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Oklahoma City's annual Fall Peace Festival, Sat. Nov. 10 Start: 10:00 am End: 4:00 pm 10 am to 4 pm, in the Civic Center's HALL OF MIRRORS Oklahoma City's annual Fall Peace Festival will be held on Saturday, Nov. 10, from 10 am to 4 pm, in the downtown Civic Center Music Hall's "HALL OF MIRRORS." More than 40 justice and peace organizations will display materials, crafts, pottery, weaving and artwork to meet every holiday shopper's needs. T-shirts, fair trade goods, organic coffee, books, calendars, clothing, carvings, etc, are on display. A supervised Children's Activity Area will be staffed all day offering face-painting, poster-making, and cooperative games. Free admission and free parking at street meters on Saturday make the Peace Festival affordable for all families. The Civic Center is located at 201 N. Walker in downtown Oklahoma City(p). Jim Hightower To Speak In Tulsa At Bill Of Rights Celebration Start: 6:30 pm National radio commentator, writer, public speaker, and author Jim Hightower will visit Tulsa at a Bill of Rights Celebration hosted by the ACLU of Oklahoma on Saturday, November 10, 2007. The event will be held in the Manchester-Geneva Room of the Doubletree Hotel, 616 W. Seventh Street in downtown Tulsa. Festivities will begin with a reception at 6:30 p.m. A banquet will follow at 7:00 p.m. Hightower broadcasts daily radio commentaries that are carried in more than 100 commercial and public stations, on the web, on Armed Forces Radio, Radio for Peace International, One World Radio and Sirius Satellite Radio. Each month, he publishes a populist political newsletter, “The Hightower Lowdown,” which now has more than 125,000 subscribers and is the fastest growing political publication in America. The hard-hitting Lowdown has received both the Alternative Press Award and the Independent Press Association Award for best national newsletter. IVAW Oklahoma Veterans Day Concert Start: 9:00 pm End: 1:00 am This Veterans Day weekend, November 10th, come to Duvallz Club in Lawton, Oklahoma for a night of music and show your support for Iraq Veterans Against the War in Oklahoma City and the Lawton/Fort Sill area. Punk band 'Delusional 13' will open the show with local hip-hop legends 'McNastee' (www.myspace.com/mcnastee) and '8Bit Cynics' (www.myspace.com/8bitcynics) performing afterwards. IVAW members from across the country will be in attendance and speaking to the many veterans in the audience. 21 and up only; $5 cover charge. Duvallz Club 4 SW Lee Boulevard Lawton , OK 73501 http://www.ivaw.org/node/1961

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