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11 ITEMS - 4 NEW 05AUG2008 17 Links
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item 1 Eternal Capitol Peace Vigil Sunday & Thursday
item 2 Hiroshima/Nagasaki Memorial Service and Candlelight Vigil 09AUG2008
=item 3 Mickee Faust Club - Cattle Call 10AUG2008
=item 4 Grant Peeples at Benefit for Alma Gonzalez 10AUG2008
item 5 BE BOLD Photography Exhibition 16AUG2008
=item 6 Florida's First Mass Anti-War March to Prevent War with Iran 30AUG2008
=item 7 JOHN McCUTCHEON 07SEP2008
item 8 International Day of Prayer for Peace 21SEP2008
item 9 Tallahassee Food Not Bombs 26JUL/02AUG2008
item 10 17 linked items of interest at least to me
IMPERIUM - Collapse of - 11 items
IRAQ WAR - 2 items
HAITI - 2 items
AFGHANISTAN - 1 item
PALESTINE - 1 item
item 11 Removal and Submission Instructions
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item 1 Eternal Capitol Peace Vigil Sunday & Thursday
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.
Now in year six. Signs provided.
Sundays 12:30-2:30
Thursdays 4:00-6:00
in front of the Old Capitol
BUSH LIES - KIDS DIE; NO IRAN WAR; FREE IRAQ ; FREE AFGHANISTAN
850-893-7390 Leave Message
peacevetstally@gmail.com
item 2 Hiroshima/Nagasaki Memorial Service and Candlelight Vigil 09AUG2008
On the 63rd anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Tallahassee will join people through out the world in a Memorial Service and Candlelight Vigil
The Gazebo, Lake Ella, Tallahassee
All people of good will are invited.
This will be a permitted event
Speakers, music, singing, candle lighting.
Information tables
7:30 - 9:00 p.m.
Sponsored by Code Pink, Pax Christi, Tallahassee Network for Justice and Peace, Veterans for Peace, Vietnam Veterans Against the War,
=item 3 Mickee Faust Club - Cattle Call 10AUG2008
The Mickee Faust Club, Tallahassee's bonkers cabaret company, needs extras to be the studio audience for its funny, irreverent video "Disability Factor". The video is about disabled contestants on a game show vying for the right to die. “Disability Factor” will be part of a DVD collection called Mickee Faust’s Gimp Parade premiering in Tallahassee later this fall. Mickee Faust’s disability-themed videos are produced by and for people with and without disabilities. They have been featured at film festivals around the world and won many national and international awards.
Date: Sunday, August 10th
Time:
1:30-2:30 Rehearsal (this time is used to explain the shoot, see where you will be sitting, organize shots with the director(s) and fill out minor paperwork).
2:30-4:30 Shoot (this time is the actual shoot for the video. We anticipate completing the shoot in 1 hour but allow for any adjustments or if we have a minor snafu).
Where: University Center 1101, Building D (the entrance is beneath the stained-glass window of Bobby Bowden at the FSU football stadium). You should dress as if you were appearing on TV as an audience member for a game show.
Please RSVP to Kathy Lynch at lynchm@greenhouseholdings.com or call Kathy at 556-0323.
=item 4 Grant Peeples at Benefit for Alma Gonzalez 10AUG2008
Early Voting Kick-off Benefit for Alma Gonzalez (Candidate for Leon County
Commissioner At-Large, Group 1) with performance by Grant Peeples
Sunday Afternoon, August 10, from 3:00 to 5:00 PM
Ray's Steel City Saloon, Downstairs Around Back Party Room
515 John Knox Road off North Monroe, corner of John Knox and Silver Slipper
Lane
$10 minimum donation at the door to the "Win with Alma" Campaign
Light Refreshments, Cash Bar
FMI
www.WinwithAlma.com or
www.grantpeeples.com or
or 562-5423
item 5 BE BOLD Photography Exhibition 16AUG2008
Photographers Gordon McCleary and Jost Van Dyke present a joint exhibition of Photography
The Atrium Gallery” The Mary Brogan Museum of Art & Science, Tallahassee, Florida
Saturday, 16 August 2008 5:30 until 8:00 PM
BE BOLD is a collection of compelling images, touching the visual intellect with curiously distinctive elements of uncanny coincidence, possessing an enduring aesthetic while exposing miraculous messages from the ordinary.
