'911: In Plane Site' @ Red Emma's

William Lewis and David vonKleist's sensational "911: In Plane Site", will screen at Red Emma's. An Internet phenomenon, this video is selling in such large quantities that there is a tremendous backlog for the much anticipated "director's cut"; i.e., 20 more minutes of footage.

'911: In Plane Site' offers its viewers a different perspective on the way the news is distributed in this country. By employing TV news footage from the 9/11/01 disaster vonKleist and Lewis reveal how indoctrinated US society is.

Location:
Red Emma's Bookstore Coffeehouse

Cost: suggestion donation: $5

Directions: 800 St. Paul Street

Organizer:

URL: http://www.redemmas.org

Coming of Age in the Age of Saturn

In the 1960s, we wondered whether humanity was entering The Age of Aquarius. Ancient Roman society in December celebrated the days of Saturn, and marked the "coming of age" of boys enterig young manhood. Our Aquarian Saturnalia will consider our culture's obsession with youth. We will think together about the wisdom of longer living, and be counter-cultural in treasuring growing older.

Rev. David Carl Olson: Congregational Administrator

In his seventh year as our congregation's ordained professional leader. He serves the broader community on the Diversity of Ministry Task Force of the Unitarian Universalist Association and on the National Board of the US-Cuba Sister Cities Association.

- music by Community Voices

Location:
Community Church of Boston
565 Boylston St.
Boston (Copley Square)

Cost: Free

Organizer:

URL: http://www.commchurch.org

Ciclismo Classico Jingle Ride

Join the 8th Annual Ciclismo Classico Jingle Ride!

Ciclismo Classico, an Arlington-based company which runs cycling touring vacations, will host their 8th annual holiday bicycle parade, the Jingle Ride, on Sunday, December 12.

The ride features over 50 cyclists who dress up in Christmas costumes, decorate their bikes with lights, tinsel and ride en masse from Arlington Center through Harvard Square, along the Charles River Bike Path and through some of Boston's most charming and decorated city streets.

Meet at 11:00 a.m. at Carberry�s Bakery, 600 Mass Ave., Arlington. This year�s proceeds will benefit the Massachusetts Red Ribbon Ride, which helps non-profit organizations working to fight HIV/AIDS. The suggested donation is $15 per rider and checks should be payable to Mass Red Ribbon Ride/AAC. To register, call Ciclismo Classico at 781-646-3377 between 9:00am and 5:00 pm, or send an email to info-AT-ciclismoclassico.com

Location:
Meet at 11:00 a.m. at Carberry�s Bakery, 600 Mass Ave., Arlington.

Cost: suggested donation is $15 per rider

Was the Election Stolen? Rally

Voting Violations 2004

Was the Election Stolen?

Rally to save the integrity of our votes

A Day of Protest Across the Country

Coalition Goals:
Raise Awareness: 37,000 voting incidents recorded so far
Raise Funds: support voter fraud investigations in Ohio and Florida
Petition Massachusetts Electors: Don't cast your vote on Dec. 13
Urge U.S. Senators: refuse to certify electoral count on Jan.6

Each day, more stories emerge that strongly suggest that fraud took place in
the presidential election of November 2, 2004. On Monday, December 13, the
electors in each state will go to their state houses and cast their vote.
We are urging them to take action to bring attention to the allegations and
to demand correction.

Speakers:
William Rivers Pitt
City Council Felix Arroyo
others to be announced

Also standout at the state house Monday, 12/13, 2-4 p.m.
The electors will be there!

Location:
Bandstand, Boston Common

URL: http://www.justicewithpeace.org/index.php?target=calendar&subtarget=Event_Detail&selected=908

Training for Peace Activists

Training for Peace Activists: Oragnization Models and Methods

The peace movement is good at doing vigils, events, and protests, but it doesn’t have a systematic way to build strong organizations. This training will give us a local model for dynamic growth and a common language for talking about organizing.

This initial session will:
-lay out a basic organization-building model;
-apply it to your local group;
-discuss how we might adapt it for UJP groups and what other models could be useful;
-and identify next steps, including support to build your local group

The training series will continue Thursday nights in January.

