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P R O G R E S S I V E C A L E N D A R 02.22.09 1. Stillwater vigil 2.22 1pm 2. Bubble economy 2.22 1pm 3. RNC litigation 2.22 2pm 4. Single payer/AM950 2.22 3pm 5. Jewish Anti-Zionism 2.22 3pm 6. Food crisis 2.23 10:45am 7. Coldwater future 2.23 5pm 8. Peace walk 2.23 6pm RiverFalls WI 9. Budget hearings 2.23-26 6pm 10. Amnesty Intl 2.23 7pm 11. New US renaissance 2.23 7:30 12. M & O Neumann - Remove Our Grandmother's Name from Wall at Yad Vashem --------1 of 12-------- From: scot b <earthmannow [at] comcast.net> Subject: Stillwater vigil 2.22 1pm A weekly Vigil for Peace Every Sunday, at the Stillwater bridge from 1- 2 p.m. Come after Church or after brunch ! All are invited to join in song and witness to the human desire for peace in our world. Signs need to be positive. Sponsored by the St. Croix Valley Peacemakers. If you have a United Nations flag or a United States flag please bring it. Be sure to dress for the weather . For more information go to <http://www.stcroixvalleypeacemakers.com/>http://www.stcroixvalleypeacemakers.com/ For more information you could call 651 275 0247 or 651 999 - 9560 --------2 of 12-------- From: Lydia Howell <lydiahowell [at] visi.com> Subject: Bubble economy 2.22 1pm sun.1PM; DEAN BAKER on CSPAN2 BOOK TV Dean Baker, Plunder and Blunder:The Rise and Fall of the Bubble Economy Sunday FEB.22, 1 PM cst, on C-SPAN 2 BOOK TV (cable) --------3 of 12-------- From: Women Against Military Madness <wamm [at] mtn.org> Subject: RNC litigation 2.22 2pm RNC Civil Litigation Workshop Sunday, February 22, 2:00 to 4:30 p.m. Bedlam Theatre, Rehearsal Space, 1501 South 6th Street, Minneapolis. The workshop will provide information about filing Notice of Claim forms to let Ramsey County and the cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul know that you might file a civil suit at some point in the future. Come find out about your options for filing a civil suit to address the wrongs you suffered during the Republican National Convention (RNC). Lawyers from the National Lawyers Guild will be on hand to answer all burning questions. Coleen Rowley has used her expertise and developed a form which WAMM members and members of other groups can use. This is for individuals only. WAMM, as an organization is not filing a claim. Organized by: Community RNC Arrestee Support Structure (CRASS). Endorsed by: WAMM. --------4 of 12-------- From: "Of the People" <info [at] jamesmayer.org> Subject: Single payer/AM950 2.22 3pm Encore presentation-MN Universal Health Care: Making it a Reality and Model for the U.S. Part III- Discussion with a representative from Physicians for a National Health Program! Join in THE CONVERSATION. TUNE YOUR RADIO TO: Of the People this Sunday, February 22 at 3 p.m. on AM950 KTNF (formerly Air America Minnesota) with Host James Mayer. Or stream us: http://www.am950ktnf.com/listen Join us for anencore presentation of the 3rd program of our series of broadcasts about REAL Universal Single Payer Health care with Dr. Ann Settgast, an internist in St. Paul, Minnesota at the Center for International Health. She and host James Mayer discussed the urgent need for and benefits of, Single Payer Universal Health Care and what we can do to make it a reality. Listeners were asked to call in with examples of what happens to the lives of people deprived of decent or adequate health care, and with questions or suggestions about how to push our elected representatives to make Universal, Single Payer a reality. TUNE YOUR RADIO TO: Of the People this Sunday, February 22 at 3 p.m. on AM950 KTNF (formerly Air American Minnesota) with Host James Mayer or stream us: http://www.am950ktnf.com/listen [http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102468417717&e=001XTKnRmdHRitc3u7EZLxxy30GMrDeC4hWUIX8ZKE0Prg35WlL0EeY4WTnOECGgvX_hFk5mytEmfGHTayz46WM3rlOy6ejW4xsbwz3W_vJU-2WISvBh4QUAonkHo3x5hAz] Threats to the health, strength and endurance of healthy democracy, society and environment don't go away for the weekend. Neither does the bad news the corporate media establishment uses to make us feel alienated from one another, shocked, depressed, or even helpless, and to distract us from real priorities, realistic solutions and positive actions we can take together. But for a few weekend moments you can refresh and regenerate your energy with James Mayer on Of the People, a place to go for good news that the "news" corporations monopolizing our airwaves seldom let through: people taking action together, on real solutions. --------5 of 12-------- From: Women Against Military Madness <wamm [at] mtn.org> Subject: Jewish Anti-Zionism 2.22 3pm "The Road Less Traveled:" Twin Cities Jews Discuss Their Journeys to Anti-Zionism Sunday, February 22, 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. Bedlam Theater, 1501 South 6th Street, Minneapolis. Speakers will tell their personal stories. What does anti-Zionism mean to them and how did they come to identify as anti-Zionist Jews? Featuring: Lisa Albrecht, Ricardo Levins Morales, Josina Manu Maltzman, Karen Redleaf and Flo Razowsky. Lots of time allotted for dialogue with the audience. There will be snacks and drinks and plenty of lively conversation! Free and open to the public. Organized by: the International Jewish anti-Zionist Network-Twin Cities. Endorsed by: the WAMM Middle East Committee. FFI: Call Karen Redleaf, 651-283-3495 or email vegan14ever [at] yahoo.com. --------6 of 12-------- From: Erin Parrish <erin [at] mnwomen.org> Subject: Food crisis 2.23 10:45am February 23: Minneapolis Branch American Association of University Women Meeting. 9:30 AM: Interest Groups. 10:45 AM: The Food Crisis: Public and Private Sector Response with Tom Verdoorn. Noon: Lunch. 1:15 PM: The Arts and Academic Achievement: Exploring the Connections with Debra Engram. 2115 Stevens Avenue, Minneapolis. --------7 of 12-------- From: Sue Ann <mart1408 [at] umn.edu> Subject: Coldwater future 2.23 5pm National Park Service Coldwater Park Planning Meeting Monday, February 23, 2009 5-9 PM VA Hospital, first floor auditorium from www/friendsofcoldwater.org The meeting appears to be an informational smorgasbord where interested people move from station to station hearing about specific plans. Please plan to attend the full meeting if possible so our voices can be heard as to the future of Coldwater. Coldwater is an ancient geographical feature, predating human habitation here, and is the last natural spring in Hennepin County. A special designation could add protection since the surrounding area is highly developed and slated for more development. The Lower Minnesota River Watershed District is responsible for the toxic Twin Cities airport area and the flow to the Spring while the Minnehaha Creek Watershed District is only responsible for the Spring outflow. This split protective designation makes it absolutely necessary that the National Park Service vigilantly guard the source water to Coldwater. There is agreement that buildings, roads and fences will be removed and the campus replanted as a burr oak grove with prairie grasses-an oak savanna. Decisions about the entrance road, parking, and whether to fill in the basement of the Main Building or to let it act as a wetland buffer are up for consideration. Placement of Coldwater Park paths and the pathway surface material might be discussed. Probably the most important question is whether to stabilize or remove the Coldwater Spring House and reservoir. Friends of Coldwater want to bring up the following points: 1) Additional Land We would like to see the 23-acre Veterans Administration land between Minnehaha Regional Park and Coldwater (54th to 56th streets) added to Coldwater Park. The land is currently used as a dump site for construction dirt and downed trees. Previously low-grade nuclear waste, probably medical waste, was buried there. The Highway 55 reroute was raised about five feet in this stretch to accommodate the flow to Coldwater. Between Coldwater on the Mississippi blufftop--to be managed by the National Park Service (NPS)--and the NPS island in the Mississippi River directly below Coldwater, is undeveloped and deteriorating land with exotic invasive vegetation. Currently the land is owned by the Minnesota Historical Society and would best be incorporated into Coldwater Park. 2) Allow access for spring water collection during the "destruction-construction" period. 3) Leave the "Spirit Tree" (the old maple just north of the reservoir) in place, as is; likewise the great weeping willow (even though it is not indigenous). The indigenous white hawthorn and American mountain ash, growing out of the reservoir wall on the east side, should also be left in place. The wild grape (associated with springs) on the Spring House should be left. 4) Locate the road into the park on the west edge of the property, paralleling the highway. That roadway already exists. Plan for parallel parking and a turn around. 5) Consider wood chip paths, or a water permeable surface, not asphalt. (Mountain bicyclists have caused extensive erosion damage to Mississippi bluff parkland.) 6) The most crucial, fragile aspect of land restoration at Coldwater is the hill behind the Spring. It will have to be stabilized above and below, replanted, and possibly filled-in. The hill has been allowed to degenerate into a buckthorn thicket with extensive silt erosion into the reservoir. The invasive buckthorn shaded out indigenous plants whose roots would have held the soil in place. Rocks from the disassembly of the labyrinth on the hill next to the Spring and a fire ring were dumped into this ravine, adding to unstable soil. 7) Shade is always associated with springs. Deforestation causes desertification. If Coldwater's Spring House and the plethora of surrounding exotic buckthorn trees were removed simultaneously, the Spring might disappear underground until native cottonwood trees could grow. During the destruction-construction period the warehouse on the south side (opposite the Spring House) will be dismantled. Spring water flows from beneath that structure. Shaving bare all the shade around Coldwater could be very problematic. 8) Green Museum: A Place Where the Land is the Museum Susu Jeffrey, compiled for Friends of Coldwater for more information about Coldwater: www.friendsofcoldwater.org --------8 of 12-------- From: Nancy Holden <d.n.holden [at] comcast.net> Subject: Peace walk 2.23 6pm RiverFalls WI River Falls Peace and Justice Walkers. We meet every Monday from 6-7 pm on the UWRF campus at Cascade Ave. and 2nd Street, immediately across from "Journey" House. We walk through the downtown of River Falls. Contact: d.n.holden [at] comcast.net. Douglas H Holden 1004 Morgan Road River Falls, Wisconsin 54022 --------9 of 12-------- From: Anne R. Carroll <carrfran [at] qwest.net> Subject: Budget hearings 2.23-26 6pm [This is the only posting of this; if you want it for other days, please SAVE it. -ed] I thought you might be interested in the schedule for the House-Senate bipartisan hearings on Governor Pawlenty's budget scheduled for next week. The dates, locations and times are below. If you would like to testify please sign up at www.house.mn We are gathering public input on the Governor's budget before the March 3 budget forecast and in preparation for the House and Senate budget setting processes. I plan to attend the Woodbury and Saint Paul hearings. We are also having a series of greater Minnesota hearings late this week and I will be traveling to Mankato. If you would like the schedule for the greater Minnesota hearing let me know. Most legislators are attending one or more hearings. Monday, February 23 Woodbury 6:00 p.m. Central Park Amphitheater, 8595 Central Park Place Tuesday, February 24 Bloomington 7:00 p.m. Bloomington City Hall, 1800 W Old Shakopee Rd Minneapolis 6:00 p.m. Minneapolis Park Board, 2117 West River Road Wednesday, February 25 Burnsville 7:30 p.m. Fairview Ridges Hospital, 201 E. Nicollet Blvd White Bear Lake 6:30 p.m. White Bear Lake High School - South Campus, 3551 McKnight Rd N Thursday, February 26 St. Paul 6:00 p.m. West Minnehaha Rec. Center in Frogtown, 685 Minnehaha Ave W Plymouth 7:00 p.m. Plymouth City Hall, 3400 Plymouth Blvd. Coon Rapids 7:00 p.m. Coon Rapids City Hall, 11155 Robinson Drive Nora Slawik Chair, Early Childhood Finance and Policy Division State Representative, District 55B Oakdale and southern Maplewood 403 State Office Building 100 Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. Saint Paul, MN 55155 651-296-7807 --------10 of 12-------- From: Gabe Ormsby <gabeo [at] bitstream.net> Subject: Amnesty Intl 2.23 7pm Augustana Homes Seniors Group meets on Monday, February 23rd, from 7:00 to 8:00 p.m. in the party room of the 1020 Building, 1020 E 17th Street, Minneapolis. For more information contact Ardes Johnson at 612/378-1166 or johns779 [at] tc.umn.edu. --------11 of 12-------- From: Info from John Kolstad Subject: New US renaissance 2.23 7:30 Tom's Schneider Drug Store forum University Av at Bedford, across from KSTP, M/StP border. Thirty years of Reagan et al created the problems that now create the opportunity for a New American Renaissance - a move from reaction to progress. But only with our vision, cooperation, and effort. Open discussion. --------12 of 12-------- To the President of the State of Israel and the Director of the Yad Vashem Memorial Remove Our Grandmother's Name from the Wall at Yad Vashem By MICHAEL NEUMANN and OSHA NEUMANN cp Weekend Edition February 20 / 22, 2009 Following the example of Jean-Moise Braitberg, we ask that our grandmother's name be removed from the wall at Yad Vashem. Her name is Gertrud Neumann. Your records state that she was born in Kattowitz on June 6, 1875 and died in Theresienstadt. M. Braitberg delivers his request with excellent reasons and eloquent personal testimony. His words are inspiring, but they give you - and those who stand with you - too much credit. I will instead be brief. Please take this as an expression of my disgust and contempt for your state and all it represents. Our grandmother was a victim of that very ideal of ethnic sovereignty in whose cause Israel has shed so much blood for so long. I was among the many Jews who thought nothing of embracing that ideal, despite the sufferings it had inflicted on our own race. It took thousands of Palestinian lives before, finally, I realized how foolish we had been. Our complicity was despicable. I do not believe that the Jewish people, in whose name you have committed so many crimes with such outrageous complacency, can ever rid itself of the shame you have brought upon us. Nazi propaganda, for all its calumnies, never disgraced and corrupted the Jews; you have succeeded in this. You haven't the courage to take responsibility for your own sadistic acts: with unparalleled insolence, you set yourself up as spokesmen for an entire race, as if our very existence endorsed your conduct. And you blacken our names not only by your acts, but by the lies, the coy evasions, the smirking arrogance and the infantile self-righteousness with which you embroider our history. In the end, you will give the Palestinians some scrap of a state. You will never pay for your crimes and you will continue to preen yourself, to bask in your illusions of moral ascendancy. But between now and the end, you will kill and kill and kill, gaining nothing by your spoilt-brat brutality. In life, our grandmother suffered enough. Stop making her a party to this horror in her death. Michael Neumann I join my brother, Michael Neumann, in asking that any reference to our grandmother be removed from Yad Vashem, the Holocaust memorial. I have been to this memorial. Its buildings, paved courtyards and plazas spread themselves authoritatively over many landscaped acres. It frames the Holocaust as a prelude to the creation of the state of Israel. It embalms memorabilia of the death camps and preserves them as national treasures. That treasure does not belong to Israel. It is a treasure only if it serves as a reminder never to permit any nation to claim an exemption for its chosen people from the bounds of morality and decency. Israel has twisted the Holocaust into an excuse for perpetrating more holocausts. It has spent the treasure of the world's sympathy for the victims of the Holocaust on a fruitless effort to shield itself from all criticism as it massacres and tortures Palestinians and suffocates them under a brutal occupation. I do not wish to have the memory of my grandmother enlisted in this misbegotten project. I grew up believing that Jews were that ethnic group whose historical mission was to transcend ethnicity in a united front against Fascism. To be Jewish was to be anti-Fascist. Israel long ago woke me from my dogmatic slumber about the immutable relationship of Jews to Fascists. It has engineered a merger between the image of Jewish torturers and war criminals and that of emaciated concentration camp victims. I find this merger obscene. I want no part of it. You have forfeited the right to be the custodian of my grandmother.s memory. I do not wish Yad Vashem to be her memorial. Osha Neumann The Braitberg letter, in French can be found at http://www.lemonde.fr/opinions/article/2009/01/28/effacez-le-nom-de-mon-grand-pere-a-yad-vashem_1147635_3232.html and the translaton here: http://www.bilin-village.org/english/articles/different-look/Erase-my-grandfather-s-name-at-Yad-Vashem Michael Neumann is a professor of philosophy at a Canadian university. He is the author of What's Left: Radical Politics and the Radical Psyche and The Case Against Israel. He also contributed the essay, "What is Anti-Semitism", to CounterPunch's book, The Politics of Anti-Semitism. He can be reached at mneumann [at] live.com Osha Neumann is a defense lawyer in Berkeley and author of Up Against the Wall MotherF**ker: a Memoir of the 60s with Notes for Next Time. >From shove001 [at] tc.umn.edu Sun Feb 22 13:54:05 2009 Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 13:35:33 -0600 (CST) From: David Shove <shove001 [at] tc.umn.edu> To: David Shove <shove001 [at] tc.umn.edu> Subject: Remove Our Grandmother's Name from the Wall at Yad Vashem To the President of the State of Israel and the Director of the Yad Vashem Memorial Remove Our Grandmother's Name from the Wall at Yad Vashem By MICHAEL NEUMANN and OSHA NEUMANN cp Weekend Edition February 20 / 22, 2009 Following the example of Jean-Moise Braitberg, we ask that our grandmother's