Brand New Green Party local!

The Charm City Green Party is Baltimore's newest Green Party local. This fresh, vibrant group welcomes all who seek to build a multi-faceted movement for social justice against the Ehrlich and Bush administrations and the bought off Democratic Party. So come out to your first Green Party meeting or give us another try. All are invited.

Location:
Safe and Smart Center

Cost: Free

Directions: near 33rd and Greenmount in Waverly

Organizer:

Howard Zinn - Reinventing Peace: Making it a Reality After 9/11

Dr. Zinn, Professor Emeritus of Boston University, is most widely known for his revolutionary work, A Peoples History of the United States 1492-Present which explains history from the perspective of the powerless and disenfranchised - a perspective often ignored in textbooks. He is regarded as a respected, insightful and acclaimed social critic and historian. In addition to his extensive commentary, he is an activist for positive change. After growing up in the immigrant slums of Brooklyn, NY he served in WWII and then went on to teach at the Spellman College, a historically black college, and finally at Boston University. He has also been at the forefront of the civil rights and anti-war movements.

In a nation still suffering the wounds of domestic attack, Howard Zinn believes America can preserve its existence through peaceful means. But what hope is there for peace in the future? Does America have a flawed understanding of the world and international relations? What can the leadership today do to curb future domestic attack? Is America on the right track, or are we following a policy of greater violence and lesser hope? With his great knowledge and strong beliefs, Howard Zinn is sure to make an impact for peace.

Location:
Shriver HallJohns Hopkins University3400 N. Charles St.

Cost: FREE

Directions: www.jhu.edu/mse/map.html

Organizer:

URL: http://www.jhu.edu/mse/

Protest Against Military Recruiters

Resist the Recruiters

Protest Against Military Recruiters

Military Recruiters Out of our Communities and Off of our Campuses!
End the Occupation of Iraq, Palestine & Haiti Bring the Troops Home
Now!
US Out of Colombia, Philippines, Korea, and Puerto Rico Money for
Jobs, Housing, Healthcare and Education not for War & Occupation!

Location:
Military Recruiting Center Tremont St. (near Park St. T), Boston

URL: http://www.answerboston.org/

"The Apple" (2000) (Iranian)

"The Apple" (2000) (Iranian) �

HTC Film Series, Theme: Visions of the East > This film: Control + Space (due to interlibrary loan timing, films may be rearranged in the schedule)

Sponsor: History, Theory and Criticism of Architecture and Art � � �
Admission free
Open to the public �
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Location:
M.I.T. Room 3-133

Cost: free

URL: http://events.mit.edu/scripts/event.pl?84900

WMD: Weapons of Mass Deception. Inside the media war on Iraq.

dates extended to Dec 9th

www.landmarktheatres.com/Market/MarketShowtimes.asp

This is an analysis of media coverage on Iraq by an insider. Did the US media wave the flag so the FCC would waive media ownership rules? How did and still does the Administration and Army shape the coverage? Did the Army deliberately open fire on the Palestine Hotel (full of independent journalists)? These and other issues are covered.

Please publicize. Would your organization like to adopt a showing & have a brief speaker afterwards?

Danny Schechter ("your news dissector") has won Emmys working for ABC & NBC & 60 minutes -- also directed "Counting on Democracy" about Florida.

The film is winning awards & getting rave reviews (Boston Phoenix: "More cohesive and devastating than Fahrenheit 911"; Vanity Fair: "Something of a comic masterpiece" (!), Le Monde gave it a 4-page spread; it was the featured film o the "Films to See Before You Vote" festival.

Location:
Landmark Kendall Sq. Theatre Cambridge

Cost: Uncertain, but they're not expensive

Directions: Near Kendall Sq. (MIT) T

Organizer:

URL: http://wmdthefilm.com www.landmarktheatres.com/Market/MarketShowtimes.asp?market=Boston

Cape Wind Farm Public Hearing

The Army Corps of Engineers will host public hearings to seek comments on the recently released Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) for the proposed Cape Wind offshore wind farm.

*Registration for the hearings begins one hour before the listed start time.

If you are unable to attend the hearings you can submit written comments to the Army Corps of Engineers by February 24, 2005. You can also submit more detailed written comments after testifying at a public hearing:

Karen Kirk Adams
Cape Wind Energy Project EIS Project Manager
Corps of Engineers, New England District
696 Virginia Road
Concord, MA 01742-2751
wind.energy (at) usace.army.mil

In 2001, Cape Wind Associates proposed to build a 130-turbine wind farm in federal waters in Nantucket Sound. It would be the first offshore wind farm in the U.S. and could generate enough renewable energy to meet 75% of Cape Cod's daily electricity needs - up to 454 megawatts of power. It would also be the region's first utility-scale renewable energy project.

The wind farm proposal has been undergoing a comprehensive environmental and public interest review. The review process is led by the Army Corps of Engineers, in consultation with 16 other federal and state resource agencies. The Army Corps recently released the 4,000-page Draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for the project, kicking off a 105-day public comment period and announcing public hearings scheduled during the first two weeks of December. Written comments are due February 24, 2005. At the end of the comment period, the Army Corps will review and respond to comments, revisit the Draft EIS, and issue a Final EIS before deciding whether to issue a permit for the project.

www.nae.usace.army.mil/projects/ma/ccwf/deis.htm
www.nae.usace.army.mil/projects/ma/ccwf/windfarm.htm

dates of hearings:
12/8 6pm Nantucket Community School 10 Surfside Road Nantucket
12/16 6pm M.I.T. 77 Mass Ave Bldg 10 Room 250 Cambridge, MA

Location:
Nantucket Community School 10 Surfside Road Nantucket

Organizer:

URL: http://www.massclimateaction.org

"The Miami Model" at Radical Movie Night

Radical Movie Night

Free Screening of 'The Miami Model'

In November, 2003, trade ministers from 34 countries met in Miami, Florida, to negotiate the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA). The FTAA threatens to devastate workers, the environment, and public services like health care, education, and water, and to destroy indigenous rights and cultural diversity across North, Central, and South America.

Collectively, Indymedia activists shot hundreds of hours of video footage documenting the FTAA protests in Miami. This footage has been edited by the FTAA Miami Video Working Group into a documentary that cuts through the mass media blackout to reveal the brutal repression and assault on civil liberties that took place, as well as the life-affirming and inspiring alternatives to capitalist globalization that were also in full effect in Miami.

ftaaimc.org/miamimodel

Coming up:
Dec 15 - Bloody Sunday

Location:
Lucy Parsons Center, 549 Columbus Avenue, Boston, MA

Cost: free

URL: http://www.lucyparsons.org/

Dumb Luck: The Art of Gary Baseman

DUMB LUCK
The Art of Gary Baseman
Wednesday, December 8
7pm FREE

Mucking up the pages of the New Yorker, the New York Times, Rolling
Stone, Forbes, the Atlantic Monthly, Blab, and more, Gary Baseman has
populated the finest publications with his inimitable brand of
illustration. Now Dumb Luck, presents the first complete collection of
his work, spanning more than ten years. According to Baseman himself,
his art inhabits “that muddy spot where the line between genius and
stupidity has been smudged beyond recognition.”

Dark and dopey, hokey and heartbreaking, his world is populated with
freaky folks, maimed bunnies, weird wiener dogs, and anthropomorphic
ice-cream cones that yearn and burn just like we do. Baseman’s
particular genius lies in capturing those ridiculous and all-too-often
appalling aspects of being human. Hilarious testimony to the mind of
its creator, Dumb Luck (published by Chronicle Books) is both an art
manifesto and a raw celebration of idiocy.

check out Gary's work: garybaseman.com

An ICA Bookstore Author Series Event. Following the talk, Gary will
answer questions and sign books. Books are discounted the night of the
reading. Signed copies may be ordered in advance.

Location:
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston 955 Boylston St • Hynes/ICA T stop Green line

Cost: free

URL: http://www.icaboston.org

End The Media Blackout on Election Fraud

Meet on Wednesday to protest and demand an end to the media blackout on Election Fraud coverage by the Denver Post, owner William Dean Singleton, and his company www.medianewsgroup.com. Media News Group has the power to put millions of people in a news blackout. They have over 40 newspapers (each with a web site), along with radio and now television stations. We are trying to coordinate protests in all cities. Help spread the word post post post. And please come and protest. Demand an end to the media BLACKOUT.

Location:
MediaNews Group
1560 Broadway, Suite 2100
Denver, Colorado 80202

Cost: if you don't come????? your freedom?

Directions: Colfax and Broadway at Civic Center Station.

Organizer:

URL: http://denvervoice.org

"Operasjon:Fred"

Operasjon fred arrangere solidaritets konsert på tvbit i Tromsø. Konserten begynner kl 20.00 og vil sette fokus på på de narkomanes leveforhold. Derfor vill allt av overskudd gå til kirkens bymisjons jule middag for fattige å hjemløse. Har du et band som kan stille? kontakt edvardt_-AT-hotmail.com

Location:
Tvbit, Tromsø

Cost: 30 kr

Organizer:

Xerrada sobre llengua i immigraci� a Sant Andreu

Xerrada sobre llengua i immigraci� amb:

Un immigrant mexic�.
Un membre de Veu Pr�pia.

Location:
Casal Popular Miquel mart� i Pol. C/Segre 56. Metro Sant Andreu L1

Organizer:

URL: http://www.ajsta.org

Troops Out of Iraq

Troops Out (Glasgow) is a non-aligned, non party
political, grassroots organisation united around a
single issue - that the occupying troops should be
brought out of Iraq.

We welcome new people and ideas

Location:
Woodside Halls. 36 Glenfarg Street. G20 7QF

Directions: Between St George’s Rd and Clarendon St at the bottom
of Maryhill Rd. Nearest underground station is St
George’s Cross.

If you have difficulty finding it, phone 07952 969102

www.streetmap.co.uk/streetmap.dll

Organizer:

URL: http://members.boardhost.com/FallujaForum/

RIT Anti War Meeting

--Wed. Dec 8, 8pm, Rm 06-3214: RIT Anti War Meeting, "Occupation is not
Liberation: Is Withdraw from Iraq Possible?" This meeting will discuss what the real nature of the occupation of Iraq is, and why we should stand oppossed to it. Talk will be followed by an open moderated discussion.

Location:
RIT Campus off Jefferson Road
Liberal Arts Building (Bldg 6)
Rm 06-3214

Speaker on Eagle Reintroduction to Channel Islands

Dr. Peter Sharpe will present a program on the history and current status of Bald Eagles on the Channel Islands. He will also discuss factors that led to their decimation, and the restoration efforts that begain in 1980 on Santa Catalina Island and in 2002 on Santa Cruz Island. The program will include both slides and a video of the restoration efforts. .

Location:
S.B. Museum of Natural History

Cost: free

Organizer:

Booksigning and Talk with Author Starhawk and her new book: Earth Path: Grounding Your Spirit in the Rhythms of Nature.

Starhawk, committed global justice activist and organizer, is the author or coauthor of ten books, including The Spiral Dance, The Fifth Sacred Thing, and the award-winning Webs of Power: Notes from the Global Uprising. Her latest is Earth Path: Grounding Your Spirit in the Rhythms of Nature. She is a veteran of progressive movements, from anti-war to anti-nukes, is a highly influential voice in the revival of earth-based spirituality and Goddess religion, and has brought many innovative techniques of spirituality and magic to her political work. Her web site is www.starhawk.org.

Starhawk is a veteran of progressive movements, from anti-war to anti-nukes, and is deeply committed to bringing the techniques and creative power of spirituality to political activism. Her work in progressive movements spans over 35 years, beginning as an organizer in her high school during the days of the Vietnam War. In the years since, she has organized, trained protestors, and been on the front lines of antinuclear actions at Diablo Canyon, Livermore Weapons Lab, Vandenberg Air Force Base, and the Nevada Test Site, among others. She traveled to Nicaragua with Witness for Peace in 1984 and made two trips to El Salvador to give ongoing support for sustainability programs. For a number of years she has traveled to the Occupied Territories of Palestine and to Israel, working for peace with local activists of both sides. A main focus for the last several years has been the global justice movement; Starhawk has taken part in many of the major actions, including those in Seattle, Washington DC, Quebec City, Genoa, New York City, Cancun, Mexico, and Miami. She co-founded RANT, Root Activists' Network of Trainers (www.rant.org), and teaches non-violent direct action trainings for these demonstrations, as well as for groups throughout the US, Canada, Mexico, Europe, Palestine, and South America.

She is active in the revived American peace movement, and contributes her time to countless environmental and land use issues. Together with Penny Livingston-Stark and Erik Ohlsen, she coteaches EAT, Earth Activist Training, intensive seminars that combine permaculture design, effective activism, and earth-based spirituality (www.earthactivisttraining.org).

Starhawk is perhaps best known as an articulate pioneer in the revival of earth-based spirituality and Goddess religion. Besides her inspiring, much-read books, she is a cofounder of Reclaiming, an activist branch of modern Pagan religion, and continues to work closely with the Reclaiming community (www.reclaiming.org). She consulted on and contributed to the popular trio of films known as the Women's Spirituality series (directed by Donna Read): Goddess Remembered, The Burning Times, and Full Circle. Starhawk and Donna Read recently formed their own film company, Belili Productions. Their first release is Signs Out of Time (2004), a documentary on the life of archaeologist Marija Gimbutas, the scholar whose discoveries sparked the Goddess movement (www.belili.org). Starhawk and Donna are at work on their next film, an introduction to permaculture.

Starhawk has also recorded several tapes and CDs; the latest are "Wicca for Beginners" (2002) and "Wiccan Rituals and Blessings" (2003), both produced by Sounds True. A songwriter on occasion, quite a few of her songs and chants turn up in rituals across the globe; they are included in songbooks and hymnals, covered by other artists, and recorded by the Reclaiming musical community.
Starhawk travels internationally teaching magic, the tools of ritual, and the skills of activism. She lives part-time San Francisco, in a collective house with her partner and friends, and part-time in a little hut in the woods in western Sonoma County, California, where she practices permaculture in her extensive gardens, and writes. Her website is www.starhawk.org.
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Starhawk is one of the most respected voices in modern earth-based spirituality. She is also well-known as a global justice activist and organizer, whose work and writings have inspired many to action. She is the author or coauthor of ten books, including The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Great Goddess, long considered the essential text for the Neo-Pagan movement, and the now-classic ecotopian novel The Fifth Sacred Thing. Starhawk's newest book is The Earth Path: Grounding Your Spirit in the Rhythms of Nature.


Her works have been translated into German, Danish, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, French, and Japanese. Her essays are reprinted across the world, and have been included in numerous anthologies. Starhawk's writing is influential and has been quoted by hundreds of other authors, turning up in magazines, trade and academic press, and even inspirational calendars. Her books are often found in college curriculums. The Spiral Dance has been continuously in-print for over twenty-five years and revised twice; in 1999 HarperSanFrancisco published the Twentieth Anniversary Edition. Beacon, which has published three editions of Dreaming the Dark: Magic, Sex, and Politics, reports that the book remains a backlist bestseller. Truth or Dare: Encounters with Power, Authority, and Mystery won the Media Alliance Meritorious Achievement Award for nonfiction in 1988. Starhawk's first novel, The Fifth Sacred Thing, won the Lambda award for best Gay and Lesbian Science Fiction in 1994. Her second novel, Walking to Mercury, was published by Bantam in 1997. She cowrote The Pagan Book of Living and Dying, an anthology compiled by Reclaiming and M. Macha NightMare. Together with Anne Hill and Diane Baker, she cowrote Circle Round: Raising Children in the Goddess Tradition. In 2000 HarperSF published The Twelve Wild Swans: A Journey to the Realm of Magic, Healing, and Action, cowritten with Hilary Valentine. Many of Starhawk's best political essays--credited with helping the global justice movement find and define itself--were collected into her book Webs of Power: Notes from the Global Uprising. At the Book Expo America, Webs of Power won a 2003 Nautilus Award from the trade association NAPRA.

__________________________________________
Bibliography: Starhawk's Books and Novels:
* The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Great Goddess. San Francisco. HarperSanFrancisco. 1979, 1989, and 1999 editions. German, Danish, Portuguese, Japanese, and Spanish editions.
* Dreaming the Dark: Magic, Sex, and Politics. Boston. Beacon. 1982, 1988, 1997 editions. French edition, 2003.
* Truth or Dare: Encounters with Power, Authority, and Mystery. San Francisco. HarperSanFrancisco. 1988.
* The Fifth Sacred Thing. New York. Bantam. 1993. German, Italian, and Portuguese editions.
* Walking to Mercury. New York. Bantam. 1997.
* The Pagan Book of Living and Dying, cowritten with M. Macha NightMare and the Reclaiming Collective. San Francisco. HarperSanFrancisco. 1997.
* Circle Round: Raising Children in the Goddess Tradition, cowritten with Anne Hill and Diane Baker. Illustrated by Sara Ceres Boore. New York. Bantam. 1998.
* The Twelve Wild Swans: A Journey to the Realm of Magic, Healing, and Action, cowritten with Hilary Valentine. San Francisco. HarperSanFrancisco. 2000. Dutch edition, forthcoming in German and Spanish.
* Webs of Power: Notes from the Global Uprising. Victoria, Canada. New Society Publishers. 2002.
* Earth Path: Grounding Your Spirit in the Rhythms of Nature; HarperSanFrancisco. October, 2004.

