It all started one night in October 2001, when Lawrence McGuire was roaming the streets of Montpellier, looking for a sign....

Since then, we've made other signs...

And these are probably not the last, unless a new era of global peace and justice makes them unnecessary (we can dream).

Stephanie Lohse has prepared this illustrated summary of our activities since 2002...

APJ activities since fall 2002...

- DEMONSTRATIONS AGAINST WAR, MILITARY OCCUPATIONS, AND CORPORATE GLOBALIZATION
- CANDLELIGHT VIGILS

PETITIONS

• Petition encouraging French President Jacques Chirac to hold firm in his position against increased French and UN involvement in Irak.
• Petition against the School of the Americas.   (In partnership with member organizations of the Maison des Tiers Mondes.)

MUSICAL EVENTS • ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSIONS • DEBATES

• "Que veulent les Américains pour la Paix et la Justice?"  
• Musical tribute to Bob Dylan (fundraising event)
• "Droit et non-droit dans les relations internationales" (Forum Social Hérault)
• APJ members led public discussion of the USA elections. (Organized with ATTAC-Bédarieux.)
• "Rencontre-Debat: All Power to the People" (Martin Luther King Day event)
• "Soirée contre l'injustice: couloirs de la mort" (Co-sponsored by MAN, MDPL, Maison de la Paix, Lutte pour la Justice Languedoc-Roussillon, Ligue des Droits de l'Homme, ACAT, Amnesty International, Association Charles Thompson, Centre Lacordaire, Comité Mumia Abu Jamal)

INVITED SPEAKERS

• Tatjana Vanic; viewing of video, "Les damnés du Kosovo"
• Danièle and René Sirven, authors of "Texas, couloir de la mort" about death row inmate Rickey-Lynn Lewis.
• Joan Sekler (coproducer): APJ viewing of the film "Unprecedented" and discussion of the Florida fiasco and current state of the voting process in the US.
• Robbie Conal   (Guerilla street artist) Discussion of the production and distribution of guerrilla street posters as a tactic for the public expression of political and social ideas.   Including the video: "Robbie Conal's Guerilla Etiquette and Postering Techniques"
• Starhawk  (Writer, global justice activist, teacher, permaculturist, witch, feminist, anarchist)   "Magic, Sex and Politics: The State of the Global Justice/Anti-War Movement in the USA (and elsewhere)"
• Houzan Mahmoud   (London-based representative of the Organization for Women's Freedom in Iraq). Meeting in solidarity with Iraqi women. (Co-sponsored by MDLP, SUD Etudiants, Solidarite Irak, and others.)   Iraqi Women's Rights Coalition

CAFÉ APJ : monthly gathering for political discussion in English; topics have included:

• Comparing notes from 'home'
• Political developments in Venezuela
• The EU Constitution: pros and cons
• Emmanuel Todd's After the Empire
• John Halloway's "Zapatismo Urbano"
• "What is capitalism?"

AND ALSO...

• Mayors for Peace Initiative (Nuclear non-Proliferation Treaty).   In partnership with Vermont Peace (Montpelier, VT), APJ (Montpellier, France), and the Mouvement pour le Désarmement, la Paix et la Liberté (MDPL).
• Public viewing and discussion of films at the Diagonal cinema: "Le Monde selon Bush", "Uncovered: The War in Iraq", "Fahrenheit 9-11"
• AVA 'Postcards against Bush' campaign
• USA Fair organized by the Montpellier French-American Center.
• US Overseas Voter Registration Drive

MONTHLY MEETINGS, SOCIAL GATHERINGS ...