We will probably take the model and apply it to questions facing our movement such as: How can I do anti-racism work in my peace group; What good are vigils and events from an organizational development point of view; What can we learn about local organizing from the right wing; How do community-based organizations organize. This Sunday’s training will help us design the rest of the series.

The training leaders will be Becky Pierce and Mike Prokosch, who worked with CISPES (the Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador) during the 1980s. CISPES built an extraordinarily strong peace-and-solidarity movement across the country and we will draw on their model. CISPES’s OD (Organizational Development) Handbook is attached. We recommend reading pages 1 and 2 (“Model and Conception“), page 5 (“Organizing Methodology“), and pages 31-32 (“Program Development“).

(Don’t let the handbook intimidate you. It is from another time and another movement. But there’s a lot in there. Look it over and see what ideas could help with your local work.)

Location:
American Friends Service Committee, 2161 Mass Ave, North Cambridge

URL: http://www.justicewithpeace.org/index.php?target=calendar&subtarget=Event&PHPSESSID=17a80cc6b88e54dcfceb2aebc2f9cbac

Earthsave Monthly Talk & Social Dinner

Inspiration in Words and Song, Caryn Hartglass

EarthSave International Executive Director Caryn Hartglass will inspire us with the EarthSave vision of Healthy People - Healthy Planet. Inspirational
songs included! A resident of New York City, Caryn is founder of the NYC EarthSave chapter, a semiconductor engineer and a professional singer.

Optional social dinner follows.

No reservation is necessary.

UPCOMING SUNDAY EARTHSAVE TALKS AT VEGGIE PLANET:

-- Global Climate Change, Jason Lederer, January 9

-- Do You Know What's in the Water You Drink? Deirdre Healy, J.D. and
Deborah Moore, Ph.D., February 27

Location:
Veggie Planet Restaurant at Club Passim, 47 Palmer Street, Harvard Square, Cambridge, just off Church Street

Cost: Talk is free; optional dinner is paid for individually from the menu.

Directions: The MBTA train and bus station is one block away. For directions, see www.clubpassim.org/directions/

URL: http://boston.earthsave.org

YOSSI & JAGGER

YOSSI & JAGGER

Based on a true story, Yossi & Jagger portrays the love affair between two Israeli officers in a remote army base on the Israeli-Lebanese border.
(Israel 2002, 67 minutes, Hebrew with English Subtitles)

Hillel, MIT, MIT Students for Israel
Consulate General of Israel to New England
 
Open to the public

www.yossiandjagger.com/

Location:
M.I.T. Room 1-246

Cost: free

URL: http://events.mit.edu/scripts/event.pl?90506

Boston Tea Party Reenactment

The Boston Tea Party: the 231st anniversary reenactment of a colonial grassroots uprising, hosted by WBZ’s news anchor Jack Williams. Sunday, December 12, 5:30-7:30 pm. Co-sponsored by the Old South Meeting House, the Boston National Historical Park, the Liberty Fleet of Tall Ships, and the Old South’s Tea Party Players. Commencing at the Old South Meeting House. Only the first 600 people will be permitted inside. A limited amount of advance tickets will be available for walk-up sales from December 1st on at the Old South Meeting House. For information call 617-482-6439 or visit www.oldsouthmeetinghouse.org. A Boston Tea Party weekend hotel package is available at the Omni Parker House, just one block from the Old South Meeting House; call 617-227-8600 for details.

December 16, 1773. Over 5,000 American patriots descended upon the Old South Meeting House, poised to alter the course of a fledgling nation. The Boston Tea Party reenactment allows participants not only to immerse themselves in colonial nostalgia, but also to experience a courageous demonstration of principled political activism. This historic rally, cleverly crafted by the bold Sons of Liberty, bears a striking resemblance to similar grassroots protests that are staged throughout the world today. The repercussions of the Boston Tea Party, such as the closing of Boston Harbor and the British occupation of the city, caused immense suffering to the colonists. Even Ben Franklin thought the colonists should reimburse the British for damages done. Today many historians believe this bold act of defiance was the spark that led to the American Revolution.