name be removed from the wall at Yad Vashem. Her name is Gertrud Neumann. Your records state that she was born in Kattowitz on June 6, 1875 and died in Theresienstadt. M. Braitberg delivers his request with excellent reasons and eloquent personal testimony. His words are inspiring, but they give you - and those who stand with you - too much credit. I will instead be brief. Please take this as an expression of my disgust and contempt for your state and all it represents. Our grandmother was a victim of that very ideal of ethnic sovereignty in whose cause Israel has shed so much blood for so long. I was among the many Jews who thought nothing of embracing that ideal, despite the sufferings it had inflicted on our own race. It took thousands of Palestinian lives before, finally, I realized how foolish we had been. Our complicity was despicable. I do not believe that the Jewish people, in whose name you have committed so many crimes with such outrageous complacency, can ever rid itself of the shame you have brought upon us. Nazi propaganda, for all its calumnies, never disgraced and corrupted the Jews; you have succeeded in this. You haven't the courage to take responsibility for your own sadistic acts: with unparalleled insolence, you set yourself up as spokesmen for an entire race, as if our very existence endorsed your conduct. And you blacken our names not only by your acts, but by the lies, the coy evasions, the smirking arrogance and the infantile self-righteousness with which you embroider our history. In the end, you will give the Palestinians some scrap of a state. You will never pay for your crimes and you will continue to preen yourself, to bask in your illusions of moral ascendancy. But between now and the end, you will kill and kill and kill, gaining nothing by your spoilt-brat brutality. In life, our grandmother suffered enough. Stop making her a party to this horror in her death. Michael Neumann I join my brother, Michael Neumann, in asking that any reference to our grandmother be removed from Yad Vashem, the Holocaust memorial. I have been to this memorial. Its buildings, paved courtyards and plazas spread themselves authoritatively over many landscaped acres. It frames the Holocaust as a prelude to the creation of the state of Israel. It embalms memorabilia of the death camps and preserves them as national treasures. That treasure does not belong to Israel. It is a treasure only if it serves as a reminder never to permit any nation to claim an exemption for its chosen people from the bounds of morality and decency. Israel has twisted the Holocaust into an excuse for perpetrating more holocausts. It has spent the treasure of the world's sympathy for the victims of the Holocaust on a fruitless effort to shield itself from all criticism as it massacres and tortures Palestinians and suffocates them under a brutal occupation. I do not wish to have the memory of my grandmother enlisted in this misbegotten project. I grew up believing that Jews were that ethnic group whose historical mission was to transcend ethnicity in a united front against Fascism. To be Jewish was to be anti-Fascist. Israel long ago woke me from my dogmatic slumber about the immutable relationship of Jews to Fascists. It has engineered a merger between the image of Jewish torturers and war criminals and that of emaciated concentration camp victims. I find this merger obscene. I want no part of it. You have forfeited the right to be the custodian of my grandmother.s memory. I do not wish Yad Vashem to be her memorial. Osha Neumann The Braitberg letter, in French can be found at http://www.lemonde.fr/opinions/article/2009/01/28/effacez-le-nom-de-mon-grand-pere-a-yad-vashem_1147635_3232.html and the translaton here: http://www.bilin-village.org/english/articles/different-look/Erase-my-grandfather-s-name-at-Yad-Vashem Michael Neumann is a professor of philosophy at a Canadian university. He is the author of What's Left: Radical Politics and the Radical Psyche and The Case Against Israel. He also contributed the essay, "What is Anti-Semitism", to CounterPunch's book, The Politics of Anti-Semitism. He can be reached at mneumann [at] live.com Osha Neumann is a defense lawyer in Berkeley and author of Up Against the Wall MotherF**ker: a Memoir of the 60s with Notes for Next Time. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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 vote third party for president for congress now and forever Socialism YES Capitalism NO To GO DIRECTLY to an item, eg --------8 of x-------- do a find on --8
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