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From: David Shove (shove001 tc.umn.edu)
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| Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 10:00:18 -0700 (PDT) | |
P R O G R E S S I V E C A L E N D A R 05.20.10 1. Gardening 5.20 4:30pm 2. Eagan peace vigil 5.20 4:30pm 3. Northtown vigil 5.20 5pm 4. Mel Duncan 5.20 5pm 5. Bioneers begins 5.20 6pm 6. Climate/Copenhagen 5.20 7pm 7. Amnesty Intl 5.20 7:15pm 8. Vigil/BP disaster 5.20 8pm 9. Oaxaca massacre 5.21 12noon 10. Palestine vigil 5.21 4:15pm 11. Merriam potluck 5.21 6:30pm 12. NV protest 5.21 6:30pm 13. Andy Hamerlinck - Greens stand with nurses 14. Glenn Greenwald - What explains the anti-establishment sentiment? 15. Mickey Z. - The truth about immigration --------1 of 15-------- From: Annie <annie [at] southsidefamilyschool.org> Subject: Gardening 5.20 4:30pm THURSDAY, MAY 20TH 4:30 TO 6 pm GARDEN GROUNDBREAKING EVENT We want you! Two Ponies Gardens and the Youth Environmental Law Literacy program (YELL) will guide us as we: Measure and mark off the garden space (located on the south side of the building) Test the soil Install a compost bin and learn about compost Plant crops in container Bring tools and your gardening clothes or just bring yourself to cheer us on, and find out how you can be involved. We will give a short history of the garden project and how it fits into the healthy and sustainable goals for our community. See you there, on the south side of Southside! Annie Follett For the Healthy Communities and Garden Committees --------2 of 15-------- From: Greg and Sue Skog <family4peace [at] msn.com> Subject: Eagan peace vigil 5.20 4:30pm PEACE VIGIL EVERY THURSDAY from 4:30-5:30pm on the Northwest corner of Pilot Knob Road and Yankee Doodle Road in Eagan. We have signs and candles. Say "NO to war!" The weekly vigil is sponsored by: Friends south of the river speaking out against war. --------3 of 15-------- From: EKalamboki [at] aol.com Subject: Northtown vigil 5.20 5pm NORTHTOWN Peace Vigil every Thursday 5-6pm, at the intersection of Co. Hwy 10 and University Ave NE (SE corner across from Denny's), in Blaine. Communities situated near the Northtown Mall include: Blaine, Mounds View, New Brighton, Roseville, Shoreview, Arden Hills, Spring Lake Park, Fridley, and Coon Rapids. We'll have extra signs. For more information people can contact Evangelos Kalambokidis by phone or email: (763)574-9615, ekalamboki [at] aol.com. --------4 of 15-------- From: Women Against Military Madness <wamm [at] mtn.org> Subject: Mel Duncan 5.20 5pm A Tribute to Mel Duncan Thursday, May 20, 5:00 p.m. St. Albert's Catholic Church, 2836 33rd Avenue South, Minneapolis. Mel Duncan, former executive director and co-founder Nonviolent Peaceforce with David Hartsough, has moved to a new role as director of outreach. It's time to honor Mel for what he has accomplished and for who he is. We'll celebrate the force for peace that has proven effective under his leadership, and we'll celebrate Mel's birthday as well. Social time at 5:00 p.m. and a dinner at 6:00 p.m. with a program to follow. Share good food, good music, and many stories and memories. Advance reservations are required. FFI and Reservations: Contact Kim Beaulieu, 612-871-0005 (x11) or kbeaulieu [at] nonviolentpeaceforce.org. Sponsored by: The Hartsough-Duncan Founders Circle. --------5 of 15-------- From: biego001 [at] umn.edu Subject: Bioneers begins 5.20 6pm The First 2010 Northland Bioneers Event Introduction to Permaculture: a comprehensive introductory seminar with Bill Wilson Thursday, May 20, 2010 at the Uptown Wellness Center beginning at 6:00p.m. Doors open at 5:30p.m. At the The Exchange Church inside the Uptown Wellness Center 2920 Bryant Avenue South Minneapolis, MN 55408-2195 This event includes: Opening Remarks from the Northland Bioneers Conference Planning Team ~ A short film presentation on Bioneers ~ Permaculture Seminar with Bill Wilson ~ An "Open Space" exercise for practical, local permaculture solutions development Seminar includes: A grounded understanding of what permaculture is, a good idea of where and how it can be applied, some vivid examples of what permaculture can actually accomplish, and where someone can go to find more information on this fascinating subject." More information on this seminar (you can phrase it in any way you prefer or simply place the website. http://www.midwestpermaculture.com/IntroductorySeminar.php About the speaker: Bill Wilson is an educator, communitarian and permaculturist.   Midwest Permaculture, which he started with his wife and partner Rebecca, is known for its excellent trainings. THIS IS A FREE WILL DONATION EVENT IN SUPPORT OF THE 2010 NORTHLAND BIONEERS CONFERENCE. For more information about this event call: (612) 644-3106 --------6 of 15-------- From: Joe Schwartzberg <schwa004 [at] umn.edu> Subject: Climate/Copenhagen 5.20 7pm THIRD THURSDAY GLOBAL ISSUES FORUM CONFRONTING CLIMATE CHANGE: REPORTS FROM COPENHAGEN Thursday, May 20, 7:00 - 9:00 pm. Free and open to the public. Hennepin Avenue United Methodist Church, 511 Groveland Avenue, Minneapolis (at Lyndale & Hennepin). Park in church lot. Neither the limited success of the Copenhagen Climate Conference nor the comfortable cynicism of the "climate deniers" can change the fact that climate change is a very significant challenge. Join two local "climate champions" to dialogue about this issue. They will share their experiences at the Copenhagen conference and discuss what lcal residents can do in the coming months to support climate legislation, energy efficiency and healthy life styles in our communities, Presenters: Paul Thompson and JimNelson Paul is a member of the Edina Energy and Environment Commission, a retired teacher, former Peace Corps volunteer and founder of the blog Cool Planet. In 1989 he won the Sargent Shriver Award for Distinguished Humanitarian Service, given to a retired Peace Corps volunteer whose activities carry on the spirit of the Peace Corps. Paul was very engaged throughout the Copenhagen summit rallying activists. He continues climate work and promoting healthy life styles in his own community and consults with other communities. He is an avid volunteer for many groups including the Will Steger Foundation and 350.org. Jim is a long-time active member of Citizens for Global Solutions. He spent a 42-year career as a finance manager in a number of regional aerospace companies. Currently, he performs market research for Compass Consulting Group helping international companies that produce environmental technologies. He is also Managing Director for a small wholesale plant nursery business. At Copenhagen he spent time with members of several UN Association groups from around the world promoting re-vegetation to help restore climate balance. Jim is especially concerned about the poor and marginalized who are most often negatively impacted by climate change. Sponsors: Minnesota Chapter, Citizens fof Global Solutions; Minnesota Alliance of Peacemakers; United Nations Association of Minnesota; Social Concerns Committee, Hennepin Avenue United Methodist Church --------7 of 15-------- From: Gabe Ormsby <gabeo [at] bitstream.net> Subject: Amnesty Intl 5.20 7:15pm AIUSA Group 315 (Wayzata area) meets Thursday, May 20th, at 7:15 p.m. St. Luke Presbyterian Church, 3121 Groveland School Road, Wayzata (near the intersection of Rt. 101 and Minnetonka Blvd). For further information, contact Richard Bopp at Richard_C_Bopp [at] NatureWorksLLC.com. --------8 of 15-------- From: Christine Frank <christinefrank [at] visi.com> Subject: Vigil/BP disaster 5.20 8pm Vigil for the Gulf oil disaster - May 20 at 8pm, Stone Arch Bridge. Thursday, May 20 marks one month since the tragic Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion ignited one of the worst environmental disasters in U.S. history. Local citizens will mark the date with a Candlelight Vigil to honor the lost lives and livelihoods of the Gulf coast and to demonstrate opposition to another environmental disaster in the making in America's Arctic Ocean, where risky exploratory drilling is set to begin amid swells and sea-ice on July 1. We support the people who are working tirelessly to stop the flow of oil into the Gulf. The disaster response crews are in our thoughts and prayers. The faster we can stop the flow of oil, the less damage our wildlife and coastal communities will face. Like the Gulf Coast, America's Arctic Ocean is a fragile ecosystem that supports abundant, unique wildlife like the beloved polar bear. The Inupiat people have lived off the bounty of this place for thousands of years. Neither the existing technology nor capacity is sufficient to clean up a spill in the Arctic's harsh environment. As the disaster in the Gulf has shown us, drilling is a dirty and dangerous business. President Obama must call for a timeout on new offshore drilling in the Arctic Ocean and around the nation until we can prevent a drilling disaster from happening in America's extremely sensitive ecosystems. Thursday, May 20, 8 p.m. Alaska Wilderness League, YOUR ORGANIZATION, Everyone who wants to join us! Stone Arch Bridge over the Mississippi River - our direct waterway connection to the Gulf of Mexico - 125 Main St SE Mpls MN 55414. Please consider using alternative transportation to join us. The closest Hiawatha Light Rail stop is Government Plaza Station, 352 S. 5th St. Bring candles and message signs if you have them! CONTACT: Lois Norrgard, Alaska Wilderness League, 952-881-7282, lois [at] alaskawild.org --------9 of 15-------- From: Lydia Howell <lydiahowell [at] visi.com> Subject: Oaxaca massacre 5.21 12noon Nick Espinosa wrote: Twin Cities Activists Condemn