The Boston Tea Party 231st Anniversary Reenactment, an opportunity to use history as a means to understand political activism today, is brought to life by the Old South’s Tea Party Players, led by reenactor Gary Gregory (www.lessonsonliberty.com). The Players will dutifully don their historic garb and descend upon the Old South Meeting House to decide the fate of the cargo of tea held aboard ships docked in Boston Harbor. And after a recreation of the fiery debate wherein Samuel Adams declared that “this meeting can do no more to save this country," these patriots will again recognize that cry, the secret signal for them to burst out of the meeting house, race down to the harbor and dump chests of tea into the frigid sea. The audience is encouraged to join in and cheer on this portrayal of the most famous protest in American history!

Location:
Old South Meeting House, 310 Washington Street (corner of Milk St.), Boston, MA

Cost: Admission is $5; free to those wearing traditional colonial attire.

Directions: The Old South Meeting House is wheelchair accessible and conveniently located near the State St. and Downtown Crossing stops on the MBTA. (After 4 pm, validated parking is available for only $5 at PI Alley Parking Garage, 275 Washington Street.)

Organizer:

URL: http://www.oldsouthmeetinghouse.org

CINEFORUM:LA BOLA DE CRISTAL (VIDEO III)

VIDEO SOBRE EL PROGRAMA JUVENIL DE LOS A�OS 80

Location:
C/ DR. MARA�ON N�3 BAJO LA LAGUNA

Organizer:

concentració demanant la dimissió de xavier casas com a president de TMB

Concentración contra la precariedad y el abuso de poder

Location:
plaça Sant Jaume (Barcelona)

Organizer:

TALLER DE CREACIO DE GRUPS D'AUTOAPRENENTATGE COL.LECTIU: ESCUELA DE PROSPE

Companys de l'Escuela Popular de la Prosperidad (Madrid) impartiran un taller sobre educació popular, concretament dels Grups d'Aprenentatge Col..lectiu creats el 1997 . Aquest es el model que volem desenvolupar al PIC, i busquem gent que s'agrupi per afinitats.

Location:
Can Masdeu (metro linea 3, Canyelles -pregunta als veins)

Organizer:

Resistance to the G8 meeting

This society doesn't work.
It doesn't allow for our needs nor desires.
We want this to change.

Help to organise the most exciting gathering of opposition to the business as usual and the sick system in recent times!

We invite everybody, who is favourable to our aims.

Reshape:
- is a local group
- broad anti G8
- come together to oppose the G8 summit
- visionary
- part of Dissent! www.dissent.org.uk/ network
- is dynamic, modern, exciting, hip, fun, and happening

Location:
under review, get in touch to find out.

Cost: free

Organizer:

URL: http://reshape.org.uk

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

Cris Williamson, Teresa Trull, Barbara Higbie

As a pioneer of “Women’s Music”, Cris paved the way for today’s independent women artists who now regularly top the charts, and helped foster the birth of an entirely new genre of music.
The reunion of singer-songwriter Teresa Trull and pianist/singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist Barbara Higbie, is a long awaited musical event. Their collaborative joy is at once irresistible, irrefutable and engagingly quirky. Musically they range over a terrain that varies from blues and gospel to folk, rock , jazz and championship fiddle playing.

Location:
Kuumbwa Jazz Center, 320 Cedar St, Santa Cruz

Cost: $20 advance, $25 at door

Organizer:

URL: http://www.criswilliamson.com, www.barbarahigbie.com

War is the Force that Gives Us Meaning

Reading and book discussion of Christopher Hedges' War is the Force that gives us meaning. Led by Al Wasserman.

Location:
Resource Center for Nonviolence, 515 Broadway, Santa Cruz

Organizer:

URL: http://www.rcnv.org

“You Stole My Vote” A Nationwide Citizen Protest

CITIZEN ALERT!
SUNDAY - DECEMBER 12 - NOON
Florida Capitol Building
“You Stole My Vote”
A Nationwide Citizen Protest

ALL AMERICAN CITIZENS ARE CALLED to assemble at Florida's State Capitol at Noon December 12th in peaceful protest of the election fraud in the 2004 November 2nd elections.

