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Upcoming CPJ Events:

Citizens for Peace and Justice supports
Annual Independent Media Week
April 13 - 19, 2008
Join us
Thursday April 17th @ 6:30 pm
for a
Readers' Circle
MEDIA AND THE WAR

Four articles have been selected for participants to read at home and then bring your thoughts for a public discussion:
1.Iraq Winter Soldier Hearings: Victory for Independent Media by Jeff Cohen
2.The Iraq Follies Eighteen things you've already forgotten about the media's flawed coverage of Iraq by Greg Mitchell
3.NPR News: National Pentagon Radio by Norman Solomon
4.How Hollywood Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the (Ticking) Bomb by Scott Horton

8:00 - 8:30 pm
Amy Goodman's good speech
"Independent Media in the Time of War"

We will have finger foods and drinks to share
This event is free. Donations accepted.

Medford Congregational United Church of Christ, Lidgate Hall:1801 East Jackson Street, Medford : Go east on Jackson past hedrick Middle School and look for the church parking lot on the left.

For more info call Wes Brain (541) 482-6988 or Brenda Gould (541) 301-3337

Rogue Valley Independent Media Center

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As of April 9th there have been 4,032 US military fatalities
CPJ thanks you for your participation in:
In Memoriam: 4,000th US Soldier Death
Saturday April 5th
1:00 PM

Rogue Valley Mall

This event will begin at the parking lot on the Crater Lake Highway side of the Rogue Valley Mall north of the Shell gas station. Beth Baker & Pete Herzog will lead us in song, the names of the Oregon soldiers who have died will be read, and we will then march around the perimeter of the mall.

When the 3,000th soldier had been killed hundreds of Rogue Valley citizens gathered in this spot to express our sorrow and outrage. It was a deeply moving sight to see a wall of people spread out around the mall. Please join in once again.

We suggest that participants where black as a sign of mourning

Remember the Dead - Resist the War

5 YEARS TOO MANY
End the war NOW!
rally and march

Many thanks to everyone who turned out on a cold rainy day to speak up for PEACE in the world. Around 200 people came to Alba Park in Medford Oregon on Saturday March 15th, the 5th anniversay of the invasion of Iraq.

Citizens for Peace & Justice sincerely appreciates being able to blend our many voices together in solidarity against the war.

Along with our appreciation to all the Rogue Valley citizens who attended we give our deep gratitude to the coalition of groups that helped to sponsor the event:
Peace House; Veterans for Peace of Grants Pass; Socialist Action; So. Oregon Jobs with Justice; Applegate Citizens for Political Change; UNETE; Rogue Valley UU Fellowship, social action committee; Oregon Action; Social Justice Alliance; Medford Congregational United Church of Christ; CodePINK; Collateral Repair Project; Medford Women in Black; Women's International League for Peace and Freedom-Ashland branch; UU of Grants Pass, social action committee.
The music and message of the ROGUE VALLEY PEACE CHOIR and PETE HERZOG was icing on the cake to a day of heartfelt speeches by those touched deeply by war, and a day of connection with our neighbors whose common concern brought us together.

Ongoing monthly peace rallies:

Bring your hopes and desire for PEACE.
Bring your signs and your voice:
Speak Your Peace!

**Medford**
Fourth Saturday Rally for Peace
Saturday, April 26th
Noon – 1pm
Crater Lake Hwy. by the Rogue Valley Mall (across from the Shell station)

Sponsored by:

Citizens for Peace and Justice, Applegate Citizens for Political Change, and Veterans for Peace of Grants Pass, Southern Oregon Jobs with Justice

**Grants Pass**
Fourth Thursday Stand For Peace
Thursday, April 24th
4:30 - 5:30 pm
In front of the Josephine County Courthouse
Immediately following the stand, join us across the street at Newman United Methodist Church meeting hall for discussion on important Peace and Justice issues.

Sponsored by:

Citizens for Peace and Justice, Veterans for Peace of Grants Pass, Applegate Citizens for Political Change and
Social Justice Alliance

Founding member of Citizens for Peace & Justice, Mary Madsen, travelled to Amman, Jordan in October to continue her work with Iraqi refugees. Mary, along with Sasha Crow, has founded the Collateral Repair Project. Please visit The Collateral Repair Project website and see the important work being done to aid those most deeply affected by this terrible war. CPJ gives our love and support to Sasha and Mary and their good work. We are so very proud of her.

Citizens for Peace and Justice is a proud member of Southern Oregon Jobs With Justice.

Citizens for Peace and Justice is a group of people who came together in Medford, Oregon, in March 2003 as a result of our concern over the pending US invasion of Iraq and our desire to respond to this in a meaningful way. Peace House of Ashland helped bring us together to form a group. Our members live and/or work in Medford and outlying areas of Jackson County, and the organization is open to all who wish to join us. We are not affiliated with any religious denomination or political party.

CITIZENS FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE
140 Briarwood Drive
Talent, Oregon 97540
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If you ever get excited, positively or negatively, about something you see on TV, hear on NPR, or read in a major newspaper and want to respond to the reporter who did the story, here's an easy way to accomplish that. Just click on our Media Addresses menu selection, click on the name of the reporter or news organization, and let them know how you feel.

Our Mission Statement

We have the right and responsibility to promote a just and peaceful community and build a world beyond war through nonviolent means by:
        - embracing peace within ourselves;
        - calling peace into conflicted lives;
        - educating ourselves and others in alternatives to violence and militarism.

British polling agency Opinion Research Business confirm that as of September 2007 1.2 million Iraqis have been killed by this military intervention.

Cost of the War in Iraq

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"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired,
signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed,
those who are cold and are not clothed."
- President Dwight D. Eisenhower April 16, 1953

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