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33ITEMS 18 NEW 34 NEW LINKS 09MAR2007
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DOMESTIC ISSUES-5
FARMWORKERS-1
AFGHANISTAN-1
IRAQ-11
GITMO & TORTURE-2
PALESTINE-4
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item 1 Eternal Capitol Peace Vigil
Did you resolve to spend at least 2 hours this year in public witness against wars?
http://www.dfalink.com/search_events_re
=item 2 SPRING DISASTER SERVICES TRAINING BLITZ 12/16MAR2007
item 3 Women's Friendship Day Pace Benefit 12MAR2007
item 4 Steve Riley & the Mamou Playboys 12MAR2007
=item 5 DFA Night School, Building Progressive Coalitions 13MAR2007
item 6 Caribbean Dinner / Concert / Auction Extravaganza Benefit for the “Lion Steel”
Leon High School’s Steel Drum Band 13MAR2007
=item 7 FAIR ADOPTION LOBBY DAYS 14/15MAR2007
=item 8 Peace Corps 15MAR2007
item 9 Department of Peace Campaign Presents “The Secret” 16MAR2006
item 10 WeMoon Spirit to have yard sale and musical jam session 17MAR2007
=item 11 Florida Big Bend Green Living & Energy Expo 2007.17MAR2007
=item 12 FOUR YEARS OF WAR - OUT OF IRAQ NOW! 18MAR2007
=item 13 Lee Rivers, Memorial 18MAR2007
=item 14 Holy Smokes Nicaragua Benefit 18MAR2007
item 15 4th Iraq War Anniversary Lake Ella Luminaries 19MAR2007
Tallahasseeans Who Believe It's Time To Come Home
item 16 Florida Planned Parenthood Lobby Days 19/21MAR2007
item 17 Earth Day Open House 20MAR2007/20APR2007
=item 18 "Youth Speak Out" Parent & Youth Summit on Gangs 21MAR2007
item 19 Rally for Democracy in Tallahassee 21MAR2007
item 20 Werkmeister Conference: On the Origin of Species 23-24MAR2007
item 21 Beyond Iraq: Building an Agenda for a Culture of Peace in Florida
2007 Annual Meeting of the Florida Coalition for Peace & Justice 23-24MAR2007
=item 22 Annual Jazz and Blues Festival: Tallahassee Museum of History and Science 24MAR2007
=item 23 Drinking Liberally 23MAR2007
=item 24 Science and Superstition 27MAR2007
=item 25 Amiri Barka 28MAR2007
=item 26 Father Dennis O'Neill 29MAR2007
item 27 Chubby Carrier & the Bayou Swamp Band 30MAR2007
=item 28 Friends of Faust Pirate Fundraising Party 07MAR2007
=item 29 Step It Up - National Day of Climate Action 14APR2007
=item 30 Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW)
=item 31 Earth Day at the Capitol 4/18/2007
item 32 The Great Silent Grandmother Gathering 13MAY2007
item 33 Apalachee Tortoise Newspaper Needs Articles
Local Links
item 1 Environment Florida
Environment Florida is the new home of Florida PIRG's environmental work.
http://www.environmentflorida.org
item 2 Tallahassee Zydeco & Cajun Association page
http://www.mudbugbash.com
item 3 Tallahassee Progressive Center Page with Events
http://www.progressivecenter.org
item 4 Slow Food Tallahassee
http://www.slowfoodtallahassee.org/Dire
item 5 Heart of the Earth Friday Night Move Schedule
http://www.heartoftheearth.org/cale
item 6 WEMOONSPIRT Programs
http://www.wemoonspirit.com/programs1.h
item 7 Apalachee Tortoise
http://www.apalacheetortoise.com
item 8 Tallahassee Democrat's Calender
http://www.tallahassee.com/calenda
item 9 Tallahassee Film Society.
http://www.tallahasseefilms.com/
item 10 Clean Water Network of Florida
http://www.cleanwaternetwork-fl.or
item 11 BBCAT specifically for climate/energy events:
http://www.bbcat.org/calendar.htm
item 12 CPE STUFF
+ VEGAN COOKING CLASS - yup, the class you've all been waiting for is finally here. Learn the Soul veg secretes from the master chefs themselves. Wednesday afternoons (weekly), 3:30 to 5:30 at the International Student Center.
+ Student Farmworker Alliance - Shameless plug here. The SFA crew is working with a national
movement to bring attention to the roll McDonald's plays in farmworker poverty in central Florida. Puppets, zines, and various culture jamming. Meetings Wednesdays at 9pm, Bellamy 004.
CPE Meeting - Please be at the meeting this week.. Thursday night at 7pm in the Micco Room. FMI 954-655-7993.
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item 1 Eternal Capitol Vigil Sunday & Thursday
PLEASE make a commitment to join this public witness against war one Thursday or one
Sunday ONCE A YEAR
Join the Tallahassee Network for Justice and Peace, Veterans for Peace, Vietnam Veterans
Against the War, Military Families Speak Out, Gold Star Families for Peace, Code Pink Sundays 12:30-2:30
Thursdays 4:00-6:00
in front of the Old Capitol, corner of Apalachee Parkway and Monroe Street. Park off Calhoun behind the flag.
"Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction."
