On two successive Mondays, April 13 and 20, at 7:00 p.m., UFPPC's study circle, Digging Deeper, will examine recent books on the politics of assassination in the 1960s.  --  JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters (Orbis, 2008) by Ground Zero co-founder James W. Douglass makes a strong case in studying the assassination of President John F. Kennedy that JFK was killed because he was "locked in a struggle with his national security state" (p. 96).  --  An Act of State: The Execution of Martin Luther King by English barrister William F. Pepper looks closely at the 1997 trial of Loyd Jowers and other co-conspirators and concludes that "the U.S. government shut down a movement for social change in its tracks" (book cover)....

On Fri., Apr. 24, at 7:00 p.m. at King's Books (218 St. Helens Ave., Tacoma, WA), three Pierce County residents who have recently spent time in Gaza and the West Bank will offer eyewitness accounts of the hope and despair they observed there.[1]  --  This event is free and sponsored by People for Peace, Justice, and Healing; United for Peace of Pierce County; and the Tahoma Unitarian-Universalist Congregation Social Justice Committee....