BEGIN:VCALENDAR METHOD:PUBLISH CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:-//EVDB//www.eventful.com//EN VERSION:2.0 X-WR-CALNAME:Concert & Book Release Party for author/anti-war activist \, Jeff Nall in Melbourne\, FL at Unitarian Universalist Church of Bre vard - Eventful BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20080829T180000 DTEND:20080829T230000 DTSTAMP:20081016T202806Z SUMMARY:Concert & Book Release Party for author/anti-war activist\, Je ff Nall DESCRIPTION:Book Release Party and Concert to Be Held for Co-Founder o f Brevard Patriots for Peace and Space Coast Progressive Alliance\, Je ff Nall\nFriday\, August 29th in West Melbourne\n\nVocalist Benny S (R &B ) & Da Tribe (hip-hop) Debut New Single\, “No More\,” Taking on War in Iraq \n\nPerformances by Rock Group\, The Nine Volts and Regga e Rocker\, Adam Azar\n\nWEST PALM BEACH – On Friday\, August 29 a bo ok release party and concert will be held to commemorate Brevard peace activist and writer\, Jeff Nall’s new book: Perpetual Revolt: Essay s on Peace & Justice and The Shared Values of Secular\, Spiritual\, an d Religious Progressives (Howling Dog Press\, 250 pages\, $15.95\, 200 8).\n\nThe event takes place at the Unitarian Universalist Church of B revard\, 2185 Meadowlane Ave\, West Melbourne.\n\nThe book release par ty and concert will feature performances by Cape Canaveral roots rock band\, The Nine Volts and a solo performance by Adam Azar\, vocalist a nd guitarist of reggae band 23 Treez (myspace.com/23treezmusic).\n\nAm ong the evening’s highlights will be Benny S (myspace.com/bennys) an d Da Tribe’s debut of the new single\, “No More.” The single tar gets the war in Iraq and the destruction of life that has resulted. \n \nPoster-sized copies of protest photos and original art featured in P erpetual Revolt will also be on hand. \n\nAt 7:30pm author/activist Je ff Nall will discuss the theme of his book captured in its title\, Per petual Revolt\, followed by a signing.\n\nA selection of fair-trade t- shirts featuring social justice messages\, created by independent arti sts\, will be on sale. \n\nThe event will feature a progressive litera ture fair as well as a showing of a short video of a dramatic anti-war march on Washington DC\, September 15\, 2007.\n\nPerpetual Revolt has received praise from journalist/author\, Benjamin Dangle\; Butler Uni versity dean and founder of The Clergy Letters\, Michael Zimmerman\; f ormer congressional candidate and combat veteran\, Dr. Robert M. Bowma n\, Lt. Col.\, USAF\, retired\; founder of The Center for Progressive Christianity\, Rev. James Rowe Adams\; and Humanist Chaplain of Harvar d University\, Greg M. Epstein. \n\nAbout the Author:\nBIO:\nJeff Nall is a writer\, speaker\, and activist. His writing has appeared in sel ect journals and a range of independent magazines including Z magazine \, Toward Freedom\, and the Humanist. Two of his essays appear in the activist anthology\, Cost of Freedom. Nall earned a Master of Liberal Studies degree from Rollins College and has done work toward a PhD in comparative studies at Florida Atlantic University.\n\nAbout the Book: \nPerpetual Revolt is the work of a writer\, academic\, and activist determined to bring people together for the causes of pluralism\, comp assion\, and peace and justice. Perpetual Revolt is comprised of essay s\, interviews\, speeches\, art and photos that collectively call for spiritual\, religious\, and secular progressives to unite against war\ , intolerance\, and fundamentalism of all kinds.\n\nNall’s daughter Charlotte was born two months after the United States invaded Iraq. Dr iven by an empathy that imagined\, what if it was his child beneath Am erican bombs or at the barrel of American good intentions\, Nall refus ed to sit silently while bombs burst over Baghdad. A college student a nd journalist at the time\, Nall helped create and lead one of the mos t vibrant anti-war organizations\, Brevard Patriots for Peace\, in the state of Florida\, leading to two mass marches in a notoriously conse rvative area\, Brevard County. Though his efforts failed to stop the w ar\, Nall continued to revolt as a writer\, speaker\, academic\, and d edicated activist. \n\nThrough Patriots for Peace\, he continued to or ganize rallies\, vigils\, and marches against the war. Eventually he h elped found the Space Coast Progressive Alliance and reorganize the Br evard County chapter of the National Organization for Women. His effor ts not only helped revitalize progressivism in his community\, but he directly helped reform Brevard’s abstinence-only sex-ed curriculum\, bolster church-state separation\, and bring about changes to local la w enforcement surveillance policy.\n\nPerpetual Revolt moves from jour nalistic accounts of peace protests\; to interviews with noted indepen dent journalist\, Amy Goodman\, and folk legend\, Jesse Collin Young\; to well-researched analysis of the largely unknown history of Christi an support for church-state separation\; to Nall’s own poetic\, forc eful speeches calling for perpetual peace and justice activism in the face of a daunting futility. \n\nIncluded in the first part of the boo k\, “Fighting for Peace and Justice\,” are first-hand accounts (an d photographs) of inspiring anti-war marches\, routinely ignored by th e mainstream media\, and a revealing look at Rev. Martin Luther King†™s opposition to American foreign and economic policy. Part two\, “H eading off the Culture War\,” features a critical look at what Nall calls “antagonistic atheism” as well as interviews with respected Christians and atheists who find common ground as they discuss a range of issues including church-state separation\, war and peace\, poverty \, and religion and science.\n\nPraise for Perpetual Revolt\n\n“Whil e leaders in Washington prepare to wage perpetual war\, Jeff Nall's el oquent and inspiring book calls for waging perpetual revolt\; a revolt against war\, corporate greed\, narrow mindedness and apathy. Full of exciting street reports and interviews from anti-war protests across the country\, Perpetual Revolt is a timely account of peace activism i n the Bush years and beyond. With thought-provoking analysis and refre shing insight\, Nall writes from the left wing of the church\, invokin g Dr. Martin Luther King's legacy in nearly every page\, and seeking c ommon ground for much needed\nunity across religious and cultural line s. This call for social change beyond\nelectoral politics is at once a portrait and field guide of a peace movement in the belly of the beas t. Perpetual Revolt is an important document in a time of war\, full o f critiques as well as hope. This book should be widely read as it ins pires people to take action beyond just voting in the next election.†\n\n—Benjamin Dangl\, author of "The Price of Fire: Resource Wars a nd Social\nMovements in Bolivia" (AK Press)\; editor of TowardFreedom. com\,\na progressive perspective on world events. Dangl is the recipie nt of two\nProject Censored Awards for his reporting from Latin Americ a. LOCATION:Unitarian Universalist Church of Brevard @ 2185 Meadowlane Av enue, Melbourne, Florida 32904 United States SEQUENCE:1224188886 UID:E0-001-014148091-3 URL:http://eventful.com/E0-001-014148091-3 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR