From Code Pink: Together, We Can Create Peace on Earth! This December: Take action each week for a Peaceful Holiday Season
Bring peace into your holiday celebrations with our creative and engaging peace actions! Once a week during the month of December, choose one action from our list of "10 Ways to Have a Peaceful Holiday Season."

Saturday 8th December 2007: International Demonstrations on Climate Change, coinciding with the UN Climate Talks in Bali, Indonesia, from the 3rd to the 14th December 2007. For the Call to Action and list of actions planned, by country: http://www.globalclimatecampaign.org/
See also: http://stopclimatechaos.org/

October 31, USA: Fair Trade Halloween action
Global Exchange’s Fair Trade Cocoa Campaign: Reverse Trick-or-Treating!
On Halloween night 2007, schoolchildren, high school students, college students, and adults across the US and Canada will unite to:

• END poverty among cocoa farmers.
• END forced/abusive child labor in the cocoa industry.
• PROMOTE Fair Trade.

While trick-or-treating door to door in their communities, kids will be..

• Distributing information about these social justice issues.
• Handing out Fair Trade chocolate.
• Attracting the attention of their local media.

October 4-13, 2007.  Keep Space for Peace Week
International Days of Protest to Stop the Militarization of Space:
No Arms Race in Space; Stop Star Wars Research & Development;
Convert the Military Industrial Complex; Fund Human Needs. The week will be full of events and protests to stop the weaponization of space. See list here.
Women's International League for Peace & Freedom WILPF is once again co-sponsoring Keep Space for Peace Week with Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space.
For more information, please see WILPF's Reaching Critical Will's background papers:
Prevention of an Arms Race in Outer Space; and the Aerospace Industry
Global Network's video resources

Sept. 27-28, Scotland
Faslane 365: women's action to support nonviolent blockade at the
Trident nuclear base. Women started the Faslane 365 blockades on October 1^st 2006 and thousands have now participated. Come for a further women’s action on September 27^th – Make links with peace, women’s and related human security issues and disrupt the illegal nuclear deployments.
For more information:  WWW.FASLANE365.ORG

Sept. 14-16,  Washington, DC
Confronting the Triple Crisis - Climate Change, Peak Oil, and
Global Resource Depletion: International Forum on Globalization Teach-in featuring among others Maude Barlow, Winona LaDuke, Francis Moore Lappe. Download flyer here.

August 16-20, Valencia, Spain
Women in Black: International Conference
A 9 page paper on the conference is downloadable at:
http://www.mujeresdenegro.org/galeria/MdN_in.pdf
The website for the conference is available in Spanish here.
For background, see http://www.womeninblack.org/about.html and our report:
Women in Black.

July 4, New York City
CodePink NYC actions: This year on July 4th as thousands of picnics and celebrations take place across America, CODEPINK NEW YORK will participate in two alternative commemorations.
1. CODEPINK NYC joins civil liberties attorney Norman Siegel for his annual reading of the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights and parts of the Constitution
2. CODEPINK NYC joins Military Families Speak Out and Vets for Peace for a peace vigil
3. Revolution Books presents: Iranian Women and Liberation - Neither Islamic Theocracy nor U.S. Imperialist Domination.  A talk by Azar Derakhshan followed by Q/A and discussion
Times and locations on website at: http://www.codepinknyc.org/

June 27 - July 1,  Atlanta, GA
United States Social Forum: Another World is Possible - Another U.S. is Necessary! The U.S. Social Forum will shine the light on six key movement building moments to learn the lessons: Gulf Coast Reconstruction in the Post-Katrina Era; War, Militarism and the Prison Industrial Complex; Indigenous Voices: From the Heart of Mother Earth; Immigrant and Migrant Rights in a Global Society; Liberating Gender and Sexuality: Integrating Gender and Sexual Justice Across Our Movements; and Workers' Rights in the Global Economy (more)... Workshop information here.

June 14-17, Madrid, Spain
WIDE's Annual Conference 2007 ‘New aid, old trade: What do women have to say?’ The Network Women in Development Europe WIDE's annual conference will be hosted by the Gender and Development Working Group of the Spanish Platform of Development NGOs. "The aim of this year’s conference is to create a forum for constructive analysis of women’s rights today and perspectives for gender equality in the new global development and trade architecture."

June 10-11, Washington, DC. “The World Says No to Israeli Occupation”
People around the world are joining together in a global Day of Action as “The World Says No to Israeli Occupation” to protest the 40^th anniversary of Israel’s illegal military occupation of the Palestinian West Bank, Gaza Strip, and East Jerusalem, and Syrian Golan Heights. In the United States, thousands of people from all over the country will converge on Washington, DC from June 10-11, 2007 to send a clear message: The United States Says No to Israeli Occupation! Information from the organizers here: US Campaign to end the Israeli Occupation

June 5,  Rostock, Germany. Feminist Perspectives on Migration and Trade
Satellite event before the international G8 Alternative Summit: a workshop organized by Women and Life on Earth e.V. and others.
Location: tent in front of FRIEDA 23, Friedrichstr. 23 in 18057 Rostock
More information here.

April 15-22, 2007
MADRE Spring 2007 Speaking Tour
A Window of Hope: Standing with Women in Iraq to End Violence
Featuring Yanar Mohammed, Director, Organization of Women's Freedom in Iraq, with Vivian Stromberg, Executive Director, MADRE
"Hear directly from women on the frontlines of the struggle to end gender-based violence and create a secular, democratic Iraq free of both US occupation and Islamist coercion. There is hope in Iraq.  Come meet the women who are creating it."
The US-based organization MADRE demands "human rights for women and families around the world." They are currently looking for groups to help organize more stops on this speaking tour. For more information: http://www.madre.org/programs/pe/speakers_spring07.html

Step It Up on April 14, the Nationwide Protest Against Climate Change
We urge peace/justice groups to join the Step It Up national day of protest and send the message: Fight Climate Change, Not Wars for Oil.
Join a joint "NO WAR, NO WARMING" national mobilization this fall! For more information: http://www.nowarnowarming.org/

MARCH 17-19: Protest War AND Climate Change
on the 4-Year Anniversary of the Iraq War.Global Exchange urges environmentalists and climate change activists to organize protests on the upcoming 4-year anniversary of the Iraq war. " Join a protest that's already planned or organize one outside a gas station!"

Thursday, March 8  International Women's Day
See an international listing of events, on a website sponsored by companies, UN organizations and women's networks:
http://www.internationalwomensday.com/search.asp

Sunday, March 4, 2007
9th Annual Sacramento, CA Community Event:
WOMEN OF COLOR DAY
4:00—8:00 PM
Ben Ali Shrine, 3262 Marysville Blvd., Sacramento, CA   “The Impulse to soar”
From the words of Helen Keller: "One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar." more information

Washington, DC, January 27-29: Iraq -- bring the troops home!
Join CODEPINK and many others in a national march on Washington, D.C., on Saturday, January 27, to call on Congress to take immediate action to bring the troops home. For more information: http://www.codepink4peace.org/article.php?list=typ -e&type=182