People's Summit 2005

The People's Summit is a conference of baltimore's community and activist organizations on Saturday, January 22nd, 2005 at the University of Baltimore sponsored by the UB Progressives.

Attend for part of the day or all day; it's FREE of Charge

PROGRAM OUTLINE:

Twelve workshops, Tabling, Keynote Address, and opportunities to network with other activists.

The People's Summit is a free, day-long conference of individuals, activists and organizations. It is intended to bring Baltimore area progressives together to meet, learn, network and plan for the future. This opportunity to build a stronger, more effective community has never been more needful.

10:00 – 11:00 Coffee, Snacks, Tabling, Welcoming Address
11:00 – Noon Three Concurrent Workshops
Noon – 1:30 Lunch & Tabling
1:30 – 5:00 Three sets of Three Concurrent Workshops
5:15 – 6:00 Keynote Address

for more details as they become available, see the web URL below.

Register and Provide Information About Your Organization for a Directory: Individuals need not register. However, if you are with a group, you should consider registering your group to let others know you're coming. In addition, the group description you provide will be incorporated into this year's directory, informing other attendees about your group and its mission. You may also request tabling space at the same time. (See Web URL below).

Finally, you can Help Spread the Word about the People’s Summit 2005. Please print & distribute the People's Summit FLYER:

www.ubprogressives.org/pdf/ps_2005_wkshop.pdf

Location:
Merrick School of Business 1420 N. Charles St (& Mt. Royal) Baltimore, Maryland 21201

Cost: FREE

Organizer:

URL: www.ubprogressives.org

Meet Organic Farmers from Spoutwood, and watch a video

Potluck dinner at 5:30. Bring something healthful.

At 8:00 or so, I'll show video of an interesting talk given by Percy Schmeiser at the 2003 Bioneers conference. (Extra credit if you already know who Percy Schmeiser is!) He'll tell of his experiences as a farmer dealing with Monsanto and their (lousy) policies on genetically engineered crops. I feel as passionate about sharing this video as I do about, well, say, CSA snow peas! (A reference better understood, I admit, by people who have enjoyed the snow peas from Spoutwood.)

Guests include members of the Spoutwood Farm Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) project, along with the organic farmer. You don't have to be a Spoutwood farm CSA member to attend.

This is incorrectly listed, as well, on Thursday (I don't know how to delete that posting) But it is REALLY happening on Saturday, the 22nd.

Location:
3443 Guilford Terrace, Baltimore, MD 21218

Cost: Free

Organizer:

Neighborhood Association Training Session

For more info, read:
www.bigmuddyimc.org/newswire/display/1277/index.php

Location:
St. Francis Xavier Church Hall

Organizer:

PEACE VIGIL

Show that you care about PEACE.
Saturdays
12:00 NOON - 1:00 PM

We have held weekly vigils (Sat. noons) on the Town Square of Carbondale for nonviolent responses to terrorism since mid-December, 2001.

Location:
Pavilion downtown
Rts 13 & 51, Carbondale

Organizer:

URL: www.geocities.com/peacecoalitionsouthernillinois/

PEACE VIGIL

Show that you care about PEACE.
Saturdays
12:00 NOON - 1:00 PM

We have held weekly vigils (Sat. noons) on the Town Square of Carbondale for nonviolent responses to terrorism since mid-December, 2001.

Location:
Pavilion downtown
Rts 13 & 51, Carbondale

Organizer:

URL: www.geocities.com/peacecoalitionsouthernillinois/

Fahrenheit 9/11 and Fahrenhype 9/11 Movie Marathon

Location:
Big Muddy IMC Space
214 North Washington Street
Carbondale, IL

Cost: Free, donations welcome

Organizer:

Counter-Inaugural Events

This is a great site for info on the Counter-Inaugural activites.

Location:
Washington DC mostly

URL: http://www.counter-inaugural.org/index.php?name=events

Mass Peace Action's Annual Meeting

The first hour will be a business meeting; then Gary Goldstein of Tufts will give a briefing on nuclear weapons and the Non Proliferation Treaty.

Support will be built for Mayors for Peace, the Non Proliferation Treaty Review in May and other foreign policy issues.

We’ll divide into small groups to discuss.

This event is sponsored by Mass Peace Action, Commitee for a Strong UN (CSUN)

Location:
First Unitarian Society, 1326 Washington St. in West Newton

URL: http://www.justicewithpeace.org/index.php?target=calendar&subtarget=Event_Detail&selected=905

Strategy Session

2005 Strategy Session


Join us for a day of thought provoking discussion.

The day will start with an hour long annual meeting for Mass Peace Action members. That will be followed by our speaker, Gary Goldstein, Professor of Physics at Tufts University who will brief us on nuclear non-proliferation and the Non-Proliferation Treaty.

Lunch is available.

In the afternoon we will break into small groups to discuss strategy and focus on concrete actions.

RSVP at 617-354-2169 or members-AT-masspeaceaction.org

Location:
First Unitarian Society
1326 Washington St.
Newton, MA 02456

Cost: Suggested Donation $5

Directions: From the East: Take I-90W to exit 17 towards Newton, go straight onm Washington St. for 2.3 miles.
From the West: Take I-90E to I-95S at exit 14, travel 1 mile and bear right onto Rout 16 at exit 21A. Go straight onto Washington St. for 2 miles.

Organizer:

URL: www.masspeaceaction.org

Food Not Bombs

Food Not Bombs shares free vegetarian food with hungry people and protests war and poverty throughout the Americas, Europe, Asia and Australia.

Food Not Bombs is organizing for an end to the occupations of Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine.

We also support actions against the globalization of the economy, restrictions to the movements of people and the destruction of the earth.

Food Not Bombs is an all volunteer organization dedicated to nonviolence.

Food Not Bombs has no formal leaders and strives to include everyone in its decision making process.

Each group recovers food that would otherwise be thrown out and makes fresh hot vegetarian meals that are served in city parks to anyone without restriction.

The groups also serve free vegetarian meals at protests and other events.

Food Not Bombs works in coalition with groups like Earth First!, The Leonard Peltier Defense Committee, Anarchist Black Cross, the IWW, Homes Not Jails, Anti Racist Action, In Defense of Animals, the Free Radio Movement and other organizations on the cutting edge of positive social change and resistance to the new global austerity program.

We hope you will join us in taking direct action towards creating a world free from domination, coercion and violence.

Food is a right, not a privilege.

Serving:

Monday meal: 6-8pm across from 57 South St., Jamaica Plain

Tuesday meal: cook at 3:30 at Spontaneous Celebrations, 45 Danforth St. near the Stony Brook T Stop
and serve from 6-8 at the South Street Mall Park

Wednesday meal: 5-7pm Central Square, Cambridge

Friday meal: 12-4pm Boston Common

Saturday meal: 12:30-2:30 Boston Common

Sunday meal: 5-7:30 St. James, 1991 Mass Ave., Cambridge


Food Not Bombs 955 Mass Ave. Room 121, P.O. Box 9183, Cambridge, MA, 02139

Location:
varies

Cost: free

URL: http://foodnotbombs.net/

Jazz for Peace

“JAZZ FOR PEACE” featuring Rick DellaRatta

BENEFIT FOR THE MALAIKA PROJECT

An international collaboration to improve the living conditions for people in Western Tanzania

Rick DellaRatta - Piano and Vocals
Stacy Dillard - sax
Peter Matthews - bass
Curtis Watts - drums

Rick Della Ratta, internationally renowned jazz pianist, headlines the Jazz For Peace concert tour benefiting the Malaika Project. Malaika Project: a multidisciplinary community based project in Nyamuswa, Tanzania. Nyamuswa is a small town just west of the famous Serengeti National Park. We work in partnership with local people, helping to improve living conditions from the ground up with local contributions and an international collaboration. The community decides for themselves what their priorities are, demonstrates a commitment with local resources, and Malaika Project brings in volunteers and funding towards the common goals of reducing mortality, improving literacy, and helping the local economy to grow.

The Malaika Project works with the entire community regardless of ethnicity, religion, or politics through both private and public collaboration. The hope of the Malaika Project is to improve local capacity through these partnerships to make lasting improvements in the quality of life of community members.

For pictures! lofish.com/rick/video.html

Location:
Zeitgeist Gallery, Cambridge

Cost: $30 donation $25 in advance (see web)

URL: http://www.jazzforpeace.org www.zeitgeist-gallery.org

"Interview" (film)

Screening:
January 22 (Saturday) 9pm
January 24 (Monday) 9pm
January 26 (Wednesday) 7pm

Interview
Directed by Theo van Gogh
Netherlands, 2003, color, 90 min.
With Pierre Bokma, Katja Schuurman
Dutch with English subtitles

A news reporter is given the task of covering a film star on the same evening that a major political event is unfolding. Frustrated with his mandatory assignment in entertainment journalism, the reporter is surprised to find an intellectual adversary in his subject. Confining most of the film’s action to exchanges between the two lead actors in the starlet’s apartment, the late Theo van Gogh uses minimal means to construct a telling dual portrait.

Location:
Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, 24 Quincy Street, Cambridge

Directions: east of the Harvard Square Red Line T Stop and next to the Fogg Art Museum. one block north of Massachusetts Avenue between Broadway & Harvard Street in the Harvard University campus

www.harvardfilmarchive.org/map.php

URL: http://www.harvardfilmarchive.org

Tribute to Guerilla filmmaker

Guerilla filmmaker Sarah Jacobson passed away last year at the too-young age of 32. She was an important voice in independent, underground film, and a real champion of DIY filmmaking. While Sarah may no longer be with us, her films live on, and we celebrate her work with three special days of programs.

Sat Jan 22 midnite - Ladies and Gentlemen the Fabulous Stains
If it weren't for Sarah's love of this spunky-punky lost classic, a whole generation may have missed out on the best angry girl rock film ever made. The year is 198__ and angry teenager Corinne "Third Degree" Burns (a really young Diane Lane) decides to form a Shaggs-esque with her cousin (and also very young Laura Dern) and sister and hit the tour bus with an angry British punk band - played by actual members of the Clash and the Sex Pistols, and fronted by Ray Winstone (QUADROPHENIA, SEXY BEAST). In true angry grrrl fashion, they beat the old white men at their own game and become an overnight sensation with song titles like "Waste of Time" and catch phrase "We don't put out!" An amazing cult classic not available on video!

Location:
Coolidge Corner Theatre

Cost: $6 each

Directions: The Coolidge Corner Theatre is located 1/2 block from the corner of Harvard and Beacon Streets in the Coolidge Corner shopping district of Brookline. We're just minutes from downtown Boston and Harvard Square.

By train: take the Green Line (C branch to Cleveland Circle) trolley from downtown to Coolidge Corner via Beacon Street. The Coolidge Corner stop is at Harvard Street, 5-10 minutes from Kenmore Square.

By bus: take bus #66, Dudley/Harvard Square.

All buses and trolleys stop at the Harvard Street/ Beacon Street intersection.
Both lines are also on the night owl route - operating until 2:00am on Friday and Saturday nights.

From Mass Pike, 90: Take exit 18 Allston/Brighton. As you exit tolls, stay to left for Allston exit and merge with Cambridge St. Follow until you reach Harvard Ave on your left, after the overpass at the intersection with the frightening "Captain Fishbones" sign. Take the left onto Harvard Ave and follow through Allston and across Commonwealth Ave, continuing for about 1.5 miles. Just before reaching the major intersection of Harvard and Beacon St, you will notice our giant theatre marquee on your right.

From Interstate 93: Take the Storrow Drive exit and follow to Storrow Drive (this navigation changes periodically because of Big Dig construction, so watch for the signs). Take Storrow Drive to the Kenmore Square exit. As the exit splits, stay in the right hand lane. Take the first right onto Beacon St. Follow Beacon St through Kenmore Square (past the legendary Citgo sign), staying in the center lane. After you cross the overpass, keep going straight ahead, following the trolley tracks along Beacon St until you reach the intersection of Beacon and Harvard St, landmarked by a large Tudor style building with a clocktower (and a Walgreens) on the corner. You'll see us one half block up Harvard, but continue on Beacon to Center St and turn right to access our parking lot behind the building.

From Route 9: Route 9 inbound to the Brookline Village/Harvard St intersection. The Brookline fire station is on your right. Go through the intersection and take a right immediately after the fire station, and loop around the back. You can now turn right and cross back over Route 9 onto Harvard St. Follow Harvard St through Brookline Village, about one mile to Beacon St. Cross Beacon St and you will immediately see our marquee on your left. Parking is along Beacon, or go around the block and enter the lot behind our building on Center St.

URL: http://www.coolidge.org

Demo mot norsk statlig rasisme

Stopp regjeringens umenneskelige asylpolitikk!
Stopp regjeringens umenneskelige asylpolitikk!

Demonstrasjon lørdag 22.januar kl.14.00 på Jernbanetorget.
Etter appeller og kultur blir det tog til Stortinget.

Følgende parolegrunnlag er vedtatt:
-Asyl og fulle rettigheter til de ”ureturnerbare”!
- Asylretten er en menneskerett- Stans innstramningene!
- Det er ikke kriminelt å flykte, stengte grenser er kriminelt!
- Kamp mot all rasisme!

Arrangør: Nettverket mot statlig rasisme.

Location:

Organizer:

Inauguració de l'Ateneu Popular de l'Eixample

Segon dia de la inauguració de l'Ateneu Popular de l'Eixample!

11:00 Xocolatada i activitats infantils

12:00 Pintada col·lectiva de mural

17:30 Xerrada "Recuperem els barris", amb una persona de Can Vies, una de la Hamsa i una de La Torna.

I després actuació musical amb la cantautora Amaia.

Location:

Cost: Entrada gratuïta!

Directions: Ateneu Popular de l'Eixample
Passatge Conradí nº3 (Sicília/Rosselló)
Metro Sagrada Família L2 i L5

Organizer:

Inauguració de l'Ateneu Popular de l'Eixample

Segon dia de la inauguració de l'Ateneu Popular de l'Eixample!

11:00 Xocolatada i activitats infantils

12:00 Pintada col·lectiva de mural

17:30 Xerrada "Recuperem els barris", amb una persona de Can Vies, una de la Hamsa i una de La Torna.

I després actuació musical amb la cantautora Amaia.

Location:

Cost: Entrada gratuïta!

Directions: Ateneu Popular de l'Eixample
Passatge Conradí nº3 (Sicília/Rosselló)
Metro Sagrada Família L2 i L5

Organizer:

concert + xerrada sobre les preses anarquistes

:: Dissabte 22 gener
17:00 hrs. Concert amb Oskar con k y El Nervio
19:30 hrs. Xerrada sobre les companyes anarquistes detingudes a Bcn durant l’any 2003.
21:30 hrs. Sopar solidari amb les preses anarquistes (3 euros) + actuació musical de Ragganaiser i Carcelero muerto Jam session
lloc: cso la fabriketa

Location:
>>> C.S.O. La Fabriketa
c/Santa Rosa nº23, Gramenet del Besòs
L1-Santa Coloma

Organizer:

URL: www.bshoguera.tk

Kafeta a l'Ateneu Popular de l'Eixample

Kafeta a l'Ateneu Popular de l'Eixample

de: 19 a 1h.

Passatge Conradí, (C/Sicília, entre Rosselló i Còrsega).

Metro L2 - L5 Sagrada Família Cola't!

Location:

Organizer:

Contracultura i lluita armada als EUA 1960-1985

Presentació del llibre "Los días de furia" de l'editorial La Felguera; l'autor Servando Rocha parlarà de les diferents pràctiques i estratègies del moviment polític revolucionari dels EUA i la seva evolució, així com de les experiències que van marcar la contracultura en aquell país.