Location:
Santa Barbara Central Library (downtown), Faulkner Gallery 40 E Anapamu

Cost: $5

Organizer:

URL: http://www.sbpermaculture.org

Booksigning and Talk with Author Starhawk and her new book: Earth Path: Grounding Your Spirit in the Rhythms of Nature.

Starhawk, committed global justice activist and organizer, is the author or coauthor of ten books, including The Spiral Dance, The Fifth Sacred Thing, and the award-winning Webs of Power: Notes from the Global Uprising. Her latest is Earth Path: Grounding Your Spirit in the Rhythms of Nature. She is a veteran of progressive movements, from anti-war to anti-nukes, is a highly influential voice in the revival of earth-based spirituality and Goddess religion, and has brought many innovative techniques of spirituality and magic to her political work. Her web site is www.starhawk.org.

Starhawk is a veteran of progressive movements, from anti-war to anti-nukes, and is deeply committed to bringing the techniques and creative power of spirituality to political activism. Her work in progressive movements spans over 35 years, beginning as an organizer in her high school during the days of the Vietnam War. In the years since, she has organized, trained protestors, and been on the front lines of antinuclear actions at Diablo Canyon, Livermore Weapons Lab, Vandenberg Air Force Base, and the Nevada Test Site, among others. She traveled to Nicaragua with Witness for Peace in 1984 and made two trips to El Salvador to give ongoing support for sustainability programs. For a number of years she has traveled to the Occupied Territories of Palestine and to Israel, working for peace with local activists of both sides. A main focus for the last several years has been the global justice movement; Starhawk has taken part in many of the major actions, including those in Seattle, Washington DC, Quebec City, Genoa, New York City, Cancun, Mexico, and Miami. She co-founded RANT, Root Activists' Network of Trainers (www.rant.org), and teaches non-violent direct action trainings for these demonstrations, as well as for groups throughout the US, Canada, Mexico, Europe, Palestine, and South America.

She is active in the revived American peace movement, and contributes her time to countless environmental and land use issues. Together with Penny Livingston-Stark and Erik Ohlsen, she coteaches EAT, Earth Activist Training, intensive seminars that combine permaculture design, effective activism, and earth-based spirituality (www.earthactivisttraining.org).

Starhawk is perhaps best known as an articulate pioneer in the revival of earth-based spirituality and Goddess religion. Besides her inspiring, much-read books, she is a cofounder of Reclaiming, an activist branch of modern Pagan religion, and continues to work closely with the Reclaiming community (www.reclaiming.org). She consulted on and contributed to the popular trio of films known as the Women's Spirituality series (directed by Donna Read): Goddess Remembered, The Burning Times, and Full Circle. Starhawk and Donna Read recently formed their own film company, Belili Productions. Their first release is Signs Out of Time (2004), a documentary on the life of archaeologist Marija Gimbutas, the scholar whose discoveries sparked the Goddess movement (www.belili.org). Starhawk and Donna are at work on their next film, an introduction to permaculture.

Starhawk has also recorded several tapes and CDs; the latest are "Wicca for Beginners" (2002) and "Wiccan Rituals and Blessings" (2003), both produced by Sounds True. A songwriter on occasion, quite a few of her songs and chants turn up in rituals across the globe; they are included in songbooks and hymnals, covered by other artists, and recorded by the Reclaiming musical community.
Starhawk travels internationally teaching magic, the tools of ritual, and the skills of activism. She lives part-time San Francisco, in a collective house with her partner and friends, and part-time in a little hut in the woods in western Sonoma County, California, where she practices permaculture in her extensive gardens, and writes. Her website is www.starhawk.org.
---------------------------------

Starhawk is one of the most respected voices in modern earth-based spirituality. She is also well-known as a global justice activist and organizer, whose work and writings have inspired many to action. She is the author or coauthor of ten books, including The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Great Goddess, long considered the essential text for the Neo-Pagan movement, and the now-classic ecotopian novel The Fifth Sacred Thing. Starhawk's newest book is The Earth Path: Grounding Your Spirit in the Rhythms of Nature.


