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Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 03:07:47 -0700 (PDT) |
P R O G R E S S I V E C A L E N D A R 04.27.06 URGENT solidarity: Students threatened with suspension!!! see items 14 & 3 1. Don't trash Mpls 4.27 12noon 2. Worker rights 4.28 8:15am 3. Walkout vs war 4.28 12noon 4. Counter recruit 4.28 12noon 5. Ukriane 4.28 4pm 6. Palestine vigil 4.28 4:15pm 7. Fetzer/Cavlan 4.28 6:30pm 8. King/Brandow/folk 4.28 8pm 9. Corporate power 4.29 9am LakeCity MN 10. Venezuela 4.29 10am 11. Bike seminars 4.29 10am 12. Pupil transport 4.29 10:30am 13. Labor activism 4.29 6pm 14. URGENT solidarity: Students threatened with suspension!!! 15. Jesse Mortenson - 64A campaign 16. Mokhiber/Weissman - No more amnesty for corporate crime 17. ed - Worse than war (poem) --------1 of 17-------- From: *Luchelle Stevens* <lstevens [at] seiumn.org <mailto:lstevens [at] seiumn.org>> Subject: Dont trash Mpls 4.27 12noon Thursday, April 27, 12noon-1pm Minneapolis City Hall, 5th St. & 4th Ave.* "Don't Trash Minneapolis" - A rally to call for higher standards in garbage collection, which the city is putting out to bid for the first time in over twenty years. --------2 of 17-------- From: *Luchelle Stevens* <lstevens [at] seiumn.org <mailto:lstevens [at] seiumn.org>> Subject: Worker rights 4.28 8:15am Friday, April 28, 8:15-9am Holiday Inn Select, Bloomington Wake up call to the right of workers to unite without intimidation from their employer. --------3 of 17-------- From: Rick Gravrok <rick.gravrok [at] tcinternet.net> Sender: LongfellowPeace [at] yahoogroups.com Subject: Walkout vs war 4.28 12noon COLLEGE NOT COMBAT! Solidarity Against War and Anti-Immigrant Racism TWIN CITIES STUDENT W A L K O U T Friday April 28 NOON RALLY at University of Minnesota, Northrop Plaza High schoolers: leave class 10:30am. Bus, carpool, or march to U of M rally Rally followed by march through downtown Minneapolis to: Free Concert at 3pm at MCTC by Loring Park, featuring Desdamona, Kanser, I Self Divine, The Elementals, A New Day, Two Wurds, more. Bring a bag lunch. We are walking out to demand: * END the occupation of Iraq NOW! to fund education and social needs * NO! to military recruitment in our schools * YES! to equal access to higher education * YES! to living wage jobs for youth * STOP racist attacks on immigrants and civil liberties Last November 2nd, thousands of Twin Cities students - from over 40 schools in 16 districts - walked out to protest the war. Up to 2000 rallied and marched at the U of M, and a new youth movement was born. But the war has dragged on and the violence in Iraq has increased dramatically. More and more young soldiers are coming home dead or maimed. Conservative estimates suggest over 100,000 Iraqis have been killed in the three years of occupation. Over 70 percent of U.S. troops in Iraq think the occupation should be ended, reflecting the opinion of U.S. workers and youth at home. Yet Congress keeps giving Bush hundreds of billions more for this corrupt war for oil and empire. Meanwhile our schools crumble, tuition rises out of reach, living wage jobs are disappearing, and the politicians are whipping up anti-immigrant racism to deflect the blame for these problems from themselves! Organized by: * Youth Against War and Racism / 612.760.1980 / http://yawr.org * U of M Anti-War Organizing League / http://www.tc.umn.edu/~awol/ / <umnawol [at] gmail.com> * Socialist Alternative / 612.226.9129 / http://www.socialistalternative.org/ * MCTC Students Against War and Racism / < ellaac [at] hotmail.com> Endorsed by: La Raza Student Cultural Center, Women's Student Activist Collective, Equal Access Coalition, Belfry Center for Social and Cultural Activities, Anti-War Committee, Freedom Road Socialist Organization, Daybreak Newspaper, North Country Co-op, Arise! Books and Resource Collective, Welfare Rights Committee, Counter-Propoganda Coalition, Green Party (4th and 5th Districts), Twin Cities Peace Campaign *** HELP MOBILIZE *** Download and distribute walkout fliers in your school! Leaflet: http://yawr.org/files/a28leafletHS.pdf Poster: http://yawr.org/files/a28posterHS.pdf Big poster: http://yawr.org/files/a28posterUofM.pdf UofM leaflet: http://yawr.org/files/april28uofmX2.pdf Why we're walking out (RESISTANCE!): http://yawr.org/resistance/index.htm Volunteer on April 28! - Be a "March Marshal" * If you can volunteer on April 28, email bshillin [at] comcast.net with times available (8am-8pm) and your phone number. * Come to a Marshalling Training, Sat, April 22, 2pm, Walker Community Church, 3104 16th Ave. S., Minneapolis * PLUS! May Day Strike!!! May 1st national worker/student strike for immigrant rights planned The biggest protest movement in U.S. history erupted in recent weeks against the anti-immigrant legislation in Congress. Hundreds of thousands of students have walkout out. Now millions are expected to strike on May 1st for "A Day Without an Immigrant." Following the lead of many immigrant rights leaders who organized the 30,000 strong rally in St. Paul on April 9th, Youth Against War and Racism, Socialist Alternative, the Anti-War Organizing League, and others are urging all students, immigrant and native born, to walkout on Monday, May 1st against the racist, anti-immigrant legislation in Congress. An injury to one is an injury to all! Check www.yawr.org <http://www.yawr.org> for more May 1st details, following the planning meeting scheduled for April 17th. * Download, distribute immigrant rights walkout leaflet (Spanish / English): http://yawr.org/files/april06.pdf --- From: greenpartymike <ollamhfaery [at] earthlink.net> Subject: 4th-5th District Greens Officially Sponsor Youth Walk-Out I am proud to announce that the 4th and 5th Congressional Disrtict Green Locals have officially endorsed the Student Walk Out and Rally to Oppose and Resist the War In Iraq, being held April 28th. This is being organized by YAWR, Youth Against War and Racism and AWOL, Anti-War Organizing League. Thank you Greens for making this happen at such short notice, especially Andy Hammerlink, Amber Garlan, Daneane Provencher, Becki Smith and Eric Makela. For more information on the Walk Out and Rally, go to www.YAWR.org These kids are hot. For the record, we are joined by the Counter Propoganda Coalition www.counterprop.org in endorsing this event. -Michael Cavlan RN www.cavlan.org --------4 of 17-------- From: sarah standefer <scsrn [at] yahoo.com> Subject: Counter recruit 4.28 12noon Counter Recruitment Demonstration Our Children Are Not Cannon Fodder Fridays NOON-1 Recruiting Office at the U of M At Washington and Oak St. next to Chipolte for info call Barb Mishler 612-871-7871 --------5 of 17-------- From: Stephen Feinstein <feins001 [at] umn.edu> Subject: Ukriane 4.28 4pm April 28. Ukraine after the Orange Revolution: Global Impact Upon the Spread of Freedom Friday April 28, University of St Thomas John Road Center Auditorium room 126 Prof. Myroslav Marynovych, VP Ukrainian Cathic University "The Experience of the Orange Revolution and the Transformation of the Ukrainian Nation" 4-5pm Prof. Yaroslav Hrytsak, University of Lviv and Ukrainian Catholic University, "Making Sense of the Orange Revolution One Year Later." 5:15-6:15pm For contact: 651-962-57-- kmfell [at] stthomas.edu Parling in Morrison Hall Ramp Enter Cretin/Summit Avenue Lot --------6 of 17-------- From: peace 2u <tkanous [at] hotmail.com> Subject: Palestine vigil 4.28 4:15pm Every Friday Vigil to End the Occupation of Palestine 4:15-5:15pm Summit & Snelling, St. Paul There are now millions of Palestinians who are refugees due to Israel's refusal to recognize their right under international law to return to their own homes since 1948. --------7 of 17-------- From: Doriandter [at] aol.com Subject: Fetzer/9-11/Cavlan 4.28 6:30pm Dr Fetzer [9-11 speaker] will be at the Black Dog for the Michael Cavlan for US Senate Fundraiser on Friday April 28. We are also having a silent auction to try to raise some extra money. If you have any items please bring them. Things will start about 6:30pm. The purpose of the fundraiser is to be able to buy time on radio stations all over the state to air the 30 second commetcials that Dr. Fetzer has done for Michael. We'll have music, of course.!!! --------8 of 17-------- From: wamm <wamm [at] mtn.org> Subject: King/Brandow/folk 4.28 8pm Contact: Larry Olds 612-722-3442 A Concert Celebrating the Struggle for Peace and Justice: Folk Song Luminaries, Charlie King and Karen Brandow Friday, April 28, 8pm. Doors open at 7pm for socializing and visiting information tables of cosponsoring organizations. Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, 2730 East 31st Street, Minneapolis, Minnesota. A Concert Celebrating the Struggle for Peace and Justice: Folk Song Luminaries, Charlie King and Karen Brandow Charlie King has been at the heart of American folk music for over 40 years. His songs have been recorded and sung by other performers such as Pete Seeger, Holly Near, Ronnie Gilbert, John McCutcheon, Arlo Gutherie, Peggy Seeger, Chad Mitchell, and Judy Small. Karen Brandow, while living in Guatemala from 1986 to 1994, broadened her repertoire to include Latin American music of the "Nueva Cancion" or New Song Movement. She performs songs in both English and Spanish. The appearance in the Twin Cities of Charlie King and Karen Brandow is a rare opportunity to share in the lifework of masters of the music celebrating the struggles for peace and justice. They sing and write passionately about the extraordinary lives of ordinary people. Expect a performance that inspires, teaches, entertains, celebrates, and gives us hope that we can build a better world. The First Annual Music Contribution in the Struggle for Peace and Justice Award will be presented to the McDonald sisters, who are both biological sisters and Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet, in a short ceremony at the event. This is a fundraising event for Women Against Military Madness (WAMM) and the Nonviolent Peaceforce. Sponsored by: Women Against Military Madness (WAMM), the Nonviolent Peaceforce, and others. --------9 of 17-------- From: Andy Hamerlinck <iamandy [at] riseup.net> Subject: Corporate power 4.29 9am LakeCity MN Saturday April 29: A seminar/workshop by Betsy Barnum: Changing Corporate Power & Influence in Order to Reclaim our Democracy. Shifting the Paradigm from "Harm-Based" to "Rights-Based" Organizing. Details in the next newsletter and on the web: http:// wabashagoodhuecountiesgreenparty.org 9am-3pm. Lunch served. Fee $35.00 Pre- registration required. Limited attendance. Dag I. Knudsen P.O. Box 180 Lake City, MN 55041-0180 651-345-3800 --------10 of 17-------- From: Charles Underwood <charleyunderwood [at] hotmail.com> Subject: Venezuela 4.29 10am Saturday, 4/29, 10 to 11:30 am, Sigrid Bachman reports from recent delegation in "Venezuela: the Bolivarian Revolution in Progress," Resource Center of the Americas, 3019 Minnehaha Ave, Mpls. www.americas.org --------11 of 17-------- From: Good Day <b.spoken [at] gmail.com> Subject: Bike seminars 4.29 10am The Hub Bike Co-op is going to be having free bike related seminars in conjunction with our Spring Bicycle Expo 4/28 - 4/30. Seminars will be held at The Hub West Bank, 301 Cedar Ave. S. A sampling is below, please visit our website at THEHUBBIKECOOP.ORG for a full listing and details. Sat 4/29, 10AM. Biking with kids. Learn about how to make biking fun and safe for you little ones. Learn about some easy excersizes you can do to get them started. Sat 4/29, 11AM. Long distance touring. Hear stories and tips from folks experienced in cross country travel. Topics covered will include gear, choosing routes, dealing with rough weather, and more. Sun 4/30, noon. Commuting by bike. Share in a discussion on commuting, during the summer and year round. Topics will include bikes, gear, routes, how to keep clean and carry what you need. Questions? Email ben [at] thehubbikecoop.org --------12 of 17-------- From: *Luchelle Stevens* <lstevens [at] seiumn.org <mailto:lstevens [at] seiumn.org>> Subject: Pupil transport 4.29 10:30am Saturday, April 29, 10:30-11:30am Front steps of the Capitol, St. Paul Rally with parents, school bus workers, and elected officials to drive up standards in the pupil transportation industry and improve service, employment and safety. In Minnesota CtW represents over 140,000 workers in the International Brotherhood of the Teamsters, Laborers' International Union of North America, UNITE HERE, Service Employees International Union, United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, and United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America. --------13 of 17-------- From: Corey Mattson <coreymattson [at] maydaybookstore.org> Subject: Labor activism 4.29 6pm Mayday presents: Mayday ! - International Workers Day! An Open Mike event discussing: The Way Forward for the Labor Movement Moderator: David Riehle, UTU Local 650 Come to Mayday Books for a discussion with fellow union activists on how to turn things around for our unions and celebrate Mayday with food and drink! Open Mike forum begins at 6 pm; party begins at 7:30. Saturday, April 29 6 pm at Mayday Books 301 Cedar Avenue South, Minneapolis (in the basement of THE HUB; enter on the side of the building for information, call 612-333-4719 or visit www.maydaybookstore.org --------14 of 17-------- Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 03:49:34 -0500 From: Ty Moore <tytymo [at] gmail.com> Subject: URGENT solidarity: Students threatened with suspension!!! --- please forward widely --- URGENT Solidarity Appeal: High School students threatened with suspension for antiwar activity Please call & email their District Superintendents RIGHT NOW to support students free speech rights. Numbers are at bottom of the letters from the affected students, below. Brief background info: Across the Twin Cities, thousands of students are planning to walkout tomorrow, April 28th, against the war in Iraq and against military recruitment in schools. This will likely be the largest youth antiwar demonstration in Minnesota since the Vietnam era (more info: www.yawr.org). But in recent days reports of repression and disruption tactics from school authorities has gone way up. Under police pressure, a big peace concert scheduled for tomorrow afternoon, as part of the walkout events at Minneapolis Technical and Community College (MCTC), is being shut down. Below are two urgent appeals from students at two local schools (Central and Jefferson) were threats against students came to a head yesterday. Please read these, act on their request for solidarity, and forward this appeal for help on to others. Students from these schools are holding a press conference this afternoon at MCTC's "Free Speech Plaza" at 3:30 PM (Press Release attached). Please come and show your support! Appeal from Jefferson High students We are three students Jefferson High School in Bloomington, MN. We are being threatened with suspension for passing out fliers advertising the April 28 walkout. We aren't allowed to wear shirts that say "I'm walking out for peace." We aren't even allowed to SAY the word walkout. First we attempted to get posters and lit approved through official ways. We got called in and told that advocating the walkout by distributing any material or voicing any knowledge of it happening was going to cause a disruption to the school learning environment. We got a National Lawyers Guild lawyer to write a letter to our principal explaining that Tinker vs. Des Moines gives us the right to organize the walkout in school, but this made no difference. In our meeting with the Principal today [4/26] their lawyer had given them a response to the NLG letter, claiming that it does not fall under protected free speech. Our right to free speech and protest, as well as the rights of our fellow Youth Against War and Racism chapter members, have been denied. Basically we refuse to be censored for our right to practice our political freedoms including telling people an event is going on. We will continue to pass out leaflets and they will probably continue confiscating or suspending people handing them out. Here's what we'd like for you to do: call our administration. Demand that our rights are supported. Flood their offices with phone calls and emails reminding them that teenagers are people with rights, because they seem to have forgotten. The numbers are below. Bloomington Schools Superintendent, Gary Prest 952-681-6402 gprest [at] bloomington.k12.mn.us Peace and Love, Alex Uhrich, Libby Tousignant, Ben Zabel Jefferson Youth Against War and Racism Contact us at: nirvanaguy18 [at] gmail.com -------------- Appeal from Central High Students At St. Paul Central High School, our chapter of Youth Against War and Racism has been planning for the antiwar walkout on Friday, April 28 in solidarity with other Twin Cities YAWR chapters. We are protesting against military recruiters in our schools as well as against the war as a whole. We have produced a variety of leaflets explaining our cause and encouraging students to join us. Over the past week, we have begun to pass the fliers out more intensely. As a result, our school administrators and our principal, Mary Mackbee, have attempted to prevent us from passing them out. On Wednesday, April 26 before school, many of our fliers were confiscated by Ms. Mackbee while they were being distributed. We were told that we would be punished if they