"Aquesta és una història de com la nació més poderosa fou sacsejada per una societat que es revoltava, un llibre que explica com un sector de la lluita política decideix prendre el camí de la lluita o agitació armada a un país que militarment els superava i que, tot i així, van asumir aquest desequilibri. Aquesta convulsió no podia ser de cap altra manera: tan variada como estrambòtica, però sempre plena de la rica contracultura que es va desenvolupar als Estats Units i el màxim exemple de la qual, en el context d'aquest llibre, resideix en la figura de John Sinclair i els White Panthers o els Yippies. Aquest poc ortodoxe mapa revolucionari és, si més no, prou cridaner des de la coherència política i l'anàlisi de la societat per part dels Black Panthers o els Motherfuckers, fins el sorgiment de quasi sectes com el Simbionese Liberation Army" (Extret de la contraportada del llibre).

Location:
Espai Obert
c/ Blasco de Garai núm. 2
Barcelona

Organizer:

Reunió Comarcal en defensa de la Terra Alta

REUNIÓ de VEÏNS de la TERRA ALTA
Dissabte 22 de Gener, a les 8 de la tarda

NI CENTRALS EÒLIQUES, NI LÍNIES D’ALTA TENSIÓ!

CNT-AIT de Tarragona

Location:
Cinema del Casal de Corbera d’Ebre (Terra Alta, Tarragona).

URL: www.cnt.es/tarragona

Reunió Comarcal en defensa de la Terra Alta

REUNIÓ de VEÏNS de la TERRA ALTA
Dissabte 22 de Gener, a les 8 de la tarda

NI CENTRALS EÒLIQUES, NI LÍNIES D’ALTA TENSIÓ!

CNT-AIT de Tarragona

Location:
Cinema del Casal de Corbera d’Ebre (Terra Alta, Tarragona).

URL: www.cnt.es/tarragona

II Aniversari KOP-Alta Tensió (Prat) Concert

A partir de les 22:00

- Zermeño
- Terrorismo Sonoro
- Grup Sorpresa

Location:
KOP-Alta Tensió
c/Dr.Soler i Torrents núm. 36-38
El Prat Llobregat
Tren, busos 65-165 i L10

Cost: Gratuït

Organizer:

URL: kasalprat.org

Manuela gaztexearen 5. urteurrena eta azkena

12tan futbol partida azaltzen diren guztientzat. Ondoren triki-poteoa.
14:30tan herri bazkaria musika plazan(txartelak betiko tokian salgai).
19tan Manuelatik maniFESTAzioa musika, koloreak, bikingoak...
Gauean festak musika plazan jarraituko du.

Location:
Zarautz

Organizer:

GIZAKUNDE

GIZAKUNDE eguna, ilbeltzaren 22an, larunbata. Atsaldean Arizkundik Erratzura joanen gara eta afalondoan, JANTZILO epaituta Erratzuko plazan erreko dugu. Ondotik BESTA !!

Location:
ERRATZU

Cost: debalde

Organizer:

UFESTUEK Zarautzen

UFESTUEK Zarautzen larunbata honetan. Gaztetxearen aldeko manifaren ondotik.

Location:
Zarautz

Cost: debalde

Organizer:

URL: www.ufestuek.tk

Weekends of Anti War Action

New Year Greetings Comrades and Friends, we got news from War Resistance of their meeting on Tuesday past, 11th Jan, but we were unable to make it. Anyway we emailed them regarding our suggestion that we follow the success of the December Weekend Of Anti War Action with similar events in January and February- on the 22nd/ 23rd Jan and 26th/ 27th Feb both at 1-3pm by Dewars statue in Buchanan St. Glasgow. As to the following month, March, the Scottish Labour Party meets in conference in Dundee on 4th/ 5th Friday/ Saturday. Dundee Coalition For Justice Not War is said to have already called a demo and there is a suggestion that this be the Scottish Anti War event.

I saw my first Labour Party election poster today, rosy pink background and old stylee font urging us not to let the Tories raise unemployment again! If ever an election called for serious, sustained and consistent subvertising this one does! Lets get organised! The Labour Party, is the War Party of British imperialism and we need to challenge them everywhere as the build up to Election. No Vote for Labour Imperialists! No vote for the War Party!

Location:
Donald Dewar Statue, Buchanan St. Glasgow

Organizer:

URL: www.revolutionarycommunist.com

This is Camp X-Ray Manchester response to Injustice Film

A Screening of 'This is Camp x-ray', documenting Manchesters response to Guantanamo Bay, the building of a replica Camp X-Ray in a wasteland in Manchester. Film-makers will be present for a chat...

Location:
The Forest, 3 Bristo Place, Edinburgh, EH1 1EY

Cost: FREE

Organizer:

URL: www.theforest.org.uk

Coffee Service at The People's Summit

We are happy to be serving coffee at The People's Summit: a free, all day (Jan 22nd) progressive/activist conference at 1420 N. Charles. See you there!

Location:

Cost: Free

A Word In Edgewise: Working with Mainstream Media- Robert Jensen

Jensen is also offering a workshop, “A Word In Edgewise: Working with Mainstream Media,” 10 a.m. to noon, Saturday, Jan. 22, at 30 North Union St., Rochester. The workshop covers the basics of working with journalists and the news media, including news releases, news conferences and event planning; strategies to use when interviewed by media; and effective letter and op/ed writing

Location:
30 North Union St., Rochester

Cost: $10 fee for the workshop, with scholarships available. (Workshop space is limited. Call 325-2560)

January NOW event

If you needed to recuperate after the election, it's time to come back out!

Instead of our January NOW meeting, we will be having our annual event honoring the Roe V Wade decision. Please join us on:


Saturday, January 22 from 12noon to 1:30pm at

The Little Theatre, 240 East Ave., Theatre #5



We will be showing the short film "Motherhood by Choice not Chance" which is based on the trilogy "From the Back Alleys to the Supreme Court and Beyond". The film is directed by EMMY-winning and Oscar nominated filmmaker Dorothy Fadiman.


The film will be followed by a panel discussion. Panel members include Rep. Louise Slaughter, Assemblymember Susan John and Carol Love President and CEO of PPRSR.

Be sure to check our web site for info and updates: www.rochesternow.org/

Location:
The Little Theatre, 240 East Ave., Theatre #5

URL: http://www.rochesternow.org/

Free Grantwriting Workshop

Attention grassroots organizations working on community-led efforts to achieve social equality, economic justice, and environmental sustainability: The San Diego Foundation for Change is now accepting grant applications for the Spring 2003 funding cycle! This workshop is designed for grassroots organizations that have little or no grantwriting experience, and will walk participants through SDFC's grant application. Please bring a copy of SDFC's grant guidelines. They can be downloaded off our website, www.foundation4change.org/nominate.htm. Registration is required as space is very limited, please contact Annie at (619) 692-0527 or annie-AT-foundation4change.org to reserve your seat.

Location:
Jacobs Center for NonProfit Innovation
5160 Federal Blvd., San Diego

Cost: Free

Organizer:

URL: www.foundation4change.org

Independent MEDIA Film Festival and Discussion

Learn about Independent MEDIA through FiLMS and conversation this Friday evening and all day Saturday at the SLO Library.

Learn what has been done throughout the past 60+ years with the struggle of the growing corporate media.

Learn about George Seldes, the mentor of I.F. Stone, who was working against the tobacco industry in the 50s when even his progressive colleagues thought he had gone too far. [Tell the Truth and Run]

Learn how KPFA got started in the late 1940s. Pacifica was the first listener-sponsored radio station in the States. They actually had to give away FM radios for listeners to hear KPFA!! Learn about the conflict between the new owners of Pacifica and the listeners in the late 90s. [KPFA On The Air]

Learn how critics turn their attention on the mainstream media and how the corporate media encouraged the war machine in Afghanistan and Iraq. [WMD: Weapons of Mass Deception]

Learn how Geoge Orwell would have interpreted the past 10 years of media coverage in the US. [Orwell Rolls In His Grave]

Learn how communities are coming together to create their own radio stations called low powered radio stations especially since corporations like Clear Channel have bought up community radio stations only to leave behind a monoculture of the mind. [LPFM: The People's Choice]

Have dinner with Shine Cafe (Morro Bay) Saturday evening. Drink fair-traded / organic coffee sponsored by Outspoken Cafe on Monterey Street in SLO.

Go to Central Coast Brewing after the film on Friday night to enjoy a local brew. They are staying open for us until midnight. They are on Monterey near the railroad crossing.

Attend the FREE panel discussion with the pioneers of independent media in SLO County to discuss HOW to strengthen independent media in our county: Jack McCurdy, Sandra Marshal, Bob Banner, Greg Junnell, Ron Bearce, Pedro Arroyo and Dorothy Littlejohn (from SB Indy Media).

Go to hopedance.org/new/events/indymedia_slo.html for descriptions of the films, time, dates and prices....

Presented by HopeDance Media; Cosponsored by the Sierra Club, Information Press and the local Green Party.
Throughout the day we will also show some shorts about FSTV, LinkTV and City Repair.

See one film or a few of them or all of them but make sure you contribute to the panel discussion and break out groups after the Q&As. As Jello Biafra has stated often enough: "Dont complain about the Media; Become the Media!"

544-9663
www.hopedance.org
Fri Jan 21 and Sat Jan 22 at the SLO Library

Location:
San Luis Obispo (Osos& Palm streets)

Cost: $5 per film or $20 for all 5 films

Organizer:

URL: www.hopedance.org

Living Roofs Workshop - Level One

Learn about living roofs (green or eco roofs), their benefits, applications and potential from three experts in this innovative field.

Why Living Roofs?
What IS a living roof?
What are the Benefits of Living Roofs?
What are the Elements of Living Roofs?
What are the Design Possibilities for Living Roofs?
What are the Differences between Commercial and Residential Living Roofs?
What Resources are available on Living Roofs?

Location:
The Presentation Center
19480 Bear Creek Road
Los Gatos408-354-2346

Cost: $50. by 1/14/05, then $65. (some discounts available)

Directions: For directions and more information go to:
www.grinnovations.com

Organizer:

URL: http://www.grinnovations.com

32nd Anniversary of Roe V. Wade

Candle light vigil this Saturday the 22nd, 5-6:30pm, clocktower, in support and celebration of the 32nd anniversary of Roe V. Wade. Please come out and show your support for Wimmin and for the right to choose.
Thanks!

Location:
Clock Tower, Downtown SC

Dignity For All Students Town Meeting

January 22nd at 2 pm is a Town Hall Meeting about the upcoming Dignity for All Students bill. This bill is neccessary to protect students from all forms of harrassment and violence, from other students and school officials alike, especially in the case of gender, ethnicity, religion, and sexual orientation. Right now, in FL there are no laws protecting students from harrassment on school property. We need to get as many students, parents, school officials, teachers/professors, interested citizens, and local chapters involved with this meeting as possible to stand up for this bill, as it affects all students and education officials.