Oaxaca Paramilitary Massacre* Minnesotans urge calls into the Mexican Consulate to investigate recent paramilitary violence in lead up to a protest// Friday//, May 21, NOON @ Consulate of Mexico, 797 East 7th Street Saint Paul, MN. 55106./ May 17th , Minneapolis--Activists hung a banner over I-35 to protest recent paramilitary attacks in Oaxaca against the autonomous community of San Juan Copala, Mexico. They are asking supporters of human rights to call in to the Mexican consulate this week, leading up to a protest on Friday when community members will deliver a letter demanding the Mexican government investigate the murders. Over the weekend 11 women and children were kidnapped at gunpoint by the paramilitary group UBISORT while trying to bring food and medicine to San Juan Copala. This follows the April 27th UBISORT murder of two human rights observers, Beatrice Cariño and Jyri Jaakkola. About 25 more people who were present at the time of the attack were injured and have continued to receive death threats from UBISORT. These individuals were part of a support and solidarity caravan heading to the autonomous community of San Juan Copala, Oaxaca. The Mexican government is refusing to investigate these murders and is continuing to escalate the suffering to the people in San Juan Copala. Currently, the government is cutting off electricity and water to the community, as well as refusing the entrance of food and teachers. "We as U.S. citizens have the responsibility to hold our own government accountable for the increased militarization of Mexico" Said one organizer. "Since 2008, the U.S. government has used the "war against drugs and organized crime" to justify $1.6 Billion in funding for the Merida Initiative giving weapons, intelligence and training to a repressive regime. There can be no question that U.S. foreign policies are financing the militarization of communities in Oaxaca." The people of San Juan Copala are calling for international solidarity as they fear another paramilitary attack and continue to suffer injustice. These attacks are part of an ongoing governmental campaign of fear and intimidation to the indigenous communities of Oaxaca as they work towards self-determination against the furthering of colonialism in their communities. Contact: Nick Espinosa espinosa.nick [at] gmail.com <mailto:espinosa.nick [at] gmail.com> ### --------10 of 15-------- From: Eric Angell <eric-angell [at] riseup.net> Subject: Palestine vigil 5.21 4:15pm The weekly vigil for the liberation of Palestine continues at the intersection of Snelling and Summit Aves in St. Paul. The Friday demo starts at 4:15 and ends around 5:30. There are usually extra signs available. --------11 of 15-------- From: "Krista Menzel (Merriam Park Neighbors for Peace)" <web [at] MPPeace.org> Subject: Merriam potluck 5.21 6:30pm Friday, May 21, 2010 2010 Merriam Park Neighbors for Peace Potlucks We hold a monthly potluck at a member's home or go out to dinner together - usually on a Friday at 6:30 p.m. Please e-mail info [at] mppeace.org or call Anne at (651) 647-0580 or Krista at (651) 641-7592 for more information. http://www.mppeace.org/events/ --------12 of 15-------- From: Rowley Clan <rowleyclan [at] earthlink.net> Subject: NV protest 5.21 6:30pm Invitation from Barbara and Dick Chadwick: Our good friend, Jasiu Milanowski, a long time Peace activist, is visiting me from Michigan and will be speaking to a group at my home on Friday night, May 21st at 6:30pm. His topic is Non-Violent Protest that works. We will have food and drinks. An RSVP would be nice. Our phone # is 952 445 2425. The address is 9530 Foxford Rd., Chanhassen, MN. --------13 of 15-------- From: Andy Hamerlinck <iamandy [at] riseup.net> Subject: Greens Stand With Nurses Here's a statement from the Green Party of St. Paul on the nurses strike authorization vote last night. I encourage other local units to pass their own resolutions. It's possible that a one-day strike could occur as early as June 1. I'll try to keep folks informed as to when this happens. Greens should be there on the line. This is potentially the largest strike in state history. Andy St. Paul/4th CD -- Green Party Stands With Nurses FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The Green Party of St. Paul stands with the over 12,000 nurses from 14 Twin Cities hospitals that have voted to strike tonight. Nurses are standing up for safe staffing levels, better patient care, and protecting their hard-earned pensions. If hospitals can afford to continue to give huge bonuses to well-paid executives, they can afford to treat their patients and front line workers with dignity and respect. --------14 of 15-------- What Explains the Anti-Establishment Sentiment? by Glenn Greenwald Wednesday, May 19, 2010 Salon.com Common Dreams After last night's election results, there's no doubt that the