Meetings and Peace Events on Maui
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FREE FILM NIGHTS start at 7pm in MCC Ka Lama 103 and are co-sponsored
by the MCC Peace Club and Maui Peace Action. All films are free and open to the public.

Friday, April 23, 7pm in UHMC Ka Lama 103: 

 

 The Hawaii - Nicaragua Connection!  The UH Maui College Peace Club invites you to come meet the Maui volunteers of Somos Amigos Nicaragua and see photos of their work with their community partners in several small, rural northwestern Nicaraguan villages of Chinandega province.

 

Last summer Somos Amigos Nicaragua volunteers completed a 5 and 1/2-room high school in Rincon de Garcia which will be outfitted with a small library this summer as the group begins work on a much-needed pre-school in Rancho Pando and the repair of a primary school in Mayocunda.

 

Hear Nica music and learn more about needed volunteer work this local Maui non-profit performs each summer in friendly, tropical and beautiful Nicaragua, Central America.  Nicaragua is second only to Haiti as the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere.  

The free event is at 7pm in UHMC Ka Lama 103, public invited.

 

Friday, April 30:

The public is invited to a free showing of the feature-length documentary “Brother Outsider” at 7pm in UH Maui College Ka Lama 103.  The film focuses on the life and work of Bayard Rustin (right), a master strategist and tireless worker for peace, racial equality, economic justice and human rights in the Civil Rights Movement.

 Bayard Rustin is best remembered as the organizer of the 1963 March on Washington, one of the largest nonviolent protests ever held in the United States. He brought Gandhi’s protest techniques to the American civil rights movement and helped mold Martin Luther King, Jr. into an international symbol of peace and nonviolence.

Despite these achievements, Rustin was silenced, threatened, arrested, beaten, imprisoned and fired from important leadership positions, largely because he was an openly gay man in a fiercely homophobic era.

The film was five years in the making and is the winner of numerous awards. The showing is co-sponsored by the UH MC Peace Club and the UH MC Gay-Straight Alliance.  Please conside printing up a flier and distributing it for this film, click here to open and then print... For more information, call 984-3305.

 

 

STEERING COMMITTEE MEETINGS:

Please Note: no meetings are scheduled during the 2010 summer months

Our regular Steering Committee meetings are at 6pm on the 2nd Mondays at MCC Ka Lama 102 and are open to all who share our mission (MISSION STATEMENT). We welcome new friends and old members to come to any meeting, and everyone in attendance fully participates in planning. The Ka Lama Building is next to the Library on the Maui Community College Campus.