Mn-prog-events Mailing List: Progressive Calendar 06.01.11

[David Shove (shove001]

             P R O G R E S S I V E   C A L E N D A R   06.01.11
                    abandon the rich in mid-freeway

1. Alliant vigil     6.01 7am
2. Picket Cub        6.01 9:45am
3. Green/Howard      6.01 evening

4. Eagan peace vigil 6.02 4:30pm
5. Northtown vigil   6.02 5pm
6. Cars/capitalism   6.02 6:30pm
7. Palestine film    6.02 7pm

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From: AlliantACTION <alliantaction [at] circlevision.org>
Subject: Alliant vigil 6.01 7am

Join us Wednesday morning, 7-8 am
Now in our 14th year of consecutive Wednesday
morning vigils outside Alliant Techsystems,
7480 Flying Cloud Drive Eden Prairie.
We ask Who Profit$? Who Dies?
directions and lots of info: alliantACTION.org


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From: WAMM <wamm [at] mtn.org>
Subject: Picket Cub 6.01 9:45am

Wednesday, June 1, 2011 at 10:00 a.m. Press Conference outside Cub Foods,
with a picket from 9:45 to noon.

One and 1/2 blocks north of Lake Street on Minnehaha Ave. if coming from
Lake Street, or on 26th Ave. one and 1/2 blocks before Lake Street if
approaching from the north--Minnehaha Ave and 26th Ave. being one in the
same in this area.

Please show your support by attending the Press Conference for day 12 of
the hunger strike for the cleaning workers sub-contracted by this Cub
store (this particular Cub is a franchise of Jerry's in Edina).


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From: Amber Garlan <agarlan [at] hammclinic.org>
Subject: Green/Howard 6.01 6pm?

Green Party candidate Johnny Howard will be door knocking June 1st, 2nd,
and 3rd.  I have volunteered to door knock after work in the evenings.
If you are interested in helping a great Green Party candidate get
elected, contact Johnny Howard and volunteer to door knock.  If you are
interested in door knocking senior high-rises or any other specialty, just
let Johnny know.  If there is a special time of the day or evening that is
good for you, just call Johnny.

I have some information on ways you can find out about Johnny Howard.
Johnny Howard is the Green Party candidate for St. Paul City Council, ward
1.  Every Friday morning from 9:00 to 10:00 he meets and talks to anyone
who has questions at the Golden Thyme Coffee, 921 Selby Avenue, St. Paul.

Johnny's web site is www.johnnyhoward.org<http://www.johnnyhoward.org/>
Phone number is 651 894-3216
Email is johnnyhoward4ward1 [at] yahoo.com<mailto:johnnyhoward4ward1 [at] 
yahoo.com>


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From: Greg and Sue Skog <family4peace [at] msn.com>
Subject: Eagan peace vigil 6.02 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.


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From: EKalamboki [at] aol.com
Subject: Northtown vigil 6.02 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.


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From: "aleric [at] tcq.net" <aleric [at] tcq.net>
Subject: Cars/capitalism 6.02 6:30pm

Stop Signs: Cars and Capitalism on the Road to Economic, Social and
Ecological Decay
Book Launch & Discussion with authors Yves Engler and Bianca Mugyenyi

Thursday, June 2nd
6:30 P.M.
Elliot Park Recreation Center
1000 14th ST E
Minneapolis

Presented by the 5th CD Green Party of Minnesota

In North America, human beings have become enthralled by the automobile: A
quarter of our working lives are spent paying for them; communities fight
each other for the right to build more of them; our cities have been torn
down, remade and planned with their needs as the overriding concern; wars
are fought to keep their fuel tanks filled; songs are written to praise
them; cathedrals are built to worship them.

In Stop Signs: Cars and Capitalism on the Road to Economic, Social and
Ecological Decay, authors Bianca Mugyenyi and Yves Engler argue that the
automobile's ascendance is inextricably linked to capitalism and involved
corporate malfeasance, political intrigue, backroom payoffs, media
manipulation, racism, academic corruption, third world coups, secret
armies, environmental destruction and war. An anti-car, road-trip story,
Stop Signs is a must-read for all those who wish to escape the clutches of
auto domination.

"Mugyenyi and Engler's Stop Signs is at one and the same time an
entertaining, fact-filled anthropological tour of the land of Homo
Automomotivis, and the first all-out global ecological critique of the
American automobile addiction. Not since Jane Holtz Kay's Asphalt Nation
has a book appeared that so clearly exposed the auto-irrationality of the
most car-dependent country on earth." --John Bellamy Foster, editor of
Monthly Review and co-author, The Ecological Rift

Yves Engler has been dubbed "one of the most important voices on the
Canadian Left today" (Briarpatch magazine) and "in the mould of I. F.
Stone" (Globe and Mail). His four previous books have been praised by Noam
Chomsky, Naomi Klein, William Blum and many others.

Bianca Mugyenyi was born in Uganda and spent parts of her youth in
Swaziland, Kenya and England. She is the former chair of the Canadian
Federation of Students - Quebec and has been heavily involved in
campaigns ranging from the struggle for accessible education and
reproductive rights to justice for missing and murdered indigenous
women in Canada. She currently coordinates campaigns and programming
at Concordia's Centre for Gender Advocacy.

For more info:  http://stopsigns.fairtrademedia.com To get in touch
with the authors: (514) 618-2253  or e-mail stopsignsbook [at] gmail.com

- Eric Gilbertson Northeast Minneapolis


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From: Meredith Aby <riot369 [at] GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Palestine film 6.02 7pm

Movie Night:  Frontiers of Dreams & Fears
Thursday, June 2nd @ 7pm @ Walker Library, Hennepin & Lagoon, Minneapolis.

This movie shows a group of Palestinian children confronting the daily
realities of growing up in refugee camps.  Their hopes, fears and growing
activism reflect a new generation of Palestinians living in exile. The
Anti-War Committee is being investigated by the FBI for its support of the
Union of Palestinian Women's Committee's kindergartens.  Come learn more
about the situation for children in Palestine and why the AWC wanted to
help these children surviving and struggling under occupation.  Organized
by the AWC.


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