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Sunday, December 3rd, 2006: 13th Annual Pancake/Waffle Breakfast (Benefit for VIDA/SIDA)

Join us for the 13th Annual Pancake/Waffle Breakfast, on Sunday, December 3rd, 2006 from 10:00 am - 12:30 at the new Puerto Rican Cultural Center, 2700 W. Haddon.

BENEFIT for VIDA/SIDA, the Aids/Life Project of the Puerto Rican Cultural Center which is in desperate need of funds. All the pancakes, waffles, vegan pancakes, fruit salad and more you can eat! All proceeds go directly to Vida Sida; Tickets $5-20.00.

Sponsored by: Prairie Fire Organizing Committee and Friends of the Puerto Rican Cultural Center; call 773-278-6706 for more information.

Prairie Fire is a member of Peace Pledge-Chicago. For anti-war event listings please also check the Peace Pledge website.

Archive of Some Past Events

• Nov. 12, 2000: Honoring New Afrikan & Black political prisoners. program/pamphlet(A Tribute to Nuh Washington), introductory notes, evaluation
• Dec. 3, 2000: Pancake & Waffle Breakfast (Benefit for Puerto Rican Political Prisoners and Campaign for Vieques)
• March 8 & 10, 2001: International Women's Day 2001  evaluation
• April 19 2001: Luis Rosa Visit & Call to Action Conference
• May 1, 2001: May Day Human Chain
• May 6, 2001: Program: Fighting Hate Groups and the Ultra-Right, Defending the Bill of Rights
• May 19, 2001: Program: Opposing U.S. Militarism
• June 9, 2001: Rainbow/PUSH Coalition Meeting: Support C Number Prisoners! Peace for Vieques!
• June 16, 2001: 24th Annual Puerto Rican People's Parade/Desfile del Pueblo Puertorriqueno in Humboldt Park
• June 16, 2001: 4th Annual Pilipino Kultural Night of Resistance
• June 19th, 2001: Juneteenth Demonstration at Cook County Jail
• June 19th, 2001: What's Going On? Lesbian, Trans, Gay and Bisexual people, Police Brutality and the Death Penalty
• July 11th, 2001: Chicago Progressive Women's Network Forum: Prostitutes or Commercial Sex Workers
• August 18th, 2001: Workshop on Women Political Prisoners
• September 4th, 2001: un-Welcome Boeing to Chicago
• September 24 & 29; October 7, 8, 2001: Demonstration against the War
• October 13th, 2001: Demonstration against Missile Defense System ("Star Wars") and the war in Afghanistan
• November 10th 2001: Jose Lopez, Puerto Rican Cultural Center, Margaret Power, Prairie Fire Organizing Committee, Hakim Husein, Palestine Aid Society, Jamie Leslie, Loyola Students Against Sweatshops, Sister Kathleen Desautels, Eighth Day Center for Justiceand Cara Kuball, student activist all spoke at a program on the war held at the Hot House
• December 8th, 2001: Melinda Power emceed a program on political repression at the Broadway Armory where Jose Lopez, Joey Mogul, Michael Deutsch, et al spoke
• December 9th, 2001: 10th annual Pancake/Waffle breakfast for the Puerto Rican political prisoners
• February 8th, 2002: Screening of the documentary "Hearts & Minds" and discussion of U.S. militarism
• February 16th, 2002:Benefit Film Screening for Tear Down the Walls Conference, with "Eyes of the Rainbow" and "Out: The Making of a Revolutionary"
• March 3rd, 2002: International Women's Day program: Women, Gender, and U.S. Militarism at DePaul, with Professor Ghada Talhami,Professor Ji-Yeon Yuh on Korea, Rhoda Rae Gutierrez, Professor Margaret Power, Norma Pena, and Tim Looney
• March 8th 2002: International Women's Day Demonstration!
• August 17th, 2002: An evening of Culture: Expressions of Resistance, sponsored by Chicago Coalition Against U.S. Miltarism: Music, Dance, Spoken Word, and Visual Art focusing on positive alternatives to U.S. Militarism
• October 7th, 2002: Rally and March to Oppose the War in Iraq. Stop the War in Afghanistan don't start war in Iraq! Flyer
• November 14th: Program on LGBT Liberation and Building a Progressive Movement.
• December 5th, 2002: Book Discussion: Right Wing Women in Chile, Feminine Power and the Struggle Against Allenda and Right Wing Women From Conservatives to Extremists Around the World
• December 8th, 2002: Annual Pancake/Waffle Breakfast Benefit for Puerto Rican Political Prisoners and the National Boricua Human Rights Network
• December 10th, 2002: Rally and Civil Disobedience to Oppose War on Iraq on International Human Rights Day. Sponsored by the Iraq Peace Pledge
• Mar 10th, 2003: Celebrate International Women's Day! March and Rally
• March 15th, 2003: International Women's Day Conference: "What has been the Bush administration's impact on women?"
• October 12, 2003: The Impact of Empire at Home and Abroad: Program featuring Jose Lopez, Puerto Rican Cultural Center; Emma Lozano, Centro Sin Fronteras; Ahmad Sadri, Professor Lake Forest College, Middle East expert
• December 6, 2003 10th Annual Pancake & Waffle Breakfast Benefit for Puerto Rican Political Prisoners
• December 10, 2003 International Human Rights Day Rally
• Feb 22, 2004 Hearts and Minds (film screening)
• April 1, 2006 Open House on Gentrification in the Puerto Rican Community (Download the flyer, PDF)

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