Our election systems have been violated. 80% of all votes are now subject to undetectable electronic tampering. The security and sanctity of the ballot box has been lost. The power of our votes has been stripped away. The vote count can no longer be trusted!
It is time for all citizens to stand together and demand the power and protection of our votes back. We demand:
1. Our State Electors do NOT ratify the 2004 election with their votes UNTIL state election officials provide a supervised, complete, fair, and accurate manual vote recount.
2. Our State Elected Representatives immediately act to return trust to the ballot box and secure voting systems to our election process by enacting a Voter’s Bill of Rights and by eliminating unsecured vote tabulator machines.
3. Our Federal Representatives immediately investigate 2004 election violations and the loss of vote security in election voting systems.

MAKE A SIGN AND SHOW UP!
Go to The Capitol and demand your voting power back

For details or to get involved, visit WWW.51CapitalMarch.com
The “You Stole My Vote” Citizen’s Protest is an unsponsored event of national protest promoted in cooperation with 51-Capital March, United for Peace and Justice, Code Pink, The Liberty Tree Foundation for the Democratic Revolution, March on Ohio, and Boston Mobilization.

Location:
The Old Capitol, Corner of South Monroe Street and Aplalachee Parkway.

Cost: FREE!!!!!!!

Organizer:

URL: http://www.51capitalmarch.com/

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!!!!!

Tampa Food Not Bombs Picnics

FOOD NOT BOMBS!
Joint The Fun!
Join Our Weekly Vegetarian Picnics!

BRING FOOD, Music, Poetry, or Even a soccer Ball!

Location:
Massey Park in Downtown, Corner of Franklin and Tyler)

Cost: Free to the People

Organizer:

URL: http://www.tampafnb.org

The Corporation

(from Yahoo! movies) One hundred and fifty years ago, the corporation was a relatively insignificant entity. Today, it is a vivid, dramatic and pervasive presence in all our lives. Like the Church, the Monarchy and the Communist Party in other times and places, the corporation is today’s dominant institution. But history humbles dominant institutions. All have been crushed, belittled or absorbed into some new order. The corporation is unlikely to be the first to defy history. In this complex and highly entertaining documentary, Mark Achbar, co-director of the influential and inventive MANUFACTURING CONSENT: NOAM CHOMSKY AND THE MEDIA, teams up with co-director Jennifer Abbott and writer Joel Bakan to examine the far-reaching repercussions of the corporation’s increasing preeminence.

Location:
Tampa Theatre

Cost: It's a Movie Ticket.

Nashville Food Not Bombs at Legislative Plaza

Every Sunday, Food Not Bombs shares free vegetarian food with Nashville's hungry and homeless. All are welcome to attend. Feel free to bring food you have cooked or just come eat with us. Clean-up volunteers are especially welcome!

Location:
Legislative Plaza in downtown Nashville (between Charlotte and Union along 6th Ave. N.)

Cost: Free!

Organizer:

Music City Blues Benefit Concert for "Kids to the Country"

NASHVILLE, TN � The Music City Blues Society�s third Blues in the Streets concert and Holiday Party is scheduled for Sunday, December 12 at the Boardwalk Caf�, 4114 Nolensville Road starting at 3:00 p.m. and continue until 10:00 pm. The concert will feature sixteen blues artists and will benefit Kids to the Country Urban, a program that gives at-risk children from Nashville�s inner city the opportunity to learn about nature and nonviolent conflict resolution thru year-round, outdoor, experiential activities. Admission is $6.00, and/or the generous donation of a new or used musical instrument, puzzle or board game with all of the pieces in tact. Tickets will be available at the door.
The concert will include performances by Victoria Hammill and Zeta 5, Robin Thrush, Jr., Li�l Johnny Kantreed, Nick Nixon, Lenny Alston, �2-Tone� Malone, Shannon Williford, Stacy Mitchart, The Jefferson Street Bluesmen, Marion James and The Queen�s Men, Debbie Ritter & 440 Blues, Les Kerr & The Bayou Band, The Sinners, Justin Conn, Doc Blakey and Angela and The Boilermakers. All of the musicians are MCBS members and are donating their time and talent to help this worthy cause.

The concept of the Blues in the Streets concerts is designed to allow MCBS to �give back� to the community by raising awareness and funds for other worthy organizations. The Kids to the Country Summer program annually provides about 100 children the opportunity to spend time in the country. Issues such as anger management are addressed with the 20-25 children at the program each of the four weeks. Another emphasis is to encourage �unplugged hobbies,� such as playing music, working puzzles and playing board games. KTC is a program of Plenty International (www.plenty.org) a 20+ year old organization with social service projects around the world.



Phil Earhart, a member of the Jefferson Street Bluesmen and a board member of MCBS, said Nashville�s blues musicians are more than willing to help others in the community.

�We want to continue to help people,� Earhart said. �Kids to the Country is a wonderful opportunity for children in our own hometown and we hope Nashville�s blues fans will support this great program by attending this concert.�



Sizwe Herring, Urban Coordinator of the KTCU program, said the money raised at the Blues in the Streets concert will be used to help reunite the counselors and children thru projects involving teamwork. �This new part of our program will bring the kids together.� Herring said. �By re-connecting them, we will become a support group that reinforces the lessons learned each Summer �completing the circle of love.� The children, ages 6-12, will have the opportunity to take local field trips and will work on improving the areas in which they live.



Many of the performers have been Music City Blues Society �Bluesy� award winners. Among them are Mitchart, Ritter, the Jefferson Street Bluesmen, Nixon, and James.

Among the programs supported by MCBS are Blues in the Schools and Blues in the Library which involve live performances in schools and the donation of books, CDs and videos relating to the blues to the Metro Nashville Public Library.

Music City Blues programs are funded in part by the Metropolitan Nashville Arts Commission, the Tennessee Arts Commission, and by Arts Builds Communities, a program funded by the Tennessee General Assembly and administered in cooperation with the Tennessee Arts Commission and the Metropolitan Nashville Arts Commission. Funding is also provided by The Community Foundation, the Frist Foundation, Gibson USA, Epiphone, Gibson Custom, Art & Historical Division, Caterpillar Financial and all the members of the Music City Blues Society.



More information about MCBS is available online at www.musiccityblues.org.

Blues in the Streets Concert Schedule, December 12, 2004, Boardwalk Caf�, Nashville:

3-3:30 � Victoria Hammill and Zeta 5

3:30-4 � Li'l Johnny Kantreed

4-5 � Acoustic performances by Nick Nixon, Lenny Alston, 2-Tone Malone and Shannon Williford

5-5:30 � Stacy Mitchart

5:30-6 � Robin Thrush, Jr.

6 � 6:30 � Jefferson Street Bluesmen

6:30 � 7 � Marion James & The Queens Men

7-7:30 � Justin Conn

7:30 � 8 � Les Kerr & The Bayou Band

8-8:30 � The Sinners

8:30 � 9 � Debbie Ritter & 440 Blues

9-10 � Angela & The Boilermakers


For More Information Contact:

Sizwe Herring Phil Earhart

Kids to the Country - Urban Music City Blues Society

Phone: 615-228-1649 Phone: 615-361-8532

E-mail: info (at) earthmatterstn.org E-mail: phlearhart (at) aol.com

Location:

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:

Crocus Hill / W. 7th Neighbors for Peace Dessert Potluck Party for Peace

The Crocus Hill / West 7th Neighbors for Peace group invites you to join with neighbors and friends who care passionately about peace and justice. We will be viewing the film “Wellstone!”, a documentary about the lives of Paul and Sheila Wellstone.

Please bring neighbors, friends, and a snack or dessert to share. In addition, we will be accepting food donations for a local food shelf in honor of Paul and Sheila.

We hold Dessert Potluck Parties for Peace every second Sunday of the month. Contact us for more information.

groups.yahoo.com/group/crocushillpeace/

Location:
Saint John the Evangelist Church
60 North Kent Street, Saint Paul, MN
(1 block north of Summit, 1 block east of Dale)

Organizer: