“Sing Your Song” Friday, September 7, 7:00 pm

the life of Harry Belafonte 

Friday, September 7, 7:00pm
Projected on the big screen at the LEPOCO Peace Center

313 West 4th Street, south Bethlehem

Hoping to inspire a new generation of activists, entertainer Harry Belafonte allows intimate access to his life to document his many decades as a performer and as a tireless advocate for human rights around the world.  As a supporter of Martin Luther King, Jr., and the victim of racism during his tours of the southern United States, Belafonte was deeply committed to social change in the U.S. and later worked to end apartheid in South Africa.  He gave the most rousing speech of the day at the Jobs and Justice rally in Washington, DC, in the fall of 2010. 

Directed by Susanne Rostock.  103 minutes.

Please bring a snack or beverage to share.

For more information contact LEPOCO at 610-691-8730.

Peace, Nancy Tate LEPOCO Peace Center 313 W. 4th Street Bethlehem, Pa 18015

phone:  610-691-8730 fax: 610-691-8904

e-mail:  lepoco@fast.net web: www.lepoco.org

One Hill CBA Expert coming to Allentown Aug 15, 7pm,

The Allentown Community Benefits Coalition will hold a public meeting on Aug 15, 7pm, @ Zion's United Church of Christ, 620 W. Hamilton St to form strategic partnerships and specific demands on developers who are using public tax dollars for financial gain.CBA expert, Dr. Bonni Young Lang of the One Hill CBA Coalition will be the guest speaker. Dr. Laing is an associate professor of social work at Youngstown State University. She is a native of the Hill District and has served as a community organizer with One Hill Community Benefits Coalition and the Hill District Consensus Group. Her current work and scholarship center on equitable and inclusionary community planning and development in the Hill District.  She holds an MSW with a concentration in community health and mental health from West Virginia University and a Ph.D. in social work from Virginia Commonwealth University. She has published work in the areas of African centered community organizing, labor/community partnerships, community development in African American communities and culturally competent macro practice. (read more) One Hill CBA Expert coming to Allentown Aug 15, 7pm,

Voter ID Town Hall meeting July 18th 6:30pm

This fall you will be required to show photo ID to vote in person. Only certain kinds of photo ID will be accepted.

Protect your vote!

Join us for a Voter ID Town Hall meeting and find out:

 * What photo ID you will need to vote

 *  How you can get a FREE PennDOT ID

 * How you can get involved in efforts to educate people about the law

(download PDF flier here) Voter ID Town Hall 
When: Wednesday, July 18, 6:30 p.m. 

Where: Seegers Union, 111-113, Muhlenberg College

2400 Chew St., Allentown

Co-sponsored by:

ACLU of Pennsylvania - Greater Lehigh Valley Chapter, Allentown NAACP, Equality Pennsylvania, Martin Luther & Coretta Scott King Memorial Project of the Lehigh Valley.

For more information call 215-592-1513 x122 or email voterID@aclupa.org.

http://myemail.constantcontact.com/Voter-ID-Town-Hall-meeting-July-18th.html?soid=1000824127197&aid=avADWW4oiYE

Meditation on July 4th by Bruce Hartford

by Bruce Hartford  Sojourner's Blog July 5th 2012

July 4th, 2012. All over the country, we the people celebrate 
Hotdog and Fireworks Day. If we attend some official event
organized by the powers that be, we are treated to an orgy of
flag waving, patriotic bombast, and bloviations on “Liberty” (the
details of which are unspecified). But almost never is there any
reading of the Declaration of Independence that today we
supposedly honor.

It’s no surprise that the ruling elite prefer to ignore the
Declaration because at that document’s core are five fundamental
assertions that they wish to conceal beneath piles of patriotic
blather:

     “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are
     created equal,”

This never meant — then or now — that every individual has the
same talent, ability or character. It does mean that there is no
class of people, no aristocracy, who are inherently superior by
reason of their wealth or birth. And that those at the bottom of
the economic pyramid are not lesser, or sub-human creatures who
deserve lives of drudgery devoid of hope. That there are no “ten”
whose lot in life is deserved toil so that “one” can repose in
leisure and luxury. It also implies that criminals who use their
power and position to rob pension funds and loot the economy
should not be allowed to escape the consequences of their crimes
because they are rich or politically-connected (continued)

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