were found passing out any more fliers. The school staff have been instructed to assign detention to any student caught distributing fliers. Later in the day, when we attempted to get back the fliers that had been confiscated, we were then told that, if we were found passing out leaflets, we would be suspended for "willful disobedience". Our First Amendment rights cannot be ignored. Regardless of any claims made by the school that we are under their supervision, our fundamental democratic right to freedom of expression cannot be abridged. The schools might claim that we are creating a disruption, however a much greater disruption is being created for us by the military recruiters in our schools and by the loss of funding that our schools must deal with due to taxpayer money being spent on war instead of education. We cannot allow them to continue to prevent us from expressing ourselves. For this reason, we ask that you help us to protect our democratic freedom and our right to free expression. We ask that you call or e-mail our District Superintendent, Lou Kanavati, and demand that we be allowed to exercise our basic right to expression and distribute antiwar fliers, brochures, or other documents free of censorship or threats. Superintendent Lou Kanavati 651/767-8150 Lou.Kanavati [at] spps.org Thank you, Sean Foltin and Shane Davis Central High Youth Against War and Racism Contact us at: acolyteofthecpc [at] yahoo.com --------15 of 17-------- From: Jesse Mortenson for 64A <jesse [at] jessemortenson.com> Subject: Conversations at the door, events this weekend Dear Friends, I'd like to share with you parts of conversations I've had with folks while going door-to-door in the last couple of weeks: "Yes, I've been struggling with health insurance costs" "We were just remarking the other day about the local businesses that are gone" "You covered one of my top issues: the war" "No politician's ever knocked on my door before" "Thanks for stopping by - not too many candidates come by here" This is where the heart of politics lies: in the work that every single person does to figure out the challenges we face in this society, and to talk to friends, family, co-workers and the occasional grassroots campaigner about them. It's the first step in bringing power to ordinary people. No amount of time at the capitol can supplant the simple fact that all power comes from people. In short, we're having a great time going door-to-door. If you'd like to join us and you aren't already getting the weekly volunteer messages, e-mail me and I'll add you to the list. We published our first campaign ad this week, in the Villager community newspaper. Did you see it? Did you like it? Ideas for our future ads are welcome. Finally, I'd like to invite you to a conference that starts tomorrow right here in 64A, on the Macalester College campus. It was organized by a mentor of mine, regarding a set of issues that are absolutely critical for progressives fighting against violent, destructive foreign policies in the United States at this time: Islam and the Modern Orientalist World System --- This Thursday through Saturday --- http://www.macalester.edu/mesa/ Why do commentators in print and on television draw detailed conclusions about Islam despite the great geographic, political, and cultural diversity among Islam's 1.3 billion adherents? Are political and economic developments in Arab and Muslim regions the result of Islamic culture, or of global political realities shaped primarily by Western governments? Our campaign has made ending the war in Iraq a top priority. I believe understanding the relationship between our decisions here in Minnesota and our country's foreign policies is a necessary foundation for making sound legislation here in St. Paul. Click the link and come to an event to learn more. http://www.macalester.edu/mesa/ Sincerely, Jesse Green Party Candidate for Minnesota House of Representatives District 64A www.jessemortenson.com --------16 of 17-------- No more amnesty for corporate crime By Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman Focus on the Corporation - Apr 25, 2006 http://lists.essential.org/pipermail/corp-focus/2006/000230.html No more amnesty. What's the first issue that came to your mind? Right. Immigration. But what about corporate crime? For years now, major American corporations have committed serious crimes. And