The exhibition is free and open to the public. For further information, contact 850.321.7975.
=item 6 Florida's First Mass Anti-War March to Prevent War with Iran 30AUG2008
2pm, Saturday, August 30 Melbourne Florida
March from Front Street Park, 2205 S. Front Street, Melbourne, FL 32935
to
Melbourne City Hall, 900 E. Strawbridge Ave., Melbourne, FL 32901.
Organizations Endorse Patriots for Peace's
Mobilization to Stop War with Iran
CODEPINK Florida, Humanists for Peace, Brevard NOW, Peace Now Citrus County, Marions for Peace, People for Peace and Justice/St. Augustine, Social Concerns Committee of the Unitarian
Universalist Fellowship of Key West, Humanists of Greater Fort Walton Beach, Central Florida Veterans
For Peace, CODEPINK of East Central Florida, St Pete for Peace, and Military Families Speak Out (Florida Chapter).
=item 7 JOHN McCUTCHEON 07SEP2008
returns to Tallahassee for the 5th time to do a benefit concert for the 36-year-old Grassroots School on SUNDAY, SEPT. 7, 4:00 p.m. at Tallahassee Community College's Turner Auditorium on Appleyard Drive (great venue!). Tickets are $15 adults and $8 high school students (and under) from Monday, Aug. 4th thru Friday, Sept. 5th at
GORDON'S STRING MUSIC on North Monroe,
COMMUNITY CHIROPRACTIC on East Oakland,
CRYSTAL CONNECTION behind Olive Garden,
MUSIC CENTER across from Cabo's,
GRASSROOTS SCHOOL east of Capital Circle on Old St. Augustine Rd., and
AT THE DOOR.
Doors open at 3:30 and entry into the auditorium is determined by ticket purchase date, so get 'em early...and thanks for helping us spread the word! Info at 656-3629 weekdays.
item 8 International Day of Prayer for Peace 21SEP2008
On Sunday September 21, 2008...
Will Your Church Be Praying for Peace?
Will Your Church Speak Up About Violence?
On Earth Peace invites your congregation to join the World Council of Churches' 2008 International Day of Prayer for Peace campaign.
You know your community.
Is there domestic violence, homicide, poverty, child abuse, racism?
You also know God has a different vision for life -- for abundant life, for dignity for all, for justice and shalom.
Will you consider calling together a public prayer service about your community's violence this September?
Hundreds of thousands of people from churches, synagogues, and mosques around the world will join together in the International Day of Prayer for Peace.
For participants connecting through On Earth Peace, there will be opportunities to connect with other peace-committed Christian congregations concerned about violence, access to On Earth Peace resources, and guidance on how to make praying and acting for God's peace an ongoing activity.
We look forward to working with you to creatively address the needs of your community with spiritual power. For more information and to register, please visit our website by clicking
www.onearthpeace.org/prayforpeace
Peace Witness
On Earth Peace
item 9 Tallahassee Food Not Bombs Every Sunday
TFNB makes use of leftover produce and other food that is considered past shelf life for stores but still healthy and delicious to eat to prepare vegan meals and share them in Carter Howell Strong Park. Cooking is every Sunday, 1230 pm start time, 800 N Bronough St, leave for park around 3. Come to cook, come to eat, come to hang out with other activists and members of tallahassee homeless community. Not only an indictment of the waste and misdirected priorities of our government and society, but an opportunity to build an alternative.