--Dick Cheney, August 26, 2002
"Right now, Iraq is expanding and improving facilities that were used for the production of
biological weapons." --George W. Bush, September 12, 2002
"Intelligence leaves no doubt that Iraq continues to possess and conceal lethal weapons."
--George W. Bush, March 18, 2003
"For bureaucratic reasons, we settled on one issue, weapons of mass destruction (as justification
for invading Iraq) because it was the one reason everyone could agree on." --Paul Wolfowitz,
May 28, 2003
"But for those who say we haven't found the banned manufacturing devices or banned weapons, they're wrong, we found them.." --George W. Bush, May 30, 2003
"Five days or five weeks or five months, but it certainly isn't going to last any longer than that."
"I don't do quagmires." D Rumsfeld
"Weeks rather than months." D Cheney
"I can't tell you how many days or weeks. But by historical standards, this will be a short war." R Pearle
The War Built On Lies:
THEY LIED TO US THEN THEY'RE LYING TO US NOW
BUSH LIED; CHENEY LIED; RUMSFELD LIED; POWELL LIED; THEY ARE ALL LIARS;
AND THEY THINK YOU ARE TOO DUMB TO KNOW THE DIFFERENCE. BUSH LIES -
PEOPLE DIE
Sundays 12:30 to 2:30.
Thursdays 4:00 to 6:00
=item 2 SPRING DISASTER SERVICES TRAINING BLITZ 12/16MAR2007
The Capital Area Chapter of the American Red Cross is in need of volunteers
to serve their community in time of disasters.
Beginning on March 12 and running until March 16, the chapter will be
facilitating its SPRING DISASTER SERVICES TRAINING BLITZ at the Tallahassee
Police Department's Training Center located in the Tallahassee Mall.
For additional information on the training blitz and to register to
participate please visit the following web site:
http://redcross.tallytown.com/forms/vol
item 3 Women's Friendship Day Pace Benefit 12MAR2007
March 12th, Women's Friendship Day - Ten Thousand Villages (a non-profit store) in Market
Square is hosting a Women's Friendship Day. Entertainment and chair massages while you shop!
10% of proceeds to benefit the PACE Center for Girls.
Lindsey Billesbach <lzmarie15@yahoo.com>
item 4 Steve Riley & the Mamou Playboys 12MAR2007
Mon. Mar. 12 Steve Riley & the Mamou Playboys
8-11 pm
Wilson's BBQ & Soul Food Cuisine
325 N. Bronough St.; 575-3554
(across from the round Holiday Inn on West Tennessee St.)
Cost: $20 public ($15 for TAZACA members; $10 for students)
http://www.mamouplayboys.com
zydeco-jan@comcast.net
=item 5 DFA Night School, Building Progressive Coalitions 13MAR2007
http://www.dfalink.com/event.php?id=183
Coalition building is central to expanding the progressive movement and the impact of effective action. Every day organizations across the country combine their resources to fight to end the Iraq War, eliminate poverty or provide universal health care.
DFA Night School is our interactive, online training program. In this session, we will discuss strategies to build progressive coalitions in order to gain influence with elected officials. There are lots of groups out there doing good work. SEIU Organizer Ben Monterroso will join us for a session on how can we build coalitions so that these groups are working in concert with each other instead of competing.
The workshop will start at 8:30pm Eastern Time and continue for approximately one hour. It will consist of a conference call with an accompanying downloadable slideshow which you can save to your computer in advance
Building Progressive Coalitions
Tuesday March 13th - 8:30pm Eastern Standard Time
RSVP
http://www.dfalink.com/event.php?id=183
item 6 Caribbean Dinner / Concert / Auction Extravaganza Benefit for the “Lion Steel”
Leon High School’s Steel Drum Band 13MAR2007
Caribbean Dinner / Concert / Auction Extravaganza
Steel Drum Band (Leon High School's "Lion Steel")
This is a fundraiser for the High School Steel Drum Band so they can replace ailing old instruments.
Leon High School Cafeteria
Tuesday, March 13th at 6:00pm
Tickets $15.00 per person
Tickets available from the Leon Steel Drum Music Director. Call the High School at 488-1971 and ask to speak with or leave a voice message for David Knapp. Sell out likely so we can only say that there may be tickets available at the door.
Food by The Black Bean Cuban Cuisine, Parents of Leon Steel Drum Students, and Adult Steel Drum Class Students
Performances by Lion Steel Band and small ensembles
With an auction of retired steel drums converted into art
FMI
Ed Oaksford <etoaksford@earthlink.net>
=item 7 FAIR ADOPTION LOBBY DAYS 14/15MAR2007
FAIR ADOPTION LOBBY DAYS 2007 - March 14 and 15
Equality Florida and the Coalition for Fair Adoption will be in Tallahassee for our Second Annual Fair Adoption Lobby Days.
Help us ensure that legislators know how important it is to consider "the best interest of the child" as the only factor in making adoption decisions.
Register today and arrive in Tallahassee on March 14th and 15th for two days of lobbying our lawmakers. Come share your story about how your family is impacted by Florida's current ban on
adoption by gay and lesbian prospective parents.
RSVP:
http://ga4.org/ct/w7SW_5p1Vz7J/adop
=item 8 Peace Corps 15MAR2007
Come hear regional recruiter and returned Peace Corps volunteer
Debbie Curley share her experience from Cameroon and tell you more about how you can sign up for a unique adventure while you gain job experience and help others all at the same time!
TALLAHASSEE
Thursday, March 15
3:00 - 4:00pm - GlobeTalk: Peace Corps and Civic Engagement
Student Services Building Room 311D – Florida State University
Hosted by FSUs Center for Civic Education and Service.
6:30 - 7:30pm
GlobeTalk - Tallahassee Progressive Center
1720 S Gadsden St.; Tallahassee 32301
www.tallprogcen.com
FMI Debbie Curley at dcurley@peacecorps.gov or 404.562.3477.
item 9 Department of Peace Campaign Presents “The Secret” 16MAR2006
Dinner will be for sale thanks to Taste Buds starting at 6:00 and the movie begins at 7:30. All
proceeds from dinner will go towards the Department of Peace Campaign. Please plan on joining the fun and bring a friend. If you haven't seen The Secret - you are in for a treat. Also, everyone knows you can't go wrong with food from Taste
http://www.tallahassee.com/apps/pbcs.dl
Unitarian Universalist Church - 2810 Meridian Road.
Cindy Landis Bigbie, Ph.D.
OPI@tallynet.com
item 10 WeMoon Spirit to have yard sale and musical jam session 17MAR2007
On 17 March 2007 WeMoon Spirit will change its luck with a rent party consisting of a
yard sale and musical jam session. The yard sale is from 8AM-1PM. The music will start at 1PM.
WeMoon is located at 1816 Mahan Drive between Mahan Preschool and the United
Church in Tallahassee.
WeMoon Spirit is a non profit organization that is devoted to the growth of all women,
physically, emotionally, and spiritually. It hosts classes including dance, Chinese meditation, and yoga, and encourages women to express themselves as students and teachers.
On Saturday, 17 March, we invite you to come to our yard sale, where you will find
gently experienced items, from clothing to cookware. Those of you who are interested in having a space should call Janis David at (850) 251-2192..The cost per space is $10.
Throughout the morning and early afternoon there will be dancers and jugglers for your
entertainment. There will be food, drink, and a bake sale. If you want to bring something for the bake sale, please contact Amy X at yellowcauldron@yahoo.co.uk.
At 1PM attention will turn toward WeMoon's main building, the Oasis, where all will be
welcome to join in for a musical jam session. All musicians are welcome, no matter what level of expertise. All who enjoy music are welcome.
.
Throughout the day, WeMoon will be asking for contributions to help us raise funds to run the organization. This is our fund raiser to collect funds that will help us pay our rent and
utilities. All donations great and small will be greatly appreciated.
FMI
Jan Rosenberg 580-9889 or
Sandi Lodge
spiralwoman@hotmail.com
item 11 Florida Big Bend Green Living & Energy Expo 2007.17MAR2007
Florida Big Bend Green Living & Energy Expo 2007. Riversprings Middle School,
Crawfordville. Discover hundreds of products and services that promote sustainability. Over 20
workshops, over 50 exhibitors, kids' activities, music, food, art, silent auction, door prizes. Get
tips on how to make your home energy efficient. Check out latest in hybrid and alternative
vehicles. Learn how organic foods can make a difference for your family.
8am-5pm. 17MAR2007
http://www.greenlivingenergyexpo.co
Free admission.
850-926- 3931.
=item 12 FOUR YEARS OF WAR - OUT OF IRAQ NOW!
and "DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT BOMBING IRAN" RALLY 18MAR2007
Please join CODEPINK Tallahassee, Tallahassee Network for Justice and Peace, Veterans for Peace, Vietnam Veterans Against the War, Military Families Speak Out, Gold Star Families for Peace, for the
FOUR YEARS OF WAR - OUT OF IRAQ NOW!
and "DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT BOMBING IRAN" RALLY
Sunday, March 18, 2007
12:30 PM - 3:00 PM
The Old Capitol Building
Apalachee Parkway and Monroe Street
Bring props, banners, signs and street theater. Come to rally in solidarity with hundreds of thousands of people around the world who want to end this war. It's more important than ever to show our constituents that we are ANGRY and we are ORGANIZING. Hope to see you there.
=item 13 Lee Rivers, Memorial 18MAR2007
Lee Rivers, beloved husband of Audrey, was a longtime opponent of the death penalty and a faithful member of our organization. After Lee died last August, TCADP arranged to have a tree planted to honor his memory. The tree, a flowering cherry, now stands in McCarty Park, on Park Avenue between Adams and Duval Streets. (McCarty Park is the median strip of Park Avenue that runs alongside First Presbyterian and Trinity United Methodist Churches.)
On Sunday, March 18, at 12:30 p.m., we will dedicate the tree. I invite you to join us at the tree at that time for a simple ceremony of 15-20 minutes, and encourage you to help get the word to any others who might like to attend.
William Moore
<wl_moore@comcast.net>
=item 14 Holy Smokes Nicaragua Benefit 18MAR2007
On Sunday March 18th, Cabos Will Be Closed To The Public At 2pm - After Brunch. Cabos Will Be Hosting A Fund raiser For Pam & Bobby's Ministry - Holy Smokes Nicaragua - At 6:30 Pm. They Work With Extremely Poor Children Who Live In The Managua Dump (la Chureca) And Are Raising Money To Build A Portable Smoker/cooker Capable Of Feeding 300-400 Kids.
We Are Hosting A Traditional Nicaraguan Meal With Items From Around The Country, Followed By A Short Presentation And Dessert With Real Nicaraguan Coffee (also Available For Sale).
Tickets Are $20.00 Per Person And Are Available In The Restaurant Or By Emailing Bobby At Sundance@holysmokesnicaragua.org
or Www.holysmokesnicaragua.org
Tickets Are Limited And On A First Come Basis.
This Is A Really Worthy Cause And Your Support Would Be Very Much Appreciated.
Thank You & God Bless,
Bobby And Pam Staerker
Cabos website, go to the link below.
http://www.cabosgrill.com
item 15 4th Iraq War Anniversary Lake Ella Luminaries 19MAR2007
Tallahasseeans Who Believe It's Time To Come Home
The event will be from 7 to 9 p.m. We will probably start placing the bags around noon on
Monday. I want to be done early so that we can get on the 6 o'clock news. We will begin lighting the luminaries at 6 p.m. Sunset is around 7:30. At 9 p.m. we will start cleaning up.
Tallahasseeans Who Believe It's Time To Come Home will encircle Lake Ella with 3200
+/- Luminaries, Monday, March 19.
If you would like to get involved contact:
Su Ecenia
secenia@comcast.net
668-2755 / 545-3869
item 16 Florida Planned Parenthood Lobby Days 19/21MAR2007
March 19th - 21st, 2007
As we begin a new year and prepare for the 2007 Legislative Session, we wanted to urge all of our activists and supporters to participate in the 2007 Florida Planned Parenthood Lobby Days
in Tallahassee, Florida from March 19th through the 21st!
We will be meeting with Legislators about our pro-active bills - The Prevention First Act
and the Parent's Right to Know Act, holding press conferences, and urging the new leadership in the Legislature to stand up for women's health.
This year's Lobby Days will be bigger and better than ever before!
FMISign up to attend Lobby Days now! Just send an email to Planned Parenthood
helen.strain@fappa.org
Visit the web address below to tell your friends about this.
http://www.ppaction.org/join-forward.ht
If you received this message from a friend, you can sign up for Florida Association of Planned
Parenthood Affiliates at:
http://www.ppaction.org/FAPPA/join.h
item 17 Earth Day Open House 20MAR2007/20APR2007
Join Integrative Healthcare for Earth Day Open House Events at our New Location!
Tuesday, March 20th 11:00-2:00 (the official UN Earth Day) and Friday, April 20th 3:00-5:00 PM (Official US Earth Day is April 22nd). Both events will feature healthy snacks, tour of our
services, drawing for prizes, seated massage, Acupressure (EFT) group teaching sessions, an
exhibit of Mandalas and much more.
This is our new address: 2016 Delta Blvd., Suite 100, Tallahassee, FL 32303,
located on the north side of town one block off John Knox Rd. between N. Meridian and the
Tallahassee Mall.
IHC will now be open 5 days a week!
In response to your requests we will be open Monday, Wednesday, and Friday 8:30 5:00
(closed 12:30-2:00 for lunch), and now we will add Tuesday and Thursday 12:30 4:30 with
"EB" Borger, Nurse Practitioner.
=item 18 "Youth Speak Out" Parent & Youth Summit on Gangs 21MAR2007
Students, Parents and Community activists have joined forces to conduct a "Youth Speak Out" Parent & Youth Summit on Wednesday, March 21, 2007 to discuss how parents and youth can possibly solve potential gang problems in the community, in their homes and in our schools. This event will be hosted by the Walker Ford Community Center's Advisory Board, with Lawrence
Chatman, chairman. This open to the community. Refreshments will be served..
FMI Anita Davis
anitald@earthlink.net
item 19 Rally for Democracy in Tallahassee 21MAR2007
Rally For Democracy
Wednesday, March 21, 2007, 3-5PM
Old State Capitol
Monroe Street at Apalachee Parkway
Tell Lawmakers you want a verifiable audit trail to protect your vote and preserve our Democracy! Five Cities Democratic Club of Volusia County is sponsoring a rally to sway the debate in Tallahassee. Please forward this email to your lists.
We are looking for co-sponsors to help defray the costs of the public address system.
All public officials are invited.
Contact Info:
Charley Wiggins: (386) 424-0605
Danielle Neetz: (386) 295-7513
or email Charley at: cww295@cfl.rr.com
item 20 Werkmeister Conference: On the Origin of Species 23-24MAR2007
http://tinyurl.com/yocxel
Werkmeister Conference: On the Origin of Species
(Sponsored by the William H. and Lucyle T. Werkmeister Endowment Fund) March 23-24, 2007
Conference Theme:
150 Years on the Origin of Species (see announcement at
http://www.fsu.edu/~philo/new%20site/su
The Origin of Species by the English naturalist Charles Darwin is one of the most important
scientific books ever written. First published in 1859, its 150th anniversary will be in 2009, the
year in which we will also celebrate the 200th anniversary of Darwin's birth. This year's Werkmeister Conference on the Origin of Species will lay the foundation for the Cambridge
Companion to the Origin of Species, to be edited by Robert J. Richards and Michael Ruse.
Participants will be presenting first drafts of the papers to be included in the Companion,
and this is reflected not only in the excellence and qualifications of the participants, but also in the broad scope of the material, looking in detail at all parts of the Origin, as well as at pertinent
external questions from rhetoric to religion and on to the very nature of the various editions of the great work.
item 21 Beyond Iraq: Building an Agenda for a Culture of Peace in Florida
2007 Annual Meeting of the Florida Coalition for Peace & Justice 23-24MAR2007
Friday & Saturday, March 23-24
Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, Florida
Pre-registration is STRONGLY RECOMMENDED
Registration Fees are as follows: (if you are not a current member of FCPJ, please add $5.00)
Friday night only: $15 (includes Peacemaker Reception)
Saturday only: $25 (includes Saturday Lunch)
Friday and Saturday: $35 (includes Peacemaker Reception and Saturday Lunch)
FMI
bob@fcpj.org
http://tinyurl.com/2w79k2
http://tinyurl.com/ypnupw
=item 22 Annual Jazz and Blues Festival: Tallahassee Museum of History and Science 24MAR2007
The Annual Jazz and Blues Festival begins Saturday, March 24th at the Tallahassee Museum of History and Science (those of us who have been around for a while know it at the Junior Museum), starting at 11:00 AM. For fifteen consecutive years, the Tallahassee Museum has produced the Tallahassee Jazz & Blues Festival. For one weekend each spring, the main stage at the Museum comes alive with the hottest jazz, swing, Dixieland, Zydeco, R & B, and traditional and contemporary blues available to audiences in North Florida. This Festival provides a unique venue to share and experience the varied musical forms and rhythms of musical expression which have evolved from the “Heart and Soul of America.”
The Royal Garden Dixieland Band plays at 12:00 noon, and it would be great if all of our friends and fans would show up for this event. It's a fund raiser for the museum and it’s a really good cause with only a nominal fee to enter the grounds. They also serve their pioneer breakfast from 7 to 11 and you get a lot to eat.
=item 23 Drinking Liberally 23MAR2007
Drinking Liberally, Tallahassee Chapter, continues to meet in March on the second (7:30 pm) and fourth (8:00 pm) Saturdays at Black Dog Cafe on Lake Ella.
FMI
Kim O'Connor, generalklarc@yahoo.com - 576-8107 and Ben Dyckman - oog1101@aol.com -- 877-8282: for more information on 4th Saturday meeting, March 24, contact co-hosts George Phillippy, gphillippy@yahoo.com -- 841-1764 and Ben Dyckman - oog1101@aol.com --877-8282.
Drinking Liberally (http://drinkingliberally.org)
=item 24 Science and Superstition 27MAR2007
EDDIE TABASH is a constitutional lawyer in Beverly Hills, California. UCLA, magna cum laude, 1973; Loyola Law School of Los Angeles, 1976; American Atheists, life member. Council for Secular Humanism, Board of Directors. His topics for public speeches and debates include the separation of church and state and the question of the existence of God.
Leon Country Library, March 27th, 6 to 8:45 P.M.
FMI MiMi Stangel
mimimeredith@hotmail.com
or 850-386-2813]
=item 25 Amiri Barka 28MAR2007
Amiri Barka speaks at CPE’s Black Power Week.
http://www.amiribaraka.com/bio.html
8:00 pm 28 March 2007
Union Ballroom
FMI
sgacpe@admin.fsu.edu
=item 26 Father Dennis O'Neill 29MAR2007
First a preview of a coming attraction. On the evening of Thursday, March 29, TCADP will sponsor a talk by Father Dennis O'Neill, a man with a unique story to tell. Dennis O'Neill was the warden at the state prison at Starke, where some of Florida's Death Row prisoners are housed. He then changed careers, enrolled in a seminary, and became an Episcopal priest. Now he is back in Starke, serving as rector of St. Mark's Episcopal Church. He is also an opponent of the death penalty.
Fr. Dennis will speak at Holy Comforter Episcopal Church. Stay tuned for more information, and mark your calendar now.
Second, I invite you to visit our website, www.tcadp.net, to follow developments related to the Governor's Commission on the Administration of Lethal Injection. The most recent item you will find there is TCADP's press release in response to the Commission's final report. The final report itself can be found at www.fadp.org.
FMI William Moore
wl_moore@comcast.net
item 27 Chubby Carrier & the Bayou Swamp Band 30MAR2007
Fri. March 30 Chubby Carrier & the Bayou Swamp Band
BBC http://www.bradfordvilleblues.com
9:30 pm until
Cost: $12 in advance; $15 day of show ($12 for TAZACA members at the door)
FMI
zydeco-jan@comcast.net
=item 28 Friends of Faust Pirate Fundraising Party 07MAR2007
April is coming....and that means much activity in Faustlandia. For those of you wanting to cut ahead in the line for tickets to our spring cabaret, "An Inconvenient Faust", you'll want to get out to our Splendid Friends of Faust pirate fundraising party on Saturday, April 7th!
It's an evening of food, drink, music, merriment....and sneak previews of what's to come in the cabaret (shows are April 13-14, 20-22). And this will be your chance to purchase advance tickets!!
Save the date: Saturday, April 7th!! A more formal and detailed message will be forthcoming!!
=item 29 Step It Up - National Day of Climate Action 14APR2007
This April 14th, tens of thousands of Americans will gather all across the country at meaningful, iconic places to call for action on climate change. Heart of the Earth and other local groups are planning local events in support of this effort. Stay tuned for more details. (We're planning a fun activity!) You can visit the website below to see events planned all around the country.
http://www.stepitup2007.org/
Phone: (850) 561-1466
E-mail: info@heartoftheearth.org
=item 30 Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW).
CIW tour will be stopping Tallahassee Monday 4/16 to Tuesday 4/17
http://www.ciw-online.org/
http://www.allianceforfairfood.org/
http://www.sfalliance.org/
=item 31 Earth Day at the Capitol
4/18/2007 9:00 a.m.- 4:00 p.m.
Department of Environmental Protection
Florida's capitol building courtyard
Earth Day at the Capitol is held in the courtyard of Florida's Capitol Building in beautiful downtown Tallahassee. This year's celebration will be held in conjunction with Oceans Day and promises to be a fun, information-filled event. Teachers, we encourage you to bring your students.
Jennifer Oetting
850-245-2906
Jennifer.Oetting@dep.state.fl.us
=item 32 The Great Silent Grandmother Gathering 13MAY2007
The women of Ohio, U.S.A., call upon the women of the world, from day-old babies to
our most senior elders, to stand with us on May 13, 2007, to save the world. Our project is based on Sharon Mehdi's book The Great Silent Grandmother Gathering. If you don't know the story, a summary of the original version is on the website
www.standingwomen.org
If you think it is appropriate, please send this message on to all of the women throughout
the world who you think might like to join us. We will be standing for the world's children and
grandchildren, and for the seven generations beyond them.
We dream of a world where all of our children have safe drinking water, clean air to breathe, and enough food to eat. A world where they have access to a basic education to develop their minds and healthcare to nurture their growing bodies. A world where they have a warm, safe, and loving place to call home. A world where they don't live in fear of violence--in their home, in their neighborhood, in their school, or in their world. This is the world of which we dream. This is the cause for which we will stand.
If you share this dream, please stand with us for five minutes of silence at 1 p.m. your local time on May 13, 2007, in your local park, school yard, gathering place, or any place you deem appropriate, to signify your agreement with this statement. We ask you to invite the men and boys who you care about to join you. We ask that you bring bells to ring at 1 p.m. to signify the beginning of the five minutes of silence and to ring again to signify the end of the period of
silence.
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LINKS OF INTERST
DOMESTIC ISSUES-5
FARMWORKERS-1
AFGHANISTAN-1
IRAQ-11
GITMO & TORTURE-2
PALESTINE-4
WOMEN -12
DOMESTIC ISSUES
1]
Rep. C.W. Bill Young (R-FL) says he told Army of care lapses at Walter Reed, but didn't go
public because he "did not want to undermine the confidence of the patients and their families
and give the Army a black eye while fighting a war." The Black Eye Belongs to the Busheviks,
not the Army 4/9
http://public.cq.com/docs/cqt/news110-0
2]
Global Realignment and the Decline of the Superpower
By Mike Whitney
The truth is there's a straight line from the founding of this country to the killing fields of
Baghdad. That line may be interrupted by periods of enlightenment and peace, but it is still an
unbroken stripe from the Continental Congress to Abu Ghraib, from Bunker Hill to Falluja, from
Valley Forge to Guantanamo Bay. It all grows from the same root.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.inf
3]
The Great Moral Issues of Our Time
By David Michael Green
You liberals, though - you're hopeless. You keep thinking that hundreds of thousands of deaths
from war and genocide are more important than dudes marrying other dudes. You keep thinking
that preserving democracy is more important than preventing premarital sex. You keep thinking
that saving the planet is more crucial than discouraging masturbation.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.inf
4]
Lost In The Lust Of The Werewolves
Sometimes I wonder if Americans are unaware of the malicious devastation the Bush
administration is wreaking upon this good earth and its inhabitants, or if they just don't give a
damn.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.inf
5]
A Barack-star no more:
Barack Obama used to inspire nothing but sympathy and affection. But recently he's given
pandering a bad name.
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/ian
FARMWORKERS
1]
Well, your search is over! You can find all the Facts and Figures on farmworker wages, working conditions, modern-day slavery, and even a "day in the life" of a farmworker in Immokalee at the CIW website. Go to http://www.ciw-online.org/news.htm
you'll have it handy to email, print, and share with friends to help spread the word of the Campaign for Fair Food.
