE. Learn more: download the flyer (a 181KB JPEG), go to www.hagster.org or email hag@hagster.org.

Sonoma County NOW
(National Organization for Women)
Wednesday, May 21, 6:00 PM
Round Table Pizza, Marlow Center
Marlow and Guerneville Road, Santa Rosa

Arrive earlier if you want to order food. Call 545-5036 for more information.

For more information on alternatives for spending the estimated 3TRILLION DOLLARS that the Iraq war will cost, watch the Three Trillion Dollar Spending Spree video.

Burma's monks are leading the struggle of the Burmese people against an oppressive military dictatorship, despite the risk of beating, torture and death. Click on a monk above to learn more or to help the monks in their courageous opposition to a brutal regime.

The figures on the left include reported civilian deaths only. The figure in the center represents an estimate of civilian casualties based upon a study by public health experts in 2006.
Read the 2006 article.

New WHO study:
40 months of war, 151,000 Iraqis dead by violence through June, 2006. Violence now leading cause of death in Iraq. 3,775 violent deaths per month.
Read the new study.

** A Life, Wasted. **
Click below to read an open letter from Paul E. Schroeder, the father of a soldier killed in Iraq:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/02/AR2006010200974.html