There will be speakers including school officials, students, and local chapter groups, related professionals as well as a Panel Discussion. We would love to have as many citizens/students/teachers involved in this as possible. I have a press release and a copy of the bill (to distribute)if anyone knows an interested local party. Please contact me back by email. Also, we are trying to find people willing to speak about personal stories regarding student/teacher harrassment or related speakers. If there is anyone interested in speaking about these issues, or knows someone who might, please contact me by email or phone ASAP. Please come out and show support for the Dignity for All Students bill, because students deserve safe schools.

Location:
1720 S. Gadsden
Progressive Center

Cost: Free

Organizer:

URL: DignityForAllStudents.com

Dignity For All Students Town Meeting

January 22nd at 2 pm is a Town Hall Meeting about the upcoming Dignity for All Students bill. This bill is neccessary to protect students from all forms of harrassment and violence, from other students and school officials alike, especially in the case of gender, ethnicity, religion, and sexual orientation. Right now, in FL there are no laws protecting students from harrassment on school property. We need to get as many students, parents, school officials, teachers/professors, interested citizens, and local chapters involved with this meeting as possible to stand up for this bill, as it affects all students and education officials.

There will be speakers including school officials, students, and local chapter groups, related professionals as well as a Panel Discussion. We would love to have as many citizens/students/teachers involved in this as possible. I have a press release and a copy of the bill (to distribute)if anyone knows an interested local party. Please contact me back by email. Also, we are trying to find people willing to speak about personal stories regarding student/teacher harrassment or related speakers. If there is anyone interested in speaking about these issues, or knows someone who might, please contact me by email or phone ASAP. Please come out and show support for the Dignity for All Students bill, because students deserve safe schools.

Location:
1720 S. Gadsden
Progressive Center

Cost: Free

Organizer:

URL: DignityForAllStudents.com

Roe v. Wade 32nd Anniversary candlelight vigil

We will take some time to commemorate another year that the U.S. Supreme Court has not taken away our right to privacy and to determine when or whether to have children. We will remember those women who were maimed or died when there was no reproductive choice. Speak out. Candles available for donation. Men of quality are welcome.

Location:
Park in front of Florida Governor's Mansion, N. Adams and Brevard Street (one block west of N. Monroe and Brevard Street).

Cost: None

Directions: Parking on east side of park off of Brevard and along N. Adams and Brevard Street

Organizer:

URL: www.now.org/chapters/tallahasseenow

Ringling Demostration

We will be welcoming Ringling to town. We need to remind people of the performing animals who have lost their lives and continue to suffer due to systematic abuse and neglect.

Posters and pamphlets will be provided. Dates and time are listed below.

Unloading of the animals: Will know time closer to opening night (hopefully).

January 26th: 6:30-7:30pm
January 27th: 6:30-7:30pm
January 28th: 6:30-7:30pm
January 29th: 10:30-11:30pm, 2:30-3:30pm, 6:30-7:30pm
January 30th: 1:30-2:30pm

**We need a presence at EACH showing. This is very important. Make all that you can. Bring your friends and family. Even if you can only stay for half an hour.
We need a LARGE crowd on opening night. This will be our most important night for media coverage to get the message to all of the Panhandle. **

On Saturday, we can catch lunch at SoulVeg or Higher Tastes, socialize, and make a day of it!

If you have any questions or would like to car pool you can contact me at 850-668-8562 or yogichi-AT-comcast.net. Also, if you can attend please let me know so I have an idea of how many people to expect.
Thanks everyone!!

Location:
Tallahassee Civic Center

Organizer:

URL: www.circus.com

The Complete History of America (abridged)

Tampa's own "Bad Boys of Abridgement" are back to give you a history lesson guaranteed not to be short on laughs. The follow-up production to The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) and The Bible: The Complete Word of God (abridged)

jobsitetheater.org/america.htm

Location:
Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center
Shimberg Playhouse

Cost: $18.50 (50% off student/senior/military rush available 90 minutes before curtain)

Organizer:

URL: http://jobsitetheater.org/america.htm

Earth Matters Tennessee

Earth Matters Tennessee (Community Composting at the Peace Sign)

Get your Community Compost from the kids, staff and management of EarthMatters Tennessee. For over 10 years now, EarthMatters Tennessee has managed the community garden and compost produced the anuuual Leaf Lift
contest designed to environmentally educate and divert compostable tonnage (some call "waste") headed for landfill and incineration.

Aside from the buschels of vegetables and herbs we grow each season, our real "crop" is the thousands of pounds of rich, organic compost, perfect for gardens, "yardens" lawns and planters. Support your local community garden.

Location:
Corner of Gale Lane and Leland (off Belmont near 440)
for more info visit www.earthmatterstn.org

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Left of Center

Left of Center plays on Nashville Community Access Television every Saturday at 11:30am in Davidson County on Channel 19 Comcast.

Left of Center is a program dedicated to bringing you the news in Nashville from a progressive and radical perspective. We cover everything the corporate news won't touch. This summer's lineup includes a documentary on the movement to allow residents to opt out of the spraying of pesticides in their neighborhood, a documentary on the march for women's lives, coverage of the protests against the g8 in georgia, the protests against the the $25,000 a plate george bush fundraiser in may, tennesseeans to end the death penalty, Barry Lynn - advocate of Church State Separation, gaza strip about the detention and isolation of palestinians and many more interesting goings on from Nashville and beyond.

For more information or to get your program aired please email chris lugo at christopher_lugo-AT-yahoo.com

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Stand Up to TN Legislators (Jan 22) Defend Reproductive Freedom!

Come to the Rally for Women’s Rights and tell legislators that they have more important things to do than to scheme to control women’s wombs and restrict marriage rights.

As is their habit on the anniversary of Roe, the Tennessee Right-to-Life organization will be rallying at the Capitol and praying for the passage of the anti-choice amendment. Your presence will help ensure that the voice of the radical right is not the only voice our legislators hear.
January 22 marks the 32nd anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the landmark ruling that held that “The states are not free, under the guise of protecting maternal health or potential life, to intimidate women into continuing pregnancies.”

For Immediate Release:

Rally for Women’s Rights: Stand Up to TN Legislators
Sponsor: Tennessee Guerilla Women
Location: Downtown Nashville, Charlotte Avenue (sidewalk facing the Capitol)
Time: 2:00pm Saturday, January 22, 2005


The TN General Assembly has returned and all indications are that they have not returned in order to promote the health and well-being of Tennesseans, but rather they have returned with plans to wreak havoc on the rights of women, the gay and lesbian community, and God only knows who else.

On the basis of religious beliefs which hold that a cluster of cells is a person entitled to more rights than a woman, legislators intend to inject the following amendment into the state constitution and thereby remove the state’s constitutional provision which protects a woman’s right to control her own body.

''Nothing in this constitution secures or protects the right to an abortion or the funding thereof. The legislature shall have the sole authority to make and shall make such provisions for abortion as it determines are reasonably necessary for victims of rape or incest or to save the life of the mother (sic).''

In the eyes of many TN legislators, a woman becomes a mother at the ‘moment of conception,’ and all women are destined to become mothers. Lawmakers in the 19th century had remarkably similar views. If the amendment succeeds and the Bush Administration achieves its goal of overturning Roe v. Wade, the women who can afford to do so will flee to states such as New York for legal and safe abortions, many women will be forced to continue their pregnancies, and untold numbers of Tennessee women will resort to illegal and dangerous back-alley abortions.

Tennessee Legislators – What Are They Good For?

While the TN legislature spends untold tax-payer funded hours scheming to rob women of the right to make their own decisions about when or if they will become mothers, our state ranks as one of the three unhealthiest states in the nation; only Mississippi and Louisiana fare worse.

While TN legislators plot to ensure that every woman is a mother and every marriage is a heterosexual union, babies have a far better chance of surviving their first year of life in Havana and Beijing than in Tennessee.

While TN legislators focus on the sanctity of the zygote or potential life, Tennessee’s shamefully high infant mortality rate continues to rise. If legislators would only turn their attention away from the project of controlling women’s wombs long enough to focus on the problems of the living, they might be able to do something about the horrific fact that Tennessee ranks 48 in the nation in infant mortality. A baby has a better chance of surviving its first year of life in 47 other states. As if this wasn’t bad enough, TN ranks at the bottom of a nation which has a higher infant mortality rate than Cuba, China and 38 other nations.

If TN legislators had spent as many hours working to ensure that all Tennesseans have the right to adequate health care as they have spent on their obsession with controlling women and gays & lesbians, the infant mortality rate might well be on the decline and untold numbers of babies might still be among the living. Gee, haven’t they heard about the sanctity of human life?

If TN legislators succeed in their goal of chipping away at women’s freedom -- by passing a constitutional amendment aimed at giving a cluster of cells more rights than Tennessee women -- yet more women and their families will be on the path to poverty, despair, and back-alley abortions.

Come to the Rally for Women’s Rights and tell legislators that they have more important things to do than to scheme to control women’s wombs and restrict marriage rights.

As is their habit on the anniversary of Roe, the Tennessee Right-to-Life organization will be rallying at the Capitol and praying for the passage of the anti-choice amendment. Your presence will help ensure that the voice of the radical right is not the only voice our legislators hear.( www.tennesseerighttolife.org/news_center/rally_for_life.htm )

Come and urge Democratic legislators to Stand Up and Represent the Democratic Wing of the Democratic Party for a change!

For more information contact:
Sandy Smith Madsen
(guerillawomentn (at) yahoo.com)
Suzanne Prince (Suzecruise (at) aol.com)



Note: You will hear plenty about TN’s small handful of courageous progressive legislators in future alerts. At the moment, our attention is on the overall ultra conservative legislative body.

Data sources: www.hsph.harvard.edu/now/dec10/apha_infant.html ; www.unitedhealthfoundation.org/shr2004/states/Tennessee.html
www.nytimes.com/2005/01/12/opinion/12kris.html ; www.iwpr.org


NO WOMAN CAN CALL HERSELF FREE
WHO DOES NOT OWN AND CONTROL HER OWN BODY.
MARGARET SANGER


TENNESSEE GUERILLA WOMEN
CHALLENGING THE CONSERVATIVE POLITICS OF SEXISM, HOMOPHOBIA, RACISM AND CLASSISM
www.tnguerillawomen.org
See also:
www.tnguerillawomen.org

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Defend Choice! 3rd Annual CHILI for CHOICE RALLY!

PRO-MOMS, PRO-KIDS, PRO-CHOICE!!!
FREE FOOD! FUN CHANTS! FAMILY FRIENDLY!

It is the 32nd Anniversary of Roe vs. Wade... but the Bush administration has reproductive freedom on the chopping block...

Now is the time to show that Minnesotans are still committed to protecting the freedom to choose our future!

Join in celebration and defense of 32 years on top of the struggle!

Location:
State Capitol, Lower Mall
John Ireland Blvd & Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd
St. Paul

Cost: FREE!