Her works have been translated into German, Danish, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, French, and Japanese. Her essays are reprinted across the world, and have been included in numerous anthologies. Starhawk's writing is influential and has been quoted by hundreds of other authors, turning up in magazines, trade and academic press, and even inspirational calendars. Her books are often found in college curriculums. The Spiral Dance has been continuously in-print for over twenty-five years and revised twice; in 1999 HarperSanFrancisco published the Twentieth Anniversary Edition. Beacon, which has published three editions of Dreaming the Dark: Magic, Sex, and Politics, reports that the book remains a backlist bestseller. Truth or Dare: Encounters with Power, Authority, and Mystery won the Media Alliance Meritorious Achievement Award for nonfiction in 1988. Starhawk's first novel, The Fifth Sacred Thing, won the Lambda award for best Gay and Lesbian Science Fiction in 1994. Her second novel, Walking to Mercury, was published by Bantam in 1997. She cowrote The Pagan Book of Living and Dying, an anthology compiled by Reclaiming and M. Macha NightMare. Together with Anne Hill and Diane Baker, she cowrote Circle Round: Raising Children in the Goddess Tradition. In 2000 HarperSF published The Twelve Wild Swans: A Journey to the Realm of Magic, Healing, and Action, cowritten with Hilary Valentine. Many of Starhawk's best political essays--credited with helping the global justice movement find and define itself--were collected into her book Webs of Power: Notes from the Global Uprising. At the Book Expo America, Webs of Power won a 2003 Nautilus Award from the trade association NAPRA.

__________________________________________
Bibliography: Starhawk's Books and Novels:
* The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Great Goddess. San Francisco. HarperSanFrancisco. 1979, 1989, and 1999 editions. German, Danish, Portuguese, Japanese, and Spanish editions.
* Dreaming the Dark: Magic, Sex, and Politics. Boston. Beacon. 1982, 1988, 1997 editions. French edition, 2003.
* Truth or Dare: Encounters with Power, Authority, and Mystery. San Francisco. HarperSanFrancisco. 1988.
* The Fifth Sacred Thing. New York. Bantam. 1993. German, Italian, and Portuguese editions.
* Walking to Mercury. New York. Bantam. 1997.
* The Pagan Book of Living and Dying, cowritten with M. Macha NightMare and the Reclaiming Collective. San Francisco. HarperSanFrancisco. 1997.
* Circle Round: Raising Children in the Goddess Tradition, cowritten with Anne Hill and Diane Baker. Illustrated by Sara Ceres Boore. New York. Bantam. 1998.
* The Twelve Wild Swans: A Journey to the Realm of Magic, Healing, and Action, cowritten with Hilary Valentine. San Francisco. HarperSanFrancisco. 2000. Dutch edition, forthcoming in German and Spanish.
* Webs of Power: Notes from the Global Uprising. Victoria, Canada. New Society Publishers. 2002.
* Earth Path: Grounding Your Spirit in the Rhythms of Nature; HarperSanFrancisco. October, 2004.

Location:
Santa Barbara Central Library (downtown), Faulkner Gallery 40 E Anapamu

Cost: $5

Organizer:

URL: http://www.sbpermaculture.org

Booksigning and Talk with Author Starhawk and her new book: Earth Path: Grounding Your Spirit in the Rhythms of Nature.

A talk for people new to the ideas of blending earth-based spirituality with political action on behalf of the planet and its peoples.

Starhawk, committed global justice activist and organizer, is the author or coauthor of ten books, including The Spiral Dance, The Fifth Sacred Thing, and the award-winning Webs of Power: Notes from the Global Uprising. Her latest is Earth Path: Grounding Your Spirit in the Rhythms of Nature. She is a veteran of progressive movements, from anti-war to anti-nukes, is a highly influential voice in the revival of earth-based spirituality and Goddess religion, and has brought many innovative techniques of spirituality and magic to her political work. Her web site is www.starhawk.org.