In the same vein, we've put together another document, now available on the site as well, that brings together all the key elements of analysis and supporting materials behind the Campaign. This "Campaign Analysis" piece lays out the role of the fast-food industry in farmworker poverty, the elements of the agreement with Taco Bell, McDonald's efforts to undermine the gains won in the Taco Bell agreement, the consequences of McD's actions since 2005, and more in one handy 4-pg document. To download your copy now, go to
http://www.ciw-online.org/news.htm
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AFGHANISTAN
1]
US military blamed for Afghan civilian deaths
President Karzai calls for an investigation, as journalists accuse US troops of deleting images of
the aftermath of one deadly attack.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0306/p99s
IRAQ
1
Tom Engelhardt reviews what we know about waste and w.ar in Iraq
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/03070
2
Real threat to Christianity drags on in Iraq
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/p
3
IRAQ: Only reconciliation can stop sectarian strife
BAGHDAD, 8 March (IRIN) - Despite a three-week-old Baghdad security plan that aims to
ensure the country's security and stability, sectarian violence has shown no signs of abating and is
likely to increase, analysts.
Http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?Repo
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The benefits of U.S.-style democracy
Imad Allo, Azzaman
The achievements of U.S.-style democracy which the current U.S. administration has tried to apply in Iraq are numerous. The benefits Iraqis have gained from these achievements have prompted the administration to try and spread them throughout the Middle East, taking Iraq as a small experiment. And here are a few examples of these achievements
and their advantages in case you have not yet heard of them or have not experienced them for the bad luck of not being able to live in Iraq. The U.S. democracy has interrupted power supplies and caused chronic fuel shortages. Iraqis have given up even dreaming of going on a picnic to their once beautiful tourist spots like the Habaniya Lake or the ancient Akarkouf. Iraqis now dread to go to the cinema - if there any cinemas left in the country. Eating out is a dream of the past and taking the children for an outing is unthinkable. Under the U.S. democracy in Iraq you must be a prisoner of your own house or you risk being killed, injured or kidnapped. Even staying home is no longer safe. It is very likely for unidentified gunmen to storm your house in the middle of the night or in broad day light. Millions of Iraqis are now on holiday in Syria or Jordan, spending the extra foreign cash they have been earning due to massive U.S. reconstruction works...
http://www.uruknet.de/?p=31177
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Who Gave America the Right?
Mohammed Theib Al-Hamidani ( Al Medina, Saudi Arabia ), Translated By Andy Allred,
It can no longer be hidden: The extreme surge in America's global military power is
suppressing heads of state who stick their necks out to expose facts and lay bare the truth.
As this goes against its wishes, America alleges various pretexts to pursue its policies. But the
question here is, who granted America the right to be international judge, prosecutor, and
executioner in the name of its own self-preservation? And who granted America the right to
label all of its enemies as terrorists and reactionaries?...
http://www.uruknet.de/?p=31178
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"Imperial Life In The Emerald City": Origins Of The Iraq Disaster
Taking the U.S. into war with Iraq was disastrous, of course, but the Occupation errors made
every day after that just added to the growth of the insurgency. Washington Post reporter Rajiv
Chandrasekaran lays out the gruesome details
http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne
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Iraq refugee: 'I feel disaster' as crisis grows 07 Mar 2007 The United Nations
estimates 700,000 Iraqis have fled to Jordan -- more than one-tenth the entire kingdom's
population. As many as 1 million more Iraqis are estimated to have sought refuge in Syria,
about 120,000 are in Egypt and 40,000 in Lebanon, according to the United Nations. Inside
Iraq, another 1 million to 2 million people have been forced out of their homes as a result of
the violence, according to the United Nations.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meas
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Count the Quagmires
Anybody who thought this was going to be an "easy war," please raise your hand.
By now, the horror and scandal have exceeded the expectations of even the harshest critics of the
invasion mine, for instance and I numbly play Count the Quagmires along with the rest of
the media and general public. The latest one has burst into national awareness with a piercing
"what's next, for God's sake?"
http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne
9
Sidney Blumenthal: Libby lied, troops died:
The Scooter Libby verdict is inextricably linked to Iraq: his lies were an attempt to cover up the
disingenuous case for war.
http://snipurl.com/1cbf4
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Tom Engelhardt | Hostages to Policy
Have you ever been discussing the Campaign for Fair Food with a friend
when you suddenly need a quick reference on farmworker poverty, or how
many slavery cases have been discovered in Florida's fields in recent
years, and you can't find it?
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The Last Hot-button Issue for the Bush
Adminstration
1Hostages to Policy
What We Know About Waste and War in Iraq
By Tom Engelhardt
Let's start with the obvious waste. We know that hundreds of thousands of Iraqis have lost their
lives since the Bush administration invaded their country in March 2003, that almost two million
may have fled to other countries, and that possibly millions more have been displaced from their
homes in ethnic-cleansing campaigns. We also know that an estimated 4.5 million Iraqi children
are now malnourished and that this is but "the tip of the iceberg" in a country where diets are
generally deteriorating, while children are dying of preventable diseases in significant numbers;
that the Iraqi economy is in ruins and its oil industry functioning at levels significantly below its
worst moments in Saddam Hussein's day -- and that! there is no end in sight for any of this.
http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.m
GITMO & TORTURE
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Guantanamo defense lawyer threatened with charges of `contemptuous words':
The Pentagon-appointed lawyer for Australia's sole inmate at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, said
yesterday a chief US prosecutor threatened him with charges that could slow his client's case
from going to trial.