Organizer:

Defend Choice! 3rd Annual CHILI for CHOICE RALLY!

PRO-MOMS, PRO-KIDS, PRO-CHOICE!!!
FREE FOOD! FUN CHANTS! FAMILY FRIENDLY!

It is the 32nd Anniversary of Roe vs. Wade... but the Bush administration has reproductive freedom on the chopping block...

Now is the time to show that Minnesotans are still committed to protecting the freedom to choose our future!

Join in celebration and defense of 32 years on top of the struggle!

Location:
State Capitol, Lower Mall
John Ireland Blvd & Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd
St. Paul

Cost: FREE!

Organizer:

Defend Choice! 3rd Annual CHILI for CHOICE RALLY!

PRO-MOMS, PRO-KIDS, PRO-CHOICE!!!
FREE FOOD! FUN CHANTS! FAMILY FRIENDLY!

It is the 32nd Anniversary of Roe vs. Wade... but the Bush administration has reproductive freedom on the chopping block...

Now is the time to show that Minnesotans are still committed to protecting the freedom to choose our future!

Join in celebration and defense of 32 years on top of the struggle!

Location:
State Capitol, Lower Mall
John Ireland Blvd & Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd
St. Paul

Cost: FREE!

Organizer:

Defend Choice! 3rd Annual CHILI for CHOICE RALLY!

PRO-MOMS, PRO-KIDS, PRO-CHOICE!!!
FREE FOOD! FUN CHANTS! FAMILY FRIENDLY!

It is the 32nd Anniversary of Roe vs. Wade... but the Bush administration has reproductive freedom on the chopping block...

Now is the time to show that Minnesotans are still committed to protecting the freedom to choose our future!

Join in celebration and defense of 32 years on top of the struggle!

Location:
State Capitol, Lower Mall
John Ireland Blvd & Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd
St. Paul

Cost: FREE!

Organizer:

Defend Choice! 3rd Annual CHILI for CHOICE RALLY!

PRO-MOMS, PRO-KIDS, PRO-CHOICE!!!
FREE FOOD! FUN CHANTS! FAMILY FRIENDLY!

It is the 32nd Anniversary of Roe vs. Wade... but the Bush administration has reproductive freedom on the chopping block...

Now is the time to show that Minnesotans are still committed to protecting the freedom to choose our future!

Join in celebration and defense of 32 years on top of the struggle!

Location:
State Capitol, Lower Mall
John Ireland Blvd & Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd
St. Paul

Cost: FREE!

Organizer:

18th Annual NOFA/Mass Winter Conference

Northeast Organic Farming Association / Massachusetts chapter
18th Annual Winter Conference & Annual Meeting

The 2005 conference returns to the Quabbin Regional High School in Barre, Massachusetts (east of the Quabbin Reservoir in central Mass). Our keynote speaker, Andrew Kimbrell, named one of the world's leading 100 visionaries by Utne Reader, founded the Center for Food Safety (CFS), a non-profit membership organization to challenge harmful food production technologies and promote sustainable alternatives. Visit their website at: www.centerforfoodsafety.org

A diverse range of workshops are offered with topics of interest to all including gardening & farming, organic land care, homesteading, issues surrounding genetically engineered foods and interactive hands-on offerings.

All are welcome to attend the NOFA/Mass Annual Meeting, register your children (ages 3-12) to attend the children's conference, visit the farmer's market and exhibits, participate in the raffle and enjoy a bountiful potluck lunch. Workshop descriptions, presenter bios and the schedule for the day are posted on our website: www.nofamass.org/conferences
where you can register online until January 20. There's an "early bird" discount for those who register before January 14.

Co-sponsors: Community Involved in Sustaining Agriculture (CISA), Dean's Beans and Green Fields Market Natural Foods Cooperative

Exhibitors, contact Diane Scherrer, the Exhibit coordinator at <scherrer-AT-lrrc.umass.edu> or (413) 548-8022

Location:
Quabbin Regional High School in Barre, MA

Cost: varies - register online or download a registration form

Directions: hs.quabbin.k12.ma.us

Organizer:

URL: http://nofamass.org/conferences

New Britain Food Not Bombs benefit show

The New Britain chapter of Food Not Bombs is throwing a benefit show on Saturday January 22, 2005 from 7pm until midnight at South Congregational Church, 90 Main Street, New Britain, Connecticut. The entrance fee is either $5 or a donation of five vegetarian food items. We will be having spoken word and music from Green Flem and the Nasty Maggots, Perfect Silence, The Human Beings, Pete Serge, and more. This is an all-ages show.
New Britain Food Not Bombs serves hot, vegetarian meals to hungry residents every Sunday by City Hall. We believe that giving away free food in public places forces passers-by to examine their own complicity and involvement in allowing the unaccountable global economic system that oppresses each of us. Although we have had generous donations in the past, we are having trouble meeting the needs of the hungry in these winter months. We are having this event to collect food and raise money, which will be used for cooking supplies and produce.
For more information write to newbritainfnb-AT-riseup.net or go to newbritainfnb.blogspot.com

Location:
South Congregational Church, 90 Main Street, New Britain, Connecticut

Cost: either $5 or a donation of five vegetarian food items

Directions: I 91 South to I 84 West to Rt. 9 South to Exit 25, take left off exit onto Ellis St., at the 7-11 take right onto South Main St., at second light take left onto Main St., South Church is on the left, parking in the back lot,
**it's about 40 minutes from Springfield**

Organizer:

URL: http://newbritainfnb.blogspot.com