Mini conference • Friday/Saturday • May 7-8 at
Pima Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)
Open Coordinating Committee Meeting • Sunday, May 9 • 9 a.m. - Noon at
Borderlinks, 620 S. 6th Avenue
Phone numbers in Tucson:
Jack and Felice Cohen-Joppa : 520-323-8697
Ruth Benn, cell May 7-9: 917-474-4380
Travel to: Borderlinks, 620 S. 6th Avenue (housing and Sunday meeting)
Bus from TUCSON INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT: By bus from the airport, take Rt. 6 to the Laos Transit Center and change to Rt. 8 towards downtown (Ronstadt Transit Center) Get off at S. 6th Avenue between 16th and 17th Streets. Borderlinks is on the west (left) side of the street.
From GREYHOUND BUS STATION: Go north to Congress St. Turn right into downtown for 1/2 mile (street name will change to Broadway), then right on S. 6th Avenue to Borderlinks (about a one mile walk total).
TRAIN: Amtrak is scheduled to arrive in downtown Tucson at 1:05 a.m. Thursday from the west and 10:40 p.m. Thursday from the east. Please contact Jack and Felice directly if you plan to arrive in Tucson by train.
Travel to: Pima Friends Meeting (PFM), 931 N. 5th Ave. (Friday 5 pm - Saturday 6 pm)
Bus from TUCSON INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT: Take the Rt. 6 bus (departs about every 30 minutes weekdays; every hour on Saturday) all the way to the Ronstadt Transit Center (Downtown).
Transfer to Rt. 1 Northbound (departs about every 30 minutes weekdays; every hour on Saturday), or Rt. 4 Eastbound (departs about every 10-15 minutes weekdays; every 30 minutes on Saturday).
Rt. 1: disembark at E. University Blvd. and N. 5th Ave., walk 1.5 blocks north on 5th Ave. to PFM, on your left. Rt. 4: disembark at N. 6th Ave. and E. 2nd St., walk east on 2nd St. one block to N. 5th Ave., then left (north) to PFM, on your right.
One can also walk from the Ronstadt Transit Center to Pima Friends Meeting, just under 1 mile. North on 6th Ave. from Ronstadt Transit Center, under the railroad tracks, to E. 2nd St., right (east) one block to N. 5th Ave., then left (north) to PFM, on your right.
Travel from Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport to Tucson:
ARIZONASHUTTLE.COM departs Sky Harbor Airport every hour on the half hour, and arrives in Tucson two hours later. They will drop you off near the University of Arizona, where Tucson hosts (520-323-8697) can meet you for transport to Borderlinks.
DRIVING: (approx. 2 hours): Ttake I-10 east to Tucson, and exit #258 at Congress St. Turn left (east) at bottom of ramp, into downtown for 1/2 mile (street name will change to Broadway), then right on S. 6th Avenue to Borderlinks.
Limited number of pick ups available. Contact Jack and Felice if you need a pick up, at 520-323-8697 or nukeresister@igc.org
Tucson Highlights: Excellent hiking on easy to difficult trails in the Sonoran Desert is a short drive from Borderlinks. Bring hat, sunscreen, water, long pants and good closed shoes for hiking. Notable destinations on the University of Arizona campus include the Native American antiquities at the Arizona State Museum, and premier exhibitions at the Center for Creative Photography. The 4th Avenue shopping district includes the independent feminist Antigone Books and the Food Conspiracy cooperative. Sonoran-style Mexican restaurants in Tucson set the standard. The Arizona Sonora Desert Museum is a world-renowned institution displaying flora and fauna of the bi-national bioregion, just 20 minutes west by car from Borderlinks.
South of Tucson, the unique Titan Missile Museum is built around an early intercontinental ballistic missile silo. Tucson is home to Davis-Monthan AFB, the principle flight training school for the A-10 warplane, which is the source of the majority of the forever toxic depleted uranium ammunition used in combat in Iraq and the Balkans. Davis-Monthan is also home base for the 214th Reconnaissance Group of the Arizona National Guard which flies around-the-clock combat missions over Iraq and Afghanistan with the Predator drone. Tucson's largest private employer (11,000+ FTE) and largest local exporter is Raytheon Missile Systems Division, producing a variety of missiles and missile interceptors, guided bombs and artillery shells, "nonlethal" directed energy weapons and more.
Further travel and program details will be on our website and sent to
you in advance of the gathering.
Please register by April 19, 2010 if possible
NWTRCC, PO Box 150553, Brooklyn, NY 11215
(800) 269-7464 or Email: nwtrcc@nwtrcc.org
(800) 269-7464