Starhawk is a veteran of progressive movements, from anti-war to anti-nukes, and is deeply committed to bringing the techniques and creative power of spirituality to political activism. Her work in progressive movements spans over 35 years, beginning as an organizer in her high school during the days of the Vietnam War. In the years since, she has organized, trained protestors, and been on the front lines of antinuclear actions at Diablo Canyon, Livermore Weapons Lab, Vandenberg Air Force Base, and the Nevada Test Site, among others. She traveled to Nicaragua with Witness for Peace in 1984 and made two trips to El Salvador to give ongoing support for sustainability programs. For a number of years she has traveled to the Occupied Territories of Palestine and to Israel, working for peace with local activists of both sides. A main focus for the last several years has been the global justice movement; Starhawk has taken part in many of the major actions, including those in Seattle, Washington DC, Quebec City, Genoa, New York City, Cancun, Mexico, and Miami. She co-founded RANT, Root Activists' Network of Trainers (www.rant.org), and teaches non-violent direct action trainings for these demonstrations, as well as for groups throughout the US, Canada, Mexico, Europe, Palestine, and South America.

She is active in the revived American peace movement, and contributes her time to countless environmental and land use issues. Together with Penny Livingston-Stark and Erik Ohlsen, she coteaches EAT, Earth Activist Training, intensive seminars that combine permaculture design, effective activism, and earth-based spirituality (www.earthactivisttraining.org).

Starhawk is perhaps best known as an articulate pioneer in the revival of earth-based spirituality and Goddess religion. Besides her inspiring, much-read books, she is a cofounder of Reclaiming, an activist branch of modern Pagan religion, and continues to work closely with the Reclaiming community (www.reclaiming.org). She consulted on and contributed to the popular trio of films known as the Women's Spirituality series (directed by Donna Read): Goddess Remembered, The Burning Times, and Full Circle. Starhawk and Donna Read recently formed their own film company, Belili Productions. Their first release is Signs Out of Time (2004), a documentary on the life of archaeologist Marija Gimbutas, the scholar whose discoveries sparked the Goddess movement (www.belili.org). Starhawk and Donna are at work on their next film, an introduction to permaculture.

COSponsored by Student Sustainability Coalition @ SBCC , Santa Barbara Permaculture Network and KCSB 91.9 FM

Location:
Faulkner Gallery Downtown Library 40 E Anapuma

Cost: $5

Organizer:

URL: http://www.sbpermaculture.org Upcoming Events

Homeless United for Friendship & Freedom (HUFF)

HUFF is a civil rights organization of housed and unhoused folk intent on overturning laws and practices that criminalize poor people.

Location:
Baker's Square Restaurant 1107 Ocean St. Santa Cruz

Cost: Free

Directions: Just off Highway 17 half-way between Denny's Restaurant and the County Building.

Organizer:

URL: http://www.huffsantacruz.org

Street Performer Weekly Gig with SAFE

SAFE (Society for Artistic Freedom and Expression) will have regular weekly Sing Outs on the Sidewalk in front of New Leaf Market 6pm every Wednesday evening.

SAFE calls for the restoration of the Voluntary Street Performers Guidelines and the end to onerous restrictions on peformers downtown.

One local Downtown Ordinance dictates the 10' forbidden zones limiting performers to less than 20% of downtown sidewalks. Another literally excludes them from narrower sidewalks in other business districts. Another is the "Move Along Law" which mandates criminal penalties for not "moving along" every hour.

Bring your instrument or just your ears. Bring a friend.

Hot soup by Joe Schultz.

Take back our public spaces from some creeping privatization, favored by a segment of the merchants.

We also share information on recent police and "host" harassment of performers.

Location:
In front of downtown New Leaf Market at Pacific and Lincoln Aves. between the Cafe Campesino and Alfresco's kiosks.

Cost: Free, but bring quarters and scraps to throw to performers!

Vegetarian Meetup

Meet local vegetarians for food and conversation. Sign up at vegetarian.meetup.com. Meets the second Wednesday of the month.

Location:
People vote on the meeting place. For example, in September, it's at Dharma's in Capitola.

Organizer:

URL: http://vegetarian.meetup.com

Benefit Concert for Chiapas

BENEFIT CONCERT for CHIAPAS
Music by: Son de la Tierra and Lado Oriente, performing
traditional Son Jarocho Music from Veracruz, Mexico

Messages from Zapatista Territory, a report on the Chiapas Support Committee November Visit with Zapatista communities.

On sale: Beautiful handmade crafts from Polho Refugee Camp. Buy a holiday gift of conscience from refugee women. All sales support the purchase of food for Polho. T-Shirts, Zapatista dolls and more.