http://snipurl.com/1c8i9
2
Guantanamo Is Not a Prison
11 Ways to Report on Gitmo without Upsetting the Pentagon
By Karen J. Greenberg
Several weeks ago, I took the infamous media tour of the facilities at Guantanamo. From the
moment I arrived on a dilapidated Air Sunshine plane to the time I boarded it heading home, I
had no doubt that I was on a foreign planet or, at the very least, visiting an impeccably
constructed movie set. Along with two European colleagues, I was treated to two-days-plus of a
military-tour schedule packed with site visits and interviews (none with actual prisoners)
designed to "make transparent" the base, its facilities, and its manifold contributions to our
country's national security.
http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.m
PALESTINE
1
Hamas to offer Israel truce for boycott lift :
Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) has expressed willingness of offering
ceasefire with Israel in exchange for the lift of boycott on the new Palestinian unity government,
Israeli daily Ha'aretz reported on Wednesday
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2
2
LIVE FROM PALESTINE~~ OUR CHILDREN ARE STARVING
Desert Peace
"The wall was built to prevent 'terrorists' from entering Israel. The wall was built to control the
passage of who is allowed in."The wall was built to imprison the entire nation of Palestine and
slowly starve them to death.
And Obama and Clinton don't give a damn..... THIS article from Christian Science Monitor speaks
of the food shortages....
http://www.uruknet.de/?p=31188
3
Israeli soliders used children as 'human shields'
IDF says it will 'thoroughly' investigate allegations by Israeli human rights group.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0309/p99s
4
Palestinians see growing food shortages
The World Food Programme has boosted the number of beneficiaries by 25 percent in an effort
to stave off 'food insecurity.' By Joshua Mitnick
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0307/p06s
1
The private war of women soldiers "The knife wasn't for the Iraqis," says one woman. "It was for
the guys on my own side."
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2
2
Washington trembles as madam threatens to sell phone records
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/stor
3
Killings drive women to become suicide bombers:
Um Abdallah, 41, has a difficult task ahead of her - she has to learn how to use a gun and begin
preparing for a day she believes is going to be one of God's forgiveness and revenge against
foreign forces occupying her country.
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db9
4
YEMEN: Eight women die giving birth every day
SANAA, 8 March (IRIN) - A radical proposal by Yemen's Supreme Council for Motherhood and
Childhood (SCMC) to raise the legal age of marriage to 18 could see the country's high maternal
mortality rate drop drastically, its supporters
Http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?Repo
5
IRAQ: Kurdish women struggle to advance
SULEIMANIYAH, 9 March (IRIN) - Women in Iraq's Kurdistan are using the relative calm in
their region to make slow progress towards equal status with men - but there is still a long way to
go, according to activists.
Http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?Repo
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Women's lives unraveling in Iraq
Mithre J. Sandrasagra, IPS
Amid the chaos and violence of U.S.-occupied Iraq, the significance of widespread gender-
based violence has been largely overlooked, according to a groundbreaking report released
here by MADRE, an internationally active women's human rights organization. Iraqi women
are enduring unprecedented levels of assault in the public sphere, including widespread
abductions, public beatings, death threats, sexual assaults, honor killings, domestic abuse,
torture in detention, beheadings, shootings and public hangings, said the report titled
"Promising Democracy, Imposing Theocracy: Gender-Based Violence and the U.S. War on Iraq"
(...) Women have been systematically attacked by theocratic militias on both sides of the
sectarian divide, but the most widespread violence has been committed by the Shi'a militias
affiliated with the U.S.-backed government the Badr Brigade and Mahdi Army, according to
Susskind...
http://www.uruknet.de/?p=31258
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The Violence Against Women Act: The Fast Food Of Law
Our domestic abuse support systems seem to be supporting everyone, except the severely abused.
http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne
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Iraq's Civil War Leaves Women Marginalized and at Risk
Iraq's sectarian war, which followed decades of repression and economic sanctions, has left the
country's women marginalized, afraid and prey to increasingly radical ideological factions. As
activists around the world mark International Women's Day, war-weary women in Iraq face
worsening conditions.
http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/03080
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AFGHANISTAN: Women's hopes for equality fade
TAKHAR, 8 March (IRIN) - Hopes among Afghan women for a better future are waning as the
violence against them continues. Women's rights have fallen down the agenda behind countering
a growing insurgency, tackling opium production and confronting endemic corruption.
Http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?Repo
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Making Women's Health an International Priority
By Lucinda Marshall, AlterNet
It has been said that the health of a society is measured by how it treats its women. Judging from
global statistics, it is safe to say that society is in crisis.
http://www.alternet.org/rights/489
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Message To Jenna Bush: The Congolese Children Have No Hope As They Are Raped
As we all know the use of condoms is the best way to stop the transmission of HIV and AIDS.
One wonders if Jenna Bush through her internship has promoted the use of this birth control
measure. If so, the religious evangelicals will not like it since their message is one of abstinence.
In some parts of the world when it comes to sex children are raped.
http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne
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Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp
Sarah Hipperson
On the 5th September 1981, the Welsh group "Women for Life on Earth" arrived on
Greenham Common, Berkshire, England. They marched from Cardiff with the
intention of challenging, by debate, the decision to site 96 Cruise nuclear missiles
there. On arrival they delivered a letter to the Base Commander which among other
things stated 'We fear for the future of all our children and for the future of the
living world which is the basis of all life'.
http://www.greenhamwpc.org.uk/