Call Virginia (727)543-1488 or Greg (727) 215-7344 for directions. Always looking for new food sources. Produce, beans and rice, and canned food always needed. prepared stuff great too!
item 10 17 linked items of interest at least to me
IMPERIUM - Collapse of - 11 items
IRAQ WAR - 2 items
HAITI - 2 items
AFGHANISTAN - 1 item
PALESTINE - 1 item
IMPERIUM
IMPERIUM 1
A Torture Paper Trail
I still find it hard to believe that George W. Bush, to his eternal shame and our nation's great discredit, made torture a matter of hair-splitting, legalistic debate at the highest levels of the U.S. government. But that's precisely what he did.
http://www.veteransforcommonsense.org/A
IMPERIUM 2
Unequal America
Elizabeth Gudrais reports for Harvard Magazine: "When Majid Ezzati thinks about declining life expectancy, he says, 'I think of an epidemic like HIV, or I think of the collapse of a social system, like in the former Soviet Union.' But such a decline is happening right now in some parts of the United States. Between 1983 and 1999, men's life expectancy decreased in more than 50 U.S. counties, according to a recent study by Ezzati, associate professor of international health at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), and colleagues.... The United States no longer boasts anywhere near the world's longest life expectancy. It doesn't even make the top 40. In this and many other ways, the richest nation on earth is not the healthiest. Ezzati's finding is unsettling on its face, but scholars find further cause for concern in the pattern of health disparities. Poor health is not distributed evenly across the population, but concentrated among the disadvantaged."
http://www.truthout.org/article/une
IMPERIUM 3
Are We Facing Just Another Market Problem or a System Collapse?
By Danny Schechter, AlterNet
Even as foreclosures double, and the price of gas and food rises sharply, it's been business as usual in newspapers and in Washington.
http://tinyurl.com/5c3m97
IMPERIUM 4
Labor Department Changing Safety Rules and Putting Workers' Lives At Risk
Does our government want to help make employees less safe on the job? It seems the labor department would like to change safety rules that limit a workers' exposure to chemicals and toxins on the job. Once again, our government is choosing what is best for big business, and putting the lives of workers in jeopardy.
http://www.care2.com/politics/labor-dep
IMPERIUM 5
EPA Ignored Everglades
The U.S Environmental Protection Agency has turned a "blind eye" to Florida's Everglades cleanup efforts, while the state is violating its own commitment to restore the vast ecosystem, a federal judge ruled. In a stinging ruling from Miami, U.S. District Judge Alan Gold put to rest a 2004 lawsuit filed against the EPA, ordering the agency to review water pollution standards and timelines set by Florida for the Everglades. Gold repeatedly accused EPA of acting "arbitrarily and capriciously" in its failure to adhere to the mandates of the Clean Water Act.
Http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8
IMPERIUM 6
Mounting Job Losses Point to More Economic Troubles
Kevin G. Hall, reporting for McClatchy Newspapers, writes: "Employers shed jobs in July for the seventh consecutive month and the national unemployment rate rose to 5.7 percent, the Labor Department reported Friday."
http://www.truthout.org/article/mountin
IMPERIUM 7
Col. Ann Wright: Sexual Assault in the Military: A DoD Cover-Up?
Col. An Wright, writing for Truthdig, says: "There was quite a struggle in Congress this week. The Department of Defense refused to allow the senior civilian in charge of its Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office (SAPRO) to testify in Thursday's hearing on sexual assault in the military.
Rep. John Tierney, chair of the House Subcommittee on National Security and Foreign Affairs, angrily dismissed Principal Deputy Undersecretary of Defense Michael Dominguez from the hearing when Dominguez said that he, the DoD chief of legislative affairs and the chief of public affairs, had ordered Dr. Kaye Whitley, chief of SAPRO, to refuse to honor the subpoena issued by the subcommittee for her appearance. "
http://www.truthout.org/article/sex
IMPERIUM 8
Why is Habeas Corpus Such a Threat to those in Power?
Why is the Supreme Court's decision to uphold habeas corpus rights for the Guantanamo detainees so scary that Senator Lindsey Graham, with the support of McCain, will "explore the possibility, if necessary, of a constitutional amendment to blunt the effect of this decision"? What is so fundamentally wrong with the Supreme Court's decision, whose members are conservative or Bush appointees, to warrant amending our constitution? Have Senators Graham and McCain lost their minds?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.inf
IMPERIUM 9
Massive US Deficit Spells Austerity Policy For Next Administration
Once again, both parties will use the lie that there is "no money" to meet social needs, while hundreds of billions are squandered on imperialist wars and channeled into the pockets of the wealthiest one percent of the population.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.inf
IMPERIUM 10
Crisis Looms as Corporations Seize Control of Commodities
The global food crisis won't go away any time soon. Capitalism has the average consumer by the belly. Amid growing signs of famine and outrage, the entire chain of commodities and resources of the world are now being cornered by giant corporations. Farmland, water, fertilizer, seed, energy, and most of the basic necessities of life are falling under corporate control, providing increased wealth and power to the ruling elite while the rest of humanity struggles.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.inf
IMPERIUM 11
The Democrats and National Security
Samantha Power, writing for The New York Review of Books, writes: "Since the Vietnam War the Republican Party has developed a reputation for having a superior approach to national security. Americans have long trusted the views of Democrats on the environment, the economy, education, and health care, but national security is the one matter about which Republicans have maintained what political scientists call 'issue ownership.'"
http://www.truthout.org/article/the-dem
IRAQ - 1 -
Forget the Surge, Violence Is Down in Iraq Because Ethnic Cleansing Was Brutally Effective
By Juan Cole, JuanCole.com
The bloodbath in Baghdad has resulted in fewer ethnically mixed neighborhoods, leading to the recent drop in violence.
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/9
IRAQ - 2 -
Iraq is About to Explode
With Iraq's internal politics a ticking time bomb -- and Iran wielding its influence -- neither John McCain nor Barack Obama have a realistic plan.
While everyone's looking at Iraq's effect on American politics -- and whether or not John McCain and Barack Obama are converging on a policy that combines a flexible timetable with a vague, and long-lasting, residual force -- let's take a look instead at Iraqi politics. The picture isn't pretty.
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/9
HAITI - 1 -
Let Them Eat Mud
Haiti: Mud cakes become staple diet as cost of food soars beyond a family's reach
By Rory Carroll in Port-au-Prince
With little cash and import prices rocketing half the population faces starvation.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.inf
HAITI - 2 -
The Politics of Rice - Video Report
A look at how the stories of politics, rice, and the United States are deeply interwoven. Twenty years ago, Haiti produced enough rice to feed its population. Importing rice from other countries like the US was unheard of. Today, the country of less than 10 million people is the third largest importer of US rice in the world - 75 per cent of the rice eaten in Haiti is shipped in from the US.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.inf
AFGHANISTAN - 1 -
Afghanistan spiraling back to days of Taliban, say charities
Terror attacks spreading into areas that were previously thought safe. Jerome Starkey reports
Violence in Afghanistan has reached record highs, with unprecedented numbers of civilian casualties and terror attacks spreading into areas once thought safe, a coalition of charities warns. In a damning indictment of the international community's effort to stabilise Afghanistan, more than 100 aid agencies claimed security is worse now than at any time in the past seven years
http://tinyurl.com/5owm7x
PALESTINE - 1 -
Ni'ilin: the West Bank focus of unarmed demonstrations and civil disobedience
Mariam Moussa appeared almost catatonic in her grief yesterday, seated immobilised on a sofa, her eyes fixed on the "martyr" poster she was clutching of her ten year old son, killed by an Israeli bullet the previous evening. "Since she heard the news she didn't say anything and she didn't eat or drink anything" said Isma Amireh, 36, a family friend.
http://tinyurl.com/632lec
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