electorate has contempt for Washington incumbents and the political establishment. Virtually every media account dutifully recites the same storyline -- that these results reflect an "anti-incumbent" mood -- but virtually none of these stories examines the reasons for that "mood." Why do Americans, seemingly regardless of party affiliation or geographic location, despise the political establishment? One reason why media mavens seem reluctant, even unable, to grapple with this question is because it so plainly falls outside their familiar, comfortable narratives. Contrary to efforts earlier this year to depict the problem as one aimed at Democratic incumbents due to the unpopular health care plan and the growing "tea party" movement, Republican voters -- as demonstrated in Florida, Utah, and last night in Kentucky -- clearly hate their own party's leadership at least as much as the animosity directed toward Democratic incumbents. The trend is plainly trans-partisan and trans-ideological, and the establishment political media has a very difficult time understanding or explaining dynamics about which that is true. So extreme is the anger toward the political establishment that not even popular politicians have any impact on it. Despite the fact that he remains quite popular with his state's GOP voters, Mitch McConnell's handpicked candidate was slaughtered in Kentucky by a highly unconventional and establishment-scorned Rand Paul. And just as Massachusetts voters did in December when President Obama traveled there to plead with them to elect Martha Coakley, only for them to reject those pleas and send Scott Brown to the Senate, Democratic voters completely ignored Obama's vigorous support for incumbent Senators Arlen Specter and Blanche Lincoln, sending the former to ignominious defeat after 30 years, and forcing the latter into an extremely difficult run-off with Bill Halter (who was recruited by Accountability Now, an organization I helped found and continue to run). It makes perfect sense that the country loathes the political establishment. Just look at its rancid fruits over the past decade: a devastating war justified by weapons that did not exist; a financial crisis that our Nation's Genuises failed to detect and which its elites caused with lawless and piggish greed; elections that seem increasingly irrelevant in terms of how the Government functions; grotesquely lavish rewards for the worst culprits juxtaposed with miserable unemployment and serious risks of having basic entitlements (Social Security) cut for ordinary Americans; and a Congress that continues to be owned, right out in the open, by the very interests that have caused so much damage. The political establishment is rotten to its core, and the only thing that's surprising is that the citizenry's contempt isn't even more intense than it is. But precisely because that dynamic so clearly transcends Left/Right or Democratic/GOP dichotomies, little effort is expended to understand or explain it. One of the most interesting and important questions is whether this trans-partisan, anti-establishment anger can bring about some cracks in the rigid partisan polarization that serves, more than anything else, to preserve the status quo. Consider, for instance, that Rand Paul's campaign included some serious questioning of the war in Afghanistan and that Sen. Tom Coburn recently threatened to filibuster the $33.5 billion war supplemental spending bill if it isn't independently paid for, combined with the Democrats' realization that they will be forced on their own to fund the endless -- and increasingly ugly -- war in Afghanistan. Or consider the odd spectacle that numerous Republicans are beginning to take the lead in questioning and even objecting to the Obama administration's efforts to further whittle away civil liberties and vest itself with greater unchecked power. It's possible that the pervasive, trans-partisan anger can muddle, even re-arrange, the rigid partisan divisions that prevent citizens of similar interests from working together against the factions that control Washington. One saw that in the alliance between progressives (such as Alan Grayson and Bernie Sanders) and conservatives (such as Ron Paul) that led to the enactment of the Audit the Fed bill, as well as in similar alliances during the Bush years in opposition to the assaults on the Constitution (such as the one forged by Al Gore and Bob Barr). This isn't Broderian bipartisanship where the two parties' mix their policies into a muddled, watered-down mish-mash of nothing for its own sake. It's far more substantive than that: a refusal to allow ordinary citizens to be divided (and thus weakened) along artificial tribal lines, thereby enabling the establishment factions that feed at the Washington trough to maintain their same power in unchallenged form. I'm not particularly