Some upcoming events

Several events are coming up.  As always, there is a peace vigil Friday in Chapel Hill at the corner of East Franklin and Estes (by the Village Plaza shopping center), and I think they are still on the winter schedule of 4:30-5:30, and there is a vigil in Durham at Brightleaf Plaza from noon to 1.  I don't know what is currently going on in Raleigh, but I assume that they have at least one weekly vigil.   

 

3/8 - Anti-torture vigil at the Johnston County Airport

 

NC Stop Torture Now is organizing a vigil Saturday from 1 to 2pm on Business 70, just beyond the intersection with Swift Creek Road (marked by a Citgo).  To get there from the Triangle, take Highway 70 through Clayton, then turn on to Business 70.  STN is bringing signs and banners. 

 

3/8 - Durham BORDC meeting

 

The local Bill of Rights Defense Committee is meeting Saturday at 3pm in the Main Library's Auditorium (right at the parking lot entrance). 

 

3/9 - STN meeting

 

STN's March business meeting is Sunday at 2pm at the Raleigh Unitarian Universalist, on Wade Avenue in Raleigh.

 

3/15 - Vigil against the occupation of Iraq

 

I thought there would be a regular march and rally in Fayetteville to mark the invasion of Iraq, but a vigil at 1pm on the south side of the Capitol in Raleigh, facing Fayetteville Street is all I have heard about in eastern NC. 

 

3/19 - This is the tentative date for the Triangle Socialist Forum's March meeting, on who is benefiting from the "War on Terror," and it will most likely be held in Durham. 

 

3/26 and 4/16 - Northeast Creek Stream Watch business meetings at the Parkwood Branch Library in Durham.

 

4/17 - This is the tentative date for the TSF meeting back in Chapel Hill on recent Afghan history, focusing on the 70's and 80's, with a showing of a Soviet-Afghan propaganda film, April Revolution. 

 

Possibly the next meeting will be on May Day, on the candidates in the primary on the 6th, and June might be on drought and water issues from a class perspective. 

 

4/22 - Earth Day

 

5/2 - Taxi to the Dark Side, a recent documentary on rendition that received an Oscar, will be shown in the evening at Duke or Cary's Galaxy.

 

5/3 - There will be a conference from 10-4pm on rendition and the Guantanamo prison, sponsored by STN and Duke's Human Rights Center 

 

Also, I should have pointed out that March 5th is the anniversary of J.V. Stalin's death in 1953.  Possibly he was assassinated by Nikita Khrushchev's group, and in Enver Hoxha's memoir, The Khrushchevites, he says that after what he calls the putsch, other communist leaders, such as Dimitrov, might also have been victims of assassination by the Soviet revisionists.  They did great damage to the communist movement worldwide and destroyed their country, but the star of revolution and workers' power is rising again! 

 

I wil post the conclusion to my article on Obama shortly.