Location:
La Pe�a Cultural Center
3105 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley
(2 Blocks from Ashby BART Station)
If you live in Santa Cruz and want to carpool -or help with it- please contact zapatistas in california: zapainca@poboxed.com

Cost: Requested Donation - $5-10 (sliding scale)

Organizer:

URL: http://www.chiapas-support.org

The Grower's Market at Lake Ella

*******THE GROWER�S MARKET AT LAKE ELLA IS HAVING ITS -GRAND OPENING*******

Just in Time for your Holidays . . .
Eat Healthy, Eat in Season!!!


Come out, Experience, and Rediscover . . .
Located on Lake Ella Drive at the American Legion, Wednesdays evenings (3:00 pm - 6:30 pm) provides an easy and accessible Organic Market for our community.

Come out and meet your local organic small farmers and gardeners while you shop - at the Grower�s Market.

The Growers will be providing their organic, local, seasonal, farm fresh produce for sale: Lettuces, Asian Greens, Sugar Cane, Garlic, Herbs, Squash, Mustards, Turnips, Arugula, Shiitake Mushrooms, Kale, Cut Flowers, Speciality Flowers; Food demonstrations, and much, much more.

In collaboration with our Local Growers/Small Farmers, The American Legion, and Black Dog Cafe.

For additional information please contact: Jennifer Taylor or O. Reis, at FAMU Small Farm Programs/Cooperative Extension Programs, 850 599-3546.

Thank you.

Location:
Location: 229 Lake Ella Drive (The American Legion/Black Dog Cafe. We are facing the Lake.
Tallahassee, Florida

Cost: All are Welcome

Directions: On Monroe Street
Turn onto Lake Ella Drive (The American Legion/Black Dog Cafe). We are facing the Lake.
Come and Enjoy.

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Peace Coalition Meeting

Join Nashville's most hated and loved group of peace and justice activists as they plot more ways to challenge themselves and the world around them.

Location:
Nashville Peace and Justice Center (1016 18th Avenue South).

General Meeting

Our weekly meeting

Location:
4 S. Court Street Ruttan Block Suite 19a

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AlliantACTION Vigil

Ninth year of a weekly vigil outside international war merchant Alliant Techsystem's corporate headquarters. Although we are opposed to specific weapon systems produced by ATK, our main concern is the violent solutions this Minnesota based company represents to complex world problems. We ask who profits and who dies?

Location:
Alliant’s corporate Headquarters, 5050 Lincoln Drive, Edina. Take Hwy 169 north or south toward Hopkins. Take the 5th St/Lincoln Dr. exit. Turn east one block.

Networking continues at breakfast for those interested following the vigil.

Organizer:

URL: http://www.circlevision.org/alliantaction.html

PEACE VIGIL

This weekly vigil is held on the Lake Street Bridge (Lake Street and River Road)--the Peace Bridge. All people who are antiwar and wish to vigil for peace and justice are invited to stand with us.

This vigil has been ongoing since 1999 and will continue weekly regardless of weather: 4:30 to 5:30 every Wednesday.

Pick up a sign there or bring your own.

Location:
Lake Street Bridge, River Road and Lake Street/Marshall. Vigil begins on the St. Paul side. (The bridge connects Minneapolis and St. Paul.)

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Merriam Park Neighbors for Peace Meeting

Merriam Park Neighbors for Peace Meeting
Wednesdays
7:00 p.m.

Most Wednesdays (all but the last Wednesday of the month), our meetings are held at St. Mark's Catholic Church, 2001 Dayton Avenue, St. Paul. Community Room in NW corner of Lower Church (basement). Enter through door on NW side of church near rectory and go downstairs to Community Room on immediate left.

Map to St. Mark's Catholic Church:
www.mppeace.org/images/mapmppeacemeeting.gif

On the last Wednesday of each month, a social potluck dinner is held at 6:00 p.m. at a member's home. Please e-mail us at info-AT-mppeace.org or call (651) 647-0580 for the location of this month's potluck, or for more information on our group. You can also visit our web site for a complete listing of all of our upcoming and ongoing events: www.mppeace.org/events/

To find a neighborhood peace/justice group near you, visit Minnesota Neighbors for Peace at www.mnneighbors4peace.org.

Location:
St. Mark's Catholic Church, 2001 Dayton Avenue, St. Paul. Community Room in NW corner of Lower Church (basement). Enter through door on NW side of church near rectory and go downstairs to Community Room on immediate left.

Cost: Free and open to the public

Directions: www.mppeace.org/images/mapmppeacemeeting.gif

Organizer:

URL: http://www.mppeace.org/events/