optimistic about this possibility. The reality is that the American Right is still the movement of Rush Limbaugh, Fox News, and Sarah Palin, really no different -- despite its "tea party" re-branding -- than what spawned the Bush/Cheney extremism of the last decade. And even Rand Paul, who some are trying to depict as a crusading civil libertarian and anti-war advocate, ran on a platform (as Scott Brown did) of opposing the closing of Guantanamo, the use of civilian trials for accused Terrorists, and the granting of visas to people from numerous Muslim countries. Many of the key ignorant and primitive orthodoxies of modern conservatism are as strong as ever. Other than some (extremely hypocritical and opportunistic) war questioning and some anger over the growing corporate-Government overlap, I have a very hard time looking at the American Right and finding much cause for optimism about any of what's taking place over there. Still, it's hard not to be encouraged by the disgust which the citizenry clearly has for the political establishment regardless of party, as well as the resulting (and increasing) fear and confusion on the part of the political class. This sort of citizenry anger can re-arrange political alignments and explode political orthodoxies in fundamental and unpredictable ways. There is, to be sure, a risk in that, but there is a far greater risk in simply allowing the destructive political status quo to linger in unchanged form for much longer. 2010 Salon.com Glenn Greenwald was previously a constitutional law and civil rights litigator in New York. He is the author of the New York Times Bestselling book "How Would a Patriot Act?," a critique of the Bush administration's use of executive power, released in May 2006. His second book, "A Tragic Legacy", examines the Bush legacy. --------15 of 15-------- The Truth about Immigration by Mickey Z. May 19th, 2010 Dissident Voice Everything negative you've heard about immigration is true. In fact, all the election cycle talk about lazy parasites pouring over borders to leech off another nation's resources doesn't go far enough in explaining the gravity of this ongoing crisis. Scream it from the mountaintops (or at least on your blog): Immigrants are destroying any and all hope of for planetary survival. Illegal aliens are Public Enemy #1. Foreigners are terrorists. If you don.t believe me, just ask any sweatshop worker in, say, Vietnam. The perfidious colonizers I refer to, of course, are the insatiable transnational corporations setting up camp all across the Third World. Whether it be Nike, The Gap, Wal-Mart, or any other taxpayer-subsidized bloodsucker, these crafty illegal aliens can't be stopped by constructing a mere wall. They travel with impunity - on the wings of government subvention and cunning, relentless propaganda. Thanks to decades of conditioning, even the victims of these soulless migrants will voluntarily pay for the right to wear a shirt bearing their corporate logo. One would not be engaging in hyperbole to characterize these illegal invaders as "terrorists". Forget color-coded alerts, staged arrests, and manufactured scares. Put aside those times you were forced to remove your shoes at the airport. As defined at Dictionary.com, "an overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety" and/or an "intense, overpowering fear" characterize brand of the terror I speak of. While the corporate media obscures the real terror and trains its focus on the latest battle between Obama and Osama (or the current villain of the day), the primary conflict on the planet remains unchanged: globalization from above vs. globalization from below. "Immigrants" like the World Trade Organization, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, and transnational corporations are elements of a mutant form of remote control imperialism. The United States doesn't always have to send armies into other countries. It sends in Disney and McDonalds with the (usually) unspoken threat of military force backing them up. Globalization is not intrinsically a bad idea. Mutually beneficial global ties can be essential. As Arundhati Roy sez: "In the present circumstances, I'd say that the only thing worth globalizing is dissent". But perhaps Marx said it best (I mean Groucho, in Monkey Business): "There's my argument: restrict immigration". Mickey Z. is the author of two recent books: Self Defense for Radicals (PM Press) and his second novel, Dear Vito (The Drill Press). ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- - 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 Research almost any topic raised here at: CounterPunch http://counterpunch.org Dissident Voice http://dissidentvoice.org Common Dreams http://commondreams.org Once you're there, do a search on your topic, eg obama drones
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