the government has responded with effective amnesty. It's not called amnesty, of course. It's called deferred prosecution. Or non-prosecution. But it is amnesty nonetheless. The corporation commits the crime. The corporation admits that it engaged in criminal wrongdoing. But to avoid the repercussions of a guilty plea, the corporation is allowed to enter into an non-prosecution agreement or a deferred prosecution agreement, whereby the government says -- hey, you're a big corporation, if we convict you of this crime, your company could be driven out of business, innocent shareholders will be hurt, innocent workers will be hurt. So, we won't convict you of a crime. Amnesty. Yes, the corporation agrees to pay fines. Yes, the corporation agrees to change its ways. But the corporation is allowed to stay in the country, so to speak, after crossing the line. Do you hear about this corporate amnesty on Lou Dobbs? No, you do not. Do you hear Congressman Tom Tancredo, R-Colorado, -- the leader of the no-amnesty-for-dark-skinned-people brigade (the word amnesty appears on his web site maybe 300 times) -- ranting and raving about corporate amnesty? No, you do not. Does Bill O'Reilly, corporate shill that he is, rant and rave about corporate amnesty? He does not. Why not? If respect for law and order is to mean anything, it is to mean respect for law and order across the board. Not just for dark-skinned people from south of the border. But blink an eye, and when you open it, a major American corporation will be cutting some kind of amnesty deal with the federal government. Even before the coffee had a chance to kick in this morning, the Wall Street Journal was reporting that Boeing is about to get a deferred prosecution deal to settle two major federal criminal investigations. Quoting unnamed sources, the Journal reported that Boeing "would avoid pleading guilty to any specific charges in both cases while admitting wrongdoing under what is known as a deferred prosecution agreement." According to the report, the settlement agreement would resolve longstanding allegations that Boeing improperly acquired thousands of pages of Lockheed Martin Corp.'s proprietary documents dealing with rocket programs and illegally recruited a senior U.S. Air Force acquisition official while she still had oversight of billions of dollars in other Boeing contracts. These types of deferred prosecution agreements -- and their cousins, non-prosecution agreements -- have become the settlement vehicle of choice for federal prosecutors facing down powerful U.S. corporations. If you are representing a Fortune 500 company before the government, and you can't get one of these, you are either facing a prosecutor out of touch with the times, or the president of the company should fire you. That's how prevalent this amnesty program has become. In a report released in December 2005, Corporate Crime Reporter documented the rise of these types of agreements. At that point, the report had tallied 36 such agreements. Since then, Corporate Crime Reporter has documented an additional eight such agreements. That makes the total 44. Boeing would make 45. It just strikes us as a bit hypocritical to rant and rave about people named Garcia, Martinez, Lopez, Hernandez, Gonzales, Perez, Sanchez, Rivera and Ramirez -- when they cross the line. But then if your name is Boeing, Prudential, Hilfiger, Shell Oil, Solomon Brothers, Aetna, KPMG, Monsanto, Sears or Bristol Myers Squibb -- and you commit a crime -- there is no ranting and raving -- only cheering from Wall Street. Russell Mokhiber is editor of the Washington, D.C.-based Corporate Crime Reporter, <http://www.corporatecrimereporter.com>. Robert Weissman is editor of the Washington, D.C.-based Multinational Monitor, <http://www.multinationalmonitor.org>. Mokhiber and Weissman are co-authors of On the Rampage: Corporate Predators and the Destruction of Democracy (Monroe, Maine: Common Courage Press). (c) Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman --------17 of 17-------- Worse than war: students against war. Who else will kill for the ruling class? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- - David Shove shove001 [at] tc.umn.edu rhymes with clove Progressive Calendar over 2225 subscribers as of 12.19.02 please send all messages in plain text no attachments
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