Anti-War Protest

Please join the Axis of Elvis to protest & ask those passing by to question our wars. Protests will be every Sunday starting june 26 from 12:30 to 1:30pm at the corner of garland & north st in fayetteville people of all faiths
(& non-faiths) are welcome.
For more info, e-mail me at elvis_4_peace-AT-yahoo.com .
Please also visit my websites
geocities.com/elvis_4_peace
elvis4peace.blogspot.com

Location:
At the corner of Garland & North St in Fayetteville

Cost: Free (of course)

Directions: For directions, go to the following website
www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp

Organizer:

URL: http://www.geocities.com/elvis_4_peace/

"Speaking for Peace: From Jerusalem & Washington, and in Austin"

This interfaith event focused on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will occur simultaneously in more than 40 U.S. cities and will feature a televised address from speakers including Avraham Burg (former Speaker of the Israeli Knesset and co-author of Geneva Accord Model Peace Agreement) and Sari Nusseibeh (President of Al Quds
University and co-founder of the People's Voice Peace Initiative).

The televised address will be followed by an opportunity to discuss local possibilities for activism.

Location:
Congregation Beth Israel, 3901 Shoal Creek Blvd.

Cost: free

Amnesty International Austin's Meet and Greet BBQ

This informal gathering is an opportunity to learn more about the local chapter of Amnesty International (AI500) and meet group members. Hamburgers, hot dogs, and other refreshments will be served.

Location:
Zilker Park polo tables. Zilker Park is at 2100 Barton
Springs Road. The polo tables are in the southwest area of the park, near the restrooms.

Cost: free

Inside Books Volunteer Night

Come and open letters from Texas inmates and send them books that they request. We need all the help we can get.
Also, we always encourage people to bring dictionaries and book donations (soft back, please)for our library.

This is a non-profit organization formed to help Texas inmates through literacy and self-education.

Thursdays 6pm-10pm
Sundays 7pm-12am

Location:
Rhizome Collective
(300 E Allen St)

Cost: FREE

Directions: To volunteer: On volunteer nights we can be found at 300 Allen Street in the Allen Street Warehouse. From the highway, take 7th Street east past Pleasant Valley. Once you pass Pleasant Valley you will go over a bridge. The first right turn after the bridge is Allen Street. Allen Street will dead end into the Allen Street Warehouse, which will be on your right.

Organizer:

URL: http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?searchtype=address&country=US&addtohistory=&searchtab=home&address=300+Allen+street&city=A

Konki-Demo in Hohenems

Nach 30 Jahren aufregenden, bunten, engagierten und einmaligen Dasein, steht nun fest, dass der Verein Konkret ab 1 Juli 2005 –von der wiedergewählten konservativ Regierung- keine Subventionen mehr erhalten wird. Somit ist der letzte in einer Reihe von unverständlichen Schritten getan, um die offene und autonome Jugend- und Kulturarbeit in Hohenems Tod zu schreiben. Es wird keine Räumlichkeiten, frei vom Konsum- und Leistungszwang mehr geben, in denen Jugendliche –aber auch Erwachsene- kreatives Potential entfalten können. Keine Räumlichkeiten mehr, in denen immer wieder versucht wurde, Rassismen, Sexismen zu überwinden und Solidarität zu üben.

Am Sonntag den 26.06.2005 wird ein Protest-Trauermarsch für Hohenems verantstaltet:

"Versteht uns nicht falsch. Es ist nicht der letzte Wille einer Sterbenden. Wir tragen das zu Grabe, was die solidarische, freie, selbstorganisierte und menschenwürdige Entwicklung behindert. Es ist daher der Aufruf, sich weiterhin für ein offenes und autonomes Zentrum einzusetzen."

Programm:
Beginn 13°° Uhr Schlossplatz Hohenems Trauermarsch in Schwarz –begleitet mit Trompete durch die Innenstadt
Anschließend Abschiednahme am Schlossplatz mit Audiobeitrag und Grabreden
Filmvorführung ZombieXII – Die Übergangslösung
Enthüllung des Mahnmals
Bands und Musik bis in späte Zeiten
Konki bleibt Autonom!

Location:
Hohenems (Voralberg) am Schlossplatz, 13°° UHr

Organizer:

URL: www.ajzkonkret.at

18th Annual Writers' Workshop

June 20 - July 1, 2005

Sponsored by the William Joiner Center for the Study of War and Social Consequences and the Creative Writing Program of the University of Massachusetts Boston

Since 1987 the center has sponsored a two-week workshop for writers interested in working on writing projects related to war, conflict, or other significant social issues. The workshop takes a fairly traditional form with core staff of writers work intensively in workshop settings with a small group of writers. The workshop classes (poetry, fiction, memoir, and translation) are supplemented by individual conferences, master classes offered by visiting writers, panels, film screenings and discussions, and readings by faculty and students.

Visiting writers will join the teaching staff in a series of readings, seminars, and panel discussions. Special events held at UMass Boston and at other Boston locations will be open to both workshop students and the general public.

This years' faculty includes:

Bruce Weigl
Larry Heinemann
Demetria Martínez
Bob Nichols
Doug Anderson
Lady Borton
Martín Espada
Macdara Woods
Eilean Ni Chullinean
Charles Simic
Danielle Legros George
Grace Paley
Michael Casey
Fred Marchant
Lloyd Schwartz
Sabra Loomis
Susan O'Neill
Martha Collins
& others

Please note that this information is subject to change.

Funding from Lannan Foundation, the LEF Foundation, and the Massachusetts Cultural council have helped to sustain and make the program affordable over the years.

Location:
UMass Boston

URL: http://www.joinercenter.umb.edu/Programs/Literary%20Programs/Writers%27%20Workshop/Writers%27%20Workshop.htm

Truth & Justice Radio

WZBC Boston College Radio 90.3fm

Stan Robinson, Richard Krasner and Sally Giacosanzio carry on the vibrant tradition that Martin Voelker began, airing the week's public affairs, with substantive analysis from Boston events on: foreign policy toward Colombia, East Timor, Iraq, Chile; our role in global warming; alternatives to "the market"; water scarcity; sweatshop labor; biotechnology; the demonization of children for problems of the adult world.

Location:
on the radio 90.3fm

URL: http://www.wzbc.org

Radio with a View

Sundays 10-11:30 am
WMBR 88.1fm

Produced by dave goodman & marc stern for the Independent Broadcast Information Service www.ibisradio.org

*** PLEASE NOTE: Show time has changed to 10:00-11:30 ***

Location:
on the radio 88.1fm

URL: http://www.wmbr.org

What's Left

A radio program about everything that’s Left – ideas, interviews, music, art, and culture, local and
global.

Hosted by Linda Pinkow & Will Taggart

In Greater Boston: on WMBR 88.1 fm
Online (live stream): wmbr.org

Contact: 617-253-8810

Location:

What's Left

A radio program about everything that’s Left – ideas, interviews, music, art, and culture, local and
global.

Hosted by Linda Pinkow & Will Taggart

In Greater Boston: on WMBR 88.1 fm
Online (live stream): wmbr.org

Contact: 617-253-8810

Location:

What's Left

A radio program about everything that’s Left – ideas, interviews, music, art, and culture, local and
global.

Hosted by Linda Pinkow & Will Taggart

In Greater Boston: on WMBR 88.1 fm
Online (live stream): wmbr.org

Contact: 617-253-8810

Location:

Concert Antihomofòbic

Concert Antihomofòbic amb Cesk Freixas, (cantautor penedesenc(, Carles Rabassa (poeta i rapsode mallorquí) i Antiherois (ens presentaran l'argot gai català a ritme petardo d'escudella sound system). Us hi esperem a tots i totes amb la vostre vestimenta més petarda!!

Location:
Vilafranca del Penedès

Cost: gratuit

Directions: C/La fornal, 20

Organizer:

Uharteko Euskararen Eguna 2005

Acción cultural


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Uharteko Eguna
2005
Este año la novedad la centran el Herri Kirolak "participativo" , asi como la actuación en concierto de Anje Duhalde. La fiesta a favor de nuestra cultura y del Euskera promete ser un día inolvidable. El 26 de Junio te esperamos en la Plaza San Juan de Uharte.


Programa del día
Viene Anje Duhalde




Programa:

26 JUNIO 2005
09:00 - Dianas
10:00 - Feria de artesanía
11:00 - Pasacalles: zanpantzar, gigantes y kilikis,
dantzaris, txistularis, gaiteros y la Zirko eskola.
12:00 - Plaza San Juan, actuación de los grupos
culturales: txalaparta, dantzaris, txistularis,
banda de musica,... etc.
14:30 - Comida popular. Precio: 14 € mayores y 6 € infantil.
16:00 - 18:00 - Hinchables para los/as niños/as en el
patio de la antigua escuela
18:00 - En la plaza El Ferial.Deporte rural participativo y exhibición de ZURGAI Taldea:
- competición de tronza, chingas, sokatira... entre la jente del público
- corte de hachas vertical y horizontal y demostración de habilidad con motosierra
19:30 - Plaza San Juan ANJE DUHALDE en concierto,
y después bailes regionales.



Viene Anje Duhalde!!

Anje Duhalde tocará en concierto a las 19:30 h.

Biografia : Arrangoitze-Lapurdi, 1950)
En la década de los 70, junto con Mixel Ducau, Anje Duhalde fundó el primer grupo de rock euskaldun, el mítico Errobi. Después de la disolución de este grupo, que nos dio a conocer el rock progresivo y otras tendencias internacionales, Duhalde prosiguió su carrera en solitario, tomando fuerza, a partir de ese momento, la tradición dentro de canciones rock y pop. También ha destacado Duhalde por su compromiso explícito a favor de los derechos del pueblo vasco.


Biografia : (Arrangoitze-Lapurdi, 1950)
70eko hamarkadan, Mixel Ducaurekin batera, euskarazko lehen rock taldea sortu zuen Anje Duhaldek, Errobi mitikoa. Rock progresiboa eta nazioarteko beste hainbat joera hurbildu zizkigun talde hura desegin ondoren, bakarkako bideari ekin zion Duhaldek. Lan horretan tradizioarekiko atxikimenduak pisu handiagoa hartu du rock eta pop moldeko kantuetan. Aldarrikapen abertzaleen alde agertutako konpromisoagatik ere nabarmendu da Duhalde.


Diskografía :

Bakezaleak (iz disketxea )
Errobiaren Hegetik (iz disketxea )

Erroz eta oroz (iz disketxea )
Nahas eta Mahas (iz disketxea )
Amurizaren kantari (iz disketxea)
Zuzenean (Elkar)

Su gainean dantzan (Elkar)
Azkarate (Elkar)

Pinpirin eta Florian (Elkar)
George Brassensen kantari (Elkar)





Uharteko Eguna
2005
Aurtengo berritasunak bi gako ditu: batetik Herri Kirolak “partaidetsuak”, bestaldetik Anje Duhalderen kontzertuaren ekitaldia. Baietz, gure kulturaren eta Euskararen aldeko jai hau ahaztezina izanen dugula. Ekainaren 26an zure zain izanen gaituzu Uharteko San Juan Plazan


Egitaraua
Anje Duhalde ba dator !!



Egitaraua:

EKAINAK 26

09:00 - Goiz-soinuak

10:00 - Eskulangileen azoka

11:00 - Kalejira: zanpantzarra, erraldoi eta
kilikiak, dantzariak,txistulariak, gaiteroak
eta zirko eskola

12:00 - San Juan plazan kultur taldeen emanaldia:
txalaparta, dantzariak, txistulariak, musika
banda eta abar.

14:30 - Herri Bazkaria. Prezioa: 14 € helduak eta 6 € haurrak.

16:00 - 18:00 - Haurrentzako hintxableak eskola
zaharreko jolastokian.

18:00 -Herri Kirol parte hartzailea eta erakustaldia ZURGAI Taldearekin:
- publikoko jendearen arteko arpana, txingak, sokatira... norgehiagoka
- aizkora ebaketa, zutika eta etzanda, eta motozerrarekin trebetasun erakustaldia

19:30 - San Juan plazan Anje Duhalde kontzertuan.
eta jarraian herrialdeko dantzak.





Anje Duhalde ba dator!!

San Juan plazan Anje Duhalde kontzertuan. 19:30etan.

Biografia : (Arrangoitze-Lapurdi, 1950)
70eko hamarkadan, Mixel Ducaurekin batera, euskarazko lehen rock taldea sortu zuen Anje Duhaldek, Errobi mitikoa. Rock progresiboa eta nazioarteko beste hainbat joera hurbildu zizkigun talde hura desegin ondoren, bakarkako bideari ekin zion Duhaldek. Lan horretan tradizioarekiko atxikimenduak pisu handiagoa hartu du rock eta pop moldeko kantuetan. Aldarrikapen abertzaleen alde agertutako konpromisoagatik ere nabarmendu da Duhalde.


Diskografía :

Bakezaleak (iz disketxea )
Errobiaren Hegetik (iz disketxea )

Erroz eta oroz (iz disketxea )
Nahas eta Mahas (iz disketxea )
Amurizaren kantari (iz disketxea)
Zuzenean (Elkar)

Su gainean dantzan (Elkar)
Azkarate (Elkar)

Pinpirin eta Florian (Elkar)
George Brassensen kantari (Elkar)

Location:
UHARTE-NAFARROA

Directions: Posta Elektronikoa:
Bulegoa, administrazioa: bulego-AT-berdintasuna.org
Kultura: kultura-AT-berdintasuna.org
www.berdintasuna.org

Organizer:

URL: http://www.berdintasuna.org

Indymedia Convergence and Radio Workshop

Radio Workshop - Training for the G8 - Sunday 12:00 am, the Forest Cafe

International Indymedia Meeting - Sunday, 3/4 pm, the Forest Cafe

There will be a crash course on news reporting on Sunday morning at the Forest Cafe, and then a chance to meet expereinced international reporters from Indymedia centres all over the world in the afternoon.
Experienced radio makers and novices will be teamed up, and sent out to interview people about the G8 - with a deadline for each group to come back and produce a short piece. The idea will be to simulate the sort of fast paced reporting needed on the day....
We'll think about how we can cover areas of the city, subjects, and make sure we get different voices and persepctives. Points for content, creativity, depth and speed - prizes for the best team!

AFTERNOON - INDYMEDIA MEETING - national and international media makers have begun arriving in Edinburgh...come and meet them! Find out about VIDEO, RADIO and PHOTO COVERAGE. And come for a pint somewher after.

Location:
FOREST CAFE , 3 BRISTO PLACE, EDINBURGH, EH1 1EY

Cost: FREE AS THE SCOTTISH SUNNISH ( AND AS RARE)

Organizer:

URL: http://indymedia.org.uk/en/actions/2005/g8/

Edinburgh Reshape meeting

Last meeting of Reshape Edinburgh before G8 week.

At 5pm pre-meeting to work out funding buget between various Edinburgh spaces project accomodation, conferenace, offices and infoshop.

Location:
Communications Workers Union (posties) Club, 15 Brunswick Street.

Cost: free

Organizer:

URL: http://reshape.org.uk

Aberdeen Radical and Subversive Film Screenings

**Radical and Subversive film screeings every Sunday in Aberdeen**

**Provisional Schedule (subject to change!)**

24 April
Weapons of Mass Deception: Inside the Media War you Never Saw, Danny
Schechter, 104 min, colour, USA 2004
Presented by Paul O¹Hanlon from Edinburgh

There were two wars going on in Iraq - one was fought with armies of
soldiers, bombs and a fearsome military force. The other was fought
alongside it with cameras, satellites, armies of journalists and propaganda
techniques.

WMD explores this story with the findings of a gutsy, media
insider-turned-outsider, former network journalist, Danny Schechter, who is
one of America's most prolific media critics. Schechter says he
"self-embedded" himself in his living room to monitor media coverage, by
fastidiously tracking the TV coverage on a daily basis. He wrote thousands
of words daily about the coverage for Mediachannel.org, the world's largest
online media issues network, and then collected his columns. He has
continued his one-man investigation with WMD, a two-hour indie non-fiction
film that asks the questions that his media colleagues refused to confront
before, during and after the war. Featuring footage from inside Iraq, and
inside the media, WMD tracks the media war through February 2004.

1 May 2005
Precarity DVD-Magazine Issue 3 (197 minutes - extracts, 'passing the
remote'-style)

A compilation of 17 videos documenting on the rebellion of precarious
flexworkers across the continents.

>From the occupation of abandoned factories in Argentina, to the interruption
of the French prime time news and the devotion to Saint Precarious at the
MayDay? Parade in Milan, the DVD is advertising a new brand of labour
activism. It is a toolbox to investigate on new modes of collective action
and an instrument for the radical organization of the consumerised younger
generation.

8 May 2005
The Vacuum Cleaner. Works from 2003

Presented by the vacuum cleaner (www.thevacuumcleaner.co.uk). This
astute collection of fine UK-based incidences of culture jamming includes:

Prayers to Sainbury's Supermarket
Stop Shopping Tour 03
Virgin on the Ridiculous
Whirl-Mart
Prayers to Products
Taking 'Back' Action
Re-Call - Cup Fault
Cleaning the MCA
Cleaning Wall Street, NY

Location:
The Carlton Bar (upstairs), Castlegate, Aberdeen

Cost: Totally free!

Directions: To the right of the salvation army building, to the left of the Voluntary Service Aberdeen Shop. Go through the front door of the bar, take an immediate right and head on up the stairs.

Organizer:

Zapatista benefit gig at The Tunnels, Aberdeen

Sunday June 26th at The Tunnels:

Zapatista benefit show

Alan Cynic / The Kitchen Cynics: spot - on observational singer - songwritering
The Videos: sci - fi pop - punk
Spike Pile Driver: the shortest distance between two points
Sidca: Mongol horde of noise; possibly acoustic on the night
(and introducing......)
Bill Ely and the Catnips: in their guitarists own words, ahem, "Cajun
punks weld you two a two time pirate beat, Shinto style".

£3 entry
7pm - 1am

For info on the Zapatistas check out www.edinchiapas.org.uk/

Location:
The Tunnels, Carnegie Brae, Aberdeen

Cost: £3

Organizer:

Picnic in the Park

At approximately 2PM every Sunday community members gather with Food Not Bombs at Circle Park (Maryland Pkwy. and Oakey) to feed the homeless and have a good time.

Location:
Circle Park (Maryland Pkwy. and Oakey, just South of Charleston)

Cost: FREE, Bring Food, Drinks, Fun, and the Family

Organizer:

Picnic in the Park

Click here for the history of Food Not Bombs.
Food not bombs is an international movement of people who work along autonomous, egalitarian, decentralized, organization in order to share vegan and vegetarian food with the hungry and homeless, as well as protest social, economic, environmental, and animal injustice world wide.
Our three main principles are food recycling, non-violence, and consensus.
We feel food, being a substance necessary to sustain life, is a right, not a privilege.
According to the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights, Article 25: Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.
We feel that the government spends too much money on weapons and war, and not enough to attend to the basic needs of its people.
We feel that by spending money on war instead of its own people, the government's main priority lies outside its own borders.
According to the Congressional Budgeting Office, the United State's will spend over $400 billion on defense alone, and only $387 billion on all other services (Table 10).
We do not feed the homeless. We have picnics and share food with anyone. The most hungry happens to be the homeless. We don't feed them. The food is shared; we sit with them, talk to them, and learn from them. This is not a soup kitchen or any other impersonal service.

Who is Hungry and Why?

According to the US Census, 12.1% (34.6 million people) of the population are current in poverty.
According to America's Second Harvest, the number of Americans who were hungry or food insecure was 33.6 million in 2001.
23.3 million people sought emergency food relief from their network of services in 2001.
The number of homeless people living in America is unknown, however the National Coalition for the Homeless cites an Urban Institute study which says that 3.5 million people (1.35 million children) will experience homelessness in any given year.
In Florida, America's Second Harvest states that the poverty rate is 12%, and that the childhood poverty rate is 18.8%.
The Homeless Coalition of Hillsborough County counts 6,481 homeless people.
There is no single cause of homelessness in the United States.
Some reasons include lack of jobs, lack of a living wage, decline in public assistance, a lack of affordable housing, lack of affordable health care, domestic violence, mental illness, substance abuse (this may often begin after becoming homeless, as a way to deal with the harsh reality of living on the street).
The Homeless Coalition of Hillsborough says the two biggest trends of homelessness in the county are a shortage in affordable housing and a rise in poverty, although other factors do have an influence.
There are homeless because our society needs them. It needs people on the bottom and it needs minimum wage earners/"flexible" labor/a reserve army of labor, etc. Why criminalize what we're doing? Doing what we are doing threatens the status quo, social stratification, the "necessary" reserve.. We are lifting the homeless up and treating them as equals - it's revolutionary.

Why Not Get a Permit?

See the main page, Information section, for all the documents the police have given us.
The permit application is expensive, around $100, although the application fee can be waved for non-profit organizations.
We cannot nor do we want to obtain 501(c)3 non-profit status. It is not beneficial to our organization.
The city requires $500,000 liability insurance (3.2).
Insurance purchased through the city costs $240 or more per event.
There is a $25-$50 fee for reservations, plus a $100 clean up fee (although we make no messes).
Permits can only be obtained three times per year.
According to page 2 (#16), of the City of Tampa Special Events Permit Application (the permit we have been arrested for not having) "food and drinks cannot be given away to the public". However it specifies food may be sold, although to do so requires an additional $100 vendor permit.
Overall, we feel that we do not need permission to share our food in our parks with those in need.
We take full responsibility for all food consumed. In fact, we are eating with the homeless, and keep all of our health and safety in mind.

Why Not Feed on Private Property?

Picnics and gatherings are what parks are for.
These are public parks, which means they are our parks, and we have a right to use them.
This is where the homeless live. We feel it is wrong to make the homeless come to us. We wish to share food and have them eat at their homes, and speak with them in their environment.
Tampa Food Not Bombs has been picnicking there for 8 years. The homeless know us and like us; some even prefer our food over others.
Herman C. Massey Park, according to the Tampa Government website, is solely dedicated for picnic use. The fact that there are no bathrooms is something the city must reconcile. What if a family was there to have a picnic and needed to use the bathroom? Where should they go?
The human body takes 4-8 hours to digest food. People are able to find bathrooms within that time, however, are often only able to use them after paying for goods. This excludes the poor, hungry, and homeless.
We have not encountered any problems with waste disposal.

Why is FNB Doing This?

It's the right thing to do!
The government isn't doing it.
We as a community feel we should take care of our fellow humans.
We wish to build and improve our community.
We wish to treat the homeless, hungry, and poor as equals, and raise awareness that they should be treated as such.
We wish to teach self-sustainability.
We wish to build confidence in the homeless.
We are doing this because it should not be illegal. To ignore the laws is to keep sharing food illegal.
We are doing this to change the laws in Tampa. We wish to amend or rescind the current city law that prevents us from sharing food.
For 8 years, we haven't had problems.
We feel this is a violation of our civil liberties guaranteed by the constitution, including the freedom of speech, and the freedom of assembly.
We feel that food is a right, not a privilege or commodity, and therefore it should be given away freely.
We do it out of love.
We feel we must raise awareness that the city is spending more money on redevelopment than on dealing with homelessness and poverty.
There are homeless because our society needs them. It needs people on the bottom and it needs minimum wage earners/"flexible" labor/a reserve army of labor, etc. Why criminalize what we're doing? Doing what we are doing threatens the status quo, social stratification, and the "necessary" reserve. We are lifting the homeless up and treating them as equals - it's revolutionary.

Why doesn't FNB Work with Churches?

We don't need to, the churches are working with us.
The work churches do are important, and we will refer people to utilize their services, however we are not a church, and have different goals, beliefs, and actions.
We are working together to change the laws.
However, we do not share the same goals.
Our organization works on consensus, and we decided through that method that we do not want to be affiliated with churches.
Not everyone in our organization is religious.
We are more secular based.
With religious services, there is no dialogue with the people. You do not get to sit, eat, and talk with those you feed. With us, we ensure open dialogue.
We do not believe humanitarian services should be accompanied by preaching.
We do not believe food should be exchanged for religious ideology.
Churches do not serve vegetarian meals.
Churches are not flexible.
Churches are hierarchical, we are not. We do not want to be entered into their hierarchy and bureaucracy.
Churches should not have a monopoly on feeding the homeless.
There are no requirements to eat food with us.
We feel that religious people often speak to others in a condescending tone.
Religious groups are often exclusionary: excluding different races, ethnicities, other religions, non-religious people, or even gays and lesbians.
We do more than feed. We try to improve lives, provide companionship, promote healthy living, build community, give clothes and books, and teach and learn from the homeless.
We do not push our beliefs on those we share food with.
We don't just feed the homeless; everyone is welcome at our picnics. We also share food at events and protests.

What are the Solutions to Homelessness?

There is no one solution.
We should ask them what they think the solution is.
Taking care of our communities should be our first priority..
We should try to build strong local infrastructures.
We should try to provide more jobs and houses.
We should build more homeless and community centers.
There should be free healthcare and education.
We should end unjust economic practices such as greed; overconsumption; waste; commodification of goods such as food, water, and healthcare; profit fixations, etc.
Mayor Iorio should visit the HUD meetings which have a very detailed blueprint for ending homelessness. She failed to attend the last meeting.
End the stigmatization of homelessness by ending the myths of laziness, violence, etc.
We need to come together to solve the problem because when people suffer, its everyone's problem.
Obviously, there should be money for food, not for bombs.

Location:
Downtown Tampa @ Herman Massey Park

Cost: Free to ALL

Directions: www.tampagov.net/appl_tampa_address_locate/mappage.asp

Organizer:

URL: http://www.TampaFNB.org

"The Doctor, Depleted Uranium, and The Dying Children"

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
SUPPORT OUR TROOPS!
RESEARCHER WHO WAS IN BAGHDAD SHOWS RADIOACTIVE THREAT TO OUR TROOPS. HE WILL SPEAK AT FIRST UNITARIAN ON JUNE 26TH
SupportOur Troops. Warn them
BAGHDAD IS RADIOACTIVE!

THE DOCTOR, "DEPLETED" URANIUM AND THE DYING CHILDREN, a one-hour video, will be presented on Sunday, June 26th in the Gilbert Hall of the First Unitarian Church at 1:30 PM.

This video traces the work of Dr. Siegwart-Horst Gunther, a German epidemiologist and protégé of Albert Schweitzer. Because of his work he was imprisoned for three months in Germany, had death threats and was almost killed along a highway. The USA and NATO have intimidated the media and lied about the devastating health effects of inhaled uranium dust for decades. The technology for converting so called "depleted" uranium waste to deadly munitions and bunker buster bombs was done by a Germany company. It is interesting to find that a recent broadcast of the Diane Rhem PBS radio show was sponsored by the German Embassy.

Of our 580,400 soldiers who served in Gulf War I, 11,000 are now dead... By the year 2000, there were 325,000 on permanent medical disability. The inhaled deadly dust is affecting the health of our servicemen and women and the civilians. Many have died early and many have genetically damaged children. Returning soldiers and their wives often experience a burning sensation during intercourse. Uranium is being passed from the husband's body directly into the womb. The genetically damaged fetus doesn't have a chance of normal development.

The U.S. and NATO used uranium weapons in Gulf War One, Bosnia-Kosovo, Afghanistan and the current Iraq War. During the first three weeks of April 2003 alone, an estimated 1,000 to 3,000 tons of uranium were dropped, mainly on the heavily populated cities of Iraq.

In the film, a beeping Geiger counter clearly shows that bombed parts of Baghdad are radioactive. Tedd Weyman, the man holding the Geiger counter will be at the meeting to answer questions. Weyman is the Associate Director of the Uranium Medical Research Centre in Toronto.

Early in June, the state of Connecticut unanimously passed a bill giving her returning vets the legal right to testing for uranium poisoning. Louisiana passed a similar bill in committee. Neither WXXI nor most of the Rochester media reported on this. Yellow ribbons are not a substitute for radioactive hazards warning signs.

This meeting is sponsored by Choices and the Environment Task Force of The First Unitarian Church, Veterans For Peace, Military Families Speak Out, The Uranium Medical Research Centre, Trap Rock Peace Center, Metro Justice, The Peace and Social Action Committee of The Rochester Friend’s Meeting, and other groups.

Contact Jim Barlow at 585-392-5432 with questions.

Location:
First Unitarian Church, 220 Winton Rd.South, Rochester, NY

Cost: Free

Organizer:

Screening: "The End of Suburbia"

Indymedia and TV Dinner Continue our monthly Screeing Series with a
powerful independent Documentary outlining the Geopolitics of Peak Oil
Production.

"End of Suburbia"
60 minutes
June 26th, 2005
6pm
TVD/ IMC Space: 1115 E. Main St., Office # 368
Rochester, NY
Screening and Facilited Discussion

more info and directions at rochester.indymedia.org



>From the End of Suburbia Website:

Since World War II North Americans have invested much of their newfound
wealth in suburbia. It has promised a sense of space, affordability,
family life and upward mobility. As the population of suburban sprawl has
exploded in the past 50 years, so too has the suburban way of life become
embedded in the American consciousness.

Suburbia, and all it promises, has become the American Dream.

But as we enter the 21st century, serious questions are beginning to
emerge about the sustainability of this way of life. With brutal honesty
and a touch of irony, The End of Suburbia explores the American Way of
Life and its prospects as the planet approaches a critical era, as global
demand for fossil fuels begins to outstrip supply. World Oil Peak and the
inevitable decline of fossil fuels are upon us now, some scientists and
policy makers argue in this documentary.

The consequences of inaction in the face of this global crisis are
enormous. What does Oil Peak mean for North America? As energy prices
skyrocket in the coming years, how will the populations of suburbia react
to the collapse of their dream? Are today's suburbs destined to become the
slums of tomorrow? And what can be done NOW, individually and
collectively, to avoid The End of Suburbia ?

Location:
TVD/ IMC Space: 1115 E. Main St., Office # 368
Rochester, NY

Cost: $5 Donation

Directions: Coming from Downtown, 1115 East Main Street is the large Brick Factory Building the immediate right after the bridge over the railroad yard. Look for the Indymedia banner on the building

Organizer:

IMC Screening film "End of Suburbia"

Indymedia and TV Dinner Continue our monthly Screeing Series with a
powerful independent Documentary outlining the Geopolitics of Peak Oil
Production.

"End of Suburbia"
60 minutes
June 26th, 2005
6pm
TVD/ IMC Space: 1115 E. Main St., Office # 368
Rochester, NY
Screening and Facilited Discussion

more info and directions at rochester.indymedia.org



>From the End of Suburbia Website:

Since World War II North Americans have invested much of their newfound
wealth in suburbia. It has promised a sense of space, affordability,
family life and upward mobility. As the population of suburban sprawl has
exploded in the past 50 years, so too has the suburban way of life become
embedded in the American consciousness.

Suburbia, and all it promises, has become the American Dream.

But as we enter the 21st century, serious questions are beginning to
emerge about the sustainability of this way of life. With brutal honesty
and a touch of irony, The End of Suburbia explores the American Way of
Life and its prospects as the planet approaches a critical era, as global
demand for fossil fuels begins to outstrip supply. World Oil Peak and the
inevitable decline of fossil fuels are upon us now, some scientists and
policy makers argue in this documentary.

The consequences of inaction in the face of this global crisis are
enormous. What does Oil Peak mean for North America? As energy prices
skyrocket in the coming years, how will the populations of suburbia react
to the collapse of their dream? Are today's suburbs destined to become the
slums of tomorrow? And what can be done NOW, individually and
collectively, to avoid The End of Suburbia ?

Location:
1115 E. Main st
third florr #368

Cost: donation much appreciated!

Organizer:

Röbller Vineyard Winery Blues Fest

Röbller Vineyard Winery of New Haven, Missouri presents:
15th Annual BBQ & Blues Fest • Saturday & Sunday, June 25 & 26
A hoppin' summer celebration -- fine wine, cool blues, tasty BBQ!
Live Music 1-4:30 pm Saturday by St. Louis' swingin' blues band, Rob Garland and the Blue Monks. Jam to the sounds of Alvin Jett & the Phat Noiz Blues Band Sunday, 2-6 pm.

Location:
Röbller Vineyard Winery of New Haven, Missouri

Directions: Located in New Haven, Missouri, just south of Highway 100 (near the water tower).
15 miles east of Hermann
12 miles west of Washington
1 hour from St. Louis
25 minutes from Augusta
Directions:
From St. Louis, travel west on I-44 to Highway 100 West - Washington exit. Then travel west approximately 22 miles on Highway 100 to New Haven. Turn left on Röbller Vineyard Road, 2 blocks to winery.
From St. Charles travel Highway 94 west to Highway 47 south, across the Missouri River, to Highway 100 west, then 12 miles to New Haven. Turn left on Röbller Vineyard Road, 2 blocks to winery.
From Columbia and points west travel east on Highway 70 to Highway 19 south, then 15 miles on Highway 19 to Hermann, cross the Missouri River, turn left onto Highway 100 east, then 15 miles to New Haven. Turn left on Röbller Vineyard Road, 2 blocks to winery.

URL: www.robllerwines.com

Industrial Workers of the World

This is a general business meeting of the IWW Santa Cruz GMB. You are welcome to join us!

Location:
Resource Center for Non Violence
510 N. Broadway
Santa Cruz

Cost: Free meetings, membership is by voluntary association of dues paying members

Organizer:

URL: http://www.iww.org/en/branches/US/CA/santacruzgmb.shtml

Peace Witness, Tallahassee

Join the Tallahassee Network for Justice and Peace, Veterans for Peace, Vietnam Veterans Against the War, Military Families Speak Out, Sundays and Thursdays in front of the Old Capitol, corner of Apalachee Parkway and Monroe Street
BUSH LIED; CHENEY LIED; RUMSFIELD LIED; POWELL LIED; THEY ARE ALL LIARS; AND THEY THINK YOU ARE TOO DUMB TO KNOW THE DIFFERENCE. BUSH LIES - GIs DIE
Sundays 12:30 to 2:30.
Thursdays 4:00 to 6:00
www.tnjp.org
organize-AT-TNJP.org

Location:
Old Capitol, corner of Apalachee Parkway and Monroe Street

Cost: FREE!!!!!

Green Party of Hillsborough County Meeting

Please attend our next meeting in order to learn of current initiatives and volunteer opportunities.

Location:
Sacred Grounds Coffee House 4819 E Busch Blvd.

URL: http://www.HillsboroughGreens.org

Just Talking with Rev. Fuzz

'Just Talkin' with host, Pastor Enoch Fuzz
WVOL Radio am1470 /Sundays 5pm til 7pm

'Just Talkin' provide an important community forum to interview leaders and news makers who can share unique information and discuss issues pertinent to the lives of people and the community.
Phone calls with questions and comments are always welcome 227.1470 or 737.WVOL!!!

Editors note: This is an excellent community forum in Nashville which focuses on a broad range of issues relevant to progressives in middle tennessee including labor, civil rights, immigrant rights and urban development.

Location:

Mideast Peace Coalition

The mideast peace coalition is a progressive book discussion group and gabfest. It has also been an incubator for some of Nashville's most interesting social justice groups including the Peace Coalition. They meet at the nashville peace and justice center. 1016 18th Ave So.

Location:

Knitting Round Table

knit·ting n.
1. The act or process of producing something knitted.
2. Material that has been knitted or is being knitted.

Sex and the City dubbed knitting “the new Yoga”. And,
www.dailycandy.com raved, “If you think knitting is not glam, think
again.”

Students at the University School (www.usn.org) do it, and so can you!
Knitting club meets at Blueraku Studios beginning January 9th.
It’s about getting creative, discussing ideas, making friends, and just
plain fun!

New to knitting? You'll be able to pick it up within the first hour.
Take one, two, or three months—sign up is as easy as an email . . . The
best part? 15% of your monthly fee goes to benefit the organization
listed below.

“Knitting 'Round Table” meets on the 2nd and 4th Sunday of each month,
6-8pm; Beginning January 9th, $40/month.
Monthly fee includes yarn and treats for the group. Students must
supply their own needles. And knitting gurus will visit from time to
time to teach new techniques.

Don’t feel like knitting right now, but interested in taking another
class? Check out all spring and summer classes and workshops at
www.blueraku.com.

Location:

Film - THE CORPORATION

THE CORPORATION explores the nature and spectacular rise of the dominant institution of our time. Footage from pop culture, advertising, TV news, and corporate propaganda, illuminates the corporation's grip on our lives. Taking its legal status as a "person" to its logical conclusion, the film puts the corporation on the psychiatrist's couch to ask "What kind of person is it?"

Location:
Commons Community Center
1904 Pearl St, Boulder

Cost: $5.00 suggested donation - free

Directions: Boulder

Organizer:

URL: thecorporation.com

Protest War, Foreign, and Domestic Policy

Vigil to protest Iraq War, Foreign and Domestic Policies of the Bush government. Signs are provided or you may bring your own.

Location:
Summit and Snelling Ave.(North side of the intersection) St.Paul, MN

Cost: Free

Organizer:

Protest War, Foreign, and Domestic Policy

Join us to protest Bush government policies. Lively discussion of current events while reminding passing traffic these issues still matter.

Location:
Intersection of Summit and Snelling Ave